Thursday Overnight Open Thread

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 8, 2026

Adirondack Mountains, New York - From Aesthetic vibes

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. On time, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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To embrace rapidly increasing technological advances or not.

Kodiak says yes. Kodiak ready to 'pull the driver' and launch unsupervised driverless trucks by end of year

Kodiak's unsupervised driverless long-haul delivery trucks will soon hit Texas roads as its partnership with Swedish furniture giant IKEA enters a new phase.
Kodiak founder and CEO Don Burnette joined "Varney & Co." Tuesday to shed light on the rollout and the technology behind the autonomous trucks.
"We're starting with one. We're gonna get that first one out by the end of the year, and then we're gonna start to scale throughout 2027 and beyond," Burnette said.
Burnette said IKEA will serve as the launch partner later in the year.
"We're doing just over 200-mile trips to start, but nobody in the driver's seat, nobody in [the] cab," Burnette said.
Burnette explained that Kodiak provides the AI-powered software that serves as "the brain" behind how the autonomous trucks drive.
"We've proven the technology is safe and reliable. We've done a lot of work over the last decade or so to make sure we've covered every contingency, and now we're ready to go," he said.

Video segment at the link.

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Doordash says yes. DoorDash drone delivery doesn’t spell end for drivers, executive says

DoorDash is revolutionizing the way it delivers food to its Northern California customers thanks to drones, officials say.
The company insists that all will remain the same, except deliveries made by drones will ensure faster arrivals and more options for consumers.
Harrison Shih, head of DoorDash Air, joined “The Hill on NewsNation” to discuss the new delivery method, adding it may “one day” be an offering in big cities such as New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles.
“DoorDash really is the strongest in your standard suburbs, and I think that’s what makes this service so good for DoorDash, as we think about drone delivery, is DoorDash has really been built around… connecting those communities with their neighbors and getting food across all of those areas,” Shih said.

DoorDash says its new drone can get food to you in under five minutes — but Texas residents are already calling Amazon drone noise a 'big problem'

The future of doorstep delivery is drones apparently (well, drones and robots): DoorDash has unveiled a new drone ready to get food to you in under five minutes on average, even as Amazon faces a growing number of complaints over its own drone delivery service.
DoorDash has been planning drone deliveries for a while, calling the scheme DoorDash Air, and we've now been given a look at the six-propeller aircraft that'll be doing the delivering. A trial is planned for Northern California, in partnership with restaurant brands including Chipotle and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen.
A lot of work has gone into the pick-up and drop-off infrastructure and ordering system, DoorDash says, as well as the drone itself. The company estimates that around 80% of customer orders are light enough to transport by drone, and initial tests suggest orders can be delivered in less than five minutes on average.
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The drones won't land when they deliver — they'll lower their cargo in front of your door or in your backyard and then zoom away again. According to DoorDash, failsafes will be built in so the drones can safely land in emergencies, and their cruising noise will be comparable to a passing car "at delivery height".
That noise element might be crucial to the scheme's success. As TechSpot reports, residents in Richardson, Texas are none too pleased about the constant buzzing being created by Amazon drones, which launched Prime Air in the area last December. The sound has been compared to that of a flying lawnmower.

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Chick-fil-A says not so fast. Chick-fil-A rules out AI drive-thru ordering as fast-food rivals embrace technology

Chick-fil-A is bucking a growing fast-food industry trend, with CEO Andrew Cathy saying the chicken chain does not plan to use artificial intelligence to take customers' drive-thru orders.
While Chick-fil-A is exploring potential uses for AI behind the scenes, Cathy told CNBC that the company wants to preserve human interaction in its drive-thru lanes even as competitors increasingly experiment with automated ordering technology.
"From our experience, we really want that hospitality to be human to human," Cathy told the outlet. "We’re not going to substitute that interaction with technology, because we feel like that hospitality is so important to create that warm environment for consumers."

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The US Army unsurprisingly says yes. US Army tests counter-drone tech at Mexican border as cartel drone use rises

The US Army is testing counter-drone technology in the US-Mexico border area, seeking to ‌sharpen its defenses against the growing threat of drone use by cartels and emulate the rapid battlefield innovation happening in Ukraine's war with Russia.
At Falcon Peak, a US Northern Command exercise held in September in Arizona, soldiers watched as defense firms demonstrated radars, interceptor drones, autonomous gun systems and other technologies designed to detect, track and destroy small unmanned aircraft.

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Will we reach a tipping point with the proliferation of surveillance overreach?

You're walking into one of the most advanced surveillance systems in the country, and it's just a grocery store.
Welcome to Walmart. https://t.co/3vs7SSCagb
— Truth Warrior (@TruthWarrior091) October 8, 2026

This guy takes a step in pushing back

Youtuber builds system that mimics Flock to spy on cops.
Cops show up at his door and ask what he is going to do with all the data he is collecting.
Youtuber responds that this is the exact same concern citizens have when you use this same technology to spy on them.
Full video: https://t.co/F22LmgkkTb
— Orwell Day (@OrwellDay) October 8, 2026

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He finally gets it!

5 Redneck Habits I Used to Judge… Until I Realized They’re GENIUS �� | Country Folks Were Right https://t.co/pNB1TPz7uK
— just josh Pray �� (@_joshpray) October 6, 2026

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DJ Doof - [BLANK] on the [BLANK] Edition

Can you think of any other tunes that fit the BLANK on the BLANK theme??

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1 The end is neigh, so quit horsing around.

Posted by: mindful webworker - don't blink or you'll miss it at October 08, 2026 10:00 PM (uhtpA)

2 （ ͜.人 ͜.）

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxJqHph64hw

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 10:01 PM (nqf1u)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 08, 2026 10:02 PM (ptJRT)

4 Someting Wong.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 10:02 PM (nqf1u)

5 Posted by: Braenyard
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Tough to be an Ascii artist but you managed just fine.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:02 PM (E4rtv)

6 Christy asked: What ever happened to that hairy terrorist (I know they all are before they have the jihad shave-a-thon) who was dragged out of a hole. His white tee shirt was stretched out and he looked sort of like John Belushi on a bender.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, aka Dickless Ron Jeremy. I think he got isekaied.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 10:03 PM (sDWtc)

7 Sorry I'm late, I had to figure out how to rid my home of a lisping, giant winged lizard. That's the last time I ask Door Dash to deliver a dragon fruit.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 08, 2026 10:03 PM (PZ5WM)

8 Ahh crap, KSM is still exuding CO2.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 10:03 PM (sDWtc)

9 Top picture, if Thomas Kincaide was into taking photographs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:04 PM (2GVsD)

10 Omg

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 08, 2026 10:04 PM (mmrXZ)

11 Taxes? What taxes?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 08, 2026 10:04 PM (wxsGM)

12 Evening all,

There is a late morning/early afternoon ISS undocking

Northrop Grumman - Cygnus NG-24
Departure International Space Station ISS
Date: October 9, 2026
Undocking: 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 UTC, 18:30 CEST)

https://youtu.be/KpQwil0N-To

Posted by: Joyenz at October 08, 2026 10:05 PM (2F0/Y)

13 Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

And thank you for the lovely photo up top of the Adirondacks. I thought that's where the photo was taken and was happy to see the caption!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 08, 2026 10:05 PM (D/6p1)

14
I sat there atop the first empty box reading the content. And I've already forgotten it anyway.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 08, 2026 10:05 PM (mmrXZ)

15 His white tee shirt was stretched out and he looked sort of like John Belushi on a bender.

Saddam Hussein?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:05 PM (2GVsD)

16 Talafreako may be singing Patsy Cline's song and not Willy Nelson's.
From X

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Sherri™
@FFT1776
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So Talarico allegedly had a nervous breakdown. Wow.

Texas!!!!

Talkywhacker isn’t your guy!!

Vote Ken Paxton!

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:05 PM (E4rtv)

17 Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. On time, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

Whelming, as always. Thanks, Doof..

Posted by: tankdemon at October 08, 2026 10:06 PM (PZ5WM)

18 6 Christy asked: What ever happened to that hairy terrorist (I know they all are before they have the jihad shave-a-thon) who was dragged out of a hole. His white tee shirt was stretched out and he looked sort of like John Belushi on a bender.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, aka Dickless Ron Jeremy. I think he got isekaied.

Posted by: 88C+u
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He's in GitMo and they're fixin' I say they're a fixin' to send him home.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 10:06 PM (nqf1u)

19 Did Ken Paxton get a note from Talefreako's mother saying he will be absent?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:06 PM (2GVsD)

20 This thread has no bottom.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 10:07 PM (nqf1u)

21 Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

And thank you for the lovely photo up top of the Adirondacks. I thought that's where the photo was taken and was happy to see the caption!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 08, 2026 10:05 PM (D/6p1)

Howdy LS! One of many lovely fall scenes I'll be featuring over the next several weeks.

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2026 10:07 PM (QMAsf)

22 Very nice photo up top, Doof! Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 08, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re)

23

That's great about tallywhacker.

Wish there were more politicians in nuthouses.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 10:08 PM (/QHx4)

24 Whelming, as always. Thanks, Doof..
Posted by: tankdemon at October 08, 2026 10:06 PM (PZ5WM)

Another whelmed customer!

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2026 10:08 PM (QMAsf)

25 unsupervised driverless long-haul delivery trucks

As ill-advised — and terrifying — as that is, they'll probably have a better driving record than all the illiterate aliens who have had licenses passed out to them undeservedly.

Posted by: mindful webworker - AI better than 80IQ at October 08, 2026 10:09 PM (uhtpA)

26 So Talarico allegedly had a nervous breakdown. Wow

Like, he yelled at some staffer under the stress? or are we talking a full blown crying jag with him falling under a table asking for his mommy?
Campaigning can be hard, in fairness to this little pooftah, especially in a state of Texas' length and girth.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 10:09 PM (sDWtc)

27 Very nice photo up top, Doof! Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 08, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re)

YW

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2026 10:09 PM (QMAsf)

28 Thanks for the ONT Doof.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 08, 2026 10:10 PM (CHHv1)

29 Do any states have rules requiring signs etc. indicating the vehicle near me is driverless? Not that I'm worried . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 08, 2026 10:10 PM (Jr+re)

30 Or Talefreako caught the sexually transmitted and drug resistant diarrhea that is spreading in NYC.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:11 PM (2GVsD)

31 Good evening Horde and thanks Disco!

Posted by: TRex- whelmed dino at October 08, 2026 10:12 PM (oSzMa)

32 Good evening morons И огромное спасибо Диско!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX)

33 So, after playing around 4 hours of the follow-up to Disco Elysium, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, I've thrown in the towel.

The protagonist is a lesbian, communist, that looks like Jodi Whitaker, and has a 5 pack a day voice, she's uninteresting and instantly forgettable, the story is insipid, the atmospherics, music and sound effects are boring and uninspired.

It's a shame because Disco Elysium is one of the best rpg's of all-time, along the same lines as The Secret of Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge, which essentially is the inspiration for Pirates of The Caribbean.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 08, 2026 10:14 PM (XV/Pl)

34 Disregard question above. The US requires different license plates but states have no universal marking requirements.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 08, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)

35 Under the wire, Tillis endorsed Whatley today. Lots of moving parts with several senate debates--Rogers-Sayed in MI, Collins and whatshisname Troy in ME, and Collins-Tossof in GA. GOP has had a solid night in debates, their opponents, not so much.

And right now, it appears that this is going to be an older and whiter electorate--Gen X and Boomers predominating which are swinging toward GOP. Youth turnout is not going to be that much perhaps below 10 percent apparently with Millennials above yutes but well below X and Boomers so far.

Getting enough early voting and absentee requests now to start painting the actual electorate.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:14 PM (E4rtv)

36 Can you think of any other tunes that fit the BLANK on the BLANK theme??

Up On The Roof - The Drifters

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 08, 2026 10:14 PM (0CU3H)

37 That house? No Internet. No broadcast. Just some old Yankee bitch screaming at you all day.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 08, 2026 10:15 PM (LOvBA)

38 21 Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

And thank you for the lovely photo up top of the Adirondacks. I thought that's where the photo was taken and was happy to see the caption!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 08, 2026 10:05 PM (D/6p1)

Howdy LS! One of many lovely fall scenes I'll be featuring over the next several weeks.
Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2026 10:07 PM (QMAsf)

The North Country at its finest ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at October 08, 2026 10:15 PM (oCio0)

39 Fiddler on the Roof duh

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:16 PM (2GVsD)

40 This exchange from Rogers to Sayed was perfection.

"Mike Rogers: "Abdul can't condemn Hamas. He can't condemn the Muslim Brotherhood. He says his home is Egypt."

Abdul El-Sayed: "Mike does own a home in Florida!"

Mike Rogers: "Abdul owns a home in the United Arab Emirates! At least Florida’s in the United States!"

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:16 PM (E4rtv)

41 So Talarico allegedly had a nervous breakdown.

I won't believe it until CNN denies it.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 08, 2026 10:16 PM (vTZFs)

42 I found the hairy Mo with a search that led me to much laughing. He was featured by a company in Turkey for hair removal. Sometimes my searches reward me as it was for "who was hairy terrorist found in hole with white tee shirt"

I laughed and then emailed it to my dude, brother and two sons. Who never know what I am going to send them.

https://tinyurl.com/5x48ykrk

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 10:17 PM (hzuYO)

43 If it is true Talarico had a "nervous breakdown" and had inpatient treatment it will cost Democrats votes everywhere.

Ask Thomas Eagleton.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

44 Thanks for the ONT Doof.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 08, 2026 10:10 PM (CHHv1)

Good evening Horde and thanks Disco!
Posted by: TRex- whelmed dino at October 08, 2026 10:12 PM (oSzMa)

Good evening morons И огромное спасибо Диско!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX)

Howdy to you all!

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2026 10:17 PM (QMAsf)

45 Adirondack Mountains, New York

Why are the prettiest places so filled with the worst people?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:17 PM (ExV1e)

46 The head of the Hartford Symphony came out on stage for the opening concert of the season to give everyone a quick talk. He suggested that people consider buying full season tickets. It’s not just about saving money on purchases. It’s about having a routine, knowing that there is a concert calling next week, building in a ritual that is binding in some way.

More than that, he said, we live in times that are being gravely threatened by dehumanization. We interact more with digital systems than with people. But at the symphony, he said, there are real people, musicians who have mastered their instruments through thousands of hours of practice, and they are playing physical things.

There are bows drawn on gut and steel strings, real cymbals clanging together, mallets hitting drums, lungs powering brass, and a harpist using hands and figures to make the sounds of heaven appear before us. A season ticket shows your loyalty to the humane arts, to the beautiful, to the truth, to the analog world of genuine human achievement

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 10:18 PM (nqf1u)

47 Can you think of any other tunes that fit the BLANK on the BLANK theme??

Did you have to ask?

Ixnay on the Autoplay - maybeshewill
https://youtu.be/mOFHivq2d6Y
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Weeper on the Shore - Amorphis
https://youtu.be/viwSSSDTL9w

Walk on the Ocean - Toad the Wet Sprocket
https://youtu.be/12bM1CqHoBY

Far on the Water - Kalafina
https://youtu.be/K28TcPN-BsQ
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Virgin on the Ridiculous - Caravan
https://youtu.be/3D9ZIBHgSg8

Blood on the Rooftops - Genesis
https://youtu.be/a9SuH_6uWQU

Posted by: mikeski at October 08, 2026 10:18 PM (VHUov)

48 33 So, after playing around 4 hours of the follow-up to Disco Elysium, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, I've thrown in the towel.

The protagonist is a lesbian, communist, that looks like Jodi Whitaker, and has a 5 pack a day voice, she's uninteresting and instantly forgettable, the story is insipid, the atmospherics, music and sound effects are boring and uninspired.

It's a shame because Disco Elysium is one of the best rpg's of all-time, along the same lines as The Secret of Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge, which essentially is the inspiration for Pirates of The Caribbean.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Heh. Dig out the old TSR RPG game, Top Secret and sic your AI on it to convert to a computer RPG game.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:18 PM (E4rtv)

49 41 So Talarico allegedly had a nervous breakdown.

I won't believe it until CNN denies it.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 08, 2026 10:16 PM (vTZFs)

Come on! Who could ever expect someone with clear mental issues of having a Nervous Breakdown...

Wonder what kind of meds he is on..... and thinking on that?

I'd like a National Law passed that EVERYONE in Congress needs to release their meds list...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:18 PM (mP0Kj)

50 Did some design and animation work. Put the car back in the parking lot. Drank way too much. Typical weekday...and here comes the weekend.

I'm really very glad this place exists. Not sure where else I could kinda sorta fit in (as long as I was quiet and stayed in the corner.)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 08, 2026 10:18 PM (CHHv1)

51 Puttin on the Ritz

Posted by: Jay From CT at October 08, 2026 10:18 PM (GRZge)

52 45 Adirondack Mountains, New York

Why are the prettiest places so filled with the worst people?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:17 PM (ExV1e)

***spock eyebrow***

Exsqueeze me ???

Posted by: browndog says woof at October 08, 2026 10:19 PM (oCio0)

53 Evening, Horde.

I read the content - drones as loud as a passing car *at what speed*? And from inside or outside of your own car? Cuz... interstate speeds while you're standing on the shoulder? Not so quiet.

No sign of the draconids here, too much light pollution in that quadrant right now.

Job search continues, a part time temp job might go active soon, and that would bring some income and keep some skills sharp/get the rust cleaned off. Had one previous interview from about a month ago finally update with "sorry but you're not moving forward"... still have the others to hope for, including the best fit I've felt since I started this whole sorry saga (last Thursday's interview).

I pray frequently, and try to keep an open mind about how "where God wants me" might not line up with "what sounds good to me". Trying to pray more, and pray better.

M's grandma is slowly recovering but it's a long road ahead and the healing and PT have just begun.

Time for Bible study and evening exercise to help me fall asleep by tiring my body.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 08, 2026 10:19 PM (aJQbY)

54 Riders on the Storm.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 08, 2026 10:19 PM (ptJRT)

55 39 Fiddler on the Roof duh
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:16 PM (2GVsD)

I thought about that at first, but there's no tune called Fiddler on the Roof.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 08, 2026 10:19 PM (0CU3H)

56 Down on the bayou

Posted by: 496 at October 08, 2026 10:20 PM (m8Qhu)

57 Heh. Dig out the old TSR RPG game, Top Secret and sic your AI on it to convert to a computer RPG game.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:18 PM (E4rtv)

It is amusing how many Computer games are being Re done... vice new games being made.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:20 PM (mP0Kj)

58 So, an old lady friend and I were talking about golf. I mentioned that I played and then went home.

She said that her late husband would play golf and then come home later. Apparently he was having a few or more drinks in the clubhouse or elsewhere. She was surprised that the church golf group actually just we out to play golf.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 08, 2026 10:20 PM (LOvBA)

59 Smoke On The Water

Posted by: fd at October 08, 2026 10:20 PM (xGNGD)

60 Under the wire, Tillis endorsed Whatley today. Lots of moving parts with several senate debates--Rogers-Sayed in MI, Collins and whatshisname Troy in ME, and Collins-Tossof in GA. GOP has had a solid night in debates, their opponents, not so much.
Posted by: whig
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Is a Tillis endorsement gonna sway any voters?
I don't think so.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 08, 2026 10:20 PM (Lo97M)

61 Meanwhile rights owners are butchering games like Call of Cthulhu by renaming Shugniggurath.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:21 PM (2GVsD)

62 41 So Talarico allegedly had a nervous breakdown.

I won't believe it until CNN denies it.
Posted by: Oddbob

Whatever it is, it has to be incapacitating, if it was something like cancer or even the flu, the candidate would be at least sending out messages, pix from a hospital bed, something other than radio silence. If old, something like stroke might be possible but age tends to rule that out but if Talafreako did go loopy, then his handlers don't want him seen nor heard until they patch him up like Biden.

Whatever it is, it is not severe enough to try to parachute another candidate in, but severe enough that the Dems don't want him seen that way.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:22 PM (E4rtv)

63 He gone AMF

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:23 PM (/+uur)

64 A season ticket shows your loyalty to the humane arts, to the beautiful, to the truth, to the analog world of genuine human achievement
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 10:18 PM (nqf1u)

That's what we've been saying!

Posted by: The Spearmint Rhino Gentleman's Club at October 08, 2026 10:23 PM (r7+Q7)

65 Down on the corner...

Posted by: Audi in the Street at October 08, 2026 10:24 PM (Myt96)

66 Is a Tillis endorsement gonna sway any voters?
I don't think so.
Posted by: Florida Peasant
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As LBJ said, better to have Tillis inside the tent pissing out than inside the tent pissing on everyone inside. I think Tillis sees a GOP wind blowing and wants to get out in front of it for whatever he plans to do next.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:24 PM (E4rtv)

67 Beat On The Brat?

Was this a prophecy about Kamala?!

And, loved the redneck bit.
But I'm going to insist it isn't redneck for me. It's German frugality. And German engineering. But, yeah, ok, there might be some Scots-Irish working in there, too.

Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 10:24 PM (kU0PQ)

68 34 Disregard question above. The US requires different license plates but states have no universal marking requirements.
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 08, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)

Yup... driverless vehicles... Drones, maybe controlled by AI... Cameras everywhere...

Hell the Government even declared it owns all the water everywhere... and makes us pay rent on property we own (property tax)...

Gee, it's almost like the Government isn't looking out for us.... but that would just be crazy talk!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:24 PM (mP0Kj)

69
Has early voting started in Texas?

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 10:24 PM (/QHx4)

70 Lawsie! The current photo of hairy Mo!

His beard is glow in the dark ORANGE. Like he dipped it in orange jello!

No one's beard turns that color in nature, does it? Or maybe there was nuke dust in the hole where he hid and he's sprouting radiation.

I need to go watch something on Amazon Prime and hope I don't dream about him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 10:24 PM (hzuYO)

71 Talefreako is hiking in the desert. Yeah, that's the ticket. This is his 40 days. - Talefreako staff.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:24 PM (2GVsD)

72 Smoke on the Water
https://youtu.be/Rfirxs_NUcE

This one is Sweet- Fox on the Run
https://youtu.be/qBdFA6sI6-8

Posted by: tankdemon at October 08, 2026 10:25 PM (Q/5g/)

73 Jimmy
But I tell myself that I was doing all right
There's nothing left to do tonight

But go crazy on you
Crazy on you
Let me go crazy
Crazy on you, oh

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:25 PM (/+uur)

74 " but severe enough that the Dems don't want him seen that way."

Okay, who had monkeypox? How did you know?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 08, 2026 10:25 PM (LOvBA)

75 Tex votes next M 19th

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:25 PM (/+uur)

76 41 So Talarico allegedly had a nervous breakdown.

How would you know? Talking crazy isn't an indicator. Democrats ALL talk crazy.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 08, 2026 10:26 PM (Riz8t)

77 It is amusing how many Computer games are being Re done... vice new games being made.
Posted by: Romeo13
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We have better graphics now but not better script writers. Plus you can cherrypick which ones to redo and ignore the stinkers. Woke types hurt gaming a lot plus high prices for all the graphics, music, etc. and new computers to play them so doing remakes might make sense in their environment.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:26 PM (E4rtv)

78 Redneck habits

You should see what's out there in the old concrete shed, geegaws and thingamajigs going back to my grandfather's day. Hasn't been a living horse here on the ranch for almost half a century, but we still have a saddle. Just in case.

Posted by: mindful webworker - that ain' the half of it at October 08, 2026 10:26 PM (uhtpA)

79 Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:22 PM (E4rtv)

I think you missed the new edition of the Politician Playbook.

Since Biden was able to get elected without really doing interviews, or even going into public... politicians can now go Radio Silent, and still seem to be AOK...

Hell... we got a sitting Congress Critter in an Alzheimer's ward... and don't even get me started on McConnel...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:27 PM (mP0Kj)

80 Perinium Monkeypox
Asshole Monkeypox
General Monkeypox
Monkeypox Fever

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:27 PM (/+uur)

81 What does anyone have to fear with a robot orchestra?

https://youtu.be/54VEzgkMMsQ

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:27 PM (2GVsD)

82 Abdul El-Sayed: "Mike does own a home in Florida!"

Big deal. A lot of people from Michigan own homes in Florida. We have this thing in Michigan called "winter", and a lot of people like to escape from it. Then there are the old people who don't want to slip on the ice and break their hip.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 08, 2026 10:28 PM (0Htd1)

83 As LBJ said, better to have Tillis inside the tent pissing out than inside the tent pissing on everyone inside. I think Tillis sees a GOP wind blowing and wants to get out in front of it for whatever he plans to do next.

He's done in politics, so it isn't like he's trying to appeal to the voters. He's probably setting up for a career as a lobbyist.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 08, 2026 10:28 PM (Riz8t)

84 Exsqueeze me ???
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 08, 2026 10:19 PM (oCio0)

Are you under the impression that NY is filled to the rafters with wonderful people?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:28 PM (ExV1e)

85 Some really good BLANK on the BLANK examples -- Keep 'em coming!

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2026 10:28 PM (QMAsf)

86 @48

>>Heh. Dig out the old TSR RPG game, Top Secret and sic your AI on it to convert to a computer RPG game.

You could, but it would depend depend on if you wanted it to be a combat focused tactical game or a true open ended espionage simulator.

The espionage simulator route would probably take around 6 months of total dedication to map out and storyboard, develop the game mechanics and front end to get to an MVP.

It could be done though.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 08, 2026 10:29 PM (XV/Pl)

87 84 Exsqueeze me ???
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 08, 2026 10:19 PM (oCio0)

Are you under the impression that NY is filled to the rafters with wonderful people?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:28 PM (ExV1e)

But... but.... New York New York.... is a toddling town!

OK, just for the record, what the F is toddling?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:29 PM (mP0Kj)

88 Working on the Railroad
https://youtu.be/fAHyQEITQSQ

Posted by: tankdemon at October 08, 2026 10:29 PM (Q/5g/)

89 I am serious
Talarico is gone
He will never show again

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:29 PM (/+uur)

90 76 41 So Talarico allegedly had a nervous breakdown.

How would you know? Talking crazy isn't an indicator. Democrats ALL talk crazy.
Posted by: Archimedes

I think Talafreako might just be out there to begin with. Sort of like the Frasier episode where Niles and Frasier find out their chosen candidate believed he was abducted and probed by aliens.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:30 PM (E4rtv)

91 The lake house....as the yutes say..."would".

Posted by: Funsize at October 08, 2026 10:30 PM (3j87q)

92 I bet internals are down 10 pts

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:30 PM (/+uur)

93 Someone handed Talarico a large envelope of pictorial evidence of him committing a felony level crime and said make a choice.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 08, 2026 10:30 PM (nxLtX)

94 Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 08, 2026 10:29 PM (XV/Pl)

Still waiting for someone to get off their ass and do a Good version of the old Board game...

Advanced Squad Leader.

Seems like a no brainer... but no one has done it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:30 PM (mP0Kj)

95 Romeo13, its what you do after drinking many toddies!

Posted by: Funsize at October 08, 2026 10:31 PM (3j87q)

96 Watched the redneck video. He gets it, sorta.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 08, 2026 10:31 PM (aJQbY)

97 @57

>>It is amusing how many Computer games are being Re done... vice new games being made.

Most new games are simply FPS slop. There really hasn't been any real innovation in the space in the last 15 years.

Sure, things look prettier, but pretty does not make a game great.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 08, 2026 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)

98 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 08, 2026 10:31 PM (n17eQ)

99 He's done in politics, so it isn't like he's trying to appeal to the voters. He's probably setting up for a career as a lobbyist.
Posted by: Archimedes
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A rumor floating around it that Tillis wants to run for NC governor against Stein.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:31 PM (E4rtv)

100 Admittedly, I don't pretend to understand all the safeguards instituted into driverless vehicles (and now tractor trailers). But, I'd like to know one thing:

Does AI possess enough logic/ creativity/ precognition/ imagination to view a vehicle up ahead that is creating a "HEY, LOOK AT THIS IDIOT" scenario, and react like we humans do.

The vehicle ahead may be maintaining itself within the boundaries of the lane, although weaving and drifting enough for a human driver to recognize an issue (drinking, falling asleep, medical issues) resulting in us keeping our distance and keeping an eye on them in the event that a quick reaction is required. I don't see AI being able to apply that human response if for the time being the vehicle remains within its lane.

Posted by: Orson at October 08, 2026 10:31 PM (dIske)

101 I laughed and then emailed it to my dude, brother and two sons. Who never know what I am going to send them.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 10:17 PM (hzuYO)

LOL! You are a treasure!

Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 10:32 PM (kU0PQ)

102 My favorite junk story is the old shoebox labeled "string too short to save."

Posted by: Wenda at October 08, 2026 10:32 PM (trw8t)

103 Has early voting started in Texas?

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 10:24 PM (/QHx4)

Starts on the 19th.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:32 PM (ExV1e)

104 Well I think we are as prepped as we get. Before I leave the studio tomorrow, I will make sure the doors are sealed at the bottom for flooding, and I will probably lock the door with the actual key just in case of extended power outages where my battery backup on the key fob system goes down. Or the security system building goes down and my virtual keypad stops working.

How is everyone else?

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

105 CBS News explains the Dubai airliner attempted seizure and suicide terrorism crash.

CBS News
@CBSNews
The FlyDubai co-pilot whose alleged violent attempt to crash a flight to Israel last week and kill everyone onboard has a history of writing and sharing misogynistic remarks on social media using the rhetoric of the so-called manosphere, CBS News has found.

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And he's white! OK, OK, off white.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 08, 2026 10:33 PM (ndZc7)

106 Is Talarico's nervous breakdown going to give him the sympathy vote? I guess who'd notice at this point with people like McConnell in office.

Just what people need is a nervous ghey in office.

I enjoyed and related to the redneck video. My beloved father, Marine, chemistry degree, golfing, refined Southern gentleman was most of that.

He even had a "back 40" or at least 10 acres of cars on the farm. Our sons were thrilled to find these relics one winter day, with a tree growing through one of them. Sunk into the ground. Felt like explorers. After his death someone bought the cars to restore and mother got money for them as they were hauled off.

He certainly did not throw stuff away and had jars of screws, etc, in his storage room. He also messed with electricity at times for reasons unknown. An electrician told my mother that the motion detectors were wired with mystery.

There were electric fences for the cows here and and sometimes not seen (one painter was peeing way in the back woods and got a shock).

I had free entertainment for most of my life.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 10:33 PM (hzuYO)

107 A rumor floating around it that Tillis wants to run for NC governor against Stein.

I can't see it. He's about as popular as herpes in Republican circles.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 08, 2026 10:33 PM (Riz8t)

108 Still waiting for someone to get off their ass and do a Good version of the old Board game...

Advanced Squad Leader.

Seems like a no brainer... but no one has done it.
Posted by: Romeo13

That turned into a mini industry for Avalon Hill itself. Hasbro that bought them really screwed the pooch on the IP they got from AH. Only thing they sell is Axis and Allies.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:33 PM (E4rtv)

109 Most new games are simply FPS slop. There really hasn't been any real innovation in the space in the last 15 years.

Sure, things look prettier, but pretty does not make a game great.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 08, 2026 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)

I'm currently deep into Grand Tactician Civil War... high learning curve... but the key is the maps are big enough that you can actually do flanking maneuvers in battles.

They are currently working on a Napoleon version... small indy studio...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:34 PM (mP0Kj)

110 None of these mentally defective commies can debate. The press has covered for them for decades and they're soft. Press isn't what it was. They're lost.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 08, 2026 10:34 PM (oHCVF)

111 Blood on the Rooftops - Genesis
Posted by: mikeski at October 08, 2026 10:18 PM (VHUov)

Huh, I never picked those guys for Pinochet fans.
Nor for Koreans.

Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 10:34 PM (kU0PQ)

112 OK, just for the record, what the F is toddling?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:29 PM (mP0Kj)

toddle
/tŏd′l/
intransitive verb
To walk with short, unsteady steps.

So, basically, drunken staggering.

Admittedly, the 2nd definition is: To walk leisurely; stroll. Which is more flattering.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:35 PM (ExV1e)

113 I can't see it. He's about as popular as herpes in Republican circles.
Posted by: Archimedes

2 years to rehab himself in NC and Trump won't be running to deal with. If he had tried to run and lost in a primary, it would have instantly killed that.

Precedent is DeWine in OH. He was a senator until he got beat, then did a comeback through state offices until he became governor.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:35 PM (E4rtv)

114 26 So Talarico allegedly had a nervous breakdown. Wow

Like, he yelled at some staffer under the stress? or are we talking a full blown crying jag with him falling under a table asking for his mommy?
Campaigning can be hard, in fairness to this little pooftah, especially in a state of Texas' length and girth.
Posted by: 88C+u

He is binge watching The Teletubbies. He can't stop!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 08, 2026 10:35 PM (n17eQ)

115 CBS News
@CBSNews
The FlyDubai co-pilot whose alleged violent attempt to crash a flight to Israel last week and kill everyone onboard has a history of writing and sharing misogynistic remarks on social media using the rhetoric of the so-called manosphere, CBS News has found.

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And he's white! OK, OK, off white.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 08, 2026 10:33 PM (ndZc7)

Yeah, because Islam is sooooo pro Womens Lib...

/Facepalm

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:35 PM (mP0Kj)

116 toddle
/tŏd′l/
intransitive verb
To walk with short, unsteady steps.

So, basically, drunken staggering.

Ah, a tippling toddler.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 08, 2026 10:36 PM (Riz8t)

117 *blank* on the *blank* with Otis:

youtu.be/rTVjnBo96Ug

Posted by: JQ at October 08, 2026 10:36 PM (rdVOm)

118 Someone handed Talarico a large envelope of pictorial evidence of him committing a felony level crime and said make a choice.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 08, 2026 10:30 PM (nxLtX)

He's being sexually assaulted by 57 frat bros in NY.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:36 PM (ExV1e)

119 history of writing and sharing misogynistic remarks on social media using the rhetoric of the so-called manosphere, CBS News has found

Anything but Islam, jihad, and Jews. Go with that he called some woman a "thot" on the internet. That's the ticket.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 10:36 PM (sDWtc)

120 So, basically, drunken staggering.

Admittedly, the 2nd definition is: To walk leisurely; stroll. Which is more flattering.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:35 PM (ExV1e)

And the song was sung by? oh... Sailors...

Spot on then.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:36 PM (mP0Kj)

121 I just replayed Red Steel 2 on my wii. It is a mashup of samuraijapan and old west gunslinger. If you've still got a wii, I recommend it very much

https://tinyurl.com/yrjwrht3

Posted by: 496 at October 08, 2026 10:37 PM (m8Qhu)

122 He's being sexually assaulted by 57 frat bros in NY.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:36 PM (ExV1e)

@cornhole

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:37 PM (/+uur)

123 Big deal. A lot of people from Michigan own homes in Florida. We have this thing in Michigan called "winter", and a lot of people like to escape from it. Then there are the old people who don't want to slip on the ice and break their hip.
Posted by: nerdygirl
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That is the kind of thing that a pseudo American doesn't realize. Muslims drift all over Muzzie land.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:37 PM (E4rtv)

124 Well I think we are as prepped as we get. Before I leave the studio tomorrow, I will make sure the doors are sealed at the bottom for flooding, and I will probably lock the door with the actual key just in case of extended power outages where my battery backup on the key fob system goes down. Or the security system building goes down and my virtual keypad stops working.

How is everyone else?
Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

Stay safe down there! Looks like the sunset was amazing in that area tonight. Lots of amazing photos and videos from Pensacola Beach on X.

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2026 10:38 PM (QMAsf)

125 There were electric fences for the cows here and and sometimes not seen (one painter was peeing way in the back woods and got a shock).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence!

(Not quite on theme)

Posted by: Ren & Stimpy at October 08, 2026 10:38 PM (VHUov)

126 Anything but Islam, jihad, and Jews. Go with that he called some woman a "thot" on the internet. That's the ticket.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 10:36 PM (sDWtc)
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You don't hate the media enough.

Posted by: ballistic at October 08, 2026 10:38 PM (oqH4h)

127 2 years to rehab himself in NC and Trump won't be running to deal with. If he had tried to run and lost in a primary, it would have instantly killed that.

Precedent is DeWine in OH. He was a senator until he got beat, then did a comeback through state offices until he became governor.

DeWine was beaten; he didn't leave office rather than run because he was universally hated like Tillis. We'll see, but I think he's delusional if he expects election to anything.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 08, 2026 10:39 PM (Riz8t)

128 That's great about tallywhacker.

Wish there were more politicians in nuthouses.
Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 10:08 PM (/QHx4)

How many squirrels do you know with trees big enough for those nuts?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2026 10:39 PM (qx7Zg)

129 Stay safe, Piper!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 08, 2026 10:39 PM (aJQbY)

130 Had one previous interview from about a month ago finally update with "sorry but you're not moving forward"...
Posted by: RandomDave at October 08, 2026 10:19 PM (aJQbY)

Yeah, I've been in my new job for over a month now, and I got an email today giving me the sorry news that I wasn't a fit at someplace I sent my resume to almost a month before I started this job. The fun part was how they spent an entire paragraph telling me to not feel too bad about getting turned down before telling me I was turned down. They really didn't want to hurt my feelings!

Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 10:39 PM (kU0PQ)

131 128 That's great about tallywhacker.

Wish there were more politicians in nuthouses.
Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 10:08 PM (/QHx4)

How many squirrels do you know with trees big enough for those nuts?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2026 10:39 PM (qx7Zg)

Can we call him... a Tallywhacker....

Posted by: Bullah Ballbricker at October 08, 2026 10:39 PM (mP0Kj)

132 Still think I could sell $10 M in lottery ticket to Maj killing.
Or let him out for a hunt.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:40 PM (/+uur)

133 The media finally has a hurricane to pin on Trump.

They hope.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:40 PM (2GVsD)

134 Advanced Squad Leader

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I played a shit load of that back in the day.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 08, 2026 10:40 PM (ndZc7)

135 Someone handed Talarico a large envelope of pictorial evidence of him committing a felony level crime and said make a choice.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 08, 2026 10:30 PM (nxLtX)

I think this is likely.

And I think it's really, really, really fucking bad.

Plain old larceny and mayhem isn't close to enough to frighten off a Democrat or his voters.

I'm thinking a dead staffer, or a buggered child, or direct ties to foreign intelligence. Something very naughty.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 10:40 PM (BI5O2)

136 But... but.... New York New York.... is a toddling town!
OK, just for the record, what the F is toddling?
Posted by: Romeo13

Well, someone earlier mentioned that there is a sexually transmitted disease going around NY that causes diarrhea. I guess toddling has consequences.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 08, 2026 10:40 PM (0Htd1)

137 So, they're going to livestream a certain execution by firing squat happening at 1pm on December 3... allegedly.

Posted by: lin-duh at October 08, 2026 10:41 PM (VCgbV)

138 How many tallys could a tallywhacker whack if a tallywacker could wack tallys?

Posted by: ballistic at October 08, 2026 10:41 PM (oqH4h)

139 Wish there were more politicians in nuthouses.
Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 10:08 PM (/QHx4)

If only.

Posted by: Dr Cerina Fairfax at October 08, 2026 10:41 PM (sDWtc)

140 Stay safe down there! Looks like the sunset was amazing in that area tonight. Lots of amazing photos and videos from Pensacola Beach on X.
Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2026 10:38 PM (QMAsf)

I will walk down to the bay tomorrow and send pics. My girlfriend who lives right on the water said she would take pictures of the 9 foot waves. It’s going to be a little crazy here for a few hours!

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 10:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

141 This thread has no bottom.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 10:07 PM (nqf1u)

You know who else has no bottom?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2026 10:42 PM (wVcYX)

142 the candidate would be at least sending out messages, pix from a hospital bed, something other than radio silence.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:22 PM (E4rtv)

What, a 8-month old video of a campaign stop (claiming it was last weekend) doesn't count?

Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 10:42 PM (kU0PQ)

143 135 Someone handed Talarico a large envelope of pictorial evidence of him committing a felony level crime and said make a choice.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 08, 2026 10:30 PM (nxLtX)

I think this is likely.

And I think it's really, really, really fucking bad.

Plain old larceny and mayhem isn't close to enough to frighten off a Democrat or his voters.

I'm thinking a dead staffer, or a buggered child, or direct ties to foreign intelligence. Something very naughty.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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I think that would have probably leaked by now. Medical though, has the patina of being protected.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:42 PM (E4rtv)

144 Photos of Talefreako with Fang Fang's male counterpart Wang Wang?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:42 PM (2GVsD)

145 Still waiting for someone to get off their ass and do a Good version of the old Board game...

Advanced Squad Leader.

Seems like a no brainer... but no one has done it.
Posted by: Romeo13

That turned into a mini industry for Avalon Hill itself. Hasbro that bought them really screwed the pooch on the IP they got from AH. Only thing they sell is Axis and Allies.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:33 PM (E4rtv)

The ASL franchise is licensed to MMP. Multi Man Productions and is alive and well.

They have completely rereleased and updated every single of the old core modules and have done about a dozen historical modules. So saying ASL has screwed the pooch might be just a bit hyperbole.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 08, 2026 10:42 PM (dCMJG)

146 129 Stay safe, Piper!
Posted by: RandomDave at October

Thank you!

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 10:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

147 I'm thinking a dead staffer, or a buggered child, or direct ties to foreign intelligence. Something very naughty.

You...you don't mean to suggest he said a trans woman is a man?!

Posted by: Archimedes at October 08, 2026 10:43 PM (Riz8t)

148 The media finally has a hurricane to pin on Trump.

They hope.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Well, if they won't let him nuke LA and San Diego, he'll blow them off the map!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 08, 2026 10:43 PM (ndZc7)

149 So many years ago we asked girls that did not wish to fool around to go back to their dorm at about midnight.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:43 PM (/+uur)

150 https://www.mmpgamers.com/

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 08, 2026 10:43 PM (dCMJG)

151 Why wouldn't the black man tell me what the piece of rope was good for?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 10:43 PM (l3cgK)

152 134 Advanced Squad Leader

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I played a shit load of that back in the day.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 08, 2026 10:40 PM (ndZc7)

Back in the late 70's... had a guy in Fresno who recreated the Squad Leader rules, in miniature... was gorgeous.

Posted by: Bullah Ballbricker at October 08, 2026 10:43 PM (mP0Kj)

153 TB 24, DAL 10
4th Q

Posted by: Don Black at October 08, 2026 10:43 PM (ZxPkt)

154 I'm gonna go with some James O'Keefe hidden camera stuff that's worse than his "pastor" talking about how of course he's full of shit.

Posted by: ballistic at October 08, 2026 10:43 PM (oqH4h)

155 Something very naughty.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 10:40 PM (BI5O2)

Porn? The rabbi Yeshua was fairly indulgent of some sins if one promised not to do it again, but he'd probably not accept continuing to cash royalty-checks.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 10:44 PM (sDWtc)

156 How is Soup handling this Piper?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:44 PM (2GVsD)

157 Beat On The Brat is a fine Ramones tune. Joey wrote it about the spoiled kids in his apartment building in Queens who would curse their Mom or pitch a tantrum when Mom wouldn't give the kid $$ for the Good Humor Man every day. Or for any other reason the kids would be a crybaby. Nobody likes a crybaby. There may be one or two on this very blog.

Posted by: Today Would Have Been Johnny Ramone's 78th Birthday. at October 08, 2026 10:44 PM (EdP2u)

158 What, a 8-month old video of a campaign stop (claiming it was last weekend) doesn't count?
Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 10:42 PM (kU0PQ)

we all knew that was fake in 3. 2....

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:45 PM (/+uur)

159 151 Why wouldn't the black man tell me what the piece of rope was good for?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 10:43 PM (l3cgK)

Dude, I'm just trying to moor my BOAT!

Posted by: Bullah Ballbricker at October 08, 2026 10:45 PM (mP0Kj)

160 Posted by: Today Would Have Been Johnny Ramone's 78th Birthday. at October 08, 2026 10:44 PM (EdP2u)

Peak Ramones?

Rock and Roll High School... and the KKK took my Baby Away...

Posted by: Bullah Ballbricker at October 08, 2026 10:46 PM (mP0Kj)

161 88C, I heard Yeshua even hung out with, ugh, tax collectors and thots!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 08, 2026 10:46 PM (aJQbY)

162 AS far as a computerized version of ASL, There is a clone called Second Fron that has been released on steam.

Advanced Squad Leader is far from dead.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 08, 2026 10:46 PM (dCMJG)

163 I think you are all overthinking Talarico's disappearance for a while. I'd put it up to internal polling showing his numbers decreasing directly proportionally with his public appearances. They realized that the less he is seen, and the less people know about him, the better chance he has. So he dropped off the campaign trail. I'll even bet he has a different look when he returns the last few weeks. Different haircut. Different clothes style. Different demeanor, for which he will laughingly overcompensate for his effeminate nature.

Posted by: Orson at October 08, 2026 10:46 PM (dIske)

164 DeWine was beaten; he didn't leave office rather than run because he was universally hated like Tillis. We'll see, but I think he's delusional if he expects election to anything.
Posted by: Archimedes

The defining characteristic of politicians is ego. So I can see him running and I can see him not running.

Mark Sanford tried to run again this last primary for Lindsay Graham's seat for example.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:46 PM (E4rtv)

165 You in Loosiana, Mississippi, and Alabama got a hurricane coming your way...
I have a Tropical storm coming my way a day or so later...

https://tinyurl.com/3knwhhub
https://tinyurl.com/2z7dumv3

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 10:46 PM (l3cgK)

166 Damn... of Porky's Sock!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:47 PM (mP0Kj)

167 Someone handed Talarico a large envelope of pictorial evidence of him committing a felony level crime and said make a choice.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 08, 2026 10:30 PM (nxLtX)

Murdered a Mafia Don, but they hadn't fingered him. The evidence is sent to Sicily if he stays in the race?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2026 10:47 PM (qx7Zg)

168 At the moment it looks like Louisiana is pretty much off the hook. Pensacola on the other hand looks a bit iffy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

169 60 Under the wire, Tillis endorsed Whatley today. Lots of moving parts with several senate debates--Rogers-Sayed in MI, Collins and whatshisname Troy in ME, and Collins-Tossof in GA. GOP has had a solid night in debates, their opponents, not so much.
Posted by: whig
+++
Is a Tillis endorsement gonna sway any voters?
I don't think so.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 08, 2026 10:20 PM (Lo97M)

I'd sooner listen to Mel Tillis. Now we just need a medium with a stutter.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 08, 2026 10:47 PM (r7+Q7)

170 Target stores surveillance and cameras are at least the equal of Walmark, and probably better.

Posted by: Don't Steal From There at October 08, 2026 10:47 PM (EdP2u)

171

All you can do with the threat of any bad storm is prep and pray.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 10:47 PM (/QHx4)

172 167 Someone handed Talarico a large envelope of pictorial evidence of him committing a felony level crime and said make a choice.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 08, 2026 10:30 PM (nxLtX)

Murdered a Mafia Don, but they hadn't fingered him. The evidence is sent to Sicily if he stays in the race?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2026 10:47 PM (qx7Zg)

Um, he would probably enjoy getting fingered...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 10:47 PM (l3cgK)

173 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 10:46 PM (l3cgK)

Dang.... was 97 here in the Central Valley today... WAY hot for October.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:48 PM (mP0Kj)

174 Whatever it is, it is not severe enough to try to parachute another candidate in, but severe enough that the Dems don't want him seen that way.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:22 PM (E4rtv)

Way too late to promote someone else as a write in. But suppose by some witchery they were able to make a substitution - the only possible replacement is the primary runner up, Jasmine Crockett. Wouldn’t that be a laugh riot!

This nervous breakdown is almost too good a story to believe, but the longer he stays in hiding the louder claims like that are going to get.

Btw, my prediction months ago was for a November tally of Paxton 57, Talerico 43. I think Paxton is on track to do that, if not better,

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 08, 2026 10:48 PM (B0Z3q)

175 171

All you can do with the threat of any bad storm is prep and pray.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 10:47 PM (/QHx4)

After years at Sea, I learned the Mother Nature is a bitch who is out to muderize you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:48 PM (mP0Kj)

176 Doof! You done good.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 08, 2026 10:49 PM (NnhvP)

177 Whatever it is, it has to be incapacitating, if it was something like cancer or even the flu, the candidate would be at least sending out messages, pix from a hospital bed, something other than radio silence. If old, something like stroke might be possible but age tends to rule that out but if Talafreako did go loopy, then his handlers don't want him seen nor heard until they patch him up like Biden.

Whatever it is, it is not severe enough to try to parachute another candidate in, but severe enough that the Dems don't want him seen that way.
--
Anyone remember when the Wachowski brothers became the Wachowski sisters?

I'm calling "Janet" Talarico. Still won't win, but will energize the base.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 08, 2026 10:49 PM (vSvIl)

178 173 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 10:46 PM (l3cgK)

Dang.... was 97 here in the Central Valley today... WAY hot for October.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:48 PM (mP0Kj)

We've cooled down here the last few days...was only 92ºF today.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 10:49 PM (l3cgK)

179 163 I think you are all overthinking Talarico's disappearance for a while. I'd put it up to internal polling showing his numbers decreasing directly proportionally with his public appearances. They realized that the less he is seen, and the less people know about him, the better chance he has. So he dropped off the campaign trail. I'll even bet he has a different look when he returns the last few weeks. Different haircut. Different clothes style. Different demeanor, for which he will laughingly overcompensate for his effeminate nature.
Posted by: Orson
========
Doesn't work in a high profile race like this. Talarico is not Joe Biden nor is Covid around where he can get away with it with surrogates.

Running for state rep in deep blue Austin is very different than running a marquee statewide race in Texas.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:50 PM (E4rtv)

180 175 171

All you can do with the threat of any bad storm is prep and pray.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 10:47 PM (/QHx4)

After years at Sea, I learned the Mother Nature is a bitch who is out to muderize you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:48 PM (mP0Kj)

As someone wrote, Life does it backwards: you get the test then the lesson...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 10:50 PM (l3cgK)

181 More on the subject?

Looking on the Moon - Nana Mizuki
https://youtu.be/BSFIc2aLr4s

Moon on the Water - Panic Room
https://youtu.be/TRO3h1W8wD8

Dragon on the Sea - Ayreon
https://youtu.be/w0BYPYsn1-4

Posted by: mikeski at October 08, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)

182 Jane Talerico is too tame for the Democrat's modern voting base.

Large plastic boobs, cheap blonde wig, horrid paisley dress along with wolf wars and wolf tail.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:51 PM (2GVsD)

183
Romeo,

Yep.

Many years we were flooded out. Dealing with the insurance bastards was worse than the flooding.

Evil assholes.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 10:51 PM (/QHx4)

184 I'm calling "Janet" Talarico. Still won't win, but will energize the base.
Posted by: Methos

Dem freak donors maybe but not Texans particularly. Approval of troons is going down, ironically especially with gay males.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:51 PM (E4rtv)

185 Anyone remember when the Wachowski brothers became the Wachowski sisters?

I'm calling "Janet" Talarico. Still won't win, but will energize the base.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 08, 2026 10:49 PM (vSvIl)

Not Jan'ae, with the black skin, boobs, and an Afro?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2026 10:51 PM (qx7Zg)

186 Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 10:44 PM (sDWtc)
====

The chaos and disorder in your nic has been triggering me for days.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

187 Servo, my theory that Talarico just snapped and offended someone wouldn't class as a "nervous breakdown" but might be enough to keep this guy off the airwaves a bit.
The question, as you note, is how long it's taken for him to come back.
I'm sure every normal candidate has had a shit day and needed to go hike around Big Bend for a coupla'days. But then he's back with a tan and a smile. Key here is "normal candidate".

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 10:52 PM (sDWtc)

188 So he dropped off the campaign trail. I'll even bet he has a different look when he returns the last few weeks. Different haircut. Different clothes style. Different demeanor, for which he will laughingly overcompensate for his effeminate nature.
Posted by: Orson at October 08, 2026 10:46 PM (dIske)

I wonder if they'll hire a bunch of gay actors to make a commercial about how manly men aren't afraid to vote for a woman like Jimmy Talarico.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:52 PM (ExV1e)

189 The revelation from Hegseth about the public nature of the execution — let alone one as violent as a firing squad — has raised further questions about how the death penalty is carried out in the U.S., especially after the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee.

its about 8 or 12 556
he will be dead

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:52 PM (/+uur)

190 The chaos and disorder in your nic has been triggering me for days.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

I had a nervous breakdown and needed to get out of the house for a week.

Posted by: Elect 88C+u, or gKWVE or yyrog or whoever at October 08, 2026 10:53 PM (sDWtc)

191 Harris County's chief executive, the Alcalde Gauleiter Lina Hidalgo, had a complete breakdown while in office. Ran away out of state for mental rehab.

Totes normal for Dem types.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2026 10:53 PM (wVcYX)

192 Fire on the Mountain, by Marshall Tucker Band

https://youtu.be/nryOuYgV998

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2026 10:53 PM (qx7Zg)

193 So he dropped off the campaign trail. I'll even bet he has a different look when he returns the last few weeks. Different haircut. Different clothes style. Different demeanor, for which he will laughingly overcompensate for his effeminate nature.
Posted by: Orson at October 08, 2026 10:46 PM (dIske)

Take a walk
On the wildside

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:54 PM (/+uur)

194 My favorite junk story is the old shoebox labeled "string too short to save."
Posted by: Wenda

Sheeeeeet. . . .

When I cleaned out Grandpa and Grammi's farm I found the following (just a few examples):

An old milking shed jam-packed with old white plastic hanging baskets that had, at one time, flowers in them. There were hundreds of them.

Dozens of brooms with the straws worn down to perhaps 3-4 inches. Essentially just handles.

There was more, lots more. It took us weeks of full time work to clean the place out.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 08, 2026 10:54 PM (ptJRT)

195 parachute another candidate in

-
Tanned, rested, and ready.
- Jasmine Crockett

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 08, 2026 10:54 PM (ndZc7)

196 37 So, they're going to livestream a certain execution by firing squat happening at 1pm on December 3... allegedly.
Posted by: lin-duh
Bummer. I was hoping they'd get that person that f*cked up Christa Pike's execution, and put him/her in charge of hanging of Nidal Hasan. Now that would be worth pay per view.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 08, 2026 10:55 PM (0Htd1)

197 This nervous breakdown is almost too good a story to believe, but the longer he stays in hiding the louder claims like that are going to get.

Btw, my prediction months ago was for a November tally of Paxton 57, Talerico 43. I think Paxton is on track to do that, if not better,
Posted by: Tom Servo
------
An implosion of Talarico has close house races that could be affected on the Rio Grande.

And Brandon Herrera is coming off like a future political star as well. Guy has built an enormous small donor powerhouse team and is hitting it on social media.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:55 PM (E4rtv)

198 194 My favorite junk story is the old shoebox labeled "string too short to save."
Posted by: Wenda

Sheeeeeet. . . .

When I cleaned out Grandpa and Grammi's farm I found the following (just a few examples):

An old milking shed jam-packed with old white plastic hanging baskets that had, at one time, flowers in them. There were hundreds of them.

Dozens of brooms with the straws worn down to perhaps 3-4 inches. Essentially just handles.

There was more, lots more. It took us weeks of full time work to clean the place out.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 08, 2026 10:54 PM (ptJRT)

sharpen those boom handles and you can do some impailing.

Posted by: Vlad Tepes at October 08, 2026 10:55 PM (l3cgK)

199 Walking on the Moon

youtu.be/mbv-LcdLY-Y

Posted by: JQ at October 08, 2026 10:55 PM (rdVOm)

200 156 How is Soup handling this Piper?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:44 PM (2GVsD

Nothing is really happening yet, but he won’t be happy tomorrow night. We have crates out just in case, for him and the kitties.

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 10:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

201 James Tallywhacker performs 19th Nervous Breakdown.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2026 10:56 PM (wVcYX)

202 its about 8 or 12 556
he will be dead
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:52 PM (/+uur)

I saw something about them considering using Garands. If true, that's .30-06.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:56 PM (ExV1e)

203 ‘He’ll Look Helpless in a Wheelchair’: Leftists Discover Compassion for the Fort Hood Shooter

*ping turns left*
* ping turns right*

shootin gallery

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:57 PM (/+uur)

204 191 Harris County's chief executive, the Alcalde Gauleiter Lina Hidalgo, had a complete breakdown while in office. Ran away out of state for mental rehab.

Totes normal for Dem types.
Posted by: Count de Monet

The Soros St. Louis DA did the same when her nasty plot on Greitans exploded in her face. Abandoned her office. Lance Bottoms did something similar as mayor after BLM took over the streets of Atlanta. She went to Martha's Vineyard.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:57 PM (E4rtv)

205 200 156 How is Soup handling this Piper?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:44 PM (2GVsD

Nothing is really happening yet, but he won’t be happy tomorrow night. We have crates out just in case, for him and the kitties.

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 10:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

Thunder and earthquakes. Those freaked out my cats the most.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 10:57 PM (l3cgK)

206 Photos of Talefreako with Fang Fang's male counterpart Wang Wang?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:42 PM (2GVsD)

Playing with his thang thang.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 08, 2026 10:57 PM (2WIwB)

207
I'm on the Lamb but I Ain't no Sheep

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 08, 2026 10:57 PM (Fv808)

208 Regarding the execution....

Senior officers with the worst range scores should be required to perform it. With repeated volleys until someone succeeds. A little public practice to encourage private practice prior!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 08, 2026 10:57 PM (aJQbY)

209 nerdygirl

The officer in charge of the execution is the Commander, Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks.

This is a potential career-ender if it does not go off well. So I expect it to go smoothly.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 08, 2026 10:58 PM (u82oZ)

210 I saw something about them considering using Garands. If true, that's .30-06.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:56 PM (ExV1e)

30 06
30 07
whatever it takes

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:58 PM (/+uur)

211 TNF Walmart uses that tech for, among other things, evil self checkout.

Besides, if Walmart deprives you of your liberty or kills you, it is either kidnapping or murder. If a police officer does it, it’s business as usual and a sign of GREAT police work.

It is one thing for a private organization to protect property; it is another for an organization that exists to deprive people of their liberty, or kill them, to engage in constant surveillance.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 08, 2026 10:58 PM (XUHiS)

212 I had a nervous breakdown and needed to get out of the house for a week.

Posted by: Elect 88C+u, or gKWVE or yyrog or whoever at October 08, 2026 10:53 PM (sDWtc)

Your current hash really wants to be SWIDT, but I can't quite see what it's doing there.

Posted by: mikeski at October 08, 2026 10:58 PM (VHUov)

213 Walking on the Moon

youtu.be/mbv-LcdLY-Y
Posted by: JQ at October 08, 2026 10:55 PM (rdVOm)
====

On my playlist love the bass line

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

214 Big news coming out tomorrow.

What is it?

How would I know? It's not tomorrow yet.

Space is loose. Time is tight.
https://youtu.be/50xx1_CbJTI

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - yesterday is a concept at October 08, 2026 10:59 PM (uhtpA)

215 And Brandon Herrera is coming off like a future political star as well. Guy has built an enormous small donor powerhouse team and is hitting it on social media.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:55 PM (E4rtv)

Who'd have expected a guy who makes his money in social media, and has a bunch of other social media friends, would be good at social media.

Katy Lardass' media team is probably shitting themselves on a daily basis.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 10:59 PM (ExV1e)

216 My pet theory is that a spurned and bitter Platner wanted to show dominance - no homo - and now Talarico is stuck at home nursing a cracked asshole.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 10:59 PM (BI5O2)

217 212 I had a nervous breakdown and needed to get out of the house for a week.

Posted by: Elect 88C+u, or gKWVE or yyrog or whoever at October 08, 2026 10:53 PM (sDWtc)

Your current hash really wants to be SWIDT, but I can't quite see what it's doing there.

Posted by: mikeski at October 08, 2026 10:58 PM (VHUov)

see DATS WHAT to catch.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 10:59 PM (l3cgK)

218 Scratch my ass, let my people complain
Bunch of whiners think that I should campaign...

Posted by: Tears for Fears at October 08, 2026 11:00 PM (sDWtc)

219 216 My pet theory is that a spurned and bitter Platner wanted to show dominance - no homo - and now Talarico is stuck at home nursing a cracked asshole.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 10:59 PM (BI5O2)

How many cracks did that add the the one he came with?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:00 PM (l3cgK)

220 Neighbor you see any Blue Angels today?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 11:00 PM (RIvkX)

221 The Ramones had many Mental Illness songs. Maybe Talafreako is listening to them on a loop. Pinhead, Psychotherapy, I Wanna Be Sedated, Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment, Anxiety, Mental Hell, Bad Brain,.....

Posted by: ...Go Mental!!!! at October 08, 2026 11:00 PM (EdP2u)

222 Senior officers with the worst range scores should be required to perform it. With repeated volleys until someone succeeds. A little public practice to encourage private practice prior!
Posted by: RandomDave at October 08, 2026 10:57 PM (aJQbY)

O-6 up for promotion. Anyone who misses has to wait for the next person the military executes to try again.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 11:01 PM (ExV1e)

223 Dozens of brooms with the straws worn down to perhaps 3-4 inches. Essentially just handles.
Posted by: Tonypete

We call them "lowriders."

Posted by: Glinda at October 08, 2026 11:01 PM (VHUov)

224 To piss off all libs they ought to use flechettes out of 12g on Hasan.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 08, 2026 11:02 PM (NnhvP)

225 Doesn't work in a high profile race like this. Talarico is not Joe Biden nor is Covid around where he can get away with it with surrogates.

Running for state rep in deep blue Austin is very different than running a marquee statewide race in Texas.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 10:50 PM (E4rtv)

How this is playing out right now puts a spotlight on why Paxton was always a far better candidate than Cornyn. (Despite all the consultant class lies to the contrary). Paxton has jumped on the disappearance and is mocking him in his speeches lately, with no response from the Dems.

When a candidate becomes the butt of many jokes, his campaign is over, especially if he doesn’t respond.

Cornyn would have sat back and said nothing except “that’s not who we are.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 08, 2026 11:02 PM (B0Z3q)

226 224 To piss off all libs they ought to use flechettes out of 12g on Hasan.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 08, 2026 11:02 PM (NnhvP)

The muzzies like beheading with dull knives...so...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:02 PM (l3cgK)

227 People are freaking out about the livestream in Austin...lol!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at October 08, 2026 11:03 PM (VCgbV)

228 I used to have a different nic

Could be a lot worse. Surface Warfare Officers. Who normally need fire-control radar to hit anything.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 08, 2026 11:03 PM (u82oZ)

229 Load all blanks for at least the first couple of volleys and yell "PSYCH!" after.

Posted by: ballistic at October 08, 2026 11:03 PM (oqH4h)

230 Regarding the execution....

Senior officers with the worst range scores should be required to perform it. With repeated volleys until someone succeeds. A little public practice to encourage private practice prior!
Posted by: RandomDave

Maybe add a little challenge with a modified skeet thrower.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 08, 2026 11:04 PM (ndZc7)

231 Movin' On Up

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2026 11:04 PM (wVcYX)

232
Riding on the Wind

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 08, 2026 11:04 PM (Fv808)

233 Could be a lot worse. Surface Warfare Officers. Who normally need fire-control radar to hit anything.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 08, 2026 11:03 PM (u82oZ)

Torpedoes are steerable, supposedly, for a reason.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 11:04 PM (ExV1e)

234

We're cleaning out stuff now. Being married 49 years you can imagine how much stuff we have accumulated. I told Hubby no one wants this chit and they don't need the burden of cleaning out the house.

Wait til they find out we have spent their inheritance money, lmao.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 11:04 PM (/QHx4)

235 Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie?

They stink on ice.

Pull.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 08, 2026 11:05 PM (u82oZ)

236 am serious
Talarico is gone
He will never show again
Posted by: r hennigan

He'll still get 46 percent of the vote - people are nuts.

Posted by: LASue at October 08, 2026 11:05 PM (F6ZnV)

237 Crap, I left out "I Wanna Be Well".

Posted by: Ramones 4 Ever!! at October 08, 2026 11:05 PM (EdP2u)

238 I want to let everyone know why I was gone for over two weeks..

I was contemplating one the greatest mysteries' that has plagued mankind since the beginning time.

When we eat food, it is all different colors, but when we poop it is brown???

Anyone know why this is ???

Posted by: James Talarico at October 08, 2026 11:05 PM (jGtoG)

239 Load all blanks for at least the first couple of volleys and yell "PSYCH!" after.

Posted by: ballistic at October 08, 2026 11:03 PM (oqH4h)

I like it. Then, out comes the 2026 All-Zaporozhian Knouting Champion to flog him to death under the Texas sun.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 11:06 PM (BI5O2)

240 203 ‘He’ll Look Helpless in a Wheelchair’: Leftists Discover Compassion for the Fort Hood Shooter

*ping turns left*
* ping turns right*

shootin gallery
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:57 PM (/+uur)

Hang him from his feet, and start him swaying. Start the 1812 Overture with artillery in the percussion section. Every time the cannons boom, the firing squad fires.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2026 11:06 PM (qx7Zg)

241 I recommend a shotgun shell out of the barrel of a M110. At 50 paces just to make sure.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 08, 2026 11:06 PM (dCMJG)

242 jGtoG = Jimmy gotta Go?

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 11:06 PM (sDWtc)

243 Load all blanks for at least the first couple of volleys and yell "PSYCH!" after.
Posted by: ballistic

We wouldn't want to damage his hearing! Use Daisy air rifles. He should bleed out by the 40th or 50th salvo.

Posted by: mikeski at October 08, 2026 11:06 PM (VHUov)

244 Large plastic boobs, cheap blonde wig, horrid paisley dress along with wolf wars and wolf tail.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 10:51 PM (2GVsD)

And a sequined festive pair of cat ears.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 08, 2026 11:07 PM (g8Ew8)

245 Cornyn would have sat back and said nothing except “that’s not who we are.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 08, 2026 11:02 PM (B0Z3q)
True.

Posted by: LASue at October 08, 2026 11:07 PM (F6ZnV)

246 Adirondacks would look so much nicer if it wasn't under the thumb of Kathy Hochul.

Posted by: And Big Tish James at October 08, 2026 11:08 PM (EdP2u)

247 I recommend a shotgun shell out of the barrel of a M110. At 50 paces just to make sure.
Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 08, 2026 11:06 PM (dCMJG)

Use artirery round. Hirarious. -- Kim Jung Un

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 11:08 PM (ExV1e)

248 Cornyn would have sat back and said nothing except “that’s not who we are.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 08, 2026 11:02 PM (B0Z3q)

Cornyn would have suspended his campaign in solidarity.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 11:09 PM (ExV1e)

249 A five-man Panzerschreck squad and a commander.

"He blowed up goof. Real good!"

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2026 11:09 PM (wVcYX)

250 iirc s.o.p. for the execution is that the squad picks and loads one round each selected at random from a pool including one blank round.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 11:09 PM (RIvkX)

251 So Talarico allegedly had a nervous breakdown. Wow.
......

lol
What a pussy.

Posted by: wth at October 08, 2026 11:10 PM (oq9dX)

252 234

We're cleaning out stuff now. Being married 49 years you can imagine how much stuff we have accumulated. I told Hubby no one wants this chit and they don't need the burden of cleaning out the house.

Wait til they find out we have spent their inheritance money, lmao.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 11:04 PM (/QHx4)

When my wife passed, I learned the importance of not keeping every damn piece of paper...I STILL haven't shredded everything that needs shredding...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:10 PM (l3cgK)

253
jim,

Yep.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 11:11 PM (/QHx4)

254 251 So Talarico allegedly had a nervous breakdown. Wow.
......

lol
What a pussy.
Posted by: wth at October 08, 2026 11:10 PM (oq9dX)

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THE MAN IS SENSITIVE!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2026 11:11 PM (wpRMV)

255 238 I want to let everyone know why I was gone for over two weeks..

I was contemplating one the greatest mysteries' that has plagued mankind since the beginning time.

When we eat food, it is all different colors, but when we poop it is brown???

Anyone know why this is ???

Posted by: James Talarico at October 08, 2026 11:05 PM (jGtoG)

Eat crayolas. You're poop will be a shitty rainbow...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:11 PM (l3cgK)

256 How high ranking officials get selected.

https://youtube.com/shorts/G3ITzCr1GW0

(Sorry for the AI voice.)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2026 11:11 PM (qx7Zg)

257 The Adirondack picture is missing its chair.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2026 11:11 PM (wVcYX)

258 Who'd a thunk Talarico would go crazy?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 08, 2026 11:12 PM (ndZc7)

259 One of our Stupes took a mental health break a few months ago. She's actually pretty cute.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 08, 2026 11:12 PM (Fv808)

260 257 The Adirondack picture is missing its chair.

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Damn. That was exactly my thought.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2026 11:13 PM (wpRMV)

261 I gotta say, the Dems have run a really mutant-heavy slate this year. Mutants all over the place.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 11:13 PM (BI5O2)

262 okay this comment on Talarico is funny
tinyurl.com/465t436v

Posted by: when cameron came to egypt laaaand at October 08, 2026 11:13 PM (sDWtc)

263 A steady hand on the tiller. That's Talarico all right.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2026 11:13 PM (wpRMV)

264 We have crates out just in case, for him and the kitties.
Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 10:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

So, I'm assuming "Soup" is not the husband?

Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ)

265 250 iirc s.o.p. for the execution is that the squad picks and loads one round each selected at random from a pool including one blank round.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 11:09 PM (RIvkX)
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I think someone else loads the rifles for the squad, including a blank round for one, so that each individual can have some inkling that he didn't fire a fatal round.

Buuuut if you've ever fired a rifle you know the difference between a blank and a live round...

Posted by: ballistic at October 08, 2026 11:14 PM (oqH4h)

266 Neighbor you see any Blue Angels today?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

No, but I sure heard them.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 08, 2026 11:14 PM (Fv808)

267 Trump and Vance's H1B and OPT fraud suspension bombshells today might have just been the October Surprise helping the GOP to victory.

Notice they did that while the typical backstabbing RINO Chamber of Commerce crowd were out campaigning and unable to backstab as a result.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:14 PM (E4rtv)

268 When my wife passed, I learned the importance of not keeping every damn piece of paper...I STILL haven't shredded everything that needs shredding...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Burning documents is the tied and true method 'round here. Burnt a big pile of papers the other day, along with all the pine straw and cones that fall from my neighbor's pines. Next up-last years Medicare and You book. The new one came today.

Posted by: Match Unto My Feet at October 08, 2026 11:15 PM (EdP2u)

269 THE MAN IS SENSITIVE!!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
.......

I feel so guilty about all the mean jokes I made about him.

Posted by: wth at October 08, 2026 11:15 PM (oq9dX)

270 Doof! You done good.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 08, 2026 10:49 PM (NnhvP)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2026 11:16 PM (QMAsf)

271 Hang him from his feet, and start him swaying. Start the 1812 Overture with artillery in the percussion section. Every time the cannons boom, the firing squad fires.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2026 11:06 PM (qx7Zg)

**********

The music choice is supurb, and a good idea. There should be a way to send Sec Hegseth ideas he picks from a hat.

To make it sporty, put him on an incline and let him roll near a pool of gators. There are 3 chances and if all 3 fail to get in a live round, the woodchipper is next door of the top of the incline to wheel him there. Easy.

Let's Make a Deal! Las Vegas bets and the whole enchilada.

Show him he created an entire nation who want him very dead.

I doubt I'll watch as I'll forget and will see reruns. I did watch Sadam's hangin' video.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 11:16 PM (hzuYO)

272 >>When we eat food, it is all different colors, but when we poop it is brown???

Except corn. (h/t Chris Rock)

Posted by: JQ at October 08, 2026 11:16 PM (rdVOm)

273 So, I'm assuming "Soup" is not the husband?
Posted by: GWB

No, is the pupper.

Posted by: mikeski at October 08, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov)

274 Tracers

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 08, 2026 11:17 PM (Fv808)

275 Who'd a thunk Talarico would go crazy?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 08, 2026 11:12 PM (ndZc7)

Go? That fella had a real short trip to crazy-town.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 11:18 PM (ExV1e)

276 264 We have crates out just in case, for him and the kitties.
Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 10:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

So, I'm assuming "Soup" is not the husband?
Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ

Soup is the official unofficial AOSHQ mascot. He is a Shiba. He is cuter than J.

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 11:18 PM (ZdaMQ)

277 Talarico can honestly say "you don't need to worry about another nervous breakdown. I'm running for the Senate. This campaign will be the last work I ever do. Once elected, I will never work a day, or make a decision of my own ever again. Nobody has a nervous breakdown while frolicking with boys on a pile of stolen money... and that's the entire job of a US Senator."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 11:18 PM (BI5O2)

278 Mamdani flipping out over NYC ICE shooting. He is an radical rabble rouser.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 08, 2026 11:19 PM (y171U)

279 254 251 So Talarico allegedly had a nervous breakdown. Wow.

That SOB Trump said mean things about him and caused this horrific event !!!!!!!!!!!

IMPEACH TRUMP NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 08, 2026 11:19 PM (973Ju)

280 268 When my wife passed, I learned the importance of not keeping every damn piece of paper...I STILL haven't shredded everything that needs shredding...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Burning documents is the tied and true method 'round here. Burnt a big pile of papers the other day, along with all the pine straw and cones that fall from my neighbor's pines. Next up-last years Medicare and You book. The new one came today.

Posted by: Match Unto My Feet at October 08, 2026 11:15 PM (EdP2u)

I live in Kalifornia...you'd need a burn permit, and being in the city, I can't get one.

Yeah, yeah, hold a "BBQ"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:19 PM (l3cgK)

281 Does the Army still have bazookas?

Posted by: Like that Name-Bazooka at October 08, 2026 11:19 PM (EdP2u)

282 "I feel so guilty about all the mean jokes I made about him."

Not to add to guilt or anything like that but could you repeat them for those of us who missed them the first time?

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (dCMJG)

283 Maybe add a little challenge with a modified skeet thrower.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 08, 2026 11:04 PM (ndZc7)

So, Hasan on a trebuchet, and instead of "Fire" the officer in charge yells, "PULL!"?

Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (kU0PQ)

284 281 Does the Army still have bazookas?

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Not like Sydney Sweeney has bazookas.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (wpRMV)

285 272 >>When we eat food, it is all different colors, but when we poop it is brown???

Except corn. (h/t Chris Rock)

Posted by: JQ at October 08, 2026 11:16 PM (rdVOm)

Artificial colors sometimes come through...eating Froot Loops, for instance...just eat the blue or green ones and see what happens...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (l3cgK)

286 Cowboys lose to the 0-4 Bucs

Posted by: Don Black at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (ZxPkt)

287 youtu.be/0sTtJlo7hQU

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (n17eQ)

288 Drinking some bourbon and having some sour patch gummies while I update all of my git repos.

Haven't had any commits in a while.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (XV/Pl)

289 Stay safe Piper, hope the storm just fizzles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (2GVsD)

290 Trump and Vance's H1B and OPT fraud suspension bombshells today might have just been the October Surprise helping the GOP to victory.

But wait... there's more...
.
@USLaborIG
: "I am announcing a historic investigation into the J-1 visa fraud involving nine major American universities — Pit, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Brown, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT. Subpoenas have been served; investigations are underway."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (ExV1e)

291
Something is going on. For the last four days and nights there has been a lot of air traffic here in SW Wyoming. We go months and never hear any planes.

It's curious.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 11:21 PM (/QHx4)

292 He'll still get 46 percent of the vote - people are nuts.
Posted by: LASue at October 08, 2026 11:05 PM (F6ZnV)

That, and all those ballots they pre-printed.

Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 11:21 PM (kU0PQ)

293 also, the color is greatly affected by bile and bilirubin.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:21 PM (l3cgK)

294 An all female firing squad would be very humiliating...

Posted by: lin-duh at October 08, 2026 11:22 PM (VCgbV)

295 286 Cowboys lose to the 0-4 Bucs

Posted by: Don Black at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (ZxPkt)

Used to be that was an impossible score...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:22 PM (l3cgK)

296 The media is trying to generate sympathy for the murdering scumbag Nidal Hasan because he is in a wheelchair?

Did they do this for Leon Klinghoffer on the Achille Lauro? You know, a real victim of terrorism?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2026 11:22 PM (2GVsD)

297 And for the record, J is pretty cute. Saijo (Soup) is just ridiculously cute.

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 11:22 PM (ZdaMQ)

298 So now we're on the color of shite?

So glad I showed up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2026 11:23 PM (wpRMV)

299 After years at Sea, I learned the Mother Nature is a bitch who is out to muderize you.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2026 10:48 PM (mP0Kj)
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Life's a bitch that eats her pups

Posted by: 496 at October 08, 2026 11:23 PM (m8Qhu)

300 James Talarico

Everyone knows stercobilin is the bile pigment molecules that turn feces brown.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 08, 2026 11:23 PM (u82oZ)

301 Thank you, Anna Puma. We are kind of right there where it is supposed to hit, so if it is going to fizzle, it needs to start now, please.

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 11:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

302 295 286 Cowboys lose to the 0-4 Bucs

Posted by: Don Black at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (ZxPkt)

Used to be that was an impossible score...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:22 PM (l3cgK)

Or do touchbacks still give 2 pts?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:24 PM (l3cgK)

303 The Cowboys came close to losing to the Texans (0-4) also. They just aren't very good.
Texans defense is absolute dogshit this year, on topic of that.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 11:24 PM (sDWtc)

304 safety

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:24 PM (l3cgK)

305 293 also, the color is greatly affected by bile and bilirubin.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Both of those would make fine children's names.

Posted by: Urethra Franklin at October 08, 2026 11:24 PM (EdP2u)

306 Yeah, I forgot about safeties.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:25 PM (l3cgK)

307
Artificial colors sometimes come through...eating Froot Loops, for instance...just eat the blue or green ones and see what happens...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:20 PM (l3cgK)

**********
One of my sons in junior high had an alarm one morning. A teal colored poo. Had me go look since I know everything. I said, "I have no idea.What did you eat yesterday?" Nursing skool only prepared me for brown, red, black or white poops.

He and friends got some sort of ice cup at the beach with blue syrup. Aha!

Not dying of teal, altho it is one of my favorite colors when not in the toilet.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 11:25 PM (hzuYO)

308 So now we're on the color of shite?

So glad I showed up.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2026 11:23 PM (wpRMV)

Verrry interestink!

Posted by: Zombie Arte Johnson at October 08, 2026 11:25 PM (wVcYX)

309 Soup is very cute very impish.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 08, 2026 11:25 PM (RIvkX)

310 Hey Texas morons, don’t get cocky. Rally to vote. Get your neighbors out there. Don’t fuck around and get complacent. The cheat is still on and you have to beat it like a red headed stepchild.

Don’t fuck around. Go vote.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 08, 2026 11:25 PM (yEz+x)

311 If I was President Trump I would double the size of the ICE force in NYC. Mandami is trying to turn the perp who was shot into another Renee Good.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (y171U)

312 I've never understood "the whole enchilada". What part of that delicious concoction would you normally not eat?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (Fv808)

313 264 We have crates out just in case, for him and the kitties.
Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 10:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

So, I'm assuming "Soup" is not the husband?
Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ

Soup is the official unofficial AOSHQ mascot. He is a Shiba. He is cuter than J.
Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 11:18 PM (ZdaMQ)

Oh! I might have met last year at TxMoMeX?

Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (kU0PQ)

314 iirc a sign of liver / pancreatic damage is the cream colored poo.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (sDWtc)

315
The story was that in 1940, Sen. Key Pittman died before the election and his body was kept in a bathtub full of ice in a Reno hotel until after Election Day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (eRlcH)

316 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 11:25 PM (hzuYO)

I accidentally injested some mouthwash that was blue...yeah, you can guess what happened.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (l3cgK)

317 Cowboys lose to the 0-4 Bucs
Posted by: Don Black

Used to be that was an impossible score...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

A two-safety shutout would be a hell of a defensive game under the current rules. Would'a been a hell of a defensive game in the leather-helmet days, if safeties were 2 pts then.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (VHUov)

318 Touchbacks get you 1 point in that up north metric football league.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (dCMJG)

319 314 iirc a sign of liver / pancreatic damage is the cream colored poo.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (sDWtc)

Yeah, it's not supposed to be white...that's racist.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:27 PM (l3cgK)

320 Both of those would make fine children's names.
Posted by: Urethra Franklin at October 08, 2026 11:24 PM (EdP2u)

*******
Why I continue to visit here.

Twin could be Ureter.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 11:27 PM (hzuYO)

321 Not dying of teal, altho it is one of my favorite colors when not in the toilet.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Blue Ice Gatorade does the same thing.

Ask me
How I know.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 08, 2026 11:27 PM (yEz+x)

322 317 Cowboys lose to the 0-4 Bucs
Posted by: Don Black

Used to be that was an impossible score...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

A two-safety shutout would be a hell of a defensive game under the current rules. Would'a been a hell of a defensive game in the leather-helmet days, if safeties were 2 pts then.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (VHUov)

Intertubes say safety has been worth 2 pts since 1920...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:27 PM (l3cgK)

323 I accidentally injested some mouthwash that was blue...yeah, you can guess what happened

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Ever "accidentally" inject some Sterno?

Posted by: A Hobo at October 08, 2026 11:28 PM (wpRMV)

324
Oh! I might have met last year at TxMoMeX?
Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (kU0PQ

Me! But Saijo didn’t come. He is a little quirky. He wouldn’t appreciate the noise and chaos. Neither did J. Someone has to work around here to support my princess life! 🤣

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 11:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

325
Saijo (Soup) is just ridiculously cute.
Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 11:22 PM (ZdaMQ)

_________

He's a Shiba. He knows. And leverages it ruthlessly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 08, 2026 11:28 PM (eRlcH)

326 >>>>>30 06
30 07
whatever it takes
****** At 10 yds about anything will do, especially with multiple hits. I read that Utah used 4 cops with .30-30s.

Posted by: Cosda at October 08, 2026 11:28 PM (Vbk8C)

327 320 Both of those would make fine children's names.
Posted by: Urethra Franklin at October 08, 2026 11:24 PM (EdP2u)

*******
Why I continue to visit here.

Twin could be Ureter.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 11:27 PM (hzuYO)

Joke punchline:"Deniece for the girl, Denephew for the boy."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:28 PM (l3cgK)

328 Out: What Color Is Your Parachute?

In: What Color Is Your Poop?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2026 11:29 PM (wVcYX)

329 I've never understood "the whole enchilada". What part of that delicious concoction would you normally not eat?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 08, 2026 11:26 PM (Fv80

The stem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 11:29 PM (ExV1e)

330 323 I accidentally injested some mouthwash that was blue...yeah, you can guess what happened

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Ever "accidentally" inject some Sterno?

Posted by: A Hobo at October 08, 2026 11:28 PM (wpRMV)

Never injected anything, so no.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:29 PM (l3cgK)

331 Come Back Little Shiba was both a play and film. Shirley Booth was in both and won a Tony and an Oscar for her role.

Posted by: Triple Crown of Acting at October 08, 2026 11:30 PM (EdP2u)

332 I've never understood "the whole enchilada". What part of that delicious concoction would you normally not eat?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

Enchiladas (like everything else) used to be much larger?

Posted by: JQ at October 08, 2026 11:30 PM (rdVOm)

333 Isn't Sid our designated Groom Of The Stool?

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 11:30 PM (sDWtc)

334
Read the article on Breitbart about illegals getting top tier medical care at Mt. Sinai Hospital. It is infuriating.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 11:30 PM (/QHx4)

335 So, after playing around 4 hours of the follow-up to Disco Elysium, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, I've thrown in the towel.
...
It's a shame because Disco Elysium is one of the best rpg's of all-time, along the same lines as The Secret of Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge, which essentially is the inspiration for Pirates of The Caribbean.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 08, 2026 10:14 PM (XV/Pl)
===========================

Try playing Esoteric Ebb instead; it's the same type of story-driven game, released slightly earlier than Zero Parades, and is much better, unless you dislike a fantastical setting.

Posted by: Not a Paid Promotion at October 08, 2026 11:30 PM (GCt37)

336 290 Trump and Vance's H1B and OPT fraud suspension bombshells today might have just been the October Surprise helping the GOP to victory.

But wait... there's more...
.
@USLaborIG
: "I am announcing a historic investigation into the J-1 visa fraud involving nine major American universities — Pit, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Brown, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT. Subpoenas have been served; investigations are underway."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
======
Dropping this in the punchbowl at this time makes it difficult for the Dems to praise corporations importing workers (which they secretly want to screw white males) and makes the country club GOP cheap labor crowd unable in the middle of a race to back bite. GOP needed to shore up its support by black and white citizen males and this will help.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:31 PM (E4rtv)

337 333 Isn't Sid our designated Groom Of The Stool?

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 11:30 PM (sDWtc)

Howdy Ho!

Posted by: Mr. Hankey at October 08, 2026 11:31 PM (l3cgK)

338 It's not the color I'm worried about. The smell is what catches my attention.

Posted by: wth at October 08, 2026 11:31 PM (oq9dX)

339 Enchiladas (like everything else) used to be much larger?
Posted by: JQ at October 08, 2026 11:30 PM (rdVOm)

The Paolo stopped working at that restaurant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2026 11:31 PM (ExV1e)

340 On that note, I am going to bed. I thought I would be teaching 3 classes tomorrow but it appears the winds are going to pick up earlier now, so I am going to teach the 6, and cancel the other 2. Good night, friends!

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 11:31 PM (ZdaMQ)

341 Cowboys lose to the 0-4 Bucs
****

Someone made a shit-ton of money on the sports book.

Posted by: clarence at October 08, 2026 11:31 PM (zGeQ7)

342 An all female firing squad would be very humiliating...
Posted by: lin-duh at October 08, 2026 11:22 PM (VCgbV)

Not if Weasel trained them.

Oh, you mean for target.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2026 11:32 PM (qx7Zg)

343 338 It's not the color I'm worried about. The smell is what catches my attention.

Posted by: wth at October 08, 2026 11:31 PM (oq9dX)

Red or Black blood streaks are not a good thing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:32 PM (l3cgK)

344 Out: What Color Is Your Parachute?
In: What Color Is Your Poop?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2026 11:29 PM (wVcYX)

There's a lot of retired folks among the Horde....

Posted by: GWB at October 08, 2026 11:33 PM (kU0PQ)

345 Little shiba, don't you kiss me once or twice
Then say it's very nice and then you run
Little shiba, don't you do what your big shiba done

Posted by: Zombie Elvis Presley at October 08, 2026 11:33 PM (wVcYX)

346 At 10 yds about anything will do, especially with multiple hits. I read that Utah used 4 cops with .30-30s.
Posted by: Cosda
========
Good ole Thirty Thirty is more than capable inside 100-150 yards for humans. Use a corelokt 150gr bullet. The equally old 35 Remington hits with a bit more authority but not necessary for humans.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:33 PM (E4rtv)

347 >>>It's a shame because Disco Elysium is one of the best rpg's of all-time...
--

SMH can tell you something about the best rpg's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 11:34 PM (BzKNL)

348 333 Isn't Sid our designated Groom Of The Stool?
Posted by: 88C+u

For what he does for his masters, he prefers to be under the stool for obvious reasons.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:34 PM (E4rtv)

349 He's a Shiba. He knows. And leverages it ruthlessly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 08, 2026 11:28 PM (eRlcH

He really does. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2026 11:34 PM (ZdaMQ)

350
People are concerned about the optics of shooting a guy in a wheelchair. Can they carry Hasan out and put him in some big beautiful chair?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 08, 2026 11:35 PM (mmrXZ)

351 Zohran Mandami called PDJT and Markwayne Mullin tonight and asked him to release the perp who was shot by ICE officers today. The declined to do so.

Turns out the perp has an extensive criminal record and is allegedly a member of the Trinitarios criminal cartel gang.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 08, 2026 11:36 PM (y171U)

352 Leticia getting ripped in the NY AG debate.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:36 PM (E4rtv)

353 350
People are concerned about the optics of shooting a guy in a wheelchair. Can they carry Hasan out and put him in some big beautiful chair?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 08, 2026 11:35 PM (mmrXZ)

Their concern is noted.

Knout him to death in the wheelchair.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 11:36 PM (BI5O2)

354 Is it possible to serpentine in a wheelchair?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2026 11:36 PM (wpRMV)

355 336 290 Trump and Vance's H1B and OPT fraud suspension bombshells ...

But wait... there's more...
.
@USLaborIG
: "I am announcing a historic investigation ...underway."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Dropping this in the punchbowl at this time makes it difficult for the Dems to ...

Posted by: whig
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It's October 8, we've got nearly a month to go.
There will be more.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 11:37 PM (BzKNL)

356 350
People are concerned about the optics of shooting a guy in a wheelchair. Can they carry Hasan out and put him in some big beautiful chair?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

Tie his ass to a post, no reason to ruin a perfectly good wheelchair.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:37 PM (E4rtv)

357 Oh no! The traitor who murdered 13 people has to face death from his wheelchair.

Tie him to a fucking post and then shoot him.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 08, 2026 11:38 PM (yEz+x)

358 It's October 8, we've got nearly a month to go.
There will be more.

Posted by: Braenyard
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Brennan meets the grand jury in Florida this next week.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:38 PM (E4rtv)

359 So if those enchilada smell so good when I eat them, why does my poop smell so bad?

Posted by: James Talarico at October 08, 2026 11:38 PM (oq9dX)

360 Heh

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 08, 2026 11:39 PM (yEz+x)

361 350
People are concerned about the optics of shooting a guy in a wheelchair. Can they carry Hasan out and put him in some big beautiful chair?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 08, 2026 11:35 PM (mmrXZ)

Duct-tape hit to the wall.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:39 PM (l3cgK)

362 Guy has a pretty good slogan here.

Matthew Kolken
@mkolken
Vote Republican like our constitutional republic depends on it.

Because it does.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:39 PM (E4rtv)

363 him not hit

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:39 PM (l3cgK)

364
Blue Ice Gatorade does the same thing.

Ask me
How I know.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 08, 2026 11:27 PM (yEz+x)
*******
Hi, nurse. Last summer I got a bit of norovirus from the baby grandgirl. She harfed on me and that started the all female band (son, grandson and husband were oddly immune).

I got what I called the cholera version of the diarrhea instant weight loss for days. I knew better than to drink colored gatorade and stuck to a refreshing clear and fruity pedialyte. I need to stock some for end times.

We had to fly to NOLA and see my mother in MS a week later. I look like a corpse in the family photos.

'Twas a lovely time as during the fiesta of pedialyte my husband discovered a leak from the kitchen to the basement family room. Requiring plumbing, sheet rock guys, a drying fan, and painters as I lay dying upstairs.

I didn't care. The contractor told my husband that we were the calmest people he'd ever worked with after a wall flood (well, he didn't see me, but I was calm as near death).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 11:41 PM (hzuYO)

365 Hasan should have a 10 second lead to make for the treeline. Let's put some sport in it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2026 11:41 PM (wpRMV)

366
I'll have something to add to my list of office decor to purchase when I win Powerball:

1.) Otoya Yamaguchi's sword

2.) Allende's shattered eyeglasses

3.) The Khashoggi bone saw

4.) Hasan's death chair

I can use it as my desk chair and wheel around between my computers and the mini-fridge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 11:42 PM (BI5O2)

367 I have no problem with "sh00ting a guy in a wheelchair". A criminal is a criminal is a criminal.

The MFer what broke into my dad's house was/is an amputee (legs). He couldn't get his electric wheelchair into the house, so plugged into one of the outdoor outlets & got stuck in the mud! That's how he got caught! (Don't know who his assistant was, but *someone* helped him remove the goods and pawn them.)

Posted by: JQ at October 08, 2026 11:42 PM (rdVOm)

368
The defining characteristic of politicians is ego. So I can see him running and I can see him not running.

Mark Sanford tried to run again this last primary for Lindsay Graham's seat for example.
Posted by: whig

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Holy carp he didn't. I'd say the defining characteristic is lust for power.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 08, 2026 11:43 PM (mmrXZ)

369 off topic, but there is now a massive memestorm making Draco Malfoy a mal...foid

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 11:43 PM (sDWtc)

370 350
People are concerned about the optics of shooting a guy in a wheelchair. Can they carry Hasan out and put him in some big beautiful chair?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 08, 2026 11:35 PM (mmrXZ)
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Pity. I think the garbage truck could pick him up and put him in the smush box of the truck.

Lie him out flat next to the wall if that's the problem...taped on his side so they won't miss his evil heart.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 11:43 PM (hzuYO)

371

Whatever happened to the guy with no arms who murdered some guy by gunfire?

You can't make that shit up.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 11:44 PM (/QHx4)

372 Second report on X now.

Pamela Hensley🇺🇸
@PamelaHensley22
·
21m
James Talarico reportedly had a full mental breakdown in Austin and took a week off for "mental wellness."

Talarico is weak and mentally unstable. In other words, he's the ideal Democrat.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:45 PM (E4rtv)

373 365 Hasan should have a 10 second lead to make for the treeline. Let's put some sport in it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2026 11:41 PM (wpRMV)

******
Email Sec Hegseth with that one!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 11:45 PM (hzuYO)

374 Video for Bulg, if he's around...

https://youtu.be/Ajvu5EtkN2U

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2026 11:45 PM (qx7Zg)

375 369 off topic, but there is now a massive memestorm making Draco Malfoy a mal...foid
Posted by: 88C+u
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Yep. Pissing the hell out of lefties too.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:46 PM (E4rtv)

376 I hope I didn't give the impression that Tampa Bay won, 4-0.

Posted by: Don Black at October 08, 2026 11:46 PM (ZxPkt)

377 For the sake of the family, take Hasan out there in a black tent on a dolly. Then, still covered by the tent tie him to the pole in a standing position. Drive the tent dolly off leaving him standing and ready.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 11:46 PM (BzKNL)

378 Why would Talarico, who is favored to win by at least 96 points, be nervous?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 11:46 PM (BI5O2)

379 Holy carp he didn't. I'd say the defining characteristic is lust for power.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone
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Yep. Finished fourth.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:46 PM (E4rtv)

380 366
I'll have something to add to my list of office decor to purchase when I win Powerball:

1.) Otoya Yamaguchi's sword

2.) Allende's shattered eyeglasses

3.) The Khashoggi bone saw

4.) Hasan's death chair

I can use it as my desk chair and wheel around between my computers and the mini-fridge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 11:42 PM (BI5O2)

The guy who captured Che kept his Rolex...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:47 PM (l3cgK)

381 >>>>People are concerned about the optics of shooting a guy in a wheelchair. Can they carry Hasan out and put him in some big beautiful chair?
***** The Brits did that with James Connolly when they shot him in the yard of Kilmainham Gaol after the failed 1916 rising. The optics of shooting a crippled were bad for the English. I'd rather the raghead be hanged while seated in a chair like Mary Surratt for Lincoln's assassination.

Posted by: Cosda at October 08, 2026 11:48 PM (Vbk8C)

382 371

Whatever happened to the guy with no arms who murdered some guy by gunfire?

You can't make that shit up.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 11:44 PM (/QHx4)

How many times was he disarmed?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:48 PM (l3cgK)

383 He was in NY the day before.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 11:48 PM (BzKNL)

384 Wheelchair-bound could still be leaned over a stump for beheading, I'd suppose...

Posted by: JQ at October 08, 2026 11:49 PM (rdVOm)

385 How many times was he disarmed?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:48 PM (l3cgK)

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Har de har har har

Posted by: Michelle Fields at October 08, 2026 11:49 PM (wpRMV)

386 Where's Mitch?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 08, 2026 11:50 PM (SMG8K)

387

On a lighter note 8 y/o grandson was here today. Hubbie had the leafblower out and grandson is fascinated. He asked if he could come here tomorrow to use it again.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 11:50 PM (/QHx4)

388 Oh no! The traitor who murdered 13 people has to face death from his wheelchair.

Tie him to a fucking post and then shoot him.
Posted by: nurse ratched

The only reason he's in the bloody wheelchair is the injuries he got from return fire when he was murdering those 13 people.

This is literally the kid who killed his parents pleading clemency because he's an orphan.

Posted by: mikeski at October 08, 2026 11:50 PM (VHUov)

389 Nidal would be seated anyway. I don't see a problem. Strap him in and KA-BLAMMO!

Then take the squad to Denny's. On Hegseth.

Posted by: Don Black at October 08, 2026 11:51 PM (ZxPkt)

390 I'm too old and too busy to learn about Harry Potter, "foids," or any of this nonsense. I have way too much sock-folding, etc., before I can get to that.

But if it's irritating the worms in the Millenials' brains and making them get all worked up Harry Potter again, I'm all for it. Maybe one of them will self-immolate.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 11:52 PM (BI5O2)

391 Weird implosion of Dem Senate candidates going on right now. Talarico missing in action, Troy Jackson got his ass handed to him in ME by Collins in debate. Collins held his own with Tossof.

Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:54 PM (E4rtv)

392 Seems very likely the dead perp in NYC was a beneficiary of that city's outrageous reckless lawlessness, in the form of an ignored ICE detainer, at some point. Given his criminal record.

Administration should go completely nuclear in their public statements. Emphasizing that ALL illegal aliens are subject to removal. Mamdani's statement is standard issue childish idiocy, but it should be nuked in detail, sentence by sentence.

Of course the real sanction - strict discretionary reciprocity in all fed LE interaction with NYC apart from violence/nat security/terrorism - won't even be considered.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 08, 2026 11:55 PM (U/Byj)

393 Hurricane Rachel is supposed to make a U turn and wind up at in Wyoming this next week.
I would point out that the last time I know of a Pacific hurricane to do something similar was the Columbus Day Storm that pasted Oregon in 1962, and hey, it is coming up on Columbus day.

So, if it comes this way I will be taking the meta roofing off the woodshed and putting yard furniture away, somewhere.

Gotta buy gas for the chainsaw, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2026 11:56 PM (rbvCR)

394 Happy Thursday Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 08, 2026 11:56 PM (ibDUx)

395 The MFer what broke into my dad's house was/is an amputee (legs). He couldn't get his electric wheelchair into the house, so plugged into one of the outdoor outlets & got stuck in the mud! That's how he got caught! (Don't know who his assistant was, but *someone* helped him remove the goods and pawn them.)
Posted by: JQ

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Holy cap. That must be a police report for the ages.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 08, 2026 11:57 PM (mmrXZ)

396 I thought Pacific whirley-gigs were supposed to be "typhoons"?

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 11:57 PM (sDWtc)

397 393 Hurricane Rachel is supposed to make a U turn and wind up at in Wyoming this next week.
I would point out that the last time I know of a Pacific hurricane to do something similar was the Columbus Day Storm that pasted Oregon in 1962, and hey, it is coming up on Columbus day.

So, if it comes this way I will be taking the meta roofing off the woodshed and putting yard furniture away, somewhere.

Gotta buy gas for the chainsaw, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2026 11:56 PM (rbvCR)

She'll come pretty close to Sandy Eggo first...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:58 PM (l3cgK)

398 Of course the real sanction - strict discretionary reciprocity in all fed LE interaction with NYC apart from violence/nat security/terrorism - won't even be considered.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 08, 2026 11:55 PM (U/Byj)

I doubt that's much of a deterrent. It would just lead to more crime in NYC, which is what Mamdani wants anyway.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2026 11:59 PM (BI5O2)

399 396 I thought Pacific whirley-gigs were supposed to be "typhoons"?

Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 11:57 PM (sDWtc)

On the other side of the Int'l Date line...
Then you have cyclones, which are in the Indian Ocean and around Australia...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2026 11:59 PM (l3cgK)

400 350
People are concerned about the optics of shooting a guy in a wheelchair. Can they carry Hasan out and put him in some big beautiful chair?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

Fine. Push him off a 200 ft cliff. The rocks will do the rest.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 08, 2026 11:59 PM (n17eQ)

401
Yep. Finished fourth.
Posted by: whig

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Lol I guess he has his faithful. I can't imagine donating a dime to him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 09, 2026 12:00 AM (mmrXZ)

402 I thought Pacific whirley-gigs were supposed to be "typhoons"?
Posted by: 88C+u

So did I.

And Indian-ocean ones were cyclones.

And Arctic-ocean ones were Holy Shit There's A Tropical Storm In The Arctic!!!

But DDGAI says the Pacific gets all 3 names, just depends where in the Pacific they start. So the one aiming at California really is a hurricane.

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 12:01 AM (VHUov)

403
Of course the real sanction - strict discretionary reciprocity in all fed LE interaction with NYC apart from violence/nat security/terrorism - won't even be considered.
Posted by: rhomboid

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It continues to flummox me that any city or state government can flat-out refuse to comply with federal law and get away with it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 09, 2026 12:04 AM (mmrXZ)

404 Y's Dice, no not really. Fed LE (and DOJ) obviously provide tremendous support to NYC on a range of issues. They don't police the streets. If every non-violent/non-natsec situation in NYC suddenly sees it's getting lowest priority from the feds, it will snowball. Finance, etc - not something the dumb freak children at Gracie Mansion can ignore for long.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2026 12:04 AM (U/Byj)

405 Apropos of nothing - there was some forum discussion a few weeks back about sensitive or top secret information being published inadvertently (or purposely?) during World War II.

I found another one, I think, that almost certainly must have drawn some attention. Or not…

Old time radio program, Superman episode “Dr Deutsch and the Radium Mine” first aired in June 1941

The episode was about Radium, and the evil Dr. Deutsch and his underground lair for smuggling Radium in hollowed out books, which isn’t quite separating isotopes of Uranium, but it’s pretty close, and they mentioned “atomic” power or bombs, and how a small handful of the stuff could wipe out the entire United States.

This is pretty remarkable given the time frame, in that year physicists, mostly refugees from Europe, were still pretty much trying to get the US government to get motivated even about the possibility of fast fission bombs. This was about the time Enrico Fermi tried to alert the US Navy. He managed to get an interview at the War department with some colonel or someone. He overheard an aide alert his boss in his office while he (Fermi) was waiting - “There’s a Wop outside”.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 09, 2026 12:04 AM (TzEbc)

406 Holy cap. That must be a police report for the ages.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

Oh, no it wasn't.. local cops shrugged and said "the front door was unlocked, no sign of forced entry"

Well, DUH! (Unknown to me) a downstairs window latch was broken.. so, easy peasy, slide it open & jump in-- after moving a lawn mower up to it-- and then sliding it shut. Can't lock the front door without a key, so yeah it was unlocked because the FKer got in. Looked like he/they stayed a while because fresh food in the fridge (Dad had been gone over a year at that time)

FKer was cited for "trespassing"

Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 12:06 AM (rdVOm)

407 Oh no! The traitor who murdered 13 people has to face death from his wheelchair.

Tie him to a fucking post and then shoot him.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 08, 2026 11:38 PM (yEz+x)

The firing squad should be all muzzie. Make them prove their loyalty to our military. If they screw it up, they're next.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 12:07 AM (g8Ew8)

408 Florida race stats so far,

Khoa
@1980Khoa
·
49m
FL Updates: At the moment, democrats are at 15.5% while republicans are at 15.4% of the 2022 returns. Democrats lost 0.4% while republicans gained 0.5% compared to yesterday. Another day of strong showing by the FL GOP. No sign of a blue wave thus far for Team Donkey.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:07 AM (E4rtv)

409 The episode was about Radium, and the evil Dr. Deutsch and his underground lair for smuggling Radium in hollowed out books, which isn’t quite separating isotopes of Uranium, but it’s pretty close, and they mentioned “atomic” power or bombs, and how a small handful of the stuff could wipe out the entire United States.

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My mom was a radium girl. Painted aircraft dials and instruments during WWII.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 12:11 AM (g8Ew8)

410 X,

"
Pat Webb
@CommissionerPW
·
2h
Stephen Miller knows EXACTLY what the real story is, and wouldn’t be sticking his neck out if it was anything Talarico could deny or recover from. It’s bad.

Quote
Stephen Miller
@StephenM
·
3h
Whatever the real story is must be quite terrible. x.com/nbcnews/status…

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:12 AM (E4rtv)

411
Oh, no it wasn't.. local cops shrugged and said "the front door was unlocked, no sign of forced entry

FKer was cited for "trespassing"
Posted by: JQ

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

Grooaann

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 09, 2026 12:12 AM (mmrXZ)

412
Dogs all over in town are barking. This could be a good sign. I hope it means wildlife from the mountains are already moving to town. Hopefully we'll have a real winter.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 12:13 AM (/QHx4)

413 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 12:13 AM (Y/06r)

414
I don't think Hasan is going to be shot sitting in a wheelchair.They'll stand him up and tie him to a post.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 12:16 AM (iTNuP)

415 Flowers on the Wall
Statler Brothers

Posted by: Great Plains Drifter at October 09, 2026 12:16 AM (85Bnm)

416 I am a big supporter of the Brattleboro FART Tube Program.

I do not mind shoving something up my ass for a good cause.

Posted by: James Talarico at October 09, 2026 12:18 AM (k7bVY)

417 They'll stand him up and tie him to a post.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 12:16 AM (iTNuP)

they're doing it wrong

Posted by: Vlad III at October 09, 2026 12:19 AM (sDWtc)

418 Something is going on. For the last four days and nights there has been a lot of air traffic here in SW Wyoming. We go months and never hear any planes.

It's curious.

Posted by: four seasons at October 08, 2026 11:21 PM (/QHx4)

If you were to go to Flightradar24.com and click on the planes going over, you can then find the registration number and then find out who owns the planes.
What gets odd is if all the planes are of a similar make but are owned by different companies and universities. Then you gotta wonder if something is going on.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 12:21 AM (rbvCR)

419 So, every now and then, I do something right.

I had been trying to think what to get Mom for her 80th birthday. Then I remembered I had some audio cassettes my grandparents made when mom and dad first got married. The first one is from February. 1970.

I got them digitized and got the audio link tonight. It is so wonderful. The first tape is somewhat garbled as they were trying to work out how the recorder worked. So it is a bit out of order as I think they listened to what they first recorded and then recorded over the bad spots. I have just been listening for the past couple of hours.

Going to see Mom and Dad for her birthday tomorrow. I hope she likes it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 12:21 AM (Y/06r)

420
My mom was a radium girl. Painted aircraft dials and instruments during WWII.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Did she lick the paint brush?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 12:22 AM (Cqx++)

421 Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:07 AM (E4rtv)

Shame on you for not giving the black pill dispensers anything to work with,

Shame shame shame...

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 09, 2026 12:22 AM (dCMJG)

422 5 Redneck Habits
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A brother by a different mother. I checked off his list one-by-one.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 12:23 AM (XeU6L)

423 Or questions of why University of Utah has so many light planes and they are all flying right now.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 12:23 AM (rbvCR)

424 Grooaann
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

Yeah. Local (city) PD makes Keystone Cops look competent. They didn't even look into the "yard waste" bin that was *right next to front door* -- it was full of stuff, waiting for the next load to pawn shop!

And paid no attention to the screwdriver on the ground, next to garage (walk-thru) door, where FKer had been digging into the door trim, trying to slip the latch...

Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 12:24 AM (rdVOm)

425
Kindltot,

Thanks for the info. It is interesting because it is not the ranchers flying over looking for their animals.

As we are speaking there is something flying over now.

With all the shit happening now in our country it makes one wanting what is going on.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 12:26 AM (/QHx4)

426

Aetius,

What a wonderful gift.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 12:27 AM (/QHx4)

427 Shame on you for not giving the black pill dispensers anything to work with,

Shame shame shame...
Posted by: A random guy on the net
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I can tell the ones that read/watch the MSM.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:27 AM (E4rtv)

428 One of the classic anecdotes about the erosion of standards in the US was a story about a small parcel of land in CT, in some small city. It was federal, was surplused and given to the municipality. So the town proceeded to do the necessary to re-purpose the property.

The environmental assessment turned up ..... radioactivity. Very anomalous levels thereof. Hmmm. Further investigation revealed that the site had been the location of a secret facility using radium (I think to paint instrument dials) during WWII.

Key point: quite a few of the workers who had worked at the facility in WWII were still alive, and local. Of course none said a word when the whole property transfer thing was going on. When asked why they never said anything, a woman (as I recall) who'd worked there said something like "it was a secret operation, and we were never told it was no longer secret".

Similar things happened in the UK in the 90s. Standards are real. Their erosion or weakening is one of the most damaging trends in civilization.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2026 12:28 AM (U/Byj)

429 Or questions of why University of Utah has so many light planes and they are all flying right now.
Posted by: Kindltot

It's "night flight" practice time for the kids in Piloting 301?

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 12:29 AM (VHUov)

430 Gotta buy gas for the chainsaw, too.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Are you on a well?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 12:30 AM (XeU6L)

431 Aetius,

What a wonderful gift.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 12:27 AM (/QHx4)

It's so strange. These was made 5 years before I was born. They both sound the same as I remember. My aunt who would have been... 11 is on there too. Grandpa would have been 51 when he recorded it, which is the same age I am now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 12:30 AM (Y/06r)

432 Grandpa would have been 51 when he recorded it, which is the same age I am now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

So I'm not the youngest nightwalking Moron.

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 12:32 AM (VHUov)

433

Aetius,

She will love your gift.

Salute!!!

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 12:32 AM (/QHx4)

434 Not dying of teal, altho it is one of my favorite colors when not in the toilet.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 08, 2026 11:25 PM (hzuYO)

There was the story of the medic who arranged for some wild kids to "steal" methylene blue so he could find out who had been swiping his kit by who was panicked by blue urine.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 12:32 AM (rbvCR)

435 Grandpa is saying he is enjoying being off work because he has to report for jury duty and is hoping he isn't selected.

He would have been in the Civil Service at this point after... and odd number of years over 20 in the Army.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 12:33 AM (Y/06r)

436 Just got in tonight. Evening, Doof and ONT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 12:36 AM (quk5M)

437
Hiya AOP

Did you see any cool stuff today?

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 12:37 AM (/QHx4)

438 I founded a politics-related startup about 15 years ago, and people kept suggesting we add a mobile app that tracks your location. I always said that what I really wanted was a mobile app that tracks politicians' location! I bet it would reveal a lot of interesting things.

Posted by: frammish at October 09, 2026 12:38 AM (rcENI)

439 He's in GitMo and they're fixin' I say they're a fixin' to send him home.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 08, 2026 10:06 PM (nqf1u)

Maybe send him back with a payload of plague bacillus.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 12:38 AM (quk5M)

440 438 I founded a politics-related startup about 15 years ago, and people kept suggesting we add a mobile app that tracks your location. I always said that what I really wanted was a mobile app that tracks politicians' location! I bet it would reveal a lot of interesting things.
Posted by: frammish at October 09, 2026 12:38 AM (rcENI)

None of it good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 12:39 AM (Y/06r)

441 Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 12:21 AM

Wow. What a thoughtful, meaningful gift!

Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 12:39 AM (rdVOm)

442 Wow. What a thoughtful, meaningful gift!
Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 12:39 AM (rdVOm)

I am wondering how to give it to her. A friend said go full on surprise, but I think one tape has a good lead in with my Aunt telling her good morning in about 15 seconds and then Grandpa coming on and saying 'Hello Bau-bau! This is your Daddy!' (Her name is Barbara.)

Give her an idea before the big shock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 12:42 AM (Y/06r)

443 I almost went to SUNY Geneseo, all the way back in 1984. I went to Albany instead.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at October 09, 2026 12:43 AM (rI+gp)

444 Nidal will be seated and restrained. They don't want him wriggling around while the squad members are taking aim.

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 12:44 AM (ZxPkt)

445 444 Nidal will be seated and restrained. They don't want him wriggling around while the squad members are taking aim.
Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 12:44 AM (ZxPkt)

Whatever happened to being tied to a post?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 12:45 AM (Y/06r)

446 FWP. I watched the Tampa Bay vs.Cowboys game on Amazon Prime. It had some interactive advertisements embedded into it, and for the second week in a row I had to go my Amazon Shopping Cart and clear out items which I had inadvertently put there while trying to fast forward though the commercials.

Fortunately, Amazon still requires that I approve the purchase before it is actually ordered. For now.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2026 12:47 AM (Da+QE)

447 >>'Hello Bau-bau! This is your Daddy!'

I'd give anything to hear my parents' voices again-- Aetius, you'd better be sure there's a box of tissues handy.

Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 12:48 AM (rdVOm)

448 Fortunately, Amazon still requires that I approve the purchase before it is actually ordered. For now.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2026 12:47 AM (Da+QE)

Yeah, amazon is getting pushy on Prime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 12:48 AM (Y/06r)

449 From CNBC by way of X

CNBC: Republican megadonors are outspend Democrats nearly 4-to-1 for the 2026 midterms

🔴 Republicans: $830.5 M
🔵 Democrats: $224.7M

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:51 AM (E4rtv)

450 As we are speaking there is something flying over now.

With all the shit happening now in our country it makes one wanting what is going on.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 12:26 AM (/QHx4)

For what it is worth, the Air National Guard helicopters don't show up on Flightradar24 when they are on call out to overfly the antifa demonstrations in Portland.

Just something I noticed in passing. They may turn their transponders off, which is probably a no no for civilian craft

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 12:52 AM (rbvCR)

451 Heh. I wonder if there is a Field Manual for executions. Probably.

Best I can find is 'PAM 27-4 Procedure For Military Executions 1944 - Archive.org'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 12:53 AM (XeU6L)

452 I saw the missing Dem senatorial candidate James Talarico giving a speech outside a phone store in Houston. I tried to get his autograph, but it turned out to be one of those blower driven tube things waving its arms around. Hard to tell the difference.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 09, 2026 12:57 AM (WDknQ)

453 Best I can find is 'PAM 27-4 Procedure For Military Executions 1944 - Archive.org'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

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Excerpt:
"e. At the designated time the prisoner, with his
arms bound securely behind his back, accompanied
by the chaplain, will be received by the prisoner
guard and placed between the ranks. The escort
will then proceed toward the scene of the execution,
the band playing the "Dead March."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 12:57 AM (XeU6L)

454 its about 8 or 12 556
he will be dead
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 08, 2026 10:52 PM (/+uur)

I thought I read this morning they were thinking of using M1 Garands. 30-06, for when you really want to reach out and touch someone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 12:58 AM (quk5M)

455 452 I saw the missing Dem senatorial candidate James Talarico giving a speech outside a phone store in Houston. I tried to get his autograph, but it turned out to be one of those blower driven tube things waving its arms around. Hard to tell the difference.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President
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The answer my friend, is blowin in the wind, the answer is blowin in the wind.

Posted by: bob dylan at October 09, 2026 12:58 AM (E4rtv)

456 "Dead man ~~walking~~ rolling..."

Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 12:59 AM (rdVOm)

457
Lmao JQ!!

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 12:59 AM (/QHx4)

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