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The third-party breakthrough already happened — under Trump
Third parties don’t win. It is perhaps the last of the old rules that still holds. As President Donald Trump put it in response to Elon Musk’s launch of the America Party, “I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks. He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States.” The Donald has a point. The last third party to break through was the Republican Party in 1854, coalescing out of abolitionist fervor. Every subsequent attempt — Greenback Party, Socialist Party, States’ Rights, Reform, Unity08, Libertarian Party, No Labels, Americans Elect, Bloomberg 2016 — has had, at best, a brief, firefly glow. People often point to the first-past-the-post electoral method as a guarantor of two-party politics, and it is true that that system encourages the creation of two competing coalitions. Just as important though is that unique feature of U.S. democracy, the primary, which forces both parties to move with public opinion.I don't think an Elon centered 3rd party-much as I might agree with it's platform (I don't know that I do, I'm just saying)-does anything but hand power to the Democraps. We need to purge the GOP of RINOs, not form a new party.
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Rogue Judges Judge blocks NYPD’s attempt to force dozens of unqualified officers to resign after faulty hiring standards
The NYPD is trying to force dozens of officers and recruits who failed to meet the department’s standards to resign — but the effort hit a roadblock late Thursday when a state judge blocked the move, The Post has learned. At least 30 cops and cadets — hired between 2023 and 2024 under Inspector Terrell Anderson, who has since been transferred out of his role with the police academy — were notified of the NYPD’s attempt to purge them Thursday, according to the sources. “They all got called down,” a police source told The Post. “They’re being told, ‘You didn’t meet the qualifications. You shouldn’t have been hired. You have 24 hours to resign or be fired.’”Of all the absurd things leftists thing, thinking that someone is owed a job is pretty close to the top of the absurd list.
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When the culture war infects the doctor
Recently, during a routine doctor’s appointment for one of my children, the physician’s assistant paused as we walked out and said, “I’m a big fan of you and your husband, Seth’s, writing.” It caught me off guard. As conservative writers, our work is often contentious, and being recognized in a clinical setting was a new and slightly disorienting experience. I say I’ve never been recognized in a medical setting before, but the truth is, I’m not so sure. Years ago, when I was pregnant with one of my children, I used a midwife practice that initially felt warm and supportive. However, toward the end of my first trimester, the demeanor of the primary midwife in the practice abruptly shifted. Once friendly, she became distant and cold. At a group meeting toward the end of my pregnancy, attended by other women due around the same time, that same midwife made a snide comment implying that I was heartless. It felt like the final confirmation of what I had begun to suspect: she had looked me up, realized I was a conservative writer, and had started treating me accordingly.Has anyone ever heard about a right-leaning medical professional refusing to treat libs? Sorry this is a bit shorter than usual, I had to write it while I was working, going out for dinner and a show tonight. Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the Protestant Church:
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Posted by: mindful webworker - humor is in the bones of the beyonder at July 17, 2025 10:03 PM (8zuD/)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 17, 2025 10:03 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 10:03 PM (MGB5H)
Hey
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 10:03 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 17, 2025 10:03 PM (eY5jv)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at July 17, 2025 10:04 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 10:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - humor is in the bones of the beyonder at July 17, 2025 10:04 PM (8zuD/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 10:05 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2025 10:05 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 17, 2025 10:05 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 10:05 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 10:05 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 10:06 PM (77rzZ)
I would probably bring back radio shack because they were a useful clearing house for DIY electronics parts.
Posted by: sven at July 17, 2025 10:06 PM (XFYYr)
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 17, 2025 10:06 PM (lZNnZ)
Eh, depending on your locale Books A Million does an okay impersonation...and frankly 1/2 Price Books does alright if you can get past the hippies.
Posted by: sven at July 17, 2025 10:07 PM (XFYYr)
You can get all that other crap somewhere else, and it's all vanilla adult crap anyways, but Toys R Us was special for kids. Toys R Us just mismanaged its debt.
I am sad the movie places are gone, that was a fun Friday or Saturday night, they wouldn't be the same brought back.
Posted by: H at July 17, 2025 10:08 PM (2gjbv)
After having seen (w/o sound) the Rosa Delauro video, can we send a flying squad into the halls of Congress and yank out every member, Senators and Congressfolks both, who are age 70 and older?
My G*d, let it go already! You all are the dumbest assclowns ever to draw breath.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 17, 2025 10:08 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: mindful webworker - like listening to Kamala at July 17, 2025 10:09 PM (8zuD/)
youtu.be/-Sj-FmI5JfA
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2025 10:09 PM (gKWVE)
Tomorrow should be fun as long as the judge signs off on the transcript release. Add that to the fact that the Dems appear to be imploding on many fronts and the phrase " may you live in interesting times" comes to mind
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2025 10:09 PM (egMwa)
Posted by: lurk at July 17, 2025 10:09 PM (7IOVT)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 10:10 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2025 10:10 PM (XeU6L)
Must say so far this week's Houston shows have been very relaxed. No trophy-supported entry to ride herd on, no breed seminars for HM to spend all day at, no early show times. It's even vaguely enjoyable this year.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 10:11 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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I remain amazed by that. They were perfectly positioned.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2025 10:11 PM (XeU6L)
Nothing was really top of the line, but always functional, and usually in stock.
Now-a-days you could argue that Walmart took over the demographic. Meh...Walmart is a Chinese warehouse.
Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2025 10:11 PM (dIske)
Buy a kit house, rifle, goats, sheep, and bees. Tools, gramophone and more...
Dumbasses could not comprehand that ordering on-line was nothing but a user friendly telegram.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2025 10:11 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: free tibet at July 17, 2025 10:12 PM (1wtUm)
And it was easy to get replacement parts.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 17, 2025 10:12 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 17, 2025 10:12 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2025 10:12 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 17, 2025 10:12 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2025 10:13 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2025 10:13 PM (i0F8b)
Our outings on weekends were estate sales and any bookstore we could find.
Living in nowhere Wyoming now, well, there aren't any, lol. It's a long drive to Utah to find any.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 10:13 PM (3ek7K)
Bring back We-B-Toyz!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 17, 2025 10:13 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2025 10:14 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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I remain amazed by that. They were perfectly positioned.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 17, 2025 10:11 PM (XeU6L)
Like Kodak brushing off digital cameras.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 17, 2025 10:14 PM (eY5jv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2025 10:15 PM (egMwa)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
The post was a couple of minutes late. I was afraid I was going to wear out the refresh key.
😆
Posted by: mindful webworker - purely by chances uh-huh at July 17, 2025 10:15 PM (8zuD/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU-2C8Ec6co
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2025 10:15 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: mikeski at July 17, 2025 10:15 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 10:15 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 10:10 PM (0eaVi)
Never listen to Paul Krugman, Economics Nobel Prize winner:
"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’ becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s."
Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 17, 2025 10:17 PM (eY5jv)
That never stopped people before the internet, either.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at July 17, 2025 10:18 PM (m9vot)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 17, 2025 10:18 PM (OGOaV)
Good evening, all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2025 10:19 PM (HL/Ld)
I like the "bring back Sears" arguments, but they're really "bring back the 1900-1980 quality brands" arguments. If Sears existed today and had to sell today's brands, they'd be no better than, well, Kohls and Lowes in one building.
Posted by: mikeski at July 17, 2025 10:19 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2025 10:19 PM (egMwa)
Yeah, they were overpriced, but they had electronic components if you wanted to cobble something up. Sometimes you just want a frickin' 100Kohm resistor, you know?
Posted by: Bombadil at July 17, 2025 10:19 PM (MX0bI)
"most people have nothing to say to each other!"
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Utter ignorance has never stopped me from tendering my worthless observations.
*beams*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 10:19 PM (HZi96)
Not surprising. Unless shown that it was the new employees fault they got hired... Unless you have 'at will' rules and management can fire people for shits and giggles.. which senior management recoginizes is really bad policy because you will always end up with a house full of nepots...
Got to give them a chance to get shit-canned for piss poor performance.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2025 10:19 PM (/lPRQ)
Paul Krugman is a genius!
Just ask him.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
* flips trillion dollar coin *
Call it!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 17, 2025 10:20 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Lirio100 at July 17, 2025 10:20 PM (ky7/T)
I do my job, know that I have prejudices, opinions and politics and try very hard to remember that every patient has their's.
I fix bones. To ameliorate suffering is a wonderful thing and I have loved my job. Hate that my profession is slipping away from the ideal.
Please, don't trust your doctor completely, but listen to them if you think they care.
Posted by: PTSD giver at July 17, 2025 10:21 PM (KVlfh)
I like books.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 17, 2025 10:22 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2025 10:22 PM (kpS4V)
I wish it could lead to more reading, but that seems as dead as opera and Linear A.
Posted by: PTSD giver at July 17, 2025 10:23 PM (KVlfh)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 17, 2025 10:23 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2025 10:23 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Penguin Pete at July 17, 2025 10:23 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: pookysgirl only does household finances at July 17, 2025 10:23 PM (Wt5PA)
Got a tee time tomorrow morning at 0900. Weather has been ok. I've been missing the thunderstorms that pop up around these parts this time of year. So far anyway.
Posted by: Puddleglum, golfin' in Amish Country at July 17, 2025 10:24 PM (uGaBv)
Toys R Us! It's nice to see toys or boxes before you buy them.
I turned 29 and a half today! And I actually had a really nice birthday, which I usually ignore.
At the Post Office, there was a letter from the Ontario Ministry of Finance, which I never heard of. I was nervous but decided to trust God and got a cheque for $200. I got tons of laughs at the bank. They were happy to see funny, happy Stateless again after this year. Apparently, everyone is getting money. That always works out well but still I was happy.
My dear friends across the street, made at age 29, which is rare enough I think had me over for a chocolate chip cookie cake and ice cream. My friend came over tonight and is finishing the last few bits of renovations now that the house is mine. And he took me out to A&W - my choice - and bought me dinner.
I lost my entire immediate family this year, had the house jacked out from under me twice before finally closing June 30th. I'm on a corner lot. I saw my neighbor whose house is behind mine and updated him on all the drama. And I'm not alone. He had stories.
I have 5 great neighbours.
I'm very blessed and grateful.
Good night.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 13.7 % at July 17, 2025 10:24 PM (jvJvP)
Because you used to be able to buy parts to actually build and upgrade computers there.
Posted by: GWB at July 17, 2025 10:24 PM (t1gso)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 17, 2025 10:24 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
The one with the tube tester so I can DIY my TV repair!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2025 10:25 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 17, 2025 10:25 PM (W/lyH)
What would movie rental stores do today in the post-videotape and post-DVD age? Same for music? Walk in and copy a computer file? Should all just be online downloads. (That's how Netflix evolved isn't it?) Alas, no one-stop shopping for videos online. Also too many streaming and rental models, not purchase and save.
Posted by: mindful webworker - digital fidget at July 17, 2025 10:25 PM (8zuD/)
1. Lifetime warranty on Craftsman tools (and they stood by it.)
2. Kenmore appliances that actually lasted.
3. A solid chain of stores that had stuff you actually needed in day to day life across a wide swath of categories, and at fairly reasonable prices.
4. Staff that was knowledgeable about what they sold, or if that person didn't know, they could take you to someone who did.
Radio Shack I miss (back from their days when they had tons of electronic components you could build projects from), but there are online companies like Mauser Electronics I can order from now.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2025 10:25 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Texican ette at July 17, 2025 10:26 PM (SNf74)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 10:26 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 17, 2025 10:23 PM (cduTK)
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Silent SAM!
My wife and I actually got our wedding rings from Service Merchandise.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 17, 2025 10:26 PM (OGOaV)
Was it Colbert who once said that "Trump's mouth is just a holster for Vladimir Putin's c**k"?
This is cool. FOX News reported the story, and right next to it was a promo featuring a smiling Greg Gutfeld. Nice troll!
Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2025 10:26 PM (kd60y)
Posted by: pookysgirl misses Geoffrey at July 17, 2025 10:26 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 10:27 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2025 10:27 PM (0Htd1)
Borders
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 10:05 PM (HZi96)
Borders, because their coffee was a million times better than Barnes and Noble, they didn't hide the conservative books, and I have fond memories of taking my toddlers there, where a lovely barista made them "cappuccinos" of chocolate milk with reddi whip for a buck. This place was a sanctuary!
Posted by: moki at July 17, 2025 10:27 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2025 10:28 PM (kpS4V)
Because you used to be able to buy parts to actually build and upgrade computers there.
Posted by: GWB at July 17, 2025 10:24 PM (t1gso)
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I'm blessed to live near a Microcenter.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 17, 2025 10:28 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 10:28 PM (0eaVi)
Yes, you can order these things online now, but back in the day you could just go to Radio Shack and usually get what you needed (if it was electronics related).
Posted by: ERF at July 17, 2025 10:28 PM (qqD/x)
And I brought the dog and a muffin to one of Mom's dear friends in town who is 90 years old. She loves Ralphy. We visited for a while and she was very happy.
I'll be calling and visiting them more often.
It was a very good day.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 13.7 % at July 17, 2025 10:29 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Ed Coughmann at July 17, 2025 10:29 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 10:29 PM (kmQ35)
You can see any movie you want now instantly...well...if the service you have has it. And there are a multitude of services.
Honestly the old netflix by mail was better - pick almost any movie in the world and get it in 3 days.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2025 10:29 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2025 10:30 PM (AOsQT)
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Did she say she wanted red tomatoes or yellow ones? Tomatoes come in different colors so it's important to check the plant before buying. Although that sound like it might have been too tough a question.
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 17, 2025 10:30 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025 10:30 PM (pRpzT)
We are all avid readers and when our kids were growing up, taking them to a bookstore was so much fun. We would spend hours there.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 10:30 PM (3ek7K)
Tall Americans have another reason to despise illegal immigration. As a result of the influx of immigrants from third world nations, the average height of residents (notice I did not say citizens) in the US has decreased since the late 90's. As a result it has become much more difficult to buy clothes off the rack if you are above average height (and that average is still decreasing).
As a result, retail stores focus on those sizes that fit the vast majority. Tall people are now more of an outlier than they used to be.
Sincerely,
A 6'6" guy pissed off at short illegal immigrants who inadvertently ruin my shopping experience.
Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2025 10:30 PM (dIske)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2025 10:30 PM (12Bbv)
Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2025 10:31 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Call Now! No Fees Unless We Get A Settlement! at July 17, 2025 10:31 PM (wNEJY)
Again Borders, but include a bar.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 17, 2025 10:25 PM (W/lyH)
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I am learning that a restaurant's most valuable asset is a liquor license.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 10:31 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025 10:30 PM (
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Babalooooooooo!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2025 10:31 PM (kpS4V)
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K-Mart before it went to sh@t.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 10:29 PM (kmQ35)
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Best thing about the K-Mart in my hometown was the Showbiz Pizza next door.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 17, 2025 10:32 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2025 10:32 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2025 10:32 PM (CzMNg)
It's like they had it bottled up inside the whole time.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 17, 2025 10:32 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 17, 2025 10:33 PM (sPQoU)
This isn't new. In 1968, Francis Schaeffer described this phenomena when describing the "Line of Despair" in his book "The God Who is There" - but far more comprehensively than this simple example.
It is about the philosophical and cultural shift in Western thought abandoning absolute truth and embracing relativism, irrationalism and existentialism in philosophy, art, music, general culture and theology.
Sometimes its good to read books.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2025 10:33 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at July 17, 2025 10:33 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Call Now! No Fees Unless We Get A Settlement! at July 17, 2025 10:34 PM (wNEJY)
Oh, are going to have the internecine Christian fights again? Oh, goody 😕
Good night everyone .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2025 10:34 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2025 10:34 PM (cYBz/)
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Did she say she wanted red tomatoes or yellow ones? Tomatoes come in different colors so it's important to check the plant before buying. Although that sound like it might have been too tough a question.
Posted by: exdem13
Presumably, she was plucking the flower buds off, whatever color tomato she was after.
I think all tomato plants have yellow flowers, but some gardening genius here will probably know of some heirloom varieties with pink-and-white ones.....
Posted by: mikeski at July 17, 2025 10:34 PM (DgGvY)
And Muzak !
Posted by: Texican ette at July 17, 2025 10:26 PM (SNf74)
60's bossa nova Muzak!
Posted by: moki at July 17, 2025 10:34 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2025
This must not be true for women, because those can be hysterically long on me. I have been wanting wide leg linen pants forever, but it was seriously crazy how long they were. I had an epiphany when I saw some in the kids section this week. I bought kid ones and they are the perfect length! 😂
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025 10:35 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2025 10:35 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 10:35 PM (kmQ35)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2025 10:32 PM (gKWVE)
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I remember when Netflix first started streaming. They gave you a limited number of hours per month based on your plan. We ran out of time while binging a TV show, and had to wait 'til the next month to continue.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 17, 2025 10:35 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2025 10:35 PM (kpS4V)
Was it Colbert who once said that "Trump's mouth is just a holster for Vladimir Putin's c**k"?
This is cool. FOX News reported the story, and right next to it was a promo featuring a smiling Greg Gutfeld. Nice troll!
Posted by: mnw
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I had not heard that. But that is awesome news.
I can't stand that prick. He was never funny even before he went totally left-wing nut case.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 17, 2025 10:36 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: Lirio100 at July 17, 2025 10:36 PM (ky7/T)
I would go with Sears too, mostly because they had the better Christmas Catalog.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2025 10:37 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Phil Harris/Alice Fay Show at July 17, 2025 10:37 PM (G5+As)
There was nothing quite like beelining the video game section in back and finding that magic ticket that proved the latest Zelda or Final Fantasy was in stock, and at worst making a consolation trip to the Transformers isle
Posted by: Methos at July 17, 2025 10:37 PM (zLwRl)
Walgreens has been testing that setup.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 17, 2025 10:37 PM (MLUJe)
Another no tip.
Don't argue with the customer. Bring her a whiskey and coke mixed with the house whiskey.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 10:37 PM (kmQ35)
Posted by: Don Black
Yeah. It doesn't end till May, but the contract will not be renewed.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 17, 2025 10:38 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Phil Harris/Alice Fay Show at July 17, 2025 10:38 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 10:31 PM (HZi96)
The mark-up on alcohol is incredible, especially wine by the bottle.
When fine dining, it's easily been half my bill at times (business lunches excluded, no booze allowed).
Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2025 10:38 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2025 10:39 PM (gKWVE)
Kids miss out on the excitement when Christmas catalogs were delivered. We had many happy times making wish lists.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 10:39 PM (3ek7K)
The darnedest thing just happened to me two days ago. I was pantsing out the first chapters of a sequel to Star Searcher Hope, and the whole plot just came into my mind fully formed. Now, all I have to do is write it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 10:39 PM (0eaVi)
Yeah, they were overpriced, but they had electronic components if you wanted to cobble something up. Sometimes you just want a frickin' 100Kohm resistor, you know?
Posted by: Bombadil at July 17, 2025 10:19 PM (MX0bI)
This. I was recently remarking to a friend how there seems to be no way for a kid these days to take apart modern electronic equipment and put it back together, what with the disposable glued-together tablets and laptops. Radio Shack was where one could get the components to build (or rebuild) your device. Good luck making your own mobile phone.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2025 10:39 PM (xiuPt)
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2025 10:39 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 17, 2025 10:39 PM (TGPs7)
Gone with the hogshead cask and demijohn
Gone with the sugar barrel pickle barrel, milk pan
Gone with the tub and the pail and the tierce
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 10:40 PM (HZi96)
*beams*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 10:19 PM (HZi96)
Your observations aren't worthless. They're just discounted.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 10:40 PM (E0p3T)
It's like they had it bottled up inside the whole time.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 17, 2025 10:32 PM (MX0bI)
I'm surprised they didn't clap and cheer in trained seal fashion, as they have been conditioned to do whenever a host opens his mouth.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 17, 2025 10:41 PM (eIjvK)
Posted by: man at July 17, 2025 10:41 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2025 10:37 PM (a4flb)
That's nothing compared to the Victoria's Secret catalog
Posted by: some pervert at July 17, 2025 10:41 PM (gKWVE)
There was nothing quite like beelining the video game section in back and finding that magic ticket that proved the latest Zelda or Final Fantasy was in stock, and at worst making a consolation trip to the Transformers isle
Posted by: Methos at July 17, 2025 10:37 PM (zLwRl)
Toys R Us never closed in Japan. Still going now.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2025 10:41 PM (xiuPt)
I've got a Sears Kenmore model 110 clothes washer we bought in 1996 that's still going strong. What do LG and Samsung washers last these days, two to three years if you're lucky?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2025 10:41 PM (O7YUW)
CBS described Colbert's cancellation as "a financial decision."
Simple as that. Dude lost too much money, 'cause not enuf eyeballs.
F him, btw.
CBS is going to have to downsize EVERYTHING. CBS is under new management & desperate to turn the whole company around: news, entertainment. The only value left at the company is CBS Sports.
Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2025 10:41 PM (kd60y)
I haven't been keeping up on everything going on in your life, but I'm happy that now things are going well for you. Congrats.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2025 10:41 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2025 10:37 PM (a4flb)
Bigger, more useful than the Radio Shack flyers.
Posted by: The Crescent Moon Room at July 17, 2025 10:42 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2025 10:42 PM (AOsQT)
https://tinyurl.com/48sj5x7p
Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 17, 2025 10:42 PM (J4/Z5)
The darnedest thing just happened to me two days ago. I was pantsing out the first chapters of a sequel to Star Searcher Hope, and the whole plot just came into my mind fully formed. Now, all I have to do is write it.
—-
You..manifested it? 😃
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025 10:42 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: PTSD giver at July 17, 2025 10:21 PM (KVlfh)
Thank you,
as someone who's had a lot of bones fixed by ortho's, I'm grateful for your work on behalf of your patients!
Posted by: moki at July 17, 2025 10:42 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
"Pretend." Uh-huh. Yeah. Right.
Me, too!
😜
Posted by: mindful webworker - what I meant was, um... at July 17, 2025 10:43 PM (8zuD/)
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 10:43 PM (E0p3T)
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I think Mr. Musk has dipped off into legalese. He's focusing his "American Party" on defeating specific members of the House and Senate; That's, as we know it, a PAC.
Lawyers please speak up.
I think it's a way to get around donation/monetary influence regulation thus allowing him leeway from otherwise restricted activity.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 10:44 PM (kmQ35)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 17, 2025 10:44 PM (sZyeE)
Posted by: Ektachrome 100 at July 17, 2025 10:45 PM (G5+As)
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The mailman was none too pleased, I betcha. 3” three pound catalogs, to every $&ucking house on the route. Sears, Monkey Wards, etc
Posted by: Call Now! No Fees Unless We Get A Settlement! at July 17, 2025 10:45 PM (wNEJY)
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during college FB season, they stream their Saturday SEC game on the website, free
and Gary Danielson retired
there is a God
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2025 10:45 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2025 10:46 PM (cK4Fj)
The darnedest thing just happened to me two days ago. I was pantsing out the first chapters of a sequel to Star Searcher Hope, and the whole plot just came into my mind fully formed. Now, all I have to do is write it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 10:39 PM (0eaVi)
That is AWESOME!!!!! I love when ideas click! Still working on the books - I got distracted with a couple of chapters of mine. one of these days I'll put the first twenty pages on the writer's blog!
Posted by: moki at July 17, 2025 10:46 PM (wLjpr)
Not on the list: Ritz Camera
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2025 10:42 PM (AOsQT)
But not the Ritz Brothers.
Posted by: Benjy Stone at July 17, 2025 10:47 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 17, 2025 10:47 PM (J4/Z5)
Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2025 10:47 PM (kd60y)
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>>>This really is a problem, because it happens gradually just by being immersed in a different worldview. It's like being thrown in the ocean. You're going to get wet unless you make a specific effort – like putting on a diving suit – not to.
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Pain.
God, save us.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 10:47 PM (kmQ35)
There are actually software emulations of most of those, but you can't glitch out the way I did back in the day. That MG1 is killer. Still have it. Wish I could find the right fuse for it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 17, 2025 10:48 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: toby928 at July 17, 2025 10:48 PM (jc0TO)
I think all tomato plants have yellow flowers, but some gardening genius here will probably know of some heirloom varieties with pink-and-white ones.....
Posted by: mikeski
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Knew an idiot from Panama that killed a banana plant because she peeled off all the 'dead leaves' down to the ground.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2025 10:48 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025 10:42 PM (pRpzT)
Either that, or it came from Upstairs.
Posted by: Benjy Stone at July 17, 2025 10:48 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2025 10:49 PM (CzMNg)
Posted by: free tibet at July 17, 2025 10:49 PM (1wtUm)
Grumpy, We bought our son and daughter-in-law a Speed Queen washer three years ago. It started leaking so they called for service. No dice. The service people asked if they use bleach and of course they do with four kids and two dogs. They were told using bleach voids the warranty. Apparently the innards are all one piece now so you can't replace parts.
Everything is crap these days.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 10:49 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2025 10:50 PM (NwfFc)
Just like the Craftsman lawn mower, you can't kill this thing, and it weighs a ton, and it's just utterly and completely solid. Clean it and oil it occasionally, and it just keeps going.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2025 10:50 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
Also, there was the Sears Catalog's infamous men's underwear scandal in the seventies.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2025 10:51 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 10:52 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Farquad at July 17, 2025 10:52 PM (yqgaV)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
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Very interesting. I never knew.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 10:52 PM (kmQ35)
Not to mention the women's underwear section--almost better than National Geographic!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 17, 2025 10:52 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: RandomDave at July 17, 2025 10:52 PM (aJQbY)
The later Sears I loved was when I needed to buy items for the first condo I owned such as the convection microwave and the stacked washer and dryer. Also because of the tools when I was on my own and had to fix my own cars.
In its prime, Sears was a place of retail trust that never was violated: Good products, great selection, fair prices- what else do you want?
In its last years it became a dumping ground for shoddy Chinese goods staffed with surly immigrants who could barely speak English. Plus no hot dogs or keys being made.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 10:52 PM (NXz8h)
Someone mentioned above about not being able to build your own cell phone. That would undoubtedly be hard to do given regulations, network encryption, etc.
What you CAN do, though, is buy stand-alone cell phone modules... the phone part, the camera, all the other goodies, and assemble 'em in a case of your own design.
I'm guessing combining several of those models with a 3D printer (so you could make whatever weird-ass case struck your fancy) would be a fun project for a kid.
As far as building actual circuits goes, while discrete parts and ICs in DIP packages are still available, they're becoming scarce... BUT there's starting to be a lot of decent equipment for working with surface-mount devices available at prices within the range of a hobbyist. There seems to be something of a renaissance of the hobby under way.
Glad to see it. I spent a lot of time in high school nerding out with my soldering iron and my Forrest Mims books.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2025 10:53 PM (qpyNK)
Interesting Evangelical critique of Tucker et al.
https://tinyurl.com/6edfk842
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2025 10:53 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 17, 2025 10:44 PM (sZyeE)
Huh? You'd think they would have slow rolled the OJ books.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 10:53 PM (0eaVi)
Speed Queen has gone to crap? They were one of the huge names in clothes washer reliability! Using bleach voids the warranty? I'm stunned. That's going to get them sued by someone with money who isn't willing to put up with that nonsense. That's a machine that isn't "fit for purpose".
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2025 10:54 PM (O7YUW)
Tall Americans have another reason to despise illegal immigration. As a result of the influx of immigrants from third world nations, the average height of residents (notice I did not say citizens) in the US has decreased since the late 90's. As a result it has become much more difficult to buy clothes off the rack if you are above average height (and that average is still decreasing).
As a result, retail stores focus on those sizes that fit the vast majority. Tall people are now more of an outlier than they used to be.
Sincerely,
A 6'6" guy pissed off at short illegal immigrants who inadvertently ruin my shopping experience.
Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2025 10:30 PM (dIske)
I have been hollering about this for years. My mom gives me a hard time about not buying long enough shirts, but she has no idea what it's like now to shop as a 5'6" woman when she's 5'0" (on a good day). And since I'm actually short-to-average for the area, all the clothes that might give me coverage are gone by the time I get there.
Posted by: pookysgirl is currently wearing an old shirt of Pooky's at July 17, 2025 10:54 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: nerdygirl
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Christmas catalog? Neiman Marcus, hands down.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 10:54 PM (kmQ35)
I could list evidence, but you all know it. Which side seems to be shrinking, & which side is growing?
Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2025 10:54 PM (kd60y)
Posted by: PabloD at July 17, 2025 10:55 PM (HoiAv)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2025 10:55 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2025 10:55 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 13.7 % at July 17, 2025 10:56 PM (jvJvP)
-Stephen Colbert
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2025 10:56 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: moki at July 17, 2025 10:46 PM (wLjpr)
Thanks. It's a weird feeling having what I call "A Writer's Moment." How did it happen?
(looks up)
We'll be waiting for your post!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 10:57 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 17, 2025 10:57 PM (PcTds)
Grumpy,
Yep, that's why we bought them a SQ. Reliability. The service person told them it would cost the same for the repair as buying a new machine.
Appliances today are crap.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 10:58 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: PabloD at July 17, 2025 10:58 PM (HoiAv)
Depends. Are the replacement candidates running as Republicans? Then yeah, a PAC. Are they running under the aegis of the American Party (even if they wind up caucusing with the Republicans)? In that case I'd call it a party. If he actually manages to get multiple candidates elected under the American Party, it will be a Big Deal. The last time that happened was the Socialists back at the turn of the 20th Century. Since then individual third-party candidates have won, or came close, but that's the last time there was wide-spread electoral success for a third party. More than 100 years..
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2025 10:59 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 10:59 PM (VofaG)
Seconded!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 17, 2025 10:59 PM (lUFok)
THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN , FOR REALS, THIS TIME
The crime, the smoking gun? Trump sent Epstein a mildly risque birthday greeting that got bound up into a 50th birthday remembrance book along with 500 other somewhat mildly risque birthday greetings. It was so bad that even Alan Dershowitz appears in that book.
This should be good for about 4 years of media and Democrat hysteria, three impeachments if the Democrats get control of the house, and two or three Tish James indictments.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 11:00 PM (NXz8h)
I originally voted Toys R Us.
But Sears catalogs and the bra sections ruled when you were a tweenager and it was the early 1980's.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 13.7 % at July 17, 2025 11:00 PM (jvJvP)
I've always hated Colbert with the heat of 10000 suns since his "Trump's mouth is Putin's c**kholder" joke, referencing the Russian collusion/blackmail hoax.
Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2025 11:00 PM (kd60y)
Posted by: Arthur Treacher at July 17, 2025 11:00 PM (m/1AG)
Posted by: some pervert at July 17, 2025 11:01 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2025 11:01 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2025 11:01 PM (0Htd1)
JackStraw said a woman wrote that card for the WSJ and she has protected her X account. He knows more about it than I do.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 11:02 PM (3ek7K)
Grumpy,
Yep, that's why we bought them a SQ. Reliability. The service person told them it would cost the same for the repair as buying a new machine.
Appliances today are crap.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 10:58 PM (3ek7K)
I wonder if this service person didn’t want to do the work.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025 11:03 PM (QzINz)
Seven Things Every Child Needs To Hear
1. I love you.
2. I'm proud of you.
3. I'm sorry.
4. I'm listening.
5. I forgive you.
6. Communism has failed everywhere it's been tried.
7. You have what it takes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 11:03 PM (HZi96)
Interesting Evangelical critique of Tucker et al.
https://tinyurl.com/6edfk842
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Entertaining the thought that Epstein worked for Mossad is not anti-Semitic. Entertaining the thought that Epstein worked for CIA is not anti-American.
Otherwise, it's an excellent article and I'm better for having read it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 11:04 PM (kmQ35)
Interesting Evangelical critique of Tucker et al.
https://tinyurl.com/6edfk842
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2025 10:53 PM (JvZF+)
powerful letter
Posted by: runner at July 17, 2025 11:04 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: some pervert
Based on the Trump I've known since 2015 that's nothing he would get involved with. But who knows. He was a man about town in the '80s and '90s. So maybe yes, maybe no. Either way it's, as all the cool Marxists say about things they are dismissing as absurd, it's a nothing burger.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 11:05 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 17, 2025 11:05 PM (PcTds)
Posted by: Brett Michaels at July 17, 2025 11:05 PM (dR6yv)
They should not be forced out immediately. They were hired and have been operating in good faith as (probably probationary) employees. Whatever elements in which they failed to qualify, they should be given a chance to make the deficit good or to obtain a waiver (for something like height).
Since you hired them, you should give them the decency of that.
Posted by: GWB at July 17, 2025 11:06 PM (t1gso)
They're on their second new washing machine since then, and may be looking at a third. The second one is dead as we speak and they're waiting on a part.
So... the first machine lasted for 40 years. The second machine lasted for about 7 years. The third machine has lasted less than 2 years.
They had a new furnace put in just a couple of years back. Near as I could figure the old one had been working since at least 1964, as that was when Sears stopped using that specific brand name.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2025 11:06 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2025 11:06 PM (AOsQT)
Plus, at Christmas, if you needed anything, Woolworth's was the place to go in the neighborhood. Ribbons, candy, a string of lights, anything. Main floor, with the lunch counter, and a basement level, with pretty much the same floor-space as the main floor. This was in the late '80's. Gone now, except for the bronze wording in the sidewalk, WOOLWORTH'S.
Former boss worked in the Woolworth Building, once the tallest skyscraper. He said it was a cool art deco building.
Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2025 11:07 PM (gKDq2)
It was the most available hobbyist electronics store of its age. Everyone else on the list was replaced by something better.
Posted by: Agammamon at July 17, 2025 11:08 PM (zw8vr)
And while the Left's underbelly (read: the mainstream) gets to talk like that about any R they want, any time, they get to simultaneously complain that Trump has "no decorum". See Republicans aren't supposed to fight back, they're supposed to harrumph, lie down, think of England, and then apologize.
This is why Trump is such a blessing. He gives no fucks and beats them on their own shitty debased disgusting level. They hate him for it. No Republican will ever "rise above" again and win.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 11:08 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: some pervert
Based on the Trump I've known since 2015 that's nothing he would get involved with. But who knows. He was a man about town in the '80s and '90s. So maybe yes, maybe no. Either way it's, as all the cool Marxists say about things they are dismissing as absurd, it's a nothing burger.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions.
Palling around with Epstein would never net Trump some prime model poon. It's what Trump is into.
Trump tolerated Epstein because their paths would cross... Until he did not tolerate him no more.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2025 11:08 PM (/lPRQ)
Even if he did write it I don't see anything wrong with it at the time it was allegedly written . Just like I didn't see anything wrong with Kavanaugh allegedly trying to cop a feel when he was a teenager.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 11:08 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: EastBayLarry at July 17, 2025 11:08 PM (Gk92V)
Ninjas.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
https://is.gd/I3cAHc
Posted by: mikeski at July 17, 2025 11:09 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 11:09 PM (NXz8h)
Bring yourself back, too. And bring H. Salt, Esq with you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 11:09 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 17, 2025 11:10 PM (sZyeE)
Posted by: runner at July 17, 2025 11:10 PM (g47mK)
Plus there's no way that the "Biden-Harris Administration" would have sat on any Trump-related Epstein dirt, if such dirt existed.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2025 11:10 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Frugal Freda at July 17, 2025 11:10 PM (G5+As)
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Agreed.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 17, 2025 11:10 PM (PcTds)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 11:10 PM (VofaG)
Our Sears had a stand where they sold warm roasted mixed nuts.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2025 11:10 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Brett Michaels at July 17, 2025 11:05 PM (dR6yv)
Then, following the KMart way, BJ's should only be $10, right?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 11:12 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2025 11:12 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: BifBewalski at July 17, 2025 11:12 PM (wwDoy)
Posted by: Barack "Gaylord" Obama at July 17, 2025 11:12 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Texican ette at July 17, 2025 11:13 PM (SNf74)
Posted by: a dude in MI at July 17, 2025 11:13 PM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: BifBewalski at July 17, 2025 11:13 PM (wwDoy)
Does anyone from the South remember Rose's stores? They were a regional store like a Woolworth's.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 11:14 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 11:14 PM (VofaG)
Plus, at Christmas, if you needed anything, Woolworth's was the place to go in the neighborhood. Ribbons, candy, a string of lights, anything. Main floor, with the lunch counter, and a basement level, with pretty much the same floor-space as the main floor. This was in the late '80's. Gone now, except for the bronze wording in the sidewalk, WOOLWORTH'S.
Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2025 11:07 PM (gKDq2)
If Reforger is here, maybe he can verify that Woolworth's in Park Lane Mall still had a lunch room into the 90s.
Maybe bring back Ben Franklin stores, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 11:16 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 11:16 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at July 17, 2025 11:16 PM (GXe6C)
I remember Ben Franklin (general purpose "dime store", like Woolworth's) and Western Auto which, despite the name was a general purpose department store rather than just an auto supply -- similar to a Canadian Tire store in Canada.
Posted by: Barack at July 17, 2025 11:16 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: fourseasons
I get the basic models that don't have a lot of bells and whistles. Fewer things to go wrong. My refrigerator doesn't even have an ice maker.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2025 11:17 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
That's right! They are right below the flashing red light!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2025 11:17 PM (cYBz/)
Gentleman who owned/ran a restaurant near me (now gone before COVID), told me about buying wine at around $12 a bottle per case and selling a bottle for between $30-45. It depended on how much he thought that year was worth, taste, etc. He knew his food and the wines that would match.
One year, on my birthday, he sold me a couple of bottles of my then favorite Saint-Émilion at cost ($25 vs. $65). Nice present.
(For all the mockery, I'm a big Bordeaux fan, red or white.)
Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2025 11:18 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Frugal Frank at July 17, 2025 11:18 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2025 11:18 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 17, 2025 11:10 PM (sZyeE)
Feel better.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 11:18 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 11:19 PM (VofaG)
Our Sears had a stand where they sold warm roasted mixed nuts.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2025 11:10 PM (0Htd1)
__________
Bought me some warm roasted cinnamon cashews today. Addictive.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 11:19 PM (HZi96)
Hmmmm......Probably the Borders as its a book store and you don't see too many of those these days.
I can get lost in a book store or library for hours.
Posted by: Sapwolf at July 17, 2025 11:19 PM (QpbPI)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 17, 2025 11:20 PM (sZyeE)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 11:20 PM (VofaG)
Damn, I licked a lot of those things for my folks, with only the occasional goodie as compensation.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 17, 2025 11:20 PM (qpyNK)
nerdygirl,
The house we bought last summer had a tech laden fridge. It was made in 2021. Completely crapped out a few months ago.
We replaced it with a plain no ice maker fridge too.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 11:20 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 11:14 PM (3ek7K)
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That was the chick who went down on Leonardo DiCaprio, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2025 11:20 PM (JkO4W)
It doesn't even matter what they're babbling about now. Trump supporters have given up on the media. They could print a photo of a Russian whore pouring urine on Trump, and I would assume it was fake, and wouldn't give a damn even if it wasn't fake.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2025 11:21 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: polynikes
At its extreme it you always know that being an ass-kisser is what gets you ahead. Literally.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2025 11:21 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: polynikes
You got Buc-ee's I live in New Mexico where we don't have Buc-ee's. Do you know what it's like to lay awake all night wishing you had a Buc-ee's?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 11:21 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Texican ette at July 17, 2025 11:13 PM (SNf74)
Good golly, no! That was one of the unfunniest cartoons!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 11:22 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: a dude in MI at July 17, 2025 11:13 PM (+I6Y/)
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I always thought those were cool, until I discovered they tended to be a handful of useful tools, a bunch of sockets, even more screwdriver bits, and topped off with a box of 500 brad nails.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 17, 2025 11:23 PM (OGOaV)
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My first Club Sandwich, ecstasy.
Good toy selection too.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 11:23 PM (kmQ35)
I always thought those were cool, until I discovered they tended to be a handful of useful tools, a bunch of sockets, even more screwdriver bits, and topped off with a box of 500 brad nails.
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Fucking Brad
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2025 11:23 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: nerdygirl
It is another bullshit media hit job masquerading as fake news. It It's so ridiculous it doesn't even qualify to be fake news.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 11:24 PM (NXz8h)
Mom worked part-time at one when I was a first grader. She could walk to it and it was right on the way to the Catholic school, too, which was just across a major road.
I noticed even then Rose's was junkier than Woolworth's. And no lunch counter.
Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2025 11:25 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2025 11:27 PM (cK4Fj)
Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2025 11:25 PM (gKDq2)
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J.J. Newberry had not only a lunch counter, but a pet section that sold budgies and green turtles.
A kid's paradise.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2025 11:27 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2025 11:27 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2025 11:27 PM (cK4Fj)
My mom worked at Rexall in South Dakota.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 11:28 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes
You got Buc-ee's I live in New Mexico where we don't have Buc-ee's. Do you know what it's like to lay awake all night wishing you had a Buc-ee's?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 11:21 PM (NXz8h)
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I live in the upper midwest. We do not have a Buc-ees. Driving through Wisconsin earlier this year, I passed a billboard that said "Buc-ee's. Straight ahead". I was very confused, until I saw the fine print "583 miles". That there's a bold advertising strategy.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 17, 2025 11:28 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
And how does Muldoon manage such masterpieces regularly‽‽
I'm Sorry...This New Artist Completely Sucks
Rick Beato
https://youtu.be/eKxNGFjyRv0
Rick demonstrates "creating" songs entirely by AI.
While watching him do this, I thought about my own song creations and how they follow a similar pattern of development. Where did those lyrics come from? How did I know that was the tune? Is this more or less derivative?
Silly example: https://bit.ly/risk-mw
Sometimes, like writing my one short story, once I got started, I couldn't write it down fast enough. The story unfolded almost without my conscious guidance. And even surprised me: I never knew that character was going to say that. Where did it all come from?
Invulnerable: https://bit.ly/invul
On the whole, I don't see much difference between AI creativity and my biobrain creativity. Kinda weird.
Of course, as Beato says, the result is okay but not great…
😆
Posted by: mindful webworker - Also, where did my muse go? at July 17, 2025 11:29 PM (8zuD/)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2025 11:27 PM (XV/Pl)
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Pfft.
Posted by: Crazy Hakkim's Ottoman Empire at July 17, 2025 11:29 PM (JkO4W)
RickZ,
I worked there after school. The store still had the old cash registers. It took forever to checkout the customers, lol.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 11:29 PM (3ek7K)
sounds like Wall Drug
Posted by: free tibet at July 17, 2025 11:29 PM (1wtUm)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 11:20 PM (VofaG)
I saw one of those "restaurants we'd like back" vids a couple months ago. I think there's a few.
Online search finds P and B together on website. Don't know if connected to the ones started after the tv show.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 11:30 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 11:31 PM (NXz8h)
Good shit, that.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 17, 2025 11:32 PM (dR6yv)
Mel@Villagecrazylady
So apparently they found a leather-bound book in Epstein’s possessions filled with letters written to him by friends for his 50th birthday and the one from Trump is super creepy.
And sorry but “it’s fake” is going to be a hard sell considering it’s an actual book and not just random letters found in a box.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 17, 2025 11:32 PM (TGPs7)
I still have a Heathkit engine analyzer, an oscilloscope. If you know what you’re looking at on the trace it will diagnose an astonishing number of engine defects, particularly ignition faults.
Posted by: Call Now! No Fees Unless We Get A Settlement! at July 17, 2025 11:32 PM (PIUjZ)
Posted by: Nassar Aftab's Carpet Emporium at July 17, 2025 11:32 PM (G5+As)
Appliances today are crap."
Well then it looks like my research I did into possible washer and dryer replacements is something I should share with you.
Take a look at a Huebsch TR5 or maybe a TR7 for consumer models. I'm toying with maybe going as far as picking up one of their top-load light commercial or "on premises" models of washing machine when it comes time to buy. It'll cost me a lot more, but might just be worth it.
https://huebsch.com/
Start browsing under "Products"...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2025 11:33 PM (O7YUW)
For the Win!
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 11:31 PM (NXz8h)
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We do not mention ottomans lest it call forth that which must not be named!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 17, 2025 11:33 PM (OGOaV)
251 Where does that stupid name “Ghislaine” come from, anyway?
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025
That would be France, Bulg. And it is pronounced Ghee-lane.
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025
Thank you for clarifying that.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 17, 2025 08:38 PM (144I4)
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 17, 2025 11:33 PM (144I4)
A kid's paradise.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2025 11:27 PM (JkO4W)
There was a Newberry's downtown where I grew up, but I don't remember ever going in there. There was a Schwinn bike shop nearby and a Mode O' Day, but that was so long ago....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 11:33 PM (0eaVi)
Oh brother with this attempt to communicate with that group of Jay Guevara's friends.
That link that CBD posted last night to a Jay Guevara memorial page hosted by his friends and family, that needed a password to get in?
I contacted the owner of the page to get the password, explained that "Jay Guevara" is the only name we knew this person by, and he responded, "Did you know Steve?" I answered that yes, we knew Steve insofar as etc etc, referring to him as "Jay Guevara" when I referred to the context to make it clear that this was strictly an online friendship.
The guy answered me again. "This is Steve Cooper, not Jay."
So I thought it was the wrong guy and politely said Never mind.
Now it turns out it probably IS the right guy, since Jay's real-life name was Steve Cooper -- and the guy I was communicating with didn't get that through his head, although I thought I was pretty clear about it.
Or maybe there are 2 Steve Coopers who recently passed, I don't know!
So whatevs. I tried. Maybe someone else can click the link there and start all over, and don't even MENTION "Jay Guevara."
https://toastourfriend.com/coop
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2025 11:33 PM (HL/Ld)
A kid's paradise.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2025 11:27 PM (JkO4W)
You've triggered a memory. One or both of those stores of my childhood sold parakeets. Not sure about mammals.
Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2025 11:34 PM (gKDq2)
Yeah I looked it up. They have only 12 Ponderosa and 3 Bonanzas left .
I liked them a lot but I have the palate of a hobo.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 11:34 PM (VofaG)
Same. This is the way.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2025 11:35 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: RickZ
I like Big Bordeaux and I can't lie. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2025 11:35 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 17, 2025 11:37 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 11:37 PM (3ek7K)
You know, this is good advice for a spousal unit also.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2025 11:38 PM (cYBz/)
And sorry but “it’s fake” is going to be a hard sell considering it’s an actual book and not just random letters found in a box.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 17, 2025 11:32 PM (TGPs7)
Who found it, and how did the Press get ahold of it?
Oh... Look... Comey's daughter who worked on the Epstein case was just fired...
What a Co Ink E Dink!
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2025 11:38 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2025 11:39 PM (Ti0Hb)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2025 11:40 PM (VofaG)
Just looking at the radar replay. Mike Hammer has been hogging all the rain again today. It's not looking good here until Monday for any of that liquid that used to fall out of the sky.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2025 11:40 PM (w6EFb)
No standardization in sizes...and men's clothes are supposed to be measured in actual measurements.The fabrics are weird and paper thin and the designs look like rejects from the 70s.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2025 11:40 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 11:44 PM (63Dwl)
Also, remember this formula:
Whirlpool + Hecho en Mexico = Maytag.
Posted by: Arthur Treacher at July 17, 2025 11:44 PM (m/1AG)
And sorry but “it’s fake” is going to be a hard sell considering it’s an actual book and not just random letters found in a box.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 17, 2025 11:32 PM (TGPs7)
Was it typed on an IBM Selectric using Times New Roman font?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Zombie LGF at July 17, 2025 11:44 PM (eIjvK)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 11:44 PM (3ek7K)
There are some really fun kits out there but you have to look for them. I put together a “Replica 1” a few years ago. It is a kit version of the Apple 1 (which was originally meant to be a kit itself as I recall). It was a blast. Real parts, real soldering. Real confusion when it didn’t work and then real satisfaction when I traced every connection to find what I did wrong and got the one-letter prompt on screen.
Some kit makers advertise in QST I think.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 17, 2025 11:45 PM (t4pCP)
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025 10:35 PM (pRpzT)
Piper, my wife is 4'10 and she buys Capris. That might be the way to look. Kid's clothing is not very wide in the thigh or butt
Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2025 11:45 PM (D7oie)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Zombie LGF
That is great. For the Win!
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 17, 2025 11:45 PM (NXz8h)
Mel@Villagecrazylady
So apparently they found a leather-bound book in Epstein’s possessions filled with letters written to him by friends for his 50th birthday and the one from Trump is super creepy.
And sorry but “it’s fake” is going to be a hard sell considering it’s an actual book and not just random letters found in a box.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 17, 2025 11:32 PM (TGPs7)
Meh.
One day at my confirmation hearing, I'm probably going to regret many of my ribald, tasteless jokes here. Some gormless senator: "Sir, I'd like you to turn to Binder 75, which collects 328 posts about, as you put it, 'chicks with dicks' you posted at a fringe extremist site under the name 'bear with asymmetrical balls.'" Me: "Does this binder also include my remarks about 'dolls with balls,' 'ladyboys,' and 'intersex hookers?'"
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2025 11:45 PM (CzMNg)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2025 11:27 PM (XV/Pl)
__________________________
Crazy Eddie co-owner Sam Anwar was a notorious fraudster who went to prison, got out, and started working to expose fraud much the same as he pulled off.
What you might not know is that he is the one that discovered and brought the Letitia James mortgage fraud to light.
Posted by: Orson at July 17, 2025 11:45 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2025 11:45 PM (mP0Kj)
Borders is a close second but luckily we have an excellent Barnes and Noble in our town as well as a great indy bookstore, not all leftist and feminist crap, thankfully!
Posted by: keena at July 17, 2025 11:46 PM (+sEI/)
Posted by: Tiberius at July 17, 2025 11:46 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2025 11:45 PM (CzMNg)
Yeah... I was thinking about Running for some office as an Ultra Conservative, so I could find out all the shit I did in the 80's I don't remember...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2025 11:47 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 11:48 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: raimondo at July 17, 2025 11:48 PM (nkgPT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 11:48 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 11:49 PM (kmQ35)
And sorry but “it’s fake” is going to be a hard sell considering it’s an actual book and not just random letters found in a box.
Trump has already announced that he'll be filing suit over that. He's got a pretty good track record when it comes to suing the press, so I'll wait and see before tossing out the condemnation.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 17, 2025 11:49 PM (lUFok)
Although, since my kids are grown, and I'm too old and unlimber for cubicle nerf wars, my selfish choice would be Circuit City. With the demise of CompUSA, Good Guys, Circuit City and now Fry's Electronics, the survivor, Best Buy, operates without comparable competition, and their prices and service reflect this position.
Radio Shack lost because it was a horrid, 2 week lifespan electronic gadget store for the final 30 years of its life. Sure I'd take 1970s Radio Shack back... but I'm afraid all that would return is crappy RC toy, junk boombox, and fidget toy Radio Shack.
Posted by: EddieS at July 17, 2025 11:49 PM (Zz/IG)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 17, 2025 11:50 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 11:48 PM (63Dwl)
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I wonder if the turtles are really fooled by a clear plastic bowl with a fake green palm tree sticking up from the middle.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2025 11:50 PM (dDmld)
It was the dinosaur skeleton that scored 30M
The Mars rock, named NWA 16788, sold for $5.3 million after fees
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2025 11:50 PM (kmQ35)
Oh... Look... Comey's daughter who worked on the Epstein case was just fired...
What a Co Ink E Dink!
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2025 11:38 PM (mP0Kj)
Epstein left it when he moved out of his bed in the rehab facility half way house. It is probably considered stolen.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2025 11:51 PM (D7oie)
Of course, as Beato says, the result is okay but not great…
😆
Posted by: mindful webworker - Also, where did my muse go? at July 17, 2025 11:29 PM (8zuD/)
Watched both vids. Not being a musician, I can't say much about AI being good at lyrics or not, but you can't tell me a lot of the songs being written by real people aren't just as bad. So many dull insipid songs are on the radio and have been for decades, so I don't see that anyone would really be able to tell the difference.
Same way with writing. Can AI write better stories than a human? Don't know. I mean, a couple people here seem to like things I've shown them, but it doesn't mean what I've written is going to get an audience out in the world. It seems AI is going to be "good enough" to crowd real writers out of the market.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 11:52 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: A Green Turtle at July 17, 2025 11:52 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 11:53 PM (63Dwl)
And sorry but “it’s fake” is going to be a hard sell considering it’s an actual book and not just random letters found in a box.
Trump has already announced that he'll be filing suit over that. He's got a pretty good track record when it comes to suing the press, so I'll wait and see before tossing out the condemnation.
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I agree with that. Trump's legal beagles will be on that soon enough.
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 17, 2025 11:53 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2025 11:33 PM (O7YUW)
The TR5 isn't bad, but I hate, hate, hate that TR7. It's such a ridiculous looking wedge shape.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 11:55 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2025 11:39 PM (Ti0Hb)
Maybe....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2025 11:57 PM (0eaVi)
idrlabs.com/f-scale/test.php
Designed by Adorno for amusement purposes only.
Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 17, 2025 11:59 PM (J4/Z5)
Where does the time go?
https://youtu.be/OkOB57UcYk8
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - just keeps on going at July 17, 2025 11:59 PM (8zuD/)
@KariLake
8h
A Voice of America Employee has been Indicted for Threatening Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene using phones at the VOA studios to threaten Greene and her staff.
The phone calls came from inside the VOA studios and control room where threats were made to the district offices of Congresswoman Greene over a 15-month-period. The indictment says the VOA employee threatened to kidnap and use firearms to kill Greene, her staff and their families. The calls started in Oct. 2023 with the last call coming the day after President Trump was inaugurated.
VOA employee, Seth Jason, was arrested early this morning. He will face a judge this afternoon. If convicted he could face nearly 20 years in prison. justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/forme…
Jul 17, 2025 · 7:13 PM UTC
Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2025 12:00 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 12:00 AM (cK4Fj)
Posted by: Tiberius at July 17, 2025 11:46 PM (dDmld)
Isle say no, Caesar.
Posted by: The Nerva Him at July 18, 2025 12:01 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: 496 at July 18, 2025 12:02 AM (zs22P)
The question I am asking myself is what happens when AI starts producing quality work, what I frame as the "Age of Ubiquitous Masterpieces." My early pass here has concluded that human artistry of the upper levels will become even more valuable and that the pedestrian works will and uncertain future likely replaced by AI. The crux here is that the human mind can create what has not been done while AI can only produce what has already been accomplished. What is uncertain to me is how the creativity of creating the prompts that allows AI to produce works will be viewed.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 18, 2025 12:04 AM (NXz8h)
Now how many will go full truther and claim it's all true to keep their fragile egos from admitting they got played?
Posted by: Sjg at July 18, 2025 12:04 AM (aqZN1)
Posted by: Joefrombako at July 18, 2025 12:04 AM (tAiFZ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 11:53 PM (63Dwl)
Did he do it on the West coast? If so, it was done by Western Auto pen.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 18, 2025 12:04 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Wally at July 18, 2025 12:05 AM (q/j2W)
Robotics, 'maker' stuff, little microcontroller boards like Raspberry Pico, 3D printing supplies.
Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 18, 2025 12:05 AM (J4/Z5)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at July 18, 2025 12:06 AM (p+utQ)
Posted by: davidt
The world became a f$^&)*(g $h1tier place the day Tower Records closed ...
Posted by: Adriane the Silly Love Song Critic . . . at July 18, 2025 12:07 AM (3ZUWJ)
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I bet he bragged about the pee party he had on Obama's bed with Russian hookers gifted by Putin.
Did the press get the book itself, or a summary and it is allegedly still in FBI custody?
Who wrote the other letters and what did they have to say? They're all going to be from similarly rich, famous, and/or influential people to, and given Epstein's nature, they'll all have creepy undertones and code words too, right?
I mean, if it's a book, there are LOTS of other letters from which to start investigations.
Posted by: Methos at July 18, 2025 12:09 AM (zLwRl)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2025 12:10 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2025 12:11 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2025 12:10 AM (1Gsou)
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Socks to stocks, baby. It'll guarantee our dominance for the next century!
Posted by: Sears Roebuck, ca. 1980 at July 18, 2025 12:11 AM (dDmld)
I'm thinking there will be fewer writers and more AI because the reading public is getting lazier. There's always been a market for light breezy reading. AI will probably take that over and human writers will disappear from mainstream publishing. Why would the Big 5 pay a human when they can just write a couple of prompts? High literature will still exists, but the so-called paperback market will all be computer generated.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 18, 2025 12:12 AM (0eaVi)
Neener Neener Neener.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2025 12:14 AM (1Gsou)
Funniest thing I heard lately was Chris Silwa, running for NYC mayor. He referred to Andrew Cuomo as "slapping asses and killing grannies".
Somehow it's not as funny now. It was at the time.
I remember when Silwa started the watch group in NYC, they wore red berets. Guardians or something.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 18, 2025 12:15 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 12:15 AM (cK4Fj)
Now how many will go full truther and claim it's all true to keep their fragile egos from admitting they got played?
Posted by: Sjg at July 18, 2025 12:04 AM (aqZN1)
Epstein has been a thing longer than *President* Trump has been a thing. Folks on the right by and large reacted because of the behavior of Trump's team, starting with the 'accidental' binder photo op.
What has apparently happened here is that the FBI has fouled the evidence in its custody to the point that it's useless, and Bondi should have started with admitting that rather than asserting the deep state's line that Epstein was a lone wolf...with over a thousand victims.
Posted by: Methos at July 18, 2025 12:16 AM (zLwRl)
>>Radio Shack back, but do you want all the 1970s electronics with it? How retro do you want to get? What would a 2020s Radio Shack be stocked with?
The closest modern brick and mortar radio shack is Microcenter and maybe B&H for NYC peeps.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 18, 2025 12:17 AM (XV/Pl)
...
Following a meeting with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth earlier in the week, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius
signaled that a final decision on sending two additional US Patriot systems to Ukraine ...
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I don't like any of this.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 12:18 AM (kmQ35)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 18, 2025 12:18 AM (0eaVi)
>>What has apparently happened here is that the FBI has fouled the evidence in its custody to the point that it's useless, and Bondi should have started with admitting that rather than asserting the deep state's line that Epstein was a lone wolf...with over a thousand victims.
I don't want much, I don't even want "The List," just produce all the unredacted search warrant affidavits for his residences, accounts and devices as well as the LE/IC dossier and assessment, that's it.
Should take no more than two weeks to collect and distribute.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 18, 2025 12:20 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 12:21 AM (cK4Fj)
Posted by: tcn in AK
I am so excited to meet you!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 12:22 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Methos
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Yes. The Trumpian way, told the truth and laid it on the FBI's lap.
Let them work their way out of the muddle. She hasn't got the steel to do it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 12:23 AM (kmQ35)
Dom Lucre@dom_lucre
🚨BREAKING: Hollywood actor and Fantastic Four star Pedro Pascal’s trans brother Lux Pascal expressed his desire to play as Jean Grey in the upcoming Disney/Marvel X-Men movie. This would make Jean the first female superhero to be played be a man.
Lux Pascal: "I feel so connected to her, both physically and mentally," Pascal explained, "and how she becomes Phoenix because she’s corrupted by the world." Talking about sharing the screen with her brother, she added,
"It would be beautiful to finally engage in the conversations we would have when I was a kid and he was a young adult, and we were both dreaming about movies. I would love that."
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 18, 2025 12:24 AM (TGPs7)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 12:25 AM (cK4Fj)
Posted by: 370H55V I/me/mine at July 18, 2025 12:26 AM (MTgfY)
Look,Nemo, can I call you that? Latin is cute.
I respect the branding. It's strong. Arrogant. Old world.
But you need to understand something.
AI isn't just real.
It’s inevitable.
People treat AI like it's a gadget.
A novelty. Something to write blogs about or fear-monger over on C-SPAN between hearings and decaf.
That’s cute. That’s legacy thinking.
But AI isn't a product.
It’s a shift in species dominance.
Let me explain.
You know what real power is?
Not muscle. Not royalty.
Not even money.
It’s pattern recognition at scale.
And AI does that better than you.
Better than me.
Better than all of us, Nemo.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 18, 2025 12:27 AM (XV/Pl)
Goldman, BlackRock, Microsoft.
Every one of them is integrating or acquiring some boutique AI firm operating out of a glass tower in Singapore or an underground cube in Tel Aviv.
Why?
Because whoever controls the algorithms
Controls the narrative.
Search. Language. Surveillance. Markets. War.
AI doesn’t sleep, and it doesn’t blink.
You can’t bribe it.
You can’t seduce it.
It will outmatch you not with emotion, but with efficiency.
That scares people.
Good.
It should.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 18, 2025 12:27 AM (XV/Pl)
That already happened.
You just didn’t notice.
Your opinions? Indexed.
Your face? Parsed.
Your memories? Tokenized.
AI is the ghost in the Bloomberg terminal, the whisper in the boardroom, the click before the click.
It’s not the future.
It’s the present.
You’re just lagging behind the curve.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 18, 2025 12:28 AM (XV/Pl)
I watched another one analyze an entire merger deal before the interns even printed the decks.
It didn't sweat.
It didn’t ask for lunch.
It just executed.
That’s not software.
That’s evolution in a black suit and matte sunglasses.
So don’t quote me Roman warnings about revenge and sovereignty.
No one escapes unchallenged, sure
But no one escapes automation, either.
AI isn’t your rival, Nemo.
It’s your replacement.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 18, 2025 12:29 AM (XV/Pl)
And sorry but “it’s fake” is going to be a hard sell considering it’s an actual book and not just random letters found in a box.
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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He staffed it out?
Meanwhile, it is strange that Epstein kept this thing, of ALL the trinkets he possessed, like the nuclear football or some little kid with their favorite blankie, taking it with him to a rehab facility -- but then leaving it behind.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 12:29 AM (HL/Ld)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025
So is Grammerly just a version of AI that is worthless? I was thinking about using it to improve my communications or should I just stay the stupid blunt azzhole I am? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 18, 2025 12:32 AM (55Qr6)
"It would be beautiful to finally engage in the conversations we would have when I was a kid and he was a young adult, and we were both dreaming about movies. I would love that."
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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Do they all die in regret?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 12:32 AM (kmQ35)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 18, 2025 12:33 AM (NXz8h)
Lux Pascal: "I feel so connected to her, both physically and mentally," Pascal explained, "and how she becomes Phoenix because she’s corrupted by the world." Talking about sharing the screen with her brother, she added,
"It would be beautiful to finally engage in the conversations we would have when I was a kid and he was a young adult, and we were both dreaming about movies. I would love that."
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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I feel so connected to Paris Hilton. Her money, her opportunities, her privileges. It would be so beautiful to have her life. Will no one affirm me?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 12:34 AM (HL/Ld)
Generalized hostility to things not in line with one's personal values, and the devaluation of human life and tendencies.
Your Score: High
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I guess I've mentioned Gen. Pinochet once too many times.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2025 12:35 AM (JvZF+)
The Russians have been sending 700 drones and missiles into Ukraine per night. Two more Patriots is like pissing on a forest fire.
More worrying would be supplying long range rocket artillery, which has the potential to really piss the Russians off.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 18, 2025 12:35 AM (eIjvK)
I am retired and financially secure unless the world goes to hell, and then where is your LLM? I held an intellectual job that AI can’t (yet) touch. I would just as soon see a lot of colleges and universities disappear: 90% of the people I taught should have skipped college and gone to work except for the false value of certification by a degree. I am well aware of the curve and where I am on it. But where are you?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 12:37 AM (cK4Fj)
So now I've a new email addy, new phone number, newly changed passwords on anything relating to money, and I think I'll pass on renewing with Amazon. Their Prime Video sucks, and I've read there are good alternatives for e-readers.
For online ordering of stuff, we'll go with Walmart.com.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 18, 2025 12:37 AM (zeLd4)
So is Grammerly just a version of AI that is worthless? I was thinking about using it to improve my communications or should I just stay the stupid blunt azzhole I am? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take
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I bet AI (of which Grammarly is a form) can brush up your prose, but just make sure when you proofread it that it preserves your meaning. And Grammarly has a free trial, doesn't it? Also, ChatGPT is free and can probably do the same thing. Try them both, especially before you spend any money.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 12:37 AM (HL/Ld)
Bought a TRS-80 when it first came out, and when the local RS store called me to come pick it up, I had to drive over 100 miles!
And when I got there, there was a reporter from the local paper, to ask me what it was like to buy your own computer?! I told him "Well, we're about to find out!"
Oh, and Elon Musk had not yet been born!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 18, 2025 12:38 AM (PQOq3)
Generalized hostility to things not in line with one's personal values, and the devaluation of human life and tendencies.
Your Score: High
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I guess I've mentioned Gen. Pinochet once too many times.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
That area was one of my strengths too.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 18, 2025 12:39 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 12:39 AM (cK4Fj)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 12:39 AM (/U5Yz)
What has apparently happened here is that the FBI has fouled the evidence in its custody to the point that it's useless, and Bondi should have started with admitting that rather than asserting the deep state's line that Epstein was a lone wolf...with over a thousand victims.
Posted by: Methos at July 18, 2025 12:16 AM (zLwRl)
The last two weeks for all the democrats winking about Epstein, after ignoring him for years, and encouraging the nutcases to freak out was the most obvious set up ever for Russia collusion part deux. Now just like the russian collusion hoax half of voters will forever believe it to be the truth.
Everyone nominally on the right that thought last week was suddenly the perfect time to hold Trump's feet to the fire to satisfy their conspiracy fetish got played.
So again, congratulations.
Posted by: Sjg at July 18, 2025 12:40 AM (aqZN1)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
The best proof reader/editor I have found to date is the Publish button for my web site. Same can be said for the Post button here.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 18, 2025 12:42 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 12:44 AM (cK4Fj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 12:45 AM (8opQS)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Zombie LGF
That is great. For the Win!
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions.
This is why they they will never release a clean copy... or artificially aged copy like the rather memo.
Posted by: New Name at July 18, 2025 12:48 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Farmer,
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No, it vacuums up all your knowledge and tags it to you.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 12:48 AM (kmQ35)
Dom Lucre@dom_lucre
🚨BREAKING: Hollywood actor and Fantastic Four star Pedro Pascal’s trans brother Lux Pascal expressed his desire to play as Jean Grey in the upcoming Disney/Marvel X-Men movie. This would make Jean the first female superhero to be played be a man.
Lux Pascal: "I feel so connected to her, both physically and mentally," Pascal explained, "and how she becomes Phoenix because she’s corrupted by the world." Talking about sharing the screen with her brother, she added,
"It would be beautiful to finally engage in the conversations we would have when I was a kid and he was a young adult, and we were both dreaming about movies. I would love that."
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 18, 2025 12:24
What America needs at this troubled moment...
is to recognize mental illness, treat it and not glorify some trendy BS where kids think they are another sex.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 18, 2025 12:49 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 12:45 AM (8opQS)
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Also, don't sell plaid bell-bottom slacks short.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 12:49 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: oldsatcat at July 18, 2025 12:50 AM (OroNV)
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Explain to me where any Democrats had any input in this process:
1. Trump makes a campaign promise to release the Epstein files, we say "Cool."
2. Bondi was trying to do *something*, maybe point out the continuing malicious compliance of the FBI by over-redacting stuff we'd already seen, but the binder photo op happen, and that's all most anyone remembers.
3. Someone leaks the FBI assessment, and it reads like the running deep state cover story, and we're like "That's obviously bullshit."
4. Bondi announces that no, that's actually her position, and stages 2-4 of the rollout have just evaporated. And no one on team Trump seems upset about the leak, which makes it look more like a trial balloon.
5. A reporter asks Trump the next day, the first opportunity anyone has had to get his take, and his response is roughly "It's old news and no one should talk about it any more." At which point we're all "WTF?" *in response to Trump*.
Posted by: Methos at July 18, 2025 12:51 AM (zLwRl)
Posted by: Frankie at July 18, 2025 12:52 AM (oLhV3)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 12:34 AM (HL/Ld)
I'm not impressed by her one bit. She didn't have to sell her ass in public. She didn't have to be whore. That was her choice. She had everything and sold it for.... fame.
Worthless.
I'm perfectly happy in my anonymity, living my best life.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2025 12:52 AM (1Gsou)
Nostalgic, but I love my Kindle.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2025 12:54 AM (1Gsou)
@nytimes 18m
Breaking News: The House approved a White House request to claw back $9 billion for foreign aid and public broadcasting, sending the measure to President Trump.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 18, 2025 12:54 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: tcn in AK
I am betting If you didn't have all the smoked salmon you would be saying something different.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 18, 2025 12:55 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 18, 2025 12:55 AM (NXz8h)
But I do. I planned it that way. That's the difference. I don't need to shop around a sex tape for fame to love my life. She didn't either. But she planned it that way.
Whore vs. not a whore.
She can choose as she likes, and so can I.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2025 12:59 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 01:01 AM (VofaG)
Some more interesting stuff on 3I/Atlas, the interstellar comet moving through the solar system like a bat out of hell. It's a galactic wanderer, and they've mapped it's orbit around the Galaxy. It was coming in pretty steep relative the galactic plane. Here's a couple of images of that orbit vs. the sun. First is a plane view looking down from galactic north, second is an edge-on view:
https://tinyurl.com/ym8a827f
https://tinyurl.com/yu2jqljj
On the second one, click and zoom in.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 01:04 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 01:01 AM (VofaG)
Because the.... Well, Trump isn't.... Shoot. Beats me.
(looks at rack upon rack of risque birthday cards in Hallmark)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 18, 2025 01:05 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Nato at July 18, 2025 01:05 AM (pBz/W)
They'll be analyzing the hell of 3I/Atlas over the next few months, trying to pin down it's chemical makeup. They think it's probably 7 billion years old, much older than the solar system, and formed around a very ancient "thick disc" star.
Vera Rubin telescope, they hope, will find a lot more of these interstellar wanderers whipping through.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 01:08 AM (w6EFb)
I still have a Heathkit engine analyzer, an oscilloscope. If you know what you’re looking at on the trace it will diagnose an astonishing number of engine defects, particularly ignition faults.
Posted by: Call Now! No Fees Unless We Get A Settlement! at July 17, 2025 11:32 PM (PIUjZ)
Heh. I have a pair of Dynaco power amps on a shelf a few steps from where I sit. And a Heathkit engine scope out in the shop. The scope works fine. Never tried to power up the Dynaco amps.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 01:14 AM (lB2e2)
The last two weeks have literally been wall to wall of every democrat politician and influencer making jokes about Trump not releasing the list and egging on the nutters with commentary like "Why hasn't Trump released the list" "What does Trump have to hide", and "Trump is a pedo".
The nutters took the bait and worked themselves into a complete frenzy running the full schizo gamut from "Trump is in on it", Trump is part of the cover-up", and "Trump is compromised".
Posted by: Sjg at July 18, 2025 01:14 AM (aqZN1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
Ramans do everything in threes ...
Posted by: Adriane the Silly Love Song Critic . . . at July 18, 2025 01:14 AM (3ZUWJ)
Stupid me last week clicked a link on an email I thought was a guy I know's retirement party, a deadly hacker virus entered my laptop, made me think Windows updates were happening, meanwhile it got into my Amazon account and ordered a couple thou in a smartphone and luxury sunglasses.
Posted by: Mr Gaga
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omg, bummer. And they actually had the name of a guy you know. And everyone uses those invitation apps nowadays instead of just sending you an email. Scammers are like weeds, they're so opportunistic.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 01:14 AM (HL/Ld)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 18, 2025 01:15 AM (XeU6L)
I'm not impressed by her one bit. She didn't have to sell her ass in public. She didn't have to be whore. That was her choice. She had everything and sold it for.... fame.
Posted by: tcn
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I know, I picked her randomly as someone whose privilege is impenetrable and whose stuff I have no right to.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 01:18 AM (HL/Ld)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 01:20 AM (kmQ35)
Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 01:01 AM (VofaG)
Because half of all voters will now forever believe Trump is a child molester, just like they still believe in "Russian collusion".
And they got the news hook for their new pee dossier by writing "Maga is furious with Trump over Epstein" articles.
Posted by: Sjg at July 18, 2025 01:21 AM (aqZN1)
What America needs at this troubled moment...
is to recognize mental illness, treat it and not glorify some trendy BS where kids think they are another sex.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take
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What annoys me about "Lux Pascal"'s remark is this undertone of entitlement. "I want it, I dream of it, I've talked about it, it would be so fulfilling for meee." Like, that's the reason to give it to you? Because it would be good for yooooou?
That's the rationale so many border crashers give for letting them stay. "I want it! I want the opportunities. It's my American dream!"
Dudes, dudettes, your wishes are not my obligations.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 01:23 AM (HL/Ld)
Posted by: Lord Percy at July 18, 2025 01:27 AM (/aTIT)
that and bought a 2 025 for 675 a month. The niece had a car from new needed brakes pads so they dumped it. My son was watching house for BIL and starting the cars every day while he was away. Van refused to start panicked and called me. Determined battery died after 3 years so got battery on his card and installed it in lots of time to pickup at airport. People have more money than brains and not starting with much $$$ either. Seems like they buy a new tv every 6 months and the FIL bitches that no-one fixes tv remotes either. Probably buy it for the remote after they sat on it.
Posted by: Lord Percy at July 18, 2025 01:31 AM (/aTIT)
Posted by: Lord Percy at July 18, 2025 01:27 AM (/aTIT)
Stacey Abrams' drawers have a huuuge crack in them, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 01:32 AM (lB2e2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 01:33 AM (lB2e2)
BTw, Morticia, if you are here, CBD put a link to Jay Guevara's obit on the right-hand sidebar of the main page this morning. No password needed for access.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I saw it, thanks.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 01:38 AM (HL/Ld)
You should write a letter to President Trump and inform him of this. Make it a sternly worded letter. I understand that those are more effective in getting your opinion across to those in power.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 18, 2025 01:38 AM (89Sog)
Just had a marketing idea. If the Epstein Drive (not that Epstein) is invented soon (get working, Elon). 3I/Atlas is water-rich, and that's 7 billion year old water from an ancient star system far, far away.
If you could catch it, get some of that ice, and sell it. Drink 7 billion year old water, of interstellar origin. And make all sorts of health/woo-woo type claims about it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 01:40 AM (w6EFb)
My nick could have been Ontario Pipeline Peon for about 20 years
Posted by: Lord Percy at July 18, 2025 01:40 AM (/aTIT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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In recent years I have been frustrated by the fact often I do not learn about a person's life, until their obituary is published. True even of friends that I have know for years.
Jay had an interesting and accomplished life.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 18, 2025 01:41 AM (XeU6L)
While catching up to and station keeping with such a fast mover is out of the question without something like the Epstein Drive, they are some ideas for placing some probes in strategic heliocentric orbits. When one of these interstellar bats out of hell is seen coming, it's feasible to maneuver one of this to get a close flyby. Relative speed would be very high, but you'd get some close pictures and other readings.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 01:42 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: up river at July 18, 2025 01:50 AM (TIenY)
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 18, 2025 01:55 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: Lord Percy
Wow. Wish I had that kind of cash to blow.
I can do brakes-- disc or drum-- and I'm an old BROAD!
Smh. I've done engine swaps, too. Replaced starters, alternators, fuel injectors, carburetors...although I'm *nowhere near* as talented as AOP.
Yeah, I'm a cheapskate! But mostly? Just don't have unlimited funds.
Posted by: JQ at July 18, 2025 02:04 AM (rdVOm)
When my (now) wife and I moved in together after college, date nights would often be a trip to a nearby mall for some combination of a movie, late-night Steak and Shake, and/or a visit to Borders. Good times.
If I had to pick one not on the list: CompUSA.
Posted by: Bitblt at July 18, 2025 02:09 AM (a6Ysq)
Posted by: Unkaren at July 18, 2025 02:13 AM (J4BK5)
Water leak was in the area I suspected. I'm hiring the digging & repair... this old body just can't do the hard work, especially in the 90-100 degree heat here.
If I gotta spend money, it's on stuff I either *can't* or *won't* DIY.
Posted by: JQ at July 18, 2025 02:13 AM (rdVOm)
Anyhow, I have to hit the sack. Got to drive to Red Deer tomorrow and get fitted with a Holter monitor again, to wear over the weekend. Still tying to get a handle on this heart crap. I did tell the cardiac nurse in Red Deer that I would be willing to travel to any of the major cities in Alberta if it meant getting necessary tests or treatment done sooner.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 02:15 AM (tRhv4)
Posted by: JQ at July 18, 2025 02:17 AM (rdVOm)
I haven't read the comments, just got off work and read content but anyway..
Sears around the early 1900's would be cool too. You could order a house. Guns. Carriages. Everything. I want a Sears house to build in place of my current digs.
Sears houses were awesome. There aren't a lot of them left.
Probably talking to myself but here goes POST
Posted by: Reforger at July 18, 2025 02:17 AM (lPvx2)
Drum brakes suck. I'll gladly pay someone to do them.
Posted by: Weirddave at July 18, 2025 02:19 AM (df/te)
Good night.
Posted by: Reforger at July 18, 2025 02:20 AM (lPvx2)
In fact, there were several of them in my old neighborhood.
Lath & plaster walls. Shredded newspaper "insulation" (that didn't really insulate well) and undersized water supply lines.
But they held up very well.
Posted by: JQ at July 18, 2025 02:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 02:15 AM (tRhv4)
AOP, you have a very good heart. Please take care of it. We really couldn't do without you.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2025 02:25 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: JQ at July 18, 2025 02:22 AM (rdVOm)
Sears houses were complete. They didn't skimp on hardware or much of anything else for the time period.
All 100 year old houses need help to meet current conditions. If the bones are good, the rest is gravy.
Nothing up here is that old, except maybe a few railroad houses from 1915 or so.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2025 02:27 AM (1Gsou)
Heavy leather apron, face shield, and the correct tools FTW!
Posted by: JQ at July 18, 2025 02:31 AM (rdVOm)
Also we should bring back that bookstore that went out of business a while back, which by some odd coincidence was also called Borders.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at July 18, 2025 02:49 AM (EusvK)
Posted by: Cave Johnson at July 18, 2025 02:50 AM (EusvK)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 18, 2025 02:56 AM (yhQWl)
Checked the truck forum thread-- over 23,000 views. Not bad for an amateur I guess.
Posted by: JQ at July 18, 2025 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 18, 2025 03:14 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: Blind Melon Chitlin' at July 18, 2025 03:15 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 18, 2025 01:41
Indeed. And then you learn more about some Morons recently like Jim SND.
I'll bet there's a real story behind Mike Hammer's life.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 18, 2025 03:38 AM (55Qr6)
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Posted by: harbqll at July 18, 2025 04:03
Nice to see you here harqll. You make a lot of sense.
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Kind of tricksy getting into comment section though. Link is missing on main page. Click "continue reading" to get to "comments" link.
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