Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - October 22, 2025 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb debris. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

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"Sir, it is time for the Wednesday ONT."

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This is not AI. This is not fake.

Last Wednesday, we featured ESPN's coverage of the 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championship Finals. I wasn't looking for it, but happened to be flipping through channels over the weekend and stumbled across ESPN coverage of kickball.

Kickball at least has a more credible argument than Excel to be considered a sport.

Guess some respect is due to whomever figured out how to turn kickball into a thing. They call it "Turf Wars" and hold tournaments across the US. The "National Championship" is scheduled for November 15 and 16 in Austin.

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Public Service Announcement: Apologies to drivers in cities that I previously characterized as "the worst." Those assessments were made in good faith with solid grounds, but also made before visiting Houston. Wow.

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Since this is a quasi-smart military blog (sometimes):

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This seems like...something. Micro nuclear reactors for the military?

Army announces Janus Program for next-generation nuclear energy

The Department of Army today announced the launch of the Janus Program, a next-generation nuclear power program that will deliver resilient, secure, and assured energy to support national defense installations and critical missions.

Executive Order 14299, "Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security," directs the Department of War to commence operation of an Army-regulated nuclear reactor at a domestic military installation no later than September 30, 2028.

The program will build commercial microreactors through a nimble, milestone-based contracting model in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), accelerating delivery of advanced energy solutions to the warfighter.

This initiative represents a substantial investment in military and national energy dominance and will help chart the course for widespread deployment of Microreactor Power Plants.

The program will field nuclear microreactors capable of operating independently of the civilian power grid, ensuring uninterrupted power for forces in any environment through collaboration with the Department of Energy (DOE). By leveraging its nuclear regulatory authorities in partnership with the DOE, the Army will move forward with microreactors that are safe, resilient, and adaptable.

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Shopping for real estate in the North Carolina mountains?

Out of this world: Former North Carolina NASA campus for sale, listed for $30M

The former satellite tracking facility for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Rosman, North Carolina, is now up for sale, according to a listing posted on NAI Piedmont Triad.
The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) is a 192-acre site, built in 1963, that features more than 30 buildings, including a welcome center, library, exhibits, dorms and staff housing, and dining facilities. The site is selling for $30 million.

From the listing:

Nestled in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) offers a rare, ready-made gateway to the stars. This scientific landmark is ready for next-gen use, from AI research and data archiving to aerospace communications, STEM education, and even quantum computing.
Originally developed by NASA in the 1960s as part of the space race, this 192-acre campus helped capture the first images of Earth from space, and later, was used by the NSA during the Cold War as a key satellite communications hub. Today, the site is an International Dark Sky Park for public education, surrounded by over a half-million acres of protected national forest, ideal for astronomical observation and scientific research. But it's not just that past that makes PARI extraordinary, it's the future.
Nearly a quarter-billion dollars of investment has primed PARI's infrastructure to nurture the future's innovators, technological breakthroughs, and connections to the stars. Located in an electromagnetically quiet zone, one of only about 100 in the world, PARI is decidedly positioned to leverage its institution-grade elements in an environment where few other sites can.
Some of the scientific and technological highlights include two NASA-built dishes, two radio telescopes, Solar and Jupiter radio arrays, and an Eight-Meter Transient Array. Of the more than 25 optical telescopes, PARI features a Coronado Solarmax 40, Polaris 12-inch Cassegrain, SPACE 10-inch Cassegrain, and a 16-inch DFM Research Grade Telescope with a 7-inch Questar Finder Scope.

NC MoMe location?

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What could go wrong with building a utopia in California?

Billionaire-Backed Group California Forever Unveils Master Plan for "Next Great American City"

An ambitious real estate consortium known as California Forever has unveiled its detailed 40-year master plan to build a vast new community from scratch on former farmland northeast of San Francisco.
California Forever CEO Jan Sramek touted the plan as a key step in creating "the next great American city," which the group envisions as the eventual home of 400,000 people living in "affordable homes in safe, walkable neighborhoods."
The plan filed on Tuesday reveals that California Forever now plans to build the master-planned community as an extension of nearby Suisun City, a community of 30,000 that stands to dramatically expand its tax base by annexing the new development.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

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Reba for the big ONT finish:

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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Yes, Virginia, there is a MAGA movement!

Posted by: mindful webworker - Beam me up, Scottish at October 22, 2025 10:00 PM (Qqyu2)

2 1

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 22, 2025 10:00 PM (Z8Qvl)

3 Yay!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 10:00 PM (mAdag)

4 Rats.. good job, MWW

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 22, 2025 10:01 PM (Z8Qvl)

5 The Department of Army today announced the launch of the Janus Program

Janus was the two-faced god...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:01 PM (ynpvh)

6 "Sir, it is time for the Wednesday ONT."

You sure Marco's not saying, "It's the Trump phone, sir?"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:01 PM (uQesX)

7 th!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 10:01 PM (Wnv9h)

8 Sorry I'm late, the pudding started to overflow the hot tub.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM (FVLcK)

9 Out of this world: Former North Carolina NASA campus for sale, listed for $30M

How many of those telescopes can be repurposed as directed-energy weapons?

None?

Not interested, then.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM (nhCoE)

10 Hello!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 10:03 PM (F2xQR)

11 top 10? we'll see

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 10:03 PM (JFzrp)

12 That NASA campus for sale is your chance to own the World's Largest Birdbath, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:03 PM (dyewR)

13

Quit what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 10:04 PM (63Dwl)

14 The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

The first and last ones just sound like Karens in their natural habitat.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 10:04 PM (nhCoE)

15 From Cafe thread:

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Srsly, I wonder if Newsom is sweating lightly because of these accidents.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:59 PM (ldc7S)

I'm sure he doesn't give a crap!

What's chilling is wife and I were supposed to be in that part of town and freeway at that time but her Mom's Dr appt got moved so we didn't have to go.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (QGaXH)

16 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

17
The former satellite tracking facility for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Rosman, North Carolina, is now up for sale, according to a listing posted on NAI Piedmont Triad.

Is its mosque constructed for "Muslim outreach" included in the sale?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (xG4kz)

18 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

(snaps fingers)

Left out again.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:06 PM (uQesX)

19 Kalifornia used to be a sane state...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:06 PM (ynpvh)

20 12 That NASA campus for sale is your chance to own the World's Largest Birdbath, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:03 PM (dyewR)

Too much yardwork...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:06 PM (ynpvh)

21 11 top 10? we'll see
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 10:03 PM (JFzrp)

Missed it by that 🤏 much.

Posted by: Don Adams at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (FVLcK)

22 Read the content: newbie mistake!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (ZVgZ4)

23 The program will build commercial microreactors through a nimble, milestone-based contracting model in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), accelerating delivery of advanced energy solutions to the warfighter.

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So when can I expect to have my own Iron Man suit?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (dyewR)

24 A kickball tournament can't be any worse than a Hobby Horse tournament.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)

25 I really want the NASA property! It’s Atomic Ranch Mid Mod nirvana! I promise we could host whatever MoMes there! Ben Had would get a penthouse suite to gaze at stars.

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (Wmg4n)

26
Quit what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Why, quitting, of course!

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (xG4kz)

27 Too much yardwork...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

If you can afford $30 million digs, you can afford a couple legal immigrants to keep the weeds short enough for your HOA.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 10:08 PM (nhCoE)

28 Hiya T!
Nice ONT ya got there...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 10:08 PM (mAdag)

29 Reba is a lovely lady, but her singing voice is close to veering into a speech impediment. I cannot stand it. Awful.

sucks, because my wife love Reba.

Sigh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 22, 2025 10:08 PM (0aYVJ)

30 15 From Cafe thread:

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Srsly, I wonder if Newsom is sweating lightly because of these accidents.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:59 PM (ldc7S)

I'm sure he doesn't give a crap!

What's chilling is wife and I were supposed to be in that part of town and freeway at that time but her Mom's Dr appt got moved so we didn't have to go.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (QGaXH)

As long as he gets the votes he needs, and it doesn't personally impact him, he really doesn't care. See Ref. eating at the French Laundry Restaurant during COVID...you couldn't go to church (but strip clubs were okay), and YOU couldn't go out to eat, but he could go out to eat. Laws and Rules are for the plebes, not the ruling class.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:08 PM (ynpvh)

31 Quit wearing ribbons.

Posted by: Kosmo Kramer at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (i0F8b)

32 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (lUFok)

33 Thanks for another dandy Wednesday ONT, TRex!

Once again, the Pittsburgh scanner hits it out of the park! I'm sure the downtick in reports is only temporary.

Love the photo of the barn up top. Nothing decorates a barn as well as our great American flag!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (kB9dk)

34 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (ULPxl)

35 . . . .directs the Department of War to commence operation of an Army-regulated nuclear reactor at a domestic military installation no later than September 30, 2028.

The program will build commercial microreactors. . . in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), accelerating delivery of advanced energy solutions to the warfighter.
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Um. . . . . haven't we had microreactors for decades now in use for extremely remote listening stations and other spooky facilities where they officially 'aren't'?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)

36 By the map, that planned wonderful city in CA isn't "northeast of San Francisco" except in the most technical sense.
It's closer to Suckatomato both in crow miles and especially in driving miles.
The climate there is not going to be the coastal climate of the SF Bay, but rather the "cook an egg on the sidewalk in the summer" and "feel your way through the Tule fog in the winter" climate of the Central Valley.
"NE of SF" is bait and switch.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (z4gd/)

37 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
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Again? Haven't we already covered this?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq)

38 The site is selling for $30 million.

The little known massive array of sub-basements alone are worth that much.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 10:10 PM (/lPRQ)

39 28 Hiya T!
Nice ONT ya got there...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 10:08 PM
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COMM!! Please send me an email. For reasons.

Posted by: TRex - dino greetings at October 22, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

40 Shenanigans was a 1964-65 childrens game show hosted by veteran entertainer Stubby Kaye. Started local in NYC, then picked up nationally by ABC.

Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers! at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (oftw2)

41 22 Read the content: newbie mistake!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (ZVgZ4)

Only if you don't care to be SPONGE!!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (ynpvh)

42 37 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
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Again? Haven't we already covered this?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October

Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (Wmg4n)

43 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
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LOL. Thanks for the ONT, Dino. And all the mystery clicks.

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (41CYW)

44 33 Thanks for another dandy Wednesday ONT, TRex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM
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Good evening LS!

Posted by: TRex - sufficient dino at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

45
Quit wearing ribbons.
Posted by: Kosmo Kramer

Mitch Miller and the Gang - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

https://youtu.be/NDFkpyDB-cs

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (xG4kz)

46 >>> 2 1
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 22, 2025 10:00 PM (Z8Qvl)

Blackjack!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 10:12 PM (ULPxl)

47 Is its mosque constructed for "Muslim outreach" included in the sale?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison!

Oh, planning on raising some pigs I see.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:12 PM (TfUTr)

48 34 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (ULPxl)

How much are the property taxes?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (ynpvh)

49 Word on the rue is that Dominique Boffin is rolling back certain aspects of her initiative to democratize art.

The museum has cancelled its program to allow patrons to check out masterpieces for a week so they can be displayed at home.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (dyewR)

50 Kalifornia used to be a sane state...
Posted by: jim

Mmmmm, not so sure. Mom and Dad left in the mid-50's as Dad said it 'was full of fruits and nuts' even back then.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (cYBz/)

51
It's closer to Suckatomato...

Suckatomato -- LOL!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (xG4kz)

52 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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We're actually doing math now?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

53 No need to rub it in, tankdemon lol.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 10:14 PM (UZVey)

54 8 Sorry I'm late, the pudding started to overflow the hot tub.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM
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Mmmmmm....pudding....

Posted by: TRex - pudding pop dino at October 22, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

55 I live in NC and have a satellite dish, but I'll admit it's not as fancy as NASAs.

Posted by: Also Ran at October 22, 2025 10:15 PM (oftw2)

56 This is well trod ground. Read up on the SL-1 reactor incident in Idaho in 1961. An Army private yanked a 100 pound control rod completely out and the steam explosion blew up the whole thing instantly, killing himself and two others. He was impaled on the ceiling by the control rod.

The idea generally, the AEC tested all kinds of power plant ideas. Camp Century was another one, constructing a “set it and forget it” nuclear reactor is tougher than it appears. They wanted something requiring minimal oversight and easy modular construction, portability etc etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM (C8TKZ)

57 42 Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM
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Great idea. If nothing else, dinos are known for being tasteful.

Posted by: TRex - tasteful dino at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM (IQ6Gq)

58 50 Kalifornia used to be a sane state...
Posted by: jim

Mmmmm, not so sure. Mom and Dad left in the mid-50's as Dad said it 'was full of fruits and nuts' even back then.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (cYBz/)

Kali elected Ronnie Reagan in 1966, and he served two years...granted Moonbeam was elected right after Ronnie left office...
So Kali is a bit bi-polar...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM (ynpvh)

59
Sorry I'm late, the pudding started to overflow the hot tub.

That's not pudding ... nor is it chocolate.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM (xG4kz)

60 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
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Again? Haven't we already covered this?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October

Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.
Posted by: Piper
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Trust me, you are picking the wrong side in this debate..

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

61 54 8 Sorry I'm late, the pudding started to overflow the hot tub.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM
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Mmmmmm....pudding....

Posted by: TRex - pudding pop dino at October 22, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

Not baby oil?

Posted by: Sean "Diddy" Combs at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (ynpvh)

62 I’ll see your kick ball and raise you with quidditch. Saw it some cable channel. It was the world championship and held in Clearlake, Texas.

College-age fairies prancing around a field with pvc pipe ‘brooms’ between their legs. Man-bun coaches arguing the finer points of rules disputes with referees.

Once seen it cannot be unseen.

Posted by: Chunk at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (yxDyH)

63 Shenanigans was a 1964-65 childrens game show hosted by veteran entertainer Stubby Kaye.

The kids are in the very best of hands.

The best of hands!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (EXyHK)

64 6 "Sir, it is time for the Wednesday ONT."

You sure Marco's not saying, "It's the Trump phone, sir?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:01 PM (uQesX)

"Your wife is on the phone, and she sounds pissed!"

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 22, 2025 10:18 PM (S/Y4j)

65 We're actually doing math now?
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That’s actually Arithmetic. So it’s OK, right?

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:18 PM (KMICP)

66 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
**************
Again? Haven't we already covered this?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October

Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.
Posted by: Piper
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*Unfolds lawnchair. Sets down six pack.*

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)

67 Larry Talbot: Knock knock
Frankenstein's Monster: Who's there?
Talbot: Ahhh.
Monster: Ahhh who?
Talbot: Werewolves of London!

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (FVLcK)

68 50 Kalifornia used to be a sane state...
Posted by: jim

Mmmmm, not so sure. Mom and Dad left in the mid-50's as Dad said it 'was full of fruits and nuts' even back then.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (cYBz/)

It should be a cereal...
https://tinyurl.com/mt67ur2b

Posted by: Sean at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (ynpvh)

69 Some Rat! Just got home today, and while unpacking was admiring our autographed commemorative plate!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

70 Um. . . . . haven't we had microreactors for decades now in use for extremely remote listening stations and other spooky facilities where they officially 'aren't'?
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)
* * * *
Maybe... wonder if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission knows about this. If the microreactors are already in use then the 2028 deployment deadline for the "new" ones shouldn't be a problem!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (kB9dk)

71 What kind of pudding?

Posted by: Dr. Huxtable at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (oftw2)

72 I’ll see your kick ball and raise you with quidditch. Saw it some cable channel. It was the world championship and held in Clearlake, Texas.

College-age fairies prancing around a field with pvc pipe ‘brooms’ between their legs. Man-bun coaches arguing the finer points of rules disputes with referees.

Once seen it cannot be unseen.
Posted by: Chunk

It's 43 man squamish for me or nothing.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (TfUTr)

73 56 This is well trod ground. Read up on the SL-1 reactor incident in Idaho in 1961. An Army private yanked a 100 pound control rod completely out and the steam explosion blew up the whole thing instantly, killing himself and two others. He was impaled on the ceiling by the control rod.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM
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Little known fact: One of the three deceased is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He is the only one that the Army has no control over. His remains may only be disturbed by permission of the NRC because he is considered contaminated.

Posted by: TRex - trivial pursuit dino at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

74 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
**************
Again? Haven't we already covered this?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October

Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.
Posted by: Piper
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Trust me, you are picking the wrong side in this debate..
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

You could always include a dummy in the Dino's mouth, as a reminder of what happens for bad behavior.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (S/Y4j)

75 Great ONT TRex!

I like Vicki Lawrence's version of TNTLWOIG better. Maybe because it's the one I recall from my youth and which would play in my mind as I drove home from college thru Georgia with NY plates back in the late '70's. I'd gas the car as full as I could get it on the SC side and not stop until I hit the Florida welcome station. (You inna heapa trouble, boy!)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (QGaXH)

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Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (QGaXH)

As long as he gets the votes he needs

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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That's exactly what I'm talking about, the votes. Enough of these incidents and it could affect his chances in 2028.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (ldc7S)

77 That's not pudding ... nor is it chocolate.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM (xG4kz)

At least we know where Trump can go to re-arm his No Kings Rally jet fighter.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (FVLcK)

78 ¡fuera, calcetín!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:21 PM (ynpvh)

79 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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60% tax rate? Is this a British lottery?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:21 PM (EYmYM)

80 *********
Trust me, you are picking the wrong side in this debate..
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

Hear me out…what if we have it where it pops out and yells “Boo!” If someone, like a sales person, annoying neighbor, or, say a friend who is not shutting up about dinosaurs when she should, comes over. Think of the viral videos!

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 10:21 PM (OoFl2)

81 The Army can't even procure a good new battle rifle, but we're expected to believe they're going to run a nuclear reactor.

"The program will build commercial microreactors through a nimble, milestone-based contracting model in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), accelerating delivery of advanced energy solutions to the warfighter."

They forgot to mention that they also are going to proactively manage their synergies.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM (SnC8S)

82 >>Trust me, you are picking the wrong side in this debate..
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Well, then I suppose I shouldn't suggest that TRex searches am'zon for "inflatable Christmas dinosaur"...

Posted by: JQ, looking for trouble at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM (rdVOm)

83 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
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Again? Haven't we already covered this?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October

Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.
Posted by: Piper
--------------
*Unfolds lawnchair. Sets down six pack.*
Posted by: scampydog
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it's all fun and games til we get to the Golden Birthdays

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

84 Some Rat! Just got home today, and while unpacking was admiring our autographed commemorative plate!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

Thank you!
I am hoping to live long enough to see one on the Antiques Roadshow.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM (TfUTr)

85 71 What kind of pudding?

Posted by: Dr. Huxtable at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (oftw2)

Your pudding would be roofied...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM (ynpvh)

86 Dad said it 'was full of fruits and nuts' even back then.
——-

1950s? Yeah, the fruits were kind of nutty, and …the nuts were kind of fruity. Situation has deteriorated since that time, I expect.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:23 PM (C4nCF)

87 "Your wife is on the phone, and she sounds pissed!"
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 22, 2025 10:18 PM (S/Y4j)

"Give her free rein, Marco. They won't know what hit them."

Posted by: Trump! at October 22, 2025 10:23 PM (uQesX)

88 Sorry I'm late, the pudding started to overflow the hot tub.
Posted by: tankdemon

Mmmmmm....pudding....
Posted by: TRex

A hot-tub-full would be about the equivalent of a pudding cup for a T-Rex, right? I don't wanna do the math after the admonition at #52.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 10:23 PM (nhCoE)

89 I just want you people to know, that

Posted by: Don Black at October 22, 2025 10:23 PM (AOsQT)

90 >>> 79 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
************

60% tax rate? Is this a British lottery?
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:21 PM (EYmYM)

It's a pessimistic estimate of feralgov, state, and possibly city taxes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 10:24 PM (ULPxl)

91 The sane Californians imported the Jobs Californians Won't Do and lobbied Reagan to amnesty them.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 10:24 PM (gKWVE)

92 86 Dad said it 'was full of fruits and nuts' even back then.
——-

1950s? Yeah, the fruits were kind of nutty, and …the nuts were kind of fruity. Situation has deteriorated since that time, I expect.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:23 PM (C4nCF)

Spacious outdoor bathrooms!
Voting representation of endangered groups: illegals, dead, imaginary!
High utility rates!
Insane legislators!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (ynpvh)

93 62 College-age fairies prancing around a field with pvc pipe ‘brooms’ between their legs. Man-bun coaches arguing the finer points of rules disputes with referees.

Once seen it cannot be unseen.
Posted by: Chunk at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (yxDyH)

And I thought that hobby-horse "equestrian" events were the ultimate evidence of de-evolution.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (FVLcK)

94
The Department of Army today announced the launch of the Janus Program
Janus was the two-faced god...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Waaaayyyy back, i was deputy program manager on a nato contract, where we were basically teaching the euroweenies how to do missile defense. The damned euroweenie MIC partners on my contract voted for Team Janus as the team official name for exactly that reason. I called the entire cluster fuck Team Anus to their faces, in front of the damned nato customer.

Never again. That 3 year experience swore me off of program management, supervisory roles, and set me solidly on my path to corporate technical fellow where i am now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (1l1S+)

95 90 >>> 79 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
************

60% tax rate? Is this a British lottery?
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:21 PM (EYmYM)

It's a pessimistic estimate of feralgov, state, and possibly city taxes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 10:24 PM (ULPxl)

Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (ynpvh)

96 Hey Rat! Was there actually commemorative plates?!
Darn! I miss ALL the good stuff...☹

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 10:26 PM (mAdag)

97 94
The Department of Army today announced the launch of the Janus Program
Janus was the two-faced god...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Waaaayyyy back, i was deputy program manager on a nato contract, where we were basically teaching the euroweenies how to do missile defense. The damned euroweenie MIC partners on my contract voted for Team Janus as the team official name for exactly that reason. I called the entire cluster fuck Team Anus to their faces, in front of the damned nato customer.

Never again. That 3 year experience swore me off of program management, supervisory roles, and set me solidly on my path to corporate technical fellow where i am now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (1l1S+)

Coulda called it Hugh Janus...

Posted by: Anass Rhammer at October 22, 2025 10:26 PM (ynpvh)

98 71 What kind of pudding?
Posted by: Dr. Huxtable at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (oftw2)

Jell-O.

But without the quaaludes.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:27 PM (FVLcK)

99 It's a pessimistic estimate of feralgov, state, and possibly city taxes.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Friend of mines son works for a MLB team. His tax return runs to something like 40+ pages....and you left off County taxes!

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:27 PM (TfUTr)

100 I am off to bed before Grateful throws me out of the nearest window. Everyone try to behave.

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 10:27 PM (OoFl2)

101 Hello everyone. Hope you are all doing well, and your enemies have intense itching problems (due, no doubt, to their degenerate lifestyles).

Spent too much at Criterion today. Probably spend even more tomorrow.

Have a lovely evening, every one of you deserves it. May the stars align.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 22, 2025 10:27 PM (CHHv1)

102 haven't we had microreactors for decades now in use for extremely remote listening stations and other spooky facilities where they officially 'aren't'?
Posted by: Tonypete
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I'm not privy to military secrets, but I don't think so.
What we have had is a thermoelectric generator that runs off the heat off some nuclear material, I think one of the Plutonium isotopes.
That Coleman cooler that you plug into the cig lighter is a thermoelectric cooler. It runs by pushing a current through the device, the part inside gets cool, while the part outside the insulated portion (but still inside the external box) get hot. A fan cools that hot part and blows in into your car. Hey, no free lunch.
A thermoelectric generator is the same thing, except that you heat the one part while keeping the other part cool and, viola'! A current flows.
A microreactor is going to a lot more complicated device, with different nuclear material that will be controlled to.increase and decrease the reaction to generate a lot more heat - enough to boil water and run a steam turbine. The "micro" part refers to."smaller than a large industrial campus", probably not the size of a refrigerator like the thermoelectric.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (z4gd/)

103 Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
************
Really? It's my unfortunate experience that CA taxes everything, including what they "bleive" you may have in the future...with no basis for that belief...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

104 Um. . . . . haven't we had microreactors for decades now in use for extremely remote listening stations and other spooky facilities where they officially 'aren't'?
Posted by: Tonypete

I don't know about that, but the Navy has had reactors on their submarines since Carter was swabbing decks.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (gKWVE)

105 82 Well, then I suppose I shouldn't suggest that TRex searches am'zon for "inflatable Christmas dinosaur"...

Posted by: JQ, looking for trouble at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM
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Dinos are notoriously festive. Wonder if I can get a quantity discount and get a herd of dinos. After all, Santa has nine reindeer...

Posted by: TRex - ho ho ho dino at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

106 Darn! I miss ALL the good stuff...☹
Posted by: COMountainMarie

{{{Marie}}} Reach out to DDS, she has your swag bag!

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (TfUTr)

107 Janus Program, a next-generation nuclear power program that will deliver resilient, secure, and assured energy for you and your neighborhood.

The program will enable real estate developers to install nuclear microreactors capable of operating independently of the incompetently managed, not so ready, power grid, ensuring uninterrupted power for your neighborhood. In co-operation with nuclear regulatory authorities and in partnership with the DOE, real estate developers will move forward with microreactors that are safe, resilient, and adaptable.

Never again will your HVAC shut down when it’s eighteen degrees and everyone’s heat is turned up high. Never again will the power fail when it’s one hundred and eleven and your A/C is pulling a full load.
Say good bye to the State Kilowatt monopoly and turn it up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 10:29 PM (XwyaG)

108 103 Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Really? It's my unfortunate experience that CA taxes everything, including what they "bleive" you may have in the future...with no basis for that belief...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

https://tinyurl.com/spyy4ba2

Posted by: Anass Rhammer at October 22, 2025 10:29 PM (ynpvh)

109 Fruits, nuts and vegetables. The voters of the Democrat party.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (CHHv1)

110 Team Anus

youtu.be/WK5eEPmbJ1w

Posted by: gKWVE, juggalo at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (gKWVE)

111 Hot tub pudding is 50% bodily secretions.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (z5QST)

112 *Unfolds lawnchair. Sets down six pack.*
Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)

Hi Scampydog- I saw your hiking question the other night too late to respond. I haven't done much hiking since mid-June but I did start walking six miles a day in late August. Getting discouraged because I haven't lost much weight despite my efforts. I guess I'm supposed to diet also along with the walking.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (QGaXH)

113 What could go wrong with building a utopia in California?

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Unicornutopia, amirite?

"You call some place Paradise ...
Kiss it good-bye"

/Enjoyed meeting and chatting with you, TRex!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM (KsUM/)

114 TRex, thank you for a fine ONT! Let the good times roll.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM (TfUTr)

115 Cosby prowled the Playboy Mansion for decades, but his first Playmate girlfriend was Paige Young, a lovely Playmate of the Month in 1968. She was Cosby's steady for several years and people said she always seemed drugged in Cosby's presence. She committed the terrible crime of turning 30, Cos dumped her and she blew her brains out in 1974. Lovely lady and maybe Cosby's first victim.

Posted by: Hey, Hey, Hey... at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM (oftw2)

116 I don't know about that, but the Navy has had reactors on their submarines since Carter was swabbing decks.
Posted by: gKWVE

Need lots of water.
IOW - 29 Palms isn't getting on.

Or most other Army posts.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 10:32 PM (/lPRQ)

117 113 What could go wrong with building a utopia in California?

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Unicornutopia, amirite?

"You call some place Paradise ...
Kiss it good-bye"

/Enjoyed meeting and chatting with you, TRex!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM (KsUM/)

https://youtu.be/YlUKcNNmywk

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh)

118 Good evening morons and спасибо Дино

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 10:32 PM (tyC0D)

119 110 Team Anus

[suspicious youtube link]

Posted by: gKWVE, juggalo at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM
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I am NOT clicking on that link.

Posted by: TRex - IT trained dino at October 22, 2025 10:32 PM (IQ6Gq)

120 82 Well, then I suppose I shouldn't suggest that TRex searches am'zon for "inflatable Christmas dinosaur"...

Posted by: JQ, looking for trouble at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM
***
Dinos are notoriously festive. Wonder if I can get a quantity discount and get a herd of dinos. After all, Santa has nine reindeer...
Posted by: TRex - ho ho ho dino
************
Ah darling, unfortunately for you, you are not Santa...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:33 PM (IQ6Gq)

121 Fruits, nuts and vegetables. The voters of the Democrat party.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Don't forget us!

Posted by: The dead and not the band. at October 22, 2025 10:34 PM (TfUTr)

122 111 Hot tub pudding is 50% bodily secretions.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (z5QST)

(Activate "sexy" voice

But which bodily secretions?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:34 PM (FVLcK)

123 "Bad driving" is a direct function of the number of foreigners driving cars, trucks, and scooters.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 10:34 PM (tyC0D)

124

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (1l1S+)

Coulda called it Hugh Janus...

Posted by: Anass Rhammer

Ohhhh, dude! One of the weapons ipt members works on my analysis team now and I am so gonna call it that now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:34 PM (1l1S+)

125 113 /Enjoyed meeting and chatting with you, TRex!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM
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Likewise! Love your nic.

Posted by: TRex - dino likes tapioca at October 22, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

126 95 Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (ynpvh)

Nor Social Security to my complete and udder amazement!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:35 PM (QGaXH)

127 122 111 Hot tub pudding is 50% bodily secretions.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (z5QST)

(Activate "sexy" voice But which bodily secretions?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:34 PM (FVLcK)

Punchline: "Okay, who farted?"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:36 PM (ynpvh)

128 After Rickover got his nuclear submarines, the Air Force decided what they really needed was a nuclear powered bomber, that could stay in the air for months at a time. Really.

Contracts were let, and testing proceeded on nuclear powered jet engines. Turns out lightweight aircraft made of thin aluminium and such, and heavy power plants, shielding, don’t really mix very well. Nothing was ever built that could fly, and JFK deleted the program soon after inauguration.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:36 PM (QPjUO)

129 108 103 Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
************
Really? It's my unfortunate experience that CA taxes everything, including what they "bleive" you may have in the future...with no basis for that belief...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

https://tinyurl.com/spyy4ba2
Posted by: Anass Rhammer
**************
I have every confidence they will rectify this error very soon

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

130 114 TRex, thank you for a fine ONT! Let the good times roll.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM
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Thank you, Sir. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Posted by: TRex - not santa dino at October 22, 2025 10:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

131 Evening Horde , thx TRex.
The NASA campus would make a great lair for an evil Bondian billionaire. I can hear Bernie yelling "oligarch" already

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 10:37 PM (8RjCi)

132 I make bubbles in the bathtub all the time. Used to really bother Ashley.

Posted by: El Presidente Emeritus at October 22, 2025 10:38 PM (oftw2)

133 Howdy Dino! Good stuff up there*

* (probably - I may or may not have read the content)

Posted by: Doof at October 22, 2025 10:38 PM (QMAsf)

134 Fruits, nuts and vegetables. The voters of the Democrat party.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (CHHv1)

Just a nitpick; Fruits, nuts and vegetables are the politicians in the Democrat Party.

Their voters are demented.

Posted by: RickZ at October 22, 2025 10:39 PM (gKDq2)

135 126 95 Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (ynpvh)

Nor Social Security to my complete and udder amazement!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:35 PM (QGaXH)

Now you're just milking it for all it's worth...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:39 PM (ynpvh)

136 The most disgusting thing after a NYC Port Authority Bathroom Stall is when the pumps are turned off of a well used hot tub.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 10:39 PM (XV/Pl)

137 I had not known of the 1961 SL-1 incident before. Read up on it, that was gruesome.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 10:40 PM (WtEb/)

138 128 After Rickover got his nuclear submarines, the Air Force decided what they really needed was a nuclear powered bomber, that could stay in the air for months at a time. Really.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:36 PM
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Bonkers. A small scale test reactor from the program is on display at ERB-1 in Arco, ID.

Posted by: TRex - not radioactive dino at October 22, 2025 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

139 U-Hawk helicopters - unmanned. Okay, but the first thing I think about is, how soon will it be radio-blocked, or even hacked? Aww, that could never happen. Right?
🤨

Posted by: mindful webworker - Jesus nut and wifi bolts at October 22, 2025 10:41 PM (Qqyu2)

140
Team Anus

[suspicious youtube link]

Posted by: gKWVE, juggalo at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM
***
I am NOT clicking on that link.

Posted by: TRex - IT trained dino

Just some really bad electronic rap. Almost Psycostick in their aspirations. Safe for work if you have headphones.

*queues up "we couldn't think of a title"*

Y'all should give track 11 a go. Funneh AF.
Link goes to ewe toob music.
https://is.gd/O3W6Eo

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (1l1S+)

141 Perhaps we could pool our money and bid on the NASA campus. I can't think of a finer group to spend my time with.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (QGaXH)

142 U-Hawk helicopters - unmanned. Okay, but the first thing I think about is, how soon will it be radio-blocked, or even hacked? Aww, that could never happen. Right?
🤨
Posted by: mindful webworker - Jesus nut and wifi bolts at October 22, 2025 10:41 PM (Qqyu2)

Or taken out with a drone.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (uQesX)

143 106 Rat

I'll do it! How very cool💕💕!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 10:43 PM (mAdag)

144 Contracts were let, and testing proceeded on nuclear powered jet engines. Turns out lightweight aircraft made of thin aluminium and such, and heavy power plants, shielding, don’t really mix very well. Nothing was ever built that could fly, and JFK deleted the program soon after inauguration.
Posted by: Common Tater
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I have wandered the Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory in Dawson Forest, Georgia. Kinda ignored all of the radiation warning signs. It was deserted and run down...kinda spooky. Some pics:
https://shorturl.at/bxpzQ

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 10:44 PM (XeU6L)

145 Public Service Announcement: Apologies to drivers in cities that I previously characterized as "the worst." Those assessments were made in good faith with solid grounds, but also made before visiting Houston. Wow.
_________________________

Try Montreal next. And, if you get a rental, take the insurance coverage. You'll need it.

Concerning the NC NASA...the Chinese will be buying that, so don't even bother making a bid.

About that California Utopia ego driven nonsense. Wasn't there a movie about that sort of thing? It didn't end well. I think it was called Downsizing. They shrink you down to 5" and everyone lives in perfect little place called Leisure Land. Except, that perfect little place develops its own slums, crime and elitism. Shocking.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 10:45 PM (dIske)

146 I'm on San Carlos AZ Apache (Geronimo) Irrigation district Electric. Worst power ever. 56 times out over two hours this year. I bypassed the nuclear mini power and went with a 48KW Generator that will run the whole house, pool heater, shop and underground bunker. Have enough propane to run full throttle for 4 weeks. Much cheaper than Nuclear.

Posted by: DBCooper at October 22, 2025 10:46 PM (ZaqT5)

147 >>Dinos are notoriously festive. Wonder if I can get a quantity discount and get a herd of dinos. After all, Santa has nine reindeer...
Posted by: TRex - ho ho ho dino
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There's a house, couple miles away, what puts up a small herd of dinos at Christmas. I imagine they have child(ren) what enjoy that display of 5 or 6 various sizes and types of dino.

Bonus: They *are* festive, indeed, but also collapse into small space for storage afterward.

I'd love to send a pic, but don't know the people and shall respect their privacy... It's an adorable display, take my word for it, LOL!

Posted by: JQ, looking for trouble at October 22, 2025 10:46 PM (rdVOm)

148 Everybody sucks at driving but me.

Mrs b says its a book I should have wrote. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9)

149 California Forever now plans to build the master-planned community… from scratch on former farmland… 400,000 people living in "affordable homes in safe, walkable neighborhoods."

Umm… I can't see any flaws or potential problems here, nope. Just a big boon to the citizens… like Levittown. Yup Yup.
🤔

Posted by: mindful webworker - central planning for your own good at October 22, 2025 10:47 PM (Qqyu2)

150 Perhaps we could pool our money and bid on the NASA campus. I can't think of a finer group to spend my time with.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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NASA? Bwahahahah. It was NSA. Period. SIGINT.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 10:47 PM (XeU6L)

151 Somebody been plugging Tubi and some Japanese scary movie Trigger 100 or something...

I stumbled upon "Strain 100"...
Really bad zombie show.
Near the end sum dude out of nowhere appears and starts popping Zs in the head... Looks like Hickok 45, turns out it is him.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)

152 When I was 5 I found out my grandpa had a twin when I saw him after my grandpa's funeral. A fucking heads up would have been nice.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at October 22, 2025 10:47 PM (YHRP6)

153 That CA Forever thing makes me wish the USAF hadn’t upgraded the C-5M from the GE TF39 engines.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 10:48 PM (vwL3N)

154 Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (1l1S+)

He doesn't like doing laundry

Posted by: nor dishes, it seems at October 22, 2025 10:48 PM (gKWVE)

155 I'd love to send a pic, but don't know the people and shall respect their privacy... It's an adorable display, take my word for it, LOL!
Posted by: JQ, looking for trouble
************
Thank you, I will absolutely take your word for it. And since it's been done once, and so well done, there is absolutely no need to replicate it.
I will send you a check tomorrow girlfriend.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

156 As I recall, Russia is using Small Modular Reactors (SMR) in a couple of their Icebreaker ships. Have been for a few years.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 10:48 PM (dIske)

157 “Concerning the NC NASA...the Chinese will be buying that, so don't even bother making a bid.”

Not if a former RSA citizen has anything to say about it.

Posted by: SpaceX at October 22, 2025 10:49 PM (vwL3N)

158 I will send you a check tomorrow girlfriend.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Posted by: JQ, looking for the payoff at October 22, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

159
The claim that a 155 mm artillery shell fired from Camp Pendleton, detonated several hundred feet in the air above Interstate 5 is looking kind of weak. Nobody in the assembled crowd saw a large shell detonate in midair?

Governor Newsom (a confirmed sociopath) ostentatiously and self righteously said he would shut down the highway to protect the public from Trump's recklessness. And then a handful of magic fragments appeared, that slightly dented the hood of a CA highway patrol car. And no observed shellburst. I smell a rat.

If this was faked, let it be known. If a shell exploded, let it be known.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 22, 2025 10:50 PM (azNOR)

160 Why is the Army the lead organization on SMRs? Hello, what about the Navy? Heard of them?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (vwL3N)

161 Reba sold out.

Her music means so much less. Meh. It’s ok. But whatever.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (mT+6a)

162 Good Lord. A friend of mine posted tonight on Facebook a video of the East Wing of the White House that some tourist did several years ago. Video now claims that all of it is gone, the entire East Wing. Friend has tearful emoji posted on her page. It’s frightening how stupid so many people are in this country..

Posted by: Jen the original at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (mI5Z1)

163 As I recall, Russia is using Small Modular Reactors (SMR) in a couple of their Icebreaker ships. Have been for a few years.
Posted by: Orson

Weren't some of the Atlas sites powered with dissimilar metal nukes?

Posted by: The dead and not the band. at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (TfUTr)

164 158 I will send you a check tomorrow girlfriend.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Posted by: JQ, looking for the payoff at October 22, 2025 10:50 PM
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What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Posted by: TRex - cool hand dino at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

165 By the map, that planned wonderful city in CA isn't "northeast of San Francisco" except in the most technical sense.
It's closer to Suckatomato both in crow miles and especially in driving miles.
The climate there is not going to be the coastal climate of the SF Bay, but rather the "cook an egg on the sidewalk in the summer" and "feel your way through the Tule fog in the winter" climate of the Central Valley.
"NE of SF" is bait and switch.
Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (z4gd/)
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We need to talk about your lawn.
--the HOA

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 10:52 PM (lkBjo)

166 Oops.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:52 PM (TfUTr)

167 There are many gifted Oklahoma singers, but Reba ain't one of them.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 22, 2025 10:52 PM (47diA)

168 This is well trod ground. Read up on the SL-1 reactor incident in Idaho in 1961. An Army private yanked a 100 pound control rod completely out and the steam explosion blew up the whole thing instantly, killing himself and two others. He was impaled on the ceiling by the control rod.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM

I thought that was a murder/suicide, because one of the other two guys had been messing around with the first guy's wife/girlfriend.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 22, 2025 10:52 PM (lFFaq)

169 158 I will send you a check tomorrow girlfriend.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Posted by: JQ, looking for the payoff at October 22, 2025 10:50 PM
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What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
Posted by: TRex - cool hand dino
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sorry dear, can't read you...internet is breaking up

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

170 An ambitious real estate consortium known as California Forever

Sure, go ahead and taunt the earthquake spirits with a name like that for your real-estate boondoggle.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 10:54 PM (nhCoE)

171 Scott Pressler is going to Indiana to try and get the idiot Republicans to wake up an redistrict. This should be fun to watch. Some are saying Pence is behind it , I wouldn't be surprised

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 10:54 PM (8RjCi)

172 Video now claims that all of it is gone, the entire East Wing. Friend has tearful emoji posted on her page. It’s frightening how stupid so many people are in this country..
Posted by: Jen the original at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (mI5Z1)

How sad. Now they have to take down the sign that says "George Washington slipped here."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:54 PM (uQesX)

173 149 California Forever now plans to build the master-planned community… from scratch on former farmland… 400,000 people living in "affordable homes in safe, walkable neighborhoods."

Umm… I can't see any flaws or potential problems here, nope. Just a big boon to the citizens… like Levittown. Yup Yup.
🤔
Posted by: mindful webworker - central planning for your own good at October 22, 2025 10:47 PM (Qqyu2)

Didn't Sefton have a link in this morning's report to an article on how democrat controlled California is so regulated and controlled by politicians, regulations, enviros and bureaucrats that it's impossible to build ANYTHING?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:55 PM (QGaXH)

174 What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
Posted by: TRex
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Not really. Ah practikly done *told ya* where 'n' how to git yer own!

Posted by: JQ, just lil ol' JQ at October 22, 2025 10:55 PM (rdVOm)

175 The claim that a 155 mm artillery shell fired from Camp Pendleton, detonated several hundred feet in the air above Interstate 5 is looking kind of weak. Nobody in the assembled crowd saw a large shell detonate in midair?

Governor Newsom (a confirmed sociopath) ostentatiously and self righteously said he would shut down the highway to protect the public from Trump's recklessness. And then a handful of magic fragments appeared, that slightly dented the hood of a CA highway patrol car. And no observed shellburst. I smell a rat.

If this was faked, let it be known. If a shell exploded, let it be known.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 22, 2025 10:50 PM (azNOR)

It's another Single-Round occurrence!

Posted by: Zombie Arlen Specter at October 22, 2025 10:56 PM (wVcYX)

176 The whole 155mm shell pre-mature burst over I-5 thing sounds preposterous to me.

Any red-legs about who can talk from experience about the technical details here?

As noted by Semi-Literate Thug, a bursting 155mm shell - in broad daylight, and at fairly low altitude (just starting its arc after being fired about 1/4 mile away, I think) would be seen/heard by hundreds of witnesses.

Saw a photo of the chunk of metal that fell on a CHP cruiser. About the size of a small torch lighter. And that was the only debris reported/claimed to have fallen. And as noted by the initial USMC statement, everything that day was done according to long-established safety protocols.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 10:56 PM (U/Byj)

177 "Moderate Priced Housing" Hell, call it "High Crime Area" and save money on the renaming.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:57 PM (TfUTr)

178 Howdy! Enjoyable ONT TRex! Thanks for scouting the NC MoMe location :-)

Posted by: Iris at October 22, 2025 10:57 PM (bOJ2I)

179 What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
Posted by: TRex - cool hand dino
************
sorry dear, can't read you...internet is breaking up
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

Heh!

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:58 PM (TfUTr)

180 There are many gifted Oklahoma singers, but Reba ain't one of them.
Posted by: LRob
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True

Posted by: Leon Russell at October 22, 2025 10:58 PM (XeU6L)

181 When I was 5 I found out my grandpa had a twin when I saw him after my grandpa's funeral. A fucking heads up would have been nice.
Posted by: Muchas buchas

At my HS girlfriend's mother's funeral service, we all found out GF had two other sisters that she never knew about.

Wow was THAT a day!!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:59 PM (cYBz/)

182 178 Howdy! Enjoyable ONT TRex! Thanks for scouting the NC MoMe location :-)

Posted by: Iris at October 22, 2025 10:57 PM
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Thanks and good evening!

Posted by: TRex - non-Oklahoma singing dino at October 22, 2025 11:00 PM (IQ6Gq)

183 Calling it an early night....good night all!

Try not to trash the place.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 11:01 PM (QGaXH)

184 At my HS girlfriend's mother's funeral service, we all found out GF had two other sisters that she never knew about.

Wow was THAT a day!!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:59 PM (cYBz/)

Yikes! As if she didn't have enough to deal with already.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 22, 2025 11:01 PM (lFFaq)

185 HAWK - Tactical Unmanned Aircraft

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (3uBP9)

186 Perhaps we could pool our money and bid on the NASA campus. I can't think of a finer group to spend my time with.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (QGaXH)

We'll need a viking long house for parties and heavy drinking, a live music venue, our own army, an atmospheric dome, a huge ass moat for pirate ship racing, a drag strip, a fabrication shop for all things ICE, a golf course, a motocross track, a shooting range, a missile range, a rocket launch pad, a hospital..definitely a hospital, a mall, and a pizza place. I think that covers it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (snZF9)

187 Those assessments were made in good faith with solid grounds, but also made before visiting Houston.

Business trips to Texas in '80. We were in Houston for two weeks. I watched -more than twice- someone come across 6 lanes to make the exit.

Forward to '88, I was driving a Peterbilt with a 53' trailer. I drove the long way around Houston rather than experience that anxiety again.

Posted by: clarence at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (SWsf/)

188 Glock is cancelling all their non-slim models and rolling out a new 'V' model that will not be able to be put into happy full semi-auto mode via the Glock Switch.

If you want to stock up, now is the time. All existing stock will stop being shipped Oct 31st ish IIRC.

There will be new V model Glocks coming out in November.

This is in response to a multiple state lawsuits and Cali banning Glocks.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (xcxpd)

189 Inflatable Christmas Minotaurs for the Nativity Display?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (wVcYX)

190 I remember seeing cool full-on amphibious exercises at Pendleton while riding north in the family car as a kid. One time I asked dad to pull over (as many were doing) to watch - there were armored vehicles swarming all over the beach-side of I-5, very close, and guys hanging on lines from Hueys crossing over the freeway. Dad said no. But I still got a great look.

This area is probably one of the only ones left in America where one can encounter watch military operations without leaving a developed area. I-5 along Pendleton has long been a fun drive when the Marines are active. Miramar is always active and low-flying screeching F-18s/-35s are commonplace all around the area - my favorite cigar shop has a good view/earful of them when they're circling doing touch-n-gos.

And if you're timing is right, on the third hole at Coronado public golf course (a beautiful and ridiculously cheap course), as you walk up to approach your second shot, just yards away, in the water, SEAL instructors in kayaks with megaphones will be yelling at BUDS sailors flipping/righting their small rafts in a team-work exercise. Always fun to explain to the incredulous out of towners.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (U/Byj)

191 186 Perhaps we could pool our money and bid on the NASA campus. I can't think of a finer group to spend my time with.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (QGaXH)

We'll need a viking long house for parties and heavy drinking, a live music venue, our own army, an atmospheric dome, a huge ass moat for pirate ship racing, a drag strip, a fabrication shop for all things ICE, a golf course, a motocross track, a shooting range, a missile range, a rocket launch pad, a hospital..definitely a hospital, a mall, and a pizza place. I think that covers it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (snZF9)

Strip club and massage parlor also, please.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (xcxpd)

192 189 Inflatable Christmas Minotaurs for the Nativity Display?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (wVcYX)

There's a Halloween Minotaur about two blocks away. It's adorable.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:04 PM (xcxpd)

193 We'll need a viking long house for parties and heavy drinking, a live music venue, our own army, an atmospheric dome, a huge ass moat for pirate ship racing, a drag strip, a fabrication shop for all things ICE, a golf course, a motocross track, a shooting range, a missile range, a rocket launch pad, a hospital..definitely a hospital, a mall, and a pizza place. I think that covers it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

Fuck yeah. Distillery too. Galt's Gulch FTW

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 11:05 PM (PXFlo)

194 Strip club and massage parlor also, please.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (xcxpd)

Fuck yeah. Distillery too. Galt's Gulch FTW

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 11:05 PM (PXFlo)

All covered in the viking long house. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:07 PM (snZF9)

195 Inflatable Christmas Minotaurs for the Nativity Display?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Don't give the current pope any ideas.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 11:07 PM (nhCoE)

196 Those assessments were made in good faith with solid grounds, but also made before visiting Houston.

Business trips to Texas in '80. We were in Houston for two weeks. I watched -more than twice- someone come across 6 lanes to make the exit.

Forward to '88, I was driving a Peterbilt with a 53' trailer. I drove the long way around Houston rather than experience that anxiety again.
Posted by: clarence at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (SWsf/)

All true. All the international cultural diversity on display on the roads here.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 11:08 PM (wVcYX)

197 Minotaurs? Decoder ring not working.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:08 PM (q26vr)

198
Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (U/Byj)

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Don't forget MCRD right out your window as you land at Lindberg Field. You might even see a busload of new arrivals.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 11:08 PM (ldc7S)

199 We need to talk about your lawn.
--the HOA
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Need to plant one first... after, of course, you set up the irrigation system. My front yard is red cinder gravel.
Oh, yeah, set up an HOA, too.
😁

Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 11:08 PM (z4gd/)

200 Bers - ice rink. No, ice rinks. One 200 X 85, one international size. Only hockey allowed, nothing else. And the wave tank for inland body-boarding and surfing (those things have become quite impressive).

Gotta have well-rounded recreational facilities.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 11:09 PM (U/Byj)

201 This "California Forever" thing will proceed unabated because all the "right" people have put money into it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 11:10 PM (tyC0D)

202 I'd rather drive off a cliff than drive through Houston.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 11:11 PM (F2xQR)

203 I think that covers it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (snZF9)

If the ranges could double up as trebuchet areas, that'd be swell.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 11:12 PM (wVcYX)

204 This "California Forever" thing will proceed unabated because all the "right" people have put money into it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 11:10 PM (tyC0D)

Yep. Just like Theranos

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:13 PM (rbvCR)

205 You Want:

191 a viking long house for parties and heavy drinking, a live music venue, our own army, an atmospheric dome, a huge ass moat for pirate ship racing, a drag strip, a fabrication shop for all things ICE, a golf course, a motocross track, a shooting range, a missile range, a rocket launch pad, a hospital..definitely a hospital, a mall, and a pizza place. I think that covers it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (snZF9)

Strip club and massage parlor also, please.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (xcxpd)

You'll settle for:

Modest 3 bd/2 bath ranch on small lot

You'll get:

Burned out former meth lab house trailer on cement blocks on BLM desert land

Good Night for real now - LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 11:14 PM (QGaXH)

206 Direct Energy Weapon to Deploy in San Francisco.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:16 PM (q26vr)

207 Gotta have well-rounded recreational facilities.
Posted by: rhomboid

Will there be a bounce house?

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 11:16 PM (TfUTr)

208 Bers - ice rink. No, ice rinks. One 200 X 85, one international size. Only hockey allowed, nothing else. And the wave tank for inland body-boarding and surfing (those things have become quite impressive).
Posted by: rhomboid
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Add a curling rink. By convention, they all come with a bar overlooking the rink.
Either that, or a bowling alley, which, coincidentally, also has a bar as standard equipment.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 11:16 PM (z4gd/)

209 Blonde Morticia, oh yes, MCRD, landing or taking off (right side of airplane). Take-offs usually even better, when they're on the obstacle course or climbing the ropes. Ooorah.

Landing, always get left side. The fleet at 32nd Street and the carriers at North Island, plus downtown (shockingly close for newbies). Most "attention-intensive" landing in the US according to airline pilots.

Unfortunately they've stopped, but the Marines used to shoot Ma deuces on their east range (formerly Camp Elliott, WWII mortar training base), and if the weather was right, I could hear the pleasing metallic chink-a-chink-a-chink of the 50 cal on my back porch.

15 years ago or so, there was a non-binding local proposition on the ballot asking the USMC to give up Miramar to the city for a new airport. It was trounced on election day. One of the last good election results in this area, and reassuring. A good amount of default normal pro-military sentiment - somehow - survives here.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 11:17 PM (U/Byj)

210 Burned out former meth lab house trailer on cement blocks on BLM desert land
Good Night for real now - LOL!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

That'll do too, lol

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 11:17 PM (FWGpx)

211 NC MoMe location?

Wait. Is there an occasional North Carolina MoMe?

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 11:17 PM (mADJX)

212 Evenin’, TRex, All.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:18 PM (77rzZ)

213 212 Evenin’, TRex, All.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:18 PM
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Bulg!!

Posted by: TRex - tired dino at October 22, 2025 11:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

214 They turned the government back on?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:19 PM (q26vr)

215 Direct Energy Weapon to Deploy in San Francisco.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:16 PM (q26vr)
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Finally an end to all the poop?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 11:20 PM (IC093)

216 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 22, 2025 11:20 PM (sAmhv)

217 The NASA place is located in Transylvania County, so vampires might be a problem. Liquid Fence ought to keep them away.

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 11:22 PM (mADJX)

218 AC DC did a song about a ballroom.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:22 PM (q26vr)

219 179 What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
Posted by: TRex - cool hand dino
************
sorry dear, can't read you...internet is breaking up
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

LOL I think Grateful is communicating very clearly...

Posted by: Iris at October 22, 2025 11:23 PM (bOJ2I)

220 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Today is DD#1's birthday (#39) - she had a connecting flight at DFW, so we drove out there with a Mama's Pizza for her and sat outside of Terminal A (it was a beautiful day) and spent some time with her. Poor thing just texted us - she is STILL at DFW; her flight was delayed (again).

I spent the afternoon getting my front right tooth fragment extracted in preparation for an implant. Apparently my body processes dental numbing medication REALLY fast - they had to numb my mouth THREE times while they were doing the extraction 😲😲😲

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 22, 2025 11:24 PM (SRRAx)

221 The NASA place is located in Transylvania County, so vampires might be a problem. Liquid Fence ought to keep them away.
Posted by: Paco
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See 150

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 11:26 PM (XeU6L)

222
Everybody sucks at driving but me.

_________

People who drive slower than me are idiots.

People who drive faster than me are maniacs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 11:28 PM (tgvbd)

223 Zoran Mamdani NYC's next mayor killed it tonight i
--

Really? He killed NYC already?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 11:28 PM (XeU6L)

224 223 👍, Hadrian.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:29 PM (77rzZ)

225 There is no prize money if you get to the Kroger a minute early.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:29 PM (q26vr)

226 Teresa, glad you got to spend part of the layover with your DD on her birthday. Good luck with the tooth!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 11:30 PM (F2xQR)

227 Public Service Announcement: Apologies to drivers in cities that I previously characterized as "the worst." Those assessments were made in good faith with solid grounds, but also made before visiting Houston. Wow.

The freeways of Houston were where I learned to drive (Driver's Ed class) - I always said that after that, I wasn't afraid to drive anywhere 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 22, 2025 11:30 PM (SRRAx)

228
Business trips to Texas in '80. We were in Houston for two weeks. I watched -more than twice- someone come across 6 lanes to make the exit.

_________

The TexEx: six lanes, fifty feet, no turn signal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 11:31 PM (tgvbd)

229 Small towns are better.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:32 PM (q26vr)

230
I once asked Her Majesty where she learned to drive. She replied, "India". That explains a lot.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 11:34 PM (tgvbd)

231 Genius! Lets build another 400K city, that does not have any industry to support itself.

Once upon a time, cities were essentially aggregations of labor... whatever the city built, it housed the labor needed.

From Detroit and Cars, to Los A with Trains and Aircraft and movies... to New York banking and business... hell, Chicago was once a YUGE slaughter plant.

Now, most cities don't produce enough real products to support the drain on the economy its population creates. Look at the Bay Area... built around shipping, but now the vast majority of labor has nothing to do with it. Now most cities are just Yuge Human Storage facilities... with most of the population just supporting the rest of the population.

So yeah! Lets take productive FARMLAND, where shit is actually produced, and created a city with no industry! GENIUS!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 11:35 PM (mP0Kj)

232 By leveraging its nuclear regulatory authorities in partnership with the DOE, the Army will move forward with microreactors that are safe, resilient, and adaptable.
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I can't imagine they respond well to bullets.

Posted by: Jack Ryan at October 22, 2025 11:36 PM (vSvIl)

233 Sympathy, TiFW. I had an industrial accident and got debris in my eyes. In '88, I had a procedure to clean up scar tissue under my right eyelid. It took three shots of lidocaine to get numbed.
In '98, I had the left eye done. I told the doc about the previous and she said that she would use pricocaine. So, shot then procedure and then walk up to the front to write a check. By this time, the injection was wearing off. Just under an hour since the stick. Normal time for pricocaine is 4 to 6 hours.

Posted by: clarence at October 22, 2025 11:36 PM (SWsf/)

234 231
I once asked Her Majesty where she learned to drive. She replied, "India". That explains a lot.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 11:34 PM (tgvbd)

Still one of the all time great movie lines, from The Muppet Movie:

Kermit: Where did you learn how to drive?
Fozzie: I took a correspondence course.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 11:36 PM (FVLcK)

235 >>... hell, Chicago was once a YUGE slaughter plant.
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In fairness, it still IS.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 11:37 PM (rdVOm)

236 Industry is bad. Think of the Delta Smelta It.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:37 PM (q26vr)

237 “And He Built A Crooked House…” by Robert Heinlein, first published in 1941, starts by claiming all the crazy Americans are in California. That’s before centering the craziness on a Hollywood address that would be across the street from where RAH then lived.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 22, 2025 11:37 PM (ZVgZ4)

238 I spent the afternoon getting my front right tooth fragment extracted in preparation for an implant. Apparently my body processes dental numbing medication REALLY fast - they had to numb my mouth THREE times while they were doing the extraction 😲😲😲

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 22, 2025 11:24 PM (SRRAx)

I went through that with one of my front teeth. Yeah, it was fun.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:38 PM (snZF9)

239 Raimondo is right.
Cuomo sucks and needs to quit the race or else, indeed, Mamdani will be mayor.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 11:39 PM (gKWVE)

240 The Madmani across the water.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:40 PM (q26vr)

241 240 So, who’s the best alternative to the Muzzie commie in NYC, and does such person even have a chance?

Asking for 3AM Thai takeout.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:43 PM (77rzZ)

242 Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 11:39 PM (gKWVE)

And if Cuomo quits, Mamdani will win with 80% of the vote.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 22, 2025 11:45 PM (n9ltV)

243 There's a Halloween Minotaur about two blocks away. It's adorable.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:04 PM (xcxpd)

Does he have his handy girl with him?

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 11:46 PM (WtEb/)

244 Gonna clock out now and go watch another episode of Eureka with MiladyJo. We're re-watching the series, and it's amazing how much I don't remember from when it first ran a mere decade ago.

https://youtu.be/EJjguwW9634

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - too smart for my own good at October 22, 2025 11:47 PM (Qqyu2)

245
Really? He killed NYC already?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

===============

Islam -- for FAST ACTION!!!
(image of jet heading for skyscraper)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 11:50 PM (ldc7S)

246 So, who’s the best alternative to the Muzzie commie in NYC, and does such person even have a chance?

Asking for 3AM Thai takeout.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:43 PM (77rzZ)

Anything is a better alternative. A muzzie commie is a doomsday scenario for NYC. In the end I don't give a shit. If thats the crap they vote for it will become a no man's land and they can rot in it. As I said before, its better to just blow the frigging brides, flood the tunnels, and mine the fucking waters. Let them starve themselves into extinction.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:51 PM (snZF9)

247 If you want to read the RAH short story, here it is:

https://is.gd/WF9l6a

Link goes to Internet Archive.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 22, 2025 11:54 PM (ZVgZ4)

248 Well, its been another wonderful ONT evening.
Girldog says it's time for naps. See youz guys tomorrow 💤💤💤

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 11:56 PM (mAdag)

249 it's amazing how much I don't remember from when it first ran a mere decade ago.
Posted by: mindful webworker
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Wait, it gets worse.
I used to.pick up.A book at the library, read a few pages and say, "Hey, I read this 15 years ago."
Now, I pick up a book, read a few pages, decide it looks interesting, take it home, and figure out, 8 chapters in, that I read it 2 years ago.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 11:57 PM (z4gd/)

250 217 The NASA place is located in Transylvania County, so vampires might be a problem. Liquid Fence ought to keep them away.
Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 11:22 PM (mADJX)

DD#3 and her husband live in that county (in my parents' old house) - that is a BEAUTIFUL part of the country.

It would be cool to have a NC MoMe in that part of NC - we would make the trip!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 23, 2025 12:05 AM (SRRAx)

251 I couldn't care less about NYC. Sorry, not sorry. Nobody should live like that, crammed into too little space, with crazy people wondering around, murderous gangs, garbage everywhere, everything smelling like piss and vomit. Whatever happens there affects me not at all, by design. If they want to elect the devil incarnate, so be it. I hope they get it good and hard at this point.

They can fucking well fix it themselves or not.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 12:07 AM (urtE/)

252 Goodnight, All. Sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at October 23, 2025 12:07 AM (77rzZ)

253 I spent the afternoon getting my front right tooth fragment extracted in preparation for an implant. Apparently my body processes dental numbing medication REALLY fast - they had to numb my mouth THREE times while they were doing the extraction 😲😲😲
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 22, 2025 11:24 PM (SRRAx)

When I had mine pulled, I went with the goofy gas. It hurt, but I really didn't care. In fact, I don't really remember much of it. And that's how I like it.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 12:10 AM (urtE/)

254 its better to just blow the frigging brides,
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:51 PM (snZF9)

2025 NY (really any blue city) in a nutshell

Posted by: Methos at October 23, 2025 12:16 AM (vSvIl)

255 Im really horrible at the dentist. They have to knock me out, complete sedation. I had a root canal and a bone graft and was out but I guess I woke up in the middle of it and tried to leave. They had to give me more juice in the iv. I ended up sleeping for 2 days after.

Posted by: Megthered at October 23, 2025 12:20 AM (NHKs8)

256
They can fucking well fix it themselves or not.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK

===============

I know what you mean, but I'd also love to see Mamdani crushed and sent back to his rap studio, defeated by a Cuomo+Sliwa team (no other way to do it). Just the pleasure of his being crushed and shamed.

The other thing, I worry that if he wins, it won't just be New York's problem. Socialists in other big cities will be emboldened.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 12:32 AM (ldc7S)

257 The other thing, I worry that if he wins, it won't just be New York's problem. Socialists in other big cities will be emboldened.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
--------

It is a cancer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 23, 2025 12:33 AM (XeU6L)

258 When I had mine pulled, I went with the goofy gas. It hurt, but I really didn't care. In fact, I don't really remember much of it. And that's how I like it.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 12:10 AM (urtE/)

They were also prepping it for a tooth implant; there was some other stuff involved, I think.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 23, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx)

259 The other thing, I worry that if he wins, it won't just be New York's problem. Socialists in other big cities will be emboldened.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 12:32 AM (ldc7S)

I'm not in a city. I'm not in a town. I'm not in a suburb. I'm not concerned. I have a year's worth of food and heating oil. I just don't care.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 12:36 AM (urtE/)

260 They were also prepping it for a tooth implant; there was some other stuff involved, I think.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 23, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx)

Yeah, they drilled out the bone and set the attachment anchor. I don't remember much. That's good.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 12:37 AM (urtE/)

261 >>>Forward to '88, I was driving a Peterbilt with a 53' trailer. I drove the long way around Houston rather than experience that anxiety again.
Posted by: clarence at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (SWsf/)

All true. All the international cultural diversity on display on the roads here.
Posted by: Count de Monet
------------------

Just consider it road warrior training.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 12:41 AM (XwyaG)

262 They were also prepping it for a tooth implant; there was some other stuff involved, I think.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 23, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx)

Were they planning on doing the implant on the day of extraction? I went through hell with mine. They extracted the tooth, cut my frigging gums, did the bone implant, was in pain for a week, then I had to wait 6 months. 6 months later, the bastard cuts my gum open and says yeah, the graft didn't take, sometimes I don't have luck with front teeth, you'll probably need a bridge. WHAT?? I go see my dentist who sent me to this bastard, and he says If I was you I would go for the implant. I said he can't do it. Oh I got another guy who is cutting edge. The new guy tells me yeah no problem, it should have been done when it was extracted, I'll get a nurse from Saint peters to extract a few vials of blood, I'll use your DNA to make the bone graft, no pain, no swelling, and the implant will be done. Sure as shit, by 5pm, there was no pain, no pain killers needed, no swelling, and the implant was done.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 23, 2025 12:46 AM (snZF9)

263 257 The other thing, I worry that if he wins, it won't just be New York's problem. Socialists in other big cities will be emboldened.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It is a cancer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
-----------------------------------------

Trump is going to these secondary cities, fighting in the courts and eventually winning lasting judgements. He loves NY and by the time Mandami wins Trump shall have won all the judgements necessary to send Troops and the DoJ, hand in hand, into NYC, take it over and clean it up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 12:47 AM (XwyaG)

264 Trump shall have won all the judgements necessary to send Troops and the DoJ, hand in hand, into NYC, take it over and clean it up.
--------

Hope springs eternal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 23, 2025 12:49 AM (XeU6L)

265 >>>
I'm not in a city. I'm not in a town. I'm not in a suburb. I'm not concerned. I have a year's worth of food and heating oil. I just don't care.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK
---

Smarty pants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 12:49 AM (XwyaG)

266 My latest Fiery Spicy Latina infatuation:
youtube.com/watch?v=7oJToggt3pw

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 12:51 AM (7imtn)

267 >>>nuclear reactor is tougher than it appears. They wanted something requiring minimal oversight and easy modular construction, portability etc etc.
Posted by: Common Tater
----------------

Bezos is planning on building 13 small one's for his AI toys.
Others are looking at same. These wiz kids, if anybody, can make the idea work. Miniature reactors will be a game changer.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 12:53 AM (XwyaG)

268 128 After Rickover got his nuclear submarines, the Air Force decided what they really needed was a nuclear powered bomber, that could stay in the air for months at a time. Really.

Contracts were let, and testing proceeded on nuclear powered jet engines. Turns out lightweight aircraft made of thin aluminium and such, and heavy power plants, shielding, don’t really mix very well. Nothing was ever built that could fly, and JFK deleted the program soon after inauguration.

Not to mention the potential huge disaster of an aircraft with a functioning nuclear reactor crashing into a populated area. And military planes used to crash a lot back then, especially cutting edge ones.

Posted by: Anonymous this time at October 23, 2025 12:58 AM (3/XaG)

269 Well, sleepiness is overtaking me. Time to call it a night. Good Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 23, 2025 12:59 AM (8zz6B)

270 Hey Horde, how are you all this evening?

COMM, if you are still around, I have some MoMe swag for you, I'll probably mail it on Friday.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 23, 2025 01:00 AM (0nHVk)

271 The Trump administration has extended its controversial military campaign against suspected drug-trafficking vessels into the Eastern Pacific, marking a significant expansion beyond operations previously concentrated near Venezuelan waters.
_gcaptain.com

Boom, boom, boom
https://tinyurl.com/5euajvf7

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 01:02 AM (XwyaG)

272 Demon-possessed, tripping balls, art teacher:
youtube.com/watch?v=ooLRsMGtX4Y

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 01:08 AM (7imtn)

273 ANOTHER MAJOR LEGAL VICTORY FOR TRUMP:

President Trump beats Gavin Newsom in 9th Circuit en banc case.

Trump can federalize California National Guard to support federal immigration efforts

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 01:09 AM (XwyaG)

274
Trump can federalize California National Guard to support federal immigration efforts
Posted by: Braenyard

===============

Frickin' awesome. Now if only he can get some efforts going.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 01:14 AM (ldc7S)

275 I can't get over how this retired govt contractor physicist Robert Campbell looks exactly like me. It's unsettling. And I feel kinda sorry for the guy.
youtube.com/watch?v=U7niXhUEC-I

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 01:17 AM (7imtn)

276 Found Reba hidden. Anyone else notice?

Posted by: KT at October 23, 2025 01:18 AM (7vIsy)

277 Thomas, not Robert.

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 01:19 AM (7imtn)

278
Demon-possessed, tripping balls, art teacher:
youtube.com/watch?v=ooLRsMGtX4Y
Posted by: gp

==============

And one big eff-up by Officer Hammond.
(got in a high-speed chase, didn't buckle his seatbelt, crashed and got injured for those who don't want to watch the whole thing)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 01:20 AM (ldc7S)

279
Hey, Debby, doing good. You?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 01:21 AM (ldc7S)

280
Trump is going to these secondary cities, fighting in the courts and eventually winning lasting judgements. He loves NY and by the time Mandami wins Trump shall have won all the judgements necessary to send Troops and the DoJ, hand in hand, into NYC, take it over and clean it up.

Posted by: Braenyard

=================

This would also be acceptable. Mamdani vs Trump in one bruising, humiliating loss after another. In the end, Trump is effectively the mayor.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 01:22 AM (ldc7S)

281 Smarty pants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 12:49 AM (XwyaG)

Well, yeah.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 01:22 AM (urtE/)

282 278 I knew she was trouble as soon as I saw the pinkish ... sundress(?)

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 01:25 AM (7imtn)

283 Blondie, I am very good, thanks, how about yourself?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 23, 2025 01:32 AM (0nHVk)

284 For those of you paying attention, Trump signed an emergency declaration for Western AK today to the tune of $25M. All the villages wiped out in the typhoon will receive aid. The issue is that winter is closing in, and not much can be done to rebuild the villages before it is impossible. Whole houses floated away, everything is covered in mud, there's not infrastructure or heavy equipment out there to fix thing.... etc.

Meanwhile, AK folks have rallied to provide shelter, clothing and food. The NG has airlifted everyone they could find down to Anchorage, and emergency shelter is giving way to individual housing solutions. Kids have been enrolled in Anchorage schools, families are being fed, people have donated Native food items (muktuk, seal oil, caribou meat, etc.) and everyone has winter gear in hand.

Waiting for the feds was always dicey up here. Very few lost lives in this one, which is an absolute miracle.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 01:33 AM (urtE/)

285 "pinkish ... sundress(?)"

Snippet from "1984:"
'the regulation lunch -- a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew'

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 01:34 AM (7imtn)

286
Blondie, I am very good, thanks, how about yourself?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

============

Good here. Doing a little entrepreneur thing while I'm furloughed -- probably forever, the way things are going with my erstwhile company.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 01:34 AM (ldc7S)

287 13 Quit what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 10:04 PM (63Dwl)

It's gotta be "smoking," doesn't it?

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 01:35 AM (RuTUS)

288 https://tinyurl.com/2rrx8xtk
20 Posts from Doug Ross Substack

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 01:56 AM (+qU29)

289 Quit what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 10:04 PM (63Dwl)

It's gotta be "smoking," doesn't it?
Posted by: m
-------

Would have more impact were that a tobacco barn...which it isn't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 23, 2025 01:58 AM (XeU6L)

290 289 Quit what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 10:04 PM (63Dwl)

It's gotta be "smoking," doesn't it?
Posted by: m
-------

Would have more impact were that a tobacco barn...which it isn't.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 23, 2025 01:58 AM (XeU6L)

Would have more irony!

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 02:01 AM (RuTUS)

291 I have a copy of *Off to Mt. Hood: An auto biography of the old road*.

Posted by: pjungwir at October 23, 2025 02:03 AM (noE7F)

292 "pinkish ... sundress(?)"

Snippet from "1984:"
'the regulation lunch -- a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew'
Posted by: gp

Album from 1971:
Caravan -- In the Land of Grey and Pink

https://youtu.be/JKrdz3Tf9dA

Posted by: mikeski at October 23, 2025 02:19 AM (nhCoE)

293 I am off to sleep, Horde, sweet dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 23, 2025 02:21 AM (0nHVk)

294 288 https://tinyurl.com/2rrx8xtk
20 Posts from Doug Ross Substack
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 01:56 AM (+qU29)

Thanks, Skip.

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 02:21 AM (RuTUS)

295 Waiting for the feds was always dicey up here. Very few lost lives in this one, which is an absolute miracle.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 01:33

Wow, hadn't heard about this. Prayers up from here.

Posted by: Farmer at October 23, 2025 03:35 AM (55Qr6)

296 Friday can't come soon enough

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 03:41 AM (+qU29)

297 262 Were they planning on doing the implant on the day of extraction? I went through hell with mine. They extracted the tooth, cut my frigging gums, did the bone implant, was in pain for a week, then I had to wait 6 months. 6 months later, the bastard cuts my gum open and says yeah, the graft didn't take, sometimes I don't have luck with front teeth, you'll probably need a bridge. WHAT?? I go see my dentist who sent me to this bastard, and he says If I was you I would go for the implant. I said he can't do it. Oh I got another guy who is cutting edge. The new guy tells me yeah no problem, it should have been done when it was extracted, I'll get a nurse from Saint peters to extract a few vials of blood, I'll use your DNA to make the bone graft, no pain, no swelling, and the implant will be done. Sure as shit, by 5pm, there was no pain, no pain killers needed, no swelling, and the implant was done.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 23, 2025 12:46 AM (snZF9)

yikes

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 03:49 AM (RuTUS)

298 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

299 299

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