Do Not Go Gentle Into That ONT

Howdy folks! So, what a week, huh?

The Art Of War

The Trump Doctrine (aka the Businessman’s Way of War)

As the dust and smoke settle over Iran’s devastated nuclear weapons program, President Donald Trump’s method of waging war is coming into focus. We had hints of what I call the “Trump Doctrine” in his first term as he annihilated ISIS in Syria, but the two-decade war in Afghanistan that he had inherited initially obscured what has now become a coherent doctrine. In his second term, the freedom of navigation attacks against Yemen’s Houthis were once again a hint of Trump’s way of war, but Saturday’s attack on Iran—and the events leading up to it—tell us much about the deliberate and precise manner in which Trump seeks to conduct American wars. Similar to (but different from) the famous “Powell Doctrine” promulgated by former Secretary of State Colin Powell (more on that later), the Trump Doctrine is the doctrine of a businessman serving his stockholders. Explained another way, the Trump Doctrine is the “Businessman’s Way of War.”
To preview succinctly, the Trump Doctrine consists of a series of business-like, iterative steps for all uses of American military force, and it performs as follows:
1. Identify America’s national interest.
2. Bargain with the prospective enemy.
3. If/when negotiations fail, conceal & misdirect.
4. Strike with precision and overwhelming force.
5. Achieve submission.
6. Bargain again (from a position of complete strength) with the defeated enemy.

I agree with every bit of this article. I've long said (and often been derided for) that the only way to win a war is to make the enemy (either their leadership or enough of the population to force/change the leadership to ) believe that the cost of continuing the war outweigh the risks of continuing it. You can't negotiate peace until they tap out.

Wheels Keep A Rollin'

Wheels May Have Been Invented to Solve a Surprising Problem

Imagine you're a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 BCE. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine's sweltering tunnels.
You've resigned yourself to the grueling monotony of mining life. Then one afternoon, you witness a fellow worker doing something remarkable.
With an odd-looking contraption, he casually transports the equivalent of three times his body weight on a single trip. As he returns to the mine to fetch another load, it suddenly dawns on you that your chosen profession is about to get far less taxing and much more lucrative.
What you don't realize: You're witnessing something that will change the course of history – not just for your tiny mining community, but for all of humanity.

The evolution of the wheel infographic is neat:

M.A.I.L. (Medical Assistance In Living)

We’re Better Off Loved

But here’s a critical question: Could the mere availability of assisted suicide be a degree of coercion? In many cases in which it has been used, patients have reported their wish not to be a burden rather than to end their suffering from intense pain. In fact, we know pain often isn’t the issue. We have palliative care for that. Once killing by doctors becomes acceptable, it will likely happen even when it’s not explicitly requested — that’s what happens when you start erring on the side of death.
The Guardian recently told the tale of a married elderly couple in Australia who chose assisted suicide for themselves. She had a degenerative spinal condition. He had, among other health issues, panic attacks. Look, I’ve had panic attacks. They are not fun. They can be, in fact, terrifying, and even debilitating, but they are also treatable, and there are plenty of aids and solutions to explore before taking such an extreme measure. Perhaps the man sought a semblance of control; to take a prescription and die with his wife. Is this supposed to be romance? Are we a few years away from the first MAiD (medical aid in dying, advocates’ preferred euphemism) rom-com? Their decision, their terms, their timing — together — is how such stories are presented. But that’s all a delusion. Not one of us will ever be fully in control of his or her life or death. Neither, after all, is our idea. We exist for reasons beyond ourselves. Everything else is a response to the fact that we are alive — and to that other inherent fact: that we will die.

Nobody gets out of this life alive. We should not go gentle into that goodnight.

Abandoned Places

No Man's Fort: An experience like no other on a Solent Forts luxury break

If you were told to design a playground for adults, and given the freedom to be as creative and far fetched as you liked, even then what you came up with may not be as utterly imaginative as this place.
No Man's Fort is one of three man-made islands off the coast of Portsmouth, built in the 1860s to help protect Britain from the rumoured arrival of Napoleon III and his French army, and also manned during the Second World War.
Now a luxury adults-only hotel, after being purchased from the MoD and opened in its current use in 2012, the fort boasts 22 bedrooms, a bar, restaurant, sauna, large seating area in the centre, plus an outdoor area complete with hot tubs.
There is also Spitbank Fort (smaller than No Man's) and Horsesand Fort, the latter of which is being preserved in its original state and is due to open as a museum in August 2016.
Trips to these historic structures are organised by Solent Forts, who promise a memorable experience to all who set sail for the forts – and I can't think of anyone who would disagree with that sales pitch.

Unfortunately, Covid killed it, and it's been abandoned for 5 years. The insides are amazing, however. Here's a video tour of the fort now

Pure Evil

After some thought, I've removed this section. It's too horrific for the ONT. Have some faux Peterson instead. - WD

ETA: Fine. Enough of you are asking so I'll white text it. If you really want to know, left click and highlight to behold the horror: A gay couple in the UK were allowed to adopt a 1 year old boy, whom they proceeded to rape to death. There. Told you you didn't want to know. Keep details outta my comments section.

The Best Jordan Peterson Impersonation I've Ever Seen

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1 I would have been here sooner, but I didn't have anything to say.

Posted by: mindful webworker - overnightly at June 26, 2025 10:00 PM (0NO3o)

2 first

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 26, 2025 10:00 PM (pI9a0)

3 Natashatollah!

Posted by: mot at June 26, 2025 10:01 PM (fIPNY)

4 Trips to these historic structures are organised by Solent Forts, who promise a memorable experience to all who set sail for the forts – and I can't think of anyone who would disagree with that sales pitch.

Solent Forts..... are People!!!

Posted by: seriously, man, whole walls of skulls at June 26, 2025 10:03 PM (DgGvY)

5 Thank you for the ONT!

I'm in Canada. Small town. The park is across the street and fireworks are going off now.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 10:03 PM (jvJvP)

6 Don’t quarters look weird, nowadays?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 10:03 PM (NWqJf)

7 I love our cussin' president!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 26, 2025 10:04 PM (kpS4V)

8 When is the last time you saw a half dollar?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 10:05 PM (sJ4fj)

9 6 Don’t quarters look weird, nowadays?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 10:03 PM (NWqJf)

You should see Canadian coinage...

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 10:05 PM (jvJvP)

10 Trump Swear Jar - funny

As I noted nine years ago..

Trump is a Class Act (0:19)

https://youtu.be/MJOF6EzqL9U

Posted by: mindful webworker - The question is, which class? at June 26, 2025 10:05 PM (0NO3o)

11
The days are getting shorter-

I can feel it

I can feel it

Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at June 26, 2025 10:05 PM (AOsQT)

12 Evenin'

youtu.be/FbOrLI9ynwM

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 26, 2025 10:05 PM (iNUL3)

13 Sorry I'm late, I was shellacking the tortoise shell.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2025 10:06 PM (Eo0oL)

14 Gutfeld is talking about cussing Trump now.

Kat is hosting.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 10:07 PM (jvJvP)

15 Is that a quarter? Or does Trump's swearing jar require bitcoins?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 26, 2025 10:07 PM (W/lyH)

16 "Speak loudly and carry a REALLY big stick" has a certain cachet.

Posted by: Some Rat at June 26, 2025 10:08 PM (TfUTr)

17 #1 of the 'wheel' model is a Flintstone wheel.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 26, 2025 10:08 PM (cYBz/)

18 Ben Had -

Just now: I have one in my coin purse!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 10:08 PM (NWqJf)

19 Are we a few years away from the first MAiD (medical aid in dying, advocates’ preferred euphemism) rom-com?

There's gotta be an anime/manga already.

Sankarea was written in 2009, but that's more MAiZ than MAiD.

Posted by: Medical Aid in Zombification at June 26, 2025 10:08 PM (DgGvY)

20 A word from our sponsor: boom.

Posted by: toby928 at June 26, 2025 10:09 PM (jc0TO)

21 Sorry I'm late, I was shellacking the tortoise shell.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2025 10:06 PM (Eo0oL)

So that's what the kids are calling it nowadays.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 26, 2025 10:09 PM (6Z9Vm)

22 Solent Forts is polyammering!

Posted by: Charlton Heston at June 26, 2025 10:09 PM (fIPNY)

23
Assisted suicide is one more in the long line of horrors which get justified by a tiny number of hard cases and are normalized to cover the 99% that could be handled some other way.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2025 10:09 PM (/HVsR)

24 Sorry I'm late, I was shellacking the tortoise shell.
Posted by: tankdemon

Weirdest euphemism for it I've seen all week.

So this is the correct ONT for it.

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 10:10 PM (DgGvY)

25 I don't want to think about how much change would be in a swear jar for the Horde, just in one day.

We're gonna need a bigger jar.

Posted by: LizLem at June 26, 2025 10:11 PM (gWBY1)

26 "Pure Evil
After some thought, I've removed this section."

Thanks.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Thoughty of you at June 26, 2025 10:11 PM (0NO3o)

27 9 6 Don’t quarters look weird, nowadays?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 10:03 PM (NWqJf)

You should see Canadian coinage...
Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 10:05 PM (jvJvP)

Those designs are just looney.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2025 10:12 PM (Eo0oL)

28 Shellacking ones shell. That's resin-ating

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 10:12 PM (sJ4fj)

29 When is the last time you saw a half dollar?
Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 10:05 PM (sJ4fj)

Not too often at all. Do get dollar coins as change in self-service grocery store checkouts or refilling a MetroCard at a subway vending machine. And I do hate getting them.

Posted by: RickZ at June 26, 2025 10:12 PM (gKDq2)

30 Sankarea is sad and weird! The protagonist loves the dead girl and the dead girl loves him right back! Ooh, I could just eat your heart ❤️ out!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 10:12 PM (NWqJf)

31 The reason we can’t tell what coin that is, is because there’s something very odd about the design on it. I suspect AI.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2025 10:12 PM (HEGiN)

32 I'm curious about "Pure Evil".

I had a tough year and watched pretty messed up crap. And I've been learning about Islam for 24 years.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 10:13 PM (jvJvP)

33 We're gonna need a bigger jar.
Posted by: LizLem

And a large line of credit for some.

Posted by: Some Rat at June 26, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)

34 >>> Are we a few years away from the first MAiD (medical aid in dying, advocates’ preferred euphemism) rom-com?
There's gotta be an anime/manga already.
Sankarea was written in 2009, but that's more MAiZ than MAiD.
Posted by: Medical Aid in Zombification at June 26, 2025 10:08 PM (DgGvY)

Dunno. But in a lot of the Isekai anime I've seen lately, the hero reboots from death, but there's always consequences and it affects their relationship with others. It's interesting to play with that idea to examine our mortality, and what it means to us.

Posted by: LizLem at June 26, 2025 10:14 PM (gWBY1)

35 Puzzled 509th ordie with chalk in hand before a GBU-57, "how do you write 'eat shit!' in Farsi?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 26, 2025 10:14 PM (kjZbS)

36 Trump's swear jar should be him dropping one of those big honking John Wick gold coins in there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 26, 2025 10:15 PM (/lPRQ)

37 Those designs are just looney.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2025 10:12 PM (Eo0oL)

Loonie
Toonie

Sometimes things just work out.

Fireworks finale on now. The animals are fine.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 10:15 PM (jvJvP)

38 That wheel "explanation" sounds pretty bogus to me. They lost me at "sweltering tunnels". Most underground mines are pretty darned cool, compared to outside Summer temperatures, and warm compared to outside Winter temperatures. Typically 50 to 60 degrees F.

Now, really, really deep mines, like on the Rand in South Africa, can be sweltering, but Bronze Age Carpathian miners could not dig that deep.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:16 PM (hoKl2)

39 I would have been here sooner, but I didn't have anything to say.
Posted by: mindful webworker - overnightly at June 26, 2025 10:00 PM (0NO3o)

I, apparently, never do.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 10:16 PM (0eaVi)

40 Don’t quarters look weird, nowadays?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 10:03 PM (NWqJf)

You should see Canadian coinage...
Posted by: Stateless
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It's loonie.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2025 10:16 PM (XeU6L)

41 Happy-ish Thursday Evening.

The old a/c died. New one craned up to the roof this a.m.

Big price jump since a few years ago, but hey ... Valley of the Sunstroke.

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Thursday . . . with a Day Old Camel. . . at June 26, 2025 10:16 PM (cfyxU)

42 Swear jar could be my retirement fund.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 10:16 PM (sJ4fj)

43 Japan is decades ahead you could say...

A smart medical bed that is actually a military weapons system - Roujin Z

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 26, 2025 10:17 PM (kjZbS)

44 I'm in Canada. Small town. The park is across the street and fireworks are going off now.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 10:03 PM (jvJvP)

Why for fireworks? Dominion Day is not until next Tuesday.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:17 PM (hoKl2)

45 32 I'm curious about "Pure Evil".

Just imagine the DNC

Posted by: moki at June 26, 2025 10:17 PM (wLjpr)

46
Bring back Liberty head coins! Who said we never had women before the SBA dollar?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2025 10:17 PM (/HVsR)

47 Finally, the ONT and some mature and measured discussion instead of that crap Ace allows to go on during the day!

Posted by: Charles Martel at June 26, 2025 10:17 PM (smrxK)

48 Since AOP is here, we need a ruling, is it 'Loonie', or Looney'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2025 10:18 PM (XeU6L)

49 Good evening friends! Hope everyone had a good Thursday.

Posted by: Piper at June 26, 2025 10:18 PM (p4NUW)

50 #1 of the 'wheel' model is a Flintstone wheel.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 26, 2025 10:08 PM (cYBz/)

Notice the fine print about algorithm. The examples are not real. AI has a lot of work to do to understand anything.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 10:18 PM (0eaVi)

51 Natashatollah!
Posted by: mot

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Natashah of Iran

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 26, 2025 10:18 PM (144I4)

52 Now is the time, with the summer anime season about to begin, to catch up on all those series that are posting their finales this week! Ooh! There are so many of them! Off to catch up on Anne Shirley, which I think is a double cours. I’ll take the tablet along, put posting (and reading) will be sporadic.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 10:18 PM (NWqJf)

53
Finally, the ONT and some mature and measured discussion

__________

*thought bubble*

We'll have to do something about that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2025 10:18 PM (/HVsR)

54
I, apparently, never do.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 10:16 PM (0eaVi)

You write it all down!!

The western is excellent, by the way!! Haven;t worked through the other books yet!!

Posted by: moki at June 26, 2025 10:18 PM (wLjpr)

55 I would have been here sooner, but I didn't have anything to say.
Posted by: mindful webworker - overnightly

I, apparently, never do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Neither do I, but I make it rhyme anyway ...

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Thursday . . . with a Day Old Camel. . . at June 26, 2025 10:19 PM (cfyxU)

56 I've always found Jordan Peterson to be pretty much unlistenable.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 26, 2025 10:19 PM (nNuPV)

57 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:16 PM (hoKl2)

Hey!

I was watching CBC news. There was a big story about Alberta.

I'm sorry you can't get free Covid miracle shots anymore.

Fireworks may have just ended. Last few. Lol

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 10:20 PM (jvJvP)

58 Representative Andy Ogles has sent a formal request to the DOJ that Mamdani be de-naturalized and deported.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 26, 2025 10:20 PM (Da7Vv)

59 The reason we can’t tell what coin that is, is because there’s something very odd about the design on it. I suspect AI.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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I see either a sitting bird like a dove, or the head of a dog, maybe a pittie, looking very stoic.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 26, 2025 10:20 PM (144I4)

60 I liked Mercury dimes, which are technically Liberty Head dimes!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 10:20 PM (NWqJf)

61 Since AOP is here, we need a ruling, is it 'Loonie', or Looney'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2025 10:18 PM (XeU6L)

The former. Given that it's a nickname, there may be no "official" spelling for it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:21 PM (hoKl2)

62 Sorry I'm late, I was shellacking the tortoise shell.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2025 10:06 PM (Eo0oL)

When the shellac dries, are you going to shine it with Turtle Wax?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 26, 2025 10:21 PM (S/Y4j)

63 The western is excellent, by the way!! Haven;t worked through the other books yet!!
Posted by: moki at June 26, 2025 10:18 PM (wLjpr)

Thanks! I know you've seen parts of Star Searcher Hope.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 10:22 PM (0eaVi)

64 Representative Andy Ogles has sent a formal request to the DOJ that Mamdani be de-naturalized and deported.

If only!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 10:22 PM (NWqJf)

65 From the early, early morning till the early, early, night
Miss Molly's rocking in the house of blue lights
Good golly Miss Molly, good golly Miss Molly
she sure like to ball, she sure like to ball

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 10:23 PM (b1NWj)

66 Those designs are just looney.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2025 10:12 PM (Eo0oL)

I hear the "tooney" ...

Posted by: browndog has a jar of Canadien coinage he'll never use ... ever again at June 26, 2025 10:23 PM (TTAGa)

67 So are we one step closer to the AlberTexaa Co-Prosperity Sphere?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 26, 2025 10:24 PM (kpS4V)

68 Shellacking ones shell. That's resin-ating
Posted by: Ben Had

Don't clearcoat it, give it to me straight.

Hi Ben Had!

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 26, 2025 10:24 PM (144I4)

69 Your favorite president wears makeup to work.

Think about that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 10:25 PM (b1NWj)

70 Dominion Day is not until next Tuesday.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:17 PM (hoKl2

Yeah, but in smaller communities, they have it a few days early. Uit's about 30 minutes, but still cool.

On July 1st, there are bigger shows in nearby cities.

I'm near Windsor - Detroit and they have a big show over the Detroit River. The dates vary.

Fireworks still going on...
Impressive

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 10:25 PM (jvJvP)

71 >>> A smart medical bed that is actually a military weapons system - Roujin Z
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 26, 2025 10:17 PM (kjZbS)

Slightly different idea, but one memorable part of Pirates, Band of Misfits was when they fight Queen Victoria, and she reveals she has a steam powered engine hidden under her voluminous skirts. Then she exits it with two blades and fights them. That was a fun cartoon.

Posted by: LizLem at June 26, 2025 10:25 PM (gWBY1)

72 Nobody gets out of this life alive. We should not go gentle into that goodnight.

I dunno, if I'm in mind-searing levels of pain from an untreatable malignant tumor, for example, give me all the drugs you have and if I go into respiratory arrest so be it. But I also don't like the idea of having the government stick its nose into life or death when it comes to this sort of situation so that they're strongarming people into killing themselves rather than be a "burden on the system." Like they're doing in Canada.

Posted by: It's a brutal thing to consider at June 26, 2025 10:25 PM (TbWk/)

73 2028 prediction: Instead of picking a candidate, voters will choose a fuckin' asshole to self-identify as, and whichever side has the most fuckin' assholes wins. The election will be managed such that voters who give a normal number of fucks will not have a fuckin' asshole to identify with.

2028 ballot: which kind of fuckin' asshole are you?

O the kind who gives no fucks
O the kind who gives way too many fucks

Posted by: Bombadil at June 26, 2025 10:25 PM (MX0bI)

74 The other day I received a couple of Lincoln commemorative pennies in change. I was surprised, don't recall seeing them before.
pic: http://tiny.cc/hm2o001

Looks kind of like he's taking a dump.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2025 10:25 PM (XeU6L)

75 The reason we can’t tell what coin that is, is because there’s something very odd about the design on it. I suspect AI.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Concur.
The whole hand and jar seems different from the rest of the picture.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 26, 2025 10:25 PM (W/lyH)

76 ...Dominion Day is not until next Tuesday.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:17 PM (hoKl2)

You really are "29"

Doesn't referring to "Dominion Day" get you put on a list up there in the Great White North

Posted by: browndog has a jar of Canadien coinage he'll never use ... ever again at June 26, 2025 10:25 PM (TTAGa)

77 Well that was truly horrible.

Someone tried to create an AI Dominion Tank Police short video. Uni and I were depicted without cat ears. At one point Brenten resembled Morpheus. And all the tanks looked like M-1 Abram variants.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 26, 2025 10:26 PM (kjZbS)

78 Neither do I, but I make it rhyme anyway ...
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Thursday . . . with a Day Old Camel. . . at June 26, 2025 10:19 PM (cfyxU)

Well, except for that one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 10:26 PM (0eaVi)

79 haffhowershower, so good to see you. I seem to be uppi g my ONT visits.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 10:27 PM (sJ4fj)

80 For a while, stamp vending machines at the post office gave out change in dollar coins (say if you put in a $20 bill or something). I don't know if they still do -- typical government coercion to force you to use an unpopular denomination.

I remember my late mother telling me that at one time military pay was given in $2 bills -- same reason. "Take it or leave it".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 26, 2025 10:27 PM (qpyNK)

81 We're gonna need a bigger jar.
Posted by: LizLem

And a large line of credit for some.
Posted by: Some Rat
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*shifty eyes*

Posted by: scampydog at June 26, 2025 10:27 PM (41CYW)

82 62 When the shellac dries, are you going to shine it with Turtle Wax?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 26, 2025 10:21 PM (S/Y4j)

What with the previous comments, I am afraid to find out what people will think when I announce it is time to get the wax off.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2025 10:27 PM (Eo0oL)

83 Doesn't referring to "Dominion Day" get you put on a list up there in the Great White North
Posted by: browndog has a jar of Canadien coinage he'll never use ... ever again at June 26, 2025 10:25 PM (TTAGa)

That was deliberate on my part. I don't fly a flag, but if I did, I would fly a Red Ensign, WWII-era pattern.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:27 PM (hoKl2)

84 Are we a few years away from the first MAiD rom-com?

What do you think Romeo & Juliet was?

Posted by: GWB at June 26, 2025 10:28 PM (PkFyV)

85 Good evening morons e grazie wd

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 10:28 PM (RIvkX)

86 SanFranpsycho, when do you head for Sonoma?"

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 10:28 PM (sJ4fj)

87 Wheel? WTAF?

Posted by: Native Americans, Living In Harmony With Nature And Shit at June 26, 2025 10:29 PM (hY4dx)

88 So what was the pure evil?

Posted by: In a nutshell at June 26, 2025 10:29 PM (TbWk/)

89 So what was the Pure Evil thing?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2025 10:29 PM (t0Rmr)

90 Representative Andy Ogles has sent a formal request to the DOJ that Mamdani be de-naturalized and deported.

If only!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 10:22 PM (NWqJf)

Someone in MN needs that too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 10:29 PM (0eaVi)

91

Music for GBU-57A/B MOP

https://youtu.be/Ul1_X6osfMQ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2025 10:29 PM (63Dwl)

92 Fireworks just ended.

First ones without Mom.

Please send me good thoughts for tomorrow, please. My living situation may be expensively fixed for 2 years after being up in the air for 5.7 months.

Thanks. Good night all.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 10:29 PM (jvJvP)

93 I would have been here sooner, but I didn't have anything to say.
Posted by: mindful webworker - overnightly at June 26, 2025 10:00 PM (0NO3o)

Doesn't stop most people here.

Posted by: GWB at June 26, 2025 10:30 PM (PkFyV)

94 Best of luck, Stateless.

All of us are pulling for you.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 26, 2025 10:30 PM (qpyNK)

95 >>> But I also don't like the idea of having the government stick its nose into life or death when it comes to this sort of situation so that they're strongarming people into killing themselves rather than be a "burden on the system." Like they're doing in Canada.

I purposely stayed away from that story about the pregnant woman on life support in Texas, but my morbid curiosity finally got the better of me. Good golly miss molly, that was a tough read. It's a terrible situation, and it sounds like everyone, from the family of the comatose lady to the hospital's policies, made everything ten times worse.

But worse of all are, of course, the comments from shrieking liberal women, who feel like it their handmaiden's tale fantasy come to life.

Posted by: LizLem at June 26, 2025 10:30 PM (gWBY1)

96 The Mongolian vandal who has desecrated the likes of Devil May Cry and is now set to destroy Duke Nuke'm is reported to also be eyeing the very violent manga/anime Berserk.

If he touches that, he may find a fandom that DOES react violently.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 26, 2025 10:30 PM (kjZbS)

97 I remember my late mother telling me that at one time military pay was given in $2 bills -- same reason. "Take it or leave it".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
====

Inflation and stripper tips.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 26, 2025 10:31 PM (/lPRQ)

98 Adding "just take the pain pills and die" to a system where politicians have to pay the bills if you instead take real treatment is a horrible idea.

Why should we pay for these old geezer's healthcare when we could be spending it on these people that give my kick backs instead?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2025 10:31 PM (t0Rmr)

99 Pure Evil?

Time Bandits

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 26, 2025 10:31 PM (kjZbS)

100 Are we a few years away from the first MAiD rom-com?

What do you think Romeo & Juliet was?
Posted by: GWB

Not much of a comedy, and not medically-assisted.

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 10:31 PM (DgGvY)

101 74 The other day I received a couple of Lincoln commemorative pennies in change. I was surprised, don't recall seeing them before.
pic: http://tiny.cc/hm2o001

Looks kind of like he's taking a dump.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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The mint mark is usually below the date, CLV must be the engraver's initials. That would make Lincoln on the back side of the penny.
Crappy looking penny.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 10:32 PM (b1NWj)

102 89 So what was the Pure Evil thing?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2025 10:29 PM (t0Rmr)

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Another Back to the Future sequel?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2025 10:32 PM (hY4dx)

103 Are we a few years away from the first MAiD rom-com?

First: The life of Julia

Then: The death of Julia

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2025 10:32 PM (t0Rmr)

104 Bless you Stateless. And your dear mama.

My immigrant grandpa loved the 4th of July fireworks, we never missed them, and his love of this country taught me what it meant to be an American. Still miss him on the 4th.

Posted by: LizLem at June 26, 2025 10:32 PM (gWBY1)

105 88 So what was the pure evil?
Posted by: In a nutshell at June 26, 2025 10:29 PM (TbWk/)

89 So what was the Pure Evil thing?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2025 10:29 PM (t0Rmr)

Inquiring horde minds want to know.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2025 10:33 PM (Eo0oL)

106 Wheel? WTAF?
Posted by: Native Americans, Living In Harmony With Nature And Shit at June 26, 2025 10:29 PM (hY4dx)

I think Aztecs or Mayas had wheeled toys for children, so they understood the concept. Perhaps taboos prevented them scaling up to do useful work with them.

And maybe that's how the wheel got invented in the Old World, too. As a toy, and then some bright fellow figured out how to make them big enough to bear loads.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:33 PM (hoKl2)

107 I'm here, but must go back and read some of the content.
While I'm gone, please badger WD into revealing what he withheld.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 26, 2025 10:33 PM (n4GiU)

108
102 89 So what was the Pure Evil thing?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2025 10:29 PM (t0Rmr)

I saw a story on X this morning that would qualify, and if that was it I’m glad weird Dave killed it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2025 10:34 PM (HEGiN)

109 I purposely stayed away from that story about the pregnant woman on life support in Texas, but my morbid curiosity finally got the better of me. Good golly miss molly, that was a tough read. It's a terrible situation, and it sounds like everyone, from the family of the comatose lady to the hospital's policies, made everything ten times worse.

But worse of all are, of course, the comments from shrieking liberal women, who feel like it their handmaiden's tale fantasy come to life.
Posted by: LizLem at June 26, 2025 10:30 PM (gWBY1)

I didn't dig too far into the details either but an absolutely godawful situation no matter what.

Posted by: Nightmarish for sure at June 26, 2025 10:34 PM (TbWk/)

110 Evening everyone. Thx WeirdDave. Good luck Stateless.
Only 63°here and not getting higher than the mid 70s tomorrow. After the last few days of mid to upper nineties actually feels chilly. Good sleeping weather

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2025 10:34 PM (pwtJC)

111 I think Aztecs or Mayas had wheeled toys for children, so they understood the concept. Perhaps taboos prevented them scaling up to do useful work with them.

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Or maybe they just preferred dragging around their stuff on blankets.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2025 10:35 PM (hY4dx)

112 Sorry I'm late, I was shellacking the tortoise shell.
Posted by: tankdemon
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Ah. I am about to preserve/mount a shed snake skin. This guy (?) lives in the lattice brickwork on one end of my side porch. I walked out the ofter day, and found a shed skin perfectly woven horizontally through the 'wall'. At first I thought it was the snake, but just the skin...all 6' of it. He's a pretty healthy sized guy. Southern Black Racer

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2025 10:35 PM (XeU6L)

113 #1 of the 'wheel' model is a Flintstone wheel.
Posted by: Tonypete

Notice the fine print about algorithm. The examples are not real. AI has a lot of work to do to understand anything.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Everything from the second row to the last pic is the AI equivalent of the joke about the blind men describing an elephant.

Though 39 to 314, if cut in half, would make pretty swell candlesticks.

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 10:36 PM (DgGvY)

114
I don't want to know about the Pure Evil. If anyone posts it, please just say "Here is the pure evil" with a tinyurl.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2025 10:36 PM (HuRzZ)

115 Ogles' request to AG Bondi cites the specific law Mamdani violated on his naturalization form. Lying on a naturalization form is definitely grounds for deportation.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 26, 2025 10:36 PM (Da7Vv)

116 Inflation and stripper tips.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 26, 2025 10:31 PM (/lPRQ)

Legend has it, that back during the Great Depression on the Canadian Prairies, $2 bills were widely shunned, since two dollars was the price of a hooker, so by extension, anyone presenting $2 bills was either a hooker or a pimp.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:37 PM (hoKl2)

117 The only explanation that I can think of for the Handmaid's Tale thing is that there are a lot of lefty women who have fantasies about being dominated by a high-status conservative man.

Which, looking at what passes for men in that demographic, I can entirely understand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 26, 2025 10:37 PM (qpyNK)

118 111 I think Aztecs or Mayas had wheeled toys for children, so they understood the concept. Perhaps taboos prevented them scaling up to do useful work with them.
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Or maybe they just preferred dragging around their stuff on blankets.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Slaves did all the work it didn't make any difference to them.
And if a slave had an idea they would eat him for lunch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 10:37 PM (b1NWj)

119 You can't negotiate peace until they tap out.
____________________________

There would be a caveat with Arab nations (and Persian) as we have seen ad nauseum over the last couple of decades.

Even when such countries are on their last legs, and are forced to negotiate an agreement; holding to such an agreement just isn't going to happen. It's folded into their culture. It is perfectly acceptable (and encouraged even) to agree to something, and continue to misbehave at will. The philosophy being that non-members are not entitled to honesty or honor. Failure to provide either is what they are entitled to do. I would hold Hamas and the Taliban up to the light as a perfect example of this behavior. Iran as well if they feel the repercussions won't be coming....the minute they do, they show false contrition, wait a while and continued with their entitled status.

Posted by: Orson at June 26, 2025 10:38 PM (dIske)

120 And yes, Ilhan Ohmar can be deported under the same law.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 26, 2025 10:38 PM (Da7Vv)

121 Meanwhile in England a penis with legs has been sentenced to community service and slapped with a restraining order for his crimes.

CCTV caught the sick freak making a beeline for the paddock and ten minutes later he was seen fleeing the scene sans his bottoms.

He banged a lady's Shetland pony.

I am all for feeding him to the woodchipper.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 26, 2025 10:38 PM (kjZbS)

122 > Ilhan Ohmar

Resistance is futile.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 26, 2025 10:39 PM (qpyNK)

123 It’s a sad episode of Anne Shirley: where Death raises his head. They mistranslated a line: in Anne’s memory, Matthew said “It is my daughter I’m proud of”. The word is musume, that means daughter!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 10:39 PM (NWqJf)

124 I bet Pure Evil was a vid of Whoopi and Joy Behar scissoring

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 26, 2025 10:40 PM (pwtJC)

125 >>> 112 Sorry I'm late, I was shellacking the tortoise shell.
Posted by: tankdemon
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Ah. I am about to preserve/mount a shed snake skin. This guy (?) lives in the lattice brickwork on one end of my side porch. I walked out the ofter day, and found a shed skin perfectly woven horizontally through the 'wall'. At first I thought it was the snake, but just the skin...all 6' of it. He's a pretty healthy sized guy. Southern Black Racer
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2025 10:35 PM (XeU6L)

Hi neighbor!

I'm pregnant.

Posted by: Mike Hammer's Southern Black Racer at June 26, 2025 10:40 PM (ULPxl)

126 The only explanation that I can think of for the Handmaid's Tale thing is that there are a lot of lefty women who have fantasies about being dominated by a high-status conservative man.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

"The Handmaid's Tale" - the Message = "Fifty Shades of Grey"

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 10:40 PM (DgGvY)

127 Oh sorry the pregnant lady on life support was in GA, not TX. Baby was delivered earlier this month, less than 2 lbs at birth, and is recovering in NICU. Prayers for that little one.

Posted by: LizLem at June 26, 2025 10:41 PM (gWBY1)

128 Ogles' request to AG Bondi cites the specific law Mamdani violated on his naturalization form. Lying on a naturalization form is definitely grounds for deportation.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 26, 2025 10:36 PM (Da7Vv)

Ds will now frantically search all Trump family records to find one mistake on the first immigrant Trump's application for citizenship.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 10:41 PM (0eaVi)

129 >>>Even when such countries are on their last legs, and are forced to negotiate an agreement; holding to such an agreement just isn't going to happen. It's folded into their culture. It is perfectly acceptable (and encouraged even) to agree to something, and continue to misbehave at will.
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They've already tossed out their agreement with the IAEA.
But that's OK. It gives Netanyahu an excuse to Trump for
the next time Mossad wacks a mole.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 10:42 PM (b1NWj)

130 Nemo

Punch Punch Forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ndBoc6R8_A

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 26, 2025 10:42 PM (kjZbS)

131 Ogles' request to AG Bondi cites the specific law Mamdani violated on his naturalization form. Lying on a naturalization form is definitely grounds for deportation.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President

Ds will now frantically search all Trump family records to find one mistake on the first immigrant Trump's application for citizenship.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Birthright Citizenship, bitchez.

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 10:42 PM (DgGvY)

132 Ds will now frantically search all Trump family records to find one mistake on the first immigrant Trump's application for citizenship.

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Once they're dead deportation is pretty much out of the question.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2025 10:43 PM (hY4dx)

133 Putting a roller in a semi-circular socket would almost certainly Not. Work.

The friction would be horrendous, and also, it is hard to make a semi-circular socket with hand tools. The Ur-wheel was probably not too different from those Central American ox-cart wheels built up from boards, pinned to a wooden axle. So even if the "bearing" has a lot of friction, you have decent leverage to overcome it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:43 PM (hoKl2)

134 Well, except for that one.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

fr ee Vertical - the tical [strike]MOU[/strike] s e ...

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Thursday . . . with a Day Old Camel. . . at June 26, 2025 10:43 PM (cfyxU)

135 I am all for feeding him to the woodchipper.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 26, 2025 10:38 PM (kjZbS)

Just for being an insult to humanity. I mean, there are a lot of such people but these, . . .

Guy's a perv on top of perv. It was a little Shetland pony.

Posted by: RickZ at June 26, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)

136 SanFranpsycho, when do you head for Sonoma?"
Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 10:28 PM (sJ4fj)
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July 15. Looking forward to sending you cheese!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 10:43 PM (RIvkX)

137 Ds will now frantically search all Trump family records to find one mistake on the first immigrant Trump's application for citizenship.

And then argue against birthright citizenship for all the descendants.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 26, 2025 10:44 PM (/y8xj)

138 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. At the latest NATO meeting, the Euroweenies announced they can fund the war in Ukraine for another decade. What your average Ukrainian thinks about having another decade of war was not asked. One explanation for why the European political class continues this fruitless endeavor is that they simply can't grasp the concept that the Russians could win and they could lose.
2. That mighty Ukrainian counterattack in the northeast (Sumy) direction? It's over, and the Russians are advancing there again.
3. Elsewhere, the Russians continue to push forward in multiple locations. Big news today was they captured a rare earth lithium mine, which theoretically belongs to the US under the recently signed Mineral agreement.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 26, 2025 10:44 PM (6Z9Vm)

139 Birthright Citizenship, bitchez.
Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 10:42 PM (DgGvY)

That doesn't apply to Trump!!!!1

Posted by: Leftists at June 26, 2025 10:44 PM (0eaVi)

140 Once they're dead deportation is pretty much out of the question.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2025 10:43 PM (hY4dx)

It doesn't matter. A lie got the Trumps in. I rule that Trump is not a citizen and therefore must be removed from office.

Posted by: Justice of the Peace Podunk USA at June 26, 2025 10:46 PM (0eaVi)

141 Mot du jour: Ecdysis

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)

142 Birthright Citizenship, bitchez.
Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 10:42 PM (DgGvY)
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That doesn't apply to Trump!!!!1
Posted by: Leftists at June 26, 2025 10:44 PM (0eaVi)

This is where we come in.

Posted by: Lefty Federal District Judges at June 26, 2025 10:47 PM (gKDq2)

143 Guy's a perv on top of perv. It was a little Shetland pony.
Posted by: RickZ at June 26, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)

Good thing it wasn't a little donkey. The guy might have gotten his ascot.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 10:48 PM (0eaVi)

144 Mot du jour: Ecdysis
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Mott the Hoople: All the Young Dudes

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Thursday . . . with a Day Old Camel. . . at June 26, 2025 10:48 PM (cfyxU)

145 Ogles' request to AG Bondi cites the specific law Mamdani violated on his naturalization form. Lying on a naturalization form is definitely grounds for deportation.
Posted by: An Observation
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But, but....

Posted by: Ilhan Omar at June 26, 2025 10:49 PM (XeU6L)

146 I saw BCE and stopped reading the excerpt. They are trying to erase the reason for the years’ basis while still using the same basis.

In short, Christ is King.

Posted by: Spotsworth at June 26, 2025 10:50 PM (EES2L)

147 Bring back Liberty head coins! Who said we never had women before the SBA dollar?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

For a short time, when we lived in the Windy City, I carried SBA dollar coins to pass out to beggars. I would always explain carefully, that's not a quarter, that's a dollar.

Maybe as much as a third of the time, the recipient seemed to understand.

Around Christmastime, I would hand out McD's coupons. Talk about getting some dirty looks…!

Posted by: mindful webworker - generous for my own amusement at June 26, 2025 10:51 PM (0NO3o)

148 Good thing it wasn't a little donkey. The guy might have gotten his ascot.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 10:48 PM (0eaVi)

That's a groaner with a capital GROAN.

Posted by: RickZ at June 26, 2025 10:51 PM (gKDq2)

149 Well, I used the tractor yesterday to trundle the crippled '99 Suburban up onto the 4-post hoist, but manged to get the rear end nearly off the ramp. Today, I got under the rear end with a pair of jacks, lifted each wheel, and skidded it sideways with a cable come-a-long. Took two such efforts, and I wound up with an inch of tread on the left rear tire overhanging the ramp. But much better than having 4/5 of the right rear tire overhanging the ramp.

Having got that chore out of the way, I commenced to tearing down the failed transmission. To make a long story short, the rear planetary unit was gerfooked. Sun gear, ring gear, all the planet gears, and the planet carrier all broken badly. The good news is, I have a good one in a box of 4L60E guts from a previous repair.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:52 PM (hoKl2)

150 >>> Ds will now frantically search all Trump family records to find one mistake

Jasmine Crockett implied Melania's Visa is invalid because she wasn't worthy of an "Einstein Visa." From Newsweek:

Jasmine: "Melania, the first lady, a model--and when I say model I'm not talking about Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford or Naomi Campbell-level--applied for and was given an EB1 visa...It doesn't take an Einstein to see that the math ain't mathin' here."

The Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh, who also testified during the House hearing, stepped in to "defend Melania real quick." Nowrasteh, the institute's vice president of economic and social policy, responded with a quip: "Not everybody could marry Donald Trump, and I think that's quite an achievement, so I think she deserves credit for that. Nobody up here could have done it!"

Crockett quickly fired back: "You sure are right, I couldn't have done it."

Michael Wildes, an attorney for Melania Trump, previously defended her: "Mrs. Trump obtained her Green Card legally and was more than amply qualified and solidly eligible for the Extraordinary Ability Green Card...No further comment will be issued to protect Mrs. Trump's privacy."

Posted by: LizLem at June 26, 2025 10:54 PM (gWBY1)

151 If you didn't get a chance to watch the Hegseth/Caine press conference today I'm sure it will be posted on youtube or other places. It's worth a watch.

Aside from the satisifying smackdown Hegseth delivered to the media I was blown away by listening to Gen. Caine speak about the planning for this mission. He said that the task of taking out the Fordow site was given to an officer 15 years ago and for the last 15 years this officer and a partner spent all of their time learning every single thing about the facility in order to take it out. And part of that planning included developing the massive bombs that were used to destroy the place.

15 frigging years of planning for one mission. I can't even imagine how stressful that must have been and when the call finally came to launch the attack it must have even worse. And his plan worked to perfection.

Whoever that unnamed officer is he deserves a massive pension.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 26, 2025 10:54 PM (viF8m)

152 I saw BCE and stopped reading the excerpt. They are trying to erase the reason for the years’ basis while still using the same basis.

In short, Christ is King.
Posted by: Spotsworth

It's rather un-Christian of me, but I do like asking the "BCE/CE" people what other significant event might have marked the change.

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 10:55 PM (DgGvY)

153 A pleasant evening to you all.

I'm glad the Pure Evil section was removed. Thanks for the ONT, WD.

Posted by: Official Delurker at June 26, 2025 10:56 PM (LCHUS)

154 It was Incas with wheeled toys for children. The 'roads' of the empire ran uphill and down-dale. Great for llamas but useless for wheeled traffic.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 26, 2025 10:56 PM (GYt5+)

155 If it was 15 years in the planning does that mean that it started under the SCOAMF?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 26, 2025 10:56 PM (DIweC)

156 Inflation and stripper tips.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 26, 2025 10:31 PM (/lPRQ)

I just read "CE" as Christian Era. Problem solved.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:57 PM (hoKl2)

157 >>> 15 frigging years of planning for one mission. I can't even imagine how stressful that must have been and when the call finally came to launch the attack it must have even worse. And his plan worked to perfection.

Will make an amazing movie one day!!

Posted by: LizLem at June 26, 2025 10:57 PM (gWBY1)

158 My employer may fire me and or I might quit but I am going to Sonoma July 15.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 10:57 PM (RIvkX)

159 >>If it was 15 years in the planning does that mean that it started under the SCOAMF?

Sounds like it.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 26, 2025 10:57 PM (viF8m)

160 >>Looks kind of like he's taking a dump.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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>> That would make Lincoln on the back side of the penny.
Crappy looking penny.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Dump on a Stump

So the other side of the penny would show ol' Abe's butt crack?

He's practicing his speech. Four score and seven yeeeeeaaaaars ago *PLOP*

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 26, 2025 10:57 PM (144I4)

161 It's rather un-Christian of me, but I do like asking the "BCE/CE" people what other significant event might have marked the change.
Posted by: mikeski

BCE - Before Christ Era

BC - Christ Era

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 26, 2025 10:58 PM (/lPRQ)

162 15 frigging years of planning for one mission. I can't even imagine how stressful that must have been and when the call finally came to launch the attack it must have even worse. And his plan worked to perfection.

Will make an amazing movie one day!!
Posted by: LizLem

Starring a sassy Black woman!

Posted by: Deisney at June 26, 2025 10:58 PM (DgGvY)

163 >>>If it was 15 years in the planning does that mean that it started under the SCOAMF? Sounds like it.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 26, 2025 10:57 PM (viF8m)

The moon landing mission started under Nixon, I think, but JFK gets all the credit for it. Though I'm sure once CNN realizes this, they will try to credit Obama, like they did for Osama's death.

Posted by: LizLem at June 26, 2025 11:00 PM (gWBY1)

164 It was Incas with wheeled toys for children. The 'roads' of the empire ran uphill and down-dale. Great for llamas but useless for wheeled traffic.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 26, 2025 10:56 PM (GYt5+)

They could have laid out roads with gentle grades if they had a mind to. I'm sure their surveying expertise was up to the task. Probably they had so much capital sunk into the llama pack trails that they simply dismissed the idea of building wagon roads.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 11:01 PM (hoKl2)

165 Oh, and instead of leaving NATO we’re now sending more of my money to the fucking Eurofags. Whose daddy we apparently we now are.

This is a disaster.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 26, 2025 11:01 PM (l3YAf)

166 8 When is the last time you saw a half dollar?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 10:05 PM (sJ4fj)

This afternoon. I have one on a bookcase shelf. Been there longer than I can recall, for no reason I recall. I leave it there for no reason.

Posted by: Gref at June 26, 2025 11:02 PM (aBgBM)

167 >>Starring a sassy Black woman!

That was another good moment in the press conference. Some female reporter asked Hegseth if he regretted saying good work boys or guys, I forget which it was, after the mission when as the reporter pointed out one of the bomber pilots was a woman.

Hegseth said something like "We aren't playing those games anymore. We're focused on completing the mission and not gender crap.".

End of issue.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 26, 2025 11:02 PM (viF8m)

168 Oh geez louise, strike that, reverse it. Moon mission started under JFK and landed during Nixon's tenure. But JFK still gets the credit.

I am obviously brain dead. Instead of finding a suicide booth and ending things, I'll just go make a sammich. Later Horde!

Posted by: LizLem at June 26, 2025 11:04 PM (gWBY1)

169 That was episode 10 of Anne Shirley. The episode ends with “God’s in his Heaven, All’s right with the world!” There’s still Hope! A good episode. They’ve missed the clue that was in Matthew’s hands: the bank has failed!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 26, 2025 11:04 PM (NWqJf)

170
The math ain't mathin'?

And she chortles every time she says stupid shit like that -- the math ain't mathin', heheh.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 26, 2025 11:04 PM (9n/Md)

171 It's rather un-Christian of me, but I do like asking the "BCE/CE" people what other significant event might have marked the change.
Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 10:55 PM (DgGvY)

Why, it was the momentous year of the consulate of Lentulus and Piso, of course!!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 11:05 PM (0eaVi)

172 Hegseth said something like "We aren't playing those games anymore. We're focused on completing the mission and not gender crap.".

End of issue.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 26, 2025 11:02 PM (viF8m)

And most of us have heard women refer to a group of women, or men and women, as "guys". As in, "Hey, guys, let's go for pizza!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 11:05 PM (hoKl2)

173 UPDATE: Big donors are working to convince Republican NYC Mayoral Candidate Curtis Sliwa to DROP OUT of the race by getting him a job in the Trump administration...

...so that people can coalesce behind ERIC ADAMS as the Republican nominee, and defeat Zohran Mamdani (D)

Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at June 26, 2025 11:06 PM (AOsQT)

174 > it is hard to make a semi-circular socket with hand tools.

I agree that the roller-in-socket idea would suck, but you can make a surprisingly good wood lathe using a springy sapling, a length of rope or rawhide, and a board for a treadle.

My great-grandfather used those in his furniture business when he was a younker. Later he had a cast-iron treadle lathe (like a treadle sewing machine). Later still, when electricity became available, he retrofitted an electric motor to the cast iron treadle lathe. He was still using that setup when I was a kid, and was still very proud of having cobbled it together.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 26, 2025 11:07 PM (qpyNK)

175 162 15 frigging years of planning for one mission. I can't even imagine how stressful that must have been and when the call finally came to launch the attack it must have even worse. And his plan worked to perfection.

Will make an amazing movie one day!!
Posted by: LizLem

Starring a sassy Black woman!

Posted by: Deisney at June 26, 2025 10:58 PM (DgGvY)

With a pregnant pilot and pregnant copilot flying one of the B-2s. One is trans. Of course.

Posted by: Gref at June 26, 2025 11:07 PM (aBgBM)

176
That fraud grifter Malcolm Little "malcolm x" was the originator idiotic black-sass.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 26, 2025 11:08 PM (9n/Md)

177 >>And most of us have heard women refer to a group of women, or men and women, as "guys". As in, "Hey, guys, let's go for pizza!"

I've said it all my life. When I talk to my friends I often say "you guys" when talking about a couple.

FYNQ is vastly underrated as a response.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 26, 2025 11:09 PM (viF8m)

178 Legend has it, that back during the Great Depression on the Canadian Prairies, $2 bills were widely shunned, since two dollars was the price of a hooker, so by extension, anyone presenting $2 bills was either a hooker or a pimp.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 10:37 PM (hoKl2

Lol. Canadian history may be interesting after all.

I am from a very small farming community. Two stoplights. But when I was growing up, there was a hotel - stripclub on the maib street. Everything was blacked out. Everything was clean, fine but us kids knew something ADULT was going on there.

I took care of my uncle, who was 91 when he passed in February. During one incident, we were talking and he was talking about a strip club in an even smaller farming community,

I asked him. "What kind of strippers would be working in ????.

Best Uncle response ever from 80+ dudes.

"Pretty ones. No one pays to watch ugly strippers."

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 11:10 PM (jvJvP)

179 Iranians are experiencing internal turmoil as authorities intensify a domestic security crackdown following the 12-day war in which three major nuclear sites were effectively destroyed. There have been reports of mass arrests and executions in the country. (FOX)

If You Are Not with the Juice, Then How Come You Are Accused Of Being with the Juice?

Posted by: J R at June 26, 2025 11:11 PM (R6Hhu)

180 Rest in peace Uncle Leonard.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 11:11 PM (jvJvP)

181 I dunno, if I'm in mind-searing levels of pain from an untreatable malignant tumor, for example, give me all the drugs you have and if I go into respiratory arrest so be it. But I also don't like the idea of having the government stick its nose into life or death when it comes to this sort of situation so that they're strongarming people into killing themselves rather than be a "burden on the system." Like they're doing in Canada.
Posted by: It's a brutal thing to consider at June 26, 2025 10:25 PM (TbWk/)

Notice that most places that do this feature socialized medicine. They are not doing this because they want people to “die with dignity” (you can’t). They are doing this to save a buck. Note: the GDR would occasionally dump its oldest citizens into West Berlin because they did not want to pay for their medical care. The GDR was very much the Greedy Democratic Republic.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 26, 2025 11:13 PM (vm8sq)

182 Two dollars, same as in town, you hoser.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 26, 2025 11:14 PM (cduTK)

183 158 My employer may fire me and or I might quit but I am going to Sonoma July 15.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 10:57 PM (RIvkX)

I hope everything works out. And quickly.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 11:14 PM (jvJvP)

184 I should tell my friend to name his penis GBU-57A/B MOP.
He likes really fat women

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at June 26, 2025 11:15 PM (elaR+)

185 162 15 frigging years of planning for one mission. I can't even imagine how stressful that must have been and when the call finally came to launch the attack it must have even worse. And his plan worked to perfection.

Will make an amazing movie one day!!
Posted by: LizLem

Welcome to the world of log plans.

Logistics plans: The Plan Is Nothing, The Planning Is Everything.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 26, 2025 11:15 PM (vm8sq)

186 I agree that the roller-in-socket idea would suck, but you can make a surprisingly good wood lathe using a springy sapling, a length of rope or rawhide, and a board for a treadle.

My great-grandfather used those in his furniture business when he was a younker. Later he had a cast-iron treadle lathe (like a treadle sewing machine). Later still, when electricity became available, he retrofitted an electric motor to the cast iron treadle lathe. He was still using that setup when I was a kid, and was still very proud of having cobbled it together.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 26, 2025 11:07 PM (qpyNK)

Well, I guess you could make a socket by boring a hole with a lathe, and then cut the holed panel in half. But it would be so much easier to use a sapling as an axle, lash it to the cart frame, and make wheels by building up with boards in criss-cross fashion, then bore a hole for the axle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 11:15 PM (hoKl2)

187 >>> and not gender crap.".
-------------

Gentlemen, we have a gender crap gap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 11:17 PM (b1NWj)

188 UPDATE: Big donors are working to convince Republican NYC Mayoral Candidate Curtis Sliwa to DROP OUT of the race by getting him a job in the Trump administration...

...so that people can coalesce behind ERIC ADAMS as the Republican nominee, and defeat Zohran Mamdani (D)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at June 26, 2025 11:06 PM (AOsQT)

I'm jus' sayin' somethin's gotta give. And Cuomo cannot run, either. It has to be only one 'sane' candidate for whom people can vote just to prevent any splitting of said 'sane' vote.

It was the college mal-educated kiddies who voted for free shit, commie style. With a dash of Intifada. Not in Israel but in Brooklyn. Scary shit. And we're the nazis!?!

But it seems regular Democrats did not (remember, closed primary). Ranked choice is also a commie vote tactic they've employed. You get to pick, I don't know, up to 5 ranking each choice 1-5. They somehow manipulate/total that all up to come up with %ages for each candidate. With Landers and a few other hard core lefties on the ballot, no matter how many votes Cuomo got, he was always going to be fighting 4, 5 to 1 odds on ranked ballots. That's why he lost.

Posted by: RickZ at June 26, 2025 11:18 PM (gKDq2)

189 BREAKING: John Thune officially declines overruling or firing the Senate Parliamentarian, appointed by Democrat Harry Reid in 2012, after she strikes a dozen or more MAGA items from the Big Beautiful Bill.

"That would not be a good outcome for getting a bill done," Thune said, per DC Examiner
------

Spineless GOP doing spineless things spinelessly.

This is an unelected apparatchik editing the BBB

Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at June 26, 2025 11:18 PM (AOsQT)

190 actually it would be easier to just cut a notch, and then let friction make it into a half-socket. Eventually.
chances are that they were dragging ore out on some sort of sled or stone-boat, though.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 26, 2025 11:19 PM (D7oie)

191 Also, if you were a Bronze Age miner in the Carpathian mountains, you might make a practice of mining upwards at a steep angle, so that any ore or waste rock dislodged would simply roll down the tunnel and out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 11:20 PM (hoKl2)

192 Holy shit the swear jar!

lol. Dude's a genus.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2025 11:21 PM (fV+MH)

193 165 Oh, and instead of leaving NATO we’re now sending more of my money to the fucking Eurofags. Whose daddy we apparently we now are.

This is a disaster.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 26, 2025 11:01 PM (l3YAf)

I didn’t realize you are the only one who pays taxes.

We get it: freedom exists for the asking. America must be as weak and as whiny as possible, and should be so isolationist that it makes the DPRK or 1980s Albania look like models of openness. And if that means the PRC takes over the world? You shrug your shoulders and say “so be it.”

Go back to studying Mandarin and having your face turn into an eggplant at the thought of this country having a military at all.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 26, 2025 11:23 PM (vm8sq)

194 chances are that they were dragging ore out on some sort of sled or stone-boat, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 26, 2025 11:19 PM (D7oie)

A slusher:

https://tinyurl.com/52wrcckw

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 11:24 PM (hoKl2)

195 Sliwa campaigning for Adams would help.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 11:24 PM (b1NWj)

196 Not too often at all. Do get dollar coins as change in self-service grocery store checkouts or refilling a MetroCard at a subway vending machine. And I do hate getting them.
Posted by: RickZ at June 26, 2025 10:12

Despite being a bit of a traditionalist, I think as long as we are getting rid of the penny we should also ditch the dollar bill for a dollar coin. At the same time use $2 bills.

This is simply an acknowledgement of how inflation has progressed. I was shocked to learn $100 in 1955, the year I was born, is equal to $1,200 today.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at June 26, 2025 11:25 PM (55Qr6)

197 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 26, 2025 11:26 PM (SRRAx)

198 You asked for it. I white texted the evil in the OP if you really want to know. If you must discuss it, keep the details out of the comments section.

Posted by: Weirddave at June 26, 2025 11:26 PM (df/te)

199 Good thing they can ignore the Parliamentarian

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 11:26 PM (RIvkX)

200 It wasn't mission planning that started 15 years ago, it was a focus on the potential target. DOD's share of this sort of thing is now formalized as the work of the DTRA, but identical work has always been done in the IC and the services under different arrangements at different times.

Not quibbling about language, but implicit in the constant surveillance and analysis of that facility was the idea that you needed to know it well in order to know how to effectively attack it.

The mission's probably been gamed out for some time (what seems to have been a similar operation was outline of a training mission last summer), but not 15 years.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 11:26 PM (1m82a)

201 197 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat

Hi Teresa!

Stay well.

My part of Canada may have been Texas the last few days. With more maple trees

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 11:28 PM (jvJvP)

202 "They."

Anybody got spare millstones around?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 11:28 PM (0eaVi)

203 182 Two dollars, same as in town, you hoser.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 26, 2025 11:14 PM (cduTK)

Which of us is the hoser?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2025 11:29 PM (Eo0oL)

204 Which of us is the hoser?
Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2025 11:29 PM (Eo0oL)

The guy. The girl's the hosee.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 11:30 PM (0eaVi)

205 198 You asked for it. I white texted the evil in the OP if you really want to know. If you must discuss it, keep the details out of the comments section.
Posted by: Weirddave at June 26, 2025 11:26 PM (df/te)
====

I hardly ever even click the mystery click. Now I have to figure out invisible ink?? I'm not smart enuf for this military blog.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 11:30 PM (RIvkX)

206 Don't know the merits of the items struck from the BBB. The Senate can vote to over-rule the parliamentarian. So I assume Thune doesn't have the votes. Which does not, in effect, differ from "GOP is spineless and useless". Or the items were a gigantic stretch for germaneness.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 11:31 PM (1m82a)

207
BREAKING: John Thune officially declines overruling or firing the Senate Parliamentarian, appointed by Democrat Harry Reid in 2012, after she strikes a dozen or more MAGA items from the Big Beautiful Bill.

The Senate has it's own built-in Hawaiian judge.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2025 11:31 PM (63Dwl)

208 Hos get the hose.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2025 11:31 PM (fV+MH)

209 This is simply an acknowledgement of how inflation has progressed. I was shocked to learn $100 in 1955, the year I was born, is equal to $1,200 today.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at June 26, 2025 11:25 PM (55Qr6)

Or do like France did in the early 1960's, issued new currency, with one New Franc being equal to one hundred Old Francs.

Do a ten-for-one re-denomination of the dollar, and copper cents, and silver dimes would work again. Of course the new currency and coins would have to differ in size, color, and pattern from the old series.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 11:32 PM (hoKl2)

210 This is simply an acknowledgement of how inflation has progressed. I was shocked to learn $100 in 1955, the year I was born, is equal to $1,200 today.
Posted by: Farmer,
------------------------

A real hamburger was a quarter. A soda was a nickle. Candy bars or a pack of gum were a nickle. Cigarettes were a quarter a pack.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 11:33 PM (b1NWj)

211 Do a ten-for-one re-denomination of the dollar, and copper cents, and silver dimes would work again. Of course the new currency and coins would have to differ in size, color, and pattern from the old series.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 11:32 PM (hoKl2)

Horseblankets and large disks of metal.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 26, 2025 11:33 PM (0eaVi)

212 I asked him. "What kind of strippers would be working in ????.

Best Uncle response ever from 80+ dudes.

"Pretty ones. No one pays to watch ugly strippers."

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state

Another Major Life Ambition shot to hell.

Posted by: Miklos, known as Tiffani at June 26, 2025 11:33 PM (SpRj1)

213 Look at old coins and currency, the engraving was a work of art.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 11:34 PM (b1NWj)

214 205 198 You asked for it. I white texted the evil in the OP if you really want to know. If you must discuss it, keep the details out of the comments section.
Posted by: Weirddave at June 26, 2025 11:26 PM

Thanks for posting it WeirdDave. We're not children.

The CBC actually didn't bleep out Trump. That's the first time they treated me as an adult in a while.

Man, the cat's up.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 11:36 PM (jvJvP)

215 The Senate has it's own built-in Hawaiian judge.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
--------------

Does he have a big toe?
Has anyone ever stepped on it?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 11:36 PM (b1NWj)

216 205 I hardly ever even click the mystery click. Now I have to figure out invisible ink?? I'm not smart enuf for this military blog.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 11:30 PM (RIvkX)

Thank God for small favors.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2025 11:36 PM (Eo0oL)

217 Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 26, 2025 10:44 PM (6Z9Vm)

Funny how EUs can pay other countries to fight, but can't pay their Treaty Obligated amount to be in NATO.

Posted by: Iran at June 26, 2025 11:39 PM (mP0Kj)

218 I can't risk any more vicarious trauma my borderline personality disorder with schizophrenic features is barely in remission as it is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 11:41 PM (RIvkX)

219 President Donald J. Trump, the art of the deal, who's your daddy.

32 seconds, Ursula von der Leyen

https://tinyurl.com/yc3nrfaf

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 11:43 PM (b1NWj)

220 Good thing they can ignore the Parliamentarian
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Too bad they won't. Not enough vertebrae or testicles between the lot of them.

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 11:43 PM (DgGvY)

221 @TheBabylonBee
·
8h
Pete Hegseth Vows Military Will Not Discriminate Against Chicks, Broads, Or Dames https://buff.ly/EnG3cTJ

Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at June 26, 2025 11:44 PM (AOsQT)

222 I should tell my friend to name his penis GBU-57A/B MOP.
He likes really fat women
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale

Morbid Obesity Penetrator?

Posted by: mikeski denounces himself at June 26, 2025 11:44 PM (DgGvY)

223 @TheBabylonBee
Pete Hegseth Vows Military Will Not Discriminate Against Chicks, Broads, Or Dames
Posted by: Don Black

How much fun would it be to go drinking with the Babylon Bee writers?

I'd wind up in the hospital with a hernia from laughing too hard.

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 11:45 PM (DgGvY)

224 210 This is simply an acknowledgement of how inflation has progressed. I was shocked to learn $100 in 1955, the year I was born, is equal to $1,200 today.
Posted by: Farmer

I like to keep the GameShow channel on for background.

The Price is Right with Bob Barker is great. Cars for $7500.

I have to take a bunch of stuff to sleep. When I wake up, the house may be mine....finally.

Mom's dog, Ralphy, legally mine but really Mom's, is sleeping on my bed. And my friend's cat Snowflake is laying behind Ralphy on her back. So damn fluffy.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 26, 2025 11:45 PM (jvJvP)

225 Things not to do when your wife is coming home from an extended trip:

Buy her some new, really nice perfume and surprise her by spritzing some on her pillow before she gets home

Posted by: Kindltot at June 26, 2025 11:46 PM (D7oie)

226 Big Price is Right fan especially the million dollar spectaculars they used to do with servicemen, those were a blast

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 11:48 PM (RIvkX)

227 Pure Evil [...]
Keep details outta my comments section.

Some people deserve death by woodchipper.

Others deserve death by cheese grater.

Testicles first.

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 11:49 PM (DgGvY)

228 And she chortles every time she says stupid shit like that -- the math ain't mathin', heheh.

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

the ratchet be ratchen

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 26, 2025 11:51 PM (144I4)

229 'Pure Evil' has happened on this side of the pond a few times now. Happened in Georgia a year or so ago. Its happened elsewhere. Gets buried by the media real quick.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 26, 2025 11:51 PM (iNUL3)

230 >>>Gets buried by the media real quick.
Posted by: Puddleglum
-----------------------------

Other things need burying too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2025 11:54 PM (b1NWj)

231 I remember when I was a kid a small bottle of coke was five cents, six cents if you took the bottle with you. You could take the bottle back anytime and get your penny back. When I was around six years old a quarter would feel like a five dollar bill today. Oh well, time changes things.

Posted by: Case at June 26, 2025 11:54 PM (ilX37)

232 Babylon Bee seems to have supplanted The Onion completely

Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at June 26, 2025 11:55 PM (AOsQT)

233 Get yer rest tonight folks.... tomorrow gonna be lit.

Last day of Supremes session, so like 6 Decisions to be released tomorrow.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 26, 2025 11:55 PM (mP0Kj)

234 WD, I had seen the evil story. So, I wasn't shocked (again). But, seriously, saying you deleted something is like teasing torture. You know the hungry Horde will howl. Then you had to reverse your good judgment.

Next time, just don't say you didn't post something. KISS.

And with that unasked-for advice, I'm checking out.

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Friday looms at June 26, 2025 11:58 PM (0NO3o)

235 Well, I have had a tiring day. Going to get an early one. And Saturday I have to get up real early to drive 300 miles for my cousin's funeral. Five hours, plus. Should plan on hitting the road at 0700.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 12:00 AM (hoKl2)

236 More headlines from The Bee:

CNN: Hiroshima 'Barely Set Back' By Atomic Bomb

Hamas Claims Responsibility For NYC Mayoral Primary

President Xi Makes NBA All-Star Team

Wife Unaware That Movie Will Answer All Her Questions If She Just Pays Attention

Bernie Sanders Arrives In Hong Kong To Lecture Protesters On How Good They Have It Under Communism

Posted by: J R at June 27, 2025 12:01 AM (R6Hhu)

237 226 Big Price is Right fan especially the million dollar spectaculars they used to do with servicemen, those were a blast

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 11:48 PM (RIvkX)

I hope you are well. I just took a ton of sleep stuff.

Once I am better, I want to lobby them to have a million dollar spin.

If you spin the wheel and get a dollar again. You get a third spin for a million. It may never happen, but the handful of times a season it would happen would be great tv.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 27, 2025 12:03 AM (jvJvP)

238 235 Well, I have had a tiring day. Going to get an early one. And Saturday I have to get up real early to drive 300 miles for my cousin's funeral. Five hours, plus. Should plan on hitting the road at 0700.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 12:00 AM

That's a shitty way to meet family again.
Be well.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 27, 2025 12:05 AM (jvJvP)

239 It can be lunch time

AOP I feel for you

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 12:09 AM (bmH0X)

240 "Wife unaware that movie will answer all her questions if she just pays attention."

I feel seen and understood.

Posted by: PabloD at June 27, 2025 12:10 AM (Dsfkc)

241 That's a hard pull until the contract's finished.
Watch and stay healthy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 12:16 AM (b1NWj)

242 Greetings Everyone!

Happy Day before Friday!

And.....I'm still smiling!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 12:18 AM (QGaXH)

243
Anyone notice that james carville has kept his big stupid mouth shut for lately.

Someone must've told him to clam up.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 12:19 AM (WMGrB)

244 You asked for it. I white texted the evil in the OP

I did not know that Ocean Pacific was evil

Loved my OPs

And Jams too

Posted by: Miklos, evil 80s kid at June 27, 2025 12:25 AM (SpRj1)

245 Are we a few years away from the first MAiD (medical aid in dying, advocates’ preferred euphemism) rom-com?

Did anyone mention up-thread the movie with Robin Williams where he is a robot who is sentient and as the years pass he becomes more human through improvements in technology. Finally he asks to be allowed to die as his loved one is dying of old age.

I think the movie was Millennium Man.

I know he was a huge lib, but he was so talented. I still watch Mork and Mindy once in a while. And I've been to the little downtown plaza in boulder where Mindy's father's shop was....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 12:25 AM (QGaXH)

246 Just going to drag a little hobby stuff into the ONT.

Who the f*ck glues knobs onto a radio? How the hell am I supposed to clean this damn thing if the f*cking knobs are glued on?

You may now return to your regular ONT conversation threads.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 27, 2025 12:25 AM (lUFok)

247 Well, I have had a tiring day. Going to get an early one. And Saturday I have to get up real early to drive 300 miles for my cousin's funeral. Five hours, plus. Should plan on hitting the road at 0700.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

May the road rise to meet ye

Posted by: McMiklos at June 27, 2025 12:27 AM (SpRj1)

248 243
Anyone notice that james carville has kept his big stupid mouth shut for lately.

Someone must've told him to clam up.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 12:19 AM (WMGrB)

With everything I am going through, I have FoxNews on a lot.
My late Mother loved Hannity, who is growing on me.

But Carville has been on Fox a lot. I like him. He's amusingly insane.

Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 27, 2025 12:28 AM (jvJvP)

249
February 24, 2025
Carville said, “I think people are afraid to death. They see markets collapsing! They see people calling Mark Kelly a traitor. They see disorder everywhere. You know, Trump was going to bring the price of eggs down from day one.”

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 12:29 AM (WMGrB)

250 Somebody just shoot me now.
Mrs D has on The Miracle Club.
Gawd.
I need to burn my man card.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 12:29 AM (W/lyH)

251
Lizard Man added, “We can’t call the Enola Gay, the Enola Gay. I mean, what’s coming out of Washington would scare the living bejesus out of anybody, independent, Republican or Democrat. This administration is in total meltdown, in total collapse.”

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 12:30 AM (WMGrB)

252 233 Get yer rest tonight folks.... tomorrow gonna be lit.

Last day of Supremes session, so like 6 Decisions to be released tomorrow.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 26, 2025 11:55 PM (mP0Kj)

Tea leaves say good or prepare for disappointment?

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 27, 2025 12:30 AM (+I6Y/)

253 A Coca-Cola was 5 cents as late as 1962, and was still only 10 cents by 1970.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 12:31 AM (NWqJf)

254
"I believe that this administration, in less than 30 days is in the midst of a massive collapse, in particularly a collapse in public opinion," Carville said.

One month later, March 29, 2025:

“I had no idea. I thought I’d have to wait longer for the imminent collapse. It happened even faster than I could imagine,”

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 12:35 AM (WMGrB)

255 I need to burn my man card.
Posted by: Diogenes

I...I would buy that from you

Mike flashes his all the time

Posted by: Barry Seotoro at June 27, 2025 12:36 AM (SpRj1)

256 5 cents in 1962 is equivalent to 53 cents in 2025, according to the inflation app on my iPad. To get the equivalent of a 5 cent coke today, you would have to buy a six-pack for $3.18, which is a little hard to find, but if you wait for a BOGO free sale, which I do wait for, you can do it easily!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 12:40 AM (NWqJf)

257 Things not to do when your wife is coming home from an extended trip:

Buy her some new, really nice perfume and surprise her by spritzing some on her pillow before she gets home.

Oh! Good Intentions, man! Totally reverse effect, though!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 12:43 AM (NWqJf)

258 Who the f*ck glues knobs onto a radio? How the hell am I supposed to clean this damn thing if the f*cking knobs are glued on?

You may now return to your regular ONT conversation threads.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 27, 2025 12:25 AM (lUFok)

Pressure washer. And not one of those wimpy electric models, but a mighty gasoline powered one, running ethanol-free fuel. Flames painted on the side are optional.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 27, 2025 12:43 AM (6Z9Vm)

259 You'd get change back from a dollar for a McDonals meal when I was in early elementary school. It was the equivalent of a Happy Meal size now, but it was around 96 cents. I'd say early 70s time frame.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 27, 2025 12:45 AM (Vvh2V)

260 I just realized my hash tonight (lUFok) is probably one of the dirtiest ones I've seen. Certainly the most direct.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 27, 2025 12:46 AM (lUFok)

261 "A man card will heat a cup of coffee," - Anonymous.

Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 12:47 AM (ck82W)

262 Carville is good for a laugh, just so long as you don’t take him seriously!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 12:47 AM (NWqJf)

263 Posted by: Stateless.. 46% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 27, 2025 12:28 AM (jvJvP)

I know James and his wife Mary very casually through family connections in Louisiana. He is very charming, and funny.

When I say " know them", I mean I've met them several times, not that we have any kind of relationship. And it's been 15 years since the last party. But he is absolutely the strangest looking man I've about ever seen.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 27, 2025 12:50 AM (Vvh2V)

264 I need to burn my man card.
Posted by: Diogenes

Recognizing that you must burn your Man Card means you need not burn your Man Card.

Posted by: mikeski ponders his navel at June 27, 2025 12:53 AM (DgGvY)

265 Cancer Patients Recover By Taking Repurposed Anti-Parasitic Drugs

https://tinyurl.com/zt9hrzuf

Authored by Huey Freeman via The Epoch Times

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 12:57 AM (b1NWj)

266 205 198 You asked for it. I white texted the evil in the OP if you really want to know. If you must discuss it, keep the details out of the comments section.
Posted by: Weirddave at June 26, 2025 11:26 PM (df/te)
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I hardly ever even click the mystery click. Now I have to figure out invisible ink?? I'm not smart enuf for this military blog.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 11:30 PM (RIvkX)

I'm embarrassed to say how many times I've clicked on the picture in the ad in the middle thinking it was a mystery click....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 12:58 AM (QGaXH)

267 264 I need to burn my man card.
Posted by: Diogenes

Recognizing that you must burn your Man Card means you need not burn your Man Card.
Posted by: mikeski ponders his navel at June 27, 2025 12:53 AM (DgGvY)

Yes, but you must REPENT your non Manly ways, and say 12 Chuck Norris jokes... and go forth... and sin no more..

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 01:00 AM (mP0Kj)

268 I remember being surprised at the price of the watermelon on sale at a church fund raiser in the Disney movie Pollyanna (this was Walt’s Disney, so bear with me). They were selling big pieces of watermelon, like a quarter of a big melon, for 5 cents. They had put the price on pieces of paper stuck on long thin tooth-pick-like sticks put on each piece. And this was a little more than you would normally ask, because they wanted to help the church! Pollyanna was based on a novel of the same name published in 1913, so this checks out. There was relatively little inflation until we went off silver coinage. It only got worse when we dropped the gold standard.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 01:03 AM (NWqJf)

269
I'm embarrassed to say how many times I've clicked on the picture in the ad in the middle thinking it was a mystery click....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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I keep waiting for King Harv to show up with a buggy whip. I've become rather fond of the man.

No Kings? Pfft. We have our own.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2025 01:07 AM (XeU6L)

270 I just realized my hash tonight (lUFok) is probably one of the dirtiest ones I've seen. Certainly the most direct.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 27, 2025 12:46 AM (lUFok)

I had PnisU once

Feel for you, brother

Posted by: Socially shunned Miklos at June 27, 2025 01:08 AM (SpRj1)

271 You were right to delete the section: Pure Evil.
Mum’s the word.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 01:11 AM (NWqJf)

272 Well, I have had a tiring day. Going to get an early one. And Saturday I have to get up real early to drive 300 miles for my cousin's funeral. Five hours, plus. Should plan on hitting the road at 0700.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 12:00

That's dedication to family seldom seen any more. Best wishes for a safe trip and return.

One of my Dad's cousin's had a similar drive up here to Dad's service June 7th. They were 9 who kept in touch all their lives. The surviving 5 all were here, with spouses, and the widows of 2 others were here.

Dad would have loved it. We had the meal at a nice restaurant he liked here. The waitress in charge looked at the photo display and broke down crying as she remembered him.

She said he used to tease and joke with her. Yep that was my Dad.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at June 27, 2025 01:12 AM (55Qr6)

273 I just realized my hash tonight (lUFok) is probably one of the dirtiest ones I've seen. Certainly the most direct.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310

Jah! Those Fokkers were flying Messerschmidts ...

Posted by: Adriane the Punchline Critic . . . at June 27, 2025 01:13 AM (cfyxU)

274 231 I remember when I was a kid a small bottle of coke was five cents, six cents if you took the bottle with you. You could take the bottle back anytime and get your penny back. When I was around six years old a quarter would feel like a five dollar bill today. Oh well, time changes things.
Posted by: Case at June 26, 2025 11:54 PM (ilX37)

My late father was born in 1920. I maintain that if ATMs had been around when he was 20 years old (1940) they would have distributed $5 bills instead of 20s because the way he valued 5$ was the way I valued a 20 when I was in my 20's.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 01:14 AM (QGaXH)

275 What are the rules behind a swear jar? I forget. You put your own hard-earned allowance into it and ... at some particular time? You get to reclaim it? To use as you want?

Posted by: m at June 27, 2025 01:18 AM (CQE5S)

276 The left is incapable of acknowledging what The President has done for the world last week. No,

They come back with heinous lies and subterfuge and their usual yellow jurno-deep speak.

I will celebrate this 4th of JULY with a Vigar and Complete JOY at being an AMERICAN and spit my worth on the deplorable leftist's abiding in this Greatest Nation.

May you soon rot in HELL!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 27, 2025 01:22 AM (25kuG)

277 @275

>> You put your own hard-earned allowance into it and ... at some particular time? You get to reclaim it? To use as you want?

It’s like a 401k loan, you use your money and pay yourself back.

Not quite a perfect analogy but somewhere in the vicinity.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 01:25 AM (XV/Pl)

278 275 You get to reclaim it?

Bet it on the ponies.

Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 01:26 AM (ck82W)

279 What are the rules behind a swear jar? I forget. You put your own hard-earned allowance into it and ... at some particular time? You get to reclaim it? To use as you want?
Posted by: m

I thought you were supposed to donate it to the Widows And Orphans fund.

Posted by: mikeski still gets the tax writeoff at June 27, 2025 01:33 AM (DgGvY)

280 My Field of Fucks is barren

My Swear Jar overfloweth

Posted by: Miklos chooses words with Aforethought at June 27, 2025 01:38 AM (SpRj1)

281 Posted by: Miklos chooses words with Aforethought

If I took time for four thoughts, I'd never say anything.

Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 01:40 AM (DgGvY)

282 Good night Horde.

God Bless Donald J. Trump!

And we are only 159 days in. Just imagine what the rest of his term will bring.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 27, 2025 01:44 AM (25kuG)

283 Anna Puma -

Finally saw your comment on Punch Punch Forever! I watched the pilot you linked. It’s certainly off the beaten path, but I liked it. Thank you!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 01:44 AM (NWqJf)

284 You can use the money from the swear jar as bail money after an all night drunken bender at a strip joint! Might need some cash for a lawyer too.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 27, 2025 01:46 AM (iNUL3)

285 If I took time for four thoughts, I'd never say anything.
Posted by: mikeski

I'm just trying to compensate for missing a foreskin

Posted by: Hygienic Miklos at June 27, 2025 01:46 AM (SpRj1)

286 What are the rules behind a swear jar? I forget. You put your own hard-earned allowance into it and ... at some particular time? You get to reclaim it? To use as you want?
Posted by: m

You use it to stop swearing. You look at the jar as it gets ever fuller and you say to yourself, Man, I have to stop fucking swearing.

Posted by: clarence at June 27, 2025 01:50 AM (GtzdY)

287 Welp, looks like I killed the thread and will probably be willowed. Time to go elsewhere. Night, all.

Posted by: clarence at June 27, 2025 02:21 AM (GtzdY)

288 Nah, won't get willowed till 0830Z, (4:30AM EST)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 27, 2025 02:23 AM (iNUL3)

289
Greetings, fellow kids!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:31 AM (HuRzZ)

290 I'm just trying to compensate for missing a foreskin
Posted by: Hygienic Miklos at June 27, 2025 01:46

I didn't think Hungarians were usually circumcised.

But you were born here, of Hungarian descent? Yet later lived in Budapest? I'm cornfused.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at June 27, 2025 02:36 AM (55Qr6)

291 But you were born here, of Hungarian descent? Yet later lived in Budapest? I'm cornfused.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical

"I am still confused, but at a much higher level"

-what Enrico fermi is alleged to have said after attending a lecture by Einstein

Posted by: Miklos don't worry much about things he can't do nothin' about at June 27, 2025 02:47 AM (UZTGl)

292 285
Missing? That was careless.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at June 27, 2025 02:50 AM (lSOLw)

293 Missing? That was careless.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2

I was not the Decision Maker.

But then, how many times did girls say "You have no Dick Cheese! Let's do this!"

Posted by: Miklos thinks maybe never at June 27, 2025 02:56 AM (UZTGl)

294 wheel simulation

Severe doubt

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 03:15 AM (mlg/3)

295 "I am still confused, but at a much higher level"
-what Enrico fermi is alleged to have said after attending a lecture by Einstein

Posted by: Miklos don't worry much about things he can't do nothin' about at June 27, 2025 02:47

-what Farmer often says after a long ONT

as for your sig Mik...there is foreskin restoration out there, which really sounds like a bit much...well trying to create a bit much more...too weird

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at June 27, 2025 03:24 AM (55Qr6)

296 Finally home

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 03:41 AM (+qU29)

297 And no welcoming committee

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 04:01 AM (+qU29)

298 Those of us with insomnia or who got up early warmly welcome you to the ASHQ, Skip 😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 04:05 AM (2GCMq)

299 Thanks Fen

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 04:07 AM (+qU29)

300 1000 year old sword found in a Dutch River goes on display at a Netherlands museum:

https://tinyurl.com/5j3c6vrc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 04:16 AM (2GCMq)

301 That backyard cool night
Sweet and foul the scent
454 awaits

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 04:26 AM (mlg/3)

302 Le nood,

It be here

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 27, 2025 05:04 AM (a1415)

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