The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 7/29/25

Good morning kids. President Trump's second term has certainly yielded some incredible results on so many issues, here at home, most significantly is his crusade against illegal immigration and its destructive consequences to our national security, sovereignty, culture and economic well-being. On the international front, discounting his tariff regime which in the long term will rejigger our relationships with many nations and result in net gains for our economy, and especially this latest agreement with the EU which as we discussed yesterday is a pretty huge deal.

But, the president has been touting his abilities as a peacemaker in bringing warring nations to the negotiation table.

President Donald Trump has brokered on average about one peace deal or ceasefire per month thus far in his presidency, following Monday’s ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia. . . “Now this would be six that we’ve stopped. I have … stopped six wars in the last — I’m averaging about a war a month,” he said.
Trump has brokered a number of ceasefires and peace deals since returning to office, the most prominent being the agreement between Israel and Iran after the “12-day war” between the countries. That war culminated after Trump approved devastating strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
The sides agreed to a ceasefire on June 23, and it took effect on June 24.
Another major deal brokered by Trump and his administration is between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda. The countries reached a peace agreement in late June to end a 30-year-long conflict between them. . . In yet another deal, Trump announced a ceasefire with Ansarallah, commonly known as the Houthi jihadist terror organization, in Yemen in May, which took Israel by surprise. As part of the deal, the Houthis agreed to stop targeting U.S. ships and the U.S. agreed to stop bombing Yemen. Though the Houthis and the U.S. reached a deal, the group has continued to target Israel.
Finally, Trump brokered peace between Egypt and Ethiopia in June regarding a conflict over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River.

I read "Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam" and immediately thought TRUMP Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, HOTEL and CASINO . . .

Seriously, as I and others have pondered vis a vis Trump and Israel and negotiating with Hamas, it just makes no sense whatsoever. In the wake of France's PM Emanuel Macron's despicable announcement of his support for a "Palestinian" state . . .

The Trump administration says it boycotted a United Nations conference promoting the two-state solution on Monday, calling the event a “publicity stunt” and an “insult.”
“This week, the U.N. will serve as host to an unproductive and ill-timed conference on the two-state solution in New York City,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said in a statement. “This is a publicity stunt that comes in the middle of delicate diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.”
Bruce said the conference will “prolong the war, embolden Hamas, and reward its obstruction and undermine real-world efforts to achieve peace.”
Instead of participating, Bruce said the United States will continue leading efforts to end the fighting and deliver a permanent peace.
“Our focus remains on serious diplomacy: not stage-managed conferences designed to manufacture the appearance of relevance,” she said.
The boycott comes after President Donald Trump drew attention to what he described as “real starvation” in Gaza. . . . “We’ll be helping with the food,” Trump said. “We can save a lot of people. That’s real starvation. I see it, and you can’t fake that.”

It would have been helpful had the President pointed out the rather salient fact that it's Hamas that caused and exacerbated the humanitarian crisis by its brutal invasion and butchery against Israel and Israel's righteous and justified response in defending itself. Plus the fact that Hamas uses its own people as cannon fodder to advance their own cause — the Islamic crusade to wipe out every Jew on the planet and convert all of Earth into an Islamic world.

Rewarding a fictitious people and nation created in the basement of KGB headquarters in 1964 with land. And not just any land, the land of Israel, which can only happen with the eradication of its citizens whose ancestors have had an historic presence there for over five millennia.

There can be no negotiation with Hamas, because Hamas is just the cutting edge of Islam itself. And that is sadly a truth that dare not be uttered lest one be called racist and Islamophobic despite nearly 1500 years of documented barbarism and bloodshed committed in the name of Islam.

Oh well. Great that we pulled out of UNESCO but we need to dismantle Turtle Bay.
From the East River to the General Assembly, the parking shall be free!

So an horrific mass shooting in NYC gets all kinds of coverage,

but a mass stabbing spree at a Michigan WalMart is all but ignored. My reporting on it yesterday notwithstanding.

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Have a great day!

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

Trump responded to Lee’s tweet, later posting on social media, “Very Important. Republicans must play to win. Clear the 135. So badly needed!”
Calls Increase to ‘Clear the 135’ and Appoint Trump Nominees Before Senate Recesses
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks, along with Reps. Glenn Ivey, Sarah Elfreth, Kweisi Mfume, and Johnny Olszewski Jr. were seen sitting on the floor outside of a door with a sign that read, “ERO Baltimore Office,” after they were “prevented from conducting an oversight visit” at the George H. Fallon Federal Building, according to WMAR2 News. (oversight visit = uncunning stunt - jjs)
Maryland Democrats Stage Sit-In After Denied Entry of Baltimore ICE Facility
Wells has a median household income of roughly $83,900 and a median age of about 52, according to Census Reporter. The protests began in April and have since become a weekly fixture — driven in part by concerns over the town’s reliance on foreign workers to staff hotels, restaurants and other seasonal businesses, the Times reported.
Wealthy Residents Of Maine Resort Town Fret Over Losing Access To Cheap Illegal Labor

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Several people have been arrested in connection with a massive brawl in Cincinnati over the weekend, viral video from which shows a mob of mostly Black assailants beating and stomping on the head of a middle-aged white man before knocking a white woman out cold on the pavement.
Black Mob Brutally Beats White Couple in Cincinnati - Not that the Media Care
America’s most annoying manufactured race crisis.
Phantom Nooses Abound
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Margot Cleveland: The HPSCI report proves indispensable for understanding what supposed intel Obama withheld from the intelligence community under the guise of executive privilege.
Details Buried In Recently Declassified Docs Further Implicate Obama In Russia Hoax
Haspel was the CIA station chief in London in 2016 and 2017 under then-CIA Director John Brennan. She was appointed in 2018 and stepped down in January 2021 after she “threatened to resign” if Trump appointed Kash Patel as her deputy, Axios reported.
Schweizer: Gina Haspel Should Be Investigated For Covering Up Russia Conspiracy While CIA Director
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok deleted all of his posts on the social media site X Monday.
Disgraced Russiagate FBI Agent Purges X Posts As Trump Admin Bears Down On Obama Intel Officials
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The Big Beautiful Bill offers rare tax relief—but the real wealth shift starts when you stop trusting the system and start thinking like the rich.
Tax Avoidance Isn’t a Crime, It’s a Skill—And the Big Beautiful Bill Just Made It Easier

ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
'Our focus remains on serious diplomacy: not stage-managed conferences designed to manufacture the appearance of relevance.'
Trump Administration Boycotts UN ‘Publicity Stunt’ Conference On 'Palestinian' Statehood
Prime Minister Netanyahu: “Hamas robs, steals this humanitarian aid and then accuses Israel of not supplying it.”
Israel Begins Daily Tactical Pauses in Gaza Amid Mounting Pressure from Europe, U.S. Allies
Trump added: “Hamas doesn’t want to give the hostages. I told Bibi that he will have to now maybe do it in a different way.” The U.S. President emphasized that he believes a ceasefire “is possible” and that the conflict in Gaza must end. He also said the U.S. would be providing food aid.
‘You Can’t Fake That’ — Trump Disagrees With Netanyahu on Gaza Starvation.
All the world knows that the worst genocide in history is occurring right now in Gaza, courtesy of the far-right Netanyanhu Israeli government. Or is it?
A Narrative on Experts and Genocide
'Ignore the medical reality, strip the context, and turn her child into a propaganda weapon.'
Media Share Misleading Images Of Gazan Child To Falsely Accuse Israel Of Mass Starvation
Daniel Greenfield: Israel isn’t committing genocide - it’s resisting genocide.
The Jihad Against Israel is Genocide
The plight of Gazan civilians lacking enough food has made headlines, but make no mistake: Whatever hunger exists in Gaza is Hamas’ fault — and the way to address it is to end Hamas. And thus, the war. (Meh, end Islam, and Leftism - jjs)
To end food shortages in Gaza, the world should unite to end . . . Hamas
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
The Judiciary Committee just released the proof.
Biden-Harris funded anti-Israel groups
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: More of an adventure than anyone ever wants flights to be.
Man Flies to Scotland to ‘Send a Message to Trump,’ But Then Does This on His Plane
Robert Spencer part deux: How Islam sanctifies murder.
When Killing Is a Sacrament
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“In the Trump-dominated global economy, the U.S. gets plenty but gives nothing in return,” laments Axios, as though that’s a bad thing,
Far-Left Axios Angry America Came Out Ahead in Trump Trade Deals
A Fox News poll conducted in July found Republicans have a three-point advantage on foreign policy, while a Wall Street Journal poll found the GOP with an eight-point advantage in July, Enten said. On “CNN News Central,” Enten asserted the data was “surprising” because of foreign policy issues taking place under the Republican-controlled government.
CNN’s Harry Enten Stunned Americans Trust GOP Over Dems On Foreign Policy (Entenmann's>>> Enten - jjs)
Katherine Maher addressed NPR staff at the left-wing Hewlett Foundation's Menlo Park headquarters amid a fundraising sweep
NPR Chief Turns to Dem Donors To Drum Up Funds
What constitutes a "distraction" in the eyes of the media?
Treason, Epstein, And ‘Distractions’ — A Guide For The Perplexed
For decades, NPR clung to the fiction that it is committed to serving "Americans across the political spectrum." That’s how CEO Katherine Maher put it during the network's losing battle to hold on to taxpayer funding. It was a tough sell coming from Maher, who has described President Donald Trump as "a deranged racist sociopath."
The Corpse of NPR Pats Itself on the Back
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The gunman who killed an NYPD officer and three other people in a Midtown office building on Monday evening was carrying a note that offered clues into his possible motive, sources told The Post. . . Shane Tamura, 27, cited the NFL in the writings, which were found after he turned the gun on himself on the 33rd floor of 345 Park Ave. – a swanky skyscraper that houses the football league’s headquarters.In the note, which was several pages long, Tamura blamed football for his apparent struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), law enforcement sources said.
NYC gunman Shane Tamura found with note hinting at possible motive for Park Ave skyscraper shooting: sources
“These offenders thought that they could act without consequences, but they were wrong,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the DOJ’s Criminal Division.
FBI and DOJ Dismantle Massive Dark Web Child Porn Networks.
'People break the law, and then they have rights and are protected for breaking the law.'
‘You Literally Have No Protection:’ Philadelphia Squatters Take Over Woman’s House
In a state that’s already reeling from crime, fentanyl deaths, and a collapsing trust in public safety, Democratic Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has decided the real threat is a sheriff’s deputy who pulled someone over for tailgating. This isn’t satire. It’s Weiser’s latest political stunt: a lawsuit against Mesa County Deputy Alexander Zwinck, who made the mistake of doing his job.
Democrat AG Puts Cops In The Crosshairs, Sues Deputy For Doing His Job
Andrew Pampu’s $5.3 million award was overturned by an appeals court that claimed a campus tribunal held as much sway as a real court.
‘Dangerous Precedent’: Court Sides With University Over Jury in False Rape Defamation Case
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Probe comes in the wake of a Free Beacon report on the journal’s racial preferences
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Launches Probe of Duke Law Journal, Warns Medical School Could Be Next
Most public schools are now failing in three critical areas that parents care about when deciding on their children’s K-12 education: academic rigor, student discipline, and the campus’ moral influence.
Here’s Why New Data Finds Continued Enrollment Slide For Public Schools
ABORTION
The judge ruled that the plaintiffs “demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on Plaintiffs’ Bill of Attainder claim.”
Judge Indefinitely Blocks the Ban on Planned Parenthood Medicaid Funding
Upon assuming the bench, all new federal judges take an oath to “faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me … under the Constitution and laws of the United States.” So, why is Massachusetts-based District Court Judge Indira Talwani flouting that pledge?
In New Planned Parenthood Ruling, Obama Judge Flouts Logic And The Constitution
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
The leak of an alleged birthday letter from Trump to Epstein, along with other narratives linking the two, may be a ploy by Maxwell’s attorneys to “blackmail her way into a pardon.”
Is Ghislaine Maxwell Trying to ‘Blackmail Her Way Into a Pardon?’
“If you want to criticize the people who aren’t showing full transparency, you ought to go after the administrations that went easy on Jeffrey Epstein…”
Vance to AP: ‘The Media Didn’t Give a Damn About’ Epstein Under Biden
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Chicago’s inspector general has at least 20 cases for the city alone.
Almost 375 Illinois Govt Workers Implicated in Paycheck Protection Program Fraud
Whose interests does Graham really serve?
Lindsey Graham: The Deep State RINO saboteur of the America first agenda
Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett threatened to bar The Atlantic from publishing a profile about her after a reporter for the outlet reached out to several of her congressional colleagues without her permission.
Jasmine Crockett Went Full Panic Mode After Exposing Insane Narcissism In ‘The Atlantic’ Profile
POLITICS
“The Democrat brand is so bad that they don’t have the credibility to be a critic of Trump or the Republican Party.”
Voters Abandon Democrats, Support Hits Lowest Level in More Than Three Decades: Poll
The entry of Dans into the Republican Senate primary marks one of the most serious challenges Graham has faced since being elected to the seat in 2002. Dans’s America First bona fides draw a stark contrast to Graham’s pro-establishment history, especially regarding amnesty for illegal immigrants and foreign wars.
Project 2025 Architect Paul Dans Set to Challenge Neocon Lindsey Graham.
Harris is expected to decide on whether to enter the race for the California governorship by the end of the summer, Politico first reported in March, citing two unnamed sources. Halperin forecast on his 2WAY platform that Harris would ultimately not be a candidate in the race, that she would struggle to raise money for another presidential run and would leave politics for good.
Mark Halperin Makes Grim Prediction About Kamala Harris’ Political Future
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Trump also took a jab at the London mayor: “I think he’s done a terrible job.”
Trump Now Giving Putin 10-12 Days to Reach Ukraine Peace Deal
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
In an otherwise cordial press conference with the British Prime Minister at his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, the issue of the Conservative Party-passed and Labour Party-enforced Online Safety Act threw a spanner in the works.
Trump Warns UK’s Starmer (-bahnfuhrer) Not to Make ‘Mistake’ of Censoring Truth Social
Trump emphasized illegal immigration, saying, “You cannot let people come in here illegally. And what happens is, there’ll be murderers, there’ll be drug dealers, there’ll be all sorts of things that other countries don’t want, and they send them to you, [like] they send them to us, and you’ve got to stop them.” His comments come amid a surge in migrant boats crossing the English Channel, with more than 40,000 people having landed in Britain since Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party took power last July.
Trump Warns ‘You’re Not Going to Have Europe Anymore’ Due to Mass Migration.s
Trump-Derangement Syndrome must not get in the way.
Ending a 30-Year-Old Genocidal Conflict
The statement was the first from the repressive North Korean regime acknowledging that Lee is president. Lee won the special election on June 3 prompted by the impeachment and ouster of conservative predecessor Yoon Suk-yeol, whose political demise followed an unsuccessful attempt to establish military rule in the country in December. Lee ran against Yoon in 2022 and narrowly lost, lending him high name recognition in the country and allowing him a comfortable victory in the June special election.
‘Not Interested’: Kim Jong-un’s Sister Rejects Outreach from Leftist South Korean President
“The coalition is an awkward mixture of neo-imperial and post-colonial powers.”
The Fatal Incoherence of BRICS
Trump, whose second term recently hit the six-month milestone, touted the impressive results driven by his peace through strength foreign policy agenda during a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Trump Turnberry in Scotland shortly after Thailand and Cambodia announced an agreement.
Trump Is Averaging One Peace Deal or Ceasefire a Month in Second Term
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
This is not a plan for shared global stewardship; it’s a play to slow the United States down, buy China more time, and extend Beijing’s influence across the global south.
Beijing’s AI ‘Cooperation’ Gambit Is a Smokescreen for Strategic Catch-Up
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Medicaid needs to refocus on the medically vulnerable.
Not Cutting or Unwinding, Trump is Refocusing Medicaid
For the effort to succeed, the U.S. must increase the number of inpatient psychiatric beds. (and eradicate Leftism - jjs)
Trump’s Mental-Health Executive Order Targets Urban Chaos
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The image however carries a far more philosophic component. Except for the star near the top (identified by the four diffraction spikes), every single dot and smudge you see in this picture is a galaxy. NGC 1309 is about 100 million light years away, but behind it along its line of sight and at much greater distances are innumerable other galaxies, so many it is impossible to count them. And each is roughly comparable in size to our own Milky Way galaxy, containing billions of stars.
Galaxies without end

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The Justice Department is probing 20 hospitals 'involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children.'
Trump DOJ Subpoenas Boston Children’s Hospital For Alleged Youth Sex Change Fraud
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Once again, 'safety concerns' trump free speech rights in comedy circles
Will Media Cover Jewish Comedians Canceled in the UK?
Childers sold his soul to the devil of coastal elitism and left behind a generation that sought authentic rural representation in modern music.
Country star Tyler Childers was a rising voice of Appalachia—now he's nothing but a hick lib
A great analogy of FO comes from the fundamental physics theory: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. FAFO isn't about being mean; it's about learning the concept of consequence.
FAFO Parenting: The Return of the Line You Don’t Cross. Finally!
HITHER & YON
Longtime Cubs legend and fan favorite Ryne Sandberg died Monday after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 65 years old. . . Sandberg spent nearly the entirety of his 16-year career in Chicago with the Cubs. A native of Washington State, Sandberg was named after New York Yankees pitcher Ryne Duren.
Cubs Legend and MLB Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg Dies at 65

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Comments

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1 thx JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 06:37 AM (gbOdA)

2 Morning all. On vacation this week. In and out.

More out than in probably.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2025 06:39 AM (JBVNW)

3 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 06:39 AM (ExV1e)

4 Morning, news folken! A hat tip to JJ for his hard work!

Willowed: The shooting this morning on the major avenue near where I live took place apparently at a Racetrac gas station/convenience store. I've lived here for more than two decades and have watched buildings be torn down and new stuff erected. That location used to hold a city building of some kind; then it was vacant for several years before the Racetrac opened.

The apartment complexes which line the cross street on either side of the avenue have declined. Badly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2025 06:40 AM (omVj0)

5 So JJ has the time machine today

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 29, 2025 06:41 AM (aPBRN)

6 5 So JJ has the time machine today
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 29, 2025 06:41 AM (aPBRN)

Oops. I fucked up. My computer clock is set for Eastern time and I meant to post at 7:30 but I'm on central time and didn't realize.

Sorry for the confusion

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2025 06:44 AM (x0n13)

7
A shooting that killed five people would be, at best, a top news story for one day if it happened anywhere else than NYC. But since it occurred in The Center of The Universe the coverage was OMG!!! And it's all your fault, Mr. and Mrs. United States.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 06:44 AM (HZi96)

8 7
A shooting that killed five people would be, at best, a top news story for one day if it happened anywhere else than NYC. But since it occurred in The Center of The Universe the coverage was OMG!!! And it's all your fault, Mr. and Mrs. United States.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 06:44 AM (HZi96)

Mass stabbing at WalMart in Michigan and ho hum . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2025 06:45 AM (x0n13)

9 According to the report, one FBI analyst argued the intel should be shared with analysts, but “that the Obama Administration denied ICA drafters access to this intelligence on grounds of Executive or Congressional privilege.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 06:45 AM (gbOdA)

10 @Biden's Dog: See my willowed reply to you in tech thread, #88. (Just a bit of undercaffeinated humour.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 29, 2025 06:46 AM (O7YUW)

11 @6/J.J. Sefton: "Sorry for the confusion"

No apologies necessary, J.J. One hour time-machine slippages are pretty common around here.

I think the time machine is in the form of a snow-globe, and Ace likes to give it a shake every time he walks by the "Shelving version 3.0" project.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 29, 2025 06:49 AM (O7YUW)

12
Up early J.J.!

Beautiful sunrise, hoping the temperature stays moderate today for the 4H county fair.

Posted by: Auspex at July 29, 2025 06:50 AM (Y8DZL)

13 Yonder Horde

Up and at 'em...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025 06:50 AM (Q4IgG)

14
Tamura blamed football for his apparent struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), law enforcement sources said.

If so, there should be a diagnosis, correct? Not saying it's not the case, but there's a non-zero chance that he's also a barely-reformed thug with a violence problem, just like congenital assholes excuse it by saying they're "neurodivergent".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 06:51 AM (HZi96)

15 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 29, 2025 06:55 AM (hoCmQ)

16 Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Posted by: From that book at July 29, 2025 06:55 AM (qrY5u)

17 It’s morning and just like the Sun JJ appears. Morning, JJ.

Posted by: Eromero at July 29, 2025 06:56 AM (jgmnb)

18
Oh, and (*brushes crumbs off clothes*) good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 06:56 AM (HZi96)

19 Also willowed: For those of you who have passed into blessed retirement, did you find your personal stress level increasing as the date to inform your employer got closer?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025

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My stress increased some late last year and then early this year, but not because of informing my employer. I was ready to go -- but I put it off, first to see if Trump would win, and then to see if he actually got inaugurated. Once he did, I was all set.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2025 06:57 AM (omVj0)

20 Somebody is up early.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 29, 2025 06:57 AM (e5NfL)

21 The Penguin Brotherhood welcomes Sydney Sweeney to our quest.

Posted by: The Penguin Brotherhood at July 29, 2025 06:58 AM (vFG9F)

22 The Maria Bartiromo discussion with Peter Schweitzer and Mollie Hemingway is pure music to mu ears, describing the ongoing conspiracy to sabotage Trump administrative work within the government.

Thanks for that link JJ.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 29, 2025 07:00 AM (AUzxU)

23

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 29, 2025 07:00 AM (5hfjS)

24
Also willowed: For those of you who have passed into blessed retirement, did you find your personal stress level increasing as the date to inform your employer got closer?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025

Also willowed:
I did not inform my employer, I was informed by my employer, suddenly and brutally. The same brutality that marked my brief tenure there. I would go into work physically sick with fear with what was going to happen to me.

That was just as the COVID frenzy was starting up. By the time anyone started coming to their senses, it was too late and I was too old. I didn't retire, I was retired.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 07:00 AM (HZi96)

25 Oh no - not Ryne Sandberg!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 07:04 AM (SfhV1)

26
Oh no - not Ryne Sandberg!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 07:04 AM (SfhV1)

Should have spent his career with the Phillies. I revere Paul Owens, but that was a stinker of a trade.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 07:10 AM (HZi96)

27 > Also willowed: For those of you who have passed into blessed retirement, did you find your personal stress level increasing as the date to inform your employer got closer?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025

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No stress. Relief. I'd been doing my job for 34 years and was ready to retire. It was 2020 so the covid nonsense was in full swing and I was tired of that shit.

My wife and I bagged it on the same day, from the same place.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025 07:11 AM (Q4IgG)

28 Should have spent his career with the Phillies.

Nah, Cubbie through and through. I hope Ernie Banks is waiting for him on the other side.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 07:12 AM (SfhV1)

29 Good morning, one and all! It's a beautiful day here in the GPROMD because I have today off on account of my birthday. Now thinking about investing in a cane I can shake at youngsters.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 07:17 AM (7xrfc)

30 Why isn’t there more media interest in Virginia Giuffre’s alleged “suicide”?
Have any of the other former underaged prostitutes been interviewed by the Justice Department?
I suspect that the former underaged prostitutes may be in fear of “Arkancide” if they give testimony that offends the “Swamp”.

Posted by: Fenderbender at July 29, 2025 07:19 AM (1FEc1)

31 Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 07:17 AM (7xrfc)

Happy Birthday and many more!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 07:19 AM (SfhV1)

32
I wanted to work until I was 70, but the jihad my company had against older workers and the one the MBA consultants had against R&D didn't care.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 07:20 AM (HZi96)

33 Lindsey Graham: ~~The Deep State RINO saboteur of the America first agenda~~ whiney lil bitch

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA)

34 29 Shaking the cane at yutes is satisfying. Also, shaking it at passing clouds that offend you is fun. Happy birthday.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2025 07:21 AM (gm9Sb)

35 G'mornin' everyone!

Thanks, JJ!

66 degrees, 1/10" rain, overcast, patchy fog

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 29, 2025 07:22 AM (dKEEs)

36 Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 07:17

Happy Birthday! I hope you have a blessed day and know that you are a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2025 07:23 AM (2GCMq)

37 Why isn’t there more media interest in Virginia Giuffre’s alleged “suicide”?
Have any of the other former underaged prostitutes been interviewed by the Justice Department?
I suspect that the former underaged prostitutes may be in fear of “Arkancide” if they give testimony that offends the “Swamp”.
Posted by: Fenderbender

Video it and release it via VPN on a half dozen different platforms.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2025 07:24 AM (JBVNW)

38 Lee won the special election on June 3 prompted by the impeachment and ouster of conservative predecessor Yoon Suk-yeol, whose political demise followed an unsuccessful attempt to establish military rule in the country in December.

If memory serves, Yoon attempted to establish martial law with and aim toward disbanding the current legislature and holding new elections due to what he referred to as infiltrations by NK into the government.

I would argue that the actions of the current President lend credence to his accusations.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 07:24 AM (ExV1e)

39 The poll surveyed 1,500 registered voters between July 16 and 20.

A whopping 63% held an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, with only 33% having a favorable view.

The cheating in elections must be 2X to 3X what I think it is.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

40 get a cane with a sword inside, just in case.

and not just a pokey - foil kind of sword; something with an edge

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 29, 2025 07:24 AM (dKEEs)

41 happy bday nrp

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:25 AM (gbOdA)

42 Humid, foggy, slight chill in the air. Warming soon! Welcome to the Atlantic coast.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 29, 2025 07:25 AM (ci7A3)

43 > get a cane with a sword inside, just in case.
--------
I so want one...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025 07:26 AM (Q4IgG)

44 The plight of Gazan civilians lacking enough food has made headlines

From the Babylon Bee: "Gaza Said To Be Starving But Not 'Release The Hostages' Starving"

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 07:27 AM (7xrfc)

45
Look at the inventors on a Korean patent and it's like Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee and Lee.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 07:27 AM (HZi96)

46 I first began thinking seriously about retirement when, in '21, my employer went full out on the Clot Shot Mania and informed us that either we got an exemption, medical or religious, or, basically, be fired. When I discovered the annuity I'd been contributing to for decades would come to me whether I left voluntarily or not -- I'd assumed if I got fired, I'd lose it -- I began to plan.

If they'd declined my exemption request, I was ready to let them fire me, take my SS, unemployment, and annuity, try to sue them for wrongful termination, and ride over the horizon. They accepted it. So I stayed until early '25 despite the face diaper silliness, increased my contributions to the annuity, and waited until Trump was inaugurated.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2025 07:27 AM (omVj0)

47 You have been raised up from Brutality, to kill the Brutals who multiply, and are legion. To this end, Soros your God gave you the gift of the Gun. The Gun is good!

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani at July 29, 2025 07:27 AM (3ui1p)

48 Good morning!

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at July 29, 2025 07:27 AM (42Mqt)

49 And the extra 3.5 years I worked increased my SS by quite a bit. So it's all settled out for the best.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2025 07:31 AM (omVj0)

50
If they'd declined my exemption request, I was ready to let them fire me, take my SS, unemployment, and annuity, try to sue them for wrongful termination

__________

I got six months of full pay when I left. Of course I had to sign papers saying I wouldn't sue.

It's not like everyone didn't know exactly what was going on. I could have told them to shove it, but what was I going to live on while the process ground on?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 07:31 AM (HZi96)

51 Follow up news on the knee injury I've been going through PT on:

I'm still in constant pain and the therapist told me to see an orthopedic doc. This is how that went:

1. First place I called that had come up on my insurance company's website: "Oh, we're not orthopedics. Just PT." Never mind the fact that several doctors are attached to that place.

2. Fine. Call the second one. When I finally get a person? "Oh, we're not orthopedics. Just PT." Point out that they came up on the website AND the phone number is wrong.

3. Fine. Call a third person. "We can see you tomorrow at 0830." Not happening. They have an open appointment with a PA on Thursday afternoon. If I want a doctor, I have to wait until September. I got one other place I can call today but if I don't have any luck, I'll keep the other appointment.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 07:32 AM (7xrfc)

52 Side note to our troll:

Hamas is deliberately withholding food from the Gazans. Fuck you. You and your kind are still angry at how the holocaust turned out.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 07:34 AM (7xrfc)

53 When Medicaid was enacted, it covered roughly 2 percent of the population and was projected to cost $1 billion, 1.0 percent of 1965 federal spending. Over the last sixty years, Washington has ignored Section 1801’s prohibition, gradually taking control and expanding all state programs. In 2024, Medicaid/CHIP provided insurance to 78.8 million Americans and cost $817.7 billion (12 percent of the federal budget.).

The real cost of Medicaid is around double that number as the State must kick in their share.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:35 AM (gbOdA)

54 "The cheating in elections must be 2X to 3X what I think it is.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA) "

I think that's a pretty safe bet.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 29, 2025 07:36 AM (dKEEs)

55 "Tax Avoidance Isn’t a Crime, It’s a Skill—And the Big Beautiful Bill Just Made It Easier"

What we really need is a simple tax code that isn't riddled with dodges and loop holes.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 07:36 AM (xiyqa)

56 I got six months of full pay when I left. Of course I had to sign papers saying I wouldn't sue.

It's not like everyone didn't know exactly what was going on. I could have told them to shove it, but what was I going to live on while the process ground on?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025

***
That was a good decision, Hadrian. I got my unused vacation time, a not insignificant chunk of change, but not close to six months' pay.

A few years ago my university employer was offering an early retirement/separation package to qualified employees like me, with that six months' pay. I wasn't ready financially to retire then. If only they'd offered that again in my last couple of years! I'd have pounced on that the way my cats do a salamander that gets into the house.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2025 07:37 AM (omVj0)

57 I hope that if I live to be over 75 , than unlike Aliassmithsmith I will be doing something more personally nurturing for myself and others than trolling people on websites .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2025 07:37 AM (2GCMq)

58 Trump made Starmer look weak, ridiculous, and full of shit. All of which he manifestly is. The contrast between the two is huge. Luxurious. I'm so envious of you, having leaders that actually love their country and do everything they can to strengthen it and promote individual freedom. Whereas we have a tinpot dictator-wannabe non-entity who is doing everything he can to dismantle the UK and oppress the people.

I'm embarrassed to have this communist scum represent our once great nation. How low we have sunk, etc.

And I'm very grateful that Trump and Vance keep applying pressure to the UK/EU regimes to stop the madness.

Speaking as a Brit, we would gladly welcome a US invasion of liberation. Regime change, you could call it.

Posted by: Limey at July 29, 2025 07:37 AM (05FO4)

59 55 "Tax Avoidance Isn’t a Crime, It’s a Skill—And the Big Beautiful Bill Just Made It Easier"

What we really need is a simple tax code that isn't riddled with dodges and loop holes.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 07:36 AM (xiyqa)

"The cheating in ~~elections~~ taxes must be 2X to 3X what I think it is.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

60 I first began thinking seriously about retirement when, in '21, my employer went full out on the Clot Shot Mania and informed us that either we got an exemption, medical or religious, or, basically, be fired.

Yeah. The wife and I hit the target for 'enough' right around the start of covid so we were both prepared to quit over the shot. Neither of us ended up being required to get it although I had to jump through hoops. She retired shortly thereafter for other unhappiness reasons while I continued to work as youngest went to expensive college.

Now I am, as of this morning, 64 calendar days away from notification date and, while I would never consider staying longer and I know that I have my finances set up to be fine, I find myself nervous about the whole thing. The uncertainty, I guess.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

61 59 Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

Serious question: Is taxing social security double taxation?

When you file income taxes, is the SS money withheld included in your gross income for the year filed? If so then taxing ones local security is indeed double taxation.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2025 07:41 AM (x0n13)

62 Thank you, JJ

Can I be the 1001st person to point out that it’s impossible to negotiate with someone who wants you dead. Negotiating with Hamas is a fools errand…. Trump’s blind spot might very well be that he thinks he can negotiate a deal with anyone.

He’s very good at it but even the WOPR eventually learned: the only way to win is to not play the game

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2025 07:41 AM (WdMlw)

63 I'm so envious of you, having leaders that actually love their country and do everything they can to strengthen it and promote individual freedom.

Sadly, we have few who fit this description. All of the Democrats and most of the Republicans would feel right at home in your Parliament.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

64 Let me explain the evolution of entitled feminine energy, and how it leads
a civilization to ruin:
1. It starts by demanding that men be gentler.
2.Then it demands mercy for enemies, no matter their crimes. 3. Then it imposes rules of engagement in war so restrictive, you must be
shot before you're allowed to return fire. 4.Then it welcomes those same enemies into your homeland, because it
pities their "struggle" under alleged imperialism. 5.Then it redistributes your resources to them, because "everyone
deserves basic needs."
6.Then it excuses the rise in crime as "misunderstandings." 7.Then it watches safe neighborhoods descend into chaos, and still
denies the cause.
8.Then it bows in fear as the structures of safety collapse. 9. And finally, it kneels at the edge of a ditch, with a gun at the back of its
head, held by the very people it once defended. This isn't compassion. It's suicidal empathy. And it guarantees
violence, not peace.

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2025 07:43 AM (nRImN)

65 RIP Ryne Sandberg
As Cardinal manager once named him after Sandberg took Bruce Sutter deep twice in extra innings: Baby Ruth

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at July 29, 2025 07:43 AM (gxokI)

66
Tax Avoidance Isn’t a Crime, It’s a Skill—And the Big Beautiful Bill Just Made It Easier

Not just a skill, a pleasure.

"The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted." - Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465 (1935)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 07:44 AM (HZi96)

67 As Cardinal manager once named him after Sandberg took Bruce Sutter deep twice in extra innings: Baby Ruth

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at July 29, 2025 07:43 AM (gxokI)

I just watched that clip.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 07:44 AM (SfhV1)

68 Serious question: Is taxing social security double taxation?

Yes. Particularly since I don't believe most people starting social security in the past 20 years or so will ever see all of their contribution returned, even without any interest.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

69 When you file income taxes, is the SS money withheld included in your gross income for the year filed? If so then taxing ones local security is indeed double taxation.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2025 07:41 AM (x0n13)

I have money that has been taxed 3 times. I save money post tax to but a house. Then sold house and did not buy a new house so that money was taxed. That money then went to stock market in the year of the CV 19 and I killed it on Oreilleys (no cars to buy so everyone fixed theirs) and MSFT. I sold that, paid taxes and bought the house I live in now.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

70 Posted by: Limey at July 29, 2025 07:37 AM (05FO4

Thanks for your support of our President My BIL is English and he and my sister have been living there for over 35 years. I love England and hope and pray they can have a resurgence to greatness.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2025 07:45 AM (2GCMq)

71 > Serious question: Is taxing social security double taxation?
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Yup.

In fact, we had to contact the SSA and have 12% of our social security taken out because we make too much money outside of SS and thus, owe the IRS.

It be truly fucked.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025 07:45 AM (Q4IgG)

72
Serious question: Is taxing social security double taxation?

Democrats would like to figure out how to get triple taxation if they could. After all, they think all money is really the government's.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 07:46 AM (HZi96)

73 I think the Big Beautiful Bill made some changes to taxation of SS earnings.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 07:46 AM (SfhV1)

74 Ryne Sandberg was my favorite Cub. Either the 84 or the 89 team should’ve won the WS. Hard to believe the “Sandberg” game was 41 years ago!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2025 07:47 AM (WdMlw)

75 Now that we are approaching our late 29s we are considering retiring, possibly abroad, to a place with lower cost of living and good internet. Currently looking at Uruguay and Estonia.

What draws me to Uruguay is the lack of population. 3 million people in the whole country. Nice.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 07:47 AM (xiyqa)

76 Ok. Not in the mood for "blame all women all the time" posts today. See some of you folks later perhaps .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2025 07:48 AM (2GCMq)

77 5.Then it redistributes your resources to them, because "everyone deserves basic needs."

Go find and read the meeting at John Galts company where everyone came with their struggles to pay bills and were thus rewarded with pay.

Biggest whiniest lil bitches got the most money.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

78
What draws me to Uruguay is the lack of population. 3 million people in the whole country. Nice.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 07:47 AM (xiyqa)

Too close for comfort to the Penguin Empire.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 07:48 AM (HZi96)

79 What draws me to Uruguay is the lack of population. 3 million people in the whole country. Nice.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 07:47 AM (xiyqa)

I hear Finland is nice this time of the year. The other times of the year not so much.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 07:49 AM (SfhV1)

80 I think the Big Beautiful Bill made some changes to taxation of SS earnings.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 07:46 AM (SfhV1)

I believe that it provides an additional deduction of $6K for anyone over the age of 65 (for 4 tax years) but doesn't actually change taxation of SS since, I believe, the law did not permit them to actually do anything about SS in the OBBBA.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

81 Now I am, as of this morning, 64 calendar days away from notification date and, while I would never consider staying longer and I know that I have my finances set up to be fine, I find myself nervous about the whole thing. The uncertainty, I guess.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025

***
Different nic, I did not have my finances all set (though I thought I did), so my first six weeks was a little uncertain. Everything worked out fine. If you have yours set, then all you need to worry about is how you will enjoy this new novel in the adventure series that is your life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2025 07:52 AM (omVj0)

82
I believe that it provides an additional deduction of $6K for anyone over the age of 65 (for 4 tax years)

Cue blaming Boomers for everything. Nice knowing everyone wants me to die for being:

- White
- Male
- Heterosexual
- Catholic
- American
- Over 65

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2025 07:53 AM (HZi96)

83 Almost for sure the lady with the squatters in her house voted for the city leadership that let squatters take over her house.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 07:53 AM (xiyqa)

84 I hear Finland is nice this time of the year. The other times of the year not so much.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 07:49 AM (SfhV1)

You dont have to dream about a White Christmas.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

85 I believe that it provides an additional deduction of $6K for anyone over the age of 65 (for 4 tax years) but doesn't actually change taxation of SS since, I believe, the law did not permit them to actually do anything about SS in the OBBBA.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

But phases out at around $75k.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:54 AM (gbOdA)

86 I hear Finland is nice this time of the year. The other times of the year not so much.

__________________

My back up language on Duolingo is Finnish

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 07:54 AM (xiyqa)

87 What draws me to Uruguay is the lack of population. 3 million people in the whole country. Nice.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025

***
Sounds wonderful. Do you speak enough Spanish to get by, or is English widely spoken there? And what kind of government do they have -- leftist tending to communist, or more right-wing?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2025 07:54 AM (omVj0)

88 83 Almost for sure the lady with the squatters in her house voted for the city leadership that let squatters take over her house.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 07:53 AM (xiyqa)

Fist they came for the landlords...

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

89 I hear Finland is nice this time of the year. The other times of the year not so much.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025

***
I'd love to see Finland. But learning Finnish would be hopeless for me, as it is not a language even slightly related to Germanic or English, or a Romance tongue either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2025 07:56 AM (omVj0)

90 75 Now that we are approaching our late 29s we are considering retiring, possibly abroad, to a place with lower cost of living and good internet. Currently looking at Uruguay and Estonia.

What draws me to Uruguay is the lack of population. 3 million people in the whole country. Nice.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 07:47 AM (xiyqa)

There's a cowboy in the jungle
And he looks so out of place
With his shrimpskin boots and his cheap cheroots
And his skin as white as paste

Headin' south to Uruguay
Where the Gauchos sing and shout
Now he's stuck in Porto Bello
Since his money all ran out

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)

91 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2025 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

92 What we really need is a simple tax code that isn't riddled with dodges and loop holes.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Democrats: "How much did you make last year? Send us that."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 07:57 AM (7xrfc)

93 Serious question: Is taxing social security double taxation?

Any money that is in motion is taxed. If money is at rest, then its taxed by inflation. Money, in motion or at rest always has a risk of loss.

Unless you are a criminal or a politician (BIRM) then taxation is only paid by fools.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 07:57 AM (a4flb)

94 Cue blaming Boomers for everything.

Not sure how I was blaming boomers (I am one, BTW).

The OBBBA adds an additional $6K personal deduction for everyone 65 or older but it ends after the 2028 tax year. It has, AFAIK, no other modifications to tax law even remotely related to social security.

Apparently, there is an existing law which states, conveniently, that changes to social security / medicare are required to be in a stand-alone bill so as to allow for the maximum grandstanding.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)

95 Every other Scandi country speaks a Germanic based language. But Finland was like "Fuck that and Fuck you, our language is Uralic based with 15 noun cases because fuck you that's why."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 07:57 AM (xiyqa)

96 >Ok. Not in the mood for "blame all women all the time" posts today. See some of you folks later perhaps .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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You can't leave! All the plants will die!

Posted by: Don Black at July 29, 2025 07:57 AM (AOsQT)

97 What draws me to Uruguay is the lack of population. 3 million people in the whole country. Nice.

Then you get your heart attack and no one is around or the treatment is too far away.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 07:58 AM (a4flb)

98 In fact, we had to contact the SSA and have 12% of our social security taken out because we make too much money outside of SS and thus, owe the IRS.

It be truly fucked.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025

***
If I could elect a certain $ amount, I would. But SS only lets you select certain set percentages to be withheld. For the moment I'm sending an estimated tax payment each quarter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2025 07:58 AM (omVj0)

99 But phases out at around $75k.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:54 AM (gbOdA)

I believe that's where the phaseout starts but I could be wrong.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

100 95 Every other Scandi country speaks a Germanic based language. But Finland was like "Fuck that and Fuck you, our language is Uralic based with 15 noun cases because fuck you that's why."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 07:57 AM (xiyqa)

Strange that Finnish and Hungarian are in the same language group.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2025 07:59 AM (x0n13)

101 Uruguay seems kind of random. How are the beaches?

Posted by: Don Black at July 29, 2025 08:00 AM (AOsQT)

102 Alas I cannot retire quite yet… but I’m looking forward to it. I had a very good friend who dreaded retirement as “going home and waiting to die” but after a few months he announced it was the best thing ever… he could do what he wanted, when he wanted. Complete freedom… he’s still living retirement more than 20 years later

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2025 08:02 AM (WdMlw)

103 99 But phases out at around $75k.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:54 AM (gbOdA)

I believe that's where the phaseout starts but I could be wrong.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

The SS $6K will be the next tax bill fight...I assume that one may not last, although it's gonna be the next president to decide (I mean, I thought Trump's tax cuts wouldn't last either, but then somehow he was in office miraculously when they would have expired...that's not possible for the next one)...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 29, 2025 08:02 AM (tOcjL)

104 But phases out at around $75k.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 07:54 AM (gbOdA)

I believe that's where the phaseout starts but I could be wrong.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

The deduction phases out at a 6% rate for single filers with modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) above $75,000 and joint filers above $150,000, fully phasing out at $175,000 (single) and $250,000 (joint). -- according to AI summary of sources

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

105 102 — Loving retirement (not living retirement). Sigh…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2025 08:03 AM (WdMlw)

106 Cue blaming Boomers for everything. Nice knowing everyone wants me to die for being:

- White
- Male
- Heterosexual
- Catholic
- American
- Over 65

Apparently that formula of attributes is the only way not to be helpless. To not be helpless means that you are the authority.

Leverage that fact to your own benefit.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 08:04 AM (a4flb)

107 I may just go to real tax accountant this year.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:04 AM (gbOdA)

108 It's National Lasagna Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 08:05 AM (NpAcC)

109 Uruguay seems kind of random. How are the beaches?

At least as good as Brazil's but with fewer stabbings.

When things started getting bad in 2020 we began seriously thinking of getting out. We looked at Japan and Korea, but the cultural barriers were daunting. Ireland has gotten crazy and expensive. Chile went socialist. Uruguay came up as a pretty stable place with low COL and good internet. Warmer than we would like, but we could adapt.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 08:05 AM (xiyqa)

110 I may just go to real tax accountant this year.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:04 AM (gbOdA)

One of the best things we ever did.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 08:05 AM (SfhV1)

111 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:06 AM (77rzZ)

112 The deduction phases out at a 6% rate for single filers with modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) above $75,000 and joint filers above $150,000, fully phasing out at $175,000 (single) and $250,000 (joint). -- according to AI summary of sources

So its literally a Tax The Rich† scheme.

† Rich = earn more money than the one whining about not being rich.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 08:06 AM (a4flb)

113 Alas I cannot retire quite yet… but I’m looking forward to it. I had a very good friend who dreaded retirement as “going home and waiting to die” but after a few months he announced it was the best thing ever… he could do what he wanted, when he wanted. Complete freedom… he’s still living retirement more than 20 years later
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2025 08:02 AM (WdMlw)

I've seen a number of videos on YT of the form "I spend much less in retirement than I expected and my biggest regret is not doing it sooner".

Of course, I also see a number of videos on YT of the form "You only need like $25 to retire so do it now" from people who claim to be financial advisors which seems a bit sus to me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

114 Uruguay has some outstanding beaches

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 29, 2025 08:08 AM (dKEEs)

115 Uruguay came up as a pretty stable place with low COL and good internet. Warmer than we would like, but we could adapt.

Uruguay doesn't have much energy generation beyond hydro, so there is exposure to Tragedy of the Commons if/when the country has a significant aggregate increase in energy demand.

Then everything gets expensive fast.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 08:09 AM (a4flb)

116 You paid: $169,453
Employer(s): $122,781

So at 67 I get 3500/mth so 42k/yr. I need to live 8 years to 75 to break even. And that means ZERO return.

I put around 450k into my IRA and it is worth around 1.3M.

Guess which one I can leave to my daughter.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:09 AM (gbOdA)

117 So its literally a Tax The Rich† scheme.

Sure. It was always going to be that way.

Barring performing a Roth conversion, how many people have income that high in retirement?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

118 Retired this past Spring. No real anxiety about informing management - gave one month's notice - but a lot of relief as the month wound down because I was escaping a project from Hell.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 29, 2025 08:09 AM (NcvvS)

119 A woman I work with owns a home in Ecuador. She loves it there, and many American retirees live in her area.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 29, 2025 08:09 AM (xgKC5)

120 One of the best things we ever did.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 08:05 AM (SfhV1)

now to find a good one

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

121 112 The deduction phases out at a 6% rate for single filers with modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) above $75,000 and joint filers above $150,000, fully phasing out at $175,000 (single) and $250,000 (joint). -- according to AI summary of sources

So its literally a Tax The Rich† scheme.

† Rich = earn more money than the one whining about not being rich.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 08:06 AM (a4flb)

Not exactly...the rich's taxes didn't go up 1 penny...the poor's just went down...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 29, 2025 08:10 AM (tOcjL)

122 I could never live in the Southern Hemisphere. The reversed seasons would mess with my mind.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:10 AM (77rzZ)

123 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 29, 2025 08:10 AM (53oGX)

124 If Trump can get a deal with Putin (which he will) and destroy Macron (which is in deep doubt) Europe might have a rebound culturally and economically. Probably need to shit can the EU completely, though.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 29, 2025 08:10 AM (W3T6M)

125 Of course, I also see a number of videos on YT of the form "You only need like $25 to retire so do it now" from people who claim to be financial advisors which seems a bit sus to me.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

I did a little arithmetic… by far my biggest financial barrier to retirement is kid’s college costs. College is ridiculously expensive. It’s insane

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2025 08:10 AM (WdMlw)

126 Nice thing about retiring to South America is the Nazis there make sure the streets are clean, the crime is low, and the transportation runs on time.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

127 122 I could never live in the Southern Hemisphere. The reversed seasons would mess with my mind.
Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:10 AM (77rzZ)

Southern Cross is pretty cool

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

128 Retired this past Spring. No real anxiety about informing management - gave one month's notice - but a lot of relief as the month wound down because I was escaping a project from Hell.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 29, 2025 08:09 AM (NcvvS)

Planning on giving 72 days notice.

Why 72 days? Cuz I have a specific date to inform them and 72 days later is the latest I can go before it bumps up against post-employment plans. If they choose to make the interval less, I shan't complain.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

129 Strange that Finnish and Hungarian are in the same language group.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2025 07:59 AM (x0n13)“

It’s a fascinating insight as to how much populations moved around in the past. I remember a study of the name “Alan”; the Alan’s were a central Asian tribe that spoke a form of Iranian. A nameplace study showed that many of them ended up creating.towns around Orleans and western France. As Rome fell, the population of Europe underwent a vast transformation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2025 08:12 AM (t+64Y)

130 We already had a two state solution. The two states are Israel and Jordan. The fact that the Hashemites tried to kill the Jordanian king and were thrown out is conveniently overlooked.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 29, 2025 08:13 AM (vEgi8)

131 126 Nice thing about retiring to South America is the Nazis there make sure the streets are clean, the crime is low, and the transportation runs on time.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

Of note though for retiring anywhere but the US...the US is the best in the world, by a mile, for cancer treatments. Especially for non-common cancers. No one tends to think it can happen to them until it does.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 29, 2025 08:13 AM (tOcjL)

132 Speaking of Hungarian, where’s Miklos been lately?

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:14 AM (77rzZ)

133 I am hoping to retire within two years. With luck, I can sell this house get a place outside of the GPROMD and do something that doesn't involve being a govie contractor.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 08:14 AM (7xrfc)

134 Of note though for retiring anywhere but the US...the US is the best in the world, by a mile, for cancer treatments. Especially for non-common cancers. No one tends to think it can happen to them until it does.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 29, 2025 08:13 AM (tOcjL)

The Nazis also have a plan for the sick and affirmed.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

135 I did a little arithmetic… by far my biggest financial barrier to retirement is kid’s college costs. College is ridiculously expensive. It’s insane
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2025 08:10 AM (WdMlw)

As my youngest is a couple weeks from entering their final semester, I am well aware of this phenomenon. Their college eats up about half my take-home pay.

Fortunately, they're getting an engineering degree and already have a post-school job offer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

136 Strange that Finnish and Hungarian are in the same language group.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2025 07:59 AM (x0n13)“

It’s a fascinating insight as to how much populations moved around in the past. I remember a study of the name “Alan”; the Alan’s were a central Asian tribe that spoke a form of Iranian. A nameplace study showed that many of them ended up creating.towns around Orleans and western France. As Rome fell, the population of Europe underwent a vast transformation.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2025 08:12 AM (t+64Y)

I’m slow… “Hun” is at the beginning of Hungarian. As in Attila the Hun. So are modern Hungarians descended from Attila?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2025 08:15 AM (nrfI8)

137 every single dot and smudge you see in this picture is a galaxy. NGC 1309 is about 100 million light years away, but behind it along its line of sight and at much greater distances are innumerable other galaxies, so many it is impossible to count them
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Always fascinating to look back in time, at a photo of these galaxies as they existed 100 million years ago

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 29, 2025 08:16 AM (FQnU8)

138 “ Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.”

Romans 5:3-5

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 08:16 AM (jlcJz)

139 Thanks for that Marcus T.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 08:17 AM (SfhV1)

140 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

What the media-as-such is a joke. They are too busy manufacturing the Party's lies to bother with the obvious truth.

Enjoy your new podcast Herr Kessler!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2025 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

141 Linus, no. The Magyars came later. Attila’s Huns were Turkic-speakers, with a large Germanic admixture.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:17 AM (77rzZ)

142 suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Very interesting that the number 1 promise of Marxism and Socialism is to eliminate suffering.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

143 The Galatians in Asia Minor were originally from Gaul.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2025 08:18 AM (ZmEVT)

144 It's also...
National Lipstick Day. 💋

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

145 141 — Thanks Bulg!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2025 08:19 AM (nrfI8)

146 21 The Penguin Brotherhood welcomes Sydney Sweeney to our quest.
Posted by: The Penguin Brotherhood

Amen, Brothers and Sister!!

Posted by: The Great Auk at July 29, 2025 08:19 AM (G5+As)

147 We paid for college for all of our children, 15 years worth (including two grad school stints for one daughter). Now I just look back and shake my head; what the hell was I thinking! It could have been paid for by Biden!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 29, 2025 08:19 AM (FQnU8)

148 Have a great day, everyone.

May you be all be blessed with Life!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2025 08:20 AM (u82oZ)

149 The linguistic consensus is that the Uralic languages originated in Siberia thousands of miles (or in European, billions of kilograms) away from Finland and Hungary.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 29, 2025 08:20 AM (xiyqa)

150 126 Nice thing about retiring to South America is the Nazis there make sure the streets are clean, the crime is low, and the transportation runs on time.
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NAZIs do nice things - like space travel and stuff.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 29, 2025 08:20 AM (W3T6M)

151 14
Tamura blamed football for his apparent struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), law enforcement sources said.

If so, there should be a diagnosis, correct? Not saying it's not the case, but there's a non-zero chance that he's also a barely-reformed thug with a violence problem, just like congenital assholes excuse it by saying they're "neurodivergent".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Lot of people have that problem yet do not go on random shooting of strangers.

He drove across country, wore a bullet proof vest, etc. which required multiple steps to carry out his vendetta. So, he would pass the M'Naughton test of knowing what he was doing and anticipating doing it.

So basic evil orientation. It is just as likely he is another stoner that damaged his brain via drugs.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 08:20 AM (ctrM5)

152 A side note on SSA benefits: I mentioned yesterday on another thread the elimination of two provisions that previously reduced Social Security benefits for public sector workers with pensions from non-Social Security-covered employment: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO).

What should you do if you think you are affected? Schedule a call or appointment with your local SSA office to see if your retirement benefits are affected. They will figure it out for you.

My wife spoke with a SSA agent yesterday and found she is eligible for a hefty monthly benefit and a sizable lump sum. It’s worth the hassle to check.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 29, 2025 08:20 AM (6WCwE)

153 148 Salty, L’chaim!

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:21 AM (77rzZ)

154 I could never live in the Southern Hemisphere. The reversed seasons would mess with my mind.
Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:10 AM (77rzZ)
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Their seasons are not reversed, ours are.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2025 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

155 I know a couple people who've retired outside the US. One went to Canada, because they were, at heart, a socialist but hated the medical system there when they needed it. Another went to Europe, maybe Denmark or Belgium. They are now somewhere in the NE, Maine I think. The fled because it was unsafe. So they say.

IMO you'll always be an "outsider" as an American living abroad. You can't hide the culture. Everyone knows. Some can deal with it, others can't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025 08:21 AM (Q4IgG)

156 Very interesting that the number 1 promise of Marxism and Socialism is to eliminate suffering.
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Well, being dead eliminated suffering; the rest of the proletariat had best start expressing joy lest the party decide that it would be best to eliminate more suffering among the population. Stalin and Mao had to eliminate an awful lot of suffering people to end suffering.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 08:23 AM (ctrM5)

157 I’m slow… “Hun” is at the beginning of Hungarian. As in Attila the Hun. So are modern Hungarians descended from Attila?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2025 08:15 AM (nrfI

Nope, not even related. The actual Huns died out long ago, but while they were rampaging the area they were became called Hungaria by Latin speaking people, and it stuck. Now for a handy wiki stub: “The Hungarian people call their country Magyarország, meaning "Land of the Magyars". The term "Magyar" refers to the dominant Hungarian tribe and is used by Hungarians to refer to themselves and their language.”

No one else uses it because we all think Magyaroszag is far too much for us to say. Other fun trivia - Hungarian and Finnish are the only non-Indo European languages in Europe.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2025 08:23 AM (t+64Y)

158 We stand ready to aid our President in protecting mental patients from a feral life in the gutter. Also protecting the sane from the bugnutz.

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at July 29, 2025 08:23 AM (G5+As)

159 re THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Tomorrow the 2nd Quarter GDP Report is scheduled to be released.

Will GDP be negative, fulfilling predictions by all the usual experts we are in a Trumpcession? Or will there be uncountable leftist screams and tears tomorrow?

Posted by: Gref at July 29, 2025 08:24 AM (aBgBM)

160 Cub nation in mourning today. Sandberg was an humble class act, who used his Hall of Fame speech to rip into the Steroid users

Posted by: Jonah at July 29, 2025 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

161 IMO you'll always be an "outsider" as an American living abroad.

I've heard that one of the problems with being an expat in South America is that everyone 'knows' that you're a rich American... even if you went there specifically because you're not. And they treat you accordingly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

162 148. You too Na !

Posted by: Jonah at July 29, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)

163 155 When I was stationed in Turkey, I could always tell an American from afar. It’s the way we carry ourselves. We naturally stand out. It’s the way we are.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:25 AM (77rzZ)

164 155 I know a couple people who've retired outside the US. One went to Canada, because they were, at heart, a socialist but hated the medical system there when they needed it. Another went to Europe, maybe Denmark or Belgium. They are now somewhere in the NE, Maine I think. The fled because it was unsafe. So they say.

IMO you'll always be an "outsider" as an American living abroad. You can't hide the culture. Everyone knows. Some can deal with it, others can't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Less true in urban areas because a lot of those city dwellers are from somewhere else just as an ex pat would be. That being said, in general, you are correct especially as you get further and further away from your own culture and society in a place.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 08:25 AM (ctrM5)

165 I thought that Basque also was non-Indo European.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2025 08:25 AM (ZmEVT)

166 >> Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 08:17 AM (SfhV1)

Amen GW.

May God bless those in need and hear their prayers.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 08:25 AM (jlcJz)

167 Cub nation in mourning today. Sandberg was an humble class act, who used his Hall of Fame speech to rip into the Steroid users

Posted by: Jonah at July 29, 2025 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

I remember listening to a game where Harry Carey was broadcasting. Ryno came up to bat and Harry called him The World's Most Perfect Man. Ha

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 08:26 AM (SfhV1)

168 John Thune better get Emil Bove confirmed to the 3rd circuit today. Dems are trying 11th hour BS

Posted by: Jonah at July 29, 2025 08:26 AM (YCxFk)

169 I could never live in the Southern Hemisphere. The reversed seasons would mess with my mind.

I spent time in Cape Town, ZA. Climate rivals Los Angeles or San Diego without the fires and earthquakes. The scenery, outside the hard-core poverty areas, is spectacular, particularly in wine country.

They speak English, and its a foodie's paradise. There are just two cultures: WASP, and sub-human sociopath thug. Its the latter that keeps one from walking the streets at night, leaving any valuables in the car, or first floor windows open.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

170 167. Right Grammie LOL. Harry was drunk.

Posted by: Jonah at July 29, 2025 08:28 AM (YCxFk)

171 Harry was drunk.

Posted by: Jonah at July 29, 2025 08:28 AM (YCxFk)

Bet on it. What a character.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 08:29 AM (SfhV1)

172 157 Incorrect on that last point, Tom. There are other Uralic languages in Europe (e.g.,Estonian), as well as Basque, Turkish, and other non-IE languages.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)

173 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
Man gets an over $41K bill for being in the hospital for less than 24 hours for high blood pressure.

This is ludicrous.

https://tinyurl.com/3f6b2zv4

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

174 Incorrect on that last point, Tom. There are other Uralic languages in Europe (e.g.,Estonian), as well as Basque, Turkish, and other non-IE languages.
Posted by: Bulg

This is going to be on the mid-term, isn't it?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 29, 2025 08:30 AM (6WCwE)

175 Normandy ,France especially near the War Beaches is beautiful. Still a very pro American area, but the taxes and red tape is brutal per friends

Posted by: Jonah at July 29, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

176 171. Yep Grammie.

Posted by: Jonah at July 29, 2025 08:31 AM (YCxFk)

177 A great place to retire for America's seasoned citizens who want comfort and ease is our great city of New York.
Welcome and remember to enjoy all the great amenities our wonderful city has to offer! Free apartments, free food, free subway rides and you can always cool off and poop in the free pool located within Central Park. Enjoy!

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani at July 29, 2025 08:32 AM (3ui1p)

178
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 29, 2025 08:33 AM (tljrc)

179 by far my biggest financial barrier to retirement is kid’s college costs. College is ridiculously expensive. It’s insane

Funny story from a co-worker. When his oldest was getting ready to graduate high school, he said "Dad, would you be angry if I went into the Air Force instead?"

Him: "Son, you're going to be 18. It's your decision to make and your mom and I will support you." Internally, he is saying "YES! One less college bill for me!"

Fast forward about two years. Youngest son: "Dad, would you be angry if I did the same thing he did?"

Him: "Son, you're going to be 18. It's your decision to make and your mom and I will support you." Internal reaction was equally joyous.

Last I heard, the oldest is still in the Air Force and the youngest is an elevator repair technician.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 08:34 AM (7xrfc)

180 you'll always be an "outsider" as an American living abroad. You can't hide the culture. Everyone knows."

Interesting phenomena - "outsiders" living in most of the US (outside of remote areas) are treated as, well, everyone else. Immigrants worldwide generally, tho, are last in line when (not if, when) SHTF. Plan accordingly.

Posted by: man at July 29, 2025 08:34 AM (tubbA)

181 I did a little arithmetic… by far my biggest financial barrier to retirement is kid’s college costs. College is ridiculously expensive. It’s insane
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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There are ways to lessen that impact but it often requires both kids and parents to reset expectations. Aside from a few really bad universities, you can get a decent college education anywhere. One caveat, usually the worst for students not quite sure what they want to do is the modern research university as an undergraduate. Same as attending a uni for social life rather than study--cheaper to work in resort areas to do that and then go to college.

The last is not all children fit the 18-22 year mold and it is foolish to consider peer pressure as to when to go to college. Best when prepared to get the most out of it.

No one size fits all. Self id as a former big uni prof who academically counseled a lot of distraught students filled with media and peer bullshit causing distress. The trick is ensuring the student views it as entering continuing learning--not a insty credential to get a job.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 08:34 AM (ctrM5)

182 I've looked at Uruguay for similar reasons and it's highly recommended you speak some Spanish if you relocate as most of the people there do not speak English, unlike many other places.

If you want to eat great steaks for dinner everyday, the place is paradise.

Posted by: pawn at July 29, 2025 08:34 AM (QB+5g)

183 Man gets an over $41K bill for being in the hospital for less than 24 hours for high blood pressure.
Posted by: redridinghood

That is truly nuts.

The kids just received the bill for grandbaby's stay in the NICU - Just over $500,000. BUT, he was in there for two months.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 29, 2025 08:35 AM (6WCwE)

184 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
Man gets an over $41K bill for being in the hospital for less than 24 hours for high blood pressure.

This is ludicrous.

https://tinyurl.com/3f6b2zv4
Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

It's pretty high but... Mountain View - aka SF Bay area.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

185 There are just two cultures: WASP, and sub-human sociopath thug. Its the latter that keeps one from walking the streets at night, leaving any valuables in the car, or first floor windows open.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)
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Jo'burg today. New York tomorrow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2025 08:36 AM (RIvkX)

186 did you find your personal stress level increasing as the date to inform your employer got closer?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025

I have anxiety, so any anticipated change increases my stress.
It would probably help to talk this through with a good sounding board.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 29, 2025 08:36 AM (gDlxJ)

187 This is ludicrous."

And the paperwork says it's not a bill, so...

Posted by: man at July 29, 2025 08:36 AM (tubbA)

188 IMO you'll always be an "outsider" as an American living abroad. You can't hide the culture. Everyone knows. Some can deal with it, others can't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I once had to spend about a month in Toronto for work. At first it was fine but then I started getting treated like a novelty.

I figure the honeymoon period before the culture difference becomes acute is about a week.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 08:36 AM (fFFrU)

189 When I think of drunk sportscasters, for some reason I think of Curt Gowdy.

Posted by: dantesed at July 29, 2025 08:37 AM (Oy/m2)

190 Son: "Dad, would you be angry if I went into the Air Force instead?"

Me: Have you considered serving in the military?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

191 Trump is appointing "incompetent people" to serve in the government.

These are actual words said by Pete Buttigieg.

he would know

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

192 The trick is ensuring the student views it as entering continuing learning--not a insty credential to get a job.

*Griggs vs Duke Power has entered the chat*

Posted by: man at July 29, 2025 08:37 AM (tubbA)

193 Him: "Son, you're going to be 18. It's your decision to make and your mom and I will support you." Internal reaction was equally joyous.

Last I heard, the oldest is still in the Air Force and the youngest is an elevator repair technician.
Posted by: NR Pax
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Military service works for a lot of folks--curiously I find it often works better for males than females in my experience. Taught a fair number of vets as my university was purposefully seeking them as students. Almost all were self directed and knew what to do to succeed probably due to maturity. Same was generally true for older adult students returning to college to finish their degrees--they knew what they wanted and so little drama and bullshit from them.

Plus, USAF has the successful Air Force Community College which allows getting an associate's degree by including what the airman has to do to train in their specialty. Former airman here btw.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 08:38 AM (ctrM5)

194 Will GDP be negative, fulfilling predictions by all the usual experts we are in a Trumpcession? Or will there be uncountable leftist screams and tears tomorrow?

Who cares? All government numbers are doctored and politicized. There is no metric that the government calculates that is rational or isn't manipulated.

I'm 100% convinced that the various economic numbers are dictated to the bureaucrat by the money changers prior to the official release (not the other way around) that way the "smart money" already places their bets so when the numbers are "officially" released, the typical enemedia narrative is deployed manipulating markets with lies and deception so that the "smart money" fleeces the retail investor.

Then, like a depleted mine or oil well, the "real" manipulated "corrections" come out just after the money changers have placed a new round of bets, so that the enemedia can manipulate, lie and deceive the retail investor once again and the moneychangers have effectively double-dipped the Government Numbers scam.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 08:39 AM (a4flb)

195 Son: "Dad, would you be angry if I went into the Air Force instead?"

Me: Have you considered serving in the military?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

There's no better place to learn how to be a weatherman.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 08:39 AM (fFFrU)

196 From the East River to the General Assembly, the parking shall be free!

Could we get a decent salsa manufacturer in there somewhere?

Asking for Texans who are tired of carrying the burden for ungrateful Yankees.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 29, 2025 08:39 AM (0sNs1)

197 It would probably help to talk this through with a good sounding board.

Well, I have a wife, one friend, and you people. Congrats on being my sounding board.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:39 AM (ExV1e)

198 I figure the honeymoon period before the culture difference becomes acute is about a week."

Holiday goggles. It's how one gets "oh, I wanna go to kolledge there" and such. Or "yuurup is soooo smaht"

Real life can be quite different.

Posted by: man at July 29, 2025 08:40 AM (tubbA)

199 Last I heard ... the youngest is an elevator repair technician.

Hey, the job has its ups and downs.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 08:41 AM (a4flb)

200 ICE confirms to @FoxNews they’ve arrested a Jamaican illegal alien who is employed as a police officer in Maine after he illegally attempted to buy a gun, which triggered an alert to ATF.

ICE says Jon Luke Evans, who is in the U.S. illegally as a visa overstay

This gets a WTFO??

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

201 IMO you'll always be an "outsider" as an American living abroad. You can't hide the culture. Everyone knows. Some can deal with it, others can't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

This is true

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 29, 2025 08:41 AM (gDlxJ)

202 The kids just received the bill for grandbaby's stay in the NICU - Just over $500,000. BUT, he was in there for two months.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 29, 2025 08:35 AM (6WCwE)
******
That's terrible.

I know someone that is a single mom, has a green card. Kids were born in the U.S. and on Medicaid. One child was premature and in the NICU for 2 months. Bill was 0 dollars.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

203 *Griggs vs Duke Power has entered the chat*
Posted by: man

Problem with Griggs is that it actually does not read as strictly as how people applied it. Even disparate impact can be successfully defended in court as Griggs dealt with a case of a high school diploma being required to be a lineman. If Duke Power had focused on the needs for literacy, basic math and science to understand high voltage, etc. they could have successfully defended a test.

Instead they were lazy just like the other places that slapped a college degree requirement for jobs not requiring that.

Designing job specific tests is expensive and time consuming--easy to just go with enshittification of society by adopting society's watered down degrees. That led to credential escalation.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 08:42 AM (ctrM5)

204 the youngest is an elevator repair technician.

If you become an elevator operator you can have a song written about you.

https://youtu.be/BiP0FpY88E4

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

205 - Always fascinating to look back in time,...

Except we're not looking back in time. A "light year" is a measure of distance, not time.
You know those "expert" economists that we're getting talked about yesterday?
Well how many times do those "expert" astrophysicists have to be wrong before you stop taking their "science" as real?

"They" said the JWST would be looking so far "back in time" that we'd see galaxies in their earliest stages of formation.
Oops.
Their "Standard Model" (big bang) says that galaxies will appear to be getting smaller out to red shift 1.6 and then start appearing larger the further out they are.
Again, oops.
But they ball their hands into fists and stomp their feet and yell no, no, no! We will not accept anything but a naturalistic explanation for the existence of the universe!

Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2025 08:43 AM (jocM1)

206 Then, like a depleted mine or oil well, the "real" manipulated "corrections" come out just after the money changers have placed a new round of bets, so that the enemedia can manipulate, lie and deceive the retail investor once again and the moneychangers have effectively double-dipped the Government Numbers scam.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 08:39 AM (a4flb)

There are ZERO reasons for a Govt to send out a monthly report on jobs or unemployment.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

207 Musk spent $43 billion defending free speech as he understands it.

Elias need $2.25 million in a week or it cease defending free speech as they understand it.

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2025 08:43 AM (RHGPo)

208 If Ella Fitzgerald married Darth Vader she'd be Ella Vader.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 08:43 AM (ld07g)

209 I know someone that is a single mom, has a green card. Kids were born in the U.S. and on Medicaid. One child was premature and in the NICU for 2 months. Bill was 0 dollars.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

Well, her bill was $0. Our bill was higher.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

210 Mayor Adams said killer was targeting the NFL.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

211 Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2025 08:43 AM (jocM1)

A part of me thinks that somewhere along the line astrophysics turned into a religion.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 08:45 AM (ld07g)

212 I could never live in the Southern Hemisphere. The reversed seasons would mess with my mind.
Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:10 AM

Wait until you see the toilet swirl in the opposite direction when you flush.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 29, 2025 08:45 AM (0sNs1)

213 > ICE confirms to @FoxNews they’ve arrested a Jamaican illegal alien who is employed as a police officer in Maine after he illegally attempted to buy a gun, which triggered an alert to ATF.
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"Employed as a police officer."

I'm betting there's quite a few illegals serving as cops, bank tellers, DMV clerks, politicians and a raft of other positions with access to info that normals don't get.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025 08:45 AM (Q4IgG)

214 Then, like a depleted mine or oil well, the "real" manipulated "corrections" come out just after the money changers have placed a new round of bets, so that the enemedia can manipulate, lie and deceive the retail investor once again and the moneychangers have effectively double-dipped the Government Numbers scam.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Observational equivalence--those economists putting numbers out are almost all lefties--so the question is where incompetence ends and corruption begins.

Too bad the oligarchs and bureaucrats don't get the Duke Brothers and the Clarence Beeks solutions applied to them.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 08:45 AM (ctrM5)

215 208 That was an uplifting comment, WD.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:45 AM (77rzZ)

216 "ICE confirms to @FoxNews they’ve arrested a Jamaican illegal alien who is employed as a police officer in Maine after he illegally attempted to buy a gun, which triggered an alert to ATF."

Well at least two databases the government has set up talk to each other.

Dude had it made and blew it.

Posted by: pawn at July 29, 2025 08:46 AM (QB+5g)

217 Crooked Attorney General Letitia James just announced another lawsuit against the Trump administration.

She is trying to keep ILLEGAL ALIENS on SNAP benefits!

Illegals get ZERO public benefits up until they are taken away and then ta fucking da Progs states demand they keep getting the benefits they never got.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

218 socialists...always willing to give away someone else's stuff...

Posted by: runner at July 29, 2025 08:46 AM (9pFgx)

219 Wait until you see the toilet swirl in the opposite direction when you flush.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Being upside down for that long is bound to cause too much blood to the head and not enough to the feet.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 08:47 AM (ctrM5)

220 >>Wait until you see the toilet swirl in the opposite direction when you flush.

What happens when you flush a toilet that is sitting precisely on the equator?

Posted by: one hour sober at July 29, 2025 08:47 AM (Y1sOo)

221 Except we're not looking back in time. A "light year" is a measure of distance, not time.

Well, if you assume that the object is one LY distant then what you see today is what it looked like a year ago - assuming that time is constant across the universe - so you are, in effect, looking back in time. This holds true whether the universe is expanding or not. All that is required is an accurate understanding of the speed of light and distance of the object.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:47 AM (ExV1e)

222 Except we're not looking back in time. A "light year" is a measure of distance, not time.
Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2025 08:43 AM

Don't start messing with the Kessel Run!

Posted by: Han Solo at July 29, 2025 08:47 AM (0sNs1)

223 Wait until you see the toilet swirl in the opposite direction when you flush.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 29, 2025 08:45 AM (0sNs1)

The Coriolis wars begun the have.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

224 Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025 08:21 AM (Q4IgG)

I am living abroad for the time being, and while it is wonderful in most respects, being a permanent resident of France is very different than being a long-term visitor.

There is something wonderful about America, and when I am back for good I will be writing about it.

We are free in ways that many of us don't appreciate.

Our culture is simply more efficient at many things.

And for fuck's sake...we have AC pretty much everywhere!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 08:48 AM (6FSdT)

225 I am feeling pretty good about putting college money away for my kids each year since they were born.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 29, 2025 08:48 AM (vEgi8)

226 Well, I have a wife, one friend, and you people. Congrats on being my sounding board.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

No, not your wife at first - I should have said a disinterested sounding board. Someone who can listen with sympathy but objectively because they have no stake in the situation.

After you have thought through things then you can talk to your wife; after that you probably have more points to think on and you might want to return to your sounding board.

Or if it helps you could journal

That is my opinion any.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 29, 2025 08:48 AM (gDlxJ)

227 184 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
Man gets an over $41K bill for being in the hospital for less than 24 hours for high blood pressure.

This is ludicrous.

https://tinyurl.com/3f6b2zv4
Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

Probably on Medicare.... I just had what they call a wellness checkup... Nurse did everything.. Doctor comes in for 10 minutes says do I have any questions or concerns... The bill ? 675 dollars... My "share" was 115....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 08:48 AM (VE6XX)

228 I have a prime underpass to protect me from the elements, a primo spot to panhandle at a red light, and access to a wide variety of mind-altering substances. Trump will never lock me up!!

Posted by: Fugitive From Board of Mental Health at July 29, 2025 08:49 AM (G5+As)

229 218 socialists...always willing to give away someone else's stuff...
Posted by: runner at July 29, 2025 08:46 AM (9pFgx)

O P M

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

230
Square profile picture
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
For months Democrats insisted illegals weren’t receiving SNAP benefits…

But now suddenly Democrats are suing to keep data on SNAP recipients’ immigration status private…

They keep telling on themselves

https://tinyurl.com/52pb2ybx

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

231 Wait until you see the toilet swirl in the opposite direction when you flush.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Toilets have water jets so they aren't affected, but draining sinks do indeed swirl the opposite direction.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 29, 2025 08:50 AM (vEgi8)

232 And for fuck's sake...we have AC pretty much everywhere!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 08:48 AM (6FSdT)

And Ice is plural in the US.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:50 AM (gbOdA)

233
My understanding is that hospitals totally bill insurance companies and Medicare to pay for the free treatment they give to the, um, improperly present.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 08:51 AM (ld07g)

234 Taught a fair number of vets as my university was purposefully seeking them as students.

Which college was this?

Former airman here btw.
Posted by: whig

Former Marine who wishes that he'd gone in right out of high school. But such is life. :-)

Me: Have you considered serving in the military?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

My co-worker is former Navy. He'd probably get a laugh out of that.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 08:51 AM (7xrfc)

235 At the equator, toilets don't flush. You have to use an outhouse.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 08:52 AM (ld07g)

236 Square profile picture
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
For months Democrats insisted illegals weren’t receiving SNAP benefits…

But now suddenly Democrats are suing to keep data on SNAP recipients’ immigration status private…

They keep telling on themselves

https://tinyurl.com/52pb2ybx
Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

All of this could be solved with this one simple trick. Stop taxing people at the federal level and giving money to the states. If the good people of NY want to shell out their tax dollars on people here illegally, so be it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

237 We are free in ways that many of us don't appreciate.

Our culture is simply more efficient at many things.

==

Yes! that is how I feel when overseas! And after a number of days...I really, really want a nice grilled hamburger.

Posted by: runner at July 29, 2025 08:52 AM (9pFgx)

238 And for fuck's sake...we have AC pretty much everywhere!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Late July and August, you are supposed to be at the beach on vacay along with the rest of France.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 08:52 AM (ctrM5)

239 My co-worker is former Navy. He'd probably get a laugh out of that.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 08:51 AM (7xrfc)

I'm former Navy. It's why I said it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

240 I don't think they know what it is like to be truly free.

Posted by: runner at July 29, 2025 08:53 AM (9pFgx)

241 I think most "toilets" in the Southern Hemisphere are pit toilets. No water or swirling involved.

Posted by: Diddly Squat at July 29, 2025 08:53 AM (G5+As)

242 You know how, with increasing regularity, there are the stories of how AI excels over human doctors in diagnosis?

I also see lots of stories of how every corporation is going crazy with dreams of AI efficiency and productivity gains.

I just realized, you know where this is going?

Millions of SSDI claims being re-opened to AI review.

And a whole bunch of doctors are going to be found to have always granted disability claims.
And a whole bunch of people are going to get their generational claims cut.

The 1st attempt at a Butlerian Jihad will be over cuts to welfare benefits. No one will care.
The 2nd will be over loss of jobs.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 29, 2025 08:53 AM (lDIPK)

243 I hear the Russian McDonald's is nice. You buy a hamburger and it comes wrapped in free toilet paper.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 08:54 AM (ld07g)

244 I don't think they know what it is like to be truly free.
Posted by: runner at July 29, 2025 08:53 AM (9pFgx)

I'd guess that the majority of Americans don't either.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:54 AM (ExV1e)

245 ‘Killed it on the spot’: Toddler bites cobra to death

https://tinyurl.com/55ryrn94

Posted by: toby928 at July 29, 2025 08:54 AM (jc0TO)

246 Glenn is still trying to complete the Kessler Run now that that he has flounced from Washington Post.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 08:55 AM (ANS4O)

247 I hear the Russian McDonald's is nice. You buy a hamburger and it comes wrapped in free toilet paper.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

In Soviet Russia hamburgers wipe you!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 29, 2025 08:55 AM (6WCwE)

248 Former Marine who wishes that he'd gone in right out of high school. But such is life. :-)

Me: Have you considered serving in the military?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

My co-worker is former Navy. He'd probably get a laugh out of that.
Posted by: NR Pax
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IN my case, father was an army officer, grandfathers served in the Navy and Army Air Force, all my uncles except one served from in various services. So not a big scary decision--I only knew I did not want to go Big Green after observing it closely. I actually went in with a college degree and so in basic, was viewed suspiciously by the TI. Did it to pay for grad school.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 08:55 AM (ctrM5)

249 I am really pissed of at the people that voted for Bush in the 2nd term and then abandoned him when he tried to fix SS.
Pussy baby boomers always vote for themselves and never think about a long term plan.
If Bush privatization of SS would have start in 2006 then today most 40 somethings would have 20 years of money that was THEIR money.
I would take my money I paid in and walk from SS right now.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

250 Well, I have a wife, one friend, and you people. Congrats on being my sounding board.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 08:39 AM (ExV1e)

Dude. Look in the mirror.

That shirt doesn't go with those pants!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 08:55 AM (6FSdT)

251 Observational equivalence--those economists putting numbers out are almost all lefties--so the question is where incompetence ends and corruption begins.

It is not a crime to put out fictious numbers, only to have those numbers, however generated, given to a preview audience before general release.

So giving the bureaucrats numbers is a crime-free activity with the same results. The difference being is that the bogus First Edition numbers can be doctored to create a nice thoughtfull bespoke portfolio plan as opposed to a a mad scramble a day or two before the official release.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 08:55 AM (a4flb)

252 Hmmm. Pick an MOS in AFSOC, PJ, TACP, CRO whatever. See if you can be one of the few who actually make selection and make it through all the training. Fun stuff like water confidence training, taking yourself to the edge in the beautiful Texas weather. SERE, jump school, etc. Then see if you actually have what it takes to get on a team. Bet you won’t be dumping on AF after that.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 08:56 AM (jlcJz)

253 Wait.. So the NY shooter/killer was mad at the NFL ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 08:57 AM (VE6XX)

254 I saw Toddler Bites Cobra To Death open up for Ozzy back in '82 at The Meadowlands.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2025 08:57 AM (RLuzd)

255 Wait.. So the NY shooter/killer was mad at the NFL ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 08:57 AM (VE6XX)

He didnt think it was fair that they should have all the guns.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2025 08:57 AM (RLuzd)

256 IMO you'll always be an "outsider" as an American living abroad. You can't hide the culture. Everyone knows. Some can deal with it, others can't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025 08:21 AM (Q4IgG)

I don't think that's exactly true.

What you won't have and shouldn't expect is the kind of deep relationships based around growing up in that country, childhood friends, college chums, shared "adventures as you matured. That sort of thing.

Your old gang of Biff and Froggy and Sam and Lilly and Tommy Jo isn't going to be magically replaced by Reginald and Guppie and Biggles and Topper. They have their own pass which you simply cannot be part of.

At the best can be a work friend or next door neighbor, but you'll never be part of their close group, even if you try to be. Not really culture though.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2025 08:58 AM (iJfKG)

257 If Ella Fitzgerald married Darth Vader she'd be Ella Vader.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 08:43 AM (ld07g)
'---------
With their two lovely children, Taxi and Drafty.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 29, 2025 08:58 AM (WvZaB)

258 I would take my money I paid in and walk from SS right now.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

Depending on the definition, I am a boomer or younger, and I have been acutely aware of how awful SS is for as long as I could think.

It's not boomers...it's innumerate knuckleheads.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 08:58 AM (6FSdT)

259 If Bush privatization of SS would have start in 2006 then today most 40 somethings would have 20 years of money that was THEIR money.
I would take my money I paid in and walk from SS right now.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

It's your money and I want it now!

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer Greedhead at July 29, 2025 08:58 AM (3ui1p)

260 Whig, you go enlisted with a college degree and you get dumped on by all the non-college degree guys.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:58 AM (77rzZ)

261 Sure it's looking back in time. When you look at Sirius, the brightest star in our sky, you are seeing it as it was 8.6 years ago. If you spot the Andromeda Galaxy, you see it as it was 2.5 million years ago, because that's how long it takes light from that galaxy to reach our eyeballs.

Okay, everybody- form a line to disagree!

Posted by: Don Black at July 29, 2025 08:59 AM (AOsQT)

262 Wait.. So the NY shooter/killer was mad at the NFL ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 08:57 AM (VE6XX)

Yeah, he drove all the way from Las Vegas. Weird.

Posted by: dantesed at July 29, 2025 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)

263 pass = past

*sigh*

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2025 08:59 AM (iJfKG)

264 If you become an elevator operator you can have a song written about you.

https://youtu.be/BiP0FpY88E4
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

That was a good laugh. I first heard them when they did a video with Baby Metal:

https://youtu.be/EDnIEWyVIlE

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 08:59 AM (7xrfc)

265 Who will check the facts after Trump has fired all the fact-checkers?

Posted by: Need a Scorecard at July 29, 2025 08:59 AM (G5+As)

266 262 Wait.. So the NY shooter/killer was mad at the NFL ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 08:57 AM (VE6XX)

Yeah, he drove all the way from Las Vegas. Weird.
Posted by: dantesed at July 29, 2025 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)

I don't buy it...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 09:00 AM (VE6XX)

267 You know how, with increasing regularity, there are the stories of how AI excels over human doctors in diagnosis?

Back in the day, before advertising agencies got involved, medical 'AI' was referred to as an "expert system". Narrowly focused, the input was, theoretically, rigorously reviewed prior to input.

I've told this story before so sorry if you're hearing it again. People were developing an expert system to run diagnosis on x-rays. They discovered that the system could, with 95%+ accuracy, determine the race of the person whose x-ray was being examined. Radiologists were consulted and they declared that was impossible so the systems programming was wiped for being racist. At no point in time did anyone wonder how/why it got the correct answer so often.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

268 252 Hmmm. Pick an MOS in AFSOC, PJ, TACP, CRO whatever. See if you can be one of the few who actually make selection and make it through all the training. Fun stuff like water confidence training, taking yourself to the edge in the beautiful Texas weather. SERE, jump school, etc. Then see if you actually have what it takes to get on a team. Bet you won’t be dumping on AF after that.
Posted by: Marcus T

A basic persistent problem for the Army is its often dreadful treatment of its enlisted in housing, food, and the casual disregard for aptitude and specialization. I saw that first hand at a joint training base (Ft. Lost in the Woods).

AF and Navy, being technical services don't do that. Marines (under the voluntary enlistment years) is a whole different kettle of fish to the point that comparisons of Marines with the other forces is difficult.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:00 AM (ctrM5)

269 Well, to be fair, SS was primarily a thing of the Greatest Generation. The crippled fuck lied to them straight up and sold them a bill of goods, and they believed him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 29, 2025 09:00 AM (bss/y)

270 In Air Force to be a PJ or TACP, it is an AFSC.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:01 AM (ANS4O)

271 HuffPo: Sen. Mark Kelly Won't Rule Out A 2028 Presidential Run. He's too mainstream for my taste — give me a Bernie or an AOC — but I suppose we could do worse. He does seem to have moved a teeny bit farther to the left since I and many others began calling his office in the past few months.

62% of Gen Z have a "favorable view" of Socialism, and that was on Fox! As we used to say back in the '60s, "The times they are a-changin'."

He'll try to reset the calendar back to January 19, 2025. Too much of "that's not how things are done" and "let's all come together now". That's not where the base is at. Treat the defeated like the defeated, citizen lead tribunals, leverage Gitmo, undo the Compromise of 1877...We aren't going back to that.

He is well-positioned. His moderate credentials might be right for the current electorate. My guess he that he would pivot a bit after the election.

He could be instrumental in eventually fixing the 2A from the Senate. He and Hogg are people who can help those who cling to their guns see the reasons for limiting those destructive "rights".

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 29, 2025 09:01 AM (JCZqz)

272 >>Your old gang of Biff and Froggy and Sam and Lilly and Tommy Jo isn't going to be magically replaced by Reginald and Guppie and Biggles and Topper.

No Froggy?

The hell with that, I'm not going.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2025 09:01 AM (viF8m)

273 Wait.. So the NY shooter/killer was mad at the NFL ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 08:57 AM (VE6XX)

Yeah, he drove all the way from Las Vegas. Weird.
Posted by: dantesed at July 29, 2025 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)
******
He blamed football for his CTE and wanted his brain studied.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

274 266 262 Wait.. So the NY shooter/killer was mad at the NFL ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 08:57 AM (VE6XX)

Yeah, he drove all the way from Las Vegas. Weird.
Posted by: dantesed at July 29, 2025 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)

I don't buy it...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 09:00 AM (VE6XX)

You'd think he would have picked somewhere else to shoot up. At least so he did not have to go through the hassle of going into Manhattan.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 29, 2025 09:01 AM (bss/y)

275 Okay, everybody- form a line to disagree!

Anisotropic speed of light.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 29, 2025 09:01 AM (/TiS1)

276 That shirt doesn't go with those pants!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 08:55 AM (6FSdT)

Pants?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

277 but you'll never be part of their close group, even if you try to be. Not really culture though."

That is culture - and I didn't share common experiences - be they events, media, politics, anything... the fairly common jibes/commentary of a place like this requires some commonality, and most of the world would look on with some bemusement...

Posted by: man at July 29, 2025 09:02 AM (tubbA)

278 A basic persistent problem for the Army is its often dreadful treatment of its enlisted in housing, food,

Little Winger loved the food. Which says a lot about my cooking.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 29, 2025 09:02 AM (SfhV1)

279 There’s def way more to the nyc shooting than we are being told

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 29, 2025 09:02 AM (cxXki)

280 That shirt doesn't go with those pants!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 08:55 AM (6FSdT)

Pants?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

You know. Blue Genes.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 09:02 AM (ld07g)

281 Bet you won’t be dumping on AF after that.
Posted by: Marcus T

My brother used to be a Paramedic in Oakland. He worked with guys that were former SEAL medics that had done tours in Vietnam. He casually asked if they were familiar with Parajumpers.

All of them: "Yeah, man. They're fucking crazy!"

As a Marine, I'll bash on every other service just as they bash on me. But none of it is ever serious.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 09:02 AM (7xrfc)

282 260 Whig, you go enlisted with a college degree and you get dumped on by all the non-college degree guys.
Posted by: Bulg
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I didn't have that problem--I was older and had my shit together. I was more like the father figure plus went in with two stripes. Helped coach some of my flight to pass the AFQT. After the TI realized I was not some OSI spook testing them, they left me alone.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:03 AM (ctrM5)

283 Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

Preach. I'd have been willing to give up my prior contributions in order to end that monstrosity.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

284 Okay, everybody- form a line to disagree!
Posted by: Don Black at July 29, 2025 08:59 AM (AOsQT)

Fuck that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 29, 2025 09:03 AM (bss/y)

285 The food I had in the Navy was decent. It had better have been. I was paying for it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 09:03 AM (ld07g)

286 Did not expect to wake up this morning to hear that Ryno had passed. He was may favorite, certainly the best of his era, if not the best of all time (Joe Morgan is in that conversation for sure). What a kick in the teeth. May he rest in peace.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 29, 2025 09:04 AM (hlNLQ)

287 As a Marine, I'll bash on every other service just as they bash on me. But none of it is ever serious.
Posted by: NR Pax
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Leaving aside the draft years, becoming a Marine is a state of attitude. Can do types that overcome despite being handed crappy jobs and often obsolete equipment.

Never see me dumping on pretty much any of the services apart from their treatment of enlisted.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:05 AM (ctrM5)

288 > Wait.. So the NY shooter/killer was mad at the NFL ?

Posted by: It's me donna
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according to his handwritten note found at the scene, yes
don't expect a spree killer to make sense

Posted by: Don Black at July 29, 2025 09:05 AM (AOsQT)

289 I enjoy seeing people who put quotes around rights enshrined in the constitution.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 29, 2025 09:06 AM (vEgi8)

290 He could be instrumental in eventually fixing the 2A from the Senate. He and Hogg are people who can help those who cling to their guns see the reasons for limiting those destructive "rights".
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 29, 2025 09:01 AM (JCZqz)

Gotta get rid of that pesky 2nd Amendment...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 09:06 AM (VE6XX)

291 You know. Blue Genes.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 09:02 AM (ld07g)

https://tinyurl.com/5n7k9zhm

Sidenote: I am getting really tired of AI images popping up in my search results.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 29, 2025 09:07 AM (bss/y)

292 Hmmm. Pick an MOS in AFSOC, PJ, TACP, CRO whatever. See if you can be one of the few who actually make selection and make it through all the training. Fun stuff like water confidence training, taking yourself to the edge in the beautiful Texas weather. SERE, jump school, etc. Then see if you actually have what it takes to get on a team. Bet you won’t be dumping on AF after that.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 08:56 AM (jlcJz)

I did Nuclear Power School and submarines. I'm sure the guys who completed those schools were double tough and I wouldn't dump on them (to their faces since they're probably officers) but they're not SEALs, and they don't land on carriers, hell... they probably don't even know what wine goes with the red crayons (shout out to my Marines brothers).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

293 The speed of light is also a floor wax.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:07 AM (ANS4O)

294 The folks fighting Bush would have been the Silents

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 29, 2025 09:07 AM (TEi+a)

295 285 The food I had in the Navy was decent. It had better have been. I was paying for it.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

I was at Nellis AFB for training and the country club federal prison is co-located by the air base. It was a little disconcerting to see federal prisoners lined up for breakfast along with AF personnel. They had to wait for us paying customers to go first for breakfast. They didn't pay of course.

We had a 'helper' prisoner assigned to do some menial tasks around our training area and turns out he was in prison for big time embezzlement.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:07 AM (ctrM5)

296 Shooter took advantage of a lapse security environment. Nobody on perimeter to give advance warning (outside security is always recommended), SI of guards at the front desk was poor as was their positioning. Off duty cop moonlighting apparently didn’t even draw his weapon. There was no lockdown of elevators and the building. Perp just walked right in and started smoking people.

Add to that the perp knew that NYC isn’t gun friendly for civilians. NYPD has their own permit system which they basically use to keep people from getting a CCP. NY State is trying to make it impossible for people to legally carry because they’re anti constitutional Marxists and SCOTUS lets them get away with it.

Forget the perp. That’s largely a distraction.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 09:08 AM (jlcJz)

297 The speed of light is also a floor wax."

Si

Posted by: man at July 29, 2025 09:08 AM (tubbA)

298 but you'll never be part of their close group, even if you try to be. Not really culture though."

That is culture - and I didn't share common experiences - be they events, media, politics, anything... the fairly common jibes/commentary of a place like this requires some commonality, and most of the world would look on with some bemusement...
Posted by: man at July 29, 2025 09:02 AM (tubbA)

Nah. You can experience the same thing even moving from one city to another within the same state.

It's more akin to tribalism than anything else.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2025 09:08 AM (iJfKG)

299 That was a good laugh. I first heard them when they did a video with Baby Metal:

https://youtu.be/EDnIEWyVIlE
Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 08:59 AM (7xrfc)

That was my introduction to them as well.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

300 - An accurate understanding of the speed of light.

That would be that we don't, and cannot know, the one way speed of light.
We only know the two way speed of light. Calling the one way speed one half of that is merely an accepted convention. Like which side of the road to drive on.
It works with the physics of Einstein. But so does the speed of light coming directly towards you being infinite and going away being 1/2 that.
Better explanation at Biblical Science Institute dot com.
Hamburger > topics > astronomy > distant starlight

Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2025 09:09 AM (jocM1)

301 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Whatever you do, do not—and I repeat, do not—share Brooke Shields’ Calvin Klein Jeans ad from 1980. It might just send liberals over the edge.

https://tinyurl.com/853e83n9

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

302 Kelly for President in 2028?

"Vote for me! Vote for Gabby!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:09 AM (ANS4O)

303 Kelly will never be a viable presidential candidate. He's far too much of a nothing as a person - he's got good credentials, but his entire reason for being in office was "my wife got shot!" He's too moderate for the liberals, too liberal for the conservatives.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at July 29, 2025 09:10 AM (uWKK8)

304 >>>Tamura blamed football for his apparent struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE),

After seeing the football link yesterday, I began to wonder about this specifically.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 29, 2025 09:10 AM (i24o9)

305 A basic persistent problem for the Army is its often dreadful treatment of its enlisted in housing, food, and the casual disregard for aptitude and specialization. I saw that first hand at a joint training base (Ft. Lost in the Woods).

AF and Navy, being technical services don't do that. Marines (under the voluntary enlistment years) is a whole different kettle of fish to the point that comparisons of Marines with the other forces is difficult.
Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:00 AM (ctrM5)

Navy enlisted housing sucks. Or it did back in the last century.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

306 It's more akin to tribalism than anything else."

Tribalism pretty much describes most of the human race across the planet.
What "we" consider "normal Western/American" is the oddity. By a big margin.

Posted by: man at July 29, 2025 09:11 AM (tubbA)

307 Sidenote: I am getting really tired of AI images popping up in my search results.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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AI videos are strangling YT and other places just as bots destroyed a lot of comment sections across the internet. Also now destroying music videos by making the noise greater than the signal people want.

YT is supposedly striking back at demonetizing AI generated videos.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:11 AM (ctrM5)

308 Need that bulldozer in the top pic this morning. Personal tally from the storm last night, which produced 92 mph winds two miles north of us:

Roads in all four directions of our corner were blocked until early this morning
Half a tree came down on our sidewalk, we're going to have to take that one out completely
Enough branches of the tree next to that came down that I'm not sure we can save the tree itself
Our neighbor lost the other half of his tree, first half came down a few weeks ago
Another neighbor came a few feet from losing his truck

Oh well, everyone's safe, and that's what matters

Posted by: pookysgirl is not looking forward to cleaning this up at July 29, 2025 09:11 AM (Wt5PA)

309 Whig, you go enlisted with a college degree and you get dumped on by all the non-college degree guys.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 08:58 AM (77rzZ)

I enlisted with a college degree. I was the old man in the Aircrew shop, and I loved it.

Now, in my dotage, I've got an honorable discharge and a college degree. Many, many people have one or the other, but having both is handy.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 29, 2025 09:12 AM (fCgdX)

310 are they still going on about "jeans" ?

Posted by: runner at July 29, 2025 09:12 AM (9pFgx)

311 As a Marine, I'll bash on every other service just as they bash on me. But none of it is ever serious.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 09:02 AM (7xrfc)

No, not serious. I do find it amusing that Army/Navy/Green Navy(Marines) will dump on each other but band together to diss the AF - probably goes they're the baby... SF doesn't count... but even that gets put aside to dump on Coasties.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

312 Marines are crayon eaters.
*ducks*
We have some on one side of the family, one Marine on The Wall. We don’t talk about them in polite company. lol.

Hey look if you put your name on that line it’s all good.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 09:13 AM (jlcJz)

313 AI generated thumbnails are ridiculous for aviation related stories on YouTube.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:13 AM (ANS4O)

314 Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:11 AM (ctrM5)

Everything you come into contact with soon will have to be assumed to be AI. Including other commenters.

👀

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2025 09:14 AM (RLuzd)

315 Sidenote: I am getting really tired of AI images popping up in my search results.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 29, 2025 09:07 AM (bss/y)

Preach. Anyone know of a way to restrict that?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

316 Children’s Hospital Colorado, the state’s largest pediatric specialty hospital, has received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice as part of an apparent investigation into gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

https://is.gd/UsW2q9

**************

The primary role of pediatricians and pediatric hospitals is to promote the health and well-being of children as they progress through the stages of physical and mental development into functioning, productive capable adults. That should not include validating delusions, altering normal hormonal changes of puberty, inducing chaotic thinking, or removing/altering healthy functioning body parts. Nor should it include the encouragement of so-called social transitioning, especially Children's Hospital Colorado has failed at this primary job. This is morally reprehensible. Shame on them.

STOP TRANSING CHILDREN, FULL STOP!

Posted by: muldoon at July 29, 2025 09:14 AM (poXs5)

317 Washington Nearsider

The new ICM 1/32 HS 123 kit is popping up on eBay.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:14 AM (ANS4O)

318 Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 09:08 AM (jlcJz)

Concealed carry permits for out of state residents are now possible for NYS AND NYC.

They lost that fight.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 09:15 AM (6FSdT)

319 301 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Whatever you do, do not—and I repeat, do not—share Brooke Shields’ Calvin Klein Jeans ad from 1980. It might just send liberals over the edge.

https://tinyurl.com/853e83n9
Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2025 09:09 AM (NpAcC)
——

Cringey and stupid. But it was the 80s. I think the SW ad that’s got the fuglies mad butthurt was supposed to be a homage to this ad. Next they’ll do a reimage of the perverted ‘up skirt’ CK ad.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 29, 2025 09:15 AM (cxXki)

320 but even that gets put aside to dump on Coasties.

Rumor has it that CGs dump on Space Force...

Posted by: man at July 29, 2025 09:15 AM (tubbA)

321 rather funny - a puff piece is out on Jasmine Crockett, but she blew up about it, and a lot of things suggest that her fellow democrat officeholders consider her a self-centered bitch who runs her mouth way too much.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2025 09:15 AM (uWKK8)

322 321 rather funny - a puff piece is out on Jasmine Crockett, but she blew up about it, and a lot of things suggest that her fellow democrat officeholders consider her a self-centered bitch who runs her mouth way too much.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2025 09:15 AM (uWKK

I'm shocked... Shocked I tell you...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 09:16 AM (VE6XX)

323 310 are they still going on about "jeans" ?
Posted by: runner

The Left is in full meltdown at the moment (so, nothing new). I was tempted to post some of it here, but figured Ace would have a post about it later today, so I'll wait.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 29, 2025 09:16 AM (JCZqz)

324 Navy enlisted housing sucks. Or it did back in the last century.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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You might want to consider how bad on base Army housing is. I've seen it and Navy and AF but not Marines. Big Green's housing is universally the worst.

I think part of it is the rationale that you were supposed to be in the field training and single so why waste money on maintaining housing. A lot of it was developed during the draft years and it was not assumed that most people would have families at the time.

FWIW, I was in the AF Civil Engineering and we often did training projects on other bases at the time. A lot of junior enlisted (sometimes even senior enlisted) housing on Army bases would never pass code outside the gates.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:16 AM (ctrM5)

325 STOP TRANSING CHILDREN, FULL STOP!

Posted by: muldoon at July 29, 2025 09:14 AM (poXs5)

This!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 09:17 AM (6FSdT)

326 >> I was at Nellis AFB for training and the country club federal prison is co-located by the air base. It was a little disconcerting to see federal prisoners lined up for breakfast along with AF personnel.

I once woke up on one of the taxiways. Long story. The bastards who left me there will never let me forget it. Oh, and one time on the golf course when the CO was playing an early game.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 09:17 AM (jlcJz)

327 I hope Jasmine Crocket keeps up the self-sabotage.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:18 AM (ANS4O)

328 >> Concealed carry permits for out of state residents are now possible for NYS AND NYC.

They lost that fight.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 09:15 AM (6FSdT)

Have you applied? They are “available” but they have gummed up the process and are slow walking the apps.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 09:18 AM (jlcJz)

329 One of my Russian teachers at DLI once noted that every marine she had ever taught was either incredibly smart or incredibly dumb. There was no in-between.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

330 327 I hope Jasmine Crocket keeps up the self-sabotage.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:18 AM (ANS4O)

I think her fake ghetto act is wearing thin...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2025 09:19 AM (VE6XX)

331 "My brother used to be a Paramedic in Oakland. He worked with guys that were former SEAL medics that had done tours in Vietnam. He casually asked if they were familiar with Parajumpers."

Are those the guys who are trained to go in to rescue downed pilots behind enemy lines?

I worked with one of them for a couple of years and I have a hard time thinking of a more competent and self-assured young person. He's making huge bucks now.

Posted by: pawn at July 29, 2025 09:19 AM (QB+5g)

332 Everything you come into contact with soon will have to be assumed to be AI. Including other commenters.

👀
Posted by: ...

Some here are already using AI to polish up their comments I think. In my case, I often search terms simply to remind myself of a case particulars, etc. rather than assume correctness.

I don't trust my memory after having bad Covid problems three years in a row from 2021-2023. That, in part, along with other health issues led me to retire as I always taught without notes by memory as it was easier to gauge student engagement that way instead of droning through powerpoints and scrabbling through notes.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:20 AM (ctrM5)

333 Fake News CNN Refers to Manhattan Mass Shooter as ‘Possibly White’ (VIDEO)
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"Possibly Martian" too, and just as close now that pictures are out.

Posted by: Operator Error at July 29, 2025 09:20 AM (/VBqU)

334 "...especially Colorado..."

glitch in the Matrix

...should be "Children's Hospital Colorado"

Posted by: muldoon at July 29, 2025 09:20 AM (poXs5)

335 I once woke up on one of the taxiways. Long story. The bastards who left me there will never let me forget it. Oh, and one time on the golf course when the CO was playing an early game.
Posted by: Marcus T
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At least it was not Minot in the winter.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:21 AM (ctrM5)

336 A girl I kinda dated enlisted in Marines a few years ago. She’s at Pendleton now. She’s been all over the world. Not sure exactly what she’s doing militarily, but she’s constantly complaining about all the aggressive horndogs in the service that she has to fend off. That surprised me. I didn’t think Marines would shit where they eat. Aren’t there plenty of girls outside the camp to prey on?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 29, 2025 09:22 AM (cxXki)

337 Marcus T

Failed to get that 100ft of flight line and a gallon of prop wash?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:22 AM (ANS4O)

338 Are those the guys who are trained to go in to rescue downed pilots behind enemy lines?

Downed pilots, wounded in combat zones, etc. yes. They take their motto "These Things We Do, That Others May Live" VERY seriously.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 09:23 AM (7xrfc)

339 "I read "Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam" and immediately thought TRUMP Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, HOTEL and CASINO"

Trump is the man who could make this happen!

A French court ruled that France has to accept any Gaza nomad who washes up on their shores which explains Macron's new enthusiasm for the 2ST8 final solution.

Posted by: oglebay at July 29, 2025 09:23 AM (MMp6W)

340 Now, in my dotage, I've got an honorable discharge and a college degree. Many, many people have one or the other, but having both is handy.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
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Amusing choice of words.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:23 AM (ctrM5)

341 Have you applied? They are “available” but they have gummed up the process and are slow walking the apps.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 09:18 AM (jlcJz)

My shooting club is doing the training and paperwork this weekend for a bunch of people. It is absolutely doable.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 09:24 AM (6FSdT)

342 Aren’t there plenty of girls outside the camp to prey on?

Less risk for STDs from fellow service people.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 09:24 AM (7xrfc)

343 The new ICM 1/32 HS 123 kit is popping up on eBay.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:14 AM (ANS4O)

*adds to list.

I didn’t think Marines would shit where they eat. Aren’t there plenty of girls outside the camp to prey on?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 29, 2025 09:22 AM (cxXki)

Female Marines are called WMs. It's supposed to stand for Woman Marine, but it really stands for Walking Mattress.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 29, 2025 09:24 AM (fCgdX)

344 I hope Jasmine Crocket keeps up the self-sabotage.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:18 AM (ANS4O)

I think her fake ghetto act is wearing thin...
Posted by: It's me donna
+++
The problem is the people who were dumb enough to buy her act in the beginning are never gonna be smart enough to see through it. No matter how obvious it becomes.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 29, 2025 09:25 AM (Lo97M)

345 US Navy TC:

See the world...from an uncomfortable seat with a tiny ass window and a big computer screen.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 29, 2025 09:25 AM (PzXaK)

346 Preach. Anyone know of a way to restrict that?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

Hmmm. There are supposed to be strings you can include to get non-AI generated search results, but a way to skim out the AI would require the search engine to be able to tell an AI picture from a non-AI picture, and I kind of doubt it can do that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 29, 2025 09:25 AM (bss/y)

347 Posted by: Washington Nearsider
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Amusing choice of words.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:23 AM (ctrM5)

Because 29 isn't 'dotage?'

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 29, 2025 09:25 AM (fCgdX)

348 > rather funny - a puff piece is out on Jasmine Crockett, but she blew up about it, and a lot of things suggest that her fellow democrat officeholders consider her a self-centered bitch who runs her mouth way too much.
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They're not wrong.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025 09:26 AM (Q4IgG)

349 I didn’t think Marines would shit where they eat. Aren’t there plenty of girls outside the camp to prey on?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
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The ones right outside the gate require being paid. Inside the gate, they are often married with their spouse absent on deployment-bad ju ju there.

So girls in the ranks get attention when they are young and single.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:26 AM (ctrM5)

350 Are those the guys who are trained to go in to rescue downed pilots behind enemy lines?

Downed pilots, wounded in combat zones, etc. yes. They take their motto "These Things We Do, That Others May Live" VERY seriously.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 09:23 AM (7xrfc)

PJs are so obscure that no one knows enough to steal their valor. I haven't seen a case in the decade I've been reading This Ain't Hell.

Posted by: pookysgirl knows Pooky still saved the world on occasion at July 29, 2025 09:27 AM (Wt5PA)

351 Because 29 isn't 'dotage?'
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
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More about the conjunction of honorable discharge and college degree.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:27 AM (ctrM5)

352 Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 29, 2025 09:22 AM (cxXki)

At DLI, most of the male Marines hooked up with hot Air Force chicks.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

353 >> Failed to get that 100ft of flight line and a gallon of prop wash?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:22 AM (ANS4O)

Well… Theres nothing like a waking up to an F-110 alarm clock.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 09:27 AM (jlcJz)

354 Muldoon, I fixed it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 09:27 AM (6FSdT)

355 And for fuck's sake...we have AC pretty much everywhere!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises at July 29, 2025 08:48 AM

How dare you disabuse us of our pet stereotypes?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 29, 2025 09:29 AM (kgE5c)

356 Read Josh Chapman’s MOH Citation for one AF story.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 09:29 AM (jlcJz)

357 > At least it was not Minot in the winter.
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A buddy of mine was a electronic counter measures guy riding B-52's out of Minot years ago.

Stupid fucker retired there. He put his mailbox in an old tire filled with concrete. During the winter he just digs it out of the snow and puts it up on the newest layer... several feet above where it was. Rince/repeat all winter.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025 09:30 AM (Q4IgG)

358 258, thank you, CBD!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 29, 2025 09:30 AM (dKEEs)

359 More about the conjunction of honorable discharge and college degree.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:27 AM (ctrM5)

Fair.

It's helped me immeasurably. I can tick the 'credentialed' box for people who care too much about that, but I also have the 'served on the pointy end' and all the work ethic that came from that.

The CSAR community is small, and - as I see from the comments about PJs (the USAF equivalent to my job) - well-respected.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 29, 2025 09:31 AM (fCgdX)

360 CBD- thx

Posted by: muldoon at July 29, 2025 09:31 AM (poXs5)

361 I haven't seen a case in the decade I've been reading This Ain't Hell.
Posted by: pookysgirl

Really gotta go there more often. They've fallen by the wayside for me.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 29, 2025 09:32 AM (7xrfc)

362 A buddy of mine was a electronic counter measures guy riding B-52's out of Minot years ago.

Stupid fucker retired there. He put his mailbox in an old tire filled with concrete. During the winter he just digs it out of the snow and puts it up on the newest layer... several feet above where it was. Rince/repeat all winter.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Snow removal on northern tier bases is a PITA. Nasty, cold, windy and bleak.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:32 AM (ctrM5)

363 Nood art. 9:30 on the dot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 29, 2025 09:33 AM (bss/y)

364 The Left is in full meltdown at the moment (so, nothing new). I was tempted to post some of it here, but figured Ace would have a post about it later today, so I'll wait.

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excellent !

Posted by: runner at July 29, 2025 09:34 AM (9pFgx)

365 The CSAR community is small, and - as I see from the comments about PJs (the USAF equivalent to my job) - well-respected.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
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Spec Ops folks have my earnest respect as a class. They have had to deal with a whole lotta really bad taking out the trash in the WoT and dealing with the consequences of being overdeployed, horrible war time conditions, and not being recognized for the things they did because classified.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:34 AM (ctrM5)

366 >> At least it was not Minot in the winter.
Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:21 AM (ctrM5)

Ever been to Unimak? Cold as moose balls.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 09:36 AM (jlcJz)

367 Washington Nearsider

Got on the way the new UMa 1/48 AV-8B Harrier II Plus. The slime lights are way too pronounced, recessed panel lines look a bit deep, and it seems Trumpeter's mad riveter has been busy on the upper wing surfaces.

But it still looks spiffy and hopefully won't be as much a nightmare as the Hasegawa kit. Just don't get the aftermarket inlet section with the tiny bypass doors can be opened and closed with a magnet. Talk about a useless gimmick.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:37 AM (ANS4O)

368 Just don't get the aftermarket inlet section with the tiny bypass doors can be opened and closed with a magnet. Talk about a useless gimmick.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2025 09:37 AM (ANS4O)

Tamiya did that with their 1/32 Mustangs, too. I REALLY dislike it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 29, 2025 09:38 AM (fCgdX)

369 https://is.gd/Kpdi3q
@MJTruthUltra
Oh Shizzles…
He just Name Dropped Larry Summers again, the Former Head of Harvard, and this time said he heard he went to Epstein ISLAND...
[Rumble link]

https://is.gd/vHF25E
@Rightanglenews
BREAKING - It's been revealed a gay couple who crowdfunded their surrogacy journey now has custody of a baby boy, despite one partner Brandon Keith Riley Mitchell being a convicted child sex offender, using a Pennsylvania surrogacy loophole that bypasses state adoption restrictions on registered predators.
[video]

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 29, 2025 09:38 AM (ULPxl)

370 You have to very comfortable in the water for the PJ, etc. training. Lots of water confidence and drown proofing stuff. Lots of time in the pool. That’s beyond the other physical parts a lot of which is done in the hot Texas sun. It will push and test every aspect of your being.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 09:39 AM (jlcJz)

371
Interesting, "international pressure" is growing on Israel to end the Gaza war for a negotiated peace which simply means the disgusting charade of decades between hamas and Israel will continue unabated.

Hope the proponents are satisfied to condemn a number of Israeli innocents to a bloody agonizing death.

Done posting or speaking on this in public.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 29, 2025 09:40 AM (hKoQL)

372 Ever been to Unimak? Cold as moose balls.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Fortunately no. My only Pacific jaunt was to Comox Canadian AFB on Vancouver Island. Absolutely lovely place, climate, and town.

Canadians at the time were friendly and the food there in the mess was superb (omelets made to order with fresh salmon etc.) for example. Did notice even back then that the Quebecers sat together, the Anglos did the same and the Newfies were like the dos--happy, goofy, and friendly. So of course, the unifying value of Anglos and French speakers were demeaning the Newfies.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:40 AM (ctrM5)

373 They have had to deal with a whole lotta really bad taking out the trash in the WoT and dealing with the consequences of being overdeployed, horrible war time conditions, and not being recognized for the things they did because classified.

Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:34 AM (ctrM5)

I think a lot of that is true.

I have to admit though, I didn't even realize 'Rescue Swimmer/CSAR' was classified as SOCOM until I got out, and a potential employer told me about hiring preference for SOCOM kids. I knew the SWCC and Teams guys were, but 'we'll come pick you up when it gets crazy' didn't really seem comparable.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 29, 2025 09:41 AM (fCgdX)

374 You have to very comfortable in the water for the PJ, etc. training. Lots of water confidence and drown proofing stuff. Lots of time in the pool. That’s beyond the other physical parts a lot of which is done in the hot Texas sun. It will push and test every aspect of your being.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2025 09:39 AM (jlcJz)

Navy Rescue Swimmer School is in Pensacola, but yes. Lots and lots of 'get comfortable being uncomfortable,' and lots of time in the water.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 29, 2025 09:42 AM (fCgdX)

375 Good morning, all, and thanks J.J.

From above, 'Wealthy Residents Of Maine Resort Town Fret Over Losing Access To Cheap Illegal Labor'

Are IRA laws being broken? 'IRS.gov - Aliens employed in the U.S. – Social Security taxes'

Enough. Make them (hotels, restaurants, cleaning and landscaping services, non-profits, etc.) an example - call then out & shut them down - for violation of Federal tax laws, and whatever other laws on the books they're violating.

Not millionaires and billionaires? Oh, well. Some of the little Citizens of the country have faced worse punishment for parading.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 29, 2025 09:44 AM (NFX2v)

376 Posted by: whig at July 29, 2025 09:11 AM (ctrM5)

Everything you come into contact with soon will have to be assumed to be AI. Including other commenters.

👀
Posted by: ... at July 29, 2025 09:14 AM

.YES
.NO
*FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE

Posted by: toby928 at July 29, 2025 09:46 AM (jc0TO)

377 Clickbait headlines? Really?

Hint: if you headline has “this”, it’s clickbait.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 29, 2025 10:32 AM (OY8CA)

378 357 > At least it was not Minot in the winter.
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A buddy of mine was a electronic counter measures guy riding B-52's out of Minot years ago.

Stupid fucker retired there. He put his mailbox in an old tire filled with concrete. During the winter he just digs it out of the snow and puts it up on the newest layer... several feet above where it was. Rince/repeat all winter.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2025 09:30 AM (Q4IgG)

There’s a pretty girl behind every tree at Minot. Can you blame him?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 29, 2025 10:45 AM (OY8CA)

379 No Palestinian state.
No Hamas.
ALL Israeli prisioners must be returned IMMEDIATELY or else ...
Trump is doing a great job every day, but...
He should not fall for the lies of the Palestinians/Hamas.
Israel and the US (Trump) should be on the same side working together.

Posted by: Deborah Hamilton at July 29, 2025 10:53 AM (QrgRG)

380 Regarding the Michigan Walmart event, a good guy with a gun will beat a bad guy with a knife every time.

Posted by: Ralph at July 29, 2025 10:58 AM (8WZD4)

381 Jan. 2025

Louisiana Illuminator, Jan. 2025: ‘Very strange similarities’ but no link yet between Las Vegas bombing, New Orleans terror attack

What's also odd, imho, is the terror attack appears to have occurred close to Harrah's New Orleans.
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July 2025

NY Post: 2 killed, 4 wounded in Reno casino mass shooting; cops take down gunman

NO ONE is talking, including the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino.

Hindustan Times: NYC shooter Shane Tamura had mental health history, worked as security guard at Las Vegas casino.
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Sort of missed this incident back in May:

>Santa Barbara Independent: Man Charged with Attempted Murder at Ty Warner’s Montecito Mansion Deemed Competent to Stand Trial, June 30, 2035

A veteran from Reno reeking havoc in CA.
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Casino & Clubs, Billionaires, Reno, mental health, etc. 🤷‍♀

Coincidence

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 29, 2025 11:48 AM (NFX2v)

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