The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 3/12/26

Good morning kids. Well, I'm sure you're all familiar with the expression "Paper Tiger." Given the current situation, my first instinct is to laugh.

With so much AI material circulating nowadays, it was easy to assume that the photos were fake, but they apparently were real. Only Mojtaba Khamenei, the new head of Iran’s Islamic regime, was slightly less than real. Photos began circulating Tuesday of Iranians straight-facedly presenting a large cardboard cutout of Mojtaba at a ceremony celebrating his appointed as the country’s supreme leader. . . problem: how could they have a ceremony to celebrate Mojtaba Khamenei becoming the new supreme leader if Mojtaba himself, despite being “safe and sound,” had been injured so severely that he was unable to attend?The solution to this problem that the Islamic Republic’s best minds hit upon owed more to Monty Python than to the subtle principles of high-level statecraft. The ceremony went on as planned, but Mojtaba Khamenei wasn’t there; in his stead, Iranians displayed a large cardboard cutout of a man, with a photo of a glum-looking Mojtaba’s face at the top. . . That doesn’t mean, however, that it is a nonexistent regime, or that it cannot survive through this period of crisis. American actions always take place within the election cycle, and that cycle wields immense influence over them. Adding to the unpredictability of all that is Trump’s mercurial nature. Right now he is committed to striking Iran, but that’s no guarantee that he will continue to do so until the regime is no more. The Israelis, meanwhile, are more likely than ever to act without American approval, but still reluctant to antagonize their foremost friend in this world. Thus Cardboard Khamenei and his regime have a chance to remain in power for decades to come. All the need to do is survive the present crisis. They may not face a similar challenge, and the Iranian people may not have an opportunity to rid themselves of the regime that is as good as the one they have now, for many, many years.

All too true. So you laugh, and then all things considered it's not really all that funny given the Shiite goal of world conquest via armageddon, which may once again blow up right in our faces. They hate us and have already spilled rivers of American blood for 47 years, and now they're cornered like rats in a cage. And so, anything can happen:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a threat alert in early March to California law enforcement detailing intelligence pointing to the potential of Iranian drone strikes launched against the West Coast of the United States. According to the memo, Iran was believed to be seeking to position an unidentified vessel off California’s coast with the intent of using it as a platform to launch suicide drones. The threat alert appears to be more of a situational awareness notice than a warning of an imminent Iranian attack.“We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the U.S. conducted strikes against Iran,” the FBI threat alert states, adding, “We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack.”There are additional concerns that Iranian agents or proxies operating in Central and South America could coordinate with Mexican drug cartels to launch suicide drone attacks across the U.S. southern border, especially targeting American military bases in Texas and California.

Don't be shocked if one day you hear the Amish phrase "Allahu Akbar" right before a bomb explodes...and you're showered with Jello Salad or Shrapnel

We are at the point where The New York Times, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC and USA Today will downplay, obfuscate or even justify an ISIS terrorist attack in New York City simply because it was aimed at people they loathe. Never mind that we saw video all over social media Saturday showing one of the ISIS-radicalized suspects yelling “Allahu Akbar” as he tossed a bomb packed with shrapnel and “Mother of Satan” explosives into an anti-Islam protest near Gracie Mansion.
Just because the bombs thrown into the crowd that afternoon fizzled out before exploding does not make the terrorist attack any less ominous.
In the hometown of 9/11 heroes, the Times framed Saturday’s attack in a way deliberately designed to mislead the reader into thinking the offenders were anti-Islamic protesters and that Mayor Mamdani was their intended victim.

And considering that an Iranian was sentenced for an attempted assassination of Donald Trump we still have this to contend with:

Attorney General Pam Bondi has moved to a military base in Washington, D.C., after federal investigators flagged credible threats related to her work at the Justice Department, the New York Times reports. The move happened within the past month, after law enforcement warned her team that the danger had reached a level serious enough to force action. . . This isn't an isolated case. It's a pattern: Several senior officials have already made similar moves amid increased threats against members of the administration. Among them are Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s top domestic policy adviser; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem; and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Of course, we have a probable recent graduate of the Renee Good driving school . . .

The United States Secret Service (USSS) detained an unnamed driver early Wednesday morning after they crashed their vehicle into an outer perimeter barricade near the White House. Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesman, stated that officers from the agency’s uniformed division are “looking into a suspicious vehicle.” He added, “Various entrances and the streets are temporarily closed as teams conduct their work.”Notably, the crash occurred at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and H Streets, just outside Lafayette Square, according to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). No injuries have been reported in connection with the collision.The incident has resulted in streets north of the White House being temporarily closed as law enforcement and National Guard troops secured the area.

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AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!

Heightened concerns over drone warfare and national security, with warnings extending to Mexican cartel drone activity along the U.S.-Mexico border.
FBI Warns Iran Plotting Drone Strike on California.
The attacks have disrupted shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital chokepoint for global oil and fertilizer supplies, and raised concerns about escalating tensions in the region.
Three Vessels Hit in Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s supreme leaders used to be made of stronger stuff.
Cardboard Khamenei
Flat Stanley was born in 1964. The brainchild of children’s author Jeff Brown, Flat Stanley was originally a bedtime story for Brown’s kids: When his son fretted about being smooshed by the big noticeboard hanging above his bed, Brown joked about the upside of being flat — and in the process, Stanley Lambchop, a.k.a. Flat Stanley, was introduced to the world.
Iranian Supreme Leader ‘Flat Stanley’ Versus America
Iran after the mullahs: the time to plan is now.
A South Azerbaijani Dissident’s Appeal to President Trump
Thus, airpower — and the Iranian people as “boots on the ground” — may usher in the greatest change in global history since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
What History Tells Us About Trump’s Plan To Defeat Iran By Air
David Harsanyi: Breaking the foreign-policy “norms” that kept the Mullahs dangerous.
Trump Eradicates 47 Years of Feckless Foreign Policy
And the taboo truths the West still just can't confront.
The Arab Response to the War on Iran

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The release is intended to address supply disruptions caused by the near-total closure of the Strait of Hormuz during the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. Oil flows through the strait have fallen to less than 10 percent of pre-conflict levels, the IEA said, forcing producers across the region to shut in or curtail output.
IEA Members Unanimously Approve 400 Million Barrel Oil Reserve Release, Largest Ever
"I think they’re not cooperating at all."
Trump Slams Spain, Threatens Trade Cutoff As He Touts Massive Military Success In Iran
Graham’s asinine rhetoric about the Iran war is making it more difficult for the Trump White House to develop a coherent message on the subject.
The Best Thing Trump Can Do For The Iran War Effort Is Shutting Up Lindsey Graham

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Streets north of the White House were shut down, with police and security forces securing the area.
Car Hits White House Barricade, Secret Service Investigating.
This isn't an isolated case. It's a pattern: Several senior officials have already made similar moves amid increased threats against members of the administration. Among them are Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s top domestic policy adviser; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem; and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Another Trump Official Moved to Military Base Amid Threats
Vasquez replaced George Soros-backed leftist Mike Schmidt, who rolled out a policy in August 2020 to not prosecute several protest-related crimes. Under Trump’s second term, Portland’s city council has publicly thanked protesters for defying his “fascist agenda” while Democrat Mayor Keith Wilson’s administration imposes guidelines for city workers to protect migrants from ICE. The surge in rioting came after Trump launched mass deportation efforts that have swept through so-called sanctuary jurisdictions such as Portland. (RELATED: ‘Where Are We Looting?’: Meet The Portland Leftists Who Keep Getting Arrested And Released)
Anti-ICE Rioters Thought They Were Above The Law — One Man Is Showing Them Otherwise
A government that can peer into your medical file, your legal records, your spiritual life, and your finances without resistance is not a guardian of rights but rather an overlord.
Whatever Happened to Confidentiality?

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Officials said the number almost doubled that of predators arrested during the final year of former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden’s (D) junta.
ICE: 414 Illegal Alien Child Sex Offenders Arrested in Houston During President Trump’s First Year
"It has been absolutely successful."
Illegal Aliens Found A New Way To Get Released From ICE Detention
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Mirabelli offers important signals regarding the state of our highest court, but its most important effect is making sure that vulnerable kids are not abandoned to the state.
What To Know About SCOTUS’ Mirabelli Decision And How It Protects Parents And Kids
On Tuesday, the Democrat-run State of Washington passed a massive wealth tax. Hours later, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced his move to Republican-run Florida.
Hours After Democrat-run WA Passes Wealth Tax, Former Starbucks CEO Flees to FL
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Is it the man? Or the rule-book?
The Endless Search for the “Moderate” Islamic Leader
Mamdani released a statement the day after the attempted attack, saying that “white supremacist Jake Lang” had organized a protest “rooted in bigotry and racism.” He failed to name the terrorists or their affiliation with Islam.
Mamdani runs cover for Islamic terror by blaming white supremacy
Police say this is the first time a march has been banned in London since 2012, but note there is no law in Britain to prevent a static demonstration, which will be going ahead despite the ban.
London Police Ban Al Quds Day March This Weekend, First Time Protest Banned Since 2012
British schools “have been advised that children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law,” according to The Telegraph. The outlet cites a school guidance document called “Sharing The Journey” issued “to teachers by Labour councils in northern England.”
Liberals, Muslims Teaming Up To Stifle Little Kids’ Joy In British Schools
The prophet of destruction is among us. He operates in the shadows and in the light of day. He is livid and vituperative. He is the Mahdi.
Is the Twelfth Imam Already Among Us?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The media predicted a gas price apocalypse. It’s not happening. Think they’ll give Trump credit?
Gas Prices are Coming Down and the Media are Bummed
In the hometown of 9/11 heroes, the Times framed Saturday’s attack in a way deliberately designed to mislead the reader into thinking the offenders were anti-Islamic protesters and that Mayor Mamdani was their intended victim.
Miranda Devine: The far-left media showed just whose side they’re on during coverage of the NYC ISIS-inspired bomb attack
Sportswriters are out of touch with fans.
How Sports Journalism Lurched Leftward

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“We’re not going to change our principles because of technology.”
Josh Hawley: We Must ‘Bend’ AI to Serve the Good
In a world where AI-generated media can blur the line between authentic and fabricated events, the challenge facing democratic societies is to establish reliable methods of verification.
Fake News and AI
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
While the threat of inflation has largely subsided for now, ongoing hostilities between the United States and Iran have caused significant volatility in energy markets, which could temporarily push some prices higher for a short period.
DATA: Inflation Stable in February, But Iran War Could Cause Spike.
When Bracero ended, critics forecast collapse, but what followed was mechanization and growth. Big Agriculture is wrong again, and it’s time to call the bluff.
Trump Needs To End Big Agriculture’s Cheap Foreign Labor Racket
A net gain for the reds, and a net loss for the blues.
Bye bye blue
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Meta investigators disabled more than 150,000 accounts associated with scam centers.
WATCH: Trump DOJ Teams Up With Meta, Thai Police To Bust Scammers Stealing From Americans
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Newly uncovered documents lay out a highly organized influence scheme that targets judges who are overseeing major environmental cases
Inside the Left-Wing Operation to ‘Train’ Judges About Climate Change: Free Trips to Napa Valley, Palm Beach, and Hawaii Fuel a Secret Judge Recruitment Operation
Energy prices are too high in Europe, which harms both consumers and industrial competitiveness, and this is partly because several European nations destroyed their own nuclear energy industries, leaving the continent dependent on imported gas and oil, a nuclear energy conference in Paris heard on Tuesday.
Whoops! Ending Nuclear Power May Have Been a Mistake After All, Says EU Chief
For most people, climate policy still sounds like something debated at environmental conferences or negotiated in international treaties but increasingly, it is being implemented somewhere else entirely.
How Climate Policy Is Being Built Into The Financial System
Washington’s climate crusaders obsess over carbon while ignoring a real environmental disaster in their backyard: hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage pouring into the Potomac.
Potomac Disaster Demonstrates Environmental Hypocrisy
. . .the West risks awakening to a world powered by Beijing’s reactors, not its own ingenuity. Green China is a sham — but it’s time for the West to emulate Beijing’s real playbook, by ramping up energy use and investing in nuclear R&D.
Don’t buy the ‘green China’ hype — here’s Beijing’s REAL energy agenda
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The role of education is not to enforce political consensus but to encourage critical thinking.
Blue State Moves To Muzzle Oral History Of J6
SECOND AMENDMENT
The Virginia Senate passed SB 749 along party lines on Tuesday in a 21-19 vote after the House approved it in February. The bill, authored by Democrat Virginia State Sen. Saddam Salim, a Bangladeshi immigrant, will head to Spanberger’s desk, where it is expected to be signed into law, as she previously advocated supporting “common-sense proposals.”
Virginia Democrats Close To Making Gun Owners’ Worst Nightmare Reality
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Congress has created a Leviathan too big to manage, giving fraudsters an easy opportunity to pick taxpayers’ pockets by the millions and billions.
Labor Dept. Has Done Nothing To Recover Half-A-Billion Dollars In Suspected Covid Fraud
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
So why hasn't congress even had a vote on the popular measure?
Two-Thirds Back ‘SAVE Act’ To Require Voter ID — And Support Is Bipartisan: I&I/TIPP Poll
‘It’s not enough for him to kill the SAVE America Act. Thune has to kill it while also protecting his worst RINO colleagues,’ Sean Davis said.
Thune Is Sabotaging SAVE Act While Pretending He Tried Everything
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
NBC News captured Cornyn blocking its camera with his hand, an image likely to intensify grassroots opposition to Cornyn and skepticism of his empty election season parroting of MAGA talking points.
Filibuster Bluster: John Cornyn Flip-Flops Again on Filibuster Hours After Promising ‘Whatever It Takes’ to Pass SAVE America Act
Every neighborhood has that property-line fight. In this one, the neighbor runs the state.
The Backyard Battle Between Dem Governor And Couple Next Door
POLITICS
The incident saw attorney Joe Joplin leaving the pen in a tray as he rushed through courthouse security. Sometime after, Paxton also passed through security and mistakenly picked up the pen along with the other items he had placed in the tray. After courthouse security realized the error and contacted Paxton, it was returned to Joplin.
WATCH: Cornyn Drops Panicked Attack Ad Claiming Ken Paxton Stole a Pen.
The competitive three-way primary between former football coach Derek Dooley and Republican Georgia Reps. Buddy Carter and Mike Collins is hardly a surprise, as Georgia has remained contested terrain over the past three election cycles.
Trump Faces His Next Midterm Powder Keg In Georgia
Illinois now stands alone with two blue-haired lawmakers—an unusual political first that says less about fashion and more about the strange signals today’s political class chooses to send.
Analysis: Illinois Has Most Blue-Haired State Lawmakers in the U.S.
History called. Trump answered.
Donald Trump: A Great Man of History
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Restraint-mongers ‘depressed’ as Trump praises FDD’s Goldberg, Iran nears freedom
‘Fear and Paralysis’ Grip Right-Wing Isolationists
China has been chasing the title of world superpower for over a decade. Trump is still holding Xi back.
Trump Is Dismantling Xi’s ‘China Dream’ One Piece At A Time
A Trump administration official told Breitbart News that Chinese officials have now threatened to detain Panamanian-flagged vessels in China, something that could disrupt global commerce and represents retaliation against Panama for recent developments taking control of the two ports on either end of the Panama Canal out of the hands of a Hong Kong company controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Exclusive— Trump Administration Official: China Threatened to Detain All Panamanian-Flagged Vessels at Chinese Ports
China’s infiltration of Canada has become dangerously widespread, presenting a major threat, and the U.S. has every reason to reevaluate its policies toward its northern neighbor.
Why America Must Defend Itself From The China-Canada Alliance
"At this stage, we have elements suggesting a deliberate act by a person who was inside the bus."Six dead in Switzerland after man allegedly set himself on fire on bus
The deeply controversial measure, concocted by Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy, would upend a millennium of English legal tradition in a supposed bid to reduce the backlog of cases currently waiting to be heard by courts.
British Gov’t Plan to Scrap Jury Trials Clears First Hurdle Despite Opposition
The decision ends over 50 years of featuring British historical figures on banknotes.
Britain to Remove Churchill from Banknotes.
Thankfully, despite the language he uses publicly, Trump hasn't been persuaded. Thankfully, he has the man in U.S. politics who knows more about Venezuela than anyone else whispering in his ear: Secretary of State Marco Rubio... Machado was the favorite to become Venezuela's president in 2024 before Maduro banned her from running. Polls out of there today show that nothing has changed. If anything, people are losing their fear and speaking up even louder in support of her. She's the most popular politician in a county where the opposition is more united than anything I've ever seen. She's ready to return home and have elections as soon as possible, so that her country can be free and its people safe and prosperous.
And the Next President of Venezuela Will Be...
We’ve poured billions into a country too weak to break Hezbollah and, worse, headed by a political class unwilling to do so.
Hezbollah’s Lebanon: America’s Failed Experiment
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The super-Earth has a mass estimated to be anywhere from two to ten times that of Earth, so if any life could exist on it that life would have to be adapted for an extremely strong gravitational field. The star itself appears to be relatively benign for an M dwarf, having a “low level of magnetic activity”, though it does exhibit some flaring that could pose a threat to the development of life on the planet.
A nearby red dwarf star has a solar system of four planets, one in the habitable zone
Iapetus, about 912 miles in diameter, is one of the strangest objects in the solar system. As it orbits Saturn, its leading hemisphere is very dark, covered with almost pitch black material, while its trailing hemisphere is very bright. This picture captures a bit of both, with the dark leading hemisphere visible along the right edge.
Iapetus: Saturn’s ying-yang moon
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“Kansas is one of five states to prohibit trans people from changing the gender marker on their licenses, but it is the first to pass a law that retroactively cancels licenses that were already changed,” NBC News reported. “The law also invalidated birth certificates for those who updated their gender markers.”
Report: Kansas Revokes Drivers’ Licenses of 1,700 Trans-Identifying Individuals
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
After debuting in theatres across the country in late January, becoming the biggest box office opening for a documentary in over a decade, Melania has moved to Amazon Prime as of March 9 with a docu-series to follow.
‘Melania’ Film Debuts as #1 Movie in America on Amazon Prime
Spoiler alert: It was never “all about that bass.”
Hollywood’s ‘Heroin Chic’ Comeback Has One Not-So-Secret Ingredient
HITHER & YON
Christian Toto: Ryan Gosling's star power, combined with Andy Weir's imagination, power sci-fi epic
‘Project Hail Mary’ Takes Aim at A.I. Slop, Sequelitis

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 12, 2026 07:21 AM (h06De)

2 rd

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 07:21 AM (gbOdA)

3 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2026 07:21 AM (7x5uy)

4 Morning all!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 12, 2026 07:21 AM (BpO1e)

5 I nood'd.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 12, 2026 07:22 AM (h06De)

6 Good morning, my pretty Hordelings.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 12, 2026 07:23 AM (kpS4V)

7 Rumors of Putin fighting a coup off
Mobile internet off in Moscow

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2026 07:23 AM (7N3EA)

8
Willowed:

Media are speculating that Kim Jong-Un is preparing his 13 year-old daughter to be the future Queen, as he has been recently photographed with her touring munitions plants & other facilities, testing new pistol and sniper rifle designs, etc.

She doesn't look big and fat like daddy, and she wears high-necked leather jackets and has a good scowl she's working on.

The DPRK sucks and she's likely to be a real problem in the future - but it looks like she's shaping up to be a regular little Bond villain, which is cool. I want my shadowy leaders of nuclear-armed rogue states to look the part.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2026 07:24 AM (AtWFs)

9 I nood'd.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 12, 2026 07:22 AM (h06De)

Yeah, 1st post, 1st nood - piggy little b*

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at March 12, 2026 07:25 AM (EcHpA)

10 "an unnamed driver early Wednesday morning after they crashed their vehicle"

They was two peoples?

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2026 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

11 Fight for the good and make your ancestors proud.

Posted by: kingsman at March 12, 2026 07:25 AM (ehY6c)

12 "Labor Dept. Has Done Nothing To Recover Half-A-Billion Dollars In Suspected Covid Fraud"

Surprise surprise surprise!

Posted by: Gomer who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at March 12, 2026 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

13 Robert Spencer really does not understand Trump. Trump is not going to quit until the regime is gone into the dustbin of history.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 12, 2026 07:32 AM (qFwJc)

14 "Hollywood’s ‘Heroin Chic’ Comeback Has One Not-So-Secret Ingredient"

Wouldn't it be great if they just kept losing weight until they disappeared?

Posted by: Gomer who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at March 12, 2026 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

15 "All too true."

Um, no. This is Globalist propaganda. Specifically, "... Adding to the unpredictability of all that is Trump’s mercurial nature. Right now he is committed to striking Iran, but that’s no guarantee that he will continue to do so until the regime is no more. ..." is complete rubbish.

Trump does NOT have a "mercurial nature". When he seems to change his tune on something it's to create a desired effect, but always to attain the same pro-American goals. It's OBVIOUS through his actions that Trump understands both the threat of the Islamic regime AND the fact that it will NOT go away - ever - until it is EXTERMINATED. HE has assembled everything he needs to do it, and it is underway.

It's a fool who bets against President Trump.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 07:33 AM (ovdkm)

16 There is a silver lining to the Virginia “assault rifle” sales ban that Gov”ner Swineberger is about to sign. While the inevitable prolonged legal challenges go on, most of those politically incorrect items are in the hands of rednecks.
There are some segments of the NoVa population that I would not want to be stocking up on those items right now.

Posted by: Fenderbender at March 12, 2026 07:33 AM (1FEc1)

17 "So why hasn't congress even had a vote on the popular measure?"

They have to protect their phony baloney jobs?

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2026 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

18 We are at the point where The New York Times, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC and USA Today will downplay, obfuscate or even justify an ISIS terrorist attack in New York City simply because it was aimed at people they loathe.
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That they make it so obvious is the only mystery, except to say they are speaking to a well-disciplined audience already prepared to receive this insanity. Like most of my neighbors.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2026 07:34 AM (e1GAl)

19 Eschew Obfuscation. That's my motto.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 12, 2026 07:35 AM (wVcYX)

20 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2026 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

21
Even as we laugh, Iran's Council of Experts is rushing ahead with plans to erect waves of kiosks around the country with cardboard Flat Mojtaba cutouts and the enticement to "Come have your picture taken with Flat Mojtaba!" For a fee, of course.

"It's GOLD, Achmed! GOLD!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2026 07:35 AM (xG4kz)

22 No idea is Flameble is a terrorist act or not but doesn't help not knowing the name now helps

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2026 07:36 AM (EtnSa)

23 if fibbies are issuing a warning my instinct and reason both tell me it is hogwash.

my preparedness and situational awareness remain as they were.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 12, 2026 07:37 AM (MIIRH)

24 >Thus, airpower — and the Iranian people as “boots on the ground” — may usher in the greatest change in global history
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they're going to need guns to have any chance

Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 07:37 AM (ZxPkt)

25 Two peoples? "We are legion."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 12, 2026 07:37 AM (qFwJc)

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We'll get you, my pretties ... and your Flat Mojtaba, too!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2026 07:39 AM (xG4kz)

27 and thanks as always, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 12, 2026 07:39 AM (MIIRH)

28 "Attorney General Pam Bondi has moved to a military base in Washington, D.C., after federal investigators flagged credible threats related to her work at the Justice Department, the New York Times reports."

Tell me again how "Pam Blondie" is a do-nothing DEI hire who spends all her time on Fox News. Seems like the bad guys see her as some sort of THREAT to them...

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 07:39 AM (ovdkm)

29 SURRENDER MOJTABA

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 12, 2026 07:40 AM (wVcYX)

30 WATCH: Cornyn Drops Panicked Attack Ad Claiming Ken Paxton Stole a Pen.

Never mind the $30Trillion in debt that Cornyn help to facilitate - most of it fraud, and endless war grift.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2026 07:42 AM (a4flb)

31
Unconditional surrender means no Supreme Leader and no clerics in charge. Is that so hard to ennunciate?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2026 07:43 AM (xG4kz)

32 To the tune of The Beach Boys Barbara Ann - Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran

Great tune

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 07:43 AM (xT8gx)

33 if fibbies are issuing a warning my instinct and reason both tell me it is hogwash.

Future HEADLINE:
CA to seek billions of dollars in federal aid to prepare against drone attacks.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2026 07:44 AM (a4flb)

34 8:
"She doesn't look big and fat like daddy, and she wears high-necked leather jackets and has a good scowl she's working on."

sounds highly qualified for the job, YD!

think she has a chance here as a dem candidate in 2028?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 12, 2026 07:44 AM (MIIRH)

35 Project Hail Mary looks watchable. It has Ryan Gosling, so my wife is in, and it has a science fiction plot line that sounds pretty compelling, so it gets me too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2026 07:44 AM (U7ZsA)

36 SURRENDER MOJTABA

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 12, 2026 07:40 AM (wVcYX)
-

Here's hoping he'll fold.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 12, 2026 07:45 AM (5UTWB)

37 Pam seems to me to be working, just the DOJ probably has sand in the gears so runs badly

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2026 07:46 AM (EtnSa)

38 When I prayed, "Lord, make our enemies ridiculous," I didn't realize that He would have so much fun with it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:46 AM (Ot/FD)

39
The United States Secret Service (USSS) detained an unnamed driver early Wednesday morning after they crashed their vehicle into an outer perimeter barricade near the White House

Were the vehicle and driver riddled with bullet holes?

No! Why not? Failure theater right there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2026 07:47 AM (xG4kz)

40 SURRENDER MOJTABA

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 12, 2026 07:40 AM (wVcYX)
-

Here's hoping he'll fold.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 12, 2026 07:45 AM (5UTWB)

ISWYDT... well played!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 07:47 AM (xT8gx)

41 Has anyone ever seen Ace? Are we sure he's not a cardboard cutout?

Posted by: I Want To Believe at March 12, 2026 07:47 AM (oftw2)

42 ISWYDT... well played!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 07:47 AM (xT8gx)
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Based on yesterday's comment by "...", calling him the Ayafolda.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 12, 2026 07:48 AM (5UTWB)

43 Spoiler alert: It was never “all about that bass.”
Hollywood’s ‘Heroin Chic’ Comeback Has One Not-So-Secret Ingredient

...

Is it... Heroin?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:49 AM (Ot/FD)

44 A nearby red dwarf star has a solar system of four planets, one in the habitable zone

"Nearby."

It would take 19k years to get there at the speed of the fastest human made object. "Nearby."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 12, 2026 07:49 AM (1Ff7Z)

45 Based on yesterday's comment by "...", calling him the Ayafolda.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 12, 2026 07:48 AM (5UTWB)

"Crease be upon him" was a good one, too

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:50 AM (Ot/FD)

46 If Hollywood was full of desiccated zombies, would anybody care?

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2026 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

47 I saw the Cardboard Ayatollahs open for Rascal Flatts...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:51 AM (Ot/FD)

48 I saw the Cardboard Ayatollahs open for Rascal Flatts...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:51 AM (Ot/FD)
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I remember that. A box office hit.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 12, 2026 07:52 AM (5UTWB)

49 41 Has anyone ever seen Ace? Are we sure he's not a cardboard cutout?
Posted by: I Want To Believe at March 12, 2026 07:47 AM (oftw2)

That's stupid.

Everyone knows he's made of particle board.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:52 AM (Ot/FD)

50 The Bank of England plans to replace historical figures including wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill on banknotes with pictures of animals.
============================
Keir Starmer may be the dumbest PM in history, and most unpopular ever with British citizens and Ukrainian pool boys both.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2026 07:52 AM (8uHMn)

51
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 12, 2026 07:53 AM (tljrc)

52 Keir Starmer may be the dumbest PM in history, and most unpopular ever with British citizens and Ukrainian pool boys both.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2026 07:52 AM (8uHMn)

The fun part is that no one involved in this process probably even thought to ask Starmer his opinion on the matter.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:53 AM (Ot/FD)

53 Here's hoping he'll fold."

Can't. Too stiff. Add water, tho...

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 07:53 AM (XuXeR)

54 Sne Hawley

To be honest with you, it’s pretty central to it. I am a believing Christian. I think that if you think about the historical influence of Christianity on our country—forget the rest of Western civilization, just limit it to the United States—some of our most cherished ideals are really rooted in Christian principles and thinking. The dignity of the individual, the sanctity of labor, the priority of the poor, all of those things are tremendously important to me.

Priority of the Poor. Fuck the poor. The poor in the US a richer than most of the EU. The Priority of Government should be freedom, Natural Rights, and Rule of Law, everything else is just bullshit made up on the fly.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 07:54 AM (gbOdA)

55 Do we have to peel off all the packing tape before we recycle him?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:54 AM (Ot/FD)

56 31
Unconditional surrender means no Supreme Leader and no clerics in charge. Is that so hard to ennunciate?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

Because a lot of people still think we can have a gentle war where both sides walk away happy.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 12, 2026 07:54 AM (BpO1e)

57 The media in my lifetime has moved from quaint and cranky slant, to biases of omission, to half-truths and insinuations , to lies and slander, to the active, totally shameless spread of anti-American propaganda and the hateful demoralization of the country at whatever cost to their credibility.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 07:54 AM (t+TFX)

58 Keir Starmer may be the dumbest PM in history, and most unpopular ever with British citizens and Ukrainian pool boys both.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2026 07:52 AM (8uHMn)

Churchill bad, squirrel good. Is the Perfessor going to send a new pic for them to use? Is it the one with the pimp hat?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 12, 2026 07:54 AM (1Ff7Z)

59
It wasn't just that Flat Mojtaba was the picture of a head affixed atop a cardboard cutout, it was the poor quality of the cardboard itself. It was kind of dirty here and there like and arts and craft project made with inferior materials, or a repurposed Amazon delivery box.

It would have been funnier still had they taped together used Dominos pizza boxes for the cardboard, and those were grease stained snd smeared with melted cheese and tomato sauce.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2026 07:55 AM (xG4kz)

60 It would take 19k years to get there at the speed of the fastest human made object. "Nearby."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 12, 2026 07:49 AM (1Ff7Z)

We will leave early.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

61 It wasn't just that Flat Mojtaba was the picture of a head affixed atop a cardboard cutout, it was the poor quality of the cardboard itself. It was kind of dirty here and there like and arts and craft project made with inferior materials, or a repurposed Amazon delivery box.

It would have been funnier still had they taped together used Dominos pizza boxes for the cardboard, and those were grease stained snd smeared with melted cheese and tomato sauce.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2026 07:55 AM (xG4kz)

This is what happens when your regime declares Hobby Lobby haram.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:56 AM (Ot/FD)

62
Starmer in a gimp suit

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2026 07:56 AM (xG4kz)

63 A decent meal in Londonstan cost 2 asses and an otter.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 07:56 AM (gbOdA)

64 We will leave early.
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

So there won't be any women astronauts in the future, then?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:57 AM (Ot/FD)

65 Do we have to peel off all the packing tape before we recycle him?"

Can't recycle waxed cardboard. Burns nicely, tho...

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 07:57 AM (XuXeR)

66 So there won't be any women astronauts in the future, then?"

Aaaand we're off....

*grabs pop, er, coffee flavored popcorn?*

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 07:58 AM (XuXeR)

67 A cardboard cut-out of the leader could become the new fashion. I could see a Starmer cut-out being very popular, for example, maybe even more than the real thing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2026 07:58 AM (8uHMn)

68 The White House should roll out a cardboard Fat JD Vance Meme for a press conference today.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:58 AM (Ot/FD)

69 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 07:58 AM (Zz0t1)

70 44 It would take 19k years to get there at the speed of the fastest human made object. "Nearby."
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Just tell the Democrats that the planet has people on it that can be taxed and we'll be there faster than a Guild Navigator could make the trip.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 12, 2026 07:59 AM (BpO1e)

71 So there won't be any women astronauts in the future, then?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:57 AM (Ot/FD)

Why not? There's no parallel parking in space.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 12, 2026 07:59 AM (1Ff7Z)

72 JJ.

I hope everything went well yesterday with the wife. Prayers continue for the both of you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 07:59 AM (Zz0t1)

73 69 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 07:58 AM (Zz0t1)

Nailed it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:59 AM (Ot/FD)

74 Gavin Newsom making appearances in cardboard cut-out form would be great, much better than the real version.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2026 08:00 AM (iBZ/D)

75 While the inevitable prolonged legal challenges go on...

The most damning thing you can say about the US legal system. There should be a judge, sitting with an injunction already written, just waiting for the Governor to sign the legislation in order to issue it.

The bill is unconstitutional on it's face. There's, literally, no argument which can be made to make it constitutional. Tell them no, refuse to stay the injunction while they appeal - which should take no more than 10 minutes for one of the appellate court judges to notice and say no, and move on.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2026 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

76 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 12, 2026 08:00 AM (2Ez/1)

77 Mornin' folks, just got in from Pixy Land, must say that group, Sky Hooks, is a light skinned Yoko Ono.
I think they modeled their presentation on hers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 08:00 AM (3ChHB)

78 Leftists think its a game using vehicles as weapons

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2026 08:01 AM (EtnSa)

79 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at March 12, 2026 08:01 AM (fcoLq)

80 The weather in north Texas is giving me whiplash. Sometime in the last week, it was around 80 degrees; right now it's 38 degrees. I'm gonna go get some exercise soon, so will need to bundle up...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 08:01 AM (xT8gx)

81
The Bank of England plans to replace historical figures including wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill on banknotes with pictures of animals.

"Female mandrills in estrus" keeps rising to the top for suggestions, paired with the imperative slogan, "Mount me!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2026 08:01 AM (xG4kz)

82 British Gov’t Plan to Scrap Jury Trials Clears First Hurdle Despite Opposition

One step closer to justifying vigilantism.

Didn't read the article since almost everything published is lies and propaganda. It does raise philosophical questions with respect to juries and how appropriate they are in low trust societies, or worse, multi-cultural low trust societies where a jury pool could very well be filled with amoral, uncivilized tribal rivals that have no love for transcendent laws, rights of people and order.

In the OJ trial there were elements of all these things. And in the persecution of Trump and those affiliated with him or the non indictments of Democrats in NYC and Babylon DC we see judges and juries that have zero interest in maintaining social cohesion, high trust or rule of law.

In LA we see people who have swindled and defrauded the government tens of millions and only getting a couple years of prison.

Is the jury system now a joke in multi-cultured, low-trust, tribal "societies" ?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2026 08:02 AM (a4flb)

83 57 - really, I think they've always been there in principle, it's that their attitude has gone from sly and sneaky to aggressively hateful during my lifetime.

look at the united attacks on the 2A, for instance, going all the way back to the early 60s (if not earlier) (that's just when I started noticing).
cronkite after Tet
and so much more

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 12, 2026 08:02 AM (MIIRH)

84 Project Hail Mary looks watchable. It has Ryan Gosling, so my wife is in, and it has a science fiction plot line that sounds pretty compelling, so it gets me too.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2026 07:44 AM (U7ZsA)

Critical Drinker recommended it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2026 08:02 AM (ExV1e)

85 That'll be 5 squid, bloke.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 12, 2026 08:02 AM (+nEug)

86 The United States Secret Service (USSS) detained an unnamed driver early Wednesday morning after they crashed their vehicle into an outer perimeter barricade near the White House.

Pretti Good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:03 AM (Zz0t1)

87 The Bank Of England should put likenesses of PIGS on their banknotes!
Sir Winston would be proud of that move!

Posted by: Fenderbender at March 12, 2026 08:03 AM (1FEc1)

88
Nailed it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:59 AM (Ot/FD)

#Winning

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:03 AM (Zz0t1)

89 Keir Starmer may be the dumbest PM in history, and most unpopular ever with British citizens and Ukrainian pool boys both.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2026 07:52 AM (8uHMn)

Yet, he will be re-elected in a landslide.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)

90 "The Bank of England plans to replace historical figures including wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill on banknotes with pictures of animals."

But no dogs, I'll wager.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 08:04 AM (t+TFX)

91 Imagine being a kid thirty years from now and reading your history book as you slam face first into this nonsense.

"It was looking bleak for the Third Reich. Reports of atrocities at concentration camps began to circulate. The Fuhrer had not been seen in weeks.

...

And then one day Goebbels came out with a Howdy-Doddy puppet on his leg with a pencil moustache glued to it saying "Look, Kids, New Hitler! I love New Hitler!"

The actual f*ck, dude.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 08:05 AM (Ot/FD)

92
But no dogs, I'll wager.
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 08:04 AM (t+TFX)

I'm betting no matter what they choose, islham will be offended by something at will start attacking.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

93 The Bank of England plans to replace historical figures including wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill on banknotes with pictures of animals.

Pity that they won't use, exclusively, dogs as the animals.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2026 08:05 AM (ExV1e)

94 The decision by the Bank of England to put penguins on their banknotes shows the depth of penetration by Big Penguin into the people of Great Britain.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at March 12, 2026 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

95 >The United States Secret Service (USSS) detained an unnamed driver early Wednesday morning after they crashed their vehicle into ....

they crashed their

pronouns

Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 08:06 AM (ZxPkt)

96 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2026 08:06 AM (77rzZ)

97 And then one day Goebbels came out with a Howdy-Doddy puppet on his leg with a pencil moustache glued to it saying "Look, Kids, New Hitler! I love New Hitler!"

The actual f*ck, dude.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 08:05 AM (Ot/FD)

So, now someone needs to do the pissed off Hitler in the bunker meme with him as the cardboard cutout.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

98 "... if you think about the historical influence of Christianity on our country—forget the rest of Western civilization, just limit it to the United States—some of our most cherished ideals are really rooted in Christian principles and thinking. The dignity of the individual, the sanctity of labor, the priority of the poor ..."

Ridiculous. There's all kinds of Christianity all over this world, but none of those places are like the US because the US was founded on Enlightenment principles, not Christianity.

If anything, one of the most important values is essentially "free thought" - which includes freedom of religion, which is at odds with the Ten Commandments. Christianity has NEVER been about freedom - in fact the Bible is pretty matter-of-fact about straight-up slavery, something God himself practices (IIRC).

"Priority of the poor" was NEVER been any sort of "founding ideal". You're completely making s**t up!!

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 08:07 AM (ovdkm)

99 Well, there's The Poor who are actual real people with real problems...

Then there's The Poor who are an imaginary fantasy group used to justify criminals in high places stealing money.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 12, 2026 08:07 AM (DgMqy)

100 The Bank of England apparently does not understand the " if it's not broke, don't fix it" principle... or maybe they wanted to break it; yeah, that's probably it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 08:07 AM (xT8gx)

101 86 - *golf clap*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 12, 2026 08:08 AM (MIIRH)

102 "Lilly" from the AT&T TV ads is in the cast of Project Hail Mary.

Huh.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 12, 2026 08:08 AM (Y1sOo)

103 The weather in north Texas is giving me whiplash. Sometime in the last week, it was around 80 degrees; right now it's 38 degrees. I'm gonna go get some exercise soon, so will need to bundle up...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 08:01 AM (xT8gx)

Welcome to global warming.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

104
'Edge'ogs, jellyfish, slugs, newts ... the possibilities are endless!

But dogs and lions are right out!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2026 08:09 AM (xG4kz)

105 The piece wondering Arab countries don’t join the war glosses over the most obvious explanation, which is the same reason European countries are doing very little except for sailing some ships in circles in the Mediterranean and claiming they’re Doing Something.

It’s because they are all incredibly weak, by any real standards. They are good at suppressing internal dissent, and beating up women and children, but they have very little war making ability.

The only countries in the Middle East with significant military forces outside of Israel were Iran, Turkey, and Egypt. We’re eliminating Iran, Egypt is too far away from the action, and no one wants to see Erdogan’s army get adventurous. Nobody wants China to start nosing around, either.

That’s why, when it comes to action in the Middle East, it’s either the US or nobody. That’s why Iran was working to dominate the area with their military buildup.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2026 08:09 AM (7yOPh)

106 "Hey, we're pretty broke, and our cash is rapidly becoming worthless. What should we do?"

"Burn all our cash and print new cash with fuzzy little animals on it. Duh."

Nice rhinestone studded trapper keeper ya got there, numbnuts. Is that a Menudo sticker?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 08:09 AM (Ot/FD)

107 Then there's The Poor who are an imaginary fantasy group used to justify criminals in high places stealing money.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 12, 2026 08:07 AM (DgMqy)

California has spent billions on correcting it's issue with the homeless.

California today has the highest homeless population in the country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

108 The thing that strikes me about Starmer is, they can't get rid of him

no matter how awful he is, the Brits are just stuck with him, for now

Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 08:10 AM (ZxPkt)

109 So, now someone needs to do the pissed off Hitler in the bunker meme with him as the cardboard cutout.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

With someone else reading off a phone message from Hitler.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2026 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

110 94 The decision by the Bank of England to put penguins on their banknotes shows the depth of penetration by Big Penguin into the people of Great Britain.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at March 12, 2026 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

Maybe it's just to remind everybody in the UK that they still have a territory called "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands". It's near Antarctica, and has a population of about two dozen people. Its flag and coat of arms have penguin on it. It also has a walrus, so maybe somebody should be up in arms about that slight.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 08:11 AM (ovdkm)

111 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2026 08:11 AM (eGgU9)

112 71 So there won't be any women astronauts in the future, then?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 07:57 AM (Ot/FD)

Why not? There's no parallel parking in space.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 12, 2026 07:59 AM (1Ff7Z)

In space no one can here you piss and moan?

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

113 "Lilly" from the AT&T TV ads is in the cast of Project Hail Mary.

Huh.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 12, 2026 08:08 AM (Y1sOo)

Will they reenact her abortion?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

114 Heh.

Nice meme, JJ.

And Happy Birthday!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

115
No government buildings, either, like the House of Parliament or any of the palaces. Just blocks of government flats.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2026 08:12 AM (xG4kz)

116 84 Project Hail Mary looks watchable. It has Ryan Gosling, so my wife is in, and it has a science fiction plot line that sounds pretty compelling, so it gets me too.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2026 07:44 AM (U7ZsA)

I ran into Ryan Gosling at Runyon Canyon dog park years ago. He'd just made an independent movie, "The Believer", an excellent character study of a young neo-Nazi Jew. No one knew who he was. I'd loved the movie. I think it was the last independent movie he made.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 08:12 AM (t+TFX)

117 The thing that strikes me about Starmer is, they can't get rid of him

no matter how awful he is, the Brits are just stuck with him, for now
Posted by: Don Black

*JFK has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2026 08:12 AM (eGgU9)

118 Well, there's The Poor who are actual real people with real problems...

"The poor you will always have..." - Jesus Christ

In most cases I see, poverty is a self-inflicted. Though it is difficult to step over the dead crack whore on the front porch, there isn't truly a way to help them out of it.

There are many who make good money claiming that they can, but swindling you out of money through appeals to your decency and emotions isn't the path.

Economic segregation is usually the way society effectively copes with the gap.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2026 08:13 AM (a4flb)

119 108 The thing that strikes me about Starmer is, they can't get rid of him

no matter how awful he is, the Brits are just stuck with him, for now
Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 08:10 AM (ZxPkt)

He's basically another Globalist dictator, not so unlike what they have in Ukraine. No surprise there.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 08:13 AM (ovdkm)

120 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Hope your MRI was boring and uneventful.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2026 08:13 AM (RIvkX)

121 It’s because they are all incredibly weak, by any real standards. They are good at suppressing internal dissent, and beating up women and children, but they have very little war making ability.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2026 08:09 AM (7yOPh)

Why do governments steal from widows and orphans with death taxes?

Cause they are women and children.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

122 When the regime is gone and it will be gone there is going to be a huge repatriation of Iranians. Britain and California are going to lose hundreds of thousands.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 12, 2026 08:14 AM (+nEug)

123 It is almost funny, so people walking through the People's House is an insurrection, BUT driving into the White House or people trying assassinate the president is just, uh, nothing?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:14 AM (sKqQm)

124 84 Critical Drinker recommended it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

That's rare enough of an event. I may have to watch it now.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 12, 2026 08:14 AM (BpO1e)

125 When the regime is gone and it will be gone there is going to be a huge repatriation of Iranians. Britain and California are going to lose hundreds of thousands.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 12, 2026 08:14 AM (+nEug)

I see no downside......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

126 I assess the FBI's credibility at 0%-5%

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2026 08:15 AM (RIvkX)

127 I can't wait to be on a British note!

Posted by: Rabid Moroccan Donkey with a Ruptured Asshole at March 12, 2026 08:15 AM (P7vXf)

128 81
The Bank of England plans to replace historical figures including wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill on banknotes with pictures of animals
---

They used to make fun of the British being silly as a joke. Now, it's a dreadful truth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 08:16 AM (3ChHB)

129 Dennis the Constitutional Peasant would look good on the English bank note. The armless and legless Black Knight as well.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 12, 2026 08:16 AM (wVcYX)

130 I can't wait to be on a British note!
Posted by: Rabid Moroccan Donkey with a Ruptured Asshole at March 12, 2026 08:15 AM (P7vXf)

AVENGE ME!!!!!

Posted by: Peanut at March 12, 2026 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

131 We are at the point where The New York Times, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC and USA Today will downplay, obfuscate or even justify an ISIS terrorist attack in New York City simply because it was aimed at people they loathe.[/n]
---------

WRONG.

They don't care who the attacks are aimed at. They have covered for and justified attacks against children by trannies, women by illegals, and minority business owners by BLM.

They don't give a fuck who the victims are, covering for their constituent violent terrorists is the only thing that matters.

Learn it. Live it. Love it. These people are not like you, there is nothing rational or even emotional in their decision making like "well I don't like *those* people". They don't give a slimy shit who gets hurt or killed for their "cause".

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:16 AM (eDMZF)

132 “ Christianity has NEVER been about freedom - in fact the Bible is pretty matter-of-fact about straight-up slavery, something God himself practices (IIRC).”

You are completely wrong, of course. The entire concept of “separation of Church and State” is a uniquely Christian value , taken for granted by modern faux intellectuals who don’t understand how it was incorporated into Western Civilization. (The concept is complete nonsense to any Muslim, for example)

First enunciated by Christ himself, when He said “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Acknowledging that the two spheres are quite separate from each other.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2026 08:16 AM (7yOPh)

133 To the tune of The Beach Boys Barbara Ann - Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran

Great tune
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 07:43 AM (xT8gx)

https://tinyurl.com/2tm4hnav

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 12, 2026 08:17 AM (5xuJ/)

134 oh dear

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:17 AM (eDMZF)

135
They used to make fun of the British being silly as a joke. Now, it's a dreadful truth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 08:16 AM (3ChHB)

Britain IS the home of Boaty McBoatface.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

136 Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:16 AM (eDMZF)

CLOSE!!!

Posted by: The Barrel at March 12, 2026 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

137 Today Is Alfred Hitchcock Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2026 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

138 but they have very little war making ability."

This cannot be overstated. Far too many believe "journalists" and "experts" who see a gun and OMGWEREALLDED...

Fighting is hard.

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:18 AM (XuXeR)

139 They should make a series of Goat Notes, featuring winners of the Most Beautiful Goat Contest.

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2026 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

140 Would an updated Monty Python that even gently mocked current British ruling class trends survive the censors?

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 08:18 AM (t+TFX)

141 Blue State Moves To Muzzle Oral History Of J6

You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in DC who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

142 The obverse could be an inset picture of a Giant Wooden Trojan Rabbit.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 12, 2026 08:19 AM (wVcYX)

143 Today Is Alfred Hitchcock Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2026 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

Great. Now I have to fear birds all day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

144 You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in DC who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

C.H.U.D.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

145 Would an updated Monty Python that even gently mocked current British ruling class trends survive the censors?"

They'd have self censored. Mocked Christianity, for sure.

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:20 AM (XuXeR)

146 "...It’s because [Arab and European countries] are all incredibly weak, by any real standards. They are good at suppressing internal dissent, and beating up women and children, but they have very little war making ability. ..."

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2026 08:09 AM (7yOPh)

Sure, but I suspect it's more than that. Iran threatens Israel and the US with nuclear attack the most, and they don't want to be seen as an ally of the Jews fighting against fellow Muslims, do they? I just don't see them as being nearly as motivated as Israel and the US.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 08:20 AM (ovdkm)

147 Great tune
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 07:43 AM (xT8gx)

My mother was named Barbara Anne. As kids we would tease her with the tune.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 08:20 AM (t+TFX)

148 There are no poor people in America. If one has nothing the government will house them, feed them, give them telephones, TVs and all the connections.
Plus healthcare.
How is that poor?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 08:20 AM (3ChHB)

149 At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval."

WOLVERINES!

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:21 AM (XuXeR)

150 117 The thing that strikes me about Starmer is, they can't get rid of him

no matter how awful he is, the Brits are just stuck with him, for now
Posted by: Don Black

The scariest thing about modern Labour in England is the parts that ARE talking about removing Starmer say he is failing because he is far too “conservative” and are plotting to replace him with a literal Stalinist.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2026 08:21 AM (7yOPh)

151 Gavin Newsom making appearances in cardboard cut-out form would be great, much better than the real version.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2026 08:00 AM (iBZ/D)

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

[Babylon Bee headline:]

"Iran Cancels Plan To Attack California After Seeing Gavin Newsom Already Destroyed It"

https://tinyurl.com/mr3yrj7y

Posted by: ShainS at March 12, 2026 08:21 AM (xIFh6)

152 Great. Now I have to fear birds all day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)
*******
And the shower.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2026 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

153 The scariest thing about modern Labour in England is the parts that ARE talking about removing Starmer say he is failing because he is far too “conservative” and are plotting to replace him with a literal Stalinist.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2026 08:21 AM (7yOPh)

It is scary, nightmarish even. The more they fail, the more extreme they become.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 08:22 AM (t+TFX)

154 Today Is Alfred Hitchcock Day.

So, watch out for crop dusting planes??

Posted by: dantesed at March 12, 2026 08:23 AM (Oy/m2)

155
They don't give a fuck who the victims are, covering for their constituent violent terrorists is the only thing that matters.

Don't think of the left as soft on crime.

Think of them and the Democrat party as the political wing of the cartels

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:24 AM (sKqQm)

156 Ridiculous. There's all kinds of Christianity all over this world, but none of those places are like the US because the US was founded on Enlightenment principles, not Christianity.

The Enlightenment may have shaped the structure of the United Sates, it was the cultural and moral assumptions of the founders which added the "American" elements to their idea of the Enlightenment such as moral accountability, human dignity (Imago Dei) and virtue.

Europe, the birthplace of The Enlightenment, would be similar to the US, but because it is absent any Christian influence, is an amoral socialist hell-hole.

You pretend that the whole world has no spiritual influence anywhere in it, when indeed the spiritual world has enormous influence in the temporal realm.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2026 08:24 AM (a4flb)

157 in fact the Bible is pretty matter-of-fact about straight-up slavery, something God himself practices (IIRC).

"Priority of the poor" was NEVER been any sort of "founding ideal". You're completely making s**t up!!
Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 08:07 AM (ovdkm)

In the "Servant Songs" of Isaiah, the Messiah is referred to by God the Father as "My Servant" which is probably better translated as "My Slave"... Yes, even Jesus was a slave to the the will of His Father. As believers, we are also to be slave of God. In Philippians 2, Paul writes that the Father has given Jesus a name which is above every name - The name Lord. So as believers we are slaves of Jesus. These relationships are right and proper because he is God and we are not. While it's true the NT doesn't explicitly condemn the institution of slavery (the short book of Philemon asks a slave master to receive back his runaway slave with charity because they were both Christians)... But it's also clear that slavery is incompatible with true Christian ethics. As for the poor, Jesus said they'll always be with us but encouraged the rich young ruler to sell all he had to give to the poor.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 08:24 AM (xT8gx)

158 Sure, but I suspect it's more than that. Iran threatens Israel and the US with nuclear attack the most, and they don't want to be seen as an ally of the Jews fighting against fellow Muslims, do they? I just don't see them as being nearly as motivated as Israel and the US.
Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 08:20 AM (ovdkm)

The UAE, under US direction, sent some fighter jets to attack a small missile site in Iran a couple days ago. That was probably the largest and most significant military action in the entire history of the UAE.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2026 08:24 AM (7yOPh)

159 Today Is Alfred Hitchcock Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

No wonder there's bird shit everywhere.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2026 08:24 AM (eGgU9)

160 I won't be looking out the back window, either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

161 Beware Vertigo sufferers. Alfred Hitchcock day.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 12, 2026 08:26 AM (+nEug)

162 Meanwhile, just 24% agreed with “It is a bad idea and could prevent some eligible voters from casting a ballot.” The remaining 12% were “not sure.”

1 out of 8 people are such fucking idiots they cannot decide on a simple idea that we have agreed on for about 90 years.
People wanting to use Big Govt services and institutions must present some identification and proof they justified in doing so.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

163 Good morning Horde, thx JJ, hope everything went well yesterday.
Critical Drinker liked Project Hail Mary. I liked the movie of Andy Weir's The Martian so I guess I'll have to check this one out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2026 08:26 AM (YsPj+)

164 Great. Now I have to fear birds all day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)
*******
And the shower.
Posted by: redridinghood

It's not Saturday so I'm good.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2026 08:26 AM (eGgU9)

165 "...It’s because [Arab and European countries] are all incredibly weak, by any real standards. They are good at suppressing internal dissent, and beating up women and children, but they have very little war making ability. ..."

But at least to this point they don't need it. They are getting massive amounts of direct and indirect funding from the US without needing a military.

And it should be pointed out that in communist regimes there has traditionally been friction between the party and the military where the former always has to be worried about a coup from the latter. If you just don't need an army you don't have to worry about it anymore...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:26 AM (sKqQm)

166 Iran attacking California from the sea with drones sounds like the plot to a bad techno-thriller.

I mean, it's remotely plausible, but also highly unlikely. Although I do wonder what sort of air defenses are still in the US and not protecting oversea bases right now.

It'd be a real shocker to the Muslim supporters there in CA to have a couple Shahed drones land in their backyards and explode.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2026 08:27 AM (jtM2q)

167 Hope the brakes on my car work.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2026 08:27 AM (77rzZ)

168 You are completely wrong, of course. The entire concept of “separation of Church and State” is a uniquely Christian value , taken for granted by modern faux intellectuals who don’t understand how it was incorporated into Western Civilization. (The concept is complete nonsense to any Muslim, for example)

First enunciated by Christ himself, when He said “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Acknowledging that the two spheres are quite separate from each other.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2026 08:16 AM (7yOPh)

I'm surprised to see such abject nonsense from you. But then, it seems like it all it takes is religion to get otherwise intelligent people spouting nonsense.

By way of example, the UK has an official state religion, and the official head of state - the King - is the head of that religion. It was typical in Europe for the people to have to change their religion to match the beliefs of their sovereign - there was never much in the way of freedom of religion, much less separation of Church and State (a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson, not Martin Luther). It was unheard of before the radical Founders came along.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 08:28 AM (ovdkm)

169 Joe Rogan says Trump supporters feel "betrayed" by Iran war. So... Rogan goes from being full of common sense during the covid era to now being a full-of-shit muscle head who just doesn't get it. I know lots and lots of Trump supporters and NONE of them feel betrayed. What hogwash....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 08:28 AM (xT8gx)

170 How is that poor?

Because that is not how poverty is defined.

Its a statistical definition.

In the United States a person or family is considered in poverty if their total pre‑tax cash income is below a federally set poverty threshold for their family size and composition

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2026 08:28 AM (a4flb)

171 The film Hitchcock with Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren is very good

Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh

Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 08:28 AM (ZxPkt)

172 137 Today Is Alfred Hitchcock Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Great. Now hearing Funeral March of a Marionette in my head.

Posted by: Easily Swayed at March 12, 2026 08:29 AM (oftw2)

173 Wow. Don't talk to the demons.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 12, 2026 08:29 AM (qFwJc)

174 Mojitaba, would you take me by the hand

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:30 AM (eDMZF)

175 “ The Lord is not slow about keeping His promise as some people think. He is waiting for you. The Lord does not want any person to be punished forever. He wants all people to be sorry for their sins and turn from them.”

2 Peter 3:9

Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2026 08:30 AM (TmQh+)

176 What a great country. Even the poor are fat.

Posted by: Yaakov Smirnov at March 12, 2026 08:30 AM (qFwJc)

177 Jesus said that slaves should be treated fairly.

New Testament, Jesus and other biblical writers emphasized that masters should treat their slaves with respect and fairness, as seen in passages like Ephesians 6:9, which instructs masters not to threaten their slaves and to treat them well.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 08:30 AM (3ChHB)

178 Norway Police Apprehend 3 Suspects in U.S. Embassy Bombing

Three brothers in their 20s, originally of Iraqi descent and living in Norway for several years, were arrested in connection with the case.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 12, 2026 08:30 AM (ndZc7)

179 I didn't realize it at first when I saw "Vertigo," but the lead character is a true loser. That was uncommon for any movie at that time.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 08:31 AM (t+TFX)

180 "In most cases I see, poverty is self-inflicted."

I don't disagree. The Culture of Poverty includes developing and conforming to the mindset for it.

Looking from the outside, real charity is a personal helping hand when someone needs it.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 12, 2026 08:31 AM (DgMqy)

181 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 08:32 AM (u82oZ)

182 171 The film Hitchcock with Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren is very good
Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 08:28 AM (ZxPkt)

Agreed. One of the few decent biopics.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 08:32 AM (t+TFX)

183 "It'd be a real shocker to the Muslim supporters there in CA to have a couple Shahed drones land in their backyards and explode.
Posted by: Martini Farmer"

It would be Trump's fault for provoking them.

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2026 08:32 AM (vFG9F)

184 Adam Smith made a pretty good argument against slavery.

A slave wants to eat as much as he/she can and do as little work as possible.

Posted by: no one of any consquence at March 12, 2026 08:32 AM (qFwJc)

185 >The Lord does not want any person to be punished forever.
----

so eternal damnation is out? What a relief.

Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 08:32 AM (ZxPkt)

186 Here is a fanfare for the morning: https://youtu.be/5LoUm_r7It8
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine – BBC Proms 2014

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 08:33 AM (u82oZ)

187 While touted by hair dye makers as a means of celebrating one’s individuality, a 2022 research report found that doing this also correlates with “mental instability.”

In “Blue Hair and the Blues: Dying Your Hair Unnatural Colours is Associated with Depression,” authors Edward Dutton and Emil Kirkegaard studied 68,000 OKCupid dating site profiles.

“People who at some point had unnatural coloured hair . . . are high in mental instability,” they wrote.

“We would submit that the simplest explanation for this relationship can be garnered from the known relationship between borderline personality disorder and extreme, though changeable, expressions of identity,” the report said. “Those who score high in neuroticism are plagued by worry and doubt, including about themselves and even about who they are.”

No do nose jewelry

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

188 There is a guy on youtube who does financial audits on poor people. They are poor because of their behaviors not because of their circumstances.

Caleb Hammer

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

189 Funny how the Israelites were slaves in Egypt and took slaves with them in the Exodus.

Posted by: no one of any consquence at March 12, 2026 08:33 AM (qFwJc)

190 Joe Rogan says Trump supporters feel "betrayed" by Iran war.
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84% of Republicans support Trump and 83% support the Iran action. So...

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:34 AM (eDMZF)

191 >The Lord does not want any person to be punished forever.
----

so eternal damnation is out? What a relief.
Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 08:32 AM (ZxPkt)

No. See Mark 9:43-48... something about where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. He doesn't WANT it but lots of people reject Him, with the inevitable consequences

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 08:35 AM (xT8gx)

192 There's all kinds of Christianity

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James Talarico: Fascism Will Come Draped in the (Trans) Flag and Carrying the Cross

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 12, 2026 08:35 AM (ndZc7)

193 One o the more interesting things in discussions about poverty is that leftwing ideas about how to solve it never work.

However much money is taken for this purpose the problem remains and the answer is always, "Well we didn't spend enough"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:35 AM (sKqQm)

194 no one of any consquence

I saw an argument that horse collars, making horses more efficient, economically displaced slavery. Likewise the Industrial Revolution, replacing muscle with steam power.

But the instinct for slavery is strong in humanity. Look at the Dem party and their voters. Or some Corps and H-1Bs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 08:36 AM (u82oZ)

195 “originally of Iraqi descent”

WTF? So they went back in time and changed their ancestry?

Gads, people are stupid.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2026 08:36 AM (77rzZ)

196 They are getting massive amounts of direct and indirect funding from the US "

Our tax dollars at... work?

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:37 AM (XuXeR)

197 84% of Republicans support Trump and 83% support the Iran action. So...

I support Trump - let him cook.

OTOH, I don't like what is happening in Iran, but TBH, I have no idea how to do any better.

That is why I consider the Iran Imbroglio chemotherapy.

Must deal with the cancer before it completely metastasizes.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2026 08:37 AM (a4flb)

198 But the instinct for slavery is strong in humanity. Look at the Dem party and their voters. Or some Corps and H-1Bs.

Because people want the fruit of labor without doing that labor themselves.

Slavery, serfdom, taxes, etc are all ways to accomplish that.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:37 AM (sKqQm)

199 18-1

There is more than the Left that is blind to retrospective analysis.

Did our policy work as designed should be a constant worry.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 08:37 AM (u82oZ)

200 Joe Rogan says Trump supporters feel "betrayed" by Iran war.
-------

84% of Republicans support Trump and 83% support the Iran action. So...
Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:34 AM (eDMZF)

Joe Rogan is there to impress Joe Rogan. Because he has 'sun shines on a dog's ass' moments, doesn't make him a 'man of the people.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

201 It's important to point out, I think, that the Bible teaches that we should help the poor as individuals. Nowhere does it teach that the government should take people's money and redistribute it according to its definition of poor. Love your neighbor individually; keep the government out of it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 12, 2026 08:38 AM (xT8gx)

202 James Talarico: Fascism Will Come Draped in the (Trans) Flag and Carrying the Cross
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 12, 2026 08:35 AM (ndZc7)

He is a descendant of Satan himself.

That dude is downright evil, man.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

203 I guess SCOTUS will get around to protecting our Second Amendment rights after Democrats, and now apparently, immigrants, try to take that right away.

Take a good look at Virginia. It’s just a hint of what Democrat rule looks like. We already saw what they were capable of during COVID and with Biden. This is a next-level subversion of your rights.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2026 08:39 AM (TmQh+)

204 Charity being the jewel of the theological virtues has less to do with objectively improving a poor person's life as it does with instilling the mindset that none of this is even really yours to begin with. This world is not as important as you think it is. Your own well being is important, but far down the list of things you should be worried about. "Consider the sparrows", etc etc. Once you understand that, the number of units of local currency you do or don't give to any particular person who has fewer of them than you do at any given moment fades into irrelevance and you wind up giving it as little thought as breathing or walking.

The point is, none of that addresses one stealing from someone else to give to another. That's simply wrong. That's always wrong. That's especially wrong, because you're perverting and collapsing the path of Charity and replacing it with Theft and Vanity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Ot/FD)

205 I saw an argument that horse collars, making horses more efficient, economically displaced slavery. Likewise the Industrial Revolution, replacing muscle with steam power.

But the instinct for slavery is strong in humanity. Look at the Dem party and their voters. Or some Corps and H-1Bs.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 08:36 AM (u82oZ)

Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin actually created the need for slaves and US leaders saw this and prohibited new slaves after 1808.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

206
There is more than the Left that is blind to retrospective analysis.

Did our policy work as designed should be a constant worry.

TBH I think the primary driver for this is graft. So nominally the metric would be we spent $X and saw poverty end for Y% but that's not really the left's analysis - for them it is more like,

We spent some number if dollars from the infinite well of tax dollars and employed Y bureaucrats. Now, how do we increase Y?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:40 AM (sKqQm)

207
Take a good look at Virginia. It’s just a hint of what Democrat rule looks like. We already saw what they were capable of during COVID and with Biden. This is a next-level subversion of your rights.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2026 08:39 AM (TmQh+)

I mean, it's not like we've had California and New York to look towards as examples for decades or anything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

208 Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin actually created the need for slaves"

The Howard Zinn skrool of history.

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

209 Joe Rogan says Trump supporters feel "betrayed" by Iran war.
-------

84% of Republicans support Trump and 83% support the Iran action. So...
Posted by: ...

So Rogan's anti-trumper rears it's ugly head...

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2026 08:41 AM (eGgU9)

210 However much money is taken for this purpose the problem remains and the answer is always, "Well we didn't spend enough"

The money spend on fighting poverty will NEVER be enough because the definition of poverty is an arbitrary statistical evaluation.

For example, if poor person is one who has cash income less than 20% of the median income, then you will always have 20% of the people in poverty, no matter how many trillions you throw at "fixing" it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2026 08:41 AM (a4flb)

211 We already saw what they were capable of during COVID and with Biden.

As one leftist put it at the time, "F*ck your freedoms" That's how pretty much all elected officials think of it. They have changes they want to make whether or not their changes impact your constitutionally protected freedoms is immaterial

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:41 AM (sKqQm)

212 Trump Is Dismantling Xi’s ‘China Dream’ One Piece At A Time

Chinas 5 year plans built on around $40 dollar oil and they are now paying 90 bucks.

They are fucked!

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

213 As one leftist put it at the time, "F*ck your freedoms" That's how pretty much all elected officials think of it. They have changes they want to make whether or not their changes impact your constitutionally protected freedoms is immaterial
Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:41 AM (sKqQm)

Totalitarianism in an Austrian accent.

First time history, second time farce.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 08:42 AM (Ot/FD)

214 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2026 08:37 AM (a4flb)

I mean yeah. Trump has a track record of turning out being right a lot more than being wrong. Right? Yet in the moment he somehow *always* looks wrong. In this case he tried everything before attacking. To the point where the Left and nominal right (birm) only two weeks ago was gloating that he had betrayed the uprising and was basically a big pussy.

This will end, and by mid-May and I suspect sooner, the media won't even be talking about it. Because the outcome will be too good.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:43 AM (eDMZF)

215 Whoopi Goldberg Says Trump Iran Strikes a Distraction From Epstein Files, Missing Nancy Guthrie

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I guess Trump did Nancy Guthrie, too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 12, 2026 08:43 AM (ndZc7)

216 213 5-year plans are still a thing?

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2026 08:43 AM (77rzZ)

217 Trump's Prosperous Economy Forces Experts To Raise Poverty Level To $100k.

Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at March 12, 2026 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

218 Posted by: dating.com reviews at March 12, 2026 08:40 AM (kp0L6)

It's like the internet knows Ace is single and looking for a hobbitess.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

219 Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin actually created the need for slaves and US leaders saw this and prohibited new slaves after 1808.
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Meh. Yankees saw that the South paid a disproportional amount of Tariffs which funded the Federal Government. Further, slavery was already collapsing. Then there was all that gold in California that needed to come east to power the Atlantic trade and western expansion. With that set up launching a war against the South was in the mix. Add Roundheads and Crazy Quakers and you're off to kill your brother Able.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 12, 2026 08:44 AM (pZ64F)

220 5-year plans are still a thing?"

Dah.

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:44 AM (XuXeR)

221 >> I mean, it's not like we've had California and New York to look towards as examples for decades or anything.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

It’s expected in the Blue States. Virginia is the model for taking over new states. Just liked they are destroying Colorado and working on Arizona.

I think Mr Bangladeshi Immigrant was put on point for a reason. They’re sending a signal. It’s not just the message, it’s the messenger. But I think they’re going to find the people outside NOVA aren’t going to roll over for this crap.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2026 08:44 AM (TmQh+)

222 "So... Rogan goes from being full of common sense during the covid era to now being a full-of-shit muscle head who just doesn't get it."

Sometimes he gets it, sometimes he doesn't, but he's always been and always will be a muscle head.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 08:44 AM (t+TFX)

223 Whoopi Goldberg Says Trump Iran Strikes a Distraction From Epstein Files, Missing Nancy Guthrie

That chicken is wore the truck out.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

224 Hitchcock Day?
Men Who Know Too Much, hardest hit.
And ladies, vanishing, everywhere.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 12, 2026 08:45 AM (zdLoL)

225 But the instinct for slavery is strong in humanity. Look at the Dem party and their voters. Or some Corps and H-1Bs.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

I have enough trouble making sure my shit is wired tight. I don't have enough energy to look after other people.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2026 08:45 AM (eGgU9)

226 British Gov’t Plan to Scrap Jury Trials Clears First Hurdle Despite Opposition

Burning Magna Carte was not on my Bingo card.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:45 AM (gbOdA)

227 220, yeah.

Note that cotton sales expanded rapidly nearly a half century after Eli's work - to claim it "expanded slavery" is to view history through a very, very narrow lens.

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:45 AM (XuXeR)

228 Hey there! Would you mind if I share your blog with my twitter group?
There's a lot of folks that I think would really enjoy your content.
Please let me know. Many thanks
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Shut the fuck up.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:46 AM (eDMZF)

229 Is this about us?

Posted by: The birds at March 12, 2026 08:46 AM (2Ez/1)

230 202 James Talarico: Fascism Will Come Draped in the (Trans) Flag and Carrying the Cross
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 12, 2026 08:35 AM (ndZc7)

He is a descendant of Satan himself.

That dude is downright evil, man.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cance

Hard to believe but Jazzy Crawford might have been the less crazy choice

Posted by: Josephistan at March 12, 2026 08:46 AM (y9ksN)

231 192 There's all kinds of Christianity
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A moose calling itself a horse does not make it a horse.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 08:46 AM (3ChHB)

232 226 But the instinct for slavery is strong in humanity. Look at the Dem party and their voters. Or some Corps and H-1Bs.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

I have enough trouble making sure my shit is wired tight. I don't have enough energy to look after other people.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2026 08:45 AM (eGgU9)

It is very interesting that people really like telling the poor and the H1B slaves how to live.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

233 Yeah, the only good I could see in slavery is enslaving the entire population of Earth and issuing a single standing order to stay the hell away from me at all times.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 08:46 AM (Ot/FD)

234 Why is today Hitchcock day? He was born in August.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2026 08:46 AM (77rzZ)

235 For example, if poor person is one who has cash income less than 20% of the median income, then you will always have 20% of the people in poverty, no matter how many trillions you throw at "fixing" it.

TBH this is always an interesting and very personal discussion with leftists.

If you talk with a non-working leftist, well, the government should give them UBI

If you talk with a leftist in a low paid field, the government should raise their salaries and give them benefits. Because their field is IMPORTANT

If you talk with middle class leftists, they should be paid would upper class professionals are paid

And if you talk with upper middle class/lower upper class leftists it isn't fair Elon Musk has more then they do.

Its envy up and down the stack.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)

236 A moose calling itself a horse does not make it a horse.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 08:46 AM (3ChHB)

Can you make change for camel note?

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

237 Hard to believe but Jazzy Crawford might have been the less crazy choice"

I do belive that very sentiment was express here on this smaht military blog... and yes.

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

238 > But I think they’re going to find the people outside NOVA aren’t going to roll over for this crap.

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they may have no choice
secession, maybe
NOVA can outvote the rest of the state

Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 08:47 AM (ZxPkt)

239 234 Why is today Hitchcock day? He was born in August.
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2026 08:46 AM (77rzZ)

312 was his area code when he moved to Chicago.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

240 Can you make change for camel note?"

Llama see if I got change...

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:49 AM (XuXeR)

241 I’m too much of a misanthrope to want power over other people. Let them screw up their lives, but leave me out of it.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2026 08:49 AM (77rzZ)

242 I think they ran Crockashit to raise Talarico's national profile. She's too dumb to know that but the DNC is not.

I couldn't figure it out before but now it makes sense.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:49 AM (eDMZF)

243 "So... Rogan goes from being full of common sense during the covid era to now being a full-of-shit muscle head who just doesn't get it."

After watching Shrub and Obama throw away thousands of American lives for nothing I can see why people become opposed to the notion of any foreign intervention.

Trump IS doing this differently, but I can understand the concern...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm)

244 Alabama and Mississippi are richer than Canada per capita.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 12, 2026 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

245 I’m too much of a misanthrope to want power over other people. Let them screw up their lives, but leave me out of it.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2026 08:49 AM (77rzZ)

I don't want power over all other people, just Karen Gillan. And only temporarily.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:50 AM (eDMZF)

246 How are we going to take out the Basij, paramilitary force under the IRGC?
This is the group that rides motorcycles and are known for their aggressive tactics against demonstrators.
They have been involved in executing violent crackdowns during protests.

We have to find a way of taking them out without involving a ground game, otherwise the Iranian people that want to have freedom will be too afraid to come out and protest against the regime.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2026 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

247 We have to find a way of taking them out without involving a ground game
Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2026 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

Indeed. This is going to be the rub.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 08:51 AM (t+TFX)

248 "148 There are no poor people in America. If one has nothing the government will house them, feed them, give them telephones, TVs and all the connections.
Plus healthcare.
How is that poor?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 08:20 AM (3ChHB)"

America, where we can talk about "poor" people's problem of obesity ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 12, 2026 08:51 AM (MIIRH)

249 W's "endgame" : Stable democracy, hearts and minds, blah blah what were we talking about again.

Trump's "endgame" : They cry Uncle, and then fuck all the way off.

It's apples and androids.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2026 08:51 AM (Ot/FD)

250 they may have no choice
secession, maybe
NOVA can outvote the rest of the state

If we want to fix the election system one way to do it would be to have red counties hold back vote totals just like blue ones now, and publish absurd results like 100% of adults in the county voted.

If say a red area in VA did this it would lead to immediate claims of election fraud and an investigation from the CIA agent running the state. But it would destroy the left's argument about how there is voter fraud and can't be any

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:51 AM (sKqQm)

251 "A moose calling itself a horse does not make it a horse."

Yeah hunh.

Posted by: Mentally ill transexuals everywhere at March 12, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

252 Envy, and its close companion resentment.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:52 AM (eDMZF)

253 I don't want power over all other people, just Karen Gillan. And only temporarily."

Not until I'm done. Which will take about 2.9 seconds, give or take...

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

254 Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: LaQuisha at March 12, 2026 08:53 AM (2Ez/1)

255 225 But the instinct for slavery is strong in humanity. Look at the Dem party and their voters. Or some Corps and H-1Bs.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Dems are pimps. A middle man that doesn't belong in the natural order of things. Bible said there will always be the poor man. It was also an honor and responsible position to be the slave of a house hold.
That order in the natural chain of humanity has been disrupted by Democrat distortion.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 08:54 AM (3ChHB)

256 >Whoopi Goldberg Says ....

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Whooopi is the drunk at the end of the bar, who somehow got a TV show

Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 08:54 AM (ZxPkt)

257 201 It's important to point out, I think, that the Bible teaches that we should help the poor as individuals. Nowhere does it teach that the government should take people's money and redistribute it according to its definition of poor. Love your neighbor individually; keep the government out of it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I'm pretty sure there would be a lot less poor people if the government wasn't involved in 'helping' them.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 12, 2026 08:54 AM (Dv3i1)

258 We have to find a way of taking them out without involving a ground game, otherwise the Iranian people that want to have freedom will be too afraid to come out and protest against the regime.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2026 08:50 AM (NpAcC)
===
See threads yesterday for video of Israeli drones flooding the skies over Tehran last night hunting them down.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2026 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

259 oe Rogan says Trump supporters feel "betrayed" by Iran war. So... Rogan goes from being full of common sense during the covid era to now being a full-of-shit muscle head who just doesn't get it. I know lots and lots of Trump supporters and NONE of them feel betrayed. What hogwash....

==

lol, Back to his leftist shtick.

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2026 08:54 AM (GD0B3)

260 252 was supposed to quote 18-1, 235. I am losing it this morning.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 08:55 AM (eDMZF)

261 >>> Streets north of the White House were shut down, with police and security forces securing the area.

It is rumored that the perp was wearing a MAGA hat and was heard yelling

This is MAGA country !!!

Posted by: Operator Error at March 12, 2026 08:55 AM (d5zIg)

262 I'm pretty sure there would be a lot less poor people if the government wasn't involved in 'helping' them."

Put out cat food, you get feral cats.

Funny, no?

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:55 AM (XuXeR)

263 Sponge or sit watching neighbors out your window

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2026 08:55 AM (EtnSa)

264 Why is today Hitchcock day? He was born in August.
Posted by: Bulg

Since Hitchcock was born in August, the origins of March 12 as National Alfred Hitchcock Day remain a mystery - a fitting tribute for the Master of Suspense himself.

nationaltoday.com/alfred-hitchcock-day/

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2026 08:55 AM (eGgU9)

265 It is interesting that the various proposals to ban junk food from EBT cards would be the single most positive thing the government has done for public health since building effective water treatment systems.

And yet..."that's racist!"

Which is in and of itself a "racist claim"...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:55 AM (sKqQm)

266 I'm pretty sure there would be a lot less poor people if the government wasn't involved in 'helping' them."

You get more of what you pay for, and less of what you penalize.

Always has been true, always will be true.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

267 Graham is Poe's Law as sabotage.

Posted by: meh at March 12, 2026 08:56 AM (7Wsrz)

268 I need me some mo' Ranch Doritos and grape Nehi.

Posted by: LaQuisha at March 12, 2026 08:57 AM (2Ez/1)

269 Always has been true, always will be true."

The Gods of the Copybook Headings....

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:57 AM (XuXeR)

270 How are we going to take out the Basij, paramilitary force under the IRGC?
This is the group that rides motorcycles and are known for their aggressive tactics against demonstrators.
They have been involved in executing violent crackdowns during protests.

Arm the people, shoot on sight orders? They know who they are.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2026 08:58 AM (eGgU9)

271 186, pretty cool, NaCly! thx!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 12, 2026 08:58 AM (MIIRH)

272 Whooopi is the ~~drunk~~ whore at the end of the bar, who somehow got a TV show

Posted by: no one of any consquence at March 12, 2026 08:58 AM (qFwJc)

273 redridinghood

We or the Israelis or both are using one-way drones that loiter until targeted on individuals. Last night, thugs manning security checkpoints in Tehran were targeted and killed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

274 How are we going to take out the Basij"

Their Rohm was supposedly droned out a day or so ago...

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 08:59 AM (XuXeR)

275 You have heard of Big Brother. We now have Big Other. Say one honest thing about the Other in the UK, and you go to prison.

Posted by: no one of any consquence at March 12, 2026 08:59 AM (qFwJc)

276 272, healing power of "and"?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 12, 2026 09:00 AM (MIIRH)

277 That Karen Johnson. Is there anything she DOESN'T know?

Posted by: Homer Simpson at March 12, 2026 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)

278 I wonder if Ted Danson ever has nightmarish flashbacks

Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 09:00 AM (ZxPkt)

279 The left does a lot of wish casting. Trump's supporters are "betrayed" , "disappointed" and aren't going to show for the midterms. Same thing with push polls.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2026 09:01 AM (YsPj+)

280 I wonder if Ted Danson ever has nightmarish flashbacks"

Some good drugs in Hollywoodland back in the day...

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 09:01 AM (XuXeR)

281 Take out the Basij? What have we got against those dogs? We’re gonna get rid of them just because they can’t bark?

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2026 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

282 Graham is Poe's Law as sabotage.

This is partly an internet problem, partly a loss of gatekeeping problem, and partly leftwing problem

The internet lets anyone share their thoughts with the public. In the past your potential audience was very limited unless you had access to publish a book, in a newspaper, etc.

And in those limited slots that had this access, you could and would be cast out if you wrote something crazy

And finally the left poisoned this sort of gatekeeping using it to just remove anyone that disagreed with them and at the same time adopted a "no enemies to the left approach". So the guy that would rant about the wonders of communism in a park 60 years ago now instead does it in a tiktok and leftists are not allowed to criticize it...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 09:02 AM (sKqQm)

283 Take out the Basij? What have we got against those dogs? We’re gonna get rid of them just because they can’t bark?"

Woof.

/ShihTzu

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 09:02 AM (XuXeR)

284 278, it's a wonder that he can sleep at night

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 12, 2026 09:02 AM (MIIRH)

285 If we want to fix the election system one way to do it would be to have red counties hold back vote totals just like blue ones now, and publish absurd results like 100% of adults in the county voted.
——-

Call it what it is, though. That’s not “voter fraud”

That is a fraudulent election. Null and Void.

When people talk about “voter fraud” it evokes something different. A few people voting twice, or filling out an extra ballot here and there. Almost harmless. And it never happens anyway, and if it does, it’s not enough to change the outcome, etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 12, 2026 09:02 AM (/dDE1)

286 Caleb Hammer

Omigawd, he's, like, so mean to those people. Just because someone goes on 3 Disney trips a year while making $200 a month as an OF model is no reason to, like, call them carazy. -- the people who bitch about Caleb Hammer

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2026 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

287 Still almost positive The View is a CIA op. Remember when it was for sure gonna be "canceled"?

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 09:03 AM (eDMZF)

288 I wonder if Ted Danson ever has nightmarish flashbacks
Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 09:00 AM (ZxPkt)

Meh. He knew she was the abortion kween, so he could bang her, add to his 'I'm not racist' cred without consequence.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2026 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

289 it's a wonder that he can sleep at night"

Tainted love?

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 09:04 AM (XuXeR)

290 Bulg

Take out the Basij and free the people.

Good morning! Hope you are secure behind enemy lines in NoVA.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 09:04 AM (u82oZ)

291 > How are we going to take out the Basij
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There was a video taken from a car that showed a group of them on their motorcycles going after a crowd. There was an IED nearby them that went off before they could act.

That was before the war started.

I presume the Iranians have "methods" to deal with them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2026 09:04 AM (jtM2q)

292 "The internet lets anyone share their thoughts with the public."
###

What a terrible idea!
Oh, wait...

Posted by: AoSHQ commenters everywhere at March 12, 2026 09:04 AM (2Ez/1)

293 One of the odd things about EngSoc is that Orwell predicted it would be an internal force - this is what the Anglo-American socialists would eventually bring to their countries but instead we see the native EngSoc are important third world socialists and seem to need them because they can no longer convince normies.

Electoral maps show absent immigration the Dems in the US would be a rump party a little better then the LP but not much...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

294 But the instinct for slavery is strong in humanity. Look at the Dem party and their voters. Or some Corps and H-1Bs.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 08:36 AM (u82oZ)

See also, the instinct for some kind of nobility. Look at the members of Congress who're in office for decades. Or celebrities.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

295 Whoopi thought Jill Biden was a real doctor.

Posted by: dantesed at March 12, 2026 09:05 AM (Oy/m2)

296 Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Ted Danson hates his own dick. Show some pride, man.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 09:06 AM (u82oZ)

297 NaCly, my wife and I are looking at W. Virginia as a bugout spot to escape Spanberger.

That bitch be crazy.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

298 I used to have a different nic

Agreed. Deep in our DNA as wandering tribes in the Stone Age.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 09:07 AM (u82oZ)

299 If Danson wanted to show his street cred by banging Whoopi, he could have done better. He could have tapped Isabel Sanford

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2026 09:07 AM (YsPj+)

300 The Iran business is now about control of Hormuz. China and Russia will back the mullahs all the way.

Posted by: Accomack at March 12, 2026 09:07 AM (T8bqm)

301 Joe Rogan says Trump supporters feel "betrayed" by Iran war.
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Betrayal is very much an overstatement. I did not want this intervention and I'm not nearly as sanguine about the prospects for quick victory as many here are. I think we're in for a long slog, and I doubt we have any set goals at this point since no uprising has materialized, which seemed to be the initial goal - and none of the fundamentals for one appear to be coalescing.

I have deep misgivings about all of this, and I think Trump probably screwed up, here. That said, it's no betrayal. Trump is making a MAGA play against the Chinese, it's pretty much in line with his agenda, and consistent with his other anti-Chinese play against VZ.

Nor is it irretrieivable. He's quick on his feet, and I am hoping he'll drop the loose talk about a free Iran and boots on the ground, and focus on achievable, near-to medium-term victory conditions.

People desperately want this to be the end of MAGA, but that is not the case at this point, and it certainly needn't be. It's up to Trump to figure this out, and I still trust him much more than the other clowns in the political, military and foreign service establishments.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2026 09:08 AM (BI5O2)

302 At least Danson upgraded to Mary Steenburgen.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2026 09:08 AM (77rzZ)

303 The Boston Bomber was made into a heart throb by the Left and their Leftist media like The Rolling Stone.

Karma would be a homicide bomber visiting them. And of course CNN had multiple news readers claim the NY attempted bombers were targeting the commie mayor.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 12, 2026 09:08 AM (cntUY)

304 The Iran business is now about control of Hormuz. China and Russia will back the mullahs all the way.

Posted by: Accomack at March 12, 2026 09:07 AM (T8bqm)

And the Left will proudly stand with Russia.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 09:09 AM (eDMZF)

305 Trump's Prosperous Economy Forces Experts To Raise Poverty Level To $100k.
Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at March 12, 2026 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

No amount of national prosperity will uplift the people who're willing to live a subsistence level life just so long as they don't have to actually do anything for it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2026 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

306
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

1m
Trump NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman just confirmed that America's space assets are SURGING our edge over the Iranian regime

Many Democrats INSISTED the Space Force was "useless." Guess not 🇺🇸

"Space is the the ultimate high ground! [...] The assets we have in space, the satellites that are there for observation, for communication, I mean these are the capabilities that are identifying the rocket launches, that are communicating to our forces, and give America an EXTREME edge in this conflict!"
@RapidResponse47

https://tinyurl.com/6wpbbyx9

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2026 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

307 297 NaCly, my wife and I are looking at W. Virginia as a bugout spot to escape Spanberger.

That bitch be crazy.
Posted by: Bulg

West Virginia can be a tough place to live unless one of your legs is shorter than the other.

Posted by: Eileen at March 12, 2026 09:09 AM (oftw2)

308 How are we going to take out the Basij
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There was a video taken from a car that showed a group of them on their motorcycles going after a crowd. There was an IED nearby them that went off before they could act.

If true, this is very encouraging. IF!

Great news for my fellow Iranians.

A doctor from Tehran working at a hospital for the last 10 days has confirmed that all the injured brought in have been the regime forces.

Not a single civilian has been seen there.

https://tinyurl.com/vpv653mk

Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2026 09:09 AM (Riz8t)

309 Accomack

This means a tighter focus on a small part of Iran. This favors the party with air supremacy.

Russia and China need to get used to disappointment. Both can not project power or weapons to make a difference.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 09:10 AM (u82oZ)

310
Russia and China need to get used to disappointment. Both can not project power or weapons to make a difference.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 09:10 AM (u82oZ)

Plus China needs the oil

Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2026 09:10 AM (5XwF9)

311
That bitch be crazy.
Posted by: Bulg
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She's a CIA insert. Read that they have 21 on the way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 09:11 AM (3ChHB)

312
Length of right leg: ___
Length of left leg: ___

Posted by: Application to live in West Virginia at March 12, 2026 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)

313 West Virginia can be a tough place to live unless one of your legs is shorter than the other.
Posted by: Eileen

ISWYDT.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2026 09:12 AM (eGgU9)

314 That bitch be crazy.
Posted by: Bulg
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VA voters be crazier.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 12, 2026 09:12 AM (cntUY)

315 Last night X had vids which allegedly showed drones hunting street level Basij at local roadblocks. If the airstrikes are down to that level , this will be over soon

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2026 09:12 AM (YsPj+)

316

Great news for my fellow Iranians.

A doctor from Tehran working at a hospital for the last 10 days has confirmed that all the injured brought in have been the regime forces.

Not a single civilian has been seen there.

https://tinyurl.com/vpv653mk
Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2026 09:09 AM (Riz8t)

Tousi says they are hiding in there and injured civilians are denied care there...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2026 09:12 AM (5XwF9)

317 Have the red counties in VA started a discussion about leaving to join WV? Why not?

And seriously, even having these sorts of questions changes the dynamic of a lot of the crap the CIA agent is doing in the state...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 09:12 AM (sKqQm)

318 How are we going to take out the Basij, paramilitary force under the IRGC?
This is the group that rides motorcycles and are known for their aggressive tactics against demonstrators.

Tousi, yesterday, had videos of some of them - down to individual people - being slightly blown up by drones.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

319 West Virginia can be a tough place to live unless one of your legs is shorter than the other.
Posted by: Eileen

Eileen Right Hatfield or Eileen Left McCoy?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2026 09:13 AM (eGgU9)

320 West Virginia can be a tough place to live unless one of your legs is shorter than the other.
Posted by: Eileen

Funny, right there.

I remember seeing a sailboat named Eileen A Lot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 09:13 AM (u82oZ)

321 The Western part of Virginia is filled with R voters (and is absolutely lovely country). I can see them start clamoring for secession just like the people in Eastern Oregon and Washington suffering under insane governments in their states.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 12, 2026 09:13 AM (Dv3i1)

322 The Iran business is now about control of Hormuz. China and Russia will back the mullahs all the way.

It appears that we're now sending a third carrier, the George H.W. Bush, to the ME. One carrier will be in the Med, one in the Red Sea, and one in the Arabian Sea off the Persian Gulf. This enormously complicates Iran's air defense strategy, to the extent they still have any.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xatMzwm54ns

Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2026 09:13 AM (Riz8t)

323 310
Russia and China need to get used to disappointment. Both can not project power or weapons to make a difference.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 09:10 AM (u82oZ)

Plus China needs the oil
Posted by: It's me donna
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Trump has a plan for a construct that will allow Russia to grow in a positive way while at the same time putting a choker chain around Xi's neck.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 09:14 AM (3ChHB)

324 Last night X had vids which allegedly showed drones hunting street level Basij at local roadblocks. If the airstrikes are down to that level , this will be over soon

There are a bunch of Uke videos that purport to be drones chasing individual Russian soldiers.

Are they real? Hard to say BUT that makes it very easy to believe we have them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

325 We have to find a way of taking them out without involving a ground game, otherwise the Iranian people that want to have freedom will be too afraid to come out and protest against the regime.

They came out and protested the regime prior to the bombing started. To the tune of tens of thousands dead. They may be ineffective but they're not afraid.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2026 09:15 AM (ExV1e)

326 West Virginia can be a tough place to live unless one of your legs is shorter than the other.
Posted by: Eileen"

Hey, sounds great!
(formerly symmetrical Iranian leadership)

Posted by: man at March 12, 2026 09:15 AM (XuXeR)

327 How can Iran with zero Navy and otherwise denuded military possibly "control Hormuz"?

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 09:15 AM (t+TFX)

328 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2026 09:08 AM (BI5O2)

I mean, has Trump shown at any point that he is willing to throw away what he keeps saying he is fighting for? (the future of this country)

Not that I can see and I've watched him from the beginning. Trump very much goes by instinct and aligning his own side into positions where they "win either way" but I believe the criticisms (not by you) that he is "mercurial" are very much overblown. He may want people including his enemies to believe he is such, but someone who was, could never have got where he is with the world aligned against him waiting to "pounce" on any mistake any time. They MIGHT if they had the DNC backing them and media covering, but even then it's doubtful.

All I'm saying is this, in an election year, was carefully gamed out unless he is finally owned by the Republican establishment which I do not think is the case. That only leaves, he knows his objective, he knows which lines he will and won't cross, he knows when he wants it done, he knows there are several paths to get there, and he knows he will stay on that road until he does. This isn't 4D chess or trust the plan, this is simple math.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 09:16 AM (eDMZF)

329 Spamburger is CIA, is Ratcliffe doing anything about it? Does he have access to records and communications that might shed light on her? It's time to play dirty.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 12, 2026 09:16 AM (Dv3i1)

330 It's time to play dirty.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 12, 2026 09:16 AM (Dv3i1)

It was time a long time ago.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 09:17 AM (t+TFX)

331 Chuck Martel

Too late. She is in office. And she sounds like a bitter-ender true believer, so blackmail is out.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 09:18 AM (u82oZ)

332 Its envy up and down the stack.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)
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This is where we are all falling into the trap of accepting the Marxist definitions of 'class'. Income, earned or unearned, has absolutely nothing to do with class; income is only vanity and envy.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 12, 2026 09:18 AM (VUoPf)

333 ...

Good point.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 09:18 AM (u82oZ)

334 They came out and protested the regime prior to the bombing started. To the tune of tens of thousands dead. They may be ineffective but they're not afraid.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2026 09:15 AM (ExV1e)
******
I worry that 40,000 of the slaughtered were the main leaders of the resistance to the regime.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2026 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

335 It appears that we're now sending a third carrier, the George H.W. Bush, to the ME.
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Would that be prudent?

Posted by: GHW Bush at March 12, 2026 09:18 AM (Dv3i1)

336 FUTURE History through Cinema!
Omega Code -- Tomb Reoccupied/Mojtaba Khamenei.

And then there was the false peace which led to the end. fanatics whose strategy *includes* provoking you into overreacting, then policies like “they bomb a church, we bomb ten” are not just morally dangerous; they can be strategically st00p1d because they play into the enemy’s script.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ

That is why many counterterrorism approaches emphasize things like:

- precise, intelligence?driven operations rather than broad collective punishment
- cutting financing, logistics, and safe havens
- information campaigns and community work that undercut the group’s religious or ideological appeal

You can still argue about where the moral line is, but when the enemy *wants* martyrdom and chaos, “more terror to stop terror” is often exactly what they are trying to provoke.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at March 12, 2026 09:18 AM (883kY)

337 Spamburger is CIA, is Ratcliffe doing anything about it? Does he have access to records and communications that might shed light on her? It's time to play dirty.

Going back to Plame/Wilson the right has been afraid to use the traditional tools available to go after people that been in "questionable" areas in Nat Sec and have turned on the country.

Wilson was a Saudi retainer. Irrespective of whether his wife got him approval for all the bribes he took their is no question existing laws could have sent him to prison for the rest of his life. And...nothing. Shrub did nothing.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 09:19 AM (sKqQm)

338 Great discussions!

Have a great day!

Head on a swivel, and have a plan. Be the torch of America to the great unlearned masses.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 09:19 AM (u82oZ)

339 >>>the criticisms (not by you) that he is "mercurial" are very much overblown...

That only leaves, he knows his objective, he knows which lines he will and won't cross, he knows when he wants it done, he knows there are several paths to get there, and he knows he will stay on that road until he does. This isn't 4D chess or trust the plan, this is simple math.
Posted by: ...
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 09:21 AM (3ChHB)

340 GHW Bush

The third carrier is to relieve the USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78, which has been deployed for 8 months already.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 12, 2026 09:21 AM (u82oZ)

341 > The Western part of Virginia is filled with R voters (and is absolutely lovely country).
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I have property and a second home in WV. Near the Ohio River.

It can be "rough." The major metro areas are D strongholds and the rural areas (most of the state) can be a mix of R or D. Welfare is rampant. So is addiction.

Regardless of your affiliation, you'll be left alone unless there's an urban center within a couple dozen miles.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2026 09:21 AM (jtM2q)

342 Last night X had vids which allegedly showed drones hunting street level Basij at local roadblocks. If the airstrikes are down to that level , this will be over soon

The Iranians just can't quite seem to wrap their heads around the fact that we can see pretty much everything they do now. They were trying to lay mines in the Strait of Hormuz, and we just obliterated a bunch of their ships/boats/subs who were doing it. It kind of seems like we're the proton computer from The Three Body Problem.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2026 09:22 AM (Riz8t)

343 It kind of seems like we're the proton computer from The Three Body Problem.

Lexa Doig > Sea Shimooka

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

344 340 GHW Bush

The third carrier is to relieve the USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78, which has been deployed for 8 months already.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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How long were ships deployed in WWII?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 09:24 AM (3ChHB)

345 GHW Bush

The third carrier is to relieve the USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78, which has been deployed for 8 months already.

At least according to the link I included, the Ford will take up station in the eastern Med, and all three ships will stay on station.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2026 09:24 AM (Riz8t)

346 How deep is the Strait? Is there clearance between the hull of a full tanker and the superstructure of the sunken vessels?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 09:26 AM (3ChHB)

347 Morning!

Overslept, so dropping the 'good' part...

Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2026 09:28 AM (Suwql)

348 Can we buy the Strait of Hormuz ???

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2026 09:28 AM (GD0B3)

349 Let's buy it!

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2026 09:29 AM (GD0B3)

350 337 Spamburger is
...
the right has been afraid to use the traditional tools available to go after people that been in "questionable" areas in Nat Sec and have turned on the country.

Like Brennan and Esptein? stay tuned.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-futPrezGabbardStepsUp
Time travel forward to a future Prez/Gabbard who stepped up in the Golden Moment when needed to save the Trump Presidency ... and. indeed. the world. because she could.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at March 12, 2026 09:29 AM (iWNIX)

351 And China will pay for it.

🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2026 09:29 AM (GD0B3)

352 348 Can we buy the Strait of Hormuz ???
Posted by: runner at March 12, 2026 09:28 AM (GD0B3)

Call it the Straight of Trump ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2026 09:29 AM (VE6XX)

353 JJ, just occurred to me you've been using one of the infamous cartoons in your p'shopped header.
Uhhh?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2026 09:29 AM (Suwql)

354 Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 09:21 AM (3ChHB)

Ha!!! Perfect.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 09:29 AM (eDMZF)

355 >The Western part of Virginia is filled with R voters (and is absolutely lovely country).
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My pappy hailed from there
Buchanan County

Posted by: Don Black at March 12, 2026 09:29 AM (ZxPkt)

356 If Texans put rino fake conservative Cornyn back in office we deserve him!

Posted by: AnnaS at March 12, 2026 09:30 AM (BxywY)

357 >>If Texans put rino fake conservative Cornyn back in office we deserve him!

Given the Democrats' one-two punch of flooding immigrants into communities + voting fraud, I don't think that means any of deserve it.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2026 09:34 AM (Suwql)

358 Car Hits White House Barricade, Secret Service Investigating.

Sign that I'm tired: I misread this as some house that's painted white had it's barricade hit by a car...and thinking why this is such a big deal. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 12, 2026 09:34 AM (ynpvh)

359 327 How can Iran with zero Navy and otherwise denuded military possibly "control Hormuz"?

With the threat to sink any oil carrier attempting to sail south through the strait. A threat like that needs to be backed up with some evidence that they can follow through with action. That message was delivered last night with their ghost boats attacking two oil haulers in Iraqi waters, setting them afire.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 12, 2026 09:34 AM (Y1sOo)

360 177 Jesus said that slaves should be treated fairly.

New Testament, Jesus and other biblical writers emphasized that masters should treat their slaves with respect and fairness, as seen in passages like Ephesians 6:9, which instructs masters not to threaten their slaves and to treat them well.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 08:30 AM (3ChHB)

In other words, he DIDN'T say that masters should FREE their slaves, because slavery is completely f-ing evil. Jesus was peachy-keen with slavery, apparently, as long as it was DONE CORRECTLY. 8-)

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 09:35 AM (ovdkm)

361 By the way as a point to consider.

Iran isn't attacking American oil tankers. It wants to attack any and all oil tankers.

Isn't this an actual war crime in and of itself because Kuwait or India or whatever other country isn't involved in this conflict?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 09:37 AM (sKqQm)

362 If Texans put rino fake conservative Cornyn back in office we deserve him!
Posted by: AnnaS at March 12, 2026 09:30 AM (BxywY)

It's not doom. Truth is he hasn't hurt Texas at all. I just wish we had someone besides the two we had running against him. Paxton was going to be the toughest general for Republicans and now Cornyn is in the same position because Paxton voters will now cut their nose off to spite their face.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 12, 2026 09:38 AM (cntUY)

363 Deep blue states only elect deep blue Democrats

Somehow deep red states often elect weak kneed and compromised Rs.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 09:39 AM (sKqQm)

364 Hours After Democrat-run WA Passes Wealth Tax, Former Starbucks CEO Flees to FL

A wealth tax is a theft tax, plain and simple, one in which the majority has decided to steal someone else's stuff. It's also short term, either by people like Howard Shultz leaving, or such a diminishment of wealth that there are no more whales to squeeze, so they have to lower their sights to those whose wealth is even less.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 12, 2026 09:39 AM (ynpvh)

365 363 Deep blue states only elect deep blue Democrats

Somehow deep red states often elect weak kneed and compromised Rs.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 09:39 AM (sKqQm)

That's because kneed R's need to knead political dough.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 12, 2026 09:41 AM (ynpvh)

366 Jesus's teachings led to abolition of slavery and nowhere did He say to treat a slave fairly. I believe that was Paul.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 09:41 AM (eDMZF)

367 ... At least according to the link I included, the Ford will take up station in the eastern Med, and all three ships will stay on station.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2026 09:24 AM (Riz8t)

Yes, the idea that the third carrier will relieve the one that is overextended is just an assumption based on common sense, but the US military has said no such thing. So it could be that they feel that they just really need that third carrier there for as long as it takes.

But they probably don't expect this to take more than a few more weeks. At least not the part of it that requires carriers.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 09:41 AM (ovdkm)

368 I wont vote for John Cornyn again.

Posted by: AnnaS at March 12, 2026 09:42 AM (ZkH3r)

369 361 By the way as a point to consider.

Iran isn't attacking American oil tankers. It wants to attack any and all oil tankers.

Isn't this an actual war crime in and of itself because Kuwait or India or whatever other country isn't involved in this conflict?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2026 09:37 AM (sKqQm)

Nothing Muzzies do for their faith is a war crime...in their eyes. The only crime is not wiping out the Jews and/or retaking lands that were non-Islamic, captured by Islam, and liberated from Islam.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 12, 2026 09:42 AM (ynpvh)

370 >>Iran isn't attacking American oil tankers.

One of the ships attacked last night by a ghost boat is owned by a U.S. company, Safesea Group.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 12, 2026 09:44 AM (Y1sOo)

371 368 I wont vote for John Cornyn again.
Posted by: AnnaS at March 12, 2026 09:42 AM (ZkH3r)

Might as well vote for the Dem then. You do you.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 12, 2026 09:44 AM (cntUY)

372 366 Jesus's teachings led to abolition of slavery and nowhere did He say to treat a slave fairly. I believe that was Paul.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 09:41 AM (eDMZF)

The OT has passages on treatment of slaves, and you are to treat them fairly, not abuse them. For Jews who became slaves, they had to have entered into slavery of their own accord, and if they wanted to be permanent slaves, agree to it by having their ear pierced as an external sign (as far as I recall).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 12, 2026 09:45 AM (ynpvh)

373 370 >>Iran isn't attacking American oil tankers.

One of the ships attacked last night by a ghost boat is owned by a U.S. company, Safesea Group.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 12, 2026 09:44 AM (Y1sOo)

That's ironic...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 12, 2026 09:45 AM (ynpvh)

374 366 Jesus's teachings led to abolition of slavery and nowhere did He say to treat a slave fairly. I believe that was Paul.
Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 09:41 AM (eDMZF)

Maybe you have a point. As I remember it, Jesus basically overrode the 10 Commandments with two abbreviated "commandments" of a sort of his own. The one about "love thy neighbor as yourself" (or something like that) could be interpreted as being anti-slavery.

But isn't the Bible supposed to be the infallible Word of God? So how does what Paul (assuming that's right) has to say about it figure into that?

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 09:46 AM (ovdkm)

375 woman says boyfriend removed surgical screw poking out of her head after doctor from Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon didn't believe her

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2026 09:47 AM (RHGPo)

376 140 Would an updated Monty Python that even gently mocked current British ruling class trends survive the censors?
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2026 08:18 AM (t+TFX)

A skit where one of them decided he was a woman, and wanted to give birth, and call himself "Loretta" comes to mind...

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 09:48 AM (ovdkm)

377 The role of education is not to enforce political consensus but to encourage critical thinking.
Blue State Moves To Muzzle Oral History Of J6

The original purpose of public education, ala German style of the 1800s, was to inculcate reverence and obedience to the State. We are the ones that, rightly, wanted it to be about critical thinking skills.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 12, 2026 09:49 AM (ynpvh)

378 @366 nowhere did He say to treat a slave fairly. I believe that was Paul.

Surely true, but opens a new can of Worms.
About two-thirds of "scriptural teaching" is worship of Paul.
You can get a pretty good idea who will never call that heresy.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 12, 2026 09:49 AM (zdLoL)

379 But isn't the Bible supposed to be the infallible Word of God? So how does what Paul (assuming that's right) has to say about it figure into that?

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 09:46 AM (ovdkm)

Its a fair question. Perhaps God knew that one day treating them fairly (in more enlightened human eyes) would literally mean freeing them?

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 09:51 AM (eDMZF)

380 "nowhere did He say to treat a slave fairly"

This looks like one of the specific things Jesus did not address directly.

This doesn't create a conflict at all.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 12, 2026 09:51 AM (DgMqy)

381 if they wanted to be permanent slaves, agree to it by having their ear pierced as an external sign

Come on, do the tattoos. Go ahead.
I'm right here with the corners of my beard un-marred.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 12, 2026 09:52 AM (zdLoL)

382 Now that I think about it, a permanent order to free slaves is paradoxical. So then the order would have to be NEVER take or keep slaves. Which doesn't address the people who have them or may have them in the future.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2026 09:57 AM (eDMZF)

383 - "is worship of Paul."

Um, no. Worship of the triune God. One of whom inspired the writings of Paul, apostle to the gentiles.
I get the impression you're one of those who ignores Matt 23:9,,, among many other things.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 12, 2026 09:59 AM (Gk2Bn)

384 Changing of the cards. Disgraced “Dolton Dictator” Tiffany Henyard dumped the Democratic Party and is running as a Republican in Georgia in an attempted political comeback over a year after her embarrassing ouster in Illinois. Henyard, who described herself as a “super mayor,” filed to run as a Republican in Georgia’s Fulton County Board of Commissioners election in May, according to county election records. The 42-year-old is vying for the District 5 commissioner’s seat and is one of five current contenders, but is the only GOP candidate. District 5 encompasses the southwestern suburbs of Atlanta

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2026 10:00 AM (RHGPo)

385 The New Republic (TNR) posted an article titled “Somali Immigrants Fled Climate Change. Now They’re Facing ICE,” claiming that Somali migrants in the United States have been driven out of their country by climate-change caused drought. This is false, or at least incomplete. Drought is a natural part of the region, even multi-year drought, and the present one is no different than the region has experienced with some regularity historically. It is civil strife and government corruption, resulting in continued poverty, that is leading Somalis to flee their homeland.

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2026 10:02 AM (RHGPo)

386 “Kansas is one of five states to prohibit trans people from changing the gender marker on their licenses, but it is the first to pass a law that retroactively cancels licenses that were already changed,” NBC News reported. “The law also invalidated birth certificates for those who updated their gender markers.”

Hundreds of people who claim to be transgender have already received letters from the state telling them their driver’s licenses are “invalid immediately,” according to the report. The letters also inform them they “may be subject to additional penalties” if they continue to drive unless they receive a new one with their birth sex from the Kansas Division of Vehicles and surrender the old license.

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2026 10:13 AM (RHGPo)

387 177 Jesus said that slaves should be treated fairly.

New Testament, Jesus and other biblical writers emphasized that masters should treat their slaves with respect and fairness, as seen in passages like Ephesians 6:9, which instructs masters not to threaten their slaves and to treat them well.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 12, 2026 08:30 AM (3ChHB)

I should have noticed that this was basically calling Jesus a "biblical writer", which of course makes no sense since the New Testament was written after his demise.

So I'm still unclear on exactly what the Bible says that Jesus had to say about slavery. But realistically, slavery was just an accepted fact of life back then, and that is no doubt reflected in the text. If there was anything overtly revolutionary about slavery that was said, it seems like that would be common knowledge.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 12, 2026 10:14 AM (ovdkm)

388 If say a red area in VA did this it would lead to immediate claims of election fraud and an investigation from the CIA agent running the state. But it would destroy the left's argument about how there is voter fraud and can't be any

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I understand the sentiment. Really, I do. But we have to get rid of this mentality that the Left/Dems play by the same rules. Look at Tina Peters in Colorado. What you'll end up with is a bunch of Red county clerks and officials in jail for virtually life, all for exposing the fraud.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at March 12, 2026 10:26 AM (vqA1l)

389 So I'm still unclear on exactly what the Bible says that Jesus had to say about slavery.

Its a loaded question. Since "slavery" is rather subjective, and "Bible Says that Jesus" doesn't understand a foundational principle.

Since Jesus is God, the whole Scriptures are the temporal manifestation of what He has to say.

Since the Paraclete is God, the regeneration / sanctification / renewing of the mind brings the conviction on slavery.

Since the unregenerate haven't the spiritual conviction, and since they are otherwise at enmity with God, God's Word falls upon the deaf and blind.

I don't think the unregenerate really care about God's view on slavery and would rather use a wresting of it to harass and accuse the Elect.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2026 10:39 AM (PVBkQ)

390 Good morning, all. Thanks, J.J.

All together now..🎵

>'Whoopi Goldberg says Trump’s Iran actions are to distract from Nancy Guthrie case in bizarre claim' NY Post, 03/10/26

And also "a method of distraction to keep public attention off the Jeffrey Epstein files"...

>Facebook - OK! Magazine
Stephen Colbert gleefully lampooned the Trump administration’s wartime doublespeak, poking fun at its comical avoidance of the word "war," and its desperate attempts to relabel the conflict in Iran as anything but.

>AOL, 'Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Donald Trump's Handling of Iran 'Mess' as He Tries to Distract From His Involvement in the Epstein Files' 03/11/26

"In his Tuesday, March 10, monologue, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host argued that Trump ordered the strikes to deflect attention from the release of the Epstein files and his abysmal poll numbers, dubbing American missiles as "weapons of mass distraction."

So says the wife's accessory pet.
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How awful for ALL of the progressive tv hosts to share a brain and be required to stay on the very same messaging day in & out. (Mentally unsound, imho.)

W/o the Trump administration, few would have their NYC, LA Masonic Hall gigs.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 12, 2026 10:40 AM (NFX2v)

391 NJ Monitor, Budget
'Gov. Sherrill proposes record $60.7B in spending in first budget address' March 10, 2026

Politico, 'Mikie Sherrill puts fiscal restraint at center of her first budget for New Jersey'
The Democrat also said President Donald Trump’s “massive cuts are blowing an immediate hole in our budget, hurting New Jerseyans.” March 10, 2026

Trump's fault, the well-heeled tell the peasants.
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AP, Politics
Virginia’s former first lady to run for Congress in newly drawn district, yesterday

“We need a leader who has a record of delivering and can finally bring down costs for families, who will increase access to affordable healthcare, and who will never back down from holding Donald Trump and ICE accountable,” McAuliffe said in a statement."

Go hide. One McAuliffe, two McAuliffes...
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Daily Times, Courts: 'Woman sentenced for role in $1.7 million Medicaid fraud scheme'

NORRISTOWN — A Lower Providence woman faces a jail term, a lengthy period of probation and a hefty restitution bill for her role in a $1.7 million Medicaid fraud scheme while she was chief executive officer of a home care agency based in East Norriton.

Ha. And eligible for work release. 🤷‍♀️

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 12, 2026 10:41 AM (NFX2v)

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