In No One Is Above the Law News, Democrat Operative and Flake John Bolton Learns No One Is Above the Law

He has pled guilty to illegal retention of classified information. He will pay a $2.25 million fine, forfeit his federal pension, and could spend 60 months in prison.

But, of course, a plea deal means prosecutors have agreed to recommend far less than that, and probably zero time at all.

Deep Leaks
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IT'S OFFICIAL: John Bolton is now a FELON after pleading GUILTY to unlawful retention of national defense information

He and his mustache have agreed to pay a $2.25 MILLION fine, face up to 60 MONTHS in prison, and forfeit his pension.

"As Mr. Bolton just admitted, he put our national security at grave risk in violation of the law," the DOJ said

Give him all 60 months!

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Naturalized Violent Insurrectionist Isa Lemgruber Casahuga, aka "Baby Pamper," Who Celebrated and Giggled Over the Vile Public Execution of Charlie Kirk to One of His Friends and Coworkers, Now Fake "Apologizes"

A refresher about this evil Immigrant Whore:

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Congresswoman Who Lost to Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed in Primary Endorses Mike Rogers, Condemns the Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Antisemite's Hate

Democrats are condemning her, ejecting her from the party, and claiming she's just a sore loser.

But, as Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed observed after one of his cousins shot children to death at a Jewish school: "Hurt people do hurt people."

Democrat Congresswoman had planned to rally with Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed and Democrat racial gang-leader James Clyburn on Sunday. She had one demand for her re-endorsement of Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed: She wanted him to reject Hasan Piker's Nepo Uncle Chunk Uggo's antisemetic ad claiming that bananas and eggs cost more because Jews are stealing them to make bombs out of them to kill innocent non-terrorist Gazans.

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed refused this minor reparative step. The Very Online Left condemns Trump for refusing to apologize or compromise, but they imitate him like Japanese girls used to imitate Gwen Stefani.

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed then said she wasn't welcome at the "unity" rally and did not share Democrat Party pro-terrorist "values."

So she announced she would not be part of the "unity" rally.

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@DanFriedman81

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Haley Stevens was going to do a Democratic unity rally with Abdul El-Sayed and James Clyburn where she was going to encourage her supporters, many of whom have serious reservations about El-Sayed, to vote for him.

This was very important for El-Sayed, because Stevens is popular among Jewish and black Michigan Democrats and Clyburn is an icon among black voters nationwide. El-Sayed has weakness with both of these groups and needs to shore them up going into election day.

Stevens's condition was that he make an unambiguous, unqualified condemnation of the antisemitic rhetoric his friends, supporters and surrogates have been using, including in ads run in Michigan.

El-Sayed refused to do this, and instead asked Stevens not to appear at the event. At that point, Stevens realized that he was not interested in unity with her or her supporters and that she could no longer support him for Senate.

El-Sayed is an antisemite. He is friends with antisemites Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur. He will not condemn them. He will not condemn the awful things they say.

He has had multiple opportunities to condemn their hateful rhetoric, and he always says: "He is not part of a campaign, nobody speaks for me but me, and I'm not here to talk about that."

That's not good enough. If that is how a Republican talked about Nick Fuentes or Richard Spencer, it would be the biggest controversy in the race. The fact that so many Democrats are willing to tolerate this from Abdul El-Sayed is an indictment of the entire party.

There is no coalition that can include both the Jewish Democratic members of Temple Israel and supporters of the Hezbollah terrorist who tried to murder their preschool children. Abdul El-Sayed made a decision about who he wanted in his tent.

Haley Stevens was late to realize it, but it is admirable that she finally decided to be an upstander instead of a bystander. No Nazis in the US Senate.

And then Stevens went further: She endorsed Republican Mike Rogers, first online, and then later at press conference.

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THE MORNING RANT: A Little Good News Regarding the Business of Petroleum

Valero to Purchase and Restart a Shuttered Texas Refinery

Although the inflation-adjusted price of gasoline in America is virtually unchanged over the past two decades, it is higher than where it was before the flow of Iranian oil was cut off to global markets. Also contributing to the problem of elevated fuel prices is the lack of refining capacity in the United States. This is especially true regarding diesel. The carbon hysteria of the past few decades, along with Democrat administrations’ war on petroleum has dissuaded capital investment in new refineries.

With that background, there was some great news announced this past week – Texas-based Valero Energy is purchasing a mothballed refinery in Houston.

The refinery had previously been operated by Dutch chemical company Lyondell, but in obedience to the E.U.’s anti-carbon “net zero” obsession, Lyondell shut the plant down after announcing its closure in 2022. The puppet-masters of the Biden administration were so passionately anti-petroleum that mothballing the refinery was also a way for Lyondell to help gain regulatory favor for its ongoing U.S. chemical operations.

“Valero to Buy, Restart Idled Texas Refinery as Fuel Rallies” [Bloomberg – 10/30/2026]

The pure-play oil refiner plans to restart 165,000 barrels of daily light, sweet crude processing capacity by the end of 2027 at the former LyondellBasell Industries NV facility, according to a press release Friday. The $320.5 million deal with Lyondell is expected to close by the end of the year, Valero said. The plant sits adjacent to a Valero refinery that’s capable of processing more than 200,000 barrels of oil each day.

This refinery can produce diesel and jet fuel in addition to gasoline. Production will re-start in 2027.

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BP’s CEO on Renewables Debacle: “We Have Not Been Careful Stewards of Shareholder Capital”

Meanwhile, another European petroleum corporation that tried to pivot into being a “clean” energy company is taking a massive write-down on that failed endeavor. Fortunately for British Petroleum, its traditional refining is producing solid profit to help offset the losses from its pretend-energy division.

“BP Flags Up to $4.5 Billion in Impairments as Refining Margins Jump” [Yahoo Finance – 10/13/2026]

BP expects to take between $3 billion and $4.5 billion in post-tax impairment charges in the third quarter of 2026, primarily related to its energy transition businesses, even as stronger refining margins provide a significant earnings boost.

To abide with the edicts of the European state religion (The Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse), BP had even started to claim that its initials stood for “Beyond Petroleum.” BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was during the time that BP was promoting itself as being “beyond petroleum.” What this revealed is that the anti-carbon activists running BP were distracted by the “renewables” nonsense and had become indifferent to responsibly running a petroleum company.

With BP taking this new $4.5 billion write-off for failed “renewables” projects, its current CEO, Meg O’Neill, is acknowledging that “We have not been careful stewards of shareholder capital.”

While Ms. O’Neill has a regrettable history of voicing support for Net Zero goals, she has also hedged on timelines, as well as the practicality of reducing carbon output without natural gas. It would be so refreshing if oil company executives would start fully and unabashedly advocating for the product their industry produces, rather than pandering to enviro-communist politicians who want to eliminate the companies they head.

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Other Stuff I’m Writing About

My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “Repeated Ethical Shortcomings at Instacart Hamper the Task of Those Defending Capitalism” discusses Instacart’s persistent ethical transgressions, including:

• Illegal hiring practices that exclude U.S. citizens.

• Surveillance pricing that charges customers different amounts for the exact same product from the same store.

• The use of unvetted, sub-contract labor.

Those of us who defend the prosperity brought about by free markets have always had our work cut out for us, because socialists promise “free everything” by the confiscation of others’ wealth. To make our economic case, we need businesses to operate as good corporate citizens, consistent with America’s historic culture of being a high-trust society. The motivation for a corporation to refrain from deceptive trade practices should not be the fear of legal consequences. Ethical behavior should be the default. Similarly, non-exploitative employment practices should be the expectation of Western capitalism, not something that must be compelled.

This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

My latest at The American Spectator covers Instacart's persistent ethical transgressions & how this hampers the defense of capitalism. The latest: Instacart settled with the Justice Dept for discriminating against US citizens in favor of H-1B hires. https://t.co/FSphwbgiwb

— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) October 31, 2026

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Winter in the Country
George Henry Durrie

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The Morning Report — 11/2 /26

Good morning kids. Hope you all had a relaxing and fun Halloween weekend. But as we all know tomorrow is it, unless you can still vote early wherever you may be you can cast your ballot today.

the big story is that Haley Stevens, a Michigan Dem has come out now and officially endorsed Republican candidate for Senate Mike Rogers. Considering Michigan is controlled top to bottom by Democrats who stole 2020 for sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden and that its major cities are essentially Beirut in all but name only, for her to seemingly commit political suicide by endorsing Rogers means perhaps she thinks El-Sayed is going down or else whatever strain of morality that appears from time to time in John Fetterman is in her system too. Either way, good for her, coming as it does just the day before Election day, it might still make a huge difference in Michigan and indeed the trajectory of the nation.

Haley Stevens is a “proud Democrat” who bashed GOP candidate Mike Rogers just this past summer.

So think about how bad Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed must be for Stevens to cross the political aisle and endorse Rogers, the Republican candidate she initially dismissed, for senator from Michigan.

So bad that El-Sayed dismissed an attack on a synagogue full of children by blaming Israel, claiming that “hurt people hurt people.” 
So bad that when El-Sayed was asked whether Iran or Israel was the greater threat to the US, he answered both.

So bad that El-Sayed refused to denounce an advertisement that blamed Israel for high inflation.

Stevens had begged for El-Sayed to stop blaming the Jewish state for everything wrong in this world, and El-Sayed refused. . . Stevens has nothing to gain here. The Democratic machine, which prioritizes winning over morals, will disown her. She’s not looking for a future as a Republican. There is no money, no glory in this. There is only principle. Haley Stevens hasn’t changed, the party has changed, beholden now to the deranged “Free Palestine” antisemitic mob that cheers the terror of Hamas. She’s tried cautioning the Democrats. She’s tried convincing them. In the end, she came to the realization that so many Jewish-Americans have, to their sadness: The party has abandoned them. Hopefully her bravery will make a difference with voters this Election Day. Heed her warning.

No her party has not changed in the least, as this reaction to her endorsement of Rogers clearly demonstrates.

Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville was slammed for disgustingly comparing Michigan Dem Rep. Haley Stevens to a “used condom” after she endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over lefty candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Carville said Stevens wasn’t even worth a used condom to Democrats after she broke with the party days before Election Day and sold her soul to the GOP for “two cheeseburgers” in his vulgar remarks Sunday.

“But your political career is over … if you think that these Republicans are gonna treat you as anything other than what they view you as, and that is, let me just break the news to you: a used condom,” Carville said Sunday in an episode of the podcast, Politicon.

Meh, for whatever it's worth both President Trump and speaker Mike Johnson invited Stevens to escape the Democrat hellhole and join the GOP. Carville is a criminal degenerate. You have to wonder what in the hell goes on between him and wife Mary Matalin. Or has she been murdered, dismembered and fed to his pet alligators.

In any case, as has been reported the usually reliably Democrat black voters in Michigan have some serious issues with el-Sayed so maybe Rogers could shock everyone with a win if blacks either stay home or even pull the lever for Rogers.

In any case let's try to read some tea leaves first from the estimable Professor Victor Davis Hanson:

In 2026, the media have lectured us for months that the impending blue wave is the inevitable electoral payback for Trump’s crippling inflation, soaring gas prices, and war abroad—despite the fact that similar conditions did relatively little electoral damage to Democrats in 2022. . . We are also told that flipping a Texas Senate seat to the Democrats, with a possible James Talarico victory, will be a landmark turning point, given that a Democrat has not held such a seat in 33 years. Perhaps.. . We are also apprised that this inevitable blue wave reflects a nationwide disgust with Trump that will doom the last two years of his presidency. Perhaps again. .. And a midterm loss, especially in the second term, can sometimes even boost a president’s popularity. Indeed, in 1998, Clinton reached the highest approval level of his presidency at 73 percent and would leave office in January 2001 with an approval rating of 66 percent. . .

. . . In sum, we should remember a few things about the upcoming midterms.

First, the blue wave may not materialize, just as the red wave did not materialize in 2022, despite public unhappiness with the Ukraine war, inflation, and gas prices.

Of note is that VDH, no Pollyanna to be sure and well-versed in American and global history is remaining positive whatever the final score may be after tomorrow.

And some more positive vibes for you all:

What can we hope for this year? Can Republicans defy history a third time? Better yet, can they manage until 2028 if they lose?

Let’s say that Democrats have a good night. It’s doubtful they will pick up forty seats like in Election 2018. Multiple sites have suggested as many as sixteen swing congressional districts. Let’s imagine that Democrats win enough swing seats to get a five-seat majority in the House of Representatives. . . Not only does Jeffries have to contend with opponents to his left, but a moderate faction within the current Democratic House conference will push him from the right. They have their love of capitalism, America, the police, and their rejection of pro-Palestinian extremism. . . My optimistic appraisal is that Republicans maintain a slim House majority. Party activists get excited in a banner year for their side, and they think they can push the most ideologically polarizing and still carry the day. . . Despite possible dark outcomes taking hold on Election Day 2026, we can hope for more than a silver lining to propel the larger MAGA for the future. At best, Democrats will take back the House on paper but accomplish nothing because of DSA v. Moderate Dem infighting. In the meantime, Republicans can capitalize on their Big Beautiful Bill; Trump will have resolved the Iran war, gas prices will go down, and Republicans can win big again in 2028.

All well and good, but as you can see from a quick scan of the links in the Civil War section and elsewhere, the Democrat/Left will not be satisfied until they have completely dismantled America as founded and destroyed anyone who stands in their way of absolute and permanent power. Nothing is beyond the pale including violence and that is even more and more the preferred method to achieving their goals.

. . . What the Democrat Party has become is truly horrific.  Like Frankenstein’s monster, its political body is comprised of dead parts: Islamic supremacy, racial grievance, class warfare, cultural Marxism, cultish communism, child sacrifice, child mutilation, sexual deviance, and pagan gods.  Everything the Democrats celebrate today is disgusting, gruesome, and deserving of an R-rating.

A lot of Americans have drifted from the Democrat to the Republican Party over the last few decades.  
It is apt that the two Republican presidents of the last century that Republican voters rate most highly — President Reagan and President Trump — both spent parts of their lives as members of the Democrat Party.  
=At what point does it not become obvious that the Democrat Party has become the “safe space” for grotesque evils?
When an illegal alien rapes and/or murders an American girl, Democrats in public office and Democrats working as “journalists” show more compassion for the rapist/murderer than they do for the broken victim.  
This is monstrous, abhorrent, anti-American behavior that I would not have thought possible thirty years ago.  Most of us remember a time when Americans took care of and protected other Americans.  We beat back those who threatened our peace, and we hunted monsters that hurt American children.  Now Democrats describe the monsters among us as victims and ignore the dead American girls and their suffering American families altogether.  What a ghoulish, soulless party the Democrats have become.

God-willing may tomorrow be the harbinger of the complete destruction and extinction of the anti-American Democrat Left.

have a good day.VOTE EARLY & OFTEN!!!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Victor Davis Hanson: The predicted blue wave may never materialize. And even if Democrats retake Congress, history suggests Trump could emerge stronger, not weaker, with the presidency's expansive powers.
  Midterm Election Incoherences, Misadventures, and Paradoxes
  
• Haley Stevens is a “proud Democrat” who bashed GOP candidate Mike Rogers just this past summer. So think about how bad Democrat nominee Abdul El-Sayed must be for Stevens to cross the political aisle and endorse Rogers, the Republican candidate she initially dismissed, for senator from Michigan.So bad that El-Sayed dismissed an attack on a synagogue full of children by blaming Israel, claiming that “hurt people hurt people.” 
  Haley Stevens’ act of bravery as her party abandons Jewish voters

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Daily Tech News 2 November 2026

Top Story

• Binance is back online. (CNBC)
  
  The company saw net outflows of $3.64 billion (not $3.64 as Slashdot claimed) due to loss of trust, but has $170 billion in assets, which is kind of a lot.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - November 1, 2026

From KennesawTom

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

[Top photo: Tanbark Ridge Tunnel - Blue Ridge Parkway mile marker 374.4- Weaverville North Carolina]

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Gun Thread: First November 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 First November Edition? I'm certain many of you were hoping for another October edition, but the Gun Thread always marches forward in the pursuit of excellence and to that end, we've now moved on to November.

I'll likely be in and out of the comments this evening, so please have a good time and try not to burn the place down. Thanks.

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

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Food Thread: Beef-In-A-Bag And Other Deliciousness

I made short ribs last weekend, and used a technique that is sure to raise the hackles of that small and deluded core of com-symps who reject modern cooking conveniences.

Yes...it was Sous Vide! And it was great. And all Sous Vide did was give me complete control over what was essentially a long slow braise at a very low temperature! The development of the roasted flavors that come via the Maillard reaction was a bit of a cheat, as I used homemade beef stock and Guinness Stout!

Delicious! Even if it did use a frog-invented technique!

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First World Problems...

You can't see it? You can't see it. YOU CAN"T SEE IT!

That is the perfidy of the spider! The evidence, its web, is invisible to the camera, so a charge, trial, and execution is impossible.

But I know it is there. And there will be consequences.

Replace the fixture? Of course. That is the minimalist response. Also in the mix is a removal and replacement of the ceiling and wiring. And certainly replacement of the ceiling joists is a reasonable approach.

No...I did not ignore fire. Cleansing fire!

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We Are A Generous People; Try Not To Be Scammed!

I could rant for pages and pages about the evils of government largesse replacing private charity. It doesn't work, it never worked, and it will never work. A cursory glance at Europe and it sclerotic economy will buttress the argument that governments are horrendously inefficient at everything they do, so why not ensure that they do as little as possible?

Luckily, Americans are an amazingly caring and generous people outside of the cities, and there are many thousands of charitable organizations that do yeoman's work caring for those in need.

And as humans are wont, some are poorly run. Some are purposefully designed to enrich their staff. Some are flat-out scams.

And of course, because this is America, organizations have arisen to inform us of the relative quality of these charitable efforts. And that is a very good thing, because most of us will have difficulty reading IRS Form 990, which is just the beginning of the labyrinth that is financial reporting.

One website I use is called CharityWatch, and they seem to be rigorous and consistent in their evaluations. And that's nice, because I don't want to have to wade through some bullsh*t political screed just to see the cost to fund-raise compared to total revenue!

One of the things I think is important is the salaries of the administrators and board. It is glaringly obvious that there are some non-profit organizations that should be stripped of that designation and thrown into the general pile of companies in it for the almighty buck. And don't get me started on universities and hospitals that hide behind their non-profit status to evade the taxes that every other provider of a product or service has to pay!

Sadly, there are more ways for charities to obfuscate and redirect and flat-out cheat than there are watchers, so there is always a risk that the $25 you sent to XYZ charity is actually being funneled to some NGO that hides wetbacks from ICE. But careful reading of the materials provided by the charity will provide clues.

For me? I look for the most direct line between my dollar and the recipient. Tunnel to Towers Foundation is a good example of a well-run charity that doesn't piss away its donor's money on stupid sh*t. They used to send me stuff in the mail, which I think is a waste. So I called them, and a real person answered the phone! I asked that all communication be via e-mail to save a few bucks. And I have never again gotten anything in the mail! Is that a big deal? No, but it shows that they are serious about their work.

I am not touting CharityWatch or Tunnels To Towers. There are many fine organizations that are aligned with your charitable interests, and a bit of research into them will minimize the possibility of waste or fraud.

And speaking of charities! All of the profit from The Deplorable Gourmet goes to a couple of excellent and efficient charities.

What? You don't know what that is? It is the greatest cookbook of the 21st century! And a perfect Christmas gift, or even better a wonderful book to bring to your Thanksgiving host. It is elegant, well written, and everyone is wearing their best in the photos. It's even got original art! Plus, the food is great.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 11-1-2026 ["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 (sponsored by Big Penguin). 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, unless you are wearing these pants*...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty murderfluff (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, snack on leftover Halloween candy, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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Daily Tech News 1 November 2026

Top Story

• French lawmakers have decided to do what French lawmakers have always done: Make other people pay for the problems they created. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  In this case, they are trying to charge the companies that send data over the internet to customers in France for the data they send - at an utterly absurd 6 cents per gigabyte.
  
  Costs to send data from a server - except for the big three cloud platforms which are wildly overpriced - start at about one cent per gigabyte at the high end, so France wants to levy a tax of 600% - on people who don't live in France.
  
  Also, tiny problem with the article:

  With approximately 154 million users and counting in France, the proposal's authors say such a tax could generate around €10 billion ($11.2 billion) in annual revenue for the government.

  Yeah, I don't think so, mate. Even after being invaded by North Africa, the population of France stands at around 66 million.
  

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Saturday Night Club ONT - October 31, 2026 [Disco & Dino]

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

Open thread - bar is open, too. Come in in, grab a drink or 2. Or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Be careful though. The Moose is wearing a Halloween costume, so you may not immediately recognize him.

[Top photo: Ladder Eight, FDNY]

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Music Thread: Rip Your Lungs Out Edition

As Garrett's closet goes, these aren't the most offensive things in it!

Halloween is a silly and inoffensive pseudo-holiday that nonetheless has taken over America (and other parts of the world!). The best part is watching the wee little ones in their costumes, not particularly sure of what the hell is going on, but confident that people giving them candy is never a bad thing!

It's far better than Kwanzaa or National Executive Assistant Day or the other fake holidays that are much less fun, and almost always include a bit of hectoring and mandatory kowtowing to the demographic being celebrated.

Of course, I am an advocate for John Moses Browning Day, so maybe I am not impartial!

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Hobby Thread - October 31, 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. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling sparkly and decided on a crystal and gem theme for this Halloween Hobby Thread.

Crystals and gems? Read on, fellow hobbyists...

[Top photo: why isn't there a picture of a crystal or diamond for a crystal or diamond theme? Answer - if you had a dinosaur Halloween photo, wouldn't you post it?]

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 31

Courtesy Roy Rubright

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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, Halloween!

Assortment of results from family pumpkin-carving night.

Don't be afraid of the pumpkins after the e.coli outbreak at a pumpkin patch in San Luis Obisbo County, though. Here are some photos from the pumpkin patch.

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Halloween Miscellany

Content remaining after some disappeared:

One of the greatest ironies of the COVID era, for me, was watching people whose self-concept revolved around championing multiculturalism, Indigenous wisdom, and respect for non-Western traditions suddenly demand absolute conformity to a single Western biomedical approach to health.

Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and countless Indigenous healing traditions around the world emphasize the health of the whole organism, its environment, and the cultivation of balance and resilience over fighting a particular pathogen.

Yet during COVID, discussions of these perspectives—overall health, fitness, mental health, nutrition, and internal balance—were met with ridicule and even censorship, while people who refused the novel allopathic pharmaceutical intervention were excluded from most aspects of society.

It was so dark that it was hard to appreciate the parody. People whose entire cultural narrative revolved around multiculturalism were insisting that everyone conform to the dominant Western biomedical establishment—a system consolidated through Rockefeller-era reforms, backed by oil wealth, that marginalized traditional approaches to medicine.

Anyone who refused to conform to the system during the Covid era was treated as an ignorant savage, too stupid or dangerous to participate in society.

And anyone who practiced holistic medicine and rejected the novel allopathic intervention was labeled "hesitant"—someone who needed to be "educated." The colonial irony was breathtaking. Here were the self-appointed champions of Indigenous wisdom, assuming the familiar role of the enlightened colonizer, arriving to educate the ignorant savages out of their supposedly primitive beliefs.

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