Wednesday Morning Rant

Appropriate Punishment

That chart is from Yahoo! Finance, for a major company many have never heard of. That company is called Supermicro, and it builds, among other things, servers for datacenters. It is a big player in server hardware. Unlike some of its competitors, however, it is not a household name. Supermicro is an American company based in San Jose, founded by Taiwanese entrepreneurs. Like most outfits in the datacenter hardware business, it has been going gangbusters in the current AI mania. Given the market environment, why that staggering price decline with surging trading volume on the 20th?

The decline has to do with the indictment and arrest of some of its executives due to allegations of smuggling and violating US export control laws regarding Red China. As you may recall, the US has - since the Biden administration - proscribed the export of certain high-end computer chips useful for AI processing to that country. Trump made that a bit more aggressive once he took office. In the presence of any ban, a black market inevitably forms and it appears that, per the indictment, certain SMCI executives allegedly operated in that black market. Supermicro is not named directly, nor is the Asian company that allegedly helped run the operation. But the people involved are Supermicro people, a "U.S. Manufacturer" is referenced, and the stock tanked as a result.

The scheme does not appear to have been particularly sophisticated. From the indictment:

Beginning in or about 2024, certain executives, employees, and third-party affiliates of a U.S.-based manufacturer that designs and builds high-performance computer servers for artificial intelligence and cloud computing applications (the "U.S. Manufacturer"), including YIH-SHYAN "Wally" LIAW, RUEI-TSANG "Steven" CHANG, and TING-WEI "Willy" SUN, the defendants, conspired to divert billions of dollars' worth of the U.S. Manufacturer's servers to China, many of which were assembled in the United States. The U.S. Manufacturer's flagship products - servers integrating graphics processing units ("GPUs") manufactured by Nvidia Corporation ("Nvidia") - are subject to strict U.S. export controls barring their sale to China without a license.

The defendants and their co-conspirators used a particular company ("Company-1") based in Southeast Asia as a pass-through entity to give the U.S. Manufacturer's transactions that they arranged the appearance of legitimate commercial activity and to obscure their China-based end customers. YIH-SHYAN "Wally" LIAW, RUEI-TSANG "Steven" CHANG, and TING-WEI "Willy" SUN, the defendants, worked with and directed executives of Company-1 to submit purchase orders to the U.S. Manufacturer to reserve and purchase large allocations of the servers from the U.S. Manufacturer containing Nvidia GPUs and coordinate their onward transshipment to China. To ensure that the allocations were approved internally at the U.S. Manufacturer, the defendants and executives at Company-1 prepared false documents and records, and transmitted false communications, purporting to show that Company-1 was the end user of the servers. Once Company-1 received the servers, at the direction of and in coordination with the defendants and others, including third-party brokers who worked closely with the defendants to order the U.S. Manufacturer's servers for customers in China, it shipped them to those customers in China. In furtherance of the scheme, Company-1, in consultation with the defendants, used a shipping and logistics company to repackage the U.S. Manufacturer's servers and place them in unmarked boxes to conceal their content prior to shipping them to their final destinations in China

For example, to deceive the U.S. Manufacturer's compliance team, which was responsible for conducting audits of Company-1's purchases of servers to ensure adherence to U.S. export control laws, the defendants staged "dummy" servers - non-working, physical replicas of the U.S. Manufacturer's servers - for inspection at the locations where Company-1 was purportedly storing the servers it had purchased from the U.S. Manufacturer. However, the actual servers from the U.S. Manufacturer had already been unlawfully shipped to China.

So that's pretty straightforward. Use "Company-1" as a cut-out, ship them the kit, have them rebox it and sell it on to the actual end purchaser and put on a little show to pretend that they actually have the equipment on hand in case anyone comes to look. Simple, but apparently effective for a while. For long enough to do the old switcharoo with around $2.5 billion in server hardware.

In the wake of his arrest and the subsequent dramatic drop in SMCI's stock price, Liaw resigned from Supermicro's board. The company also appointed a new Chief Compliance Officer. And that brings up the other point that is driving some of this price move, namely that Supermicro has had trouble in the past when it comes to internal controls and processes. Back in 2024, Ernst & Young resigned as Supermicro's auditor, touching off - this is becoming a trend - a major stock price fall. When it resigned, Ernst & Young said that it was "unwilling to be associated with the financial statements prepared by the management," along with asserting that the board was the plaything of the company's founder and some other executives and that the company lacked effective internal controls. Before that, in 2020, the company paid a small fine to the SEC over accounting practices.

Supermicro has had some ... problems. Now, it is possible that its executives Liaw and Chang will do some time but that is not the only consideration. If the indictment is accurate, SMCI moved $2.5 billion in product to Red China. In all of 2025 (fiscal year ending in June of that year), the company had around $22 billion in net sales. The timing doesn't line up exactly, but it's close enough. Somewhere from 5%-10% of the company's sales came from this alleged scheme to violate US export controls and send high-tech equipment to a sanctioned country. That is a lot of revenue, and too much to be missed. A single outfit sending you a big chunk of your total revenue could not have been a secret. Customers that big are well known. Vendors buy customers like that dinner at least, and often have teams dedicated to them. This fake company wouldn't have had a normal relationship with Supermicro, and people inside Supermicro would have known that. If these allegations are true, it is so unlikely that it borders on impossible that the scheme was not widely known among senior executives and probably within at least the sales and logistics groups.

There is a reason that SMCI saw its price fall so dramatically: investors know it, too, and a lot of them got out. All of this, however, invites a question: assuming that the allegations are true, what is an appropriate punishment for a corporation in this case? How does one punish a corporation with controls so bad that it might be intentional, that has played fast and loose with its accounting, and that raked in billions selling proscribed products to a country that is, depending on one's perspective, a rival or an enemy? Jailing its executives would be a welcome change, but is it enough? An organization as corrupt as Supermicro is alleged to be will simply continue as it was. What punishment actually fits the crime, and what punishment can encourage better behavior in the future? Ruinous fines, like "50% of revenues for the past five years, payable over the next ten years?" Nationalization followed by divestiture to new owners after firing everyone with executive authority?

Assuming that the allegations are accurate, what is an appropriate punishment for a firm that has a long track record of misbehavior and helped violate - and profited handsomely for violating - major US sanctions?

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:00 AM (bFu5X)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 25, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)

4 Mannix!

*Jazzy music plays*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 25, 2026 11:02 AM (xcxpd)

5 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:03 AM (bFu5X)

6 ..what is an appropriate punishment for a firm that has a long track record of misbehavior and helped violate - and profited handsomely for violating - major US sanctions?
Posted by: Joe Mannix

This is like asking what happens when Superman meets Superwoman.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2026 11:03 AM (diia5)

7 hmmmmm

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2026 11:03 AM (Suwql)

8 > Assuming that the allegations are accurate, what is an appropriate punishment for a firm that has a long track record of misbehavior and helped violate - and profited handsomely for violating - major US sanctions?
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Dissolve it. Take the assets. Jail the execs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 11:04 AM (AkEZC)

9 "what is an appropriate punishment for a firm that has a long track record of misbehavior and helped violate - and profited handsomely for violating - major US sanctions?"

Revoke their corporate charter (the death penalty for a corporation.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 25, 2026 11:04 AM (O7YUW)

10 6 ..what is an appropriate punishment for a firm that has a long track record of misbehavior and helped violate - and profited handsomely for violating - major US sanctions?
Posted by: Joe Mannix

This is like asking what happens when Superman meets Superwoman.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2026 11:03 AM (diia5)

Depends on who's writing and doing the art...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 25, 2026 11:04 AM (xcxpd)

11 what is an appropriate punishment for a corporation in this case?

Sweet cleansing fire?

Posted by: NR Pax at March 25, 2026 11:04 AM (RjOoY)

12 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:04 AM (5bGGs)

13 wow, foreigners committing fraud.
how original!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2026 11:05 AM (Suwql)

14 ... the board was the plaything of the company's founder and some other executives...

If you replace 'founder' with "current CEO", doesn't that describe most modern US corporations?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

15 More foreigners coming to America ... to rip us off, one way or another.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 25, 2026 11:06 AM (vbXSk)

16 Has China created any technology, outside of biological terrorism, that it didn't steal from the US first?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:06 AM (5bGGs)

17 wow, foreigners committing fraud.
how original!
Posted by: Lizzy

They've got centers where they lear how to do that.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

18 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:07 AM (bFu5X)

19 Has China created any technology, outside of biological terrorism, that it didn't steal from the US first?
Posted by: Sponge

Kung pao.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

20 At this point, maybe a Chinese style punishment is appropriate. IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2026 11:07 AM (Suwql)

21 Ladies and Gentlemen, the youth movement in American politics!

Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

I hope they have an ambulance on call.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 25, 2026 11:08 AM (n1OCj)

22 Depends on who's writing and doing the art...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Current day? Tom King and some retard with AI.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2026 11:08 AM (diia5)

23 19 Has China created any technology, outside of biological terrorism, that it didn't steal from the US first?
Posted by: Sponge
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General Tso's Chicken was a nice invention. Oh, but, that came from Hong Kong.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 11:08 AM (n17eQ)

24 Revoke their corporate charter (the death penalty for a corporation.)

And then they'll just reincorporate under a new name. No, the answer here is to punish the malefactors so severely that nobody wants to risk it again.

Posted by: Milton Friedman at March 25, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

25 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

I hope they have an ambulance on call.
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Was Neal Young not available?

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 11:09 AM (n17eQ)

26 Assuming that the allegations are accurate, what is an appropriate punishment for a firm that has a long track record of misbehavior and helped violate - and profited handsomely for violating - major US sanctions?

- Jail anyone who can be proven to have known.
- Bar anyone in a position to have known from working for any company which deals with restricted technology.
- Nationalize and sell for parts.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:09 AM (ExV1e)

27 what is an appropriate punishment for a firm that has a long track record of misbehavior and helped violate - and profited handsomely for violating - major US sanctions?

Plant stories that the BoD and Executives have information that will lead to the indictment and incarceration of Hillary! Clinton.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 25, 2026 11:10 AM (0sNs1)

28 At this point, maybe a Chinese style punishment is appropriate. IYKWIMAITYD
Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2026 11:07 AM

We trap their index fingers in one of those little tube things? I was hoping for something a bit harsher.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:10 AM (bFu5X)

29 Has China created any technology, outside of biological terrorism, that it didn't steal from the US first?

Paper, gunpowder, movable type.

Oh, you mean in the last 80 years? Then no.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

30 They come into your house, steal your stuff and trash the place.

Should we kick them out?

Dear Gaia, NO! They're the new owners. Go find someplace else to live.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 25, 2026 11:10 AM (Dv3i1)

31 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

I hope they have an ambulance on call.
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Was Neal Young not available?
Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 11:09 AM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: James Taylor at March 25, 2026 11:10 AM (0sNs1)

32 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

I hope they have an ambulance on call.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 25, 2026 11:08 AM (n1OCj)

Celebrate Learing!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:11 AM (5bGGs)

33 Imma amazed Joan Baez is still living. Is she ambulatory?

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 11:11 AM (n17eQ)

34 The text in those gray boxes hurt my head... I'm going out to the balcony for a whisky and a cigar until I understand what's going on.

Posted by: Denny Crane - An 11'O Clock Whisky, Just What The Doctor Ordered! at March 25, 2026 11:11 AM (dmDsy)

35 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:07 AM (bFu5X)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:11 AM (5bGGs)

36 At this point, maybe a Chinese style punishment is appropriate. IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2026 11:07 AM (Suwql)
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So... wonton punishment?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 25, 2026 11:11 AM (1o8D5)

37 >>We trap their index fingers in one of those little tube things? I was hoping for something a bit harsher.

More like fall off a high-rise balcony.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2026 11:11 AM (Suwql)

38 >>So... wonton punishment?

That's the way the fortune cookie crumbles!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2026 11:12 AM (Suwql)

39 >>We trap their index fingers in one of those little tube things? I was hoping for something a bit harsher.

More like fall off a high-rise balcony.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2026 11:11 AM

I like it. With their fingers immobilized, they'll never be able to break their fall properly!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:12 AM (bFu5X)

40 When I lived in Silicon Valley back in the early 00's SuperMicro was a big player in server and PC components. I think they had a catalog you could order from.

Or, you know, just go down to their facility and buy direct.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 11:12 AM (AkEZC)

41 We have met the enemy, and it is IT.

Posted by: fd at March 25, 2026 11:13 AM (aiR6F)

42 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

I thought he was already touring the US on his SAVE DEMOCRACY tour.

Which pissed EVERYONE off because Mr. Blue Collar was charging $700 just to walk through the door.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:13 AM (5bGGs)

43 >>Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

Hey guys, we're getting the band back together!!

"Who. . . ?"
- Genz Z and Millennials

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2026 11:13 AM (Suwql)

44 Appropriate Punishment

Akshually, what you mean is condign punishment.

Posted by: That guy who just can't help himself at March 25, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

45 Bruce Springsteen is a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:14 AM (5bGGs)

46 Assuming that the allegations are accurate, what is an appropriate punishment for a firm that has a long track record of misbehavior and helped violate - and profited handsomely for violating - major US sanctions?
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Soon, when the Democrat-Communists are in complete control, the punishment will be ... nothing. In fact, they will be rewarded.

Posted by: It Really Sucks Knowing the Future at March 25, 2026 11:14 AM (qUkBO)

47 Was Neal Young not available?

Neil's busy.

This week:

Neil Young says his “depressing” feelings about the “worst president in the history of our country” are being channeled into a new album.

“I am so hurt for this country. Politics today is sad and depressing for me. I can’t do it anymore. I can go out and demonstrate my feelings about it. We have the worst president in the history of our country. Every day a bad TV show produced by DJT is what we get.”

God, that album is going to be awful.

Go back to Winnipeg, loser.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 25, 2026 11:14 AM (n1OCj)

48 So... wonton punishment?
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Perp woks are definitely in order.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

49 Part of the problem is that our laws and regulations are designed for first world morality, which does not exist in certain countries.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 25, 2026 11:15 AM (1CimL)

50 It's islhamophobia that Springsteen didn't invite Yusef Islham to his "look at me, gimmie money" show......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:15 AM (5bGGs)

51 Go back to Winnipeg, ~~loser~~ hoser.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 25, 2026 11:14 AM

Suggested edit.

Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at March 25, 2026 11:15 AM (0sNs1)

52 I was a deacon in the First Church of Bruce, and then, suddenly, one day I wasn't.

He promoted himself as working class, you see. Now he trashes them.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2026 11:15 AM (dtajH)

53 >>Neil Young says his “depressing” feelings about the “worst president in the history of our country” are being channeled into a new album.

Feel free to return to Canada, buddy!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2026 11:16 AM (Suwql)

54 Politics today is sad and depressing for me. I can’t do it anymore. I can go out and demonstrate my feelings about it.

I think we all get the picture. Why don't you NOT demonstrate your feelings and we'll all be better off.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

55
Soon, when the Democrat-Communists are in complete control, the punishment will be ... nothing. In fact, they will be rewarded.

Posted by: It Really Sucks Knowing the Future at March 25, 2026 11:14 AM (qUkBO)

33.3% for the party of the little guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:16 AM (5bGGs)

56 Killmenow

Please.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:16 AM (W2Pud)

57 Part of the problem is that our laws and regulations are designed for first world morality, which does not exist in certain countries.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

The US among them.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:16 AM (77rzZ)

58 >>Part of the problem is that our laws and regulations are designed for first world morality, which does not exist in certain countries.

This.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 25, 2026 11:17 AM (Suwql)

59 Neil Young says his “depressing” feelings about the “worst president in the history of our country” are being channeled into a new album.

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!

Posted by: Nobody, EVER at March 25, 2026 11:17 AM (5bGGs)

60 "Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend."

Sponsored by Geritol and Metamucil.

Posted by: fd at March 25, 2026 11:17 AM (aiR6F)

61
POKER MONKEY

According to a yootoob vid on this company that I watched a couple of days ago, they got found out because the Chinese company released a marketing video where they pulled the GPUs out of a box with the originating US company's logo all over it.

Not only were they corrupt criminal asshoes, they were STUPID corrupt criminal asshoes.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2026 11:17 AM (y9nCu)

62 Has China created any technology, outside of biological terrorism, that it didn't steal from the US first?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:06 AM (5bGGs)

actually that was developed, as far as anyone can tell, by Ralph Baric at UNC, further developed by Fauci's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana before being sent to China.

per allegations, of course.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2026 11:17 AM (rbvCR)

63 Harvest the organs of everyone from Executive Suite to Mailroom. The guy who buffs the floor, too.

Posted by: Waxing Poetic at March 25, 2026 11:17 AM (oftw2)

64 I say we give these 3 the same sentence China would give them for such a crime going the other direction.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 25, 2026 11:18 AM (jbnUc)

65 "Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend."

Sponsored by Geritol and Metamucil.

Don't forget me!

Posted by: Big Urn at March 25, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)

66 "Hey guys, we're getting the band back together!!

"Who. . . ?"
- Genz Z and Millennials"
************
Not Who. Who would be a good show.

Posted by: Cosda at March 25, 2026 11:18 AM (QV0S8)

67 Dissolve it. Take the assets. Jail the execs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 11:04 AM (AkEZC)

And destroy the equity held by many people who are completely innocent of any wrongdoing?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2026 11:18 AM (n9ltV)

68 Killmenow

Please.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:16 AM (W2Pud)

another glorious morning in the people's democratic republic, Nurse?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2026 11:19 AM (rbvCR)

69 Shut it down. Sell all assets. Recoup proceeds Of any stock material stock sales since investigation started, especially by large corporate investors such as black rock, state street, vanguard, etc. If they object, subpoena all internal communications.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 25, 2026 11:19 AM (sl73Y)

70 "Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend."

Sponsored by Geritol and Metamucil.

Brought to you by:

The Neptune Society. Where you can prepare for your passing by pre-paying for cremation to take the burden away from your loved ones.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:19 AM (5bGGs)

71 Lock them in a cell and pipe Bruce Springsteen and Joan Baez music in, on a continuous loop.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 25, 2026 11:20 AM (wLsnt)

72 Gramps like us
Baby we were born to runs

Posted by: fd at March 25, 2026 11:21 AM (aiR6F)

73 “ Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”

Matthew 11:6

Posted by: Marcus T at March 25, 2026 11:21 AM (KsZMV)

74 Lock them in a cell and pipe Bruce Springsteen and Joan Baez music in, on a continuous loop.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 25, 2026 11:20 AM (wLsnt)

Unfortunately, The Constitution prevents such punishment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:21 AM (5bGGs)

75 Lock them in a cell and pipe Bruce Springsteen and Joan Baez music in, on a continuous loop.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

No love for me?
-- Yoko

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

76 Speaking of bitter old folk hags, Joni Mitchell explains why she's best and purist and everybody else sucks.

https://is.gd/HAZbEG

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 25, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)

77 they need to do the Rico Suave solution with more Rico than Suave

Posted by: Joker of Clubs at March 25, 2026 11:21 AM (KfeB1)

78 16 Has China created any technology, outside of biological terrorism, that it didn't steal from the US first?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:06 AM (5bGGs)

Chinese honeypots??

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 11:22 AM (Sco7b)

79 Neil, I recommend a handful of Ambien and a bottle of Jack Daniels. You will wake up in a world free from Trump.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 25, 2026 11:22 AM (RjOoY)

80 And destroy the equity held by many people who are completely innocent of any wrongdoing?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2026 11:18 AM (n9ltV)

Fining companies does the same.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:22 AM (ExV1e)

81 I'll be moving and reinstalling about 20 Supermicro servers this evening. This case effects my bread and butter. Bigly.

Posted by: Reforger at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM (xrmkX)

82 "The defendants and their co-conspirators used a particular company ("Company-1") based in Southeast Asia as a pass-through entity..."

I have little doubt they are referring to Singapore.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM (cWLG3)

83 > olitics today is sad and depressing for me. I can’t do it anymore. I can go out and demonstrate my feelings about it.
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I'll send him a couple gallons of gas and a lighter. A light show I'd certainly go to. Would that be wrong?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM (AkEZC)

84 Part of the problem is that our laws and regulations are designed for first world morality, which does not exist in certain countries.

This.
Posted by: Lizzy

Hell, it doesn't exist in THIS country.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM (iHruz)

85 Didn’t Bill Clinton do essentially the same thing with our missile guidance tech? So make them marry Hillary, i guess

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM (L3C9i)

86 another glorious morning in the people's democratic republic, Nurse?
Posted by: Kindltot

The TDS water cooler talk is usually entertaining. This morning it’s annoying. They really believe some crazy ahit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM (W2Pud)

87 >>>"Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend."

Come on, SMOD.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 25, 2026 11:24 AM (dK+Kv)

88 The villainous Olds are leaving, one by one. New malefactors will replace them. World without end, or, there is nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: tubal at March 25, 2026 11:24 AM (/HeZH)

89 It is a first world versus third world problem. We have traffic laws, like stopping at red lights. Take a drive in a third world country and you will understand. Also take a look at videos from other countries. They lock their lawn furniture up because anything not locked up on your property is free for the taking. This is the mentality we are importing in the west.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 25, 2026 11:24 AM (1CimL)

90 I think Supermicro's business model is pretty much the business model of many of these kinds of companies.

"How can we get very cheap, slave-made materials into the USA? And how can we export materials to sanctioned countries who will pay huge markups to get them?"

It's all smuggling or at least very loose interpretations of import/export laws. The Russia and China situation opened up the biggest smuggling ring in the history of humanity. Tech, oil, foods, etc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

91 86 another glorious morning in the people's democratic republic, Nurse?
Posted by: Kindltot

The TDS water cooler talk is usually entertaining. This morning it’s annoying. They really believe some crazy ahit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM (W2Pud)

I have always been curious - how do you handle all of that, tactically?

Posted by: tubal at March 25, 2026 11:25 AM (/HeZH)

92 No love for me?
-- Yoko
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:21 AM

Always. We, the cognoscenti here, adore you!

Posted by: Intragalactic Yoko Ono Artistries Appreciation Association, AoSHQ Claque at March 25, 2026 11:25 AM (0sNs1)

93 When I lived in Silicon Valley back in the early 00's SuperMicro was a big player in server and PC components. I think they had a catalog you could order from.

Or, you know, just go down to their facility and buy direct.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 11:12 AM (AkEZC)

Same. One of the early big names in consumer boards, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 25, 2026 11:25 AM (dK+Kv)

94 I have little doubt they are referring to Singapore.
Posted by: Chairman

Or Taiwan.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 25, 2026 11:25 AM (1CimL)

95 Assuming that the allegations are accurate, what is an appropriate punishment for a firm that has a long track record of misbehavior and helped violate - and profited handsomely for violating - major US sanctions?

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM
======================
Excellent question. I wonder if the law would permit a forced sale to a different owner, a la Byte Dance USA (TikTok).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 25, 2026 11:26 AM (0aLZX)

96 Hell, it doesn't exist in THIS country.

A guy from rural Oregon moved to Portland, and was shocked that everything was locked up in Portland drugstores.

It had to be explained to him that he had moved from a high-trust society to a low-trust society.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 25, 2026 11:26 AM (n1OCj)

97 Vandelay Industries could be "Company-1". They are importer-exporters after all.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 11:27 AM (cWLG3)

98 Candy O! on ballistics.

Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO
It’s 2026. No one is believing in a magic bullet theory.
Please just shut up. It’s frankly annoying and patronizing to keep claiming the evidence is OVERWHELMING.
If it’s so obvious, why not cease hiding behind microphones to spew propaganda and instead host open discussions?
. . . .
It’s so “overwhelming” we have gun that not even the bomb dogs could trace, a magical bullet that caused minimal damage to Charlie’s neck though it would have taken down a bear, and of course, a scene that was paved over the next day.
Just soooooo overwhelming.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 25, 2026 11:27 AM (ndZc7)

99 Killmenow

Please.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:16 AM (W2Pud)

Buck up, little camper.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 25, 2026 11:27 AM (dK+Kv)

100 Just glad it wasn't Hewlett Packard Enterprise. They have enough trouble as it is without violating export restrictions. (I used to work for them.)

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at March 25, 2026 11:27 AM (t2oSI)

101 >>>"Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend."

Come on, SMOD.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

I'm hoping maybe Iran has one big icbm prototype left that one rogue commander could fire off to teach the great satan a lesson. Maybe the gps coorinates for the concert location could be leaked?

Posted by: From about That Time at March 25, 2026 11:28 AM (sl73Y)

102 Chinese honeypots??
Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 11:22 AM (Sco7b)

*ears perk up*

I'm listening...

Posted by: Eric Swallowswell at March 25, 2026 11:28 AM (dmDsy)

103 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2026 11:28 AM (Z2yLo)

104 China lies about everything.

You may have not heard it, but there is up to a 0.9 correlation between nighttime light measures via satellite and reported growth.

Except for one major country: China

Compared to verified, transparent growth of other countries, China's actual growth is 1.5% to near 4% less than the 5%, 7% or whatever % growth they claim every year.

Yet the left has tried to pawn our entire future on believing what China says.

China lies about everything.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 25, 2026 11:28 AM (HXT0k)

105 "The defendants and their co-conspirators used a particular company ("Company-1") based in Southeast Asia as a pass-through entity..."

I have little doubt they are referring to Singapore.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM (cWLG3)
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Could be, but my thinking is Vietnam or Malaysia -- countries with, shall we say, more flexible corporate/tax and import/export controls.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:28 AM (iFTx/)

106 $2.5 Billion fine to start. And of course conviction and jail for the perps seems appropriate to me. In addition, minimum monthly audits by surprise for the next 3 years.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2026 11:28 AM (n5tGW)

107 The TDS water cooler talk is usually entertaining. This morning it’s annoying. They really believe some crazy ahit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM (W2Pud)

Yes they do.

The horror movies and turning into CNN and MS Now have toughened me up to the point where I watched AND LISTENED to the hags on 'The View.'

There's no war, anywhere, anytime, under any conditions that would be acceptable to them for President Trump to send in troops. Nothing....

I hope the troops like knitting...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 11:29 AM (Sco7b)

108 Isn't it racist to penalize a red chinese connected company for trying to better themselves simply because they are orientals?

Posted by: Deal The Race Card, Win A Prize at March 25, 2026 11:29 AM (LfVJt)

109 *adds SMCI to watchlist*

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 25, 2026 11:29 AM (4NO2D)

110 I wonder how many people are watching candyo just to see the train wreck in progress, not counting the Asian bots.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 25, 2026 11:29 AM (1CimL)

111 What does Jim Cramer have to say about it?

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:30 AM (77rzZ)

112 She is Nostrildamus, yes?

Posted by: tubal at March 25, 2026 11:30 AM (/HeZH)

113 I hope Neil's minder will remember
His full diaper needs changing now

Posted by: fd at March 25, 2026 11:30 AM (aiR6F)

114 Nostrildamus

Nostrildanus

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 25, 2026 11:32 AM (Kt19C)

115 When I lived in Silicon Valley back in the early 00's SuperMicro was a big player in server and PC components. I think they had a catalog you could order from.

Or, you know, just go down to their facility and buy direct.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 11:12 AM (AkEZC)

Same. One of the early big names in consumer boards, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 25, 2026 11:25 AM (dK+Kv)
____________

Ah -- I knew I knew the name from somewhere. I rebuilt a desktop computer using a new SuperMicro board. Dual-processor Pentium 4. Or at least I recall it was a P4.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

116 Neil Young's new album needs to come with a single bullet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 25, 2026 11:32 AM (JkO4W)

117 Neil Young is a Canadian Commie leech who didn't become a US Citizen until 2020 so he could vote for other commie retards.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:32 AM (V4IXI)

118 73 “ Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”

Matthew 11:6
Posted by: Marcus T
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Thank you Marcus. Shining light into a sea of darkness.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at March 25, 2026 11:33 AM (VkY89)

119 I always thought that elementary school, and middle school, and high school was meant to tame the beast and promote citizenship and maturity and bring our children into adulthood to be productive and live the American dream.

I guess Democrats believe we can import savages and it's all good. These people are imbeciles.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 25, 2026 11:33 AM (Wnd0C)

120 Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI)

23.90 +1.67 (+7.49%)
As of 11:33:31 AM EDT. Market Open.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 25, 2026 11:33 AM (4NO2D)

121 The TDS water cooler talk is usually entertaining. This morning it’s annoying. They really believe some crazy ahit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM

I feel your pain, nurse.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:33 AM (bFu5X)

122 "Iran has vowed to strike one of the world's largest warships, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, after launching a huge missile salvo which failed to hit the vessel."

As Allah has willed.

Posted by: fd at March 25, 2026 11:34 AM (aiR6F)

123 She is Nostrildamus, yes?
Posted by: tubal

Henry Waxman is still alive. She's got to wait until he dies to claim the title.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

124 While we are at it, maybe fine obama for the pallets of cash he sent to iran.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2026 11:34 AM (n5tGW)

125 And in today's Reign of Terror against Muslims, we have this shocking story from Oregon:

Children playing in a prayer area at the Islamic Community Center of Hillsboro, Saturday, March 21, discovered a bullet that had struck the mosque earlier that morning, the center said.

No one was injured in the incident.

Leaders at the Washington County mosque pointed out that the incident occurred amid a rise in Islamophobic incidents, according to a recent report from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
...
In its own press release, the Washington, D.C.-based Council on Islamic-American Relations called Wednesday for federal law enforcement to investigate the shooting as a bias crime.

And, never mind...

“UPDATE: Hillsboro police announced Tuesday the bullet likely struck the mosque accidentally.

“Investigators determined the bullet was likely fired from a location approximately one mile away, outside Hillsboro city limits, where individuals were lawfully target shooting,” police stated.

Mosque leaders and local elected officials did not immediately respond to OPB’s request for comments on the outcome of the investigation.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 25, 2026 11:34 AM (n1OCj)

126 China lies about everything.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 25, 2026 11:28 AM (HXT0k)

Commies lie about everything. Not just lies but gaslighting lies .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:34 AM (V4IXI)

127 *adds SMCI to watchlist*

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 25, 2026 11:29 AM (4NO2D)

I checked it out. Missing earnings over the last year and audit concerns skeeve me out.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (dK+Kv)

128 If there are fines and/or criminal penalties to be imposed for illegally exporting materials, go for it. Let a ruinous amount of fines force the sale of the company in bankruptcy or on the open market.

Posted by: Octochicken at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (oCS0o)

129 One of my favorite recent lies from China is their claim about a bajillion kajillion megawatts of solar power that's online.

All the lefties keep repeating it as fact.
Along with some variation of "and they're going to massively dominate the AI future 'cause they have electricity to spare now!!"

But China's new claim totally has nothing to do with how China was churning out cheap, worthless solar panels to foist on stupid Americans under the New Green Deal.
Which panels are totally not useless now but were really just repurposed as solar farms.
And not piled up rotting in warehouses until they can find a sucker to off-load them to.
Please keep investing in China.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (HXT0k)

130 Is anything on earth real?

Posted by: ... at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (44w/H)

131 I have always been curious - how do you handle all of that, tactically?
Posted by: tubal

I usually join the bobblehead gang and take the most outrageous statements and ratchet up x 10.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (W2Pud)

132 I've never understood Springsteen's so-called popularity in music.That guy can't sing or play a guitar.

Posted by: dantesed at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (Oy/m2)

133 "Iran has vowed to strike one of the world's largest warships, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, after launching a huge missile salvo which failed to hit the vessel."

Interesting. Just yesterday, Trump was talking to people with some authority in Iran. I suspect that the command structure is completely fragmented and autonomous, so reaching agreements with one set of loons doesn't mean everyone has signed on.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (Riz8t)

134
Could be, but my thinking is Vietnam or Malaysia -- countries with, shall we say, more flexible corporate/tax and import/export controls.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:28

I was thinking Malaysia. There is obviously a huge Chinese population in Singapore, but Singaporeans aren’t very fond of mainland Chinese for whatever reason unknown to me. The Vietnamese hate them, too. My nail tech is hysterical about this, telling me they eat babies, they are vulgar, etc etc. it’s kind of funny. Sort of.

Posted by: Piper at March 25, 2026 11:36 AM (Wmg4n)

135 Is anything on earth real?
Posted by: ...

Only Rhode Island.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

136 I have always been curious
-----------

You were that bitch???

Posted by: ... at March 25, 2026 11:36 AM (44w/H)

137 I checked it out. Missing earnings over the last year and audit concerns skeeve me out.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM

In would have been good for the old in-out this morning. *wink*wink*nudge*nudge*say no more*

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 25, 2026 11:36 AM (4NO2D)

138 The Vietnamese hate them, too. My nail tech is hysterical about this, telling me they eat babies, they are vulgar, etc etc. it’s kind of funny. Sort of.
Posted by: Piper at March 25, 2026 11:36 AM

That why they not have boyfriend.

Posted by: Your Vietnamese Nail Tech at March 25, 2026 11:37 AM (bFu5X)

139 Ah -- I knew I knew the name from somewhere. I rebuilt a desktop computer using a new SuperMicro board. Dual-processor Pentium 4. Or at least I recall it was a P4.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

On about the same timeframe I had a dual Pentium (2?) in a Tyan mobo. Don't see them around anymore.

The 440BX chipset was the stuff back in the day.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 25, 2026 11:37 AM (dK+Kv)

140 Cool. A youngish woman just won a car on 'The Price is Right.' Good for her.

Sorry, I'll take whatever happy stuff I can get...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 11:37 AM (Sco7b)

141 I guess Democrats believe we can import savages and it's all good.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

It's the "magic dirt" theory. We import savages and the moment they are on our soil, they magically become productive citizens.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 25, 2026 11:37 AM (OPGS/)

142 I've never understood Springsteen's so-called popularity in music.That guy can't sing or play a guitar.
Posted by: dantesed at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (Oy/m2

My opinion is he is the same as the art world selecting a no talent painter and gaslighting everyone to make that painter famous.

Looking at you Pollock, Rothko, etc.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:38 AM (V4IXI)

143 It's not over. Truth Social:

Blame the Democrats for the Airport’s mess. They want our Country to do badly. They want our Country to fail. They broke the already signed Bill because they want to take care of Criminals who enter our Country illegally, rather than American citizens. Thank you to our great ICE Patriots for helping. It makes a big difference. I may call up the National Guard for more help. President DJT.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 25, 2026 11:38 AM (iHruz)

144 I was thinking Malaysia. There is obviously a huge Chinese population in Singapore, but Singaporeans aren’t very fond of mainland Chinese for whatever reason unknown to me. The Vietnamese hate them, too. My nail tech is hysterical about this, telling me they eat babies, they are vulgar, etc etc. it’s kind of funny. Sort of.

The Chinese look down on the Vietnamese as uncultured, rude and backward. It's no surprise the feeling is reciprocated.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

145 134
Could be, but my thinking is Vietnam or Malaysia -- countries with, shall we say, more flexible corporate/tax and import/export controls.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:28

I was thinking Malaysia. There is obviously a huge Chinese population in Singapore, but Singaporeans aren’t very fond of mainland Chinese for whatever reason unknown to me. The Vietnamese hate them, too. My nail tech is hysterical about this, telling me they eat babies, they are vulgar, etc etc. it’s kind of funny. Sort of.
Posted by: Piper at March 25, 2026 11:36 AM (Wmg4n)
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Does she talka like Ms Swan (Mad TV)?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 11:38 AM (cWLG3)

146 I's anything on earth real?
Posted by: ... "

My reality.

Posted by: fd at March 25, 2026 11:38 AM (aiR6F)

147 It's the "magic dirt" theory. We import savages and the moment they are on our soil, they magically become productive citizens.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 25, 2026 11:37 AM (OPGS/)

What makes you think Democrats want productive citizens? They want slaves, and the criminals to control them.

Posted by: ... at March 25, 2026 11:39 AM (44w/H)

148 138
That why they not have boyfriend.
Posted by: Your Vietnamese Nail Tech at March

😂

Posted by: Piper at March 25, 2026 11:39 AM (Wmg4n)

149 The Chinese look down on the Vietnamese as uncultured, rude and backward. It's no surprise the feeling is reciprocated.
Posted by: Archimedes

All those East-Asian peoples hate each other with the heat of a thousand suns.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

150 When Manfred Mann can reconfigure your songs to make them listenable, you aren't much of a musician.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 25, 2026 11:39 AM (1CimL)

151 I's anything on earth real?

*spins top*

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 25, 2026 11:40 AM (4NO2D)

152 ----
Does she talka like Ms Swan (Mad TV)?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25,

She actually speaks English really well.

Posted by: Piper at March 25, 2026 11:40 AM (Wmg4n)

153 131 I have always been curious - how do you handle all of that, tactically?
Posted by: tubal

I usually join the bobblehead gang and take the most outrageous statements and ratchet up x 10.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (W2Pud)

Sounds a very smooth move. Judo like.

Posted by: tubal at March 25, 2026 11:41 AM (/HeZH)

154 Chicago's sanctuary nightmare claimed another innocent life on March 17, 2026, when 18-year-old Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman was gunned down in cold blood.

Pritzker finally crawled out with a statement, but instead of owning the disaster he created, he played the blame game like a true Democrat. In a clip that's making the rounds, he whined: "This has been a terrible tragedy... There have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois. That's their national failures — a failure to have comprehensive immigration reform, a failure of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst."

What a pathetic dodge. Pritzker signed the very laws that shield illegals like Medina-Medina from ICE. His 2021 sanctuary state legislation ties local cops' hands and blocks federal enforcement. Pair that with the disastrous SAFE-T Act—no cash bail, revolving-door releases for thugs—and you've got a recipe for exactly this kind of bloodshed. Chicago's streets are bloodier because radical leftists like Pritzker prioritize illegal invaders over law-abiding citizens.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 25, 2026 11:42 AM (iHruz)

155 132 I've never understood Springsteen's so-called popularity in music.That guy can't sing or play a guitar.
Posted by: dantesed at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (Oy/m2)
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He has the most pessimistic view of the human condition. Even his "happy" songs have a depressing undertone.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at March 25, 2026 11:42 AM (0bjKf)

156 Cool. A youngish woman just won a car on 'The Price is Right.' Good for her.

Sorry, I'll take whatever happy stuff I can get...
Posted by: Stateless

How are her boobs?

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

157 I know a guy who has two Ebay accounts. He uses one to buy equipment, then marks it up and sells it to the company on the other account. He's the purchaser. Nice gig if the company is stupid enough to allow it. Auditors? What's that?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 25, 2026 11:42 AM (Wnd0C)

158 I's anything on earth real?
Posted by: ... "

Tell me, where is sanity?

Posted by: Alvin Lee at March 25, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

159 153 131 I have always been curious - how do you handle all of that, tactically?
Posted by: tubal

I usually join the bobblehead gang and take the most outrageous statements and ratchet up x 10.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (W2Pud)

Sounds a very smooth move. Judo like.
Posted by: tubal at March 25, 2026 11:41 AM (/HeZH)
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Just say you have a scheduling conflict when they decide to fire bomb a government facility.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 11:42 AM (cWLG3)

160 My neighbor is moving to Vietnam with his second wife . They just built a house there and plan to live there 10 months out of the year.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:42 AM (V4IXI)

161
Hillsboro police announced Tuesday the bullet likely struck the mosque accidentally.

“Investigators determined the bullet was likely fired from a location approximately one mile away, outside Hillsboro city limits, where individuals were lawfully target shooting,” police stated.

Posted by: The ARC of History!

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

If that's the case, that lawful target shooting location ought to be relocated. Fucking bullet accidentally hit a playground?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2026 11:43 AM (XJ22o)

162
what is an appropriate punishment for a firm that has a long track record of misbehavior and helped violate - and profited handsomely for violating - major US sanctions?

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

From the firm's prior behavior, it seems this was its purpose all along. Dissolve it and jail the executives.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2026 11:44 AM (XJ22o)

163 Congress is going to take a two week break starting Friday, after their tireless work of insider trading so far this year. They really deserve this little vacation.

I seriously think Trump should shut down commercial passenger air travel after spring break/Easter. Just give everybody a couple of weeks notice.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2026 11:44 AM (n5tGW)

164 The mosque should move.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 25, 2026 11:44 AM (4NO2D)

165 If that's the case, that lawful target shooting location ought to be relocated. Fucking bullet accidentally hit a playground?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2026 11:43 AM (XJ22o)

Move the mosque .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:44 AM (V4IXI)

166 All those East-Asian peoples hate each other with the heat of a thousand suns.
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Yep. That's why we have bases in Asia. We keep them from killing one another.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 11:44 AM (n17eQ)

167 "What punishment actually fits the crime, and what punishment can encourage better behavior in the future? "

Place the company in receivership. Tell all the employees who could have/should have known that they will be fired for cause unless they give testimony that helps jail a superior.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 11:44 AM (8zz6B)

168 "Iran has vowed to strike one of the world's largest warships, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, after launching a huge missile salvo which failed to hit the vessel."

As Allah has willed.
Posted by: fd at March 25, 2026 11:34 AM (aiR6F)

You joke but seeing as how Muslims use that as an excuse so often I think the next time a bunch of them gripe about Israel bombing the shit out of Gaza or us bombing the shit out of Iran that's exactly the response. "It is Allah who has willed it."

Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2026 11:44 AM (Z2yLo)

169 If that's the case, that lawful target shooting location ought to be relocated. Fucking bullet accidentally hit a playground?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2026 11:43 AM

If that was a mile away, it was probably some asshat's ND.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:45 AM (bFu5X)

170 130 Is anything on earth real?
Posted by: ... at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (44w/H)
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Tell me about it.

Posted by: The That MFr Is Not Real Girl at March 25, 2026 11:45 AM (cWLG3)

171 "a failure of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst."

Pritzker IS the worst of the worst. Too bad you can't choke on hypocrisy.

Posted by: fd at March 25, 2026 11:45 AM (aiR6F)

172 Could be, but my thinking is Vietnam or Malaysia
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:28

I was thinking Malaysia. There is obviously a huge Chinese population in Singapore, but Singaporeans aren’t very fond of mainland Chinese for whatever reason unknown to me. The Vietnamese hate them, too. My nail tech is hysterical about this, telling me they eat babies, they are vulgar, etc etc. it’s kind of funny. Sort of.
Posted by: Piper at March 25, 2026 11:36 AM (Wmg4n)
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Asians are one of the most "racist," elitist, and tribal people on Earth. They all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior. Singaporeans in particular think they are better than everyone else.

If you travel in Asia, you will probably be asked very personal questions almost immediately upon meeting someone. How old are you? What do you do for a living? What car you drive? Are you married?

These questions would be considered way out of bounds in western culture. But in Asian culture, they are a way to figure out where you stand in the social hierarchy, so they know how to treat you.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

173 When it comes to political differences in the office, I've always taken the position that yes, I'm extremely conservative, and no, I don't give a fuck if you don't like that. I'm here to work, not to discuss whatever hurt fee-fees you have about the Bad Orange Man. And, like Nurse R, I'm embedded in blue territory.

Posted by: PabloD at March 25, 2026 11:46 AM (XEjmY)

174 1 st!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:00 AM (bFu5X)

RMBS, I’m beginning to think your “job”, doesn’t occupy every minute of the day.
On the other hand, you multitask extremely well.

Posted by: RI Red at March 25, 2026 11:46 AM (GOpmI)

175 169 If that's the case, that lawful target shooting location ought to be relocated. Fucking bullet accidentally hit a playground?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2026 11:43 AM

If that was a mile away, it was probably some asshat's ND.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:45 AM (bFu5X)
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Either that or they are an amazing shot.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 11:46 AM (cWLG3)

176 Haha! The NY Post says Schumer now rejects a DHS deal with the Thune GOPe that he himself proposed last week!

Now that craven Republicans have shown how easily they can be pushed around, the Democrats want more. So they are rejecting their own proposed settlement.

How bad are the Senate Republicans? We will soon find out.

https://tinyurl.com/3e7axptu

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 25, 2026 11:47 AM (CBln3)

177 Texas boy scout receives honor after saving his leader in a whitewater accident:

https://tinyurl.com/3m3rah8w

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 11:47 AM (ix8EF)

178 You joke but seeing as how Muslims use that as an excuse so often I think the next time a bunch of them gripe about Israel bombing the shit out of Gaza or us bombing the shit out of Iran that's exactly the response. "It is Allah who has willed it."
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2026 11:44 AM (Z2yLo)

Crusaders are in the Holy Lands. - As Allah has willed it.

They bitch, and bitch, and bitch... I'm starting to think that their commitment to accepting that which Allah has willed is lacking.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:47 AM (ExV1e)

179 Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois.

What a shock. He's blaming Indiana.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 25, 2026 11:48 AM (OPGS/)

180 I'm not sure what good the supreme court would do by ruling that ballots cannot count if received after election day. Pennsylvania was told by them to stop counting in 2020 and they ignored it.
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the old regime of cartel judges preventing any investigation into fraud by denying standing with the made-up rule of "well, I don't think it affected the outcome" is gone.

Yes, the deep-blue state cartel judge will try and make up a new rule to prevent any investigation if they get the test cases.

But, some people think it was just a coincidence that the RNC chose to challenge Mississippi's law ... in the 5th Circuit ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 25, 2026 11:48 AM (HXT0k)

181 Interesting. Just yesterday, Trump was talking to people with some authority in Iran. I suspect that the command structure is completely fragmented and autonomous, so reaching agreements with one set of loons doesn't mean everyone has signed on.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2026 11:35 A

We still don't know what the incredibly valuable gift to the United States is.

And apparently the US sent a list of 15 items to Iran. President Trump sounded optimistic in soundbites yesterday that 'saner' people are in charge.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 11:48 AM (Sco7b)

182 1 st!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:00 AM (bFu5X)

RMBS, I’m beginning to think your “job”, doesn’t occupy every minute of the day.
On the other hand, you multitask extremely well.
Posted by: RI Red at March 25, 2026 11:46 AM

Multiple browser tabs and luck. But mostly luck.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:48 AM (bFu5X)

183 Posted by: PabloD at March 25, 2026 11:46 AM (XEjmY)

Unfortunately I can't keep my mouth shut when confronted with stupidity. I don't start political conversations but I don't shy away from them.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:48 AM (V4IXI)

184 Asians are one of the most "racist," elitist, and tribal people on Earth. They all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.

Eastern Europeans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.

South Americans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.

Africans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:49 AM (ExV1e)

185 What they need is a Somali CEO. That will fix everything.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 25, 2026 11:49 AM (AlhUl)

186 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:49 AM (ExV1e)

Tribalism

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:49 AM (V4IXI)

187 Eastern Europeans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.

South Americans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.

Africans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:49 AM (ExV1e)
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And yet Americans are the only bad people in the world...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 11:50 AM (ESVrU)

188 What a shock. He's blaming Indiana.
Posted by: NR Pax

Well, Indiana DID give us Mike Pence.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

189 I have no love lost for Supermicro. They may make good server hardware, but they've been charging exorbitant prices beyond the current RAM & Memory shortages lately, to the point I've been forced to look for alternative hardware for my customers for NAS Servers. They're making money hand over fist with the AI Craze, and they just had to be even greedier to back deal with China.

F'em.

Posted by: Gaff at March 25, 2026 11:50 AM (EqzMw)

190 >>We still don't know what the incredibly valuable gift to the United States is.

It's a VERY Prestigious Award!

Posted by: Ralphie's Dad at March 25, 2026 11:51 AM (Klk40)

191 187 Eastern Europeans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.

South Americans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.

Africans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:49 AM (ExV1e)
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And yet Americans are the only bad people in the world...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 11:50 AM (ESVrU)
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Romanians still don't trust the Turks.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 11:51 AM (cWLG3)

192 What a shock. He's blaming Indiana.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 25, 2026 11:48 AM

Of course. It's not that blue state gun control doesn't work, it's that the continued existence of guns anywhere in America frustrates those perfect and functional laws. Therefore we have to ban all guns anywhere in America.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:51 AM (bFu5X)

193 We still don't know what the incredibly valuable gift to the United States is.

And apparently the US sent a list of 15 items to Iran. President Trump sounded optimistic in soundbites yesterday that 'saner' people are in charge.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 11:48 AM (Sco7b)

Maybe the gift they sent was an indication that they were willing to actually negotiate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:52 AM (ExV1e)

194 The TDS water cooler talk is usually entertaining. This morning it’s annoying. They really believe some crazy ahit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM (W2Pud)

There is always the option of seeding it with really bizarre stuff.

We are invading Iran to recover the Ark of the Covenant, or a crashed Saucer.
Or the Iranians have bioweapon labs and are releasing cattle plagues, like the one the Russians are dealing with in Siberia right now.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2026 11:52 AM (rbvCR)

195 Asians are one of the most "racist," elitist, and tribal people on Earth. They all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.

Eastern Europeans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.

South Americans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.

Africans all despise each other, often based on centuries-old conflicts and vendettas, and a sense of who is superior.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:49 AM (ExV1e)

I'd like to buy the world a Coke ...

Posted by: far cry at March 25, 2026 11:52 AM (Uy8FE)

196 Multiple browser tabs and luck. But mostly luck.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

And minions. Don't tell me you don't have minions.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

197 Ladies and Gentlemen, the youth movement in American politics!

Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

I hope they have an ambulance on call.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 25, 2026 11:08 AM (n1OCj)

The Ensure tour.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 11:53 AM (snZF9)

198 Romanians still don't trust the Turks.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 11:51 AM

*dons Hellenic Ancient Ethnic Grievance Hat*

Yeah. F@#k those Turks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:53 AM (bFu5X)

199 181 Interesting. Just yesterday, Trump was talking to people with some authority in Iran. I suspect that the command structure is completely fragmented and autonomous, so reaching agreements with one set of loons doesn't mean everyone has signed on.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2026 11:35 A

From X:
IRGC General Mohammad Zolghadr, who replaced Larigani, was eliminated last night.
His tenure lasted full 12 hours.

Short term position

Posted by: Nicless at March 25, 2026 11:53 AM (nPp6w)

200 I considered reading Tolkien for March 25 day. Then I was reminded that he takes 1,000 words to say what can be said in 100.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

201 *dons Hellenic Ancient Ethnic Grievance Hat*

Yeah. F@#k those Turks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Most of whom are Greek.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

202 Just like the United States is the only country that had slavery.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:54 AM (V4IXI)

203 119 ‘I always thought that elementary school, and middle school, and high school was meant to tame the beast and promote citizenship and maturity‘

Was.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 25, 2026 11:54 AM (jbnUc)

204 The TDS water cooler talk is usually entertaining. This morning it’s annoying. They really believe some crazy ahit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 11:23 AM (W2Pud)

There is always the option of seeding it with really bizarre stuff.

We are invading Iran to recover the Ark of the Covenant, or a crashed Saucer.
Or the Iranians have bioweapon labs and are releasing cattle plagues, like the one the Russians are dealing with in Siberia right now.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2026 11:52 AM (rbvCR)
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Nuh-uh. It's about a Persian girl with a monster rack.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

205 And minions. Don't tell me you don't have minions.
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:52 AM

Ngl, having minions does help.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:54 AM (bFu5X)

206 @200 Painting a picture with words is frowned upon in some circles.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 11:55 AM (cWLG3)

207 133 "Iran has vowed to strike one of the world's largest warships, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, after launching a huge missile salvo which failed to hit the vessel."

Interesting. Just yesterday, Trump was talking to people with some authority in Iran. I suspect that the command structure is completely fragmented and autonomous, so reaching agreements with one set of loons doesn't mean everyone has signed on.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2026 11:35 AM (Riz8t)

This. The IRGC is made up of hardcore muzzies, even the rank and file. A lot of killing needs to be done before this is over.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 25, 2026 11:55 AM (g8Ew8)

208 Nuh-uh. It's about a Persian girl with a monster rack.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

According to Tucker she's due for a raping.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:56 AM (V4IXI)

209 Yeah. F@#k those Turks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Most of whom are Greek.
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 11:53 AM

Shhh...don't tell them that. Or the Sicilians.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:56 AM (bFu5X)

210 200 I considered reading Tolkien for March 25 day. Then I was reminded that he takes 1,000 words to say what can be said in 100.
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You could switch to Dune books!

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 11:56 AM (n17eQ)

211 Nuh-uh. It's about a Persian girl with a monster rack.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:54 AM

Now this is a cause I can get behind.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:56 AM (bFu5X)

212 Try the persons who were behind it. If found guilty, lifetime imprisonment, no chance for parole. Forced liquidation of all their personal assets and those of their immediate family. Salt their fucking earth. If the "company" knew about it. Force their sale to a domestic company.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 25, 2026 11:57 AM (GZYu7)

213 I considered reading Tolkien for March 25 day. Then I was reminded that he takes 1,000 words to say what can be said in 100.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

Sauron was both ingenious and utterly evil yet, for some reason, he imbued all his power into a separate physical object he could lose. He lost it. A small creature found it. Then lost it. Another small creature, likely a related species to the first small creature found it. He gave it to a relative. That relative walked across the known world and threw it into a volcano.

The End.

I don't see Hollywood beating down my door for the shortened version.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:57 AM (ExV1e)

214 Nuh-uh. It's about a Persian girl with a monster rack.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

Gosh that sounds a really creepy horror film. Monsters instead of her rack.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 11:57 AM (ix8EF)

215 This. The IRGC is made up of hardcore muzzies, even the rank and file. A lot of killing needs to be done before this is over.
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Even the Chi Coms killed their Red Guard. Time will tell.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 11:57 AM (n17eQ)

216 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

How much are they paying people to attend?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 25, 2026 11:58 AM (SRRAx)

217 From X:
IRGC General Mohammad Zolghadr, who replaced Larigani, was eliminated last night.
His tenure lasted full 12 hours.

Short term position
Posted by: Nicless at March 25, 2026 11:53 AM

You'd think they'd be contracting it out as a temp position by now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 11:58 AM (bFu5X)

218 Gosh that sounds a really creepy horror film. Monsters instead of her rack.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 11:57 AM (ix8EF)

Medusa had monster hair.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:58 AM (V4IXI)

219 216 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

How much are they paying people to attend?
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My Grandmother never missed the Lawrence Welk Show.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 11:59 AM (n17eQ)

220 Medusa had monster hair.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:58 AM

Dread Locks, as it were.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 25, 2026 11:59 AM (4NO2D)

221 Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 11:58 AM (V4IXI)

It would make it even creepier with the monster hair.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 11:59 AM (ix8EF)

222 I don't see Hollywood beating down my door for the shortened version.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 11:57 AM

Call us!

Posted by: Reader's Digest Condensed Books at March 25, 2026 11:59 AM (bFu5X)

223 I considered reading Tolkien for March 25 day. Then I was reminded that he takes 1,000 words to say what can be said in 100.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

Not to mention the distinct lack of bewbs.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 25, 2026 12:00 PM (wLsnt)

224 208 Nuh-uh. It's about a Persian girl with a monster rack.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

The CBC had an interview with a biologically female Iranian student who was detained by the Iranian morality police several times.

Her only crime was hotness.

Incredible hotness.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 12:00 PM (Sco7b)

225 "What punishment actually fits the crime, and what punishment can encourage better behavior in the future? "

After the deportations and jailings? A firm is not a person. You don't have to be nice to it. Dissolve it. The people in the other firms will see what's what.

Posted by: t-bird at March 25, 2026 12:00 PM (moGJJ)

226 Call us!
Posted by: Reader's Digest Condensed Books at March 25, 2026 11:59 AM (bFu5X)

I'd have assumed Hallmark Cards "Tolkien Day" division.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 12:00 PM (ExV1e)

227 I am thinking about starting an Official #Repeal19 movement and hosting a Nationwide Protest called the No Crones Movement.

I know it's not Somali Daycare Money.

But, the 501C Scam should be sufficient for my modest needs.

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2026 12:00 PM (Klk40)

228 My Grandmother never missed the Lawrence Welk Show.
Posted by: pudinhead

I grew up on Lawrence Welk.

And Anacani...hubba hubba.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

229 "Therefore we have to ban all guns anywhere in America."

Tell that to the people in South Chicago.

Posted by: Case at March 25, 2026 12:01 PM (pvf3X)

230 Not to mention the distinct lack of bewbs.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 25, 2026 12:00 PM (wLsnt)

You need the unabridged version. Between Galadriel, Eowyn, and Arwen, there's a good 400 pages of bosom description.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 12:02 PM (ExV1e)

231 Nuh-uh. It's about a Persian girl with a monster rack.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

Gosh that sounds a really creepy horror film. Monsters instead of her rack.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 11:57 AM (ix8EF)
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Monster romance. It's not just for the ladies ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

232 If that's the case, that lawful target shooting location ought to be relocated. Fucking bullet accidentally hit a playground?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2026 11:43 AM (XJ22o)

Odds it was muzzies practicing with their AK's?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 12:02 PM (8zz6B)

233 Posted by: Reader's Digest Condensed Books at March 25, 2026 11:59 AM (bFu5X)

My Father had the complete collection of all the Readers Digest Condensed Books. I probably need to read all the classics again because I originally read them in condensed form.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 12:02 PM (V4IXI)

234 214 Nuh-uh. It's about a Persian girl with a monster rack.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

Gosh that sounds a really creepy horror film. Monsters instead of her rack.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 11:57 AM (ix8EF)
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Boubak the Monster Slayer. She has a monster rack, for use in interrogating monsters.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 12:03 PM (cWLG3)

235 Her only crime was hotness.

Incredible hotness.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 12:00 PM (Sco7b)

The lack of links to said hotness in this post is causing starving orphans to cry.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 25, 2026 12:03 PM (L9698)

236 Noon news update

CBC....Air Canada Crash
Fox News.....Meta Social media trial
CNN....DHS and TSA
MS Now....Iran. President Trump gets daily 2 minite video briefings of the bombing highlights. Problematic.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 12:04 PM (Sco7b)

237 My Father had the complete collection of all the Readers Digest Condensed Books. I probably need to read all the classics again because I originally read them in condensed form.
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Same here. The Reader's Digest taught me about Oak Island.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 12:04 PM (n17eQ)

238 My Father had the complete collection of all the Readers Digest Condensed Books. I probably need to read all the classics again because I originally read them in condensed form.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 12:02 PM

No lakeside vacation rental cottage would be complete without them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 12:04 PM (bFu5X)

239 I don't think you do punish the corporation. In the same way that guns don't kill people, people do. Corporations don't commit the crime, the people within it do. Punish the actual perpetrators and then the company itself will either repair itself or wither and die. This is the free market.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at March 25, 2026 12:04 PM (+48wn)

240 I probably need to read all the classics again because I originally read them in condensed form.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

I've tried to read The Odyssey several times, but it just isn't as much fun as the Classic Comics version, so I always lose interest.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

241 I considered reading Tolkien for March 25 day. Then I was reminded that he takes 1,000 words to say what can be said in 100.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

I settle for glancing at the LOTR book in my book case that has die motherfucker die written on it in black sharpie.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 12:05 PM (snZF9)

242 Nuh-uh. It's about a Persian girl with a monster rack.

...of illegal servers?

Posted by: t-bird at March 25, 2026 12:05 PM (moGJJ)

243 Treason carries a capital punishment penalty.

Posted by: Eromero at March 25, 2026 12:05 PM (LHPAg)

244 > This. The IRGC is made up of hardcore muzzies, even the rank and file. A lot of killing needs to be done before this is over.
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At this point I'd say they're running the country and are probably the only quasi-military Iran's got left that's willing to fight.

They're not going away either, unless we make them dead.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 12:05 PM (AkEZC)

245 I distinctly remember reading Papillon in the Readers Digest condensed form.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 12:05 PM (V4IXI)

246 How does one punish a corporation with controls so bad that it might be intentional, that has played fast and loose with its accounting, and that raked in billions selling proscribed products to a country that is, depending on one's perspective, a rival or an enemy?

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Eric Holder would fine them billions of dollars and distribute that loot to Democrat candidates, Super PACs, and the world's greatest supporter of terrorism -- Iran, while encouraging them to develop nukes.

Posted by: ShainS at March 25, 2026 12:05 PM (CcwXg)

247 214
‘ Gosh that sounds a really creepy horror film. Monsters instead of her rack.’

Thanks a lot, Fen. Now all I can think about are monster racks.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 25, 2026 12:06 PM (jbnUc)

248 @245 Probably didn't seem like he was imprisoned for that long.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 12:06 PM (cWLG3)

249 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

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Otherwise known as Commie Fest '26. Seriously, what are they accomplishing here? Nothing. The needle will not be moved.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 25, 2026 12:06 PM (qBdHI)

250 Her only crime was hotness.

Incredible hotness.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 12:00 PM (Sco7b)

The lack of links to said hotness in this post is causing starving orphans to cry.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 25, 2026 12:03 PM (L969

___________

I looked her up. Best I could find is that it's a hoax or being misreported. It's that girl in the "dancing" video. She's from Iran, but has been living in the USA. And while TBWB -- enthusiastically -- I can't say she's the hottest thing I've seen.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

251 The lack of links to said hotness in this post is causing starving orphans to cry.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 25, 2026 12:03 PM

I know. Sorry.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 12:07 PM (Sco7b)

252 Thanks a lot, Fen. Now all I can think about are monster racks.
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Monster Racks meet Monster Trucks!

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 12:07 PM (n17eQ)

253 I probably need to read all the classics again because I originally read them in condensed form.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

I've tried to read The Odyssey several times, but it just isn't as much fun as the Classic Comics version, so I always lose interest.
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 12:05 PM

In the late 70s-early 80s, did anyone else read a book called Shrinklets? The author took about 50 literary classics and reduced them to a single page of poetry. No limericks, so it probably wasn't Muldoon.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 12:07 PM (bFu5X)

254 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No ~~Kings~~ Canes! rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

Inspiring, really.

Posted by: t-bird at March 25, 2026 12:08 PM (moGJJ)

255 I heard dreadful news today. Stephen Colbert is going to be writing a new LOTR movie.

Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:08 PM (y9ksN)

256 I heard dreadful news today. Stephen Colbert is going to be writing a new LOTR movie.
Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:08 PM

How gay will it be? On a scale of 1 to Elton John?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 12:09 PM (bFu5X)

257 She had a rack!
She had a monster rack!
A monster rack!
It hurt her lower back!
A monster rack!
But she was fun in the sack!
A monster rack!
She had a monster rack!

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 12:09 PM (77rzZ)

258 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.
Honey do you ever wonder what it'd feel like in the back of my Pink Hearse?

Posted by: The Grim Boss at March 25, 2026 12:10 PM (DqQS/)

259 What punishment actually fits the crime

"A few years in a version of Uyghur slave camp followed by a bullet to the back of the head billed to the family" would be my suggestion

Posted by: Chuck C at March 25, 2026 12:10 PM (D0HYP)

260 Only because you guys brought it up, pulling this out of previous thread and dusting off -

288 Great news errybody - Variety is reporting that Stephen Colbert is co-writing "The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past". 14 years after the passing of Frodo, Sam Merry and Pippen set out to retrace their first steps of their adventure and are surprised to find Barliman Butterbur transitioned and is now Barliwoman Butterbur, meanwhile Sam's daughter Elanor, had discovered a long buried secret and (plot twist?!) outs Bilbo and Frodo's love affair.

TBF, I tweaked Variety's reporting on this, but not by much.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 25, 2026 12:10 PM (Dv3i1)

261 I heard dreadful news today. Stephen Colbert is going to be writing a new LOTR movie.
Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:08 PM

How gay will it be? On a scale of 1 to Elton John?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 12:09 PM (bFu5X)
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It's a storm of dicknados circling a yuge ass plug

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

262 This. The IRGC is made up of hardcore muzzies, even the rank and file. A lot of killing needs to be done before this is over.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 25, 2026 11:55 AM (g8Ew

IRGC and Basij: kill them all, no mercy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 12:11 PM (8zz6B)

263 No Kings - some people are 250 years behind. Even my procrastination isn't that bad.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2026 12:11 PM (n5tGW)

264 Sauron will be known as the "Bad Orange Lord"

Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:11 PM (y9ksN)

265 I considered reading Tolkien for March 25 day. Then I was reminded that he takes 1,000 words to say what can be said in 100.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)
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I'm reading The Hobbit right now. I'm nearly done with it.

I had forgotten how much of the story is written as expository prose. There's very little dialogue.

Lord of the Rings has much more dialogue between characters by comparison.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 12:11 PM (ESVrU)

266 256
‘ How gay will it be? On a scale of 1 to Elton John?’

Colbert will be the literal queen of fantasy fiction.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 25, 2026 12:12 PM (jbnUc)

267 Monster Racks meet Monster Trucks!
Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 12:07 PM

SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!

and Saturday

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 25, 2026 12:12 PM (4NO2D)

268 Clueless Spring breakers on a 'brain- cation'. Be glad these kids probably aren't yours. NY Post:

https://tinyurl.com/3ubtrf3b

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 12:12 PM (rZCVI)

269 16 Has China created any technology, outside of biological terrorism, that it didn't steal from the US first?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 11:06 AM (5bGGs)

Hey hey dont sell me short.

Posted by: Fauci at March 25, 2026 12:12 PM (PyntX)

270 I was just looking across the complex, wondering what the hell two ladies were doing, and it seems they are putting up a badminton net. Good fun sport you can play with no danger of injury, even when drunk.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 25, 2026 12:12 PM (gm9Sb)

271 Has the mosque exhibited the "playground bullet"?

Last couple times this came up, it was a complete cartridge.
Just something to wonder about.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 25, 2026 12:13 PM (zdLoL)

272 Neil Young says his “depressing” feelings about the “worst president in the history of our country” are being channeled into a new album.

Canada *does* have the second-worst prime minister in history right now.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 25, 2026 12:13 PM (2ocoG)

273 I heard dreadful news today. Stephen Colbert is going to be writing a new LOTR movie.
Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:08 PM

How gay will it be? On a scale of 1 to Elton John?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 12:09 PM (bFu5X)

Elton would yell fag from a passing vehicle.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 12:13 PM (snZF9)

274 270 I was just looking across the complex, wondering what the hell two ladies were doing, and it seems they are putting up a badminton net. Good fun sport you can play with no danger of injury, even when drunk.
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Do women play shirtless badminton?

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 12:14 PM (n17eQ)

275 I heard dreadful news today. Stephen Colbert is going to be writing a new LOTR movie.
Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:08 PM

How gay will it be? On a scale of 1 to Elton John?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 12:09 PM (bFu5X)
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I expect it will make Amazon's Rangz of Power look like a faithful adaptation by comparison.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 12:14 PM (ESVrU)

276 Born in Somalia
Sent to commit fraud on the white man!
- B. Springsteen

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2026 12:14 PM (n5tGW)

277 >> Good fun sport you can play with no danger of injury, even when drunk.

I used to work for an Electrician who got his Purple Heart in Vietnam due to a badminton injury.

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2026 12:15 PM (Klk40)

278 268 Clueless Spring breakers on a 'brain- cation'. Be glad these kids probably aren't yours. NY Post:

https://tinyurl.com/3ubtrf3b
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

They actually seem normal. Could've been much worse.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 25, 2026 12:15 PM (Dv3i1)

279 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

Wait, is Bernie going to sing? Because that could be hilarious.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 25, 2026 12:15 PM (2ocoG)

280 Last couple times this came up, it was a complete cartridge.

That's how you can tell it's a semi automatic machine gun

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 25, 2026 12:15 PM (Kt19C)

281 @275 I affectionally refer Amazon's project as "We Had Rangz".

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 12:15 PM (cWLG3)

282 I was just looking across the complex, wondering what the hell two ladies were doing, and it seems they are putting up a badminton net. Good fun sport you can play with no danger of injury, even when drunk.

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Turns out "shuttlecock" doesn't mean what I thought it did.

Posted by: Pete Boot Edge Edge at March 25, 2026 12:16 PM (y9ksN)

283 >> Good fun sport you can play with no danger of injury, even when drunk.

Anything that gets the Ladies chasing cocks has to be good.

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2026 12:16 PM (Klk40)

284 I expect it will make Amazon's Rangz of Power look like a faithful adaptation by comparison.

It will make Starfleet Academy look like the SS training camp.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

285 274 These gals are of an age where shirtless is no. But more power to them. Just noticed a couple munchkins on the scene, probably grandchildren.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 25, 2026 12:16 PM (gm9Sb)

286 I used to work for an Electrician who got his Purple Heart in Vietnam due to a badminton injury.
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Let me guess, he was playing badminton in a fire base and some mortars tried to join the game, rite?

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 12:16 PM (n17eQ)

287 244 > This. The IRGC is made up of hardcore muzzies, even the rank and file. A lot of killing needs to be done before this is over.
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At this point I'd say they're running the country and are probably the only quasi-military Iran's got left that's willing to fight.

They're not going away either, unless we make them dead.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 12:05 PM (AkEZC)

This. It does not take many people with guns to subjugate those withou.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 25, 2026 12:16 PM (PyntX)

288 I've tried to read The Odyssey several times, but it just isn't as much fun as the Classic Comics version, so I always lose interest.
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

I read a book about sandstone and conglomerate. It was called "Clastics Illustrated".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM (8zz6B)

289 I used to work for an Electrician who got his Purple Heart in Vietnam due to a badminton injury.
Posted by: garrett

Aren't you supposed to get that for injuries incurred in combat?

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM (77rzZ)

290 I used to work for an Electrician who got his Purple Heart in Vietnam due to a badminton injury.
Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2026 12:15 PM (Klk40)

https://youtu.be/S71n_RFyjeg

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

291 >>Let me guess, he was playing badminton in a fire base and some mortars tried to join the game, rite?

According to him, he dove to make a save and got punctured by the peg that was anchoring the guideline for the net.

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM (Klk40)

292 Has China created any technology, outside of biological terrorism, that it didn't steal from the US first?

Heh, even that was created in the US.

You allow us to settle 300,000 spies in your country and are surprised that they spy?!

Posted by: China at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM (moGJJ)

293 "Neil Young says his “depressing” feelings about the “worst president in the history of our country” are being channeled into a new album.""

and I'll do a metal album Weird Al style where I take all of neil's songs and rewrite the lyrics turning them into epic tales of him meeting his end in nasty ways.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM (snZF9)

294 Clueless Spring breakers on a 'brain- cation'. Be glad these kids probably aren't yours. NY Post:

https://tinyurl.com/3ubtrf3b
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

They actually seem normal. Could've been much worse.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 25, 2026 12:15 PM (Dv3i1)
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Yea, these "man on the street" interviews are 95% fake. For this exercise, they found some attractive THOTs in bikinis on the beach, and some shirtless Jersey Shore wannabe gindaloons, and the targets gave clueless answers that were most likely to get them social media exposure -- and it did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

295 287 244 > This. The IRGC is made up of hardcore muzzies, even the rank and file. A lot of killing needs to be done before this is over.
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At this point I'd say they're running the country and are probably the only quasi-military Iran's got left that's willing to fight.

They're not going away either, unless we make them dead.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 12:05 PM (AkEZC)

This. It does not take many people with guns to subjugate those withou.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 25, 2026 12:16 PM (PyntX)
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When they refer to "the people of Iran" they are talking about only 1/3 of the country.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 12:18 PM (cWLG3)

296 >>Aren't you supposed to get that for injuries incurred in combat?

If you are in a forward base, I think any injury counts...but, don't quote me on that.

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2026 12:18 PM (Klk40)

297 Bruce Springsteen wants you to know that he was born in the USA.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 25, 2026 12:18 PM (Wnd0C)

298 291 >>Let me guess, he was playing badminton in a fire base and some mortars tried to join the game, rite?
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According to him, he dove to make a save and got punctured by the peg that was anchoring the guideline for the net.
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No Legion of Merit as well? This sounds like your friend was a REMF.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 12:19 PM (n17eQ)

299 and I'll do a metal album Weird Al style where I take all of neil's songs and rewrite the lyrics turning them into epic tales of him meeting his end in nasty ways.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM

"Old man, look at your death, your time is through..."

Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:19 PM (y9ksN)

300 If that's normal we're in trouble. "What's an Ayatollah. What country are we fighting? " Uhhh
D'oh. Granted the partying and "I got drunk every night "seems pretty typical for the age

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 12:19 PM (rZCVI)

301 Do women play shirtless badminton?

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 12:14 PM (n17eQ)

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I wonder if there's ever been a stripper who covered her boobs initially with badminton birdies?

Posted by: ShainS at March 25, 2026 12:20 PM (hbKLn)

302 Bruce Springsteen wants you to know that he was born in the USA.

I've always thought Springsteen's singing sounds like he's trying to take a dump, and not succeeding. Given his age, that might actually be true.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

303 No Legion of Merit as well? This sounds like your friend was a REMF.
Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 12:19 PM (n17eQ)

Bronze Star with a V.

Posted by: Reforger at March 25, 2026 12:20 PM (xrmkX)

304 Declare them to be a subsidiary of the Chinese government, which means that they can't sell to the US government - feds or many states - and prohibit Nvidia from selling chips to them, I guess.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 25, 2026 12:21 PM (a+4eV)

305 and I'll do a metal album Weird Al style where I take all of neil's songs and rewrite the lyrics turning them into epic tales of him meeting his end in nasty ways.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM

"Old man, look at your death, your time is through..."
Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:19 PM (y9ksN)

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"You need Satan to screw you the whole night through ..."

Posted by: ShainS at March 25, 2026 12:21 PM (hbKLn)

306 If you are in a forward base, I think any injury counts...but, don't quote me on that.
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I knew a Major that got a Bronze Star with Combat V for crossing the line with Iraq within the first 24 hours. Medals have really been devalued over time.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 12:21 PM (n17eQ)

307 I wrote Neil Young off fifty years ago. He needs to take his shit back to Canada, far north Canada.

Posted by: Case at March 25, 2026 12:22 PM (pvf3X)

308 @303 I guess pickleball injuries would be good for a Purple Heart?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 12:22 PM (cWLG3)

309 and I'll do a metal album Weird Al style where I take all of neil's songs and rewrite the lyrics turning them into epic tales of him meeting his end in nasty ways.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM

You could call the album Gory Days.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 12:22 PM (bFu5X)

310 I was just looking across the complex, wondering what the hell two ladies were doing, and it seems they are putting up a badminton net. Good fun sport you can play with no danger of injury, even when drunk.
---------------
Do women play shirtless badminton?

Posted by: pudinhead at March 25, 2026 12:14 PM (n17eQ)

Set up a lawn chair and make a report this afternoon.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 25, 2026 12:22 PM (dK+Kv)

311 291 Vietnam. Charlie lobs in a bunch of rockets.I head to the bunker to pray and dig my way back to Ohio. Smoke clears, all clear siren come on, and I got a little piece of commie iron in my arm. Corpsman pulls it out, puts on a couple butterflies, and takes down my name so he can give it to S1 for a Purple Heart. Young and very dumb me says don't do that, this is a pussy wound. Flash forward, you put a claim in with the VA and the first thing they ask is "you got a Heart?".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 25, 2026 12:23 PM (gm9Sb)

312 and I'll do a metal album Weird Al style where I take all of neil's songs and rewrite the lyrics turning them into epic tales of him meeting his end in nasty ways.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM (snZF9)
________

Fuck the Neil Young songs, he can suck my balls
He looks like a dork that hangs out at the mall
Neil Young can suck it, so can he all day
He can suck an ass, just because he's gay
He can suck a dick, he can lick a sack
Everybody shout, "Heavy metal's back!"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 12:23 PM (iFTx/)

313 Canada *does* have the second-worst prime minister in history right now.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 25, 2026 12:13 PM (2ocoG)

I would dispute "second". Marx Carney is objectively evil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 12:23 PM (8zz6B)

314 273 I heard dreadful news today. Stephen Colbert is going to be writing a new LOTR movie.
Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:08 PM

If there's any advice I've gleaned from watching kids shows the last few years that I can share with Stephen....

You can check off a lit of boxes by having inter-racial gay couples. Toss one in a wheelchair and make the other a tranny and that's a bunch off the list.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 12:23 PM (Sco7b)

315 According to an X post, Bruce is the youngest person on the ticket at 76, and second-youngest is Bernie at 84. Put all your prop bets on someone falling over dead.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 25, 2026 12:24 PM (2ocoG)

316 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

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Night of the Singing Dead.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 25, 2026 12:24 PM (ndZc7)

317 Regarding Colbert, he's always been the Jimmy Kimmel to Jon Stewart's Adam Carolla. Not funny, not talented, but he did OK at making the boss look good.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 25, 2026 12:25 PM (2ocoG)

318 According to an X post, Bruce is the youngest person on the ticket at 76, and second-youngest is Bernie at 84. Put all your prop bets on someone falling over dead.

I would pay to see that.

Posted by: Die dirty hippie Die! at March 25, 2026 12:25 PM (/1l9x)

319 Guessing that Ace is in the Hospital, regretting his recent Rocking Chair Purchase?

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2026 12:26 PM (Klk40)

320 311 291 Vietnam. Charlie lobs in a bunch of rockets.I head to the bunker to pray and dig my way back to Ohio. Smoke clears, all clear siren come on, and I got a little piece of commie iron in my arm. Corpsman pulls it out, puts on a couple butterflies, and takes down my name so he can give it to S1 for a Purple Heart. Young and very dumb me says don't do that, this is a pussy wound. Flash forward, you put a claim in with the VA and the first thing they ask is "you got a Heart?".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 25, 2026 12:23 PM (gm9Sb)

You're a fuckin' bad-ass. Thanks for going over there, whether you wanted to or not at the time, it took guts, and I respect that.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 25, 2026 12:26 PM (dmDsy)

321 and I'll do a metal album Weird Al style where I take all of neil's songs and rewrite the lyrics turning them into epic tales of him meeting his end in nasty ways.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM (snZF9)
________

Fuck the Neil Young songs, he can suck my balls
He looks like a dork that hangs out at the mall
Neil Young can suck it, so can he all day
He can suck an ass, just because he's gay
He can suck a dick, he can lick a sack
Everybody shout, "Heavy metal's back!"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 25, 2026 12:23 PM (iFTx/)

Death to all but metal \m/

Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:26 PM (y9ksN)

322 119 I always thought that elementary school, and middle school, and high school was meant to tame the beast and promote citizenship and maturity and bring our children into adulthood to be productive and live the American dream.
.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 25, 2026 11:33 AM (Wnd0C)

It's meant to produce brainwashed, compliant, subservient, mindless drones.

Posted by: You're in fantasyland at March 25, 2026 12:27 PM (TbWk/)

323 299 and I'll do a metal album Weird Al style where I take all of neil's songs and rewrite the lyrics turning them into epic tales of him meeting his end in nasty ways.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM

"Old man, look at your death, your time is through..."
Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:19 PM (y9ksN)

Do "A Man Needs A Maid".

Posted by: Ahnold Swarzenegger at March 25, 2026 12:27 PM (qivay)

324 I guess pickleball injuries would be good for a Purple Heart?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 12:22 PM (cWLG3)

I tried playing pickleball, but the jars kept breaking.

Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:27 PM (y9ksN)

325 "The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans; the Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs; South Africans hate the Dutch.

And I don't like anybody very much."

Posted by: The Kingston Trio at March 25, 2026 12:28 PM (o71/e)

326 313
‘ I would dispute "second". Marx Carney is objectively evil.’

Worse than Queer Starmer?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 25, 2026 12:28 PM (jbnUc)

327 Regarding Colbert, he's always been the Jimmy Kimmel to Jon Stewart's Adam Carolla. Not funny, not talented, but he did OK at making the boss look good.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 25, 2026 12:25 PM

I'll admit to laughing at his slowly going insane on air sportscaster character in The Love Guru.*

*I will also admit to having watched that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 12:29 PM (bFu5X)

328 322 119 I always thought that elementary school, and middle school, and high school was meant to tame the beast and promote citizenship and maturity and bring our children into adulthood to be productive and live the American dream.
.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 25, 2026 11:33 AM (Wnd0C)

It's meant to produce brainwashed, compliant, subservient, mindless drones.
Posted by: You're in fantasyland at March 25, 2026 12:27 PM

Absolute horseshit. If you are here in America, just fucking leave you fucking faggot.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 25, 2026 12:29 PM (dmDsy)

329 I would dispute "second". Marx Carney is objectively evil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 12:23 PM

That's fair. I still think Justin Castreau casts a long shadow though. Just not from his dick.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 25, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

330 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 25, 2026

I assume that Bernie Sanders is there to rave about left wing politics and not to actually sing. If he did that it would be even worse.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 12:29 PM (rZCVI)

331 and I'll do a metal album Weird Al style where I take all of neil's songs and rewrite the lyrics turning them into epic tales of him meeting his end in nasty ways.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 12:17 PM

"Old man, look at your death, your time is through..."
Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:19 PM (y9ksN)

Yup, and no frigging banjo.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 12:30 PM (snZF9)

332 BREAKING 🚨: Republican offices in Arlington Heights, IL were just vandalized with Nazi symbols and feces by Brock McNerney, 72, and Moisette McNerney, 69.
Trump Derangement Syndrome literally has Democrats making swastikas out of their own excrement.

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Maybe they'll open for Bruce and the Rocking Chair Rockers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 25, 2026 12:30 PM (ndZc7)

333 .
NOOD

Ace is up

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 25, 2026 12:30 PM (O7YUW)

334 Did Ace get his rocking chair into his desired space?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 25, 2026 12:30 PM (jAPoh)

335 320 Thanks for the compliment but I am far from a badass. Spent most of my time looking at aerial photos through a magnifying glass and briefing dumb LTs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 25, 2026 12:30 PM (gm9Sb)

336 @323 I like Cinnamon Girl, assuming it's about a redhead and not some third-world girl peeling bark from cinnamon trees for the spice trade, for THE MAN.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 12:31 PM (cWLG3)

337 324 I guess pickleball injuries would be good for a Purple Heart?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 12:22 PM (cWLG3)

I think the person fell and hit his head... People sometimes ignore that but can get a brain bleed... Especially if you are on blood thinners.... My Cardiologist told me if I ever fall and hit my head to go the emergency immediately

Posted by: It's me donna at March 25, 2026 12:31 PM (/+IBE)

338 Worse than Queer Starmer?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 25, 2026 12:28 PM (jbnUc)

Basically similar.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 12:31 PM (8zz6B)

339 302 Bruce Springsteen wants you to know that he was born in the USA.

I've always thought Springsteen's singing sounds like he's trying to take a dump, and not succeeding. Given his age, that might actually be true.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

100%. I tell my wife this every year when they start playing his rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at March 25, 2026 12:32 PM (qivay)

340 316 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

Sponsored by LifeAlert.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 25, 2026 12:32 PM (skR0U)

341 Thanks for the compliment but I am far from a badass. Spent most of my time looking at aerial photos through a magnifying glass and briefing dumb LTs.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 25, 2026 12:30 PM (gm9Sb)

HEY!!!!
I resemble that remark!!!

Busted my face in a scud attack in Desert Storm.
Told the doc to never mind, just give me a few band aids.
Now dealing with the VA.
Ugh...

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2026 12:32 PM (2WIwB)

342
100%. I tell my wife this every year when they start playing his rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at March 25, 2026 12:32 PM (qivay)

Hate that version... Sounds like cats being strangled...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 25, 2026 12:33 PM (/+IBE)

343 You're a fuckin' bad-ass. Thanks for going over there, whether you wanted to or not at the time, it took guts, and I respect that.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 25, 2026 12:26 PM (dmDsy)

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+1

Missed possibly getting drafted by 5 years -- and I was a dumbass gung-ho patriotic immortal young man.

The first time I played paintball, I immediately sprinted across the field trying to capture the other team's flag and got destroyed (shot at close range a dozen times).

I remember thinking "It's a good thing I never went to Vietnam because I probably would have gotten killed immediately."

By the end of the day, I had learned to strategerize and finally captured the other team's flag and was so excited running back to our compound that I was hyperventilating ... and collapsed for a minute to recapture my breath.

Posted by: ShainS at March 25, 2026 12:33 PM (dPgr0)

344 336 @323 I like Cinnamon Girl, assuming it's about a redhead and not some third-world girl peeling bark from cinnamon trees for the spice trade, for THE MAN.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 25, 2026 12:31 PM (cWLG3)

I actually love Neil Young's music. The one that most pisses me off because it's otherwise a great song is "Cortez the Killer".

Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
People worked together
And they lifted many stones

Worse than a bunch of stoned hippies wearing Che shirts in a college dorm.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at March 25, 2026 12:36 PM (qivay)

345 Bruce Springsteen will join Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders at a No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.

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What, Hanoi and Moscow weren't available?

Posted by: ShainS at March 25, 2026 12:36 PM (dPgr0)

346 NOOD...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 25, 2026 12:38 PM (/+IBE)

347 MSFT was as high as $555/share a year ago. About $375 now. Stock price is not always everything. Not defending SMCI, but again stock price may not be reflective of the strength of the company.

Posted by: Lex at March 25, 2026 12:44 PM (l5xX+)

348 256 I heard dreadful news today. Stephen Colbert is going to be writing a new LOTR movie.
Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2026 12:08 PM

How gay will it be? On a scale of 1 to Elton John?
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Liberace... Squared... With pink and purple stobelights.

Posted by: clarence at March 25, 2026 12:52 PM (bbCED)

349 You know what would stop this? Taking the three of them to the steps of the NYSE and shooting them each in the head.

Posted by: The_Hoser at March 25, 2026 01:32 PM (H4qGm)

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