Famed "Maryland Dad" Kilmar Albrego-Garcia Arrested; Will be Deported to Uganda

His lawyer is crying "but he doesn't even speak the language!"

The most-spoken language in Uganda is... English.

I imagine they're right: The "Maryland Man" probably barely speaks English. But that didn't stop him from running a profitable human-trafficking business in America.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Democrats' so-called "Maryland Man," on Monday for deportation proceedings. Homeland Security officials say the 30-year-old illegal alien, tied to MS-13 and accused of trafficking and abuse, is being processed for removal to Uganda.

Key Details:

A Department of Homeland Security statement confirmed that Garcia, "a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador," was arrested in Maryland and is now in ICE custody.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, "President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator to terrorize American citizens any longer."

Democrats have rallied around Garcia, framing the case as a "due process" fight, but polling shows the public overwhelmingly views him as a gang member, highlighting political risks for Democrats.

Diving Deeper:

On Monday morning, ICE agents detained Kilmar Abrego Garcia--nicknamed by Democrats and mainstream media outlets as "Maryland Man"--and began deportation proceedings against him. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Garcia, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, is now being processed for removal to Uganda.

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The case has a long and contentious history. Garcia was deported to El Salvador earlier this year. By June, he was returned to the United States to face charges of transporting migrants illegally; he pleaded not guilty. Now, with restrictions on sending him back to El Salvador, Garcia is likely to be deported to a "safe third country" such as Uganda, which has agreements in place with Washington to accept deported individuals.

Despite credible accusations of domestic abuse, gang activity, and labor trafficking, Democrats and activist groups have spent months defending Garcia under the banner of "due process." Progressive media have highlighted him as a symbol of resistance to Trump's immigration agenda, but a Harvard/Harris poll from June shows 62 percent of registered voters believe Garcia is "likely" tied to MS-13. That polling underscores the political risk: defending a figure accused of such crimes alienates voters at a time when border security and immigration remain top concerns.

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Trump Will End Cashless Bail by Executive Order

Well, that is his hope. I expect leftwing know-nothing DEI Biden judges will block him.

The order won't ban cashless bail directly. It will require states to end the practice, or give up federal funding.

President Trump is expected to sign the executive order Monday, marking one of his most aggressive steps yet against cashless bail policies. Attorney General Pam Bondi will deliver Trump a list of jurisdictions with no-cash-bail laws, potentially including New York, Washington, DC, and other left-leaning localities that have weakened pretrial detention requirements.

The White House memo on the executive action was blunt: "Cashless bail policies allow dangerous individuals to immediately return to the streets and further endanger law-abiding, hard-working Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced." The memo further described re-arresting repeat offenders freed without bail as both "a waste of public resources and obvious threat to public safety."

New York has been at the center of the debate since it scrapped cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felonies in 2019. Critics point to cases such as two convicted killers recently released without bond after being arrested for drug dealing, or a suspected Tren de Aragua gang member freed on attempted homicide charges who was later caught in a drug bust -- only to be let loose again. One prolific city pickpocket has been arrested 45 times since 2024 but continues to cycle through the system.

The White House also cited a California study that found crime spiked by 163% in Yolo County after a "zero bail" policy was implemented. Federal officials argue that local experiments with bail reform have fueled crime and endangered communities.

Meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani's Democrat Party is headed in the opposite direction. Mamdani wants to straight-up legalize prostitution, citing the legalization of drugs as a positive precedent to be emulated.

And that's not all -- Mamdani wants to end all charges for misdemeanors, too.

Democratic mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and his comrades at the Democratic Socialists of America want to wipe out the enforcement of all misdemeanor offenses, The Post has learned.

In its most recent platform, the group blasts policing and detention as "instruments of class war" designed to "guarantee the domination of the working class" -- and demands an end what it calls "the criminalization of working-class survival."

"For all of the working class to achieve collective liberation we must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state -- from prisons and police themselves, to their manifestations in all forms throughout society," according to the national party's latest platform, adopted in 2021.

On the campaign trail, Mamdani has repeatedly called for police to stop focusing on what he's referred to as "non serious crimes."

"Police have a critical role to play but right now we're relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net, which is preventing them from doing their actual jobs," he said in a campaign video posted to X Wednesday.

Bonus: "This is how you move up in the polls!" Mamdani showed what a guy's guy bro he is by completely failing to bench press a single plate.

He's being assisted on both attempts so much that he's not doing bench presses, his spotter is doing barbell rows.

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It’s Not Just the Logo - Cracker Barrel Has Been Chosen as the Latest Boycott Target to Send a Message to Woke Corporations

Corporations often re-brand their logos and redesign their stores. In recent years, a bland minimalism has been in vogue. So why is there such outrage at Cracker Barrel and its CEO for de-cluttering its restaurants and simplifying its logo? The answer is two-fold.

First, this action is the final straw in the hijacking of Cracker Barrel by activist executives who have made it abundantly clear that they despise the company’s image and that they despise its customer base. The old country gentleman has been removed from the logo, along with the words “Country Store.” That matters greatly to the chain’s legacy customers. As I have written about on previous occasions (see below), under the left-wing activists that are in control of the company, Cracker Barrel doesn’t want to serve you comfort food, they want to re-educate you.

Second, Cracker Barrel just drew the unlucky ticket in a lottery where outraged “normies” pick one company to visibly seek retribution as a warning to all woke corporations and executives.

If you’ve been employed at a publicly traded corporation over the past decade, you have almost certainly been through racial “struggle sessions,” been compelled to “celebrate” the sexual habits and religious practices of people who don’t share your values, seen hiring and promotions administered with a focus on race, gender, and sexual behaviors, etc. If you are straight, white, male, Christian, or patriotic, you have likely felt vilified by corporate America.

Consumers who want to fight back against “woke capital” have learned just how powerful they are when they target one egregiously woke company.

After Gillette ran its notorious ad campaign in 2019 accusing its loyal male customer base of being sexual predators, men abandoned the product in massive numbers. The damage was so severe that since that offensive ad, Procter & Gamble has had multiple write offs for losses due to Gillette’s impaired asset value. The amount that Gillette has cost P&G since that disastrous ad now exceeds $9 billion. The debacle has been so bad that Gillette has subsequently stopped publishing information on its share of the U.S. men’s wet shave market in its annual reporting.

Anheuser Busch had the number one selling beer in the United States with Bud Light, but its executives detested the customer demographic that actually consumed Bud Light, so Anheuser famously engaged a cross-dressing “influencer” to become the face of Bud Light. Outraged and energized consumers retaliated with perhaps the most famous consumer boycott of them all. The Bud Light brand lost tremendous market share, which it cannot recover.

After Target made it clear that men are always welcome in the women’s restrooms, and after pushing LGBT merchandise on children, Target sales stumbled and its stock price collapsed. Its hyper-woke destructor of a CEO, Brian Cornell, was finally pushed out just this past week.

Robbie Starbuck has done an amazing job of letting major corporations know that woke won’t be tolerated anymore, and when he shows up at a CEO’s door, the CEOs have started to realize they can either back off the woke agenda, or a crushing boycott is imminent. Tractor Supply has a very conservative customer demographic, and also a very left-wing CEO who was pushing a radical left-wing agenda on its employees. When Robbie showed up, the CEO immediately capitulated and dumped its DEI/ESG nonsense rather than go through what Bud Light had inflicted on itself.

It's now Cracker Barrel’s turn. It has a left-wing CEO, Julie Masino, whose career includes 12 years at Starbucks Coffee before coming to Cracker Barrel, and she clearly wants to remake Cracker Barrel into an operation that the cultural communists at Starbucks would be proud of.

Consumers have amazing power, and tens of millions are very angry about corporate America’s capture by left wing activists. Fed up Americans are seeking retribution, and they also know the power of making an example of a specific company to help educate other woke executives.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

When One Lives on Memories
József Rippl-Rónai

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The Morning Report — 8/25/25

Good morning kids. Hope you all had a restful and enjoyable weekend. Off we go into the madness. The Democrat Left are nothing if not utterly predictable and as such tedious and irksome, as well as completely repugnant. First up, we have yammering syphilitic chimpanzee Brandon Johnson squatting on his haunches and picking the nits out of his crotch while allowing America's second city to disintegrate into a completely unlivable hellscape.

Let’s check in with Chicago. So far, 172 people were shot in Chicago in August, 41 were shot this week and 1,277 were shot this year so far. According to the media, this is fine. . . Why would you think Chicago needs help? We’ve liberated countries with fewer problems and less corrupt governments than Chicago.

With that bleak assessment, which for years sad to say we have read on a nearly weekly if not daily basis. Nor is it really new for almost any Democrat controlled metropolitan area. So President Trump is now considering sending in the National Guard to clean up Chicago. Which caused the aforementioned degenerate Johnson to go himself (aka Ape).

Sunday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) said that if President Donald Trump sent the National Guard to his city, the people would rise up against “tyranny.”

Aside from the El Ruqns or Jan Schakowsky's rent-a-thugs or perhaps arming the criminals already in the Chicago jails, how many divisions does Johnson have?

If the people of Chicago had their druthers, I'd wager they'd march on Chicago's city hall with torches and pitchforks. At least the ones who having voted Democrat (or had their votes pre-cast for Democrats) for decades and are sick of what's been done to them by that party.

Speaking of being tired of the same old shit, the judicial coup rolls on:

Care for more repulsive chutzpocrisy, take a look at the links about Hakeem Jeffries and that Abigail Spanberger shit-whore.

An Obama-appointed judge ruled late Friday that the Trump administration could not deny federal funds to dozens of cities and counties over their sanctuary policies.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick, appointed to the bench in northern California by President Barack Obama, extended a preliminary injunction that blocks the Trump administration from withholding or conditioning federal funds from jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, according to court documents. The lawsuit, originally filed by San Francisco officials earlier this year, has since taken on many other sanctuary jurisdictions as plaintiffs.

I do not know what the mechanism is for transferring funds from the treasury to the states, but I would completely ignore this judge's ruling and block the funds. If that's not possible, then call out the national guard on as many of these so-called sanctuary cities as possible and go to town. Round 'em up and ship 'em out! ¡Con gusto!

Shifting gears completely, with a bit of relief and pretty damned good news.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that tariffs implemented by President Donald J. Trump could reduce total deficits by $4 trillion over the next decade. . . CBO Director Phillip Swagel wrote: “If there are no further changes in tariff rates, we project that customs duties from new and existing tariffs will total about $200 billion this fiscal year.” . . . The analysis suggests that maintaining Trump’s tariffs would reduce federal borrowing and interest costs, leading to significant deficit reductions.

That is a pretty staggering number. Imagine what could be accomplished if along with raising the cash to pay down the deficits we cut the federal budget and bureaucracy over the long haul and shrink the size of the government.

On this bit of very good news and hope for the future, there's lots of links to chew over.

Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• The analysis suggests that maintaining Trump’s tariffs would reduce federal borrowing and interest costs, leading to significant deficit reductions.
  Trump Tariffs Projected to Cut Deficit by $4 Trillion.
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: The Democrat Party abandoned the middle class for elites and identity politics—trading broad appeal for globalism, DEI dogma, and political self-destruction.
  What Made the Democrat Party Go Crazy?

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Daily Tech News 25 August 2025

Top Story

• Bluesky has blocked users from Mississippi over that's state's age verification requirements for social networks. (Bsky)
  
  Rather than check if you are from that state, if the law applies to you, and if you are a permitted user, you are simply blocked. Safer and simpler.
  
  Comically, the Tech Crunch article on situation is blocked if you are running an ad blocker.
  
  This is the first time such a law has survived preliminary injunctions in the US and it is already making a mess.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - August 24, 2025 [Doof]

Photo courtesy of Washington Rural Heritage

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT! Thanks for stopping by to end your day. Gray boxes await - but first, won't ya at least pretend to check out the content?

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Gun Thread: Almost End of August 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 almost the end of August? Next week will be the end of August and the week after that is the first of September!

On a programming note, SpaceX is planning to launch Starship Test Flight 10 not long after this thread goes up (launch window opens at 6:30pm Central) so consider this an open thread to discuss the launch and flight.

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

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Emergency Backup Food Thread – 08/24/2025

With apologies to all of you expecting an epicurean experience this afternoon, our regular Sunday chef, Mr. CBD, is unable to present the Food Thread today. We’ll have to give it a go without him.

Do Your Eggs Runneth Over

Fried eggs are a weekend treat for me. I make mine over-easy such that they are just barely runny, which provides just the perfect amount of yolk to sop up with toast.

But too runny is gross to me. At restaurants I no longer order eggs “sunny side up” because the yolks aren’t so much runny as they are watery, and the whites often aren’t even fully cooked. (My sister called them “runny side up” when she was a kid, a term I still use.)

How runny do you like your eggs?

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2nd Tier Fruits, and Squirrel Meat as a Form of Currency

First off, whatever happened to apricots and plums?

When I was a child, those were prominent fruits. If my recollections are correct, apricots and plums were the primary tree-borne fruits that were consumed at my grandparents’ house in summer, at least before the apples (Jonathan) ripened in fall. My grandmother would make plum-butter kolaches, which were sort of the Czech equivalent of danish rolls (except much, much better.)

Plums were always my father’s favorite fruit, and my wife recently bought some plums (“cherry plums” specifically), at which time I realized it had been decades since I had eaten one. I like plums, so I don’t know why I quit eating them.

I also need to try apricots again.

Speaking of apricots, my grandparents didn’t have an apricot tree, but there were a couple of elderly ladies (whom we knew as the “spinster sisters” who lived in a house down the road, and they had some apricot trees. My grandfather bartered with them, trading squirrels we shot out of his walnut trees for apricots.

My grandfather also bartered squirrel meat for blade sharpening with the guy at the lawn mower repair shop.

Recalling all this, I’m suddenly struck by the fact that:

- Squirrel meat was apparently a lot more popular back in the day. (However, I do recall a relatively recent episode of Duck Dynasty when the family was dining on squirrel and dumplings.)
- Dead squirrels are an interesting form of currency.
- Maybe the “spinster sisters” weren’t really sisters.

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Backyard Produce

Speaking of homegrown fruit, my dwarf apple trees will provide me a couple weeks’ worth of fruit this year. I’m guessing I’ll be able to start picking them by the end of August.

I’ll still need to head out to the Georgia mountains in September to bring back a few bushels of orchard fresh apples.

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Roadside Vegetable Popcorn Stands

There is a vacant lot beside the road I drive home from work, at which there are various pop-up stands throughout the year. In Fall a temporary pumpkin-selling operation appears, and similarly in December it becomes a Christmas tree lot. So, I was pleased one day in late July to see a canopy tent appear there. I figured this would be a temporary roadside vegetable stand. I slowed down with the intention of pulling over and getting some garden-fresh tomatoes, but as I pulled near, I realized it was…kettle corn.

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First World Problems...

That is a commercial version of a classic French dish called Carottes Râpées. it's as simple as it gets; grated carrots, and some simple dressing.

So what's the problem?

The damned Frogs have special commercial machines that cut the carrots into tiny cylinders, which is the perfect texture for this dish! There are no simple home methods. A box grater works...okay. A food processor works...fast. But the commercial machines cut the carrots exactly as god intended.

Sure, they have home versions of the machines, but they look like Chinese crap.

And don't get me started on the mustard!

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The Modern Plantation Is The Democrat Party

Winsome Earle-Sears is the current Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, and is the Republican candidate for Governor in the 2025 election. She is an impressively normal woman, although she is a Marine, so that gets her some extra points! She raised a family, wrote a book, ran for office, served her state honorably, and is in all respects a credit to America.

I disagree with some of her stances, and her support for Donald Trump's third presidential race was tepid at best, although being a politician in a blue state makes that a semi-rational (though undignified) decision.

But in the eyes of the rabid, racist, misogynistic left? She is an uppity n*gger who should get back on the plantation if she knows what's good for her! How dare she be against unlimited abortion! How dare she support the 2nd Amendment! How dare she oppose same-sex marriage! How dare she be against DEI!

And most of all...how dare she be a Republican and support Donald Trump.

For that she is banished to 2nd class citizenship by the blue-haired harpies of the new Democrat party. And because the Democrat party and its attendant political water carriers are rooted in racism and class divisions, they immediately latched onto the least important aspect of Sears...her color. Besides, all those brown and black and yellow and red people are just tools in the never-ending struggle against freedom... they certainly wouldn't want to embrace them as equals!

As proof, I give you the Georgia whale!

So what's the difference? Haven't we been told for generations that the Democrat party was the party of the little man? The disenfranchised? The minorities just trying to claw their way out of the muck created by evil White supremacists?

One would think that Winsome Earle-Sears would be the perfect symbol of American exceptionalism and its unique ability to embrace everyone! She is an immigrant, a veteran, a small-business owner, an author, a successful politician! What an amazing success story! And -- let us be brutally honest -- she isn't an immense fatty who is an obvious grifting crook!

But she is a Republican, and an unrepentant believer in the American dream, which means that she rejects the victim-hood that is part and parcel of the Democrat approach to black America, which is nothing more than chattel. They are tools to be used in the fight against freedom, and Winsome Earle-Sears has rejected that offensive, condescending, racist approach, and instead has chosen a better path.

And for that she must be destroyed!

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Reading Thread 08/24/2025

Howdy Readers! Welcome to the Reading Thread, your Sunday morning source for the insightful, lively and spirited discussion of books 'n stuff. I'm filling in for a while as this space re-invents itself under new management so please set your near-term expectations accordingly low.

What do we have this week? Why, it's none other than Technical Manual 37-265 - Care and Maintenance of Ball and Roller Bearings, produced by The War Department and published in 1945. As I mentioned in the last two editions of the Reading Thread you may not always get fabulous selections such as Sgt. Dick and Typhoon.

Feel free to discuss reading and books in general and share your thoughts on this week's selection if you're so inclined.

I know you're just as excited as I am, so just jump below the fold to get started!

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Daily Tech News 24 August 2025

Top Story

• Who are the 400 million people who made Threads the second most popular discussion platform after only Twitter? (Mashable)
  
  The article doesn't seem to understand its own conclusion: That these are the same people who made The Big Bang Theory the most popular show on television: Bipedal sphex wasps.
  
  In short, they don't exist, or at least not as recognisably individual human beings. They are trivially interchangeable corporate drones, the same people who made CB (formerly Cracker Barrel, the nation's foremost fine dining cheese experience) a household name for all the wrong reasons.
  
  
  
• Speaking of households, I peeked out of mine this afternoon. It was a warm winter's day, so I essayed out to tackle the easiest part of the garden - the patch of lawn nearest the house - which was dusted with small weeds and could do with a trim before the season kicks off for real next month.
  
  Even my smaller lawnmower (an 18V Bosch unit) could handle the task, though I did need to swap batteries at the midpoint because I had neglected to do so before putting it away for the winter.
  
  On the other hand, that virus really did a number on me, and I also needed to recharge half-way through mowing less than half the lawn. It'll likely be weeks before I'm back to normal.
  
  
  
• Also had a migraine. Just 'cause.

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" August 13, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Thursday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Drinks and snacks to the right. Dignity can be located at the pawn shop around the corner.

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: Weapons

A funny thing happened on the way to the movie thread. In the last three weeks, we saw five films. All of them were new releases. All but one were good. Two were legitimately great. It got me thinking about how, over recent years, I've seen fewer and fewer of the top 40 films. If I can find the time, I'll make a chart and post about the progression.

I thought about it this fortnight-and-a-half because I found myself wondering if the trend could be changing.

Then I look at the top 20 and realize, no, I've only seen three of them. It just seems like I've seen more because I've seen a few more of the aggressively marketed recent releases.

The five films we hit:

Together, a body horror film on that most horrific of topics: Marriage. Tight, short, sweet, with a light story that's fraught with potential symbolism, so people can write think-pieces on Zoomer relationships. Body horror, though, so definitely not for everyone.

Shari and Lamb Chop, a documentary about Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz, better known as Shari Lewis. This is the puppet version of Together, and I'm only slightly kidding, as we see a bit into the astounding work ethic of a woman raised in the vaudeville tradition. If you're an older 29-year-old, you might remember her from inventing children's television in the '50s, where she did five or more hours of live TV every day. But if you're a younger 29-year-old, and you remember her from the (very slightly) saucy Lamb Chop years of being on game shows, and you might have wondered what the big deal was. 1990s kids will probably remember her PBS shows. She was so good at what she did, she made it look easy. Anyway, great documentary. The Boy (who was reticent to go see it) came out raving.

The Naked Gun. Surely this can't be any good. It is, and don't use that 45-year-old joke. Liam & Pamela have a blast on this excellently executed update. I can, and probably will, write a whole thing on the good choices made. (For example, updating the spoof from a '70s police show to a 21st century action flick.) It's not that all the jokes land. Few, if any, comedies manage that. It's that if you don't like a joke, the next one's coming along in five seconds. Running gags, without relying solely on running gags. Pop culture references but not only pop culture references. The ZAZ formula died in the hands of guys making movies built solely on references to better movies, and that's very light here. A good time, can't complain. Still, doesn't look like it's going to make a profit.

Fixed. This Netflix movie from Genndy Tartakovsky ("Dexter's Laboratory", "Samurai Jack", "Clone Wars", and the Hotel Transylvania series) is genuinely awful but I couldn't exactly hate it. It's adult animation about a dog that humps everything and lives in terror of being fixed. It's entirely scatological, but this brings very little joy. I mean, I happily ate popcorn through The Substance, the Evil Dead series and Schindler's List but this movie is wall-to-wall poop and pee and testicles. Way more misses than hits, with a completely incoherent worldview—I mean, obviously it's a comedy and it doesn't have to make sense, but it has to have enough grounding for the audience to grasp what they're supposed to care about. These dogs aren't dogs but they're dogs sometimes for joke purposes and humans others. It's not good. I didn't hate it, but I wouldn't blame you if you did.

Now, on to the main feature.

Apart from the staggering number of dog anuses, the movie looks pretty good.

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Hobby Thread - August 23, 2025 [Crafty Rex]

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 musical instruments.

I have faith that you can either find something in the content that resonates or contribute your own hobbying interests.

You might be tempted to say "I have no hobbies or interests." Bah. Dig around in the content and soak in the comments. Be curious. Glad you're here.

[Top photo: Blues Sax by polynikes (10x20 oil) ]

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, August 23

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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, Aug. 23

Hi, everybody! CrotchetyOldJarhead is here to help us keep cool today. And we have some more interesting photos and information, too!

Good morning!
Here is a couple of photos of the lilys in the pond and a view from the cigar lounge under the fan.

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You can think about the future riding on Amtrak in California

Above, you can see our view for about 15 or 20 minutes as we were stopped on our way to an appointment in Fresno. We were late even though we left early, because of the "Bullet Train" dream which Jerry Brown had years ago, carried forward by Gavin Newsom. In front of us, you can see solar-powered (just kidding) construction equipment working on an overpass. To the right is an impressive hedge of roses, glorious in spring, planted along the highway by a farmer at the border of an orchard. This hedge will likely disappear in the future, along with much of the remaining agricultural land in California. Farmers already face a lot of hostility in the state, especially concerning access to water. We can rely on China for our food, right?

Although the "bullet train" (not planned to run at bullet speeds anymore) will largely parallel Amtrak routes, it will be much more destructive tor the surrounding countryside.

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Hope you say a prayer for me this morning.]

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

1. This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2. Be kind be nice, remember to put yourself in the other guy's shoes. Slugs do have shoes.
3. No, you do not have any expressed or implied permission to run with sharp objects. So get that idea out of your mind.
4. Have a great weekend!

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