February 03, 2025

On Saturday, I wrote . . .about their selection of far-left Trump hater Ken Martin as the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, but one of the DNC vice chairs makes Martin look as if he walks around wearing a MAGA hat. The Dems have chosen as one of their primary front beings none other than David Hogg, the arrogant and self-infatuated young far-leftist who shot to fame in 2018 after being inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida when a deranged former student murdered seventeen people there. . . Now, David Hogg is 24 years old. He has little life experience, and is only famous in the first place because he was at the scene of a crime. He clearly has no idea what the real world is like, and doesn’t realize that if the people are disarmed, the police defunded, and the border open, society as he knows it would collapse entirely. If he were a low-level employee somewhere, pontificating to his colleagues at the office, they might regard him as a bit of an arrogant know-it-all, but essentially harmless. But instead, the Democrats have just given Hogg a massive platform from which to spout his immature and unrealistic views. It’s revealing. Hogg may be a silly kid who doesn’t realize how destructive the positions he advocates really are, but older and wiser Democrats — okay, older Democrats, as it’s clear that there are no wise ones — must know. Many leading Democrats did retreat from radical defund-the-police positions, not because they cared about ordinary people, but because they saw what a losing issue it was.With his first major domestic policy victory in the capture and deportation of as many illegal alien invaders as possible and the message being sent that the border is going to be sealed tight, he is now moving on to other areas of the MAGA agenda. As Democrats ponder what they can do to win back their disaffected base and win over the MAGA base of normal Americans, the answer is reject everything they'e ever believed in and agitated for going back to Woodrow Wilson, and then the mother of all mea culpas for all the misery and suffering you have caused in your quest for absolute power. Then dissolve your party. Well, the Leopard will never change its spots. The problem of course is not with them it's with all of us ingrates and deplorables who refuse to submit to their will. For our own good, of course. And since evil never rests, here are but two examples that regretfully I have to churn your stomach with at breakfast time:
There’s really no other way to say it anymore. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) certainly seems to have a big problem with white people, to the point that some people might even call her actions and words racist. But to people like Crockett, that’s not possible. White people are the problem, always.
For Crockett, if you’re a trans person, or any other letter in the rainbow alphabet coalition, a black person, Hispanic, a woman, or an illegal immigrant, you can never do any wrong. Straight, white men are the problem, always. At her swearing-in ceremony for her district on Tuesday, Crockett spoke to the audience about “evil,” “evil that is literally sitting in the highest seat in the world,” otherwise known as President Donald Trump — a white man. But, that’s the tip of the iceberg. After ironically warning the crowd about “propaganda that’s out there,” Crockett took aim at who she says is the real problem in the U.S. “Let me make sure y’all got the facts, most extreme crimes that take place in this country are committed by white supremacists,” Crockett said, as reported by The Post Millennial. “80 percent of extreme crimes are committed by white supremacists in this country. Do you know who went up there on January 6? White supremacists. This ain’t me just telling you, you can Google this if you don’t believe me, but it was the Oath Keepers. It was the Neo-Nazis. It was the Proud Boys. They are all white supremacists.”
From this filthy open sewer of a shitwhore to an equally disgusting scumbag who is calling for violence against Donald Trump, his administration and in fact you and I who support them:
They’re back! The incendiary left that attempted to occupy the White House in the first Trump administration has returned to its regularly scheduled bomb throwing. Relatively quiet by radical standards in the opening days of Trump’s return to office, the far-left Democrat Party just can’t quit their violent ways. At a Brooklyn press conference Friday morning, House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries was back to inciting his followers to “fight” President Donald Trump and the MAGA “agenda” in “the streets.”This to me is inciting insurrection, or what am I missing (Yeah, the fact that he's a Democrat and he's allowed to spout this.
The question is, to paraphrase Democrat hero and mentor Joseph Stalin, How many divisions does Hakeem Jeffries have? And more crucially, Does Donald Trump have the will to use whatever means necessary at his disposal to crush these bastards and eradicate this cancer.
On other fronts, this is too delicious and will surely make all the right wrong heads explode:
President Donald Trump posted to truth on Sunday, where he said that he would be ending future funding to Sorth Africa until further notice due to the “bad situation” taking place there.
“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention. A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed" he said.During his first term, Donald Trump promised to look into claims of widespread violence against white farmers in South Africa, as well as reports of forced land seizures.
Part of this is likely in reaction to South Africa and Cuba teaming up to go after Israel in the International Kangaroo Court genocide case.
And I think, not only because Marco Rubio is now in charge at Foggy Bottom, putting the screws to Cuba is also on Trump's to do list, first to end that Island's 60-plus years of imprisonment but also to thwart Chi-Com encroachment. And speaking of which, Trump notched a pretty big win vis a vis Panama – and China!
Panamanian president José Raúl Mulino said his country would not renew its agreement with China's Belt and Road Initiative following a visit from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a move that will make it the first Latin American country to leave the initiative. The news is a blow to Beijing, which views Panama as critical to its foreign influence efforts in the Western Hemisphere. Chinese businesses operate ports near the Panama Canal, which the United States owned and operated until moving control to Panama in 1999. Following his meeting with Mulino, Rubio said the United States "cannot, and will not, allow the Chinese Communist Party to continue with its effective and growing control over the Panama Canal area." Brazil also considered joining the Belt and Road Initiative late last year, signaling a desire to align with the Chinese Communist Party. The country abandoned those plans soon after, however, with officials expressing fear about signing long-term agreements with Beijing. In late 2023, meanwhile, Italy became the first European nation to exit the initiative, arguing that the deal did little to boost the country's exports to China. Panama was the first Latin American nation to join the Belt and Road Initiative and now becomes the first to back away from it.Well, two weeks in and I'm still not tired of the winning. Here's to 50 more just like this, and then 8 more years under Vance and 8 more under whoever his VP might me. God-willing. Have a great day. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
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- AI systems with unacceptable risk are now banned in the EU. (Tech Crunch)
What risk, we ask.
The EU actually answers that, sort of.
"Unacceptable risk" AI is Class 4, and Class 3, which is not banned but regulated, includes AI systems for recommending medical treatment. Fair enough; medical anything tends to be regulated, and there's no reason not to subject medical AI to standards and tests.
Under Class 4, banned outright, we see:
* AI used for social scoring, where the social scores are applied outside the context in which they are calculated - e.g. firing someone because of their Reddit posts
* Inferring a person's likelihood to commit a crime unless you are the police and already have the criminal banged up because you think they done it
* Subliminal advertising, which doesn't work anyway
* Something so broad that it encompasses all advertising, which will be interesting
* Anything that can infer someone's emotional state
* Biometric analysis except when the government really wants to
So yes, commies gonna commie, and the legislation has enough holes to drive the Bagger-288 through.
Companies - anyone operating however tangentially in Europe - are expected to be in full compliance by, uh, yesterday.
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February 02, 2025

Howdy Hordelings, and a happy Sunday evening to you all! Here we are in Feb-you-air-ee. That's right, the first "r" in February should always remain silent. Today is Groundhog Day, in case anyone wasn't aware. No word on how much ground was hogged in Punxsutawney. Anyway, thanks for stopping by tonight's ONT!
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The commission found the nonprofits raised upward of $4 million and spent more than $3 million to help Abrams and other 2018 candidates. The groups did not file as a campaign committee before receiving donations and failed to file campaign finance reports before the election, the commission found.Of course, the New Georgia Project could not register as a partisan campaign committee because it’s a 501(c)(3) organization, for which partisan political activity is specifically prohibited. Per the IRS website a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization cannot “participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements) any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.” Further, according to the mission statement at the New Georgia Project’s website, ”New Georgia Project is a nonpartisan effort to register, civically engage, and build power with the New Georgia Majority–the large and growing population of Black, brown, young, and other historically marginalized voters in the Peach State.” Raphael Warnock led this organization in a massive financial and political fraud. Donors who thought they were giving to a non-partisan organization to help “marginalized” voters were actually giving to an organization actively, and illegally, assisting the Stacey Abrams campaign. The New Georgia Project, with Raphael Warnock serving as its as Chairman, was also actively violating federal tax laws.
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CBD posted this on last week's Food Thread. It applies just as much to books as it does to food!
That's a point I have tried to hammer home for years. The best X in the world is the one you like the most! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2025 06:37 PM
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- Nvidia's RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti might arrive in March to steal the thunder from AMD's launch of its Radeon 9000 family, but probably won't succeed at doing that. (Tom's Hardware)
The problem is twofold.
The best selling point of the 4060 is its low power consumption, and Nvidia is using the same 4nm TSMC process for the 5000 series, so there are no easy wins there. They can use GDDR7 memory, but that's more expensive and the chip on the 5060 is unlikely to be fast enough to make good use of it.
With the 5060 Ti things are more complicated. The 4060 Ti is 40% faster in theory than the base 4060, but has exactly the same 8GB of GDDR6 RAM on a 128 bit bus, so the performance of the card is meh, and collapses as soon as games demand more than 8GB. You can get a 16GB model, but it's still constrained by the 128 bit bus.
With the 5060 Ti, Nvidia can use GDDR7 - around 40% faster - and use 24Gbit chips so that the base model has 12GB of VRAM instead of just 8GB. That would give the chip a lot more breathing room - but if it works well it will encroach on the 5070 and Nvidia can't have that.
Also Intel's B580 already exists, has 12GB of VRAM, and costs just $250, constraining both AMD and Nvidia when it comes to lower-end cards.
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February 01, 2025
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Henri-Georges Clouzot

Alfred Hitchcock had one real competitor for the title of Master of Suspense: the French filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot. Hitchcock himself invited the comparison, and Clouzot remarked publicly about how he was flattered by the comparison. This reputation comes from about half of Clouzot's films starting with his first, L'assassin habite au 21, through his best known films, a quartet that includes Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfevres, Les Diaboliques, and Wages of Fear.
However, Clouzot remains something of a mystery to me. Not because I dislike his films (I enjoyed his filmography, even the lesser-known films, quite a bit), but because he feels like he's more than just the French Hitchcock. The films that no one mentions (not that the English language conversation around Clouzot is robust or outside of a fairly small circle of film geeks), Manon, Miquette, The Spies, and especially his final two, La Verite and Woman in Chains, are real departures from the Hitchcock-aligned aesthetic. A couple of these could be fit in awkwardly (The Spies is too black and dry and cynical of a comedy to fit with Hitchcock's and Woman in Chains isn't lurid enough to fit in with something like Frenzy), but ultimately, the shortness of Clouzot's filmography highlights a comedy like Miquette more than a comedy like Mr. and Mrs. Smith does in Hitchcock's.
And, then there's the central question of Inferno, Clouzot's unfinished film that he filmed for about a month before his star walked off set and Clouzot had a heart attack, ending the production. Inferno could have been his magnum opus, and that it remains uncompleted reveals a large whole in the filmography that feels like it would contain real answers.
So, who was this guy?
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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 and we are rolling out the red carpet.
We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and apparently it was feeling seasonal and recreational. It said WINTER SPORTS. Here we go!Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM | Comments (182) | Trackbacks (Suck)
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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. I cut my teeth with this thread going on 9 years ago. It was handed off to KT who gladly took it on. Unfortunately KT is ill and won't be your Cob today. You get stuck with me. Just one simple rule. Leave all politics and current events out at the front curb. Don't even think about bringing them to the front porch. Thank you.
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Good day and welcome to KT's The Gardening Thread. Unfortunately, KT is recovering from a stroke she experienced earlier in the week. So until she grace's us with her return you are stuck with me.
So gardening in the Frozen Tundra is pretty much a thing of the past. Unless you have a green house. In the past 10 days we had 3 consecutive days where temps never crossed above 0. Difficult to think about gardening even with the arrival of the Jung's Seed Catalog.

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Normally Saturday is our very own KT Day. She has been doing yeoman's work for may years on Saturday.
Unfortunately KT suffered a stroke earlier in the week. I spoke with her on Thursday and she sounded upbeat considering all. But, she did manage to tell me that because of her condition that she was unable to fulfill her Saturday threads. I told her we all wished her well and a speedy recovery. And somehow her threads will limp along. But, we want her back!Now onto the story at hand......................

When the subject matter is the "common man" Sen. Chuck U. Schumer of New York is a man who knows how the common man lives.
Granted, this photo is from June of 2024. Yet, after all this time it cracks me up. How dare the environmental fascists come after Chuck with his raw meat and gas grill?
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Happy February, the days are getting longer and the Commie Libs are crying. Yup, it's going to be a good month. Just a few house keeping matters to go over with before the Prayer Revival (Rulz for those of you in Nekoosa.) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2) Be kind. Be nice. And please no jumping on the furniture.
3) Running with sharp objects without a back up plan is an invitation to be laughed at.
4) Have a great weekend!
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- The Minimal Phone is a minimal phone. (Liliputing)
Well, technically it's a minimal smartphone. It runs Android 14 and has an 800x600 display and supports 4G - though not 5G. And it has a camera - optionally two - and USB-C.
And a physical keyboard and a genuine headphone jack and a microSD slot, all of which are becoming less common. And the screen is a relatively tiny 4.25".
Also less common is the use of an e-ink display, which gives much better battery life but is not great for watching videos or checking your photos, since it's black and white. The video review attached to that article suggests it's not the most responsive device ever created either, likely directly tied to the slow e-ink display.
Price is $399 despite the lower-end specs, presumably because phones that aren't bloated and annoying don't sell.
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January 31, 2025
Howdy folks! Welcome to Friday night. Time for some memes!
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The Devil's Bridge, Germany
All cafe photos this week from Architecture & Tradition
Fluffy navigator. That song is here. Puppy discovers his Evil Twin. These deer are having a full-on MMA fight and it's weird. Speaking of deer: Snow-white deer. Rare piebald spotted deer. And to round it out, here's a supposedly rare black deer. Dog won't let his master pet the cat. He may love the cat. He also might hate the cat, and may be trying to isolate him. We'll keep an eye on the situation. One cool cat. Bugs Bunny voice on: "Don't ferget yer rubbahs!" A duck makes fun of Jm J. Acosta. Mommy won't let kitty have no fun. Penguins are very excitable. This dog's right ear is working hard. Telegram. Me-ow so horny. Dog living his best life. All dogs want to be working dogs. The evolution of computers. Steve Inman's Crash Derby: Low IQ, low impulse control are a dangerous combination. Some freelance amateur street-cleaning. Three moped street-robbers think they got away but then out of nowhere Oh No They Didn't Get Away. Sudden Violence
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I was working on a MAHA post but I'm tired and want to knock off early.
Here, here's a zero-effort post. Apologies. I just want to stop working today.Posted by: Ace at 06:46 PM | Comments (265) | Trackbacks (Suck)
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