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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, April 26

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Rescued penguin saying goodbye

pic.twitter.com/3xDZSNh4o1
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) April 21, 2025

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Gorgeous mom and her baby. pic.twitter.com/JdXFapcxDm
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) April 18, 2025

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Who grooms your dog?

Easily the cutest thing you’ll see today 🐶 pic.twitter.com/Fkjq0HLHEI
— Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 (@TheCriticalDri1) April 21, 2025

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A disabled dog was gifted a custom-made wheelchair crafted by Mercedes-Benz. pic.twitter.com/FxCuHyxvpg
— HOW THINGS WORK (@HowThingsWork_) April 21, 2025

Courtesy Hrothgar:

SisterH had a disabled Corgi with add-on rear wheels that was incredibly mobile!

How great!

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Meet The PetMorons

Conor greets the spring
Hrothgar

Conor looks like a happy dog! But we would expect him to be happy, wouldn't we?

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Meet our one-year-old Australian Cattle Dog mix (Red Heeler variety) who was named Piper by our granddaughters. She came to us at three months of age after having been found abandoned at about 6 weeks old on the nearby Navaho Reservation in Utah. A rescue group called Underdogs took her in, fostered her and rehabbed her for several weeks. She has fit in well with our senior citizen Australian Shepherd Buckley who showed up on the Pet Thread some years ago. They spend a lot of time rough housing and play fighting. He teaches her all his old bad habits and she teaches him a few new ones of her own. All in all a positive lift for the old boy.
She stands about 16 inches at the shoulder and weighs about 50 lbs. She has freakishly long legs. She is not the smartest dog I've ever had but the d'awwww cuteness factor is off the charts. Who's a good girl?regards, muldoon

Wow. You're right about the cuteness factor. That portrait is remarkable.

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NR Pax:
On the left is our dog Kroger on the right is our guest Shanti. As you can see, Kroger was sharing his bed under protest. Thankfully, no squabbles broke out from it.

Great photo. It can be hard to share . . . .

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This is the last entry we received for the Pet Thread from jewells45 (November 2, 2024 post). She sent us information on rescued dogs at:

Shep's Place Senior Dog Sanctuary in Independence, MO

Making jewelry, often for members of The Horde, was one marvelous connection Jewells had with AoSHQ, but it certainly was not the only one.

She was also remarkable for her dedication to senior dogs in need. Many of us looked forward to her updates.

From Jewells:

This is Brody, a rat terrier we rescued from the Independence MO animal shelter. He's 15 years and is a cuddle bug.
It felt like things had stagnated at Sheps's over the past year or so but I think things may finally change. JJ finally got adopted and was the reason we could never bring a small dog into the mix. He found the perfect home. Then sadly Roscoe and Hope both crossed the rainbow bridge. They were our 2 invalids.
We have also begun earnest fund raising to make big improvements to Shep's including an expansion of the original building. The cost is $900,000 and we have raised about $200,000 so far. I'm hoping to sign up to volunteer very soon.

Jewells was thinking about the future of Shep's Place and the dogs served by the volunteers there even as her health declined. Donations from members of The Horde have been suggested in several posts here at AoSHQ. Check in the comment thread below for specific information on donations already underway.

Jewells has introduced us to quite a few loveable senior dogs at Shep's Place over the years. We're going to miss you and the sweet dogs, Jewells.

Here are a few more, from July 6, 2024:

From Jewells:

These three cuties are the newest addition to Shep's. Again, they went straight to foster so I'll never get to meet them darn it! Maudie is 12, Augie is 11 and Chug is 8. Their owner passed away. We are hoping to adopt all three out together.

What adorable doxies! And they are not all the same. Thanks for sending the great photo, Jewells!

And we also met her own grand pup, Moose. He knew when she didn't feel good and tried to make her feel better. Good boy, Moose.

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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde

We call them crows although they may be ravens. Picture is from my car going down my driveway. They landed about 20 feet from my car. I stopped and took pictures because one was playing with a stick and one had a piece of bread, which means a neighbor is feeding them. I hate them!
NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker

So, to the rest of The Horde, what are your thoughts about crows and ravens? Like them around? Wish they wouldn't scare off other birds? Do they ever intimidate your pets?

Why do you think the neighbor is feeding those crows?

We get crows, along with other birds, in our yard. The crows are usually the boldest birds around the garden kitties.

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Thank you for sharing your pets with us.

I am going to be in the hospital for a little while, but If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:

petmorons at protonmail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Until next time, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, April 19

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 03:13 PM

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1 Surf's up, dude!

Posted by: Tennessee Tuxedo at April 26, 2025 03:18 PM (63Dwl)

2
This morning, on the day she was to be shown in Best of Breed competition at our National Specialty, hard-luck Diana came out of the RV awkwardly, wrenched her back and lamed herself. Her Majesty couldn't do anything but pull her from the competition. It's a great disappointment for us, but we hope she recovers quickly and fully.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 03:18 PM (QnmlO)

3 Meow

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at April 26, 2025 03:19 PM (sAmhv)

4 After many days of false forecasts, today we are finally getting rain. Lots of it.

Daisy did get out to run & fetch before the storm started, but now it's not outside play time. Not her favorite weather.

Hello, petz people.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Ony cat wants equal story time at April 26, 2025 03:20 PM (+bW3+)

5 Critters!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2025 03:21 PM (2UnvF)

6 oh no Hadrian! that is so sad to hear!

hope she recovers quickly!

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 03:22 PM (Pv3Rg)

7 Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 03:18 PM

Sorry about the injury at competition time. How disappointing!

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 03:24 PM (xekrU)

8 Rescued penguin is cute!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 26, 2025 03:25 PM (rm+Rw)

9 so my first ever cat has been an education. first dealt with food and environmental allergies (a whole lot of them too) and that was two years or so of weekly immunotherapy injections for him

now just a bit ago he went a bit crazy around bedtime, trying to pee and just squeezing a bit out, I called the 24 hr ER vet and they told me to get there ASAP

his ultrasound and X-rays were clear of a blockage or anything obvious so I chose not to have him admitted for further testing/procedures and treat him with some meds and take him to the normal vet yesterday.

that's going ok but the meds really knock him out and it's a little scary. that said right after his first dose he peed like a racehorse so.

I'm too nervous still to sleep I just check on him constantly the poor thing! hoping we'll both be calmer after the 10 days of medication ends, I dunno.

I'm a little freaked out by this. allergies sucked but they weren't going to kill him or anything.

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 03:26 PM (Pv3Rg)

10 Beware the Penguins.

Posted by: Archer at April 26, 2025 03:28 PM (IDphi)

11 I watched nature in action a couple of years ago in the Pentagon courtyard. A squirrel had gotten himself a tasty Baby Ruth candybar wrapper with some leftover candy still on it. A couple of Ravens were ganging up on it but the squirrel fought back, hard. It had acquired that Baby Ruth wrapper and it wasn't giving it up for any critter. Not sure the outcome as I went back inside. The only thing that was missing was National Geographic theme song playing in the background.

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at April 26, 2025 03:29 PM (sAmhv)

12 Seems to me that the little penguin in the video should have some friends.

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 03:30 PM (xekrU)

13 Great videos up top. The penguin release is kinda sad. Tell me there were other penguins nearby for it to join.

Enjoyed the pet pix as always. Thank, KT. Hoping for your good health.

The comments as of this moment are white boxes on gray background. I kind-of prefer it for readability.

Posted by: mindful webworker - but 'white box friends' doesn't have the same ring at April 26, 2025 03:31 PM (+bW3+)

14 Black Orchid, good luck. Being a pet parent is nearly as stressful as being a human parent. You're doing a great thing.

Posted by: Archer at April 26, 2025 03:31 PM (IDphi)

15 Everything is proceeding as we have foreseen.

Posted by: Big Penguin at April 26, 2025 03:32 PM (PiwSw)

16 14 Black Orchid, good luck. Being a pet parent is nearly as stressful as being a human parent. You're doing a great thing.

yeah I'm still second guessing not having them put him under and take a real good look? but with that there's always the potential for complications...

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 03:32 PM (Pv3Rg)

17 Chug is a fantastic name.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 26, 2025 03:33 PM (O7YUW)

18 Hadrian, tough news about Diana. Hope she'll be okay.

Posted by: mindful webworker - arf at April 26, 2025 03:35 PM (+bW3+)

19 My sister's dog saves her not only from delivery trucks but *also* low-flying aircraft. And birds. We're working on reducing the threat level from Defcon-Eleventy but it's a slog. (He's a good boy. Just needs a hobby.)

I have an extended family of crows I feed peanuts, but only on request--no piles of food. For one thing, rats. For another, it gets me interaction. They call each other when I give the signal. Right now it is baby time, so all the adults are off busy dealing with nests and hatchlings. I sometimes get the moody teenagers showing up, one or two at a time, to complain that nobody is feeding them and everything is boring.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at April 26, 2025 03:35 PM (FlJsV)

20 It doesn't surprise me that Muldoon's red heeler was found on a Navajo reservation. That breed seems like one that Navajos would choose. Kinda surprised that she was found abandoned.

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 03:38 PM (xekrU)

21 Woof!! Beautiful pets as always. That GSD pic at the top made me laugh. Thank you all for sharing your friends/companions with us and thank you K.T.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 26, 2025 03:38 PM (ntko6)

22 The other day, we had a mountain lion on our block a few houses away. Beautiful animal. I wish I took a picture.

Posted by: Archer at April 26, 2025 03:38 PM (IDphi)

23 I sometimes get the moody teenagers showing up, one or two at a time, to complain that nobody is feeding them and everything is boring.

We had a baby crow in the driveway that had been booted out of the nest because apparently crows do that to their youngsters. I went to the garage, grabbed a handful of kibble and left it close by while the parents were yelling at me.

Fast forward a few months later and we had close to forty crows in the trees in our house. Word gets around.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 03:39 PM (lXCUP)

24 Ciampino's Rescue Kitties

Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all

There's another photo update #307 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.

https://is.gd/WQ5JcT
OR
http://tinyurl.com/4pak97f6

Posted by: Ciampino - RIP Jewells at April 26, 2025 03:41 PM (sPQoU)

25 The top photo is hilarious!! Reminds me of the attitude of Gretel, the mini dachshund that was our family pet growing up. A hundred pounds of attitude in a ten pound body. Between her sentinel duties and looking for snacks she spent much of her time on her back inviting tummy rubs.

Posted by: JTB at April 26, 2025 03:44 PM (yTvNw)

26 Tell me there were other penguins nearby for it to join.

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He wasn't lonely for long.

Posted by: Leopard Seal at April 26, 2025 03:45 PM (2UnvF)

27 "My sister's dog saves her not only from delivery trucks but *also* low-flying aircraft. And birds."

Our dog ignores most birds but she HATES vultures. (We Texans call them all buzzards.) They periodically land on our roof and she goes berserk barking at them until they fly off. I have no idea where the hate springs from, but it's been consistent since she came to live with us nearly 4 years ago.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at April 26, 2025 03:46 PM (FEVMW)

28 Tell me there were other penguins nearby for it to join.

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He wasn't lonely for long.
Posted by: Leopard Seal at April 26, 2025 03:45 PM (2UnvF)

Burp!

Posted by: Orcas at April 26, 2025 03:46 PM (IDphi)

29 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 03:46 PM (ypFCm)

30
*glooms*

Well, Miss D is not yet three years old. Her mother Delilah was almost 6 when she won the National in 2021 and her grandmother Lacey was 8 1/2 when she won it in 2006. So Diana has lots of time.

Borzoi are slow to mature and she won't be really competitive for at least a year. Her sister Rosalind is returning with HM and we'll be showing her to her championship. If Ros and her half-brother Zeus finish, their dam Delilah will have five champion offspring to her credit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 03:48 PM (QnmlO)

31 Sabrina!

Hope to see you in a couple weeks!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 03:50 PM (mT+6a)

32 Precious the Bichon is feeling her 17 years with some limping and slower movements. But she still wags her tail when we go for (slow) walks and prances a bit when we get home. And she has no problem waiting at the top of the stairs when one of us comes up from the 'salle de fromage'. That's the cheese room for non-Frogs. Most people call it a kitchen.

Actually, she is handling the aches of aging better than I am. At least she is quieter about it.

Posted by: JTB at April 26, 2025 03:51 PM (yTvNw)

33 That portrait of Piper is great. What a lovely expression.

Posted by: JTB at April 26, 2025 03:52 PM (yTvNw)

34 It doesn't surprise me that Muldoon's red heeler was found on a Navajo reservation. That breed seems like one that Navajos would choose. Kinda surprised that she was found abandoned.
Posted by: KT

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When we got her, we were told that ACD's are in fact very popular on the reservation, but that usually males are preferred, and females will often be abandoned or dropped off anonymously at homes of families known to work with Underdogs, knowing they will be picked up.

News to me that red heelers are also known as Queensland heelers and were originally a cross between a standard collie and a dingo.

She doesn't nip at heels but she will do a gentle bump with her snout on the back of my ankles when we are out walking.

Posted by: muldoon at April 26, 2025 03:53 PM (uCfKO)

35 Black Orchud, I did see where you mentioned going to an all wet diet for your kitty. Best idea ever.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 03:58 PM (oXfCm)

36 No cats ! Anti-felineites.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2025 03:59 PM (/U5Yz)

37 35 Black Orchud, I did see where you mentioned going to an all wet diet for your kitty. Best idea ever.

thanks! I'm even adding water to that it's like soup now! trying anything

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 03:59 PM (Pv3Rg)

38 Ravens have a great purpose. Clean up crew.

Last fall a grouse splatted itself against our big picture window. The hit permanently etched the glass, wing pattern and all.

Grouse died on the roof outside the window.

Before we could clean up that sorry soul, the ravens took care of it.

Much obliged. Now who's gonna replace my window? Dammit.

Posted by: Derak at April 26, 2025 04:02 PM (UTY9h)

39 Black Orchid, a little extra water for a couple of days is fine but you don't want to go to far in that direction either. Too much water and you will get diarrhea. A wet food that has shrimp / sardines would be best right now.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 04:07 PM (oXfCm)

40 ‘Well what has the raven to say about when?’

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2025 04:09 PM (LHPAg)

41 Jack, the best cat ever, had one blockage, but had a few UTIs after that. Same behavior. Antibiotics will knock out the UTI and there's a good chance that's all your cat will need.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 26, 2025 04:12 PM (cvWHI)

42 ‘Well what has the raven to say about when?’
Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2025 04:09 PM (LHPAg)

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* Scribbles notes*

Posted by: E.A. Poe at April 26, 2025 04:13 PM (2UnvF)

43 In Alaska ravens are considered spirit animals, and a token of good luck. We like having them around. Sometimes we "Raawwk" at them and they talk back.

Posted by: muldoon at April 26, 2025 04:14 PM (uCfKO)

44 Nevermore

Posted by: The Raven at April 26, 2025 04:15 PM (mT+6a)

45 The ospreys have returned to town from their southern vacation. One cruised about 10 feet over my head when I was walking with Elvis down at the park last week. Fun watching them fishing as long as you aren't a fish.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 04:15 PM (viF8m)

46 Nevermore
Posted by: The Raven

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Can I quote you on that??

Posted by: muldoon at April 26, 2025 04:16 PM (uCfKO)

47 I could've watched that penguin all day long.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 04:18 PM (CQE5S)

48 Afternoon, Pet Folken,

Yes, little Bro did look almost like a puppy after his shearing. Does the hair on certain dog breeds continue to grow throughout life? I thought not, thus the term "fur." Certainly my cats' fur grows only so much and then stops. When Chekov D. Siberian was sheared in '21 to remove some clots and mats in his fur, the fur grew back to where his coat had been before the shearing, but no longer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 04:18 PM (omVj0)

49 Piper is beautiful, Muldoon. How sweet.

It makes me sad remembering how much Jewells loved her shelter pups.

RIP sweet lady.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 04:19 PM (mT+6a)

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, April 26

Happy Saturday! We're starting to get some interesting stories with some of our recent photos from members of The Horde:

2 fun entries this week, Iris bed going strong and a wonderful amaryllis that I saved from a neighbor who was “relandscaping”. (She destroyed lovely old flower beds and replaced them with nothing). - Tom Servo

Sad for the loss of your neighbor's old flower beds. Glad you got some of the flowers.

I saw a photo recently of a border of deep red Amaryllis on a north wall in the desert. Striking. An idea for our desert denizens. There's a little church near us that also has Amaryllis planted on its north wall. Probably provides some frost protection. The iris is hardier.

From S. Lynn in the Treasure Valley, Idaho Windflowers, daffodils and hyacinth. So springy. Tulips starting to bloom. I'll send pics when they're up and running. S. Lynn Wilder, Idaho

Love them.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

From By-Tor:

A tennis buddy has a mulberry tree that probably has 5000 ripe mulberries right now.
I took 5 lbs, boiled them with 2 cups of organic pomegranate juice, then extracted the juice from this mixture.
From that, I got 9 half pints of mulberry jelly. It’s like a cross of blackberry jelly, and elderberry jelly. Very tasty.
So about $12 cost for 9 half-pints of jelly.

Jelly is more expensive to make than jam, so mulberries are a good choice for jelly.

By-Tor suggests that the tree could be a weeping mulberry. It is about 14 feet tall, absolutely loaded with fruit. Some photos of a weeping mulberry, its leaves and fruit:

Ah, Nature

Not my garden - but a walk through the woods appreciating nature. Wildflowers are blooming everywhere. I can't identify all of them but I recognize Virginia Bluebells, Spring Beauty, Trout Lily and Bloodroot.
The Pilot

Fun! Nice to have some names to go with those wildflowers. Anybody recognize the flowers in the last photo?

Adventure

Personal note: I'm having surgery this week, so if you haven't seen your submission for the Gardening Thread, you probably won't for a couple of weeks.

See you soon as I'm not hooked up to an IV, though. Have fun while I'm eating hospital food. Last time I was in the hospital, there were trees leafing out. We'll see if I have any plants in view this time.

Gardens of The Horde

Hope this finds you well.
Other than the mowed lawns, our garden at our northern Israel vacation home is intentionally semi-unkempt. In the foreground is a common sage bush, currently flowering and attracting lots of bees. Fresh sage tea is quite nice!
Regards from Jerusalem and northern Israel,
Biden's Dog

A great photo! There seems to be something special about the light . . .

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Week in Review

Last week's thread: Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, April 19

Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway. Check out the late comments.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:20 PM

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1 Rain in van nuys. Good luck in hospital!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 26, 2025 01:26 PM (laUQQ)

2 Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 26, 2025 01:26 PM

Thanks! Cloudy here. Kinda cool for this time of year.

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 01:29 PM (xekrU)

3 Prayers up for quick recovery after surgery KT. Lovely flowers this week.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 26, 2025 01:30 PM (bP/i4)

4 Thanks, PaleRider

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 01:33 PM (xekrU)

5 I've never seen a female weeping mulberry.
Great idea to keep them within picking distance!
Has everyone else had phenomenal dogwood show this spring? Best I recall here in KC.
KT, good luck and enjoy the rest.

Posted by: MkY at April 26, 2025 01:33 PM (cPGH3)

6 MkY at April 26, 2025 01:33 PM

We'll get to your photos one of these days. Spectacular!

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 01:34 PM (xekrU)

7 I sent them awfully late, I know.
I need to start taking pics more often. I get to go in some of the most beautiful landscapes in the city, and rarely take pics. Dummy!

Posted by: MkY at April 26, 2025 01:37 PM (cPGH3)

8 Good afternoon Greenthumbs
Last week had pile of leaves to chop up. We'll got 3/4 done and tractor steering ball and socket came apart. Tractor is 25 years old but stopped at the garden machines company and ghey had the parts. Fixed it in maybe 1/2 hour.
No plants other than perennials but made pizza yesterday and used my oregano.

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 01:40 PM (ypFCm)

9 We've got an indoor amaryllis plant, in a medium sized pot, it has already bloomed this year, but the green leaves add a dash of color to the place. When it blooms, wow, a huge red blossom takes over the local decor and becomes the focus of attention when one enters the room.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 26, 2025 01:42 PM (c6hLR)

10 Rosemary would perfectly compliment Biden Dog's unkempt garden

Posted by: 13times at April 26, 2025 01:44 PM (hTlkd)

11 It's a cold, blustery day here. We had temps in the 70's and 80's this last week and I was pondering slipping in a few of my backup tomato and pepper seedlings into my garden plot just to see if they'd be okay. BUT, we are going to see lows in the 30's soon, so I will have to exercise patience (one of my flabbier muscles).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 26, 2025 01:53 PM (kpS4V)

12 KT, sorry to hear you are in the hospital but hope your stay is short. Hospital food does suck. I could never understand how they expected people to get well eating that stuff.
I have a question for more savvy gardeners than I.
My outdoor plants are all in containers. When should I fertilize? Before,they flower? After they flower? And I have a peony that I planted last year that looks very healthy but literally has only one flower bud. Is that normal?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 26, 2025 01:53 PM (t/2Uw)

13 Best of luck, KT!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 26, 2025 01:54 PM (kpS4V)

14 13times at April 26, 2025 01:44 PM

Yes, rosemary could provide some structure and early bloom.

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 01:55 PM (xekrU)

15 I had a big mulberry tree here at my place in AZ. Apparently it was a male tree, and never bore any fruit at all. It was well on its way to dying, so I cut it down. Got some real nice hardwood blocks out of it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:57 PM (8zz6B)

16 My phone says the last picture is Cutleaf Toohwort.
I think it's trolling me. Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 26, 2025 01:58 PM (t/2Uw)

17 Best wishes for your upcoming surgery, KT. Tell your surgeon, "Any parts you take out, be sure to show 'em a good time."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:59 PM (8zz6B)

18 KT will keep you in prayer and hope you can send a message back soon.

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 02:01 PM (ypFCm)

19 Spring in Boise is much more robust than it ever was in Front Range Colorado. It's been pleasant, cool mornings, warmish afternoons. Rained a bit last night.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 26, 2025 02:10 PM (0aYVJ)

20 KT, Prayers from JTB and me for a successful surgery and recovery.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at April 26, 2025 02:13 PM (yTvNw)

21 KT,
Prayers up for your surgery and hoping your recovery is quick and complete.

Posted by: JTB at April 26, 2025 02:18 PM (yTvNw)

22 KT,
Prayers up!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 02:24 PM (W/lyH)

23 Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 26, 2025 01:53 PM

I'm not in the hospital now. Scheduled to appear at 5:30 in the morning Wednesday.

Thanks to everyone for the prayers and best wishes. They are appreciated!

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 02:24 PM (xekrU)

24 A magazine I enjoy is Birds and Blooms. The photography is gorgeous. However, the photos sent in by the Horde for this thread are as nice. I spend more time than I should enlarging them on the screen and appreciating the colors and details. The amaryllis and lily really caught my eye.

And the images are free!

Posted by: JTB at April 26, 2025 02:26 PM (yTvNw)

25 Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 26, 2025 01:53 PM

When to fertilize container flowers really depends on the type of flowers. Generally you want to avoid heavy fertilization when it is hot and dry. Other than that, look up the plants you have planted.

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 02:26 PM (xekrU)

26 This Spring at my AO marks the beginning of no more garden, only 1 nice flower bed and strictly grass. Beyond tired of providing a salad bar for the wildlife, they're perfectly capable of foraging elsewhere for sustenance. I'm getting a bit long in the tooth for such an extensive program.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 26, 2025 02:44 PM (hKoQL)

27 I like slow release fertilizers. Rarely burn anything, and they're steady.
Osmocote was the original, but they're off patent, so there are many brands.

Posted by: MkY at April 26, 2025 02:57 PM (cPGH3)

28 I have a deer problem at my summer camp in the northern Adirondacks. They browse the hydrangea shrubs, and lunch on the hostas, the daylilys, and the black-eyed susans.

I gave my caretaker guy a recipe I found to make up in a drywall bucket, using eggs, milk, water, and a little dish soap. Let it warm up in sunlight, ripen to super-stinky, and use a big coarse paintbrush to spatter it all over.

It seemed to deter (not completely) the bambi girls from feasting, but who has a better recipe?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 26, 2025 02:58 PM (KiBMU)

29 My wife let me know that some donated Irises are thriving in our front yard. So yet another splash of color for it.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 03:00 PM (lXCUP)

30 The last flower of the wild flower set is a mustard of some soft. I look it up every year and I can never remember its name. Zoom in on the stamens. There are six; two short ones and four long. If I recall correctly, the is call a tetradynamous arrangement. A characteristic of mustards. See

Posted by: Bob Grindrod at April 26, 2025 03:06 PM (RtNHs)

31 It seemed to deter (not completely) the bambi girls from feasting, but who has a better recipe?
Posted by: Mr Gaga

Everything will work for a few days, but nothing short of electric fence will work for long.
Smell of predator, supposedly works for quite a while, but is spendy, and needs to be refreshed.
Have you tried the pepper sprays on the preferred plants?

Posted by: MkY at April 26, 2025 03:06 PM (cPGH3)

32 If you have the faith of a tetradynamous arrangement...

Posted by: Like it says in the Bible at April 26, 2025 03:08 PM (dg+HA)

33 A characteristic of mustards. See
Posted by: Bob Grindrod

Evidently cut-leaved toothwort is an exception.
Interesting!

Posted by: MkY at April 26, 2025 03:11 PM (cPGH3)

34 31 It seemed to deter (not completely) the bambi girls from feasting, but who has a better recipe?
Posted by: Mr Gaga

Everything will work for a few days, but nothing short of electric fence will work for long.
Smell of predator, supposedly works for quite a while, but is spendy, and needs to be refreshed.
Have you tried the pepper sprays on the preferred plants?
Posted by: MkY at April 26, 2025 03:06 PM (cPGH3)
Ahem.
- Humpback Browning

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2025 03:17 PM (LHPAg)

35 Beautiful collection of photos this week!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 03:22 PM (ZEzFB)

36 Beautiful flowers! God, I love spring!

This has been a warm April, and May threatens to be absolutely hot, so I'd best get my okra seeds snuggled in for the season. I'm going to mix the red, white and green together. We'll pop some sunflowers amongst them. Should be pretty!

I'm trying lemongrass this year. I couldn't find an Asian market with fresh stalks, so I was forced to buy some online. Apparently West Indian lemongrass is the one you want.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 03:29 PM (w6EFb)

37 KT, prayers up for your surgery. I hope you'll be home quickly!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 03:30 PM (w6EFb)

38 Fr. Pitt (one of Dr. Boli's alternate personalities) on Cutleaf Toothwort:

https://shorturl.at/KNduK

Posted by: Don at April 26, 2025 03:31 PM (W5AfR)

39 Rosemary would perfectly compliment Biden Dog's unkempt garden

Posted by: 13times at April 26, 2025 01:44 PM (hTlkd)
-

Lots of rosemary around the house corner where I took the pic. Even more out in front of the house along the street.

Several other spices growing in the garden, including mint and oregano.

KT, may your surgery be successful!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2025 03:53 PM (DT0BZ)

40 If we're posting iris pics, these were in our garden over a week ago:

https://post___.cc/tZ1wjdXr

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2025 03:58 PM (DT0BZ)

The Left puts a heavy burden on David Brooks

It's not easy being the "conservative" opinion writer at the New York Times. A few days ago, the very model of genteel elitism wrote this:

Mike at Chicago Boyz has written a great piece which puts Brooks' call to revolt in context - The BoBo Manifesto:

“I’m really not a movement guy. I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies that I’m not covering as a journalist. But this is what America needs right now. Trump is shackling the greatest institutions in American life. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” – David Brooks
RIP David Brooks. He is not dead, but after that quote his career sure is.
Before there were “Never Trumpers” there was David Brooks.

If you listen closely, you can decipher that a major part of the media’s discourse is about why the Republicans cannot be more like David. He’s their type of guy.
Brooks has been playing this game for 25 years, from his book “Bobos in Paradise” to being Safire’s replacement as the house conservative on the NY Times Op-Ed page, to his shtick of being the ideological counterweight to E.J. Dionne on PBS. If Thomas Friedman can claim to know the Arab Street by talking with his taxi driver, then for those who follow the NY Times and PBS Brooks is the guy driving the conservative taxi. Clean, articulate, and reasonable as evidenced by willingness to go with the flow even when it is a riptide carrying oneself out to sea

What did Brooks' friends on the Left do to the cornerstones of Western Civilization when they had all the power?

He wants an uprising? Sounds like insurrection to me. Then again, if you think law firms, nonprofits, and civil servants are the cornerstones of Western civilization you have bigger problems than Donald Trump.

A final quote:

"So far, the only real hint of something larger - - a mass countermovement - - has been the rallies led by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But this, too, is an ineffective way to respond to Trump; those partisan rallies make this fight seem like a normal contest between Democrats and Republicans. What is happening now is not normal politics. We're seeing an assault on the fundamental institutions of our civic life, things we should all swear loyalty to - - Democrat, independent or Republican."
Leave aside that he is favorably citing two socialists, adherents to the most evil force of the 20th Century and antithetical to any part of the American founding. Leave aside that he invokes Marxist symbols. Instead focus on the fact that he neatly summarizes, as only David Brooks can, the current position of the Left: that one swears loyalty to "institutions" and not the Constitution.

Thanks for playing, David. Goodbye.

The whole piece has some memorable details from Brooks' career that add to the feeling that now it is over. I recommend it. Ace also posted an interesting Peek at the NY Times Elite Writers (9/15/23) that includes some great Fisking. It should have helped kill a career or two.

BUT WAIT:

My fire-breathing lefty contact on social media just posted a short excerpt from the very latest piece by Brooks, providing hope that the Left will continue to support him as they try to convince Republicans to be like him:

Trump’s behavior has aroused great moral indignation. It has aroused in people’s hearts a sense that something sacred is being trampled here — democracy, rule of law, intellectual freedom, compassion, pluralism and global exchange. These things are worth fighting for. Trump’s opponents have still not produced the kind of one-sentence mission statement that he produces — that the elites have betrayed us, so we must destroy them. But I think more people are realizing that we are the beneficiaries of a precious inheritance. Our ancestors bequeathed to us a judicial system, great universities, compassionate aid organizations, great companies and scientific genius. My mission statement would be: America is great, and we will fight for what has made America great.
- David Brooks, Trump's Single Stroke of Brilliance, NYT, 4/24/2025

I see some "conservative" and even "MAGA" words in there, along with an unhealthy obsession with "elites".

Somehow I am not inspired by the guy who has been saying that all Republicans are irredeemable to follow Brooks into the arms of AOC and Bernie Sanders. Do you think that the NYT will find Brooks' argument persuasive to "the other side"?

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WEEKEND

Quotes

Wretchard T. Cat (Richard Fernandez)

Ambiguity is the subversive's friend. You can be for an invasion of the US by foreigners or the death of Jews and get away with it for so long as you don't openly say so. But sometimes militants in the heat of action forget where their interests lie.
"In irae veritas".
"In irae veritas" is true of both sides of politics. When people get all worked up they are prone to let their true colors show. The mask drops and we often see something altogether frightening.

Compare to David Foster: Will America Drown in Anger?

The Week In Pictures: FD&C Red No. 40 Edition

The example below is from the Babylon Bee.

The Bee has a killer opening page right now:

God Introduces New Hydrating, Zero Sugar Beverage With No Artificial Dyes

'Christianity Today' Announces It Has Converted To Islam

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Music

Think David Brooks could ignite the spirit of revolt into these kids?

Incredible rendition of "Take Me Home, Country Roads." pic.twitter.com/Upu2oOD3Ky
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) February 24, 2025

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, April 19, A little history of self-assuredness in mass media

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:06 AM

Comments

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1 Hello, KT!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 11:08 AM (CQE5S)

2 Bring it, Brooks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 26, 2025 11:09 AM (TkzvX)

3 The left wants a "civic uprising?" They've already declared war on us. They've killed over their ideology too. If and when we finally acknowledge their declaration I don't think it will turn out the way they think it will.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 11:09 AM (Q4IgG)

4 What was the Summer of St Floyd? I've seen the Left march, and beat random people in the street with impunity.

Sure, Dave, sign me right up, you fukwit.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 26, 2025 11:14 AM (pIfcn)

5 Louise Brooks>>Our Miss Brooks>>Herb Brooks>>David Brooks

Posted by: Babbling Brooks at April 26, 2025 11:14 AM (G5+As)

6 These idiots act like Trump just took the Presidency by force instead of a real mandate. Not a fraud or Clinton 49% mandate.

Nobody thinks Brooks is a conservative or has ever been one.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)

7 Brooks in 1860

End slavery? Are you crazy? This is an American institution. We need a coordinated effort against Lincoln.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:18 AM (nzXzp)

8
Shove it up your ciabatta, Dave. Go shtupp your assistant.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 11:19 AM (QnmlO)

9 ‘But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone any how.’
- Lennon said it right there

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2025 11:19 AM (LHPAg)

10 Ten houses on my street. Estimate 50-60 firearms of all shapes, calibers, sizes. We all know how to shoot. Several large boats and two backhoes for cleanup. Come get us David!

Posted by: Peaceful, But Deadly at April 26, 2025 11:19 AM (G5+As)

11 John Kerry gets snippy when a reporter cites history:

https://is.gd/kdnfHh

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, author of Vibe Vibing, Uplevel Your Game Changers Using These Simple Tricks at April 26, 2025 11:19 AM (PiwSw)

12 Brooks needs to go back to writing about his outrage at sandwiches.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 11:19 AM (oXfCm)

13 What is Trump dismantling?

A trading system that has destroyed the middle class.

A government system where trillions in fraud has been exposed

An immigration system that had no enforcement.

So with all due respect Brooksie, FOAD.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:22 AM (nzXzp)

14 The Times I remind, are a source of eldritch evil, now brooksie is the lamest seed pod, well preceding stelter, till sniffing for grub,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 26, 2025 11:22 AM (bXbFr)

15 Maybe he should lose his citizenship and be deported back to Canada

Posted by: night lifted at April 26, 2025 11:22 AM (FZn/N)

16 Thx K.T. The image of David Brooks "taking it to the streets" is comical. The left would look at him say "fascist" and beat him like a red headed stepchild. On the plus side they would leave him laying in the street making it easier for him to check out pants creases

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2025 11:22 AM (Er3Q7)

17 Good morning KT
Almost thought this was the Saturday Art Thead

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 11:23 AM (ypFCm)

18 It's funny that I am constantly told here Trump's team isn't moving fast enough and then hearing leftists freak the fuck out that Trump is destroying the very fabric of the country and the only solution is an insurrection.

Both things can't be true.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 11:24 AM (viF8m)

19 These 'conservatives' think the guy who is on the side of protecting citizens over the pretend rights of illegal aliens, protecting women and girls from the insanity of trannies, setting an environment where America can start manufacturing again, making America energy independent and fighting against government waste and fraud is a President that needs to be overthrown.

They deserve a civil war good and hard. Fake ass punks.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 11:24 AM (VofaG)

20 Both things can't be true.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 11:24 AM (viF8m)

LOL.

Posted by: night lifted at April 26, 2025 11:25 AM (FZn/N)

21 Keep a list, folks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 11:26 AM (8zz6B)

22 Brooks, like Frum and Kristol, found their inner socialist when they fell in love with Obama.

Posted by: night lifted at April 26, 2025 11:26 AM (FZn/N)

23 And I would let ironing lady iron my dainty underthings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 11:27 AM (8zz6B)

24 John Kerry gets snippy when a reporter cites history:

https://is.gd/kdnfHh

***

Bite me, horse face man.

Posted by: Kawaii Natalia Poklonskaya at April 26, 2025 11:27 AM (/dDa4)

25 Massive Explosion Rocks Iranian Port of Bandar Abbas Causing Widespread Damage, Injuries (VIDEO)

https://shorturl.at/DQ1lE

𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎@NiohBerg
BREAKING:
The regime in Iran is urgently requesting blood donations of all blood types.
Reports of nearly 500 injured and over 80 dead.

-
Also, apparently, Trump is pope.

𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎@NiohBerg
Secondary explosion.
Orange smoke.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 26, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)

26
18 It's funny that I am constantly told here Trump's team isn't moving fast enough and then hearing leftists freak the fuck out that Trump is destroying the very fabric of the country and the only solution is an insurrection.

Both things can't be true.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 11:24 AM (viF8m)

Sure it can.

The left freaks out over everything. They freak out if a convicted ms-13 illegal alien is deported. Not if a million are deported. Just 1.

So we say Trump only deported 100k people that’s not fast enough. They freak out because even 1 person was deported.

They’re clinically insane remember.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:27 AM (nzXzp)

27 Isn’t Mr. Brooks the guy who got openly horny over how the Shahinshah’s pants were creased?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 26, 2025 11:28 AM (8jn+t)

28
These articles always make me wonder just how many people were in on the Traditional Steal Taxpayer's Money Grift of Our Democracy.

What percentage of the population was mainlining the grift?

Sometimes I think I'm the only guy in America not in on the grift.

Right now, I figure roughly 97.3% of the Commenters on this here blog must be in on the grift. Maybe more!!!

Especially that CBD guy with his shady connections to the French.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 11:28 AM (iJfKG)

29 If only Trump's pants were creased properly...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, author of Vibe Vibing, Uplevel Your Game Changers Using These Simple Tricks at April 26, 2025 11:29 AM (PiwSw)

30 Brooks, like Frum and Kristol, found their inner socialist when they fell in love with Obama.
Posted by: night lifted at April 26, 2025 11:26 AM (FZn/N)

Two Canadians in that group.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 11:29 AM (VofaG)

31 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎@NiohBerg
Secondary explosion.
Orange smoke.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 26, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)

A hallmark of ammonium nitrate explosions. The orange smoke is nitrogen dioxide.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 11:29 AM (8zz6B)

32 17 Good morning KT
Almost thought this was the Saturday Art Thead
Posted by: Skip

Often, it takes the weekend to get the bitter taste of the Art Thread out of my mouth. This week wasn't too bad, though.

Posted by: Arts and Farces at April 26, 2025 11:29 AM (G5+As)

33 28: let me know on how to get in on the grift.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 26, 2025 11:29 AM (8jn+t)

34
They’re clinically insane remember.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:27 AM (nzXzp)

I think that was the point. We want more action faster, they want none at all.

Posted by: night lifted at April 26, 2025 11:30 AM (FZn/N)

35 @18 JackStraw, people screaming that Trump isn't moving fast don't seem to realize the massive opposition that he faces from both an entrenched bureaucracy and political opponents, including those from his own party. Rome wasn't destroyed in a day

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2025 11:30 AM (Er3Q7)

36 Irony is not just what a nail tastes like.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 26, 2025 11:30 AM (0aYVJ)

37 Two Canadians in that group.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 11:29 AM (VofaG)

Yep, send them home.

Posted by: night lifted at April 26, 2025 11:31 AM (FZn/N)

38 Couldn't get Powerline week in pictures om my phone so just got to see them

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 11:31 AM (ypFCm)

39 Rome wasn't destroyed in a day
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2025 11:30 AM (Er3Q7)

OTOH, Hiroshima was destroyed in a few seconds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 11:32 AM (8zz6B)

40 18

You are correct!

Posted by: cccp3o at April 26, 2025 11:32 AM (d+otF)

41 It's funny that I am constantly told here Trump's team isn't moving fast enough and then hearing leftists freak the fuck out that Trump is destroying the very fabric of the country and the only solution is an insurrection.

Both things can't be true.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 11:24 AM (viF8m)

The shrieks that Trump is now a creature of IAPAC and the Zionists are prety much balanced by the shrieks that Trump is stabbing Israel in the back.
The outrage machine is working overtime

Posted by: Kindltot at April 26, 2025 11:32 AM (D7oie)

42 They already think Trump is a dictator. Give them what they want. Tell the courts to fuck off and full steam ahead.

It’s like that saying, easier to ask for forgiveness later than ask for permission now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:32 AM (nzXzp)

43
A hallmark of ammonium nitrate explosions. The orange smoke is nitrogen dioxide.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Shit, is the fifty lb. bag of 10-10-10 in my shed gonna blow sky high next?

Posted by: Oh, The Huge Manatee! at April 26, 2025 11:32 AM (G5+As)

44 Smell the Glove you forgot the entire Judicial Branch

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 11:32 AM (ypFCm)

45 David Brooks and David Hogg are on the same page.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 11:33 AM (VofaG)

46 They’re clinically insane remember.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:27 AM (nzXzp)

Exactly. The left loses its mind if Donnie gets two scoops of ice cream and draw comparisons to Hitler.

Things are moving too slowly. That’s mostly because of obstructionist Federal judges and a treasonous Congressional GOP that refuses to back Trump with legislation. I don’t blame Trump for that. Hopefully it wakes people up to the fact the GOPe must be destroyed in 2026 if we are to save our country.

Posted by: Kawaii Natalia Poklonskaya at April 26, 2025 11:33 AM (/dDa4)

47 The shrieks that Trump is now a creature of IAPAC and the Zionists are prety much balanced by the shrieks that Trump is stabbing Israel in the back.
-

Reminds me when both my sister and I were convinced our parents favored the other one more. 😂

Which in hindsight showed they were right down the middle.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:33 AM (nzXzp)

48 Look at the list of types Brooks wants to enlist in his “insurrection”; and it’s all Ruling Class all the way. He doesn’t have the self awareness to realize he’s calling on only about 5% of the population, because he believes that’s the only part that counts.

Probably the best admission yet that Trump fights for the Working Classes, and the left has abandoned them completely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 11:34 AM (ZEzFB)

49 David Brooks and David Hogg are on the same page.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 11:33 AM (VofaG)

“This page left intentionally blank.”

Posted by: Kawaii Natalia Poklonskaya at April 26, 2025 11:34 AM (/dDa4)

50 @44 Skip, I was going to include "judicial coup" but that's a subset of "political opponents"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2025 11:35 AM (Er3Q7)

51 Yeah what the fuck is congress doing? You never hear anything about them anymore. What’s the point of having the house and senate if they sit on their ass.

Every Trump EO should have been followed up with a bill.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:35 AM (nzXzp)

52 I shouldn't have to point out that the shrieking from both sides is like 95% Dem / Republican 5%

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 11:35 AM (VofaG)

53 just a ridiculous knave that has become true in the subsequent years,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 26, 2025 11:36 AM (bXbFr)

54 >>The left freaks out over everything. They freak out if a convicted ms-13 illegal alien is deported. Not if a million are deported. Just 1.

And yet no other Republican president in your lifetime got this treatment. Certainly not Bush. And both Obama and Bush deported a lot of illegals.

What Trump's team has done with destroying things like USAID and Global Engagement Center will have far bigger impact than is being noticed. ActBlue is now under investigation for funneling millions in illegal campaign dollars to Democrats. And the list goes on and on.

The left is right to be freaking out. Trump isn't just deporting illegals, he is destroying the corrupt infrastructure that allowed the left to gain power. And they know it.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 11:37 AM (viF8m)

55 Shit, is the fifty lb. bag of 10-10-10 in my shed gonna blow sky high next?
Posted by: Oh, The Huge Manatee! at April 26, 2025 11:32 AM (G5+As)

It's not 34-0-0, you're good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 11:38 AM (8zz6B)

56 I'd motorboat the ironing lady.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2025 11:38 AM (SYD5S)

57 On Reddit I was on a tv show board. I made a snarky comment how the plot was a response to the election and how we live in a post modern dystopian nightmare thanks to his policies. It was laid on so thick only a sub 90 IQ reader couldn’t have noticed the over the top sarcastic tone.

Well it is Reddit. lol. A whole sub thread popped up from my comment with people saying how true it is.

I was like OMFG you people are so broken. I almost feel sorry for them. Almost.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:39 AM (nzXzp)

58 Moslem countries treat hazardous material storage about the same way a kindergarten class would.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 11:40 AM (ZEzFB)

59 Half rainy day, more drizzling off and on here

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 11:40 AM (ypFCm)

60 Moslem countries treat hazardous material storage about the same way a kindergarten class would.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 11:40 AM (ZEzFB)

If it blows up, it's because allah so wills it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 11:41 AM (8zz6B)

61 I think its the SCOTUS that needs to get off their ass and shut these judges down. Of course Congress needs to back up the rulings with legislation. That will be a harder road but doable.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 11:41 AM (VofaG)

62 Shit, is the fifty lb. bag of 10-10-10 in my shed gonna blow sky high next?
Posted by: Oh, The Huge Manatee! at April 26, 2025 11:32 AM (G5+As)

If you want to talk fertilizer, at least mix in cottonseed meal, kelp meal and fish bone meal for a longer release. Add in a teaspoon of Epsoms salt and Boraxo and Iron- and maybe some Zinc Sulfate too.
If you have clay soil, don't use dolomite, use lime or ground oystershell, it will keep the clay from getting stickier.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 26, 2025 11:41 AM (D7oie)

63 Rome wasn't destroyed in a day
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2025 11:30 AM (Er3Q7)
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I gave it a realistic shot.

Posted by: Brennus of the Senones at April 26, 2025 11:42 AM (6YdsJ)

64 >> Yeah what the fuck is congress doing?

Aw, shucks. We’re working to make America great again, but we just need another six month Continuing Resolution that keeps spending at 2024 Biden levels to hammer out all of the details.

We promise there will be spending cuts in 2026. Maybe 2027 at the latest.

Posted by: Brother Mike Johnson at April 26, 2025 11:42 AM (/dDa4)

65 The left is right to be freaking out. Trump isn't just deporting illegals, he is destroying the corrupt infrastructure that allowed the left to gain power. And they know it.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 11:37 AM (viF8m)

Don’t get me wrong. I’m dot saying Trump has done nothing. He’s moved some big rocks.

But his key issue was immigration. And on that front it’s not as yuuge and tremendous and incredible as we were led to believe it would be. So far.

So that was my original reply to you. Two things can be true. Trump isn’t moving as fast as we had hoped. And the left is freaking out because they always freak out about everything.

Thinking he isn’t fast enough does not mean he’s standing still.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:43 AM (nzXzp)

66 Moslem countries treat hazardous material storage about the same way a kindergarten class would.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 11:40 AM (ZEzFB)

Reminded me again you don't hear a peep from the radical Lefty environmentalists about Mexico dumping their waste into the Pacific. Where is Newsome and his enviro friends?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 11:44 AM (VofaG)

67 Sorry if this has been posted before, but this Powerline Week in Pictures has some good stuff:

https://tinyurl.com/weekinpictures

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, author of Vibe Vibing, Uplevel Your Game Changers Using These Simple Tricks at April 26, 2025 11:44 AM (PiwSw)

68 was it about andor, interesting treatment of the material, but even more so, the reaction to same,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 26, 2025 11:44 AM (bXbFr)

69 Sounds like Brooks no longer receives money laundered through USAID.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 26, 2025 11:45 AM (yO07m)

70 Beware. The Brooksites have trouser creases sharp enough to cut your head off.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 26, 2025 11:45 AM (1bNHn)

71 Remember that big kaboom in Beirut a few years ago. Also an “industrial accident” iirc.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:45 AM (nzXzp)

72 I just found out that Dr Oz' name is "Mehmet Cengiz Oz"
and Cengiz is pronounced 'Genghis"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 26, 2025 11:46 AM (D7oie)

73 It’s even funnier when you realize Brooks has put his cri de coure in the NYT, behind a paywall and only read by the wealthy ruling class left and their worshippers. As if that’s who can start a revolution.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 11:46 AM (ZEzFB)

74 Ten houses on my street. Estimate 50-60 firearms of all shapes, calibers, sizes. We all know how to shoot. Several large boats and two backhoes for cleanup. Come get us David!
Posted by: Peaceful

Heh. My place backs up to a 80,000+ acre state wildlife area. There are about 50-60 turkey buzzards that roost immediately behind us most of the year.

There are probably 10-15 poor decisions hidden back there.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2025 11:46 AM (vKNmo)

75 According to CBP stats 5,000 illegals have self deported in the last 2 weeks.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 11:47 AM (oXfCm)

76 >> The Brooksites have trouser creases sharp enough to cut your head off.

The Brooksgeoisie.

Posted by: Brother Mike Johnson at April 26, 2025 11:47 AM (/dDa4)

77 Congress seems to have given up on its duties , but collects all the cash from the Deep State decisions

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 11:47 AM (ypFCm)

78 The insurrection Brooks is calling for already exists. The judges are part of it. So are all the deep state cucks sabotaging his every move. And people like that military guy exposed by James O’Keefe. And all the low level doj people like the lawyer who said Maryland Man was deported by mistake.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:49 AM (nzXzp)

79 I think it was Stephen Miller, Trump's Policy wonk who used the term "judicial coup" a couple days ago. I hope the administration treats it like the coup it is. Make the public aware of it too.

I've been using the term for weeks. I think it has some significance when the administration starts using it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 11:49 AM (Q4IgG)

80 I have to say that I think Fetterman is probably a better Senator than Oz would have been. I don’t trust Muslims, and I Really don’t trust Turks. And Oz is both.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 11:50 AM (ZEzFB)

81 According to CBP stats 5,000 illegals have self deported in the last 2 weeks.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 11:47 AM (oXfCm)
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Hmmm...26 times 5 ... carry the one...that's only 130,000/year. They'll have to step it up.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 26, 2025 11:50 AM (6YdsJ)

82 Anyways, Dr Oz doesn't seem like the "Eager hawk on your wrist, a willing horse for your mount, and the crisp steppe wind in your face" sort of Genghis.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 26, 2025 11:50 AM (D7oie)

83 David Brooks and David Hogg are on the same page.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

They reached out across the aisle?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 26, 2025 11:50 AM (L/fGl)

84 According to CBP stats 5,000 illegals have self deported in the last 2 weeks.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 11:47 AM (oXfCm)

How is that even tracked. If Jose just goes back to Mexico? It’s not like there’s a sign out sheet at the border.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:51 AM (nzXzp)

85 What has David Brooks ever said or done that passes for conservative? I mean there are those razor sharp trouser creases but is there more than that?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 26, 2025 11:52 AM (SXxzC)

86 Brooks: "Our ancestors bequeathed to us a judicial system, great universities, compassionate aid organizations, great companies and scientific genius."

He left out the tiny detail that all of these institutions have been co-opted and destroyed to varying degrees by the left. Doesn't seem to bother him.

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 26, 2025 11:52 AM (rbKZ6)

87 I have to say that I think Fetterman is probably a better Senator than Oz would have been. I don’t trust Muslims, and I Really don’t trust Turks. And Oz is both.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 11:50 AM (ZEzFB)

Not agreeing to give up his Turkish citizenship unless he won was a non-starter for me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 11:52 AM (VofaG)

88 Morning.

I've got a comprehensive civic uprising. In my pants.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2025 11:53 AM (KnnTg)

89 Mehmet = Mohammed = fake prophet

Oz = fake wizard

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 11:53 AM (/dDa4)

90 It's Go Time, through CBP app and numbers at the borders. Those self deporting ain't swimming the Rio Grande.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 11:53 AM (oXfCm)

91 True story.

One time I opened up a dictionary to look up the word "irony" and it opened up exactly to the page "irony" was on, and that was where my eyes were directly focused.

That actually happened. Kinda weird.

I've never been able to figure out if that was ironic or not.

Just a 1/million chance?

Posted by: eleven at April 26, 2025 11:53 AM (0HaGk)

92 The time to deal with an assault on our form of government was 4 years ago when a usurper was installed in a stolen election who preceded to imprison the opposition, loot the treasury, and force the population to take what he knew were poison shots.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 11:54 AM (t0Rmr)

93 48 Look at the list of types Brooks wants to enlist in his “insurrection”; and it’s all Ruling Class all the way. He doesn’t have the self awareness to realize he’s calling on only about 5% of the population, because he believes that’s the only part that counts.

Probably the best admission yet that Trump fights for the Working Classes, and the left has abandoned them completely.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 11:34 AM (ZEzFB)
_______
Brooks has actually had a few clear sighted moments about that. It was only last year he pointed out how his class always seems to come out very well, no matter who's in charge. He's actually quite perceptive; it's a shame he embraced utter shallowness as his fundamental value.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 26, 2025 11:54 AM (1bNHn)

94 Let’s be conservative and say there are 20 million illegals. In 4 years it would need on average 100k deportations a week to remove them all. From what I’ve read it’s running at about 100k per quarter.

Nobody realistically expected every last one of them to be deported but I think we all expected the number to be in the many millions. Not a few hundred thousand.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:54 AM (nzXzp)

95 David Brooks and David Hogg are on the same page.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

They reached out across the aisle?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 26, 2025 11:50 AM (L/fGl)

I prefer to reach around.

Posted by: David Hogg at April 26, 2025 11:55 AM (/dDa4)

96 71 Remember that big kaboom in Beirut a few years ago. Also an “industrial accident” iirc.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:45 AM (nzXzp)

One of the most telling photos to come out after that explosion was a simple cell phone video of a work crew using an arc welder on the security doors to the building - just a few feet away from a large fireworks storage area, which was next to thousands of pounds of stored nitrate fertilizer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 11:55 AM (ZEzFB)

97 Mehmet = Mohammed = fake prophet

When the Byzantines first encountered Muslims they thought they were just Christian/Jewish heretics.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 11:55 AM (t0Rmr)

98 >>But his key issue was immigration. And on that front it’s not as yuuge and tremendous and incredible as we were led to believe it would be. So far.

>>“Since President Trump has been in office – just a few short weeks – we have arrested and deported over 150,000 individuals, many of them incredibly dangerous, (so) that now communities are much safer,” Noem said.

https://tinyurl.com/29zw9fkp

But the bigger issue which gets almost no coverage is the border is closed. Unlike under previous administration those who get deported aren't coming right back in. We now have the most secure southern border ever. People wanted the US military on the southern border. They are there now patrolling miles of recently made federal land.

Yes, the leftists in the judiciary are fighting tooth and nail to keep illegal gangbangers in this country. They will lose eventually. It's moronic to insist Trump isn't moving fast enough when he has done more in his first 3 months than any other Republican president has done in a 4 year term to change the trajectory of the country and the world.

That's why the left is freaking out.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 11:56 AM (viF8m)

99 Take Me Home Country Road...YES

Posted by: rocdoctom at April 26, 2025 11:56 AM (G4Ucp)

100 Did you guys know its racism that Deion Sander's kid wasn't take first in the NFL draft? Yes the guy that was is black as were 26/32 people picked.

So why is it racism? Well Sanders is "outspoken" and apparently the other black people being drafted aren't.

I read this stuff and you have to laugh. I can't think of a clearer sign that racism is no longer a real problem if this stuff makes the news.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 11:57 AM (t0Rmr)

101 Brooks: "Our ancestors bequeathed to us a judicial system, great universities, compassionate aid organizations, great companies and scientific genius."

What a crock of bullshit.

They didn't bequeath a judicial system that goes beyond their constitutional powers, or universities with billions of dollars taking tax payer money and protecting Antisemitism or communist organizations disguised as charity aid organization or private companies that the government didn't build no matter what Warren says.

Brooks is an intellectual light weight like all the fake conservatives.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 11:58 AM (VofaG)

102 >>“Since President Trump has been in office – just a few short weeks – we have arrested and deported over 150,000 individuals, many of them incredibly dangerous, (so) that now communities are much safer,” Noem said.

That is better news. But 40M - 150K is...not enough.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 11:58 AM (t0Rmr)

103 Absolutely. The border is closed. And OrangeMan deserves a yuuuuuge thumbs up for that. I wish he would publicize this. Because it gets virtually no attention.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:59 AM (nzXzp)

104 Brooks: "Our ancestors bequeathed to us a judicial system, great universities, compassionate aid organizations, great companies and scientific genius.

You moderns are pretty stupid ain't ya?

Posted by: President Jackson at April 26, 2025 11:59 AM (t0Rmr)

105 Has anyone asked Brooks if looking at Hogg or Sisson's pant crease gives him a tingle in his no no square

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 12:00 PM (t0Rmr)

106 I read this stuff and you have to laugh. I can't think of a clearer sign that racism is no longer a real problem if this stuff makes the news.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 11:57 AM (t0Rmr)

Still one of my all time favorite quotes:

The demand for hate crimes far exceeds the supply.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 12:00 PM (VofaG)

107
There are probably 10-15 poor decisions hidden back there.

Just saying.
Posted by: Tonypete

Damn revenuers shouda not gone in there...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 26, 2025 12:01 PM (L0TJc)

108 When the Byzantines first encountered Muslims they thought they were just Christian/Jewish heretics.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 11:55 AM (t0Rmr)

They were right. It took at least a century for the organized system called Islam to be developed by the new Arabic dynasty. There probably was a Mohammed, but he was probably just a small time mystic and raider in his lifetime.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 12:02 PM (ZEzFB)

109 100 Did you guys know its racism that Deion Sander's kid wasn't take first in the NFL draft? Yes the guy that was is black as were 26/32 people picked.

So why is it racism? Well Sanders is "outspoken" and apparently the other black people being drafted aren't.

—

Reminds me of when Barbie didn’t win the best actress Oscar. And that was sexist. Even though by definition another woman won best actress.

I hate to be a broken record but the left is clinically insane.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:02 PM (nzXzp)

110 What the World Economic Forum Whistleblower Is Alleging About Klaus Schwab

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He was a low-down, cheap little punk.
Taking everyone for a ride...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 26, 2025 12:02 PM (L/fGl)

111 I saw one of those stupid memes about Maga would deport Jesus. How come I've never seen anyone say Muhammad was a refugee or would be deported?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 26, 2025 12:02 PM (SXxzC)

112 They were right. It took at least a century for the organized system called Islam to be developed by the new Arabic dynasty. There probably was a Mohammed, but he was probably just a small time mystic and raider in his lifetime.

Don't forget genocidal murder - when he defeat the Jews in Mecca he had them all killed.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 12:03 PM (t0Rmr)

113 I just learned to ignore the
"Trump is a fascist dictator" and the
"The Trump administration is literally doing nothing" super smart commenter's who get winded going up a flight of stairs
Both clowns imo

Posted by: Cmonman at April 26, 2025 12:03 PM (1qLj5)

114 What is supposed to be Brooks heavy burden? All he's doing is calling for violence and law breaking just like all the other leftists.

If you're saying Brooks has a burden of calling for violence and pretending to be conservative, I say there is no burden. Brooks' conservatism has been fictional from at least since he supported Obama. Anyone that would consider listening to him are already democrats.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2025 12:05 PM (3wi/L)

115 I saw one of those stupid memes about Maga would deport Jesus. How come I've never seen anyone say Muhammad was a refugee or would be deported?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 26, 2025 12:02 PM (SXxzC)

Why would Trump deport Jesus? Are they saying Jesus was an illegal alien criminal gang banger?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 12:05 PM (VofaG)

116 Voted for Dr Oz but can't say I like him

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 12:06 PM (ypFCm)

117 “Under no circumstance, this should not have happened.”

— Shedeur Sanders after not being drafted in the first round on Thursday

Gee, maybe the arrogance on display in that statement shows why he wasn’t drafted in the 2nd and 3rd rounds on Friday

Posted by: one hour sober at April 26, 2025 12:06 PM (Y1sOo)

118 I saw one of those stupid memes about Maga would deport Jesus. How come I've never seen anyone say Muhammad was a refugee or would be deported?/i]

And the funny part is he was - according to their own documents, Muhammed was such an asshole they kicked him out of Mecca.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)

119 Trump is trying. But the judges are keeping the progress level to a crawl. So Trump has to make the choice. Tell the judges to fuck off or let them run the country.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:07 PM (nzXzp)

120 Voted for Dr Oz but can't say I like him
Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 12:06 PM (ypFCm)

Which is why he may be good in his appointed position. If he fucks up, he can be fired. Not so, if elected.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:07 PM (8zz6B)

121 Trump wouldn't have deported Jesus...

But Biden's IRS would sure as shit have audited his family and given Jesus himself a no knock 3 AM raid for being a "fundamentalist Christian"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 12:07 PM (t0Rmr)

122 Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington and Trump’s permanent selection to serve in that role, sent a letter on Thursday afternoon to the Wikimedia Foundation that alleged it “is engaging in a series of activities that could violate its obligations” under 501(c)(3), a section of the IRS code for charities. It is Wikipedia’s parent group.

Most Racist Nazi President eva is going after them Jooz Haters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 12:08 PM (gbOdA)

123 MS13 gang banger = Jesus

Clinically insane.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:08 PM (nzXzp)

124 Trump wouldn't have deported Jesus...

But Biden's IRS would sure as shit have audited his family and given Jesus himself a no knock 3 AM raid for being a "fundamentalist Christian"
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 12:07 PM (t0Rmr)

Jesus would have definitely defied the 'no large gathering' edict during Covid.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 12:09 PM (VofaG)

125 But Biden's IRS would sure as shit have audited his family and given Jesus himself a no knock 3 AM raid for being a "fundamentalist Christian"
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 12:07 PM (t0Rmr)

HE would have had a Bitch of a time trying to get to classes at Yale.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 12:10 PM (gbOdA)

126 I had no idea Brooks is from Toronto.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:11 PM (n3U+x)

127 "Incredible rendition of "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

And then Fil at Wings of Pegasus shows the live recording to be pitch corrected.

Posted by: 13times at April 26, 2025 12:11 PM (bW0yY)

128 15
'Maybe he should lose his citizenship and be deported back to Canada'

Is he really Canadian or are we just saying that to ship him the hell out of here?
Because if it's the second, let's say he's North Korean instead.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2025 12:12 PM (3wi/L)

129 I drove Ace to the airport this morning. He cause a little bit of a ruckus. They weren't going to let him board the plane with his Jake Tapper Voodoo Doll. Something about using the giant pins as a weapon. But, we worked it out. I had some mini-jeweler table clamps in the trunk, and the airline was perfectly cool with those.

He'll replace the pins when he lands. I'm pretty sure they have them in Greenland.

Posted by: Orson at April 26, 2025 12:12 PM (dIske)

130 I think Obama deported a German couple seeking asylum because they were persecuted in Germany for wanting to home school their children.

Admittedly I didn't follow the case to the end so I may be mistaken . I know the Obama DOJ was for deportation.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 12:12 PM (VofaG)

131 I had no idea Brooks is from Toronto.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:11 PM (n3U+x)

Which is not really a part of Canada. It like to imagine itself as "NYC lite".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:12 PM (8zz6B)

132 Brooks is a Canuck? Lol.
STFU hoser.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:12 PM (nzXzp)

133 HE would have had a Bitch of a time trying to get to classes at Yale.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 12:10 PM (gbOdA)

Hah iswydt

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 12:14 PM (VofaG)

134 IIRC the illegals who have no criminal record beyond being here without the necessary documentation can "self deport" and presuming they fill out the necessary paperwork and submit it through the proper channels would, most likely, be permitted to return.

Especially if, say, they have family here... married to an American or whatever.

I would imagine if this is the case there would be an uptick in "legal immigration" as those that were serious about US citizenship and not just freeloaders begin to return... legally.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 12:14 PM (Q4IgG)

135 130 I think Obama deported a German couple seeking asylum because they were persecuted in Germany for wanting to home school their children.

Admittedly I didn't follow the case to the end so I may be mistaken . I know the Obama DOJ was for deportation.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 12:12 PM (VofaG)

That was basically it. Germany doesn’t allow home schooling because as everyone knows home school = Nazi indoctrination, doncthaknow. They came here because they were facing serious prison time.

Obama said too bad so sad back you go.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:14 PM (nzXzp)

136 Dont be silly Go Time, lots of those gang bangers ARE named 'Hey Zeus'. I'll bet more than one has already been deported.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 26, 2025 12:15 PM (bP/i4)

137 >Trump is shackling the greatest institutions in American life. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
----

sure
this is reasoned, sober commentary 🙄

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2025 12:16 PM (AOsQT)

138 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
WI Democrat State Rep Ryan Clancy: Everyone should be shielding illegal alien violent criminals from ICE:
“What Judge Dugan apparently did was what all of us should be doing."
"Standing up for folks in our communities who need support right now against the Trump regime."

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If we don't act now, we may not have any criminal illegal alien gang bangers!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 26, 2025 12:16 PM (L/fGl)

139 Nothing is happening.

>>Susan Rice is not happy about being kicked out of the Pentagon. Calls Secretary of Defense “dumb as a rock"
Posted by: JackStraw
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Previous Admin probably had her tucked away is some dim back hallway as an SES and 'accidentally' omitted from the global directory but still sporting JWCS access.... Took a huindred days to figure out she was even there. Numbnuts in the other obscure pointless org put the spotlight into the dark corners of the Pentagon.

Hence the slur "dumb as a rock'

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 12:16 PM (/lPRQ)

140 along with an unhealthy obsession with "elites".

Brooks worships elites.

After all, what could be more "elite" than Claudine Gay and the rest of the faculty at Harvard University?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 26, 2025 12:17 PM (xTIDn)

141 Brooks: "Our ancestors bequeathed to us a judicial system, great universities, compassionate aid organizations, great companies and scientific genius.
====================

Wait...I thought we were told it was all "structurally racist", misogynist, patriarchal, and colonialist.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:18 PM (EAwQ9)

142 The number of votes cast by non-citizens in the Michigan 2024 election is continuing to grow.

"Remember it was 1, and then it was 15, and then it was 16. I'm telling you right now, it's near 80," House Oversight Cmte Chairman Jay DeBoyer told reporters on Thursday.

I bet there are between 2 and 4 Million illegals registered to vote.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 12:18 PM (gbOdA)

143 Saying “he’s going too slow” is not the same as saying “nothing is happening”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:18 PM (nzXzp)

144 Its funny, Trump repeatedly said he wants to send all the illegals home...but starting with the worst.

The left is going apeshit over Trump sending wife beating, human trafficking, MS-13 members home.

How crazy are they going to get when he gets to the ones that are say just illegally on welfare?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 12:18 PM (t0Rmr)

145 After all, what could be more "elite" than Claudine Gay and the rest of the faculty at Harvard University?

When Gay was first tenured at Stanford, there was apparently some murmuring among the faculty, given Gay's ridiculous lack of academic qualifications.

No one was dumb enough to publicly complain, of course - protesting an obvious DEI hire would end your career.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 26, 2025 12:20 PM (xTIDn)

146 The left is going apeshit over Trump sending wife beating, human trafficking, MS-13 members home.

How crazy are they going to get when he gets to the ones that are say just illegally on welfare?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 12:18 PM (t0Rmr)

They’re already at 11. Can it get any crazier?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:20 PM (nzXzp)

147 >>Susan Rice is not happy about being kicked out of the Pentagon. Calls Secretary of Defense “dumb as a rock"
Posted by: JackStraw
================
This from a woman I personally saw point to a place on the fifty yard line at Stanford Stadium and earnestly announce to a full crowd, including the President of Mexico and the parents of the graduating class, that she lost her virginity "right there!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:21 PM (EAwQ9)

148 Brooks scores a perfect 10 on Weasel's Punchable Face Index

Posted by: Weasel at April 26, 2025 12:21 PM (lG3Q4)

149 We're seeing an assault on the fundamental institutions of our civic life, things we should all swear loyalty to

Can he really mean this? Honestly? I cannot imagine it. He's calling for everyone to submit to NGO's, to bureaucrats, to the establishment.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:22 PM (2VST1)

150 This from a woman I personally saw point to a place on the fifty yard line at Stanford Stadium and earnestly announce to a full crowd, including the President of Mexico and the parents of the graduating class, that she lost her virginity "right there!"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:21 PM (EAwQ9)
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Not at Faber College?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 26, 2025 12:22 PM (6YdsJ)

151 >> Especially if, say, they have family here... married to an American or whatever.

Noooo. What’s the point of tossing these people out if they’re just going to be allowed back in? I’m sick and tired of seeing my rural area slowly turn into Mexico. Their families should go with them.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 12:22 PM (/dDa4)

152 The left is going apeshit over Trump sending wife beating, human trafficking, MS-13 members home.

How crazy are they going to get when he gets to the ones that are say just illegally on welfare?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2025 12:18 PM (t0Rmr)

They’re already at 11. Can it get any crazier?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:20 PM (nzXzp)

Hold my beer.

Posted by: Some Lefty Shitbag at April 26, 2025 12:22 PM (KnnTg)

153
Brooks doesn't realize that institutions are respected to the extent they cleave to the standards that earned them that respect. They have hollowed themselves out for years. Now even the facade is crumbling.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 12:23 PM (QnmlO)

154
Reposted: Virginia Giuffre didn't kill herself.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at April 26, 2025 12:23 PM (n7rxJ)

155 The left is going apeshit over Trump sending wife beating, human trafficking, MS-13 members home.

They're all innocent choir boys, and deporting them is literally equivalent to sending Anne Frank to a concentration camp.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 26, 2025 12:24 PM (xTIDn)

156 This from a woman I personally saw point to a place on the fifty yard line at Stanford Stadium and earnestly announce to a full crowd, including the President of Mexico and the parents of the graduating class, that she lost her virginity "right there!"
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Did she also announce that she was still in middle school when it happened?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 12:24 PM (/lPRQ)

157 Had a CT scan yesterday - should know more on Monday when I meet with my oncology surgeon to figure out what is next. I will be seeing my oncologist on Tuesday, and we will talk some more. Both of my doctors work closely together at UTSW in Dallas; my oncologist drives to Fort Worth one day a week, which is when I see him. The UTSW-FW complex is just a few blocks from our house, so it is VERY convenient for me!

Will let you know when I know more 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 26, 2025 12:24 PM (SRRAx)

158 98
'We now have the most secure southern border ever. People wanted the US military on the southern border.'

I'd be more excited about that if 20 million weren't already here illegally.
My impatience is not because I don't think Trump is trying but because I think time is running out. Trump would take about as much heat deporting by the hundreds of thousands as he is getting now and will get when the democrat-judiciary axis ramps this up to another constitutional crisis and impeachment.
That is clearly inevitable.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2025 12:24 PM (3wi/L)

159 Brooks worships elites.

I wonder. I mean, I have no doubt he's part of the Dagon-worshipping orgies and drug fueled parties, but I doubt he even gets any of the NGO money except through a NYT paycheck. But he does seem to hold certain class of people in a ridiculously high regard, and others with contempt. Its like one of those obsequious servile hangers on that nobility would get, they had no power but felt better by the reflected glow of the people with it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:25 PM (2VST1)

160 >>Susan Rice is not happy about being kicked out of the Pentagon. Calls Secretary of Defense “dumb as a rock"
Posted by: JackStraw
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This from a woman I personally saw point to a place on the fifty yard line at Stanford Stadium and earnestly announce to a full crowd, including the President of Mexico and the parents of the graduating class, that she lost her virginity "right there!"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:21 PM (EAwQ9)

Why is every leftist motivated by satisfying all their glandular urges?

I know they're powerful urges but fucking sakes the left is motivated exclusively by them.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2025 12:25 PM (KnnTg)

161 Sassington, M.C. (@MissSassbox)
this comparison might sound a little extreme, but at this point...
watching Shedeur Sanders not be drafted this long, feels like watching the slave who tried to runaway getting whipped.
it's not about skill or personality anymore. this is punishment, now. #NFLDraf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 26, 2025 12:25 PM (L/fGl)

162 I drove Ace to the airport this morning. He cause a little bit of a ruckus. They weren't going to let him board the plane with his Jake Tapper Voodoo Doll. Something about using the giant pins as a weapon. But, we worked it out. I had some mini-jeweler table clamps in the trunk, and the airline was perfectly cool with those.

He'll replace the pins when he lands. I'm pretty sure they have them in Greenland.
Posted by: Orson at April 26, 2025 12:12 PM (dIske)
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Ace getting drunk and sticking voodoo pins in Fake Jake is a great way to unwind.

Have fun Ace!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:25 PM (EAwQ9)

163 >>Previous Admin probably had her tucked away is some dim back hallway as an SES and 'accidentally' omitted from the global directory but still sporting JWCS access.... Took a huindred days to figure out she was even there. Numbnuts in the other obscure pointless org put the spotlight into the dark corners of the Pentagon.

She ran domestic policy for Biden for a couple of years. That's a big reason we got here. She was one of Obama's key aides in a couple different roles and she was as much responsible for the Benghazi disaster as anyone. Her secret power is somehow never being held responsible for the enormous number of clusterfucks she caused.

She's a more feminine version of Obama. Barely.

DC has ben full of these NGOs and boards for decades. The unelected bureaucracy that has been largely running this country. That's the reason Tesla dealerships have been firebombed.

Wait until it gets revealed what Samantha Power was doing. Yea, she never left either.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 12:26 PM (viF8m)

164 deporting them is literally equivalent to sending Anne Frank to a concentration camp.

No, really they literally say that. LITERALLY. This is in the context of arresting a judge for hiding a violent lawbreaking illegal:

@ProjectLiberal 22h
If you would have turned in the people who hid Anne Frank...

...you might be a Nazi.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:27 PM (2VST1)

165 Is he really Canadian or are we just saying that to ship him the hell out of here?
Because if it's the second, let's say he's North Korean instead.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2025 12:12 PM (3wi/L)

Born Canadian, if he hates America and is supporting overthrowing an elected President, maybe he should go home.

Posted by: night lifted at April 26, 2025 12:27 PM (FZn/N)

166 Brooks: "Our ancestors bequeathed to us a judicial system, great universities, compassionate aid organizations, great companies and scientific genius."

I get tired of this. The Constitution is a living document when some wish it, and written in stone when its not. Both sides play this game.

It comes down to this ... do we rule ourselves or don't we ? Because self-rule is not "go long with the ruling class as long as the ruling class suits me".

Frankly - the Founders agreed to a contract. The contract is not a suicide pact, and its not binding for eternity. I won't be bound by something I had no say in the , and apparently have no say now, to whatever extent my little person power allows me to disobey.

So, are we self-ruling ? Because if we are, how things operate now have not worked in any sustainable way in my lifetime. Sometimes it has suited of you more. Sometimes less.

But according to levels of national debt ? Illegal immigration ? Domestic economic production ? Global trade ?

Its not been sustainable in five decades. Maybe its worked to David Brooks satisfaction. He, and all those like him, may kiss my ass.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 12:27 PM (McYvC)

167 this comparison might sound a little extreme, but at this point...
watching Shedeur Sanders not be drafted this long, feels like watching the slave who tried to runaway getting whipped.

Yeah this is not gonna help him get drafted LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:28 PM (2VST1)

168 JackStraw, you mean head of USAID , Samantha Power?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 12:29 PM (oXfCm)

169 Will let you know when I know more 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 26, 2025 12:24 PM (SRRAx)

Good luck, Teresa! I’ll be praying for you.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 12:30 PM (/dDa4)

170 The NFL is not a nepotism machine it is strictly based on merit and perception of ability. Sanders isn't going to the front of the line just because his dad was terrific, he has to prove himself.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:31 PM (2VST1)

171 No, really they literally say that. LITERALLY.

Yep - sending illegal aliens back to their home countries is literally equivalent to the Holocaust.

Many, many people are saying this.

One wonders how one can share a country with these people.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 26, 2025 12:31 PM (xTIDn)

172 No, really they literally say that. LITERALLY. This is in the context of arresting a judge for hiding a violent lawbreaking illegal:

@ProjectLiberal 22h
If you would have turned in the people who hid Anne Frank...

...you might be a Nazi.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I would have turned her ass in if she snuck into Germany.. Don't care if she was a minor with her parents.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 12:32 PM (/lPRQ)

173 I live and work among the Brooks. They truly believe institutions are sacred. And experts are never wrong. If it’s printed in the NYT it’s gospel. College degree means better person. College degree from elite school means best person.

Trump in their eyes is destroying the very foundation of their existence. Almost a religious thing and his attack feels like a holy war. Which is why they’re so amped up.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:32 PM (nzXzp)

174 Probably said above, but this klutz doesn't realize that the civil uprising IS Trump and MAGA.

In response to the status quo corruption that the previous administrations represented.

Posted by: ruralcounsel at April 26, 2025 12:32 PM (u9OdC)

175 The hamassholes are now claiming that Gaza is the 21st century Auschwitz.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 12:33 PM (oXfCm)

176 My guess is Shedeur Sanders isn't getting drafted because no team thinks he's good enough to tolerate the barbs and arrows of his father second-guessing coaching decisions all the time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:33 PM (CORHs)

177 Left: all cultures are wonderful and all countries are better than America

Also left: sending an illegal back to his country is like the holocaust

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:34 PM (nzXzp)

178 Yep - sending illegal aliens back to their home countries is literally equivalent to the Holocaust.

The New York Times printed a sob story about an illegal in the United States for 23 years who was shipped back to Jamaica, a place that he barely knew.

How Unfair!

Deemphasized in the article was the fact that he spent 16 of those 23 years in Federal prison.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 26, 2025 12:35 PM (xTIDn)

179 I live and work among the Brooks. They truly believe institutions are sacred. And experts are never wrong. If it’s printed in the NYT it’s gospel. College degree means better person. College degree from elite school means best person.

And all the good ham and eggers in the FBI. And all the good LEOs just itching to come out and back us just like we backed them. And on and on.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 12:36 PM (McYvC)

180 The hamassholes are now claiming that Gaza is the 21st century Auschwitz.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 12:33 PM (oXfCm)

Not sayin' it, but you know I'm thinkin' it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:36 PM (8zz6B)

181 >>JackStraw, you mean head of USAID , Samantha Power?

The very same.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 12:36 PM (viF8m)

182 Barky's eyes and ears in the Pentagon

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 12:37 PM (ypFCm)

183 The New York Times printed a sob story about an illegal in the United States for 23 years who was shipped back to Jamaica, a place that he barely knew.

How Unfair!

Deemphasized in the article was the fact that he spent 16 of those 23 years in Federal prison.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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So they are saying he should have been shipped back to federal prison.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 12:37 PM (/lPRQ)

184 this comparison might sound a little extreme, but at this point...
watching Shedeur Sanders not be drafted this long, feels like watching the slave who tried to runaway getting whipped.

Yeah this is not gonna help him get drafted LOL
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:28 PM (2VST1)
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Yeah, having to wait in line to get a job playing a kid's game that pays millions of dollars is exactly like slavery.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 26, 2025 12:37 PM (6YdsJ)

185 Brooks sounds a lot like Douglas Murray.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2025 12:37 PM (+lvAA)

186 176 My guess is Shedeur Sanders isn't getting drafted because no team thinks he's good enough to tolerate the barbs and arrows of his father second-guessing coaching decisions all the time.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:33 PM (CORHs)
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If he waits a year he's going to have an Arch Manning problem.

Posted by: Orson at April 26, 2025 12:38 PM (dIske)

187 The hamassholes are now claiming that Gaza is the 21st century Auschwitz.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 12:33 PM (oXfCm)

Not sayin' it, but you know I'm thinkin' it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:36 PM (8zz6B)

I think we may be sharing similar thoughts.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2025 12:39 PM (KnnTg)

188 If he waits a year he's going to have an Arch Manning problem.
Posted by: Orson at April 26, 2025 12:38 PM (dIske)
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Isn't there a cream for that?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 26, 2025 12:39 PM (6YdsJ)

189 Its not just that one dude who is violating Godwin's Law about these crooked judges:

@mmpadellan 18h

For the people celebrating the weaponized arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan by the trump administration because "she broke the law," just remember that it used to be against the law to hide folks like Anne Frank.

What side of history are YOU on?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:39 PM (2VST1)

190 Any QB taken this late in the draft is being looked at as a potential backup to the starter. That won’t sit well with Baby Deion and Deion himself.

Draft him for that purpose and you’re just asking for trouble.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 26, 2025 12:40 PM (Y1sOo)

191 To the Brooks of the world, living in a “Diverse” community means you can eat at Thai and Chinese and Mexican restaurants. And your colleague is an upper class Venezuelan that went to Harvard. What’s wrong with that right? Diversity sounds awesome.

They don’t get to experience the real diversity. Like when your kid is one of 3 English speakers in a public school classroom. Or when the house next door is occupied by 12 day laborers who drink beer outside until 1am every night. Or when every job in your city now requires Spanish.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:41 PM (nzXzp)

192 thank you so much for that clip. WOW

two boys one girl, close in age. look like my kids eerily. only one of them can sing tho!

lovely, lovely wholesome interlude, thanks again!

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 12:41 PM (Pv3Rg)

193 185 Brooks sounds a lot like Douglas Murray.

Reminds me of a sober Peggy Noonan. In theory - because every time I've heard or read Peggy she seems a wine bottle in. She's a weepy drunk.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 12:41 PM (McYvC)

194 I know some might be offended but why are women at the Pentagon in any war fighting advisory position at all?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 12:41 PM (VofaG)

195 Somebody tell that pants crease sniffing Brooks that nobody tells me to what or whom I should swear loyalty.
And can the world please stop the charade that there is ANYTHING conservative about this poncy fraud.

Our 'civic institutions' are corrupt. Enter President Wrecking Ball.

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2025 12:41 PM (AOsQT)

196 >>> Julian Assange and His Family Attend Funeral for Pope Francis

That updates the "Where are They Now?" file for Assange.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 12:43 PM (/lPRQ)

197
Speaking of institutions, am i the only one who didn't know the ABA gets federal grants? For training attorneys in this or that matter, like every profession has except not funded that way. Trump cut them off for their DEI shyte and they're suing because they're entitled to our wages.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at April 26, 2025 12:43 PM (n7rxJ)

198 I know some might be offended but why are women at the Pentagon in any war fighting advisory position at all?

Same reason some softball pitcher is calling Yankees games on ESPN.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:43 PM (2VST1)

199 Tom Brady was selected in the 6th round.

Racist !!

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 12:44 PM (VofaG)

200 College degree means better person. College degree from elite school means best person.

Some idiot said that Trump shouldn't crack down on Leftist colleges and universities because when the Democrats get back into power, the D's will crack down on conservative colleges and universities.

LOL. There's Hillsdale, and...

That is a weakness of the Left - they so completely control academia, big law firms, governmental bureaucracies, establishment media, that you can go after them without worrying about blowback.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 26, 2025 12:44 PM (xTIDn)

201 Sanders can go to training camp with Kapernick.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 12:45 PM (VofaG)

202 197
'Trump cut them off for their DEI shyte and they're suing because they're entitled to our wages.'

They're suing because they're a bunch of lawyers who think they can always work the system to screw everyone else.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2025 12:45 PM (3wi/L)

203 Our 'civic institutions' are corrupt. Enter President Wrecking Ball.

The greatest feature of pure capitalism has to be creative destruction. A demand exists. Something fills the void, profits, gets big and lazy, and dies.

But not government. Apparently we can't demolish anything government and start over.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 12:45 PM (McYvC)

204 Somebody tell that pants crease sniffing Brooks that nobody tells me to what or whom I should swear loyalty.

Wasn't he the guy mocking people who came to NYC without knowing every single obscure sort of Italian ham?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:45 PM (2VST1)

205 If he waits a year he's going to have an Arch Manning problem.
Posted by: Orson at April 26, 2025 12:38 PM (dIske)
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I am looking forward to seeing Arch Manning open his career as a starter versus Ohio State, at home in Columbus. That is one kick-ass way to start the college football season.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:46 PM (Sroko)

206 Speaking of institutions, am i the only one who didn't know the ABA gets federal grants?

Aren't they the guys who play with the red, white, and blue basketball?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:46 PM (2VST1)

207 Wasn't he the guy mocking people who came to NYC without knowing every single obscure sort of Italian ham?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:45 PM (2VST1)

IIRC his “taxi driver”. Which was almost 100% a fake story anyway.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:47 PM (nzXzp)

208 Wasn't he the guy mocking people who came to NYC without knowing every single obscure sort of Italian ham?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Named for the region the come from?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 12:47 PM (/lPRQ)

209 The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk
Influencers blamed for rise in shark attacks

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at April 26, 2025 12:47 PM (7MAGa)

210 Aren't they the guys who play with the red, white, and blue basketball?

Invented the three pointer. And three FTs to make two.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 12:48 PM (McYvC)

211 Have a fine day horde! Stay healthy. Off to do some errands before the rain kicks in.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:48 PM (Sroko)

212 >Wasn't he the guy mocking people who came to NYC without knowing every single obscure sort of Italian ham?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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all I know is, he was always looking at 0bama's pants, while experiencing a tumescent glow

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2025 12:48 PM (AOsQT)

213 Aren't they the guys who play with the red, white, and blue basketball?

Invented the three pointer. And three FTs to make two.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 12:48 PM (McYvC)

The league that Dr J made famous. He was almost as good as Caitlin Clark.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 12:49 PM (VofaG)

214 Out: Being locked into a contract to play for an NFL team is like slavery!

In: Not being drafted to play under contract for an NFL team is like slavery!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:49 PM (2VST1)

215 By context, I'll assume tumescent equals queer gay and not happy gay.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 12:50 PM (McYvC)

216 >>Speaking of institutions, am i the only one who didn't know the ABA gets federal grants? For training attorneys in this or that matter, like every profession has except not funded that way. Trump cut them off for their DEI shyte and they're suing because they're entitled to our wages.

Here's a fun fact. Did you know that SC Chief Justice John Roberts spent a week at the home of notorious Trump hater behind all the hoaxes and lawfare Norm Eisen when Eisen was Obama's ambassador to the Czech Republic?

They were working on issues of how to make the rest of the world's legal system more like the US system. You know, corrupt.

Just in case there was any confusion as to why the SC hasn't reigned in the out of control federal courts.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 12:50 PM (viF8m)

217 tumescent means one's bulbous parts, engorged and tingling, back arched ehhh-ver so slightly

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2025 12:53 PM (AOsQT)

218 216
'Just in case there was any confusion as to why the SC hasn't reigned in the out of control federal courts'

I'm more confused why the other justices (or, hell, anyone) see Roberts as anything other than a democrat operative.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2025 12:53 PM (3wi/L)

219 148 Brooks scores a perfect 10 on Weasel's Punchable Face Index
Posted by: Weasel at April 26, 2025 12:21 PM (lG3Q4)

It goes to 11

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 12:55 PM (gbOdA)

220 So in Brooks case, queer gay. But its context within context. Got it.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 12:55 PM (McYvC)

221 214 Out: Being locked into a contract to play for an NFL team is like slavery!

In: Not being drafted to play under contract for an NFL team is like slavery!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 12:49 PM (2VST1)

Interesting that democrats claiming we need 20 million low wage indentured-like workers to have a successful economy is not like Salvery.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 12:57 PM (gbOdA)

222 But his key issue was immigration. And on that front it’s not as yuuge and tremendous and incredible as we were led to believe it would be. So far.

We don't have complete data on this. There have been consistent reports of illegals self-deporting and suddenly empty Home Depots. (The LA Times just ran a story claiming Palisades rebuilding was being delayed by a lack of illegals, which is a direct insult to legal construction workers of all races).

So while it sucks, we don't know the whole picture on deportations.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2025 12:57 PM (QZThv)

223 >I'm more confused why the other justices (or, hell, anyone) see Roberts as anything other than a democrat operative.
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I still don't get why Clarence Thomas wasn't upped to Chief Justice, and Roberts made an Associate Justice

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2025 12:57 PM (AOsQT)

224 I've said too much.

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2025 12:58 PM (AOsQT)

225 I still don't get why Clarence Thomas wasn't upped to Chief Justice, and Roberts made an Associate Justice
Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2025 12:57 PM (AOsQT)

I always assumed Thomas was asked and declined.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 12:59 PM (VofaG)

226 My guess is Shedeur Sanders isn't getting drafted because no team thinks he's good enough to tolerate the barbs and arrows of his father second-guessing coaching decisions all the time.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 12:33 PM (CORHs)

From what I heard, most of the people who interviewed him thought he made his daddy, "Primetime", sound humble.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 26, 2025 01:00 PM (VNX3d)

227 Interesting that democrats claiming we need 20 million low wage indentured-like workers to have a successful economy is not like Salvery.

The Democrat/big business alliance is predicated on the Dems keeping the slavery spigot wide open. It's notable that Silicon Valley is where that alliance first shattered during the Biden administration, because while there's plenty of H1B abuse, those companies aren't directly built on domestic slavery the way some other industries are.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2025 01:01 PM (QZThv)

228 >>I'm more confused why the other justices (or, hell, anyone) see Roberts as anything other than a democrat operative.

I think the terms Democrat and Republican are a meaningless distraction. Useful for political campaigns to rally the faithful but irrelevant in the larger scheme of things.

To me the real distinction is globalist vs nationalist. Look around the world at all of the politicians who have been sidelined, from Argentina to France to Romania and on and on. They are all nationalists like Trump. People who believe in putting the interests of their people first and don't bow to those who insist that countries are just historic relics and want open borders and centralized control.

We've had Republican presidents before. The visceral hate for Trump, not just from Democrats but from the Brooks/Bulwark crowd, is because he actually loves this country and wants Americans to prosper.

Roberts is on team globalist no matter what he identifies as politically.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 01:02 PM (viF8m)

229 Well it is Reddit. lol.

I regularly troll my local reddit. They are such idiots. Told them the latest protest flier are produced by commies, it is astroturf, and all useful idiots should go. Then they freak out.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 26, 2025 01:03 PM (ufFY8)

230 Thanks for the Country Roads clip - brightened my day.

Wonder if they have a version of Country As A Boy Can Be?

Posted by: RM at April 26, 2025 01:05 PM (n/1Oj)

231 > I think the terms Democrat and Republican are a meaningless distraction. Useful for political campaigns to rally the faithful but irrelevant in the larger scheme of things.
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Yea... if a politico can run as a D or R and win, they'll do it. To win. Everything after that is for their own self aggrandizement.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 01:05 PM (Q4IgG)

232 To me the real distinction is globalist vs nationalist. Look around the world at all of the politicians who have been sidelined, from Argentina to France to Romania and on and on.

Yup. It's not even a left/right thing in the traditional sense. The leaders of the left now are openly working towards neo-feudalism. And definitely not the communism/socialism that their stupid foot soldiers think they're supporting.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2025 01:07 PM (QZThv)

233 Interesting that democrats claiming we need 20 million low wage indentured-like workers to have a successful economy is not like Salvery.

That has ALWAYS been a sticking point with me. The smugness of certain people from certain regions regarding their supposed immunity to the taint of slavery.

The only difference between Antebellum slaves and sharecroppers was sharecroppers got to sit in the back pews and could look plantation owners in the eye before bowing their heads.

Sharecroppers were the indentured workers of the South, just like the indentured labor of the North.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 01:09 PM (McYvC)

234 49
“This page left intentionally blank.”

Posted by: Kawaii Natalia Poklonskaya at April 26, 2025 11:34 AM (/dDa4)
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Instead of the above:
"This is a page of AOC's brain"

Posted by: Ciampino - Crocket brain = White Noise at April 26, 2025 01:10 PM (sPQoU)

235 228
'I think the terms Democrat and Republican are a meaningless distraction. '

It has meaning to me. There isn't a single prominent democrat that doesn't fall into your Globalist category or isn't fanatically aligned against me and mine.
You have more of a point about the republicans though

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2025 01:10 PM (3wi/L)

236 My SC distinction is or at least was , Constitutional constructionist or Living constitution.

That the political parties fell on one side or the other was just a consequence.

Now some of the GOP selections have bastardized what constitutional constructionist means.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 01:11 PM (VofaG)

237 Are there any American Democrats who are not globalists?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:13 PM (MGX5d)

238 Are there any American Democrats who are not globalists?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:13 PM (MGX5d)

Chinese American democrats? I think they are just CCP focused.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 01:15 PM (VofaG)

239 Are there any American Democrats who are not globalists?

I don't think Gabbard ever was. I don't think Fetterman is.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 01:15 PM (McYvC)

240 >>It has meaning to me. There isn't a single prominent democrat that doesn't fall into your Globalist category or isn't fanatically aligned against me and mine.
You have more of a point about the republicans though

That's absolutely true. But in this case correlation and causation line up. The Democrat Party is rigidly globalist. Has been for quite some time. They drove out the Blue Dogs and anyone else who had a shred of moderation.

And the Republican Party was well down that road before Trump came along and took a big poop on their picnic. The term uniparty gets a lot of work around here for a reason. There are a boatload of globalists in the Republican Party that are more aligned with those goals than they are with Trump's and we all know it.

I could never vote for any Democrat today, not because they are Democrats but because the entire Democrat Party is a corrupt, globalist machine. There are precious few Republicans I will support for the same reason. Trump is our shot at getting our country back.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 01:19 PM (viF8m)

241 Chinese American democrats? I think they are just CCP focused.

Yup. And while globalists have been good to the CCP, the CCP is not pro-globalist except where "globalist" means "send everything to China".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2025 01:19 PM (QZThv)

242 The term uniparty gets a lot of work around here for a reason.

It gets a fair amount of work on the Left too. A few of them do realize that there is such a thing as Democrat failure theatre, where the communism the base votes for can't happen because of "mean Republicans".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2025 01:20 PM (QZThv)

243 I still don't get why Clarence Thomas wasn't upped to Chief Justice, and Roberts made an Associate Justice
Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2025 12:57 PM (AOsQT)

Traditionally Chief Justice is not chosen from within the court itself.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 26, 2025 01:20 PM (D7oie)

244 The NYT has a "conservative" who calls for a leftist uprising. Uh, no. Just no.

Posted by: Wofus at April 26, 2025 01:21 PM (CNa+A)

245 Globalist seems to me either No Borders or Corporations going to the Rollerball futuristic

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 01:22 PM (ypFCm)

246 Fetterman seems to be heading back to old Democrat

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 01:23 PM (ypFCm)

247 We've had Republican presidents before. The visceral hate for Trump, not just from Democrats but from the Brooks/Bulwark crowd, is because he actually loves this country and wants Americans to prosper.

I know that Trump is doing all he can do but I think we will have to have that national divorce because we cannot live with the libs or rinos

Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 26, 2025 01:26 PM (P4Pk9)

248 Fetterman seems to be heading back to old Democrat

If you could trade todays Democrats for Patrick Moynahan, Scoop Jackson, and Walter Mondale - would you ?

I would.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 01:27 PM (McYvC)

249 The visceral hate for Trump, not just from Democrats but from the Brooks/Bulwark crowd, is because he actually loves this country and wants Americans to prosper.

I think that guys like Brooks oppose trump because he makes them go "ewww." He's so crass and low class and cheesy, he just hits all their emotional buttons that makes them hate pickup trucks, country music, American flags, and casseroles.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 26, 2025 01:30 PM (2VST1)

250 AOC's not dumb. She's deftly moving to control of the Democrat machine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:30 PM (MGX5d)

251 >>I know that Trump is doing all he can do but I think we will have to have that national divorce because we cannot live with the libs or rinos

You might be right. But if that's the case I'd like us to be the ones dictating terms not them.

They've been planning our demise for years calling us deplorable, irredeemable Nazis. And that's on the good days. I'm focused on beating them into the ground right now. I'll worry about where they go once we win.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 01:32 PM (viF8m)

252 I think some of the hate for Trump comes from the fact he's not "political royalty." These people think they're above all of us... morally, intellectually, etc. Trump may be rich, perhaps more so than any of them, but they still look at him as a "commoner." They'd take the same approach with anyone here who'd run and win some political office.

Mostly because we'd refuse to "play their game" and make an attempt to actually do what our supporters want.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 01:32 PM (Q4IgG)

253 243 I still don't get why Clarence Thomas wasn't upped to Chief Justice, and Roberts made an Associate Justice
Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2025 12:57 PM (AOsQT)

Traditionally Chief Justice is not chosen from within the court itself.
Posted by: Kindltot
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I thought is should have been Scalia. He and Thomas were on the same page but Scalia was a pusher.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:33 PM (MGX5d)

254 122
From the Verge:
"Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia

The interim US attorney for DC claims Wikipedia is ‘allowing foreign operatives’ to rewrite its website."

https://tinyurl.com/ydrw6apt

Posted by: Ciampino - So he's a goon now at April 26, 2025 01:33 PM (sPQoU)

255 >>> I'm focused on beating them into the ground right now. I'll worry about where they go once we win.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Winning step would be Bondi & Patel stop stooping for fruit off the ground but reach up high and get some.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:38 PM (MGX5d)

256 >>>The interim US attorney for DC claims Wikipedia is ‘allowing foreign operatives’ to rewrite its website."

https://tinyurl.com/ydrw6apt
Posted by: Ciampino -
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Presupposing they didn't include any quotes from its founder.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:39 PM (MGX5d)

257 @lauraloomer

🚨NEW🚨

The F-35 Fiasco: Lockheed Martin’s Woke Agenda & The Betrayal of American Taxpayers

https://tinyurl.com/767y8ync

More at the link.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2025 01:41 PM (KnnTg)

258 > AOC's not dumb. She's deftly moving to control of the Democrat machine.
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There's whole raft of leftists that want to do that. She managed to piss off Pelosi within months of being elected by not following "the rules." The current "voice of the Democrat Party" is Jasmine Crockett, if you believe such shit.

I like the fact the left is in such disarray right now. It's why I wish the Trump administration would be more aggressive. Not necessarily move faster, just be more aggressive. Attack on dozens of fronts.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 01:41 PM (Q4IgG)

259 The F-35 Fiasco: Lockheed Martin’s Woke Agenda & The Betrayal of American Taxpayers

I understand why we got it - the MIC was hungry. I never saw why we, the American People, needed it.

We already had the F-22, the A-10, and other planes that went from good to great. And we've never won with superweapons - but always good weapons and plenty of them.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 01:44 PM (McYvC)

260 Of course, we also won with the Sherman - so not always good weapons.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 01:46 PM (McYvC)

261
If you could trade todays Democrats for Patrick Moynahan, Scoop Jackson, and Walter Mondale - would you ?

Six of one. Seven of nine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 26, 2025 01:47 PM (63Dwl)

262 Six of one. Seven of nine.

Answer to a different question. I would have loved just one Seven of Nine. Wouldn't know what to do with six of 'em.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 01:49 PM (McYvC)

263 "mass movement"

Now where have I heard that phrase before?

Oh yeah, in every piece of communist propaganda.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 26, 2025 01:57 PM (YqDXo)

264 'I think the terms Democrat and Republican are a meaningless distraction. '

It has meaning to me. There isn't a single prominent democrat that doesn't fall into your Globalist category or isn't fanatically aligned against me and mine.
You have more of a point about the republicans though
Posted by: Dr. Claw
====

'Globlist' - one who given a choice of supporting their own country or anyone else chooses anyone else.

"Globalist', fancy name for 'traitor' and why they must fight so hard to stay in power - because each and every one knows they commit treason and justice is executing every last one of them.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 01:58 PM (/lPRQ)

265 Crockett is intensely appealing to a small group of democrats but she is also repellent to many of them. AOC appeals to many Democrats and repels few. Crockett is an errant mouth much in the vernacular of Maxine Waters.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:59 PM (MGX5d)

266 >>Winning step would be Bondi & Patel stop stooping for fruit off the ground but reach up high and get some.

I suppose it's all in the eyes of beholder. The left is freaking the fuck out because the DOJ just arrested 2 of the left's most corrupt judges. I don't remember that happening recently. Not to mention deporting the Maryland Man. Remember when people actually cared about him? Seems like just last week.

I don't know if you are on X or follow Mike Davis, head of the Article III project, but he is pretty tight with the Trump administration and he cautions on his X account not to confuse lack of headlines with things not happening at the DOJ. In addition to fighting on many fronts against leftist judges trying to hamstring the Trump administration I think they are working on stuff. Unlike the Garland, they seem to want to build real cases not just grab headlines and abuse the law.

But time will tell.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 02:04 PM (viF8m)

267 posted by Robert

is it any surprise their jets are rusting at sea?

Yes, *RUSTING*.

The War Zone reported that the F-35C’s radar-absorbent skin is deteriorating after just months at sea, rendering these multi-million-dollar jets even less effective.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 02:05 PM (MGX5d)

268 The F-35 Fiasco: Lockheed Martin’s Woke Agenda & The Betrayal of American Taxpayers

I understand why we got it - the MIC was hungry. I never saw why we, the American People, needed it.

We already had the F-22, the A-10, and other planes that went from good to great. And we've never won with superweapons - but always good weapons and plenty of them.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson

Well, those two are the best at what they do.
F-35 might be second best at both (not really), is a really shitty heavy bomber and cargo plane, but will have to do...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 02:05 PM (/lPRQ)

269 Melania Trump and I share two things in common: a deep and abiding mutual respect, and birthdays. OK...mostly birthdays.
Happy Birthday Mrs Trump!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 02:09 PM (W/lyH)

270 268
'F-35 might be second best at both (not really), is a really shitty heavy bomber and cargo plane'

You fall on the ground when you try to sit between 2 stools.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2025 02:09 PM (3wi/L)

271 >>>I think they are working on stuff. Unlike the Garland, they seem to want to build real cases not just grab headlines and abuse the law.

But time will tell.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I believe they are working and that the mire is deep.
But it would it would be so heartwarming to see them,
euphemistically, land a big punch in the mouth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 02:10 PM (MGX5d)

272 Fetterman seems to be heading back to old Democrat
Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 01:23 PM (ypFCm)

Meh.
Summer speachifying season coming up...time to raise some.$$$.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 02:11 PM (W/lyH)

273 Happy Birthday, Diogenes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2025 02:12 PM (SYD5S)

274 Thanxs, Mr Aspirin Factory.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 02:13 PM (W/lyH)

275 That has ALWAYS been a sticking point with me. The smugness of certain people from certain regions regarding their supposed immunity to the taint of slavery.
__________________

Where was a major port of slave importation?

Providence, Rhode Island. New England. Money earned from slavery provided the endowment for Brown (ironic?) University.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 26, 2025 02:14 PM (YqDXo)

276 Well, those two are the best at what they do.
F-35 might be second best at both (not really), is a really shitty heavy bomber and cargo plane, but will have to do...

It seemed to me the biggest allure for USAF brass was the removal of the need to plan. A modular plane that could "do it all". Achieve theatre air superiority ? Sure - we'll run the F package for a week or month on everything. OK - we have air superiority. Run a couple wings on the A package and pick some targets or loiter. Everything else maintain superiority. We'll see how it goes.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 02:14 PM (McYvC)

277 As usual, these Upper West Side poofter New Yawk tough guys want everyone ELSE to get violent in the street, while they sit in a local cafe having an artisanal fresh bagel with their morning coffee.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2025 02:19 PM (FoIOl)

278 If you link to Mike Davis then I can follow him on xcancel.
It's difficult to first go to an x site without a link. Afterward, one can bookmark and visit new posts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 02:20 PM (MGX5d)

279 OW!!!

Posted by: Jake Tapper at April 26, 2025 02:20 PM (yO07m)

280 Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.

or his term ends. One of those.

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 02:22 PM (jc0TO)

281 273 Happy Birthday, Diogenes.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2025 02:12 PM (SYD5S)

274 Thanxs, Mr Aspirin Factory.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 02:13 PM

29?

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 02:23 PM (jc0TO)

282 Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.

My biggest complaint about Trump is he isn't a tenth of the bastard they claim. If only he were.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 02:23 PM (McYvC)

283 29?
Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 02:23 PM (jc0TO)

Yup...again.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 02:25 PM (W/lyH)

284 Is the F35 good because of it's design? Or it's avionics and instrumentation? Or both, I guess.

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 02:25 PM (jc0TO)

285 maybe instrumentation is the wrong word, Sensors?

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 02:26 PM (jc0TO)

286 Is the F35 good because of it's design? Or it's avionics and instrumentation? Or both, I guess.
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maybe instrumentation is the wrong word, Sensors?
Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 02:26 PM (jc0TO)

It's scanners, phasers, photon torpedoes, deflectors, and shields.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 26, 2025 02:34 PM (VNX3d)

287 As I understand it, the F35 has sensors all over it, like an electromagnetic porcupine.

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 02:37 PM (jc0TO)

288 Active, passive, magical...

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 02:37 PM (jc0TO)

289 Possibly telekinetic

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 02:37 PM (jc0TO)

290 As I understand it, the F35 has sensors all over it, like an electromagnetic porcupine.

As I understand it, and I followed it in the beginning and then quit in disgust, its a couple things. Yes - they got the idea that speed and agility weren't THAT important if you had enough electronics and missiles to shoot down six or so bogeys at once. So they did that.

Then they decided it would be could to have swappable modules, so a single plane could shoot down planes this week, and blow up tanks next week, and run electronic warfare the week after that.

And finally, they decided that such a plane could be cheaper than anything made to do only one of those things.

Sound like bullshit yet ?

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 02:54 PM (McYvC)

291 The hamassholes now want to return all the hostages for a 5 year hudna and the rebuilding of gaza.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 02:55 PM (oXfCm)

292 Will the Israelis never learn ? Once you pay the MuzzGeld, you'll never get rid of the Muzz.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 02:57 PM (McYvC)

293 Fast Eddie, there is no agreement by the Israelis. The muzz are getting stomped in a major new push at the moment so they are starting to squeal.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 03:00 PM (oXfCm)

294 Epstein didn't kill himself.

--and no damn way Virginia Guiffre killed herself.

Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2025 03:00 PM (IBQTE)

295 The muzz are getting stomped in a major new push at the moment so they are starting to squeal.

Excellent to hear. Honestly, I quit following all that a few months ago as well. The answer is obvious. The only question is the will of Israel to do it.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 03:02 PM (McYvC)

296 I think it's very possible Virginia did herself in. She had a very tragic life then had to fight that she did. I think it's hard could know what she lived through.

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 03:08 PM (ypFCm)

297 208 Mayor Prosciutto was FURIOUS!

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at April 26, 2025 03:29 PM (7MAGa)

298 Remote controlled bulldozers. What more can one ask?

More bulldozers, please.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 03:30 PM (MGX5d)

299 "In irae veritas"? Maybe. But don't forget, "Ira furor brevis est" - "Anger is a brief madness." In anger, we may say something that's lurking in the depths of our hearts, but which our rational selves would never, ever put into action. And don't forget that revenge is a dish best eaten cold: not in the heat of anger, but in the calm chill of reason.

Posted by: Nemo at April 26, 2025 03:40 PM (4RPgu)

300 254 — I:ve never replied on Wikipedia.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at April 26, 2025 03:48 PM (7MAGa)

301 It is better served than eaten.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 04:00 PM (MGX5d)

302 Shedeur Sanders to Cleveland.

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 04:01 PM (jc0TO)

303 >>> BREAKING: In Act of Defiance, Wisconsin Judge Says She Won’t Allow ICE to Take Anyone From Her Courtroom – Claims She’s Willing to ‘Get Arrested’

Sounds like someone willing to never surrender and fight to the bitter end. Better go with the 0'dark thirty no-knock home raid... just to be safe.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 04:12 PM (/lPRQ)

304 BREAKING: In Act of Defiance, Wisconsin Judge Says She Won’t Allow ICE to Take Anyone From Her Courtroom – Claims She’s Willing to ‘Get Arrested’

What about in the hall?

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 04:16 PM (jc0TO)

The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[H/T Beckoning Chasm]

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter this week's Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Spooner. Just sayin')

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Even the trolls have feelings. Stupid ones, but still.
3) No running with sharp objects. No don't think about it, joke about it or do it.
4) Contrary to Rule #3, have a great weekend!

*****

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
3/24 – Update on Jewell45. Her daughter posted an update, with approval to share: "Okay. Need to do a life update for mama. She hasn’t been doing so hot the last couple weeks. Like I said last month, the cancer has been spreading. She’s been declining quite a bit since then. Her energy level is very low and she’s struggling with breathing after the smallest tasks or even if she talks too much. The decision has been made to transition to hospice care. I want to be clear here about a couple things. Number one, she is NOT in her final days although her oncologist estimates with how the cancer has progressed that she is probably down to several months, 6-9 maybe more. Number 2. She is up for visitors but not much. Please contact myself, dad or her first. She won’t last much longer than 15-20 minutes if you do stop by, so keep your expectations low. Other than that, continued prayers and good vibes are always appreciated. Much love to you all. If you have questions, feel free to contact me privately. This is obviously a difficult time as you can imagine but I’ll do my best."
4/15 Update – Jewells passed away. Members of the Horde are donating to her favorite charity; please contact Annie’s Stew for more information.
3/29 – neverenoughcaffeine had requests: 1. Baby Isaac is now at Seattle Children’s Hospital with additional issues. He’s 2 months old and has spent lots of time in hospitals. 2. Bonnie, who was just diagnosed with a cancerous nodule in her lung. Thankfully it hasn’t spread and immunotherapy will start when she receives the drug specifically tailored to her need. 3. Charlie, who suffered a nasty fall that broke his back and cracked his skull. Two brain bleeds have incapacitated him. He has a long road to recovery.
4/19 Update – 1. Baby Isaac is back at Seattle Children’s Hospital in case he needs surgery. They damaged his esophagus while intubating him when all of this started. 2. Bonnie is tolerating her medicine to treat her tumor and tires easily. 3. Cousin Charlie was flown home from FL to OH and is in rehab. He is speaking again; however he has a long road of rehab ahead of him. Thank you all for continuing to pray for them.
4/12 – Ace-Endorsed Author A. H. Lloyd requested prayers for Mrs. Lloyd, for her healing and comfort for the family, especially the grandchildren who greatly miss the woman who has been the most constant and consistent presence in their young lives.
4/19 Update – Mrs. Lloyd has spent the last week in the hospital, and it is a very good thing. For too long she had ignored her health, her diet, etc. and now she is faced with irrefutable proof that she must make serious and immediate life changes. This is a great blessing for Holy Week. Had things not happened the way they did, she might have left us quite soon.
4/12 – Intruder Driver requests prayers for friend Ron and his wife Sherry, as Ron’s Parkinson’s is getting worse.
4/12 – Sharon (willow’s apprentice) greatly appreciates prayers as she recovers from cataract surgery.
4/12 – Ben Had sent an update on Jim SND. He had surgery to implant a feeding tube, and he hopes to go home soon.
4/16 Update – After 3 weeks in the hospital, Jim SND has been released to go home. He has both a vent tube and stomach tube to assist him in breathing and getting nourishment. Jim and Iris appreciate your prayers.
4/14 – Grateful – the range bag lady posted: T-Rex’s mother, MommaRex, was rushed to the hospital over the weekend and was diagnosed with Parkinsons. The family is asking for prayers for God’s strength in dealing with the disease and challenging family situation.
4/19 Update – MommaRex is currently in a rehab facility and they are trying to find an assisted living facility for the next step. She has been blessed with good health, so this has truly thrown her in so many ways.
4/15 – Salty Dog requested prayers for his wife, who underwent triple-bypass open heart surgery on 4/9. Her recovery will be a steep uphill climb to the uplands of better health.
4/17 Update – Mrs. Salty Dog was life-flighted to KU Medical in Kansas City. They are to create a new plan of action, as there was a new issue with her heart on 4/16.
4/20 Update – Mrs. Salty Dog (Linda) passed away on Easter. Salty Dog said our prayers were answered, as she passed quickly, without pain or struggle, under the comfort of good drugs. Her last complaint was that the lights were so bright. (This was after he had closed the blinds and made the room as dark as possible.) Easter i the answer.
4/15 – Matthew Kant Cipher asked for prayers for “Dee”, an 88 year-old who has been caring for her quadriplegic son, who was injured in a car accident when he was 17. Dee had a couple of people helping her take care of him, but they are no longer able to do so. Now she is having to care for him herself, while still working as a receptionist for a local meat processing company. Please pray that the Lord provides for her and her son.
4/16 – TecumsehTea requested prayers for a grandson, age 15. The grandson had been sick with a fever and headache since 4/13, and took a turn for the worse. He was taken to the ER on 4/16.
4/19 – Eromero posted his praise for God for healing, comforting, and blessing our brothers and sisters here. He is always with us, even if we are too stressed to feel his presence.
4/20 – neverenoughcaffiene asked for prayers for a good friend who fell on 4/19. He hit his head pretty hard and has a small brain bleed.
4/22 – FenelonSpoke requested prayers for M, who sometimes fills in as the organist. He has to have vein surgery on his feet, and he needs to have his feet work well to play the organ pedals. Also, prayers for J, who is having a stent put in her heart.
4/23 – Trudy asked for prayers for her husband, Bill, who is having persistent pain that may well be heart-related.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 08:05 AM

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1 COFFEEEEEE

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 26, 2025 08:06 AM (gDlxJ)

2 Yay! Open thread.

While the leftards fuss that Trump broke protocol by not wearing a black suit and tie to Pope-y's funeral, I couldn't help notice that their hero, the midget from Ukraine, wore a black, military-style field jacket over a black shirt with no tie.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 26, 2025 08:08 AM (Y1sOo)

3 Thank you!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 08:08 AM (a1415)

4 Coffee is done but
Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 08:09 AM (ypFCm)

5 Spooner, eh?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2025 08:10 AM (SfhV1)

6 Prayers for all the horde in need, including for neverenoughcaffeine's mister, in the hospital after a fall

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 26, 2025 08:10 AM (gDlxJ)

7 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)

8 Also praying we get a strong and holy man as Pope

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 26, 2025 08:10 AM (gDlxJ)

9 Illegal Aliens Cost Texas $121.8 Million in Unpaid Health Care in Just One Month

ho lee shit

1.5 BILLION/yr

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

10 have a new grand niece Julia

prayer of thanks for the blessing

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

11 Prayers up for those who have asked us for them;
Prayers up for those who need them but haven't asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don't know it yet; and
Prayers up for those that pray alone in silence whose petitions are known only to God!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 26, 2025 08:11 AM (hOUT3)

12 When does Smokewatch start?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 08:12 AM (dg+HA)

13 1.5 BILLION/yr
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

But think of the cultural ENRICHMENT!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 26, 2025 08:12 AM (hOUT3)

14 12 When does Smokewatch start?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 08:12 AM (dg+HA)

Gunsmoke is 7 to 8 on Sunday nights

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

15 have a new grand niece Julia

prayer of thanks for the blessing

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

Congratulations!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2025 08:13 AM (SfhV1)

16 good morning MisHum, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 26, 2025 08:13 AM (Jwq9Q)

17 Funny how the left is freaking out about the Milwaukee Judge getting arrested. Didn’t they always say that no one is above the law? Except them, I guess.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 08:16 AM (ZEzFB)

18 Yesterday was the 55 anniversary of a horrible unsolved murder of a child that happened on church grounds, still unsolved.
Our new -this year- young parish priest got a tree planted in his honor and last night was a blessing and rosary service.
The surviving brothers and sisters family friends were there; they were very touched and said nothing like that had ever been done for their poor brother before.
Just really shows that it's never too late to show kindness to someone who experienced a tragedy.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 26, 2025 08:16 AM (gDlxJ)

19 The Binford Smok-a-lator 6000. For all your papal selection needs.

Remember: if it doesn't say Binford on it, somebody else makes it.

Posted by: Tim The Tool Man Taylor at April 26, 2025 08:16 AM (dg+HA)

20 rhennigantx, congrats!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 26, 2025 08:17 AM (gDlxJ)

21 At these Pope funerals and the like, do they send the king or the prime minister? Say Sweden or Britain for instance.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2025 08:17 AM (SfhV1)

22 Requesting prayers for elderly sister-in-law Elizabeth and her battle with a persistent foot infection, and for blessings on her church friends that are helping her in so many ways!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 26, 2025 08:18 AM (hOUT3)

23 Funny how the left is freaking out about the Milwaukee Judge getting arrested.

She's kind of ugly, even for Milwaukee.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2025 08:18 AM (SfhV1)

24
Last night, we watched a new Netflix action thriller titled, "Havoc".

On the downside, it was filmed in MumbleVision(TM).

On the upside: It contained more violent death than ten average action movies. I think a thousand or so people were killed with shotguns, pistols, and machine guns at the climax.

No long bows were involved. Though a Spear Gun(!) was.

A whole Great Lake or two of fake blood was unleashed during this cinematic masterpiece.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 08:18 AM (iJfKG)

25 12 When does Smokewatch start?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Not sure; after the dead guy is safely entombed though.
I think they wait until all the voters are there, except the ones too ill or old to travel.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 26, 2025 08:19 AM (gDlxJ)

26 Good Saturday morning, horde. Prayers for all.

8 Also praying we get a strong and holy man as Pope
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 26, 2025 08:10 AM (gDlxJ)

Yes. I'm not Catholic, but I think this is imperative for the world.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 26, 2025 08:19 AM (h7ZuX)

27 Good morning Mis Hum, Annie, and Horde! Thanks be to God for each and every one of you.

I was thinking about Jewells45 and Mrs NaCly this morning when this song came to mind:
https://youtu.be/z3pDyGtEZmk

Although I didn't get to meet either of them, they and their families have been in my prayers. May perpetual light shine upon them.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at April 26, 2025 08:19 AM (kOluj)

28 It is my understanding that the new Pope will also be a Catholic.

Posted by: bear who shits in the woods at April 26, 2025 08:20 AM (Y1sOo)

29 God bless the sick and downtrodden.
May they have a wonderous miracle in their behalf.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 26, 2025 08:20 AM (VJc7E)

30 *I think they wait until all the voters are there, except the ones too ill or old to travel.*

They don't use mail-in ballots?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 08:20 AM (dg+HA)

31 My theory is like the Bolsheviks our Marxists are trying to run us into the ground so they can start Marxism all over

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 08:21 AM (ypFCm)

32 Funny how the left is freaking out about the Milwaukee Judge getting arrested. Didn’t they always say that no one is above the law? Except them, I guess.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 08:16 AM (ZEzFB)

With liberals, you always need to read the fine print and the appendices!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 26, 2025 08:21 AM (hOUT3)

33 She's kind of ugly, even for Milwaukee.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2025 08:18 AM (SfhV1)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 26, 2025 08:22 AM (h7ZuX)

34 oooh I got willowed ok:

153 speaking of prayers I'll repost this in the pet thread but it's timely

my bengal had a NIGHT Thursday - thankfully the dog (who must actually like him) woke me up to him struggling to pee

took to 24 hour ER - no blockage thankfully - but no idea why he got the UTI - anyway on three different meds and seems better but it sure freaked me out. dangerous stuff for a male cat

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 08:23 AM (Pv3Rg)

35 My theory is like the Bolsheviks our Marxists are trying to run us into the ground so they can start Marxism all over
Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 08:21 AM (ypFCm)

Finally! We can only hope that Real Marxism(TM) will be tried this time.

Not the Fake Marxism (with Red Dye #25) that they're always foisting off on us.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 08:23 AM (iJfKG)

36 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

37
At these Pope funerals and the like, do they send the king or the prime minister? Say Sweden or Britain for instance.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2025 08:17 AM (SfhV1)

Head of state. President or sovereign. Prime ministers can tag along.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 08:24 AM (QnmlO)

38 At these Pope funerals and the like, do they send the king or the prime minister? Say Sweden or Britain for instance.

--

I saw a blurb over at DM that King Charles wasn't there, as is customary. William was there, however. I didn't see any pics of Starmer, but maybe he was there.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:25 AM (qBdHI)

39 Funny how the left is freaking out about the Milwaukee Judge getting arrested. Didn’t they always say that no one is above the law? Except them, I guess.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 08:16 AM

+++

Meanwhile, in New Mexico:

https://tinyurl.com/4rakszxr

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 08:25 AM (dg+HA)

40 Vatican online

https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html

Apostolica Sedes Vacans

"The Apostolic See is Vacant"

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:25 AM (CQE5S)

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

I'm so glad to see you here. Big hugs.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2025 08:25 AM (SfhV1)

42 Lady in Black

Isn't King Charles mostly dead from cancer?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:26 AM (u82oZ)

43 Requesting prayers for my daughter's MIL Elaine who was diagnosed with ALS this week.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 26, 2025 08:26 AM (/y8xj)

44 I'm so glad to see you here. Big hugs.

me too hope you're hanging in there ok Salty

so sorry for your loss

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 08:27 AM (Pv3Rg)

45 Like the old Pope was Catholic?

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 08:27 AM (ypFCm)

46 Requesting prayers for my daughter's MIL Elaine who was diagnosed with ALS this week.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 26, 2025 08:26 AM (/y8xj)

Will pray.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2025 08:27 AM (SfhV1)

47 Isn't King Charles mostly dead from cancer?

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I did see something to that effect a week or so ago. Is it true? I don't know what kind of shape the old guy is in. I do think William will be on the throne soon though. I don't think Charles is long for this world.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:27 AM (qBdHI)

48 38 At these Pope funerals and the like, do they send the king or the prime minister? Say Sweden or Britain for instance.

--

I saw a blurb over at DM that King Charles wasn't there, as is customary. William was there, however. I didn't see any pics of Starmer, but maybe he was there.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:25 AM (qBdHI)

Starmer is there.
https://nypost.com

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:28 AM (CQE5S)

49 Some of the Michael Walsh guest on CJN Speaks complaints Jesuits are not really Catholic

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 08:28 AM (ypFCm)

50 Funny how the left is freaking out about the Milwaukee Judge getting arrested. Didn’t they always say that no one is above the law? Except them, I guess.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 08:16 AM

+++

Meanwhile, in New Mexico:

https://tinyurl.com/4rakszxr
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 08:25 AM (dg+HA)

Suspect that every one of these hardcore partisan Democrats who think they can overrule the President are also involved in unlawful activity cuz yeah, they're judges, Democrat judges so, yeah, naturally, they're above the law.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 08:28 AM (iJfKG)

51 {{{ grammie winger }}}

Thank you. Your hugs are therapeutic.

Last night I dunated 7 large bags of food to a rural food bank. My Baptist minister co-worker picked it all up. Her eating habits were heavy into processed frozen foods and sugar.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

52 49 Some of the Michael Walsh guest on CJN Speaks complaints Jesuits are not really Catholic

honestly I think that's a fair assessment

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 08:30 AM (Pv3Rg)

53 Good morning, {{{NaCly}}}. You've been in my prayers this week.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 26, 2025 08:30 AM (h7ZuX)

54 NYP has a story about the Pope's niece. Part of his "modern" family. Headline says she thinks religion is outdated.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:30 AM (qBdHI)

55 What crimes can leftwing judges be arrested for? I assume no one would argue with a drunk driving charge, or murder. What is wrong about arresting a judge for violating immigration law?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 26, 2025 08:30 AM (kTd/k)

56 51 {{{ grammie winger }}}

Thank you. Your hugs are therapeutic.

Last night I dunated 7 large bags of food to a rural food bank. My Baptist minister co-worker picked it all up. Her eating habits were heavy into processed frozen foods and sugar.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

What a lovely donation.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:30 AM (CQE5S)

57

Soooo, is the Pope Resting in Peace or Resting in Power like all the cool dead commies of late?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 08:31 AM (iJfKG)

58 Arresting those resisting judges would be a lawful order, IMHO.

You can tell they are doing this for money and influence in a well-developed criminal enterprise.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

59 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 26, 2025 08:32 AM (azT8A)

60 Soooo, is the Pope Resting in Peace or Resting in Power like all the cool dead commies of late?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 08:31 AM (iJfKG)

He's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2025 08:32 AM (SYD5S)

61 Funny how the left is freaking out about the Milwaukee Judge getting arrested. Didn’t they always say that no one is above the law? Except them, I guess.

Most people I've ever known or even conversed with are consistently inconsistent. Intellectual consistency is hard and unpopular. It leads to conclusions often consider radical or extreme.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 08:33 AM (McYvC)

62 Finally! We can only hope that Real Marxism(TM) will be tried this time.

Not the Fake Marxism (with Red Dye #25) that they're always foisting off on us.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 08:23 AM (iJfKG)

Lets look at all the classes in my lifetime:
Colored Negro Black Poor Students Homeless Addicted
Working Poor Undocumented
Unchurched
Unbanked
Urban
Immigrant
Uneducated
Hispanic
Women
Gay
Homo
Lesbo
Trans
Teachers
Educators

Marxism never ever really offers up a solution that allows the underclasses to achieve more.
It just moves wealth, power, funds, laws, land, and life amongst classes in a negative sum path.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

63 Charles is in the same position as William VII, who ruled immediately before Victoria. Already old and sick when he took the throne, he wasn’t there for very long.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 08:33 AM (ZEzFB)

64 It's all one, big crime syndicate.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2025 08:34 AM (SYD5S)

65 m

I am sure the Haggen-Dazs ice cream and all the Stouffer’s frozen meals will be a big hit. I did not want that all to go to the big city of 50,000 to the south. Too many freeloaders. But a small rural food bank will get some help to people that really need it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:34 AM (u82oZ)

66 But a small rural food bank will get some help to people that really need it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:34 AM (u82oZ)

You are a kind man.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2025 08:35 AM (SfhV1)

67 47 Isn't King Charles mostly dead from cancer?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:27 AM (qBdHI)

kind of dead
semi dead
deathbed

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:35 AM (gbOdA)

68 "Judge Judy" Dugan's mugshot is amusing. It's all over 𝕏 and other sites.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 08:35 AM (Q4IgG)

69 68 "Judge Judy" Dugan's mugshot is amusing. It's all over 𝕏 and other sites.

it's awesome

you love to see it!

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 08:36 AM (Pv3Rg)

70 Judge Dugan's perp walk (well, waddle really) is also fun

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 08:36 AM (Pv3Rg)

71
*Most people I've ever known or even conversed with are consistently inconsistent. Intellectual consistency is hard and unpopular. It leads to conclusions often consider radical or extreme.*

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

Posted by: Ralph Waldo Emerson at April 26, 2025 08:36 AM (dg+HA)

72 Hope Dugan gets her 4 or 5 meals a day in jail.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:36 AM (gbOdA)

73 63 Charles is in the same position as William VII, who ruled immediately before Victoria. Already old and sick when he took the throne, he wasn’t there for very long.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 08:33 AM (ZEzFB)

He's only 76!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:37 AM (CQE5S)

74 rhennigantx

That is a good list.

For the left:

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. And for some reason it does not apply to them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:37 AM (u82oZ)

75 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Posted by: Ralph Waldo Emerson at April 26, 2025 08:36 AM (dg+HA)

I fell the saim weigh about speiling

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

76 I am happy to say that since the prayer request I put in last week, my co-workers wife gave birth to their first child. 9 pounds, 15 ounces, 23 inches. I have a feeling that their plans for two more kids is going to undergo serious review.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 08:37 AM (lXCUP)

77 Illegal Aliens Cost Texas $121.8 Million in Unpaid Health Care in Just One Month

ho lee shit

1.5 BILLION/yr

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:11 AM

There are signs all over the Plano TX medical city hospital that let everyone know that you can't be refused treatment based on your immigration status or ability to pay. The signs are on english and spanish and have a hot line you can call if you feel you have not been treated fairly.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 26, 2025 08:37 AM (e5NfL)

78 71 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Posted by: Ralph Waldo Emerson at April 26, 2025 08:36 AM (dg+HA)

; )

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:38 AM (CQE5S)

79 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:39 AM (ZOv7s)

80 12 When does Smokewatch start?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Courtesy of The Epoch Times:

The day of the pope’s funeral and burial marks the first day of the Novendiali, a nine-day period of mourning and prayer. Each day will include a public celebration of the Eucharist, involving the participation of a different group with links to the pontiff.

After those nine days, Farrell will convene the Church’s College of Cardinals in conclave—secret meetings in seclusion within Vatican City to pray, discern, and elect a new pope. That conclave could begin as early as the week of May 5.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 08:39 AM (lXCUP)

81 I don't want to get on the cart.

Posted by: King Charles at April 26, 2025 08:40 AM (dg+HA)

82 Some of the Michael Walsh guest on CJN Speaks complaints Jesuits are not really Catholic
Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 08:28 AM (ypFCm)
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It's time to suppress them again. I think Tolkien wrote Saruman as a Jesuit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:40 AM (ZOv7s)

83 74 rhennigantx

That is a good list.

For the left:

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. And for some reason it does not apply to them.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:37 AM (u82oZ)

I always assume that the minute someone identifies a class or identifies themselves that the next statement will be them identifying the class that owes them.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

84 Anyone wanting to snap a selfie with the deceased Pope is out of luck. The lid was screwed on yesterday.

Posted by: Maybe Next Time at April 26, 2025 08:40 AM (G5+As)

85 m

Can King William right the ship in the UKK? I think he can dismiss the Labour PM, and get Nigel in charge,, then stop the invaders.

The armed forces are too small and the police are compromised. Guess we need to smuggle AR-15s to farmers. An economic crash may empty the attractive support the current UK government is giving the Islamics. Shame about theri no-go zones with Sharia law.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:42 AM (u82oZ)

86 Like the old Pope was Catholic?
Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 08:27 AM (ypFCm)
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He was, at times.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:42 AM (ZOv7s)

87 80 12 When does Smokewatch start?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Courtesy of The Epoch Times:

The day of the pope’s funeral and burial marks the first day of the Novendiali, a nine-day period of mourning and prayer. Each day will include a public celebration of the Eucharist, involving the participation of a different group with links to the pontiff.

After those nine days, Farrell will convene the Church’s College of Cardinals in conclave—secret meetings in seclusion within Vatican City to pray, discern, and elect a new pope. That conclave could begin as early as the week of May 5.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 08:39 AM (lXCUP)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:42 AM (CQE5S)

88 Good morning again morons and non-nooders! with thanks to annie and mh and you for your prayers

Hiya JT and Jim SND

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

89 I am happy to say that since the prayer request I put in last week, my co-workers wife gave birth to their first child. 9 pounds, 15 ounces, 23 inches. I have a feeling that their plans for two more kids is going to undergo serious review.

--

Whoa! Nearly a 10lb baby. That's a lotta baby! Blessings and congrats to your coworker and wife.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:44 AM (qBdHI)

90 Thank you for all your prayers. Mrs. Lloyd is home from the hospital and things are settling down again.

Another blessing is that the grandkids are spending the weekend with their other grandparents, so we have some quiet time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:44 AM (ZOv7s)

91 85 m

Can King William right the ship in the UKK? I think he can dismiss the Labour PM, and get Nigel in charge,, then stop the invaders.

The armed forces are too small and the police are compromised. Guess we need to smuggle AR-15s to farmers. An economic crash may empty the attractive support the current UK government is giving the Islamics. Shame about theri no-go zones with Sharia law.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:42 AM (u82oZ)

Hmm. Prayers up.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:44 AM (CQE5S)

92 NR Pax

Thanks for the info. Hope they choose ... wisely.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:44 AM (u82oZ)

93 What is the UKK?

Posted by: I'm new here at April 26, 2025 08:45 AM (dg+HA)

94 Can King William right the ship in the UKK? I think he can dismiss the Labour PM, and get Nigel in charge,, then stop the invaders.

--

Some of William's statements of late have left me disappointed.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:46 AM (qBdHI)

95 Will the private jet Anti-Oligarchy tour be making stops this weekend? Losers and Commies need a place to vent, too.

Posted by: Bernie Bro at April 26, 2025 08:46 AM (G5+As)

96 {{{ Dash my lace wigs!}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:46 AM (u82oZ)

97 Aagghh! ABC News, where I'm watching pope-stuff, just had talking heads and one of them started talking about things that Good Catholics do. Off with his head!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:46 AM (CQE5S)

98 >>>Some of the Michael Walsh guest on CJN Speaks complaints Jesuits are not really Catholic
~~~~~

Jesuits are the most left-leaning of all orders and have long been a thorn in the side of most traditional Catholics. You only have to look at a list of the Jesuit schools in the US to get a good idea of who they are: Georgetown, Boston College, Fordham, et al.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 08:47 AM (3ImbR)

99 I always assume that the minute someone identifies a class or identifies themselves that the next statement will be them identifying the class that owes them.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)
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I used to thing that being gay was merely one of many character traits, but I now see it as something of an obsession. If it's private, why do I need to know? If it's just a preference, why must it be public. Normal people don't wander around introducing themselves by saying "I'm really into busty blondes."

This is why I do not trust gay conservatives. The gay always is the most important trait, that's why they put it first.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:47 AM (ZOv7s)

100 There are signs all over the Plano TX medical city hospital that let everyone know that you can't be refused treatment based on your immigration status or ability to pay. The signs are on english and spanish and have a hot line you can call if you feel you have not been treated fairly.

--

So, they basically have free healthcare. I don't know how any hospital system can stay afloat under those conditions.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:47 AM (qBdHI)

101 I'm new here

Autocucumber the infidel!

Sheesh. I have a reputation as a terrible typer going here.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

102 Judges don't have carte blanche to commit crimes like hiding a fugitive from police or ICE

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 08:48 AM (ypFCm)

103 Starmer is there.
https://nypost.com
Posted by: m

I find it amazing Starmer was caught on a CCTV camera embraced in a lip lock with some muslim poohbah about a week ago. And he hasn't resigned yet.

I guess if all the government controlled media doesn't mention it AT ALL, then people aren't moved to rally for his resignation. Everyone knows, but no one will discuss it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 26, 2025 08:49 AM (i79TK)

104 Lady in Black

The hidden answer is they get very poor care. This is from a very plugged in doctor (formerly my brother's girlfriend0 at NIH.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

105 Is this the only time we get to hear the term "conclave"?

Posted by: Confederacy of Dunces at April 26, 2025 08:49 AM (G5+As)

106 Charles is in the same position as William VII, who ruled immediately before Victoria. Already old and sick when he took the throne, he wasn’t there for very long.
Posted by: Tom Servo
+++
Queen Elizabeth seemed to be an intelligent woman. I think she could see that Charles was an idiot and would be a useless king.
That's probably why she didn't step down and let him become king years earlier.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at April 26, 2025 08:49 AM (Lo97M)

107 Good morning Hordelings.

Time to fire up a pot of Bones Coffee's Maple Bacon-flavored coffee. Because nothing exceeds like excess.

I'll make bacon too, of course.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 26, 2025 08:50 AM (kpS4V)

108 Jesuits are the most left-leaning of all orders and have long been a thorn in the side of most traditional Catholics. You only have to look at a list of the Jesuit schools in the US to get a good idea of who they are: Georgetown, Boston College, Fordham, et al.
Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 08:47 AM (3ImbR)
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They prize reason and understanding above all other things, and often go native when serving as missionaries.

You see this in the weird blessings for irregular couples, who are technically not being blessed as couples, just as two people who happen to be a couple practicing ongoing sin.

God bless the African bishops who responded with "No. Just stop."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:51 AM (ZOv7s)

109 Scott Presler and Brandon Starka seem trustworthy to me.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 26, 2025 08:51 AM (cvWHI)

110 The Conclave votes for the TXMoMeet Doof Dance Competition. So we gots that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:51 AM (u82oZ)

111 Some of William's statements of late have left me disappointed.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:46 AM (qBdHI)
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He's a usurper. The Stuart line now rules Bavaria and shortly will take the throne of Liechtenstein.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:52 AM (ZOv7s)

112 Now the Vatican is reporting 250,000 in attendance.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:53 AM (CQE5S)

113 Time for preps. Going on a road trip to meet Notsothoreau soon.

Have a wonderful day, everyone, with safe travels, art, and fellowship all around.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:53 AM (u82oZ)

114 92 Thanks for the info. Hope they choose ... wisely.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

The rot is pretty firmly entrenched but I think that the Cardinals realize people are coming back due to the Church becoming more conservative and going back to its roots.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 08:53 AM (lXCUP)

115 I may just get a slate
and pimp it out

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:54 AM (gbOdA)

116 105 Is this the only time we get to hear the term "conclave"?
Posted by: Confederacy of Dunces at April 26, 2025 08:49 AM (G5+As)

Conclave mirrors make things look funny.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 08:55 AM (ZEzFB)

117 Susan Rice, Iranian native* and political appointee of Iranian allies Obama and shambler Biden, was finally fired...

* Used to be that being foreign born (or close relationships) would disqualify one from high level sensitive positions and overseas personnel would go through much effort to make sure their spawn is done stateside. This was SOP when Rice was born...
Ironically, liberal position is that any baby dropped on US soil is a native born citizen, nay "natural born", yet being born OCONUS should taint one's citizenship or loyalty.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 08:55 AM (/lPRQ)

118 Jesuits are the most left-leaning of all orders and have long been a thorn in the side of most traditional Catholics.

I read a book from a former SEAL named Michael Walsh who had a problem with a Jesuit priest in South America. One day, the priest received a package with a human silhouette target with several holes in the head and heart. On it was written the range and "Target: Anti-American Jesuit Priest."

The problems stopped very quickly.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 08:55 AM (lXCUP)

119 I haven't found a list of heads of state in attendance. Let me know if you find one, please.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:55 AM (CQE5S)

120 >>>Is this the only time we get to hear the term "conclave"?
~~~~~

I probably is unless you decide to see the impious movie "Conclave" in which the newly selected pope is revealed to be a hermaphrodite.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 08:56 AM (3ImbR)

121 Queen Elizabeth seemed to be an intelligent woman. I think she could see that Charles was an idiot and would be a useless king.
That's probably why she didn't step down and let him become king years earlier.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at April 26, 2025 08:49 AM (Lo97M)

No doubt. She kept him off the throne for as long as possible.

Posted by: LASue at April 26, 2025 08:56 AM (lCppi)

122 89 Whoa! Nearly a 10lb baby. That's a lotta baby! Blessings and congrats to your coworker and wife.

And the kid decided to hang around for an extra week past the due date so mom had to have labor induced.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 08:56 AM (lXCUP)

123 "The Amateur " is a really good movie.
Great adventure. Great storyline.
Been a long time since I said those words.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 26, 2025 08:57 AM (VJc7E)

124 105 Is this the only time we get to hear the term "conclave"?

Read my new book, "Conclave of the Clan Bear."

Posted by: bear who shits in the woods at April 26, 2025 08:57 AM (Y1sOo)

125
The rot is pretty firmly entrenched but I think that the Cardinals realize people are coming back due to the Church becoming more conservative and going back to its roots.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 08:53 AM (lXCUP)
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By all accounts, the cardinals feel that Francis was just too much. Too exhausting. A constant drain on their energy as they had to figure out what he was saying.

They are old and want a break. Just a normal, quiet pope. Francis was a reaction against JP II and especially Benedict XVI, and he proved an overreaction.

The next pope has an opportunity to heal a great deal of schisms. The Copts, Eastern Orthodox and even much of the Anglican Communion could be brought back into the Church. I think Francis' actions have made clear that papal authority should be used sparingly, and this would sit well with the Eastern Orthodox.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)

126 116 105 Is this the only time we get to hear the term "conclave"?
Posted by: Confederacy of Dunces at April 26, 2025 08:49 AM (G5+As)

Conclave mirrors make things look funny.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 08:55 AM (ZEzFB)

Con "Cliff" Clavin

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:57 AM (CQE5S)

127 If PDT comes down real hard on wife beaters there would be 20 to 30 (D) wives in the hospital next weekend.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:57 AM (gbOdA)

128 So, they basically have free healthcare. I don't know how any hospital system can stay afloat under those conditions.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:47 AM (qBdHI)

*Ahem*
American taxpayers after Obamacare.

Posted by: LASue at April 26, 2025 08:58 AM (lCppi)

129 > 28 It is my understanding that the new Pope will also be a Catholic.
Posted by: bear who shits in the woods at April 26, 2025 08:20 AM (Y1sOo)

Also? I'm pretty sure the last Pope wasn't one.

Posted by: Princess Kalina at April 26, 2025 08:58 AM (W5ArC)

130 https://news.sky.com/story/
who-will-be-at-the-popes-funeral-13353604

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

131 "The Amateur " is a really good movie.
Great adventure. Great storyline.

--

That looks interesting. It's got the guy that played Freddy Mercury in it, I see.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:59 AM (qBdHI)

132 No doubt. She kept him off the throne for as long as possible.
Posted by: LASue at April 26, 2025 08:56 AM (lCppi)

For all practical purposes, Queen Elizabeth II will be remembered as the last of the British Royals!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 26, 2025 08:59 AM (hOUT3)

133 Francis was a reaction against JP II and especially Benedict XVI, and he proved an overreaction.

I think one of the reasons Benedict was pressured into stepping down was because the Church didn't like the fact he did not embrace the LGBT priests.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 08:59 AM (lXCUP)

134 110 The Conclave votes for the TXMoMeet Doof Dance Competition. So we gots that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:51 AM (u82oZ)
----

When the smoke machine puffs out black smoke, things are about to get fungKAYYY!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 26, 2025 09:00 AM (kpS4V)

135 I always got the feeling Prince Philip thought Charles was a dunce.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 09:00 AM (qBdHI)

136 God bless the African bishops who responded with "No. Just stop."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:51 AM (ZOv7s)
~~~~~

Ditto

Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 09:01 AM (3ImbR)

137 I thought the conclaves were those clicky sticks thingies that they use in some kinds of Latino music.

Posted by: Princess Kalina at April 26, 2025 09:01 AM (W5ArC)

138 110 The Conclave votes for the TXMoMeet Doof Dance Competition. So we gots that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2025 08:51 AM

Will this involve a smoke machine?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 09:01 AM (dg+HA)

139 Illegal Aliens Cost Texas $121.8 Million in Unpaid Health Care in Just One Month

ho lee shit

1.5 BILLION/yr

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:11 AM

Meanwhile, I'm charged $150 for a 15 minute visit with a PA that's 'required' simply to get a basic prescription renewed.

Posted by: LASue at April 26, 2025 09:01 AM (lCppi)

140 I've mentioned this before, but it's worth repeating;

The illegals here in KY lining up to get a "Real ID" had preprinted paperwork, their own clerks who spoke Spanish and got those licenses for free. Mine was not.

The "Real ID" is supposed to allow domestic air travel with less hassle and access to government and some military installations. That last part there worries me. South and Central American illegals were not the only ones to get "Real ID's." Those from the Middle East and China did too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)

141 I think one of the reasons Benedict was pressured into stepping down was because the Church didn't like the fact he did not embrace the LGBT priests.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 08:59 AM (lXCUP)
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Francis openly denounced the "faggotry" in Italian seminaries, so I guess that was a fail.

Francis was not the pope we wanted but he was the pope we needed. The Holy Spirit was clearly at work.

No one else could have exposed the corruption within Church leaders so thoroughly. His appointments, his allies, all of them revealed themselves, making it that much easier to clean house.

Their pride was their undoing. Thinking they had won, believing that their dream of a liberal, protestant Catholic Church was at hand, they stepped out of the shadows and stand revealed to the world.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:03 AM (ZOv7s)

142 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Guess that Bible in court is glued shut.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)

143 The illegals here in KY lining up to get a "Real ID" had preprinted paperwork, their own clerks who spoke Spanish and got those licenses for free. Mine was not.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)
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The irony is that this makes it that much easier to track them down. Kind of like the app.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:04 AM (ZOv7s)

144 Not being or know hardly anything of Pope's or Bishops, wonder how many Bishops are Jesuits?
Maybe there is the problem

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 09:05 AM (ypFCm)

145 Their pride was their undoing. Thinking they had won, believing that their dream of a liberal, protestant Catholic Church was at hand, they stepped out of the shadows and stand revealed to the world.

If that was not Francis's intention, I'll still cheer the end result.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 09:05 AM (lXCUP)

146 Wifebeater, wifebeater
Beat me a wife
Hit her with fists
Then use a knife

Wifebeater, wifebeater
Use your left hook
And make this an ugly tryst.

Posted by: Mook on the Roof at April 26, 2025 09:05 AM (W5ArC)

147 Meanwhile, I'm charged $150 for a 15 minute visit with a PA that's 'required' simply to get a basic prescription renewed.
Posted by: LASue at April 26, 2025 09:01 AM (lCppi)

Exactly! That pisses me off to no end. Simple BP med.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 26, 2025 09:06 AM (5xuJ/)

148 Not being or know hardly anything of Pope's or Bishops, wonder how many Bishops are Jesuits?
Maybe there is the problem
Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 09:05 AM (ypFCm)
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Not very many. Most priests (and bishops) are "secular," meaning they are not affiliated with a religious order.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:07 AM (ZOv7s)

149 130 https://news.sky.com/story/
who-will-be-at-the-popes-funeral-13353604
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

Thanks, rhennigantx!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:08 AM (CQE5S)

150 Mrs. F. reports large explosions in Bandar Abbas.

She is busily monitoring her openint camera network.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:08 AM (RIvkX)

151 Some of William's statements of late have left me disappointed.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:46 AM (qBdHI)

The road apple doesn't fall far from the horse's ass.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2025 09:09 AM (SYD5S)

152 > Meanwhile, I'm charged $150 for a 15 minute visit with a PA that's 'required' simply to get a basic prescription renewed.
Posted by: LASue at April 26, 2025 09:01 AM (lCppi)

One of the few lasting benefits of the COVID bullshit is that I can now schedule a telemedicine appointment. It's not any cheaper, but at least I don't have to spend travel time for 15 minutes of "Hi, how you doing?" "Fine. I'm on my last refill of (medication I've been taking for a decade.)". "No problem. Anything else?"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:09 AM (W5ArC)

153 Exactly! That pisses me off to no end. Simple BP med.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 26, 2025 09:06 AM (5xuJ/)

and you can buy dick pills at the 7 11

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 09:09 AM (gbOdA)

154 Bandar Abbas??

Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2025 09:09 AM (Oy/m2)

155 > Will this involve a smoke machine?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 09:01 AM (dg+HA)

"Any machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:10 AM (W5ArC)

156 Not being or know hardly anything of Pope's or Bishops, wonder how many Bishops are Jesuits?
Maybe there is the problem
Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 09:05 AM (ypFCm)
~~~~~

According to Grok, there are about 5,600 Bishops total worldwide, but only 50-70 are Jesuits.

Thankfully.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 09:10 AM (3ImbR)

157
Not being or know hardly anything of Pope's or Bishops, wonder how many Bishops are Jesuits?

There are three Jesuit cardinals eligible to vote in Conclave. However Jesuits are supposed to stay away from seeking to move up the hierarchy outside their Order.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 09:11 AM (QnmlO)

158 Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's most prominent victims, has died, apparently of suicide.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2025 09:13 AM (lTGtQ)

159 142 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)

Amen!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:14 AM (CQE5S)

160 Please Lord, hear the prayers of Your people. Grant their petitions - those listed above, and those known only to You. Amen.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 26, 2025 09:14 AM (7v6oI)

161 Bandar Abbas??
Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2025 09:09 AM (Oy/m2)
====

Look it up!

Posted by: dantesed's 5th grade geography teacher at April 26, 2025 09:14 AM (RIvkX)

162 > The Copts, Eastern Orthodox and even much of the Anglican Communion could be brought back into the Church.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)

I'm pretty sure the Orthodox position is that they were never under the authority of the Bishop of Rome to begin with, so there's no "bringing back into the church" necessary or even possible.

Now, they might be willing to be in communion with Rome, but I do not think they will ever accept its authority.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:14 AM (W5ArC)

163 According to Grok, there are about 5,600 Bishops total worldwide, but only 50-70 are Jesuits.

OK, how accurate is that? Because, it's probably higher than that.

Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2025 09:15 AM (Oy/m2)

164 153 Simple blood pressure meds. Here's one for DOGE. I've been on the same cocktail of BP meds for nearly 20 years. When I get a refill from the VA there is always a half inch thick stack of papers with everything I need to know, don't need to know, and can't understand about the meds. Why, we could save a tree.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2025 09:16 AM (gm9Sb)

165 Is Pope Benny syill alive? Serious question, I don't remember his passing, just his being 'put away'.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 26, 2025 09:16 AM (n4GiU)

166 Blueberry pancakes and bacon

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:17 AM (RIvkX)

167 Jesuits vs other orders: how about the Carmelites?

I sometimes order coffee from Mystic Monk, and hope I'm not feeding the left wing of Catholicism.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 26, 2025 09:17 AM (h7ZuX)

168 The Copts, Eastern Orthodox and even much of the Anglican Communion could be brought back into the Church.

==

lol, are you sure you are not a Jesuit?

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2025 09:17 AM (g47mK)

169 Bring back the Augustinians!

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2025 09:18 AM (g47mK)

170 When I get a refill from the VA there is always a half inch thick stack of papers with everything I need to know, don't need to know, and can't understand about the meds. Why, we could save a tree.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2025 09:16 AM (gm9Sb)
====

If it saves one life!

Put your oxygen on first!

Caution: Contents are hot!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:18 AM (RIvkX)

171 166 Blueberry pancakes and bacon
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:17 AM (RIvkX)

How about that pancake-wrapped bacon in the Week in Pictures!!???

130 https://tinyurl.com/mrxcsuw9

Week in Pictures
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 07:56 AM (RIvkX)

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:19 AM (CQE5S)

172 One of the few lasting benefits of the COVID bullshit is that I can now schedule a telemedicine appointment. It's not any cheaper, but at least I don't have to spend travel time for 15 minutes of "Hi, how you doing?" "Fine. I'm on my last refill of (medication I've been taking for a decade.)". "No problem. Anything else?"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:09 AM (W5ArC)

NJ law dictates that when your prescription runs out, you must see your doctor for a renewal. That's been a fairly recent law, under Bucky Murphy.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 26, 2025 09:19 AM (5xuJ/)

173 >>>OK, how accurate is that? Because, it's probably higher than that.
~~~~~

It's probably pretty close. There are only a handful of Jesuit Cardinals and only a few of them are eligible to vote in the Conclave.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 09:20 AM (3ImbR)

174 The "Real ID" is supposed to allow domestic air travel with less hassle and access to government and some military installations. That last part there worries me. South and Central American illegals were not the only ones to get "Real ID's." Those from the Middle East and China did too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Access to military installations still requires a base pass which itself requires real (not uppercase) ID, sponsor, and background check.

When you pick up the pass at the gate, they'll stall if you have a warrant until local boys come pick you up.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 09:20 AM (/lPRQ)

175 I once saw a warning label on a flux-core wire feed welder informing the user that the torch got hot.

Nope, not making this up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:20 AM (W5ArC)

176 I have Outfields 'Your Love' stuck in my head.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 26, 2025 09:21 AM (9ypnH)

177 Question: If illegals are getting Real ID licenses, then how can they be "undocumented?"

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 09:21 AM (GcdCE)

178 > NJ law dictates that when your prescription runs out, you must see your doctor for a renewal.

Yet another reason to never live in New Jersey.

Could be worse. Could be California.

I won't even change planes in California if I can possibly avoid it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:22 AM (W5ArC)

179 I have mixed feelings about pancake wrapped bacon. Proportions are wrong. I wouldn't turn it down though.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:22 AM (RIvkX)

180 So, they basically have free healthcare. I don't know how any hospital system can stay afloat under those conditions.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:47 AM (qBdHI)

Most hospitals are not-for-profit. In order to maintain this status, they are required to provide a certain percentage of free and reduced-cost care (this is my day job, writing off money all day long). Heavily subsidized by the taxpayer.

The small-city hospital I work for has several non-citizen applicants weekly, no income, all charges written off.

I have to wonder if any hospitals operate in the black.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 26, 2025 09:23 AM (h7ZuX)

181 Okay... so Prince William wore a blue suit and dark blue tie, which means it's totally okay for Trump to also wear a blue suit.

They're Protestants, and they're not kings, so it's kind of an interesting point of allowable etiquette.

I expect that there'd be nothing stopping close friends from wearing darker mourning, but there's nothing wrong with wearing a lighter mourning shade, either.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at April 26, 2025 09:23 AM (p2GXS)

182 Very sad what the monsters did to Virginia

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 09:23 AM (ypFCm)

183 The East/West schism will remain unresolved. Too many ecclesiastical differences and the Patriarch will never cede authority to the See of Rome. As far as the Anglicans are concerned, they are in communion with Rome, though I doubt the Church of England will go any farther. They enjoy their faggotry entirely too much.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 26, 2025 09:23 AM (GTqXr)

184 > 179 I have mixed feelings about pancake wrapped bacon. Proportions are wrong. I wouldn't turn it down though.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:22 AM (RIvkX)

How about bacon-wrapped pancakes?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:23 AM (W5ArC)

185 175 I once saw a warning label on a flux-core wire feed welder informing the user that the torch got hot.

Nope, not making this up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:20 AM (W5ArC)

And then there's:
McDonald's coffee cup CONTENTS HOT

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:23 AM (CQE5S)

186 Pancake wrapped stuff seems to more naturally lend itself to link sausage.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 26, 2025 09:24 AM (9ypnH)

187 The Mexican Bagpipe Band is warming up. Full concert to follow.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2025 09:25 AM (Aqu9a)

188 >>How about bacon-wrapped pancakes?

Heh, a favorite 70's party foods my mom made was bacon wrapped club crackers - so freaking tasty!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 09:25 AM (GcdCE)

189 > 186 Pancake wrapped stuff seems to more naturally lend itself to link sausage.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 26, 2025 09:24 AM (9ypnH)

Breakfast corn dogs might get a salute, if someone ran it up the flagpole.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:25 AM (W5ArC)

190 Good grief, what a week. Harry's brain bleed is still being watched, he's on anti-seizure meds and he looks like he went one round with Iron Mike.
Hubby nec spent this morning in the emergency room and a ride in the ambulance after falling at home. Luckily it's mostly contusions, sprains and a busted up nose. They ruled out any brain issues, he's lucky since he fell hard onto an unmovable object.
Good news on Baby Isaac, he's home and thriving.
Cousin Charlie is home and thriving.
Bonnie is tolerating her meds.
Thank you all for your prayers. Annie's Stew please remove both of my prayer requests.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 26, 2025 09:25 AM (2NHgQ)

191 174 When I renewed my license in February, the AR revenue office had a list handy at the window for IDs that suffice as real ID. The new ID cards from the VA with the braille and branch of service served in are good, as is a DOD ID so I was covered. This saved a lot of time for the clerks I imagine, showing people they didn't have to get the state ID. Also probably eliminated some arguments at the window about wrong paperwork.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2025 09:26 AM (gm9Sb)

192 The Mexican Bagpipe Band is warming up. Full concert to follow.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2025 09:25 AM (Aqu9a)

I love their Ina Gadda da Vida.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 26, 2025 09:26 AM (9ypnH)

193 They myth of the sufferings of Virginia Guthrie. Who was pretty corrupt in soul and body before she even met Epstein, and who herself recruited many girls to the profession. Don't make her out to be a victim or a hero. Especially with the millions she made blackmailing "important men".

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2025 09:26 AM (g47mK)

194 Youtube made me watch a clip from the Cher show from about 1974.

She did a medley of Stevie Wonder songs with the Osmonds. It was the whitest thing I've ever seen. The Osmonds were in purple jumpsuits and she was rocking a giant Afro.

*shudders* I lived through that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:26 AM (RIvkX)

195 Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's most prominent victims, has died, apparently of suicide.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Is there a list of known perps', johns, and victims?
Most of the ones I have heard of suicided... at least four now, with just Maxwell and the Prince still breathing.

The real files will never be released because just like the RUSSIA coup attempt the rot goes deep and truth will destroy the government!
- Bill Barr's Perspective

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 09:26 AM (/lPRQ)

196 I once saw a warning label on a flux-core wire feed welder informing the user that the torch got hot.

Nope, not making this up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:20 AM (W5ArC)

And then there's:
McDonald's coffee cup CONTENTS HOT

Posted by: m

The curious among us might question as to which was hotter.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2025 09:26 AM (lTGtQ)

197 Virginia Giuffre, a woman who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of abuse when she was underaged, has died by suicide, according to a report.

Seems to be lots of Arkancide cases related to this Epstein thing. BTW...What ever happened to those files that were to be released?

Posted by: Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper at April 26, 2025 09:26 AM (KFH84)

198 188 Heh, a favorite 70's party foods my mom made was bacon wrapped club crackers - so freaking tasty!
Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 09:25 AM (GcdCE)

Yum!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:27 AM (CQE5S)

199 > Carmelites?

Eat too much Carmelite and you'll become Oblate.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:27 AM (W5ArC)

200 200

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:27 AM (CQE5S)

201 Prayers for all of the Horde and their loved ones.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 26, 2025 09:27 AM (0nHVk)

202 > Heh, a favorite 70's party foods my mom made was bacon wrapped club crackers - so freaking tasty!
Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 09:25 AM (GcdCE)

Sounds tasty!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:28 AM (W5ArC)

203 Colorado gray wolf program update:

Wolf dead in Rocky Mountain National Park, another one traveled 1,230 miles

https://is.gd/fqc9lK

Cause of death not released. This is the third wolf out of 15 that were reintroduced to CO in January of this year from British Columbia. The other two who died had wandered 2-300 miles north and were killed in Wyoming.

Makes me wonder if wolves have some degree of homing instinct and those two were migrating north in the general direction of BC. Sort of a feral Lassie Come Home gambit.

Posted by: muldoon at April 26, 2025 09:28 AM (uCfKO)

204 Heh, a favorite 70's party foods my mom made was bacon wrapped club crackers - so freaking tasty!
Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 09:25 AM (GcdCE)
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My mom wrapped bacon around sliced chestnuts.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:29 AM (RIvkX)

205 She was used, but not the way you guys think. Why the likes of Clinton managed to stay out of the spotlight, but prince Andrew was dragged through the mud is the question you should be axing.

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2025 09:29 AM (g47mK)

206 Yet another reason to never live in New Jersey.

Could be worse. Could be California.

I won't even change planes in California if I can possibly avoid it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:22 AM (W5ArC)

Lived here for nearly 78 years. Not going anywhere. That doctor crap is a mere inconvenience. Doctor is 15 minutes away. Twice a year blood work and he renews the prescription.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 26, 2025 09:29 AM (5xuJ/)

207 Simple blood pressure meds. Here's one for DOGE. I've been on the same cocktail of BP meds for nearly 20 years. When I get a refill from the VA there is always a half inch thick stack of papers with everything I need to know, don't need to know, and can't understand about the meds. Why, we could save a tree.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door
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OK - to get your next refill just give us you personnel device phone number and e-mail. Respond with the two factor confirmation code to receive your script renewal.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 09:30 AM (/lPRQ)

208 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Posted by: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman was a big fan of Emerson. I'm no fan of either.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 09:30 AM (McYvC)

209 193 They myth of the sufferings of Virginia Guthrie. Who was pretty corrupt in soul and body before she even met Epstein, and who herself recruited many girls to the profession. Don't make her out to be a victim or a hero. Especially with the millions she made blackmailing "important men".
Posted by: runner at April 26, 2025 09:26 AM (g47mK)

She was 17 when she met Epstein.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:31 AM (CQE5S)

210 I see at TWIP that RFK Jr is rocking the mid sixties white button down and narrow tie combo.
My fashion has come around back. Got to go find a pocket protecter.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 26, 2025 09:31 AM (n4GiU)

211 NJ law dictates that when your prescription runs out, you must see your doctor for a renewal. That's been a fairly recent law, under Bucky Murphy.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

And the scripts are arbitrarily limited to from 1 month to 3 month fills, and limited refills.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 09:32 AM (/lPRQ)

212 Re: East/West schism, there have also been theological changes on the Eastern side. Even some Biblical canon changes. (There are a lot of Russian Orthodox who go with the Protestant canon, for no particular reason. Very weird.)

But this isn't necessarily recognized, unless one spends a lot of time dealing in detail with current Eastern teaching vs. the official Eastern allegiance to the Fathers, etc.

It's freaking weird, honestly. Not all churches do this, and not all groups inside a church. But everybody tends to do their own thing without realizing, unless they run into another Eastern group that teaches differently.

Basically, for some people, anything goes if it doesn't seem "too much like Rome," which is a dumb way to orient yourself if you have an ancient apostolic heritage of your own. Be "more like what we were taught from ancient times", and don't worry so much about other people.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at April 26, 2025 09:32 AM (p2GXS)

213 Susan Rice, Iranian native* and political appointee of Iranian allies Obama and shambler Biden, was finally fired...

* Used to be that being foreign born (or close relationships) would disqualify one from high level sensitive positions and overseas personnel would go through much effort to make sure their spawn is done stateside

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You're confusing Valerie Jarrett with Susan Rice. Jarrett is Iranian. Rice was born in DC, supposedly descended from slaves.

Posted by: Bigsmith at April 26, 2025 09:32 AM (1Au9i)

214 > Question: If illegals are getting Real ID licenses, then how can they be "undocumented?"
Posted by: Lizzy
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Their required documentation is supplied by the Mexican or whatever country's embassy the illegal's from. Here in KY their required documentation was nowhere near as extensive as what I had to provide. That's by design.

The "undocumented" moniker is because they did not fill out paperwork in their home country, submit it, have it authorized and then submit it at a US point of entry before entering.

Having a "Real ID" here in the US doesn't necessarily legitimize the illegals. But it also doesn't hurt.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

215 Was R. Lee Ermey Catholic?

He would have made a good Pope I betcha.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:33 AM (ACATy)

216 I also think it's nice that Trump came up to chat with Zelenskyy and other world leaders. Funerals are a good occasion for this kind of thing, because nobody's going to fight at a funeral (usually), and everybody's expected to mix.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at April 26, 2025 09:34 AM (p2GXS)

217 She was 17 when she met Epstein.
Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:31 AM (CQE5S)

and by then she was already living with a much older boyfriend, it's just that epstein payed more

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2025 09:34 AM (g47mK)

218 These three recent wolf deaths join three who died from previous releases over the past two years. Of those three, one was killed by a rancher, one was killed in a fight with another wolf and one...

...(my personal favorite.)..

...was killed by a mountain lion.

Apex predator Battle Royale!

Posted by: muldoon at April 26, 2025 09:34 AM (uCfKO)

219 > Walt Whitman

That guy who shot all those people from the clock tower?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:35 AM (W5ArC)

220 213 Susan Rice, Iranian native* and political appointee of Iranian allies Obama and shambler Biden, was finally fired...

* Used to be that being foreign born (or close relationships) would disqualify one from high level sensitive positions and overseas personnel would go through much effort to make sure their spawn is done stateside

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You're confusing Valerie Jarrett with Susan Rice. Jarrett is Iranian. Rice was born in DC, supposedly descended from slaves.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 26, 2025 09:32 AM (1Au9i)

Susan Rice
wikipedia
Her maternal grandparents were Jamaican immigrants to Portland, Maine; her paternal grandparents were the descendants of enslaved Africans and from South Carolina.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:35 AM (CQE5S)

221 Very sad what the monsters did to Virginia
Posted by: Skip

I can imagine what weighed on her most is they got her to recruit for them.

And then Five Eyes was going to Maxwell / Epstein her to shut her up.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 09:35 AM (/lPRQ)

222 OK - to get your next refill just give us you personnel device phone number and e-mail. Respond with the two factor confirmation code to receive your script renewal.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 09:30 AM (/lPRQ)
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I log into the app and my doctor approves by Rx renewal online, the pills arrive in the mail.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:35 AM (RIvkX)

223 NJ law dictates that when your prescription runs out, you must see your doctor for a renewal. That's been a fairly recent law, under Bucky Murphy.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

And the scripts are arbitrarily limited to from 1 month to 3 month fills, and limited refills.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 09:32 AM (/lPRQ)

Three refills at 90 days each. But, I get my blood work every 6 months. Which, knock on wood, has been within normal parameters each time. Two months away from 78. OY!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 26, 2025 09:35 AM (5xuJ/)

224 Keir Starmer standing so close and leaning into Trump was kinda creepy, not going to lie. Trump wasn't openly giving him the cold shoulder, but I definitely got the feeling that he was keeping an eye on the creep.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at April 26, 2025 09:36 AM (p2GXS)

225 I have a soft spot for Jesuits.
I'm not Catholic and I don't know holy water from Dasani, but here's the story.
My father grew up in rural west Alabama, and his father (from Yugoslavia) was BIG TIME Catholic.
So in 1937-1938 my father, the youngest child, is a standout high school football star.
He gets recruited by the University of Alabama. My grandfather says no, nobody else in this family went to college and you don't need to either.
Then he gets recruited by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (i.e., Auburn University). My grandfather says no, nobody else in this family went to college and you don't need to either.
Then a Jesuit priest knocks on the door. He's from Springhill College in Mobile.
My grandfather relents and my father goes to college on a football scholarship.
Then the war starts and because he's in college becomes an officer in the Navy which he subsequently chooses as a career and changes the course of our family and following generations.

So I'll always have a soft spot for the Jesuits.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

226 > 215 Was R. Lee Ermey Catholic?

He would have made a good Pope I betcha.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:33 AM (ACATy)

YOU LITTLE SCUMBAG! Get down on the floor and give me a hundred Hail Marys!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:36 AM (W5ArC)

227 Susan Rice is equally evil and as guilty.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:36 AM (RIvkX)

228 The Copts, Eastern Orthodox and even much of the Anglican Communion could be brought back into the Church. I think Francis' actions have made clear that papal authority should be used sparingly, and this would sit well with the Eastern Orthodox.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)

I hope you're right, especially about the Anglicans; I attend an Ordinariate parish, and I would love for that to become a widespread and flourishing rite within the Church. I have to say, though, that I'm stroking out over what seems to be the highly likely outcome of Tagle taking over the Papacy, in which case we're likely looking at further liberalization towards the rainbow people and eventually even a Church fracture along the lines of the Anglicans themselves.

Posted by: Wiese at April 26, 2025 09:36 AM (W2RQ1)

229 > Walt Whitman

That guy who shot all those people from the clock tower?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:35 AM (W5ArC)

No, the writer that panicked when the Russian submarine grounded on Gloucester Island, Mass.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2025 09:37 AM (Aqu9a)

230 >He would have made a good Pope I betcha.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:33 AM (ACATy)

Pope Gunny...I like it.

I'm holding out hope for Pope Marcellus III - a pipe hittin' African pope to go medieval on the Roman Curia.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 26, 2025 09:37 AM (GTqXr)

231 Narrow ties looked good. I was around in the 70s and the wide fat neckties looked goofy then, too. Inexplicable, fashion trends are. A way to make more money, probably. Polyester was another regrettable affectation.

Goofy haircuts, porn stache, polyester suits, wide ties. What were they thinking?

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:38 AM (ACATy)

232 You're confusing Valerie Jarrett with Susan Rice. Jarrett is Iranian. Rice was born in DC, supposedly descended from slaves.
Posted by: Bigsmith

I stand corrected.
Thank You.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 09:40 AM (/lPRQ)

233 Narrow ties looked good. I was around in the 70s and the wide fat neckties looked goofy then, too. Inexplicable, fashion trends are. A way to make more money, probably. Polyester was another regrettable affectation.

Goofy haircuts, porn stache, polyester suits, wide ties. What were they thinking?
Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:38 AM (ACATy)

And Elvis sideburns. Hushpuppy shoes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2025 09:40 AM (Aqu9a)

234 The East/West schism will remain unresolved. Too many ecclesiastical differences and the Patriarch will never cede authority to the See of Rome. As far as the Anglicans are concerned, they are in communion with Rome, though I doubt the Church of England will go any farther. They enjoy their faggotry entirely too much.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 26, 2025 09:23 AM (GTqXr)
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The talks were restarted a couple of years ago under the framework of examining the historical context of their union and the reason for its dissolution.

The real issue was always Constantinople vs Rome, and that was 'resolved' in 1453. There is now disunity within the Orthodox community as the Russia/Ukraine thing has caused various patriarchies to break off communion with one another.

In this circumstance, renewed communion with Rome would be helpful because a core weakness within Eastern Orthodoxy is the tendency to place the flag above the cross, i.e. nationalism comes first.

Francis' reign highlighted the need for the papacy to remain within clear, definable limits, and this would sit well with the Orthodox, but also the Copts and GAFCON.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:41 AM (ZOv7s)

235 Goofy haircuts, porn stache, polyester suits, wide ties. What were they thinking?
Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:38 AM (ACATy)

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How about a pink knit tie with a square bottom like a common disco douchebag?
/confession

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:41 AM (RIvkX)

236 And wide belts.

Posted by: Don't remind me at April 26, 2025 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

237 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers up for all of God's children on this fine day.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 26, 2025 09:42 AM (rxCpr)

238 231 Narrow ties looked good. I was around in the 70s and the wide fat neckties looked goofy then, too. Inexplicable, fashion trends are. A way to make more money, probably. Polyester was another regrettable affectation.

Goofy haircuts, porn stache, polyester suits, wide ties. What were they thinking?
Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:38 AM (ACATy)

heh

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:42 AM (CQE5S)

239 Goofy haircuts, porn stache, polyester suits, wide ties. What were they thinking?
Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:38 AM (ACATy)
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In my school portraits from those days, I am wearing shirts whose collar is wide enough to reach my shoulders.

Also, longer, moppish hair cuts.

The girls not wearing bras was cool, but I was too young to appreciate it at the time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)

240 236 And wide belts.
Posted by: Don't remind me at April 26, 2025 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

And patchouli!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:43 AM (CQE5S)

241 Morning again, all,

I missed a lot while I was washing the car and then detailing myself, huh? What's going on?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 09:44 AM (omVj0)

242 And wide belts.
Posted by: Don't remind me at April 26, 2025 09:42 AM (dg+HA)
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Wide white belts and matching shoes. The photos of my father are incredible. Pink shirts and plaid pants.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

243 Narrow ties looked good. I was around in the 70s and the wide fat neckties looked goofy then, too. Inexplicable, fashion trends are. A way to make more money, probably. Polyester was another regrettable affectation.

Goofy haircuts, porn stache, polyester suits, wide ties. What were they thinking?

Posted by: Common Tater

Now they are making ties out of polyester. An abomination.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2025 09:44 AM (lTGtQ)

244 Nope, not making this up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2025 09:20 AM (W5ArC)

And then there's:
McDonald's coffee cup CONTENTS HOT
Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:23 AM (CQE5S)

Well, YOU try washing your hair without reading the shampoo instructions!!

Posted by: Oligarch-slayer Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez at April 26, 2025 09:44 AM (PiwSw)

245 Jarrett wasn't Iranian, just born there with American parents.

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 09:44 AM (ypFCm)

246 I took a Rhetoric class at University, the art of persuasion that was taught by a female jesuit, maybe she had bailed, I dunno. Probably a lefty, but it was a very good refresher on argumentation and logical fallacies and an upgrade to anybody’s bullshit detector.

If you teach your kids nothing else, Rhetoric, logic errors, etc would be among the top of the list. Make it a game with them. “What classic logic error is a assclown on the TV Employing in their bullshit today? “ Shoule be 3 or 4 or more, easy peasey.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:44 AM (ACATy)

247 So I'll always have a soft spot for the Jesuits.

We only had one option for private school here. Jesuit. Went to one meeting. Walking out I said to the wife "No way in Hell."

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 09:44 AM (McYvC)

248 >>Their required documentation is supplied by the Mexican or whatever country's embassy the illegal's from. Here in KY their required documentation was nowhere near as extensive as what I had to provide. That's by design.

The "undocumented" moniker is because they did not fill out paperwork in their home country, submit it, have it authorized and then submit it at a US point of entry before entering.

I was being flippant (I'm sure you knew

), but your info that we have two standards n Real ID is incredibly upsetting- wtf?

Can't wait to find out what they're up to with the Real ID push. Will they use this to ferret out/confirm who is using the stolen SS#s? Musk has mentioned cases where the same SS# is used by thousands, tens of thousands of illegals and the government systems are configured not to catch this/reject the duplicates. I assume that these are legit SS#s of living AMericans so that they can't put them all on the "dead" list to stop benefits.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 09:44 AM (GcdCE)

249 And wide belts.
Posted by: Don't remind me at April 26, 2025 09:42 AM (dg+HA)
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Wide white belts and matching shoes. The photos of my father are incredible. Pink shirts and plaid pants.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

Stylish!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2025 09:45 AM (Aqu9a)

250 240 236 And wide belts.
Posted by: Don't remind me at April 26, 2025 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

And patchouli!
Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:43 AM (CQE5S)

Or Brut. And chain necklaces. And puka bead necklaces and wristbands.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:45 AM (CQE5S)

251 How about a pink knit tie with a square bottom like a common disco douchebag?
/confession
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:41 AM (RIvkX)
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I recall knit ties being an 80s thing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)

252 I want an army of those flailbots from the ONT around the perimeter of my property.

https://tinyurl.com/yc29hn6s

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 09:45 AM (jc0TO)

253 I prefer, but wouldn't pass it up, to have sausages with pancakes, bacon with eggs.

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 09:45 AM (ypFCm)

254 246 If you teach your kids nothing else, Rhetoric, logic errors, etc would be among the top of the list. Make it a game with them. “What classic logic error is a assclown on the TV Employing in their bullshit today? “ Shoule be 3 or 4 or more, easy peasey.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:44 AM (ACATy)

Agreed.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:46 AM (CQE5S)

255 Looking at the Sky News and other pictures.

There were other people wearing blue suits. Not a ton, but some. Also some "midnight blue" suits, which look black except when the sun is very bright.

The Hispanic-world newspapers showed Queen Letizia, for those interested. No mantilla comb, no big mantilla, just a little black chapel veil. Very minimalist.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at April 26, 2025 09:46 AM (p2GXS)

256 my bengal had a NIGHT Thursday - thankfully the dog (who must actually like him) woke me up to him struggling to pee

took to 24 hour ER - no blockage thankfully - but no idea why he got the UTI - anyway on three different meds and seems better but it sure freaked me out. dangerous stuff for a male cat
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025

***
Big black Stirling had that problem when he was about six months old. I'd seen the symptoms before and hustled him to the emergency vet. No blockage with the UTI. I asked him where he'd been partying lately to come up with that, and he had no answer.

They did say he has a rather small bladder for such a big cat (even at six months he weighed eight pounds).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 09:47 AM (omVj0)

257 Big Sears had us under their evil machinations, they did.

They sent out a humongous catalog every year, with the New Fashion Trends dictated.

And we all dutifully complied.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:48 AM (ACATy)

258 I noticed that lots of Facebook people were “quoting” the late pope, and “quoting” Bob Dylan’s supposed tribute to him.

Both are fake.

In the one, Francis allegedly says something like the rivers don’t flow to the seas just for the heck of it. They flow to help nature on the way, blah, blah. It’s written nicely, so I was suspicious. It’s a quote that was floating around Facebook and even related to a video game before Francis was pope.

The Bob Dylan “quote” praising Francis up and down is so corny it’s obviously something Dylan would never say about anyone. I know Dylan was a Jesus freak for a time, but he never even talked about that in a conventional way.

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2025 09:48 AM (GITLP)

259 puka bead --> puka shell

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 09:48 AM (CQE5S)

260 Stylish!
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2025 09:45 AM (Aqu9a)
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You go with what works, I guess. My parents divorced in 1978, and my father, who had taken 'ballroom' dancing when he was young, embraced disco unconditionally. Being single and only seeing me on weekends, he took classes multiple times a week, lost weight and could absolutely demolish a dance floor. Smooth as silk.

A few years ago my stepmother was cleaning out their place and because he can't throw anything away, a bunch of it was given to me, including a super-sauve pinstripe disco suit - flared pants, vest and jacket.

"This is my lucky suit," he said. "I got lucky a lot in it." I gave it to Goodwill.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)

261 I recall knit ties being an 80s thing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)
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Yes, 1980 iirc

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:49 AM (RIvkX)

262 Jarrett wasn't Iranian, just born there with American parents.
Posted by: Skip

Yup, but the very debatable modern American principle of Magic Soil makes her a Natural Born Iranian.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 09:49 AM (/lPRQ)

263 Valerie Jarrett is awful, however not Iranian. Her parents were in Iran which was under the shah at the time when she was born, she's American. The family moved to London when she was 5. As a 5 year old she wouldn't have fond or otherwise memories of Iran and definitely not Iran under the mullahs.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 26, 2025 09:49 AM (2NHgQ)

264 I think it's hilarious that Deion Sanders' kid -- the arrogant, entitled QB at Colorado -- hast thus far gone undrafted by any NFL team.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 26, 2025 09:51 AM (Y1sOo)

265 Narrow ties looked good. I was around in the 70s and the wide fat neckties looked goofy then, too. Inexplicable, fashion trends are. A way to make more money, probably. Polyester was another regrettable affectation.

Goofy haircuts, porn stache, polyester suits, wide ties. What were they thinking?
Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025

***
I had a hard time finding clothes that I thought looked good on me. I resorted to going to menswear stores, the kind that sold Botany 500 suits and the like, to get slacks and dress shirts that didn't look like an explosion at a florist shop.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)

266 >>I recall knit ties being an 80s thing.

Along with patchwork madras jackets!
Preppy pastels!! Collar popped!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 09:51 AM (GcdCE)

267 Now they are making ties out of polyester. An abomination.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2025 09:44 AM

They have for a long time. No woman worth her salt wants to be tied up with anything but a silk tie.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2025 09:51 AM (0sNs1)

268 Raise your hand if you gave or received

Soap on a rope
Cologne (Brut, English Leather, Hai Karate)
Golf Balls
Box of cheeses, in faux green grass

as gifts

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:51 AM (ACATy)

269 IMO Susan Rice is Barky's right hand

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 09:51 AM (ypFCm)

270 Normal people don't wander around introducing themselves by saying "I'm really into busty blondes."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:47 AM (ZOv7s)

They don't ?? shit...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 26, 2025 09:52 AM (snZF9)

271 I think it's hilarious that Deion Sanders' kid -- the arrogant, entitled QB at Colorado -- hast thus far gone undrafted by any NFL team.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 26, 2025 09:51 AM (Y1sOo)
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He has only ever been coached by his father. That's a big issue, and apparently the interviews went very poorly.

Deion did his kid no favors in lavishing him with praise and retiring his number.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)

272 264 I think it's hilarious that Deion Sanders' kid -- the arrogant, entitled QB at Colorado -- hast thus far gone undrafted by any NFL team.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 26, 2025 09:51 AM (Y1sOo)

Coach Prime has an arrogant kid? That's unpossible!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 26, 2025 09:52 AM (PiwSw)

273 ClipperCraft, with 1.034 locations, use our purchasing power and pass our savings onto you. Men’s suits for only $40, that look like they should cost much, much more!

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:53 AM (ACATy)

274 I prefer, but wouldn't pass it up, to have sausages with pancakes, bacon with eggs.
Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 09:45 AM (ypFCm)
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Agreed but my whining skills are what they are.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:54 AM (RIvkX)

275 They don't ?? shit...
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 26, 2025 09:52 AM (snZF9)
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I did include the qualifier "normal," which pretty much excludes everyone here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)

276 Normal people don't wander around introducing themselves by saying "I'm really into busty blondes."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:47 AM (ZOv7s)

They don't ?? shit...
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 26, 2025 09:52 AM (snZF9)

Well, I mean, it kind of goes without saying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 26, 2025 09:54 AM (9ypnH)

277 Normal people don't wander around introducing themselves by saying "I'm really into busty blondes."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 08:47 AM

At least not the ones who prefer brunettes and/or redheads.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2025 09:54 AM (0sNs1)

278 >>Raise your hand if you gave or received

Soap on a rope
Cologne (Brut, English Leather, Hai Karate)
Golf Balls
Box of cheeses, in faux green grass

as gifts
- - - -

JeanNate after bath splash
Loves Baby Soft cologne
Bonnie Bell lip gloss
Lifesavers Christmas "book" holding 10(?) rolls

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 09:55 AM (GcdCE)

279 One '80s-'90s dress fashion I liked was tab collars on dress shirts. You know, the thing where you buttoned or snapped a tab *behind* your tie knot, so the collar conformed closely to the knot. Very dressy, if a little "Goodfellas" now. Can't find those kind of shirts anywhere in stores.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)

280 He has only ever been coached by his father. That's a big issue, and apparently the interviews went very poorly.

Deion did his kid no favors in lavishing him with praise and retiring his number.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)

I was just reading off a CFP link that Sanders has a tendency to hold onto the ball too long, and has limited mobility in the pocket. If true, interesting that he was considered a round 1 draft player.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 26, 2025 09:55 AM (7v6oI)

281 At least not the ones who prefer brunettes and/or redheads.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2025 09:54 AM (0sNs1)

The hair color matters less.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 26, 2025 09:55 AM (9ypnH)

282 So you're a really important person. And you die. And you're so important that the entire world sends its leaders to your funeral.
Is the discussion about you, your character, your values, your accomplishments?
No. It's about who showed up in the wrong fashion choices.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 09:56 AM (dg+HA)

283 Big black Stirling had that problem when he was about six months old. I'd seen the symptoms before and hustled him to the emergency vet. No blockage with the UTI. I asked him where he'd been partying lately to come up with that, and he had no answer.

thank you for this, Wolfus

I'm still freaking out a bit. the meds have him SO DOPEY I don't love it, but he's been peeing normally since about 2 hours after starting them (at 3am on Friday in case you're wondering I have not been sleeping too much)

they also said stuff was small in there. he's a decent sized cat too. I'm stopping kibble and going to all wet food regardless of anything else

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 09:57 AM (Pv3Rg)

284 >>Raise your hand if you gave or received

Soap on a rope
Cologne (Brut, English Leather, Hai Karate)

I used to work for a company that made soap on a rope at Christmas time. Received and gifted.

Cologne - all the time from my baby sister.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 26, 2025 09:57 AM (7v6oI)

285 Fifty years I've been waiting for my Nehru jackets and shirts to come back into style. This could be the year!

Posted by: Hollywood Fashion Plate at April 26, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

286 Suggest AOS Style Guide be updated so all future references to "Brut" be amended to "Brut -- by Faberge."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 26, 2025 09:57 AM (PiwSw)

287 I kind of feel bad for Shadeur Sanders but. not enough to not laugh at all this

did you guys see his "selection room"?!?!?

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 09:58 AM (Pv3Rg)

288 285 Fifty years I've been waiting for my Nehru jackets and shirts to come back into style. This could be the year!
Posted by: Hollywood Fashion Plate at April 26, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

Just do it, and the world will follow.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 26, 2025 09:58 AM (h7ZuX)

289 In recent years the “style” has been for suits to appear about 2 sizes too small. Really goofy looking. Humans will believe and do anything, apparently.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:58 AM (ACATy)

290 I was just reading off a CFP link that Sanders has a tendency to hold onto the ball too long, and has limited mobility in the pocket. If true, interesting that he was considered a round 1 draft player.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 26, 2025 09:55 AM (7v6oI)
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There was a lot of ESPN type hype because they love themselves some Deion.

I also read that part of the holding onto the ball problem was his willingness to change the play at the line, which frustrated the offense, but no one could speak ill of the coach's kid.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)

291 "All my men wear English Leather, or they wear nothing at all."

Posted by: Carole Mallory at April 26, 2025 09:59 AM (Aqu9a)

292 IMO Susan Rice is Barky's right hand

Yep. Valerie Jarrett was his godfather. Elevated him in Chicago politics after being introduced by ... the future Michelle Obama.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 09:59 AM (McYvC)

293 To my eye, there are... *checks notes* ... ZERO foreign leaders, dead or alive, who deserve a personal state visit with any American President, and most especially from Donald Trump. They're all his enemies, and should be sent surrogates instead. Preferably low-ranking and surly.

This Pope should have gotten a Freemason who works as a janitor at the Department of Vague Expenditures.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2025 09:59 AM (BI5O2)

294 None of the owners want to deal with Deion.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2025 09:59 AM (SYD5S)

295 >>Coach Prime has an arrogant kid? That's unpossible!

"One longtime NFL assistant coach said his time with Sanders was 'the worst formal interview I've ever been in in my life. He's so entitled. He takes unnecessary sacks. He never plays on time. He has horrible body language. He blames teammates...but the biggest thing is, he's not that good.'"

Posted by: one hour sober at April 26, 2025 10:00 AM (Y1sOo)

296 JeanNate after bath splash
Loves Baby Soft cologne
Bonnie Bell lip gloss
Lifesavers Christmas "book" holding 10(?) rolls
Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 09:55 AM (GcdCE)

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Oh man, Love's Baby Soft. I think I got a gift set one year with lotion and powder and perfume, and I was over the moon.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 26, 2025 10:00 AM (xOnCy)

297 In recent years the “style” has been for suits to appear about 2 sizes too small. Really goofy looking. Humans will believe and do anything, apparently.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:58 AM (ACATy)
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Matches the under-muscled soy frame.

I have two suits, both in a traditional looser fit and purchased around 20 years ago.

Male clothing should drape and offer freedom of movement so that you can draw your weapon and pistol-whip the miscreant to was rude to your lady. Hard to do that in skinny pants.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 10:01 AM (ZOv7s)

298 HEY! NO picking on Spooner!
Do what the rest of us do and pick on the UP ehh?
Da Yoopers need to be kept in line.

Posted by: Kafiroon at April 26, 2025 10:01 AM (72iBN)

299 >>n recent years the “style” has been for suits to appear about 2 sizes too small. Really goofy looking.

Ugh, yes!
I blame Thom Browne

https://tinyurl.com/5erm5edn

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 10:01 AM (GcdCE)

300 In recent years the “style” has been for suits to appear about 2 sizes too small. Really goofy looking. Humans will believe and do anything, apparently.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025

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I know, right? I say these people look like they're wearing their little brothers' Communion suits.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 10:02 AM (omVj0)

301 >>Oh man, Love's Baby Soft. I think I got a gift set one year with lotion and powder and perfume, and I was over the moon.

Right? I freakin' loved that stuff.
And the big-azz bonnie bell lip gloss in watermelon. . .
Meet me at the roller rink, baby!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 10:03 AM (GcdCE)

302 Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:51 AM (ACATy)
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I'm wearing Brut aftershave right now

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 10:03 AM (RIvkX)

303
Cologne - all the time from my baby sister.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 26, 2025 09:57 AM (7v6oI)

_________

She was sending you a message. You need to bathe more than once a quarter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 10:03 AM (QnmlO)

304 275 They don't ?? shit...
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 26, 2025 09:52 AM (snZF9)
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I did include the qualifier "normal," which pretty much excludes everyone here.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 26, 2025 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)

Pretty much?

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:04 AM (CQE5S)

305 Just FYI:
Evening in Paris Eau de Parfum in the pretty blue bottles is still available but is now ~$60 a bottle!

I think every mom got at least one bottle of it in the '60s from their kids. Of course, then it was sold in drugs stores for much, much less money.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 10:04 AM (3ImbR)

306 I'm still freaking out a bit. the meds have him SO DOPEY I don't love it, but he's been peeing normally since about 2 hours after starting them (at 3am on Friday in case you're wondering I have not been sleeping too much)

they also said stuff was small in there. he's a decent sized cat too. I'm stopping kibble and going to all wet food regardless of anything else
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025

***
Black Orchid, you'll want to get him a fountain -- one of those plug-in deals where you fill the reservoir with water, and it recirculates through a filter. It's fresher, I guess, and the movement of the water attracts the cat too. I've been giving Stirling (and Dagny, who's a girl) a mix of dry and wet food for a long while now, and the problem hasn't recurred for him. But he drinks more than he would from a bowl of water. (He also loves the kitchen and bathroom tap.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 10:05 AM (omVj0)

307 LOL, NFL draft drama! If you replace bonbons with beer, it's like the male version of Long Island housewives watching TMZ.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2025 10:05 AM (BI5O2)

308 I know, right? I say these people look like they're wearing their little brothers' Communion suits.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 10:02 AM (omVj0)
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The Pee Wee Herman Look

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 10:06 AM (RIvkX)

309 285 Fifty years I've been waiting for my Nehru jackets and shirts to come back into style. This could be the year!
Posted by: Hollywood Fashion Plate at April 26, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

Mere moments after you donate them to GoodWill.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:06 AM (CQE5S)

310 Rodney Dangerfield makes the case for regular guy clothes in Easy Money:

https://youtu.be/HUDWS72SpNE

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2025 10:07 AM (Aqu9a)

311
Diana's turn today at the National Specialty in Best of Breed competition. Not expecting much; an Award of Merit is about the best we can hope for.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 10:07 AM (QnmlO)

312 Oh man, Love's Baby Soft. I think I got a gift set one year with lotion and powder and perfume, and I was over the moon.
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Right? I freakin' loved that stuff.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 10:03 AM (GcdCE)
~~~~~

Still available on Amazon, ladies.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 10:07 AM (3ImbR)

313 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 10:07 AM (QnmlO)

Good luck

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2025 10:08 AM (VE6XX)

314 I worked in the Faberge headquarters in Manhattan in the mid-70s doing a big renovation. They had the best collection of drop-dead gorgeous secretaries ever put together. Worked in the office of Sammy Cahn, songwriter and lyricist. Faberge was producing movies at the time. He had just scored A Touch of Class, with George Segal and Glenda Jackson. Sammy was interested in what we were doing and seemed to be a nice guy. It wasn't far in miles, but his beautiful office w/grand piano was a long way from the Lower East Side of his youth.

Posted by: Brut by Faberge at April 26, 2025 10:09 AM (G5+As)

315 >>Still available on Amazon, ladies.

Ha! But no. Better left in its own era. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 10:09 AM (GcdCE)

316 The 80's (for me) was the era of linen suits for men. I recall buying myself a linen sports coat for work.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 10:10 AM (Q4IgG)

317 Creepy Baby Soft and from back in the day:

https://youtu.be/l7IP5SV6GqQ?si=6p5qP2SW6GjaGCVA

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2025 10:10 AM (BI5O2)

318 Please pray for NaCly Dawg. He has lost two ladies who were dear to his heart.

Posted by: creeper at April 26, 2025 10:10 AM (zFwIe)

319 *ad from back in the day

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2025 10:10 AM (BI5O2)

320 “ He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.”

Daniel 7:14

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2025 10:11 AM (qnw3j)

321 Love that Trump was wearing a blue suit amongst a sea of black.. How long before we get Suitgate...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2025 10:11 AM (VE6XX)

322 >>Diana's turn today at the National Specialty in Best of Breed competition. Not expecting much; an Award of Merit is about the best we can hope for.

Break a leg! (Is that appropriate for dog shows?)

>>Please pray for NaCly Dawg. He has lost two ladies who were dear to his heart.

Will do!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2025 10:11 AM (GcdCE)

323 Lord hear our prayers.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 26, 2025 10:11 AM (TrKJG)

324 Raise your hand if you gave or received

Soap on a rope
-----

Pope on a rope!

Alas they don't make that soap anymore.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 26, 2025 10:11 AM (kpS4V)

325 I was just reading off a CFP link that Sanders has a tendency to hold onto the ball too long, and has limited mobility in the pocket. If true, interesting that he was considered a round 1 draft player.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 26, 2025 09:55 AM

Sanders had a bad o-line for two years and still managed 80+ TDs. The man can spin it. His issues are not arm talent.

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 10:12 AM (jc0TO)

326 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 26, 2025 08:16 AM (gDlxJ)

Very nice. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 10:12 AM (itAx4)

327
Diana also isn't even three years old. Her mama Delilah didn't win the National until she was nearly 6. Her grandmother Lacey was 8 1/2 when she won from Veterans in her last show.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 10:12 AM (QnmlO)

328 "The People's Pope is about to be reunited with his people."

ABC talking head

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:13 AM (CQE5S)

329 I'm holding out hope for Pope Marcellus III - a pipe hittin' African pope to go medieval on the Roman Curia.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 26, 2025 09:37 AM (GTqXr)

Pope Leroy I. Nice ring to it.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 26, 2025 10:13 AM (g8Ew8)

330 LOL, NFL draft drama! If you replace bonbons with beer, it's like the male version of Long Island housewives watching TMZ.

Sports is just live action soap opera. Not as scripted as pro wrestling, but not as totally unscripted as the die-hards wish to believe.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 10:13 AM (McYvC)

331 What might be interesting is if Jalen Milroe goes ahead of Sanders today.

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 10:13 AM (jc0TO)

332 What might be interesting is if Jalen Milroe goes ahead of Sanders today.

Pretty sure he already went.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 10:15 AM (McYvC)

333 They look nice, but I'm pretty sure those Swiss Guard uniforms are dry-clean only.

Posted by: Frugal Frank at April 26, 2025 10:15 AM (G5+As)

334 new numbers:

At least 400,000 people turn out for Pope's funeral - Italian officials

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:16 AM (CQE5S)

335
Oh pooh. All the NFL drama is written and acted by the usual suspects: journalists, statheads, podcasters and the whole panalopy of sports parasites.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 10:16 AM (QnmlO)

336 >>What might be interesting is if Jalen Milroe goes ahead of Sanders today.

Already drafted

Posted by: one hour sober at April 26, 2025 10:16 AM (Y1sOo)

337 My congregation member, J, mentioned in the prayer list near the end is having setbacks and is still in the hospital. Has not yet been able to have heart surgery. Thanks for the update.

Also, M's surgery was succcessful. Thanks so much for the prayers.

Also, prayers for the senior center service this afternoon that all goes well

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 10:16 AM (itAx4)

338 316 The 80's (for me) was the era of linen suits for men. I recall buying myself a linen sports coat for work.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 10:10 AM (Q4IgG)
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I had a beautiful Liz Clairborn beige linen suit and big 80's hair. It rocked! Linen creases if you look cross eyed at it, though.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 26, 2025 10:17 AM (kpS4V)

339 Pope Leroy I. Nice ring to it.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 26, 2025 10:13 AM (g8Ew

Make it Pope Leroy Jenkins I.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 10:17 AM (ZEzFB)

340 > At least 400,000 people turn out for Pope's funeral - Italian officials
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Wonder how many were celebrating vs. mourning.

I'll denounce myself later.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 10:17 AM (Q4IgG)

341 I'm still freaking out a bit. the meds have him SO DOPEY I don't love it, but he's been peeing normally since about 2 hours after starting them (at 3am on Friday in case you're wondering I have not been sleeping too much)

they also said stuff was small in there. he's a decent sized cat too. I'm stopping kibble and going to all wet food regardless of anything else
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025

I'm wondering; was you're cat circumcised?

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 26, 2025 10:17 AM (g8Ew8)

342 “ Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.”

Psalm 31:24

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2025 10:17 AM (qnw3j)

343 Good morning good people. Prayers for all intentions - those requested and those known but to God.

Update on grandson Charlie - we've been told he will be discharged from the NICU this coming week as has met his weight goals, lung function is great and he is maintaining his body temp.

Not convinced Mom and Dad are ready for him but are any first time parental units really ready?

God is good.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2025 10:19 AM (vKNmo)

344 >>Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Where's the Borzoi National Specialty taking place this year?

Posted by: one hour sober at April 26, 2025 10:19 AM (Y1sOo)

345
I had a beautiful Liz Clairborn beige linen suit and big 80's hair. It rocked! Linen creases if you look cross eyed at it, though.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 26, 2025 10:17 AM (kpS4V)

__________

Hate to admit it, but I loved 80's big hair.

*blushes*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 10:19 AM (QnmlO)

346 If true, interesting that he was considered a round 1 draft player.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 26, 2025 09:55 AM

What’s fun is that the Sanders circus and the fawning sports press considered him to be a #1 draft pick, but not a single NFL team did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 10:20 AM (ZEzFB)

347 Watching this short clip of PDT and Zelensky. It appears that originally three chairs were set up for the meeting, and Macron is there as well. There's a brief conversation, and the next thing you see is two chairs and no Macron in sight.

Interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/298tbpez

Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 10:20 AM (3ImbR)

348 She's kind of ugly, even for Milwaukee.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2025 08:18 AM (SfhV1)

Fell off the back of a Harley, cruising down Ugly Avenue, and tumbled a bunch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 10:20 AM (8zz6B)

349
Where's the Borzoi National Specialty taking place this year?
Posted by: one hour sober at April 26, 2025 10:19 AM (Y1sOo)

___________

Kingsport, TN.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 10:21 AM (QnmlO)

350 Pretty sure he already went.

You're right. Round 3 to the Eagles yesterday.

Well then.

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 10:21 AM (jc0TO)

351 Nothing wrong with big hair, Hadrian. It pairs nicely with Final Net hairspray and clove cigarettes.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 26, 2025 10:21 AM (kpS4V)

352 The NFL is a reality TV show featuring 32 quarterbacks and 32 head coaches.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 10:21 AM (dg+HA)

353 I had a beautiful Liz Clairborn beige linen suit and big 80's hair. It rocked! Linen creases if you look cross eyed at it, though.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 26, 2025 10:17 AM (kpS4V)

Peach! I loved Liz Claiborne. Sized nicely for the not-skinny girl.

And I've recently become re-enamored of linen, wrinkles and all, to replace polyester leggings. Like sweatpants, but with more (wrinkly) class.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 26, 2025 10:22 AM (h7ZuX)

354 dammit. Seahawks, not Eagles.

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 10:22 AM (jc0TO)

355 my logo recognition is not the best, clearly.

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 10:22 AM (jc0TO)

356 God is good.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2025 10:19 AM (vKNmo)
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b"h for good health

I better get a grandkid soon or Imma have to get a puppy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 10:23 AM (RIvkX)

357 347 Watching this short clip of PDT and Zelensky. It appears that originally three chairs were set up for the meeting, and Macron is there as well. There's a brief conversation, and the next thing you see is two chairs and no Macron in sight.

Interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/298tbpez
Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 10:20 AM (3ImbR)

Maybe for an interpreter?

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:24 AM (CQE5S)

358 Watching this short clip of PDT and Zelensky. It appears that originally three chairs were set up for the meeting, and Macron is there as well. There's a brief conversation, and the next thing you see is two chairs and no Macron in sight.

Interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/298tbpez
Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 10:20 AM (3ImbR)
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No French.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 10:24 AM (RIvkX)

359 358 Watching this short clip of PDT and Zelensky. It appears that originally three chairs were set up for the meeting, and Macron is there as well. There's a brief conversation, and the next thing you see is two chairs and no Macron in sight.

Interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/298tbpez
Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2025 10:20 AM (3ImbR)
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No French.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 10:24 AM (RIvkX)

I snorted.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:25 AM (CQE5S)

360
my logo recognition is not the best, clearly.
Posted by: toby928

The Seahawks' logo looks like a poorly designed bottle cap opener (which is not unexpected because Seattle is chok-a-block with numbnuts) ((not nurse, of course)).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 26, 2025 10:26 AM (xG4kz)

361 Very late this morning and haven't caught up with the comments but just wanted to say that I am fine. Cataract surgery was without any issues.. Had a couple of scary moments and the eye drops are a pain but my vision is great and I am so thankful for all the prayers and support from all of you.
❤️❤️❤️
Now if I can just get a date for hip surgery....

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 26, 2025 10:29 AM (t/2Uw)

362 God is good.
Posted by: Tonypete

Amen, yes he is. Thanks for the update TP. A young man we've known since he was five has 4 boys. Three of the four were premies. They are all rambunctious little balls of motion now. God will provide the strength needed although I'm sure they will be tested.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 26, 2025 10:29 AM (TrKJG)

363 At least 400,000 people turn out for Pope's funeral - Italian officials
Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:16 AM (CQE5S
‐------‐

I never believe public crowd estimates. Always overestimated.

Posted by: WisRich at April 26, 2025 10:29 AM (Yd6Ng)

364 Update on grandson Charlie - we've been told he will be discharged from the NICU this coming week as has met his weight goals, lung function is great and he is maintaining his body temp.

Not convinced Mom and Dad are ready for him but are any first time parental units really ready?

God is good.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2025 10:19 AM (vKNmo)

Tonypete - this is great news. Congrats on your grandson.
And yes - God is good.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 26, 2025 10:29 AM (7v6oI)

365 So Milroe made it into the top 100. I guess that is good. Third round is a good time to take a risk on a player with flaws but with lots of upside potential, and every coach thinks they are the Henry Higgins of football.

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 10:29 AM (jc0TO)

366 Perhaps they can convince the toffs that Milroe is ... Hungarian.

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 10:31 AM (jc0TO)

367 What’s fun is that the Sanders circus and the fawning sports press considered him to be a #1 draft pick, but not a single NFL team did.

Fun Fact - and I'm sure of this - if Mel Kiper and the rest on ESPN knew personnel as well as they claim ? They wouldn't be on ESPN. Every NFL team would gladly each pay them multiple millions to give true numeric grades on players. Each team would gladly pay a million each to get a true grade on 20 players each.

Mel Kiper knows more than you or I - although not as much as any of you regarding the players on your favorite team. Mel Kiper is selling the act of Mel Kiper.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 10:33 AM (McYvC)

368 How about a pink knit tie with a square bottom like a common disco douchebag?
/confession
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 09:41 AM (RIvkX

Maroon knit tie, white oxford, and black slacks were the required uniform when I was a busboy at the country club.

The dining room colors were maroon and aqua. Stylin'

Posted by: Kindltot at April 26, 2025 10:34 AM (D7oie)

369 At least 400,000 people turn out for Pope's funeral - Italian officials
Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:16 AM (CQE5S
‐------‐

I never believe public crowd estimates. Always overestimated.
Posted by: WisRich at April 26, 2025 10:29 AM (Yd6Ng)

There are almost 1.5 billion Catholics in the world. He had a .02% turn out.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 10:35 AM (VofaG)

370 Why does it rain on Saturday? Who programs this matrix?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 10:37 AM (viF8m)

371 I never believe public crowd estimates. Always overestimated.
Posted by: WisRich

Except for the estimates provide by the Park Service for the March for Life in DC every year.

It's is my firm opinion that the March is the reason the PS doesn't provide estimates anymore.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2025 10:37 AM (vKNmo)

372 Why are they calling Frankie 'The People's Pope'? Who coined this? Do they get to pick their own moniker? Could he have been 'The Sultan of Swing'?

Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 10:38 AM (jc0TO)

373 Sportsball ‘commentators’ have nothing of value to enhance the game. I suggest they bring back marching band halftimes. For the one or two college hames I see per year.

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2025 10:38 AM (LHPAg)

374 369 At least 400,000 people turn out for Pope's funeral - Italian officials
Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:16 AM (CQE5S

That's a lot of folks to seat for Bingo after the ceremony.

Posted by: Millions of Chips at April 26, 2025 10:39 AM (G5+As)

375 El; Presidente Trump has security up the yingster in Ro0me today. Thats good to see. For a minute I thought the Mafiosi would do a better job than our DEI ponytail gun bungler brigade..

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at April 26, 2025 10:40 AM (r3F/z)

376 Every pre-game football player interview ever:

"We've just got to play OUR game.
Do what WE do.
Leave EVERYTHING on the field."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 10:41 AM (dg+HA)

377 San Franpsycho, you once asked why everyone in Oregon seems to wear flannel shirts. Style is the reason. Tee shirt, a flannel shirt over it, and blue jeans, and you don't have to worry about fashion ever again.

I did find a solution to "finding out of style shirts at thrift-shops" problem. I remove the collars. It means I can't wear ties with them, but I can accept that hardship

Posted by: Kindltot at April 26, 2025 10:41 AM (D7oie)

378 372 Why are they calling Frankie 'The People's Pope'? Who coined this? Do they get to pick their own moniker? Could he have been 'The Sultan of Swing'?
Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 10:38 AM (jc0TO)
Lipstick, pig. Tough sell.

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2025 10:41 AM (LHPAg)

379 More hand wringing from the left: "Bloodbath"

BREAKING: “Bloodbath” at DOJ Civil Rights Division as Harmeet Dhillon cleans house — NBC News

-Career officials are melting down.

The Trump administration has forced out a majority of career managers and implemented new priorities.

-More than a dozen senior lawyers have been reassigned.

-Some have resigned in frustration after being moved to “less desirable roles unrelated to their expertise.”

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 10:41 AM (Q4IgG)

380 The NFL teams didn't think Manziel was a first rounder either and they made sure that they were going to be right.

Manziel was a mess but they didn't do anything but make sure they exacerbated his issues. Besides not giving him a chance to play because the shitty coach pouted because they made him pick Manziel when he didn't want to. That same year every other QB picked started for their team even though they barely won any games.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 10:41 AM (VofaG)

381 And I've recently become re-enamored of linen, wrinkles and all, to replace polyester leggings. Like sweatpants, but with more (wrinkly) class.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

I just received a pair or stretch linen crops from J.Jill. Haven't worn them yet but am anxious to see if they wrinkle as badly as regular linen.

Posted by: Tuna at April 26, 2025 10:42 AM (lJ0H4)

382 372 Why are they calling Frankie 'The People's Pope'? Who coined this? Do they get to pick their own moniker? Could he have been 'The Sultan of Swing'?
Posted by: toby928 at April 26, 2025 10:38 AM (jc0TO)

"Tutti, tutti, tutti."
Pope Francis

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:43 AM (CQE5S)

383 People's Pope like Communist countries were the The People's Republic

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 10:44 AM (ypFCm)

384 A lot of women wearing yoga pants really shouldn't be wearing yoga pants.

Posted by: Ok. I'll just say it at April 26, 2025 10:45 AM (dg+HA)

385 In recent years the “style” has been for suits to appear about 2 sizes too small. Really goofy looking. Humans will believe and do anything, apparently.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2025 09:58 AM (ACATy)

I prefer the "I normally wear body-armor under this" fit

Posted by: Kindltot at April 26, 2025 10:45 AM (D7oie)

386 Why does it rain on Saturday? Who programs this matrix?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 10:37 AM (viF8m)

You just need to retire and then everyday is Saturday.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 10:45 AM (VofaG)

387 >>It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena

-Theodore Roosevelt

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 10:45 AM (viF8m)

388 Some have resigned in frustration after being moved to “less desirable roles unrelated to their expertise.”
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2025 10:41 AM (Q4IgG)
Embezzlement?

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2025 10:45 AM (LHPAg)

389 The undersized tight suits is a British thing. They've had that style forever.

Posted by: Bigsmith at April 26, 2025 10:46 AM (1Au9i)

390 *Some have resigned in frustration after being moved to “less desirable roles unrelated to their expertise.*

I think there's an opening for a judge in Wisconsin. Or New Mexico.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 10:47 AM (dg+HA)

391 I love JJill. Everything fits so I can order online. Also a big fan of crops. Being very vertically challenged, it eliminates the need for shortening stuff.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 26, 2025 10:48 AM (t/2Uw)

392 after being moved to “less desirable roles unrelated to their expertise.*
---------
i.e. to where they could do less damage.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 26, 2025 10:49 AM (6YdsJ)

393 Nothing is happening.

>>Susan Rice is not happy about being kicked out of the Pentagon. Calls Secretary of Defense “dumb as a rock"

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 10:51 AM (viF8m)

394 he undersized tight suits is a British thing. They've had that style forever.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 26, 2025 10:46 AM (1Au9i)

Okay I was wondering why that style looked gay. Now I know.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 10:51 AM (VofaG)

395 AP reporting the Iranians had an "Oooopsie!" at one of their ports. Somebody smoking around oily rags or something.

https://tinyurl.com/3ksrnukf

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 26, 2025 10:51 AM (pIfcn)

396 ENCYCLICAL LETTER
FRATELLI TUTTI
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS
ON FRATERNITY AND SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/
en/encyclicals/documents/papa-
francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:53 AM (CQE5S)

397 And I've recently become re-enamored of linen, wrinkles and all, to replace polyester leggings. Like sweatpants, but with more (wrinkly) class.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 26, 2025 10:22 AM

I'm a fan of linen/linen blend trousers, shorts and shirts in the Summer. Very comfortable.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 26, 2025 10:53 AM (Wnv9h)

398 1. “FRATELLI TUTTI”. [1] With these words, Saint Francis of Assisi addressed his brothers and sisters and proposed to them a way of life marked by the flavour of the Gospel. Of the counsels Francis offered, I would like to select the one in which he calls for a love that transcends the barriers of geography and distance, and declares blessed all those who love their brother “as much when he is far away from him as when he is with him”. [2] In his simple and direct way, Saint Francis expressed the essence of a fraternal openness that allows us to acknowledge, appreciate and love each person, regardless of physical proximity, regardless of where he or she was born or lives.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:54 AM (CQE5S)

399 395 AP reporting the Iranians had an "Oooopsie!" at one of their ports. Somebody smoking around oily rags or something.

https://tinyurl.com/3ksrnukf
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls,

We can only hope they have a number of obese lesbian Fire Captains to implement the "save the basement" strategy.

Posted by: Inshallah at April 26, 2025 10:54 AM (G5+As)

400 400

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:55 AM (CQE5S)

401 I'm a fan of linen/linen blend trousers, shorts and shirts in the Summer. Very comfortable.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 26, 2025 10:53 AM (Wnv9h)
-------
Those Egyptians may have been on to something.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 26, 2025 10:55 AM (6YdsJ)

402 384 A lot of women wearing yoga pants really shouldn't be wearing yoga pants.
Posted by: Ok. I'll just say it at April 26, 2025 10:45 AM (dg+HA)

I resemble that remark. But I wear them to the gym to work out, because I don't like shorts, and sweatpants are too hot. However, I think polyester is bad for our bodies. Hence, my substitution of linen and cotton pants.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 26, 2025 10:56 AM (h7ZuX)

403 Also a big fan of crops. Being very vertically challenged, it eliminates the need for shortening stuff.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
---
Same. My mother is even shorter than I, believe it or not. Been ordering new PJs for her. Capri pants and 3/4 sleeves are full length on her. Perfect.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 26, 2025 10:57 AM (Szews)

404 Prayers for alll.

Posted by: Mick at April 26, 2025 10:57 AM (gYvAB)

405 mmm. My favorite gum.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 26, 2025 10:57 AM (D7oie)

406 All the Pope-Pomp is impressive, but how can you give a decent send-off without a 21-Gun Salute?

Posted by: Canonized Carl at April 26, 2025 10:57 AM (G5+As)

407 That "industrial accident " at the Iranian port killed at least 500 people and completely destroyed the area. This was no minor incident. Originally read it was the makings of bomb material that came from China without military escort destined for Hezbollah. There is speculation that it is sabotage by Iranians longing to breath free.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 26, 2025 10:58 AM (t/2Uw)

408 Come, Holy Spirit, show us your beauty,
reflected in *all* the peoples of the earth,
so that we may discover anew
that *all* are important and *all* are necessary,
different faces of the one humanity
that God so loves. Amen.

Given in Assisi, at the tomb of Saint Francis, on 3 October, Vigil of the Feast of the Saint, in the year 2020, the eighth of my Pontificate.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 10:58 AM (CQE5S)

409
Big 80s Hair was great. Very feminine.

Buuuuuuut, those of you who disagree can go hang out with the blue-haired, tatted-up, nose-ringed land whales currently in style.

They're all yours.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 10:59 AM (iJfKG)

410 There is speculation that it is sabotage by Iranians longing to breath free.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 26, 2025 10:58 AM (t/2Uw)

I hope so. God protect them.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 26, 2025 10:59 AM (h7ZuX)

411 395 AP reporting the Iranians had an "Oooopsie!" at one of their ports. Somebody smoking around oily rags or something.

https://tinyurl.com/3ksrnukf
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 26, 2025 10:51 AM (pIfcn
‘Attention attention! The smoking lamp is now extinguished!’
- Moshe Arnstein

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2025 11:00 AM (LHPAg)

412 Also a big fan of crops.

Me too. Corn. Beans. You name it.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 11:00 AM (McYvC)

413 Pete Hegseth may or may not be dumb as a rock. He was on Fox, which has an extremely high Tard Quotient, so I'd bank on it.

But at least he's American.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2025 11:01 AM (BI5O2)

414 The People's Princess
The People's Pope

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 11:02 AM (CQE5S)

415 The People's Princess
The People's Pope
Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 11:02 AM (CQE5S)

The People's People

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 11:03 AM (iJfKG)

416 "...Iranian port killed at least 500 people and completely destroyed the area."

I think it was 500 injured, not killed.
But, still.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2025 11:03 AM (dg+HA)

417 Okay I was wondering why that style looked gay. Now I know.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 26, 2025 10:51 AM (VofaG)

I watch a mother/daughter team of mudlarkers. I've noticed that both of them plus the daughter's boyfriend wear corduroy quite often. I wonder why it is that British people actually look good in corduroy but no one else does.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 26, 2025 11:04 AM (2J/Lj)

418 Yeah, the bs on that guy is getting annoying.

I actually saw John Paul II give the Christmas Day address in St Peter's Square 200...4 or 5. Holy Father was FAR more beloved than this poser.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 26, 2025 11:05 AM (TkzvX)

419 The People's Princess thing at least made sense from the standpoint that Diana was a commoner brought in to strengthen the attenuated Saxe Coburg bloodlines.

This Pope was just another political player who climbed the greasy pole of Vatican institutional politics by selling socialism. By that standard, George Soros is the People's Plutocrat.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2025 11:07 AM (BI5O2)

420 noodness has occurred

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 11:07 AM (CQE5S)

421 I watch a mother/daughter team of mudlarkers. I've noticed that both of them plus the daughter's boyfriend wear corduroy quite often. I wonder why it is that British people actually look good in corduroy but no one else does.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 26, 2025 11:04 AM (2J/Lj
I have some corduroy pants and a jacket, bought at Goodwill over 20 years ago. They’re warm.

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2025 11:07 AM (LHPAg)

422 Pete Hegseth may or may not be dumb as a rock. He was on Fox, which has an extremely high Tard Quotient, so I'd bank on it. But at least he's American.

Somebody says it here every day now. Trump has shown just how unwilling to try the Bush clan and the rest of the GOP were. I'd extend that to Reagan and Nixon - Big Gub types that talked different than they walked.

My point ? Hegseth doesn't need to be brilliant to reform the Pentagon. He just needs to try to reform the Pentagon.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 11:08 AM (McYvC)

423 nood KT

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 11:08 AM (CQE5S)

424 I watch a mother/daughter team of mudlarkers. I've noticed that both of them plus the daughter's boyfriend wear corduroy quite often. I wonder why it is that British people actually look good in corduroy but no one else does.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

There's so many mudlarkers on the Thames that the government has to come out at night to throw more trinkets in the river. Be advised, one needs a permit from the port authority to pick through the mud.

Posted by: No Joy In Mudville at April 26, 2025 11:08 AM (G5+As)

425 Pope JP II was called Papa Pio, correct?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 26, 2025 11:09 AM (2J/Lj)

426 Some have resigned in frustration after being moved to “less desirable roles unrelated to their expertise.”

—

Anything above janitor is still too prestigious.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 11:10 AM (nzXzp)

427 prayers up for the horde.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 26, 2025 11:12 AM (L0TJc)

428 First cup of coffee of the day.

Posted by: The Man from t at April 26, 2025 11:12 AM (huGNl)

429 First cup of coffee of the day.

Ponder all the great things you are doing for you. Hydrating. Antioxidants. And a natural stimulant.

Some people will dispute the above. They are asshoe. Ignore them.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 11:16 AM (McYvC)

430 >>Pete Hegseth may or may not be dumb as a rock. He was on Fox, which has an extremely high Tard Quotient, so I'd bank on it.

In my experience there are very few Elon's at the head of any organization. And those that are tend to bend toward evil.

Hegseth was put at DOD to do a relatively simple job. Stop the military from becoming a daycare for the mentally challenged, those who want this country to fail and those in the employ of Raytheon and return it to mission 1, lethality. The fact the left is coming at him with everything they have tells me he is succeeding. And he did manage to get into Princeton as a white boy from Minnesota with zero DEI points. Probably not as dumb as Susan Rice who has been wrong about everything her entire life.

We need a lot fewer wicked pissa smart people running stuff and more people who just do their damn jobs.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 11:16 AM (viF8m)

431 We need a lot fewer wicked pissa smart people running stuff and more people who just do their damn jobs.

Mix in some boating tips and home-grown herb insights and you'll have a damn fine newsletter.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 11:31 AM (McYvC)

432 405 mmm. My favorite gu[n].
Posted by: Kindltot at April 26, 2025 10:57 AM (D7oie)

************

Mine too!

Posted by: Iowa class battleships at April 26, 2025 11:40 AM (yO07m)

Daily Tech News 26 April 2025

Top Story

What this country needs is a really good $20,000 electric truck. Apparently. (The Verge) (archive site)

I mean, given what vehicles cost these days, it's worth a shot.

There are a few corners cut, to be sure. The Slate Truck is available in one colour - slate grey, has no sound system, and only does 150 miles on a charge. And the body panels are plastic, not metal, though that's not a first even on much more expensive models.

And it's designed to be repairable by the owner, though how far that goes is something that we'll have to see when it comes out next year.

Tech News

Netflix now has dialogue-only subtitles because of the current trend for actors to mumble incoherently through their lines. (Ars Technica)

No, it's not your hearing going. I mean, that might also be true, but the younger generations also watch TV with subtitles on because they can't tell what the hell the actors are saying.
Microsoft's Recall spyware is here. (Tom's Hardware)

Also Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC is cheap (if a little fiddly to install) and receives security updates through January 2027 - and no new features at all.

Just saying.

If you can find the IoT edition that's supported through 2032 but I don't know where to get that.
If you mention the /etc/hosts file - found on all modern operating systems - Substack sends etheric ninjas down the wire to terminate you. (Substack)

Or more specifically it raises a 403 error when the editor attempts to automatically save your post.

Potato, potahto.
This mini-ITX NAS motherboard has 10Gb Ethernet. (Liliputing)

And costs $139 if you can find someone who will ship it to you, given current tariff uncertainties.

There are many such boards on sites like Aliexpress, but most of the cheap ones don't have 10GbE.
Why are companies lining up to buy Chrome? (The Verge)

Perplexity, OpenAI, and Yahoo are all among the bidders should the government force Google to divest its browser.

But you can already get Chrome-based browsers like Brave and Vivaldi for free.

These companies aren't looking to buy Chrome. They're looking to buy you.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Blip.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 04:34 AM (ypFCm)

2 G'day, Skip

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 26, 2025 04:36 AM (/HDaX)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 26, 2025 04:36 AM (BLOW1)

4 Now, how long before MS forces the Recall feature on their customers?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 26, 2025 04:39 AM (/HDaX)

5 That truck looks like a throw back 70s, not sure if people will want it.

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 04:39 AM (ypFCm)

6 Verizon should buy Google's Chrome browser and rename it Oath. Oh wait, they already tried that with Yahoo and Aol and it went about as well as one would expect.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at April 26, 2025 04:44 AM (amnH6)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 26, 2025 04:44 AM (AdHga)

8 I bumped into that $20,000 electric truck online a couple of days ago. Did that Toyota el cheapo truck ever happen?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 26, 2025 04:45 AM (LSoM1)

9 Is PaleMoon still a thing?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 26, 2025 04:48 AM (LSoM1)

10 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 26, 2025 04:50 AM (dg+HA)

11 Morning Horde. Sitting in the emergency room where Mr nec just arrived by ambulance. Nasty fall. Please send up prayers.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 26, 2025 04:52 AM (Qh2+Q)

12 I'm getting up, with no reason for it.

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 04:52 AM (ypFCm)

13 Cheap Truck's music sucks!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 26, 2025 04:53 AM (V9cMX)

14 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 26, 2025 04:52 AM (Qh2+Q)

done

sorry for your troubles

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 26, 2025 04:54 AM (V9cMX)

15 Plastic truck probably has a 300ish pound carrying capacity, which is perfect for weekend home repair warriors.

Posted by: 13times at April 26, 2025 05:07 AM (Hn8lp)

16 A cheap, much better small ICE truck already exists. Toyota Hilux. Sold everywhere but the US.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 26, 2025 05:09 AM (McYvC)

17
Cheap Truck's music sucks!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

"I Want You To Want Me" is right out for any sales pitches, then?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2025 05:14 AM (xG4kz)

18 The Ars Technica commetariat is saying they are ready to go back to something like a 1970s Japanese pickup truck. It seems modernizing that using a small 3 or 4 cylinder engine would be cheaper, have far better range and lifespan than an EV that in reality is going to have about 100 mile range. But that will never fly with those people as that takes all the fun out of saving Mother Earth through militant virtue signaling.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at April 26, 2025 05:14 AM (amnH6)

19 G'mornin all y'all
Prayers up for Mrnec. BTDT

Posted by: OkJohn at April 26, 2025 05:17 AM (NC/it)

20 I'm fine. Save yourselves.

Posted by: Mother Eartt at April 26, 2025 05:17 AM (dg+HA)

21 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 26, 2025 04:52

Certainly will and can sympathize

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 05:19 AM (ypFCm)

22 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 26, 2025 04:52 AM (Qh2+Q)

Sorry to hear that. Will pray.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 05:21 AM (oHbDU)

23 Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has died by suicide, her family says.

Posted by: 13times at April 26, 2025 05:21 AM (Hn8lp)

24 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at April 26, 2025 05:28 AM (AN2gy)

25 >>> Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has died by suicide, her family says.

You don't say

Posted by: Boeing at April 26, 2025 05:30 AM (AN2gy)

26 Teen takes grandma to prom after she tells him she never got to attend:

https://tinyurl.com/4v52y62w

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 05:30 AM (oHbDU)

27 Yellowjacket got in house

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 05:32 AM (ypFCm)

28 Amish come to help rebuild NC town. Maybe we should put them in charge of FEMA?

https://tinyurl.com/4p4pyrr6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 05:34 AM (oHbDU)

29 Christian devotional " from "Our Daily Bread". "Action not distraction. " Alert boy saves kids and bus driver after driver had medical episode. Scripture is Joshua 1:1-6:

https://tinyurl.com/bdfanc3r

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 05:38 AM (oHbDU)

30 29- sorry. Passage goes to verse 9, not 6.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 05:41 AM (oHbDU)

31 25 >>> Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has died by suicide, her family says.

++++
Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: Old Dennis Miller line at April 26, 2025 05:52 AM (dg+HA)

32 Amazon's OS isn't bad, just blocked from Google's playstore. Maybe Bezos should buy Chrome.
Google should be busted into a 1000 pieces, shoved thru bankruptcy, and the IP sold off.

Posted by: Accomack at April 26, 2025 05:54 AM (Bbhox)

33 That poor woman- Virginia Guiffre. What a heck of a life!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 05:56 AM (8uGPf)

34 G'morning, all.

NEC...prayers up for Mr NEC.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 05:56 AM (a1415)

35 Scripture when worried. Old and New Testament:

https://tinyurl.com/2ww9pk9y

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 06:00 AM (8uGPf)

36
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 26, 2025 06:10 AM (tljrc)

37 Suddenly seeing lots of bumble bees, as of yesterday. Spring must be here to stay.

Don't tell my son, or he will never visit here again until fall chills send them away.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 06:12 AM (u3hby)

38 Amongst other projects, we have been cat sitting for the original owners of our two 10 month old kittens, going to their house to feed the mother cat, their remaining brother and two other older cats twice daily.

The owners wound up stranded in Atlanta as another passenger had to be removed from the flight by ambulance, and the required delay causing a missed connection back home to Charleston.

Fortunately the were able to get in on another later flight, and are now safely home. But if one were to offer prayers for the unknown passenger who needed emergency medical care, it would be appreciated.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 06:13 AM (a1415)

39 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 26, 2025 06:13 AM (hoCmQ)

40 I would like to apologize for being irritable yesterday. Some men going on about "vaginas" (slang for women) who want to destroy men's lives getting to be a bit wearying especially since we have a number of women posters here. In addition, I think it's sloppy language. There aren't any better words to describe women who are "manipulative" or "mercenary" or "nasty" or "corrupt"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 06:16 AM (DPzJO)

41 And speaking of the kittens, we were able to grab oral DNA samples and mailed them in for processing yesterday.

Photos of what is presumed to be the father cat show distinctive Norwegian Forest Cat traits, but the mother is a short haired tuxedo.

But both kittens have marked long haired traits, and Frog is continuing to gain size and weight, as a Norwegian would do. 10 months old, and 12.4 pounds.
And little Margo is holding at about 7.5 pounds, but her fur is growing longer every day.

DNA esults should be interesting

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 06:18 AM (a1415)

42 esults=results

The blessings of fat/clumsy fingers, I guess.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 06:19 AM (a1415)

43
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 06:19 AM (QnmlO)

44
Netflix now has dialogue-only subtitles because of the current trend for actors to mumble incoherently through their lines.

Compare to the movies of the '30s and '40s, where dialogue was crisply enunciated. I understand the Mid-Atlantic accent was widely used among actresses was that it was picked up very well by the microphones of the day.

Actually, I don't know if today's movies actually have dialogue. More like the various characters talking past each other, gunfire and CGI.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 06:24 AM (QnmlO)

45 Morning Horde. Sitting in the emergency room where Mr nec just arrived by ambulance. Nasty fall. Please send up prayers.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 26, 2025 04:52
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On it.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 26, 2025 06:28 AM (hoCmQ)

46 We routinely watch tv with subtitles on. Actors do indeed mumble.

Also, why are shows so dark now? Sometimes we have to turn room lights down low, just to ease the ambient light contrast, so we can see the shows.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 06:30 AM (AMfad)

47 Slow thread today. Everyone sleeping in?
I have been awake for a while - cats zooming over me chasing insects I guess. Flying toys.

Posted by: Ciampino - it didn't rain on the plain at April 26, 2025 06:30 AM (sPQoU)

48 All our tv sets have CC turned on. Been doing that for last 10 years.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 26, 2025 06:31 AM (hoCmQ)

49 Thanks all. They have him in a cervical collar and waiting on the radiology report. Odd area showing up in the scan.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 26, 2025 06:32 AM (2NQlp)

50 "All our tv sets have CC turned on. Been doing that for last 10 years."

Now that you mention it, I realize that I have too been doing that more than I had realized.

Dialog has really become an issue with the newer movies.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 06:33 AM (a1415)

51 Time for the slightly delayed morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 06:34 AM (a1415)

52 >>> Suddenly seeing lots of bumble bees, as of yesterday.

Did he have a bad experience? Bumblebees are typically quite docile.

Posted by: fluffy at April 26, 2025 06:34 AM (AN2gy)

53 olddog, how's the pup?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 06:35 AM (oXfCm)

54 neverenoughcaffeine, prayers for both of you.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 06:36 AM (oXfCm)

55 AltonJackson, good morning with a big hug thrown in.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 06:37 AM (oXfCm)

56 46 We routinely watch tv with subtitles on. Actors do indeed mumble.

Also, why are shows so dark now? Sometimes we have to turn room lights down low, just to ease the ambient light contrast, so we can see the shows.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 06:30 AM (AMfad)
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Cheapskates have little or no props so they need to hide that fact from audiences.
What gets me is actors walking into a dark room and not immediately turning on lights as all normal people would do, partiularly in a spooky atmosphere.

Posted by: Ciampino - it was a dark room at April 26, 2025 06:40 AM (sPQoU)

57
g'mornin', Ben Had

174 days...

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 26, 2025 06:43 AM (tljrc)

58 Testing

Posted by: Tuna at April 26, 2025 06:45 AM (lJ0H4)

59 Good morning

Posted by: Tuna at April 26, 2025 06:46 AM (lJ0H4)

60 Tuna, B+ for the effort. Needed a question mark

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 06:46 AM (oXfCm)

61 I've been using a lot of CC, too. More importantly, I try to find the date of release of any film or series. If it's at all recent, it's woke and unwatchable. If it's from the Before Time, it's probably OK.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 26, 2025 06:48 AM (b294k)

62 I've been using a lot of CC, too. More importantly, I try to find the date of release of any film or series. If it's at all recent, it's woke and unwatchable. If it's from the Before Time, it's probably OK.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

Nice to know that others have to use CC too. I thought I was the only one.

Posted by: Tuna at April 26, 2025 06:51 AM (lJ0H4)

63 Evening and morning, late (and weekend) toilers and early risers! 'Tis Saturn's Day, the day of errands and relaxation!

Disaster struck this morning. I dropped one of my pipes onto my tile kitchen floor, and the stem, the part that you clench in your teeth, snapped off, with part of it stuck inside the pipe. I have no way to get that piece out, and even if I did, regluing the stem won't work. It would never be strong enough to stand up to normal use. I've written to a long-time and well-respected pipe repair place in PA and will see what they say.

It's not like the pipe is my favorite; I haven't had it that long. But I hate to simply throw it away if it can be repaired at reasonable cost.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 06:52 AM (omVj0)

64 My bride has gone off to her high school reunion, but no worries, I'm in charge.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 06:54 AM (UHTm2)

65 What's next?

An IKEA electric car?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2025 06:55 AM (zogjM)

66 We routinely watch tv with subtitles on. Actors do indeed mumble.

Also, why are shows so dark now? Sometimes we have to turn room lights down low, just to ease the ambient light contrast, so we can see the shows.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025

***
I've been complaining about both of these for years. It's heartening to see that even younger viewers use the closed captioning. And when did H'wood stop using Technicolor and good lighting? The new True Grit, for instance, for all its virtues, is greyish and dull compared to the 1969 version.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 06:56 AM (omVj0)

67 An IKEA electric car?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Runs on 9 volts. Batteries not included.

Posted by: Tuna at April 26, 2025 06:56 AM (lJ0H4)

68 Was the musical interlude supposed to trigger an epileptic seizure? I don't even have epilepsy, and I think the musical interlude triggered an epileptic seizure.

Is there some support group for this that I might join?

Posted by: tankdemon at April 26, 2025 06:57 AM (x/vdX)

69 Cartel drug money corrupts a New Mexico judge and his family.

https://tinyurl.com/4rakszxr

Posted by: Just the beginning? at April 26, 2025 06:57 AM (dg+HA)

70 *giggles*

Who is T3?

They describe Netflix's butchered live action adaptation of an anime that is called Bet as a cross between The Queen's Game and Naruto.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2025 06:59 AM (zogjM)

71 69 Cartel drug money corrupts a New Mexico judge and his family.

https://tinyurl.com/4rakszxr

Posted by: Just the beginning? at April 26, 2025 06:57 AM (dg+HA)
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Why weren't they on USAID like all the rest?

Posted by: Ciampino - it was a dark room not darkroom at April 26, 2025 07:01 AM (sPQoU)

72 Listening to "All The Roadrunning" this morning, a good choice for early morning music, if you like listening to Emmylou and Mark Knopfler (as I do).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 07:02 AM (y6l9B)

73 Yes, the more "naturalistic" acting style of today (thanks, Marlon Brando) means the actors murmur and mumble more than in earlier times. We watched Hitchcock's Rear Window the other night, and had zero problem understanding Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, or Raymond Burr in the few lines he has. I was beginning to think my hearing was going, that I needed a new speaker for my 2020 TV, or both.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 07:03 AM (omVj0)

74 In the case of the Kurtzman Trek the depressing lighting is deliberate. Can't have a bright future now can we, we must mire the 'modern' audience in stuff they can identify with.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2025 07:04 AM (zogjM)

75 w00t

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 07:08 AM (CQE5S)

76 Actors whispering their lines just means they are acting their asses off

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2025 07:10 AM (AOsQT)

77 Just saw my feel good video clip of the day. A group of little sand rats stoned the wrong car. Driver hits one of them and gets thrown over the car. Driver wisely just drives on.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 07:10 AM (oXfCm)

78 We've been watching "Darby And Joan", an Aussie series starting Greta Scacchi and Bryan Brown. Its a pretty benign detective show (not a lot of violence and no politics) and you get an eyeful of Australian landscape.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 07:12 AM (y6l9B)

79 77 Just saw my feel good video clip of the day. A group of little sand rats stoned the wrong car. Driver hits one of them and gets thrown over the car. Driver wisely just drives on.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 07:10 AM (oXfCm)

Link? I want to see a feel good video this morning too.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 26, 2025 07:12 AM (x/vdX)

80 Another winning headline from the NY Post about the brouhaha at the court of the judge who was arrested for helping an illegal alien : ICE capades.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 07:13 AM (+wFQe)

81 tankdemon, it's at vivid prowess

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 07:14 AM (oXfCm)

82 No, it's not your hearing going. I mean, that might also be true, but the younger generations also watch TV with subtitles on because they can't tell what the hell the actors are saying.

I watch with subtitles for two reasons:

1. I watch a lot of anime and prefer listening to it in Japanese. Same with Bollywood movies.

2. I tend keep the volume low because audio levels for dialogue are set at about 20db and action scenes suddenly jump to 130.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 07:15 AM (lXCUP)

83 As others have noted, cheap trucks already exist outside of America, regulations and greed are what prevent them from being sold in the US.

The 20k ev truck will quickly morph into a 30k truck and 40k soon after that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2025 07:20 AM (yk7js)

84
The new True Grit, for instance, for all its virtues, is greyish and dull compared to the 1969 version.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

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

True Technicolor ended in the 1950s. The gritty dull shyte we see now is partly thanks to digital, partly style.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at April 26, 2025 07:21 AM (n7rxJ)

85 Is that Toyota Hilux the one all the jihadis use?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 07:21 AM (oXfCm)

86 Miss Linda brought a film from the library, Kandahar, from 2023. I can already tell it will have the same lighting problems and cinematography I hate: The pics on the DVD cover are all yellowish, with little contrast. sure, it takes place in deserts -- but Lawrence of Arabia didn't look like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 07:23 AM (omVj0)

87 twitter.com/vividprowess/status
/1916073494816698786

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2025 07:23 AM (xG4kz)

88 Wolfus, I just watched that this morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 07:24 AM (oXfCm)

89 77, 79. This maybe? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ videos/ amazing-but-true/ instant-karma-driver-hits-man-who-throws-stones-at-his-car/ videoshow/ 80725695.cms

Might have to take the spaces out of the url, the ones I had to put in because the ace comment system thinks long strings are annoying and doesn't know what http means

Posted by: Fred_Z at April 26, 2025 07:24 AM (VQIqq)

90
Ben Had's referenced video is linked at #87

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2025 07:26 AM (xG4kz)

91 Fred_Z, the one I watched was at vivid Prowess and happened in Israel.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 07:26 AM (oXfCm)

92 20 I'm fine. Save yourselves.
Posted by: Mother Eartt at April 26, 2025 05:17 AM (dg+HA)

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!

--George Carlin

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 07:27 AM (CQE5S)

93 I've had coffee, a short pipe, and breakfast. Time to struggle out into the damp heat* to wash the car. Then I'll stagger back inside and detail *me*.

* Yes, it's only 72 F., but the humidity is awful.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 07:27 AM (omVj0)

94 Krebs, thank you. I don't try to link things for fear of breaking the blog.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 07:28 AM (oXfCm)

95
It rained here overnight, with light intermittent rain promised for the daylight hours.

It looks like this will be a good day to power wash our front porch

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2025 07:29 AM (xG4kz)

96 Just saw my feel good video clip of the day. A group of little sand rats stoned the wrong car. Driver hits one of them and gets thrown over the car. Driver wisely just drives on.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 07:10 AM (oXfCm)
****
twitter.com/vividprowess/status
/1916073494816698786
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2025 07:23 AM (xG4kz)

and ... The adults nearby just happen to be standing there with their cameras with telephoto lens.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 26, 2025 07:30 AM (pJWtt)

97
Krebs, thank you. I don't try to link things for fear of breaking the blog.
Posted by: Ben Had

You are more than welcome, Ben Had.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2025 07:31 AM (xG4kz)

98 Ah but Ben this is the week to try and screw up the Blog

( grabs scissors)

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 07:31 AM (ypFCm)

99 and ... The adults nearby just happen to be standing there with their cameras with telephoto lens.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer

Just a coinkydink.

Posted by: Tuna at April 26, 2025 07:32 AM (lJ0H4)

100 Retired Buckeye Cop, yeah, their little jihad video didn't quite work out the way they were planning.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 07:32 AM (oXfCm)

101 Skip, I know when I am out of my depth and technology is at the top of that list.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 07:34 AM (oXfCm)

102 Good morning! Looks like a busy weekend ahead. We're gonna take the younger granddaughter to buy a new golf outfit, then to the local par 3 and then to the burger place with the menus. Probably going out to the nursery later this afternoon or tomorrow to pick up a Texas Mountain Laurel for the back yard.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 26, 2025 07:37 AM (3Ope8)

103 CrotchetyOldJarhead, sounds like a lovely day.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 07:38 AM (oXfCm)

104 102 Good morning! Looks like a busy weekend ahead. We're gonna take the younger granddaughter to buy a new golf outfit, then to the local par 3 and then to the burger place with the menus. Probably going out to the nursery later this afternoon or tomorrow to pick up a Texas Mountain Laurel for the back yard.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 26, 2025 07:37 AM (3Ope

Great stuff!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 07:38 AM (CQE5S)

105 Good morning morons

We usually use captions because bad actors think whispering is "dramatic."

Like the demented pervert used that stage-whisper of his.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

106 NY Post shows Biden snapping selfies with other attendees at Pope Francis' funeral. What class.

Posted by: Tuna at April 26, 2025 07:39 AM (lJ0H4)

107 Well, Jarhead, that sounds like a fine day. Slip in some pie later on and you're good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 07:40 AM (dyDiI)

108 105 Good morning morons

We usually use captions because bad actors think whispering is "dramatic."

Like the demented pervert used that stage-whisper of his.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

And then intermittently started yelling. What a charmer.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 07:40 AM (CQE5S)

109 NY Post shows Biden snapping selfies with other attendees at Pope Francis' funeral. What class.
Posted by: Tuna

I'm more worried about whether or not he's got two layers of Depends on.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 07:43 AM (lXCUP)

110 There are a few corners cut, to be sure. The Slate Truck is available in one colour - slate grey, has no sound system, and only does 150 miles on a charge. And the body panels are plastic, not metal, though that's not a first even on much more expensive models.

But can you take the e-truck out in the rain or will the paper mâché body panels and truck bed fall apart?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2025 07:43 AM (a4flb)

111
Virginia Giuffre didn't kill herself.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at April 26, 2025 07:43 AM (n7rxJ)

112 109
I'm more worried about whether or not he's got two layers of Depends on.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 07:43 AM (lXCUP)
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That would mak it twice at the Vatican?

Posted by: Ciampino - it was a brown patch at April 26, 2025 07:45 AM (sPQoU)

113 And speaking of the kittens, we were able to grab oral DNA samples and mailed them in for processing yesterday.

--

I may not be fully awake yet and not understanding what I read. Did you actually live through swabbing a cat's mouth for DNA? And you lived to tell about it!?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 07:45 AM (qBdHI)

114 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 26, 2025 04:52 AM (Qh2+Q)
====

Prayer for complete and speedy recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

115 Free Press this morning has an article by reporter Madeline Kearns on "why having babies is now seen as right wing", and she says some protestors in Austin called her a Nazi because she is visibly pregnant.

First off, congratulations to her and her husband. Secondly, Darwin wins again if idjit lefties are determined to stop procreating. I'm all in favor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2025 07:47 AM (ErAKr)

116 NY Post shows Biden snapping selfies with other attendees at Pope Francis' funeral. What class.

Has he replicated the meme by crouching down next to the grave grinning and making a peace sign?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2025 07:48 AM (a4flb)

117 There's this actress from Ozark and more recently Wolf Man who thinks eye-blinking is acting, Julia Garner.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

118 Today is Melania's 55th birthday. The most beautiful First Lady we've ever had. At least, in modern times.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 07:50 AM (qBdHI)

119 "I may not be fully awake yet and not understanding what I read. Did you actually live through swabbing a cat's mouth for DNA? And you lived to tell about it!?"

Just finished an abbreviated morning walk, so I saw this.

Why yes, we lived through it. They didn't have the bristle brush swabbing in the mouth on their list of favorite things to do, but they accepted it with good grace.
And then were rewarded with treats.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 07:50 AM (a1415)

120 116 NY Post shows Biden snapping selfies with other attendees at Pope Francis' funeral. What class.

Has he replicated the meme by crouching down next to the grave grinning and making a peace sign?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2025 07:48 AM (a4flb)

Ha!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 07:51 AM (CQE5S)

121 And on another note, Dixie, the wild mallard that has been nesting next to our house for the last four years has shown up again.

Surprisingly demanding her Purina brand duck pellets that she loves.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 07:52 AM (a1415)

122 Congrats, VIA. As someone who can't even clip our cat's nails, let alone getting anything into its mouth, I'm in awe! Now you get to await the exiting results. That's the fun part!

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 07:53 AM (qBdHI)

123 118 Today is Melania's 55th birthday. The most beautiful First Lady we've ever had. At least, in modern times.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 07:50 AM (qBdHI)

There are some exquisite photos of her at the funeral as a Lady in Black!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 07:53 AM (CQE5S)

124 Today we are taking Boy F. to the Menlo Games down in Menlo Park.

It's a massive day-long party for Special Olympics and oh yeah there's a track meet.

Mrs. F. and I will have lunch with the friends who introduced us 35 years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

125 Morning, Ben Had. Full of pee and vinegar. Fam's out of town and I've got her to myself. Wearing me out. Can't wait until she's a dog and not a pup.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 26, 2025 07:53 AM (hoCmQ)

126 M, where did you see the photos? At the DM?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 07:53 AM (qBdHI)

127 126 M, where did you see the photos? At the DM?
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 07:53 AM (qBdHI)

NYPost

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 07:55 AM (CQE5S)

128 M, where did you see the photos? At the DM?
Posted by: Lady in Black

The Post has several.

Posted by: Tuna at April 26, 2025 07:55 AM (lJ0H4)

129 Interesting research paper on the effectiveness of an armed populace in stopping shooters.

https://tinyurl.com/3r3mzput

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 07:55 AM (a1415)

130 https://tinyurl.com/mrxcsuw9

Week in Pictures

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 07:56 AM (RIvkX)

131 129 Interesting research paper on the effectiveness of an armed populace in stopping shooters.

https://tinyurl.com/3r3mzput
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 07:55 AM (a1415)

Blam. Blam blam blam blam blam!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 07:56 AM (CQE5S)

132 I'll go check them out. I did hop over to the DM and saw the screaming headline on Donald Trump showing disrespect for wearing a blue suit and tie.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

133 And it's designed to be repairable by the owner, though how far that goes is something that we'll have to see when it comes out next year.
--
The raspberry pi of cars?
I like the concept

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 26, 2025 07:57 AM (gDlxJ)

134 Saw the first dragonflies out at the pond last week. Hostas, cannas and lilies are up an running, and the caladiums have emerged. Red yucca has bloomed and the climbing rose on the south side has erupted. I love this time of the year!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 26, 2025 07:58 AM (3Ope8)

135 There are a few corners cut, to be sure. The Slate Truck is available in one colour - slate grey, has no sound system, and only does 150 miles on a charge. And the body panels are plastic, not metal, though that's not a first even on much more expensive models.

But can you take the e-truck out in the rain or will the paper mâché body panels and truck bed fall apart?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2025 07:43 AM (a4flb)

Finally! An American truck to compete with TATA Motors of India.

Though, it's still got more than one door. So,Slate willl have to work on that.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 07:58 AM (iJfKG)

136 132 I'll go check them out. I did hop over to the DM and saw the screaming headline on Donald Trump showing disrespect for wearing a blue suit and tie.

that makes no sense

he's wearing dark blue - navy really - that is equal to wearing black for funerals

also good morning guys

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 07:58 AM (Pv3Rg)

137 Cartel drug money corrupts a New Mexico judge and his family.

Cartel money buys a lot of US judges and US Attorneys - ask former US Attorney Johnny Sutton how well we he was treated by the Sineloa Cartel.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2025 07:59 AM (a4flb)

138 134 Saw the first dragonflies out at the pond last week. Hostas, cannas and lilies are up an running, and the caladiums have emerged. Red yucca has bloomed and the climbing rose on the south side has erupted. I love this time of the year!

that's awesome jarhead! just the tulips and some late daffodils and the azaleas so far here. oh and the lenten rose and bleeding hearts almost forgot those guys

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 07:59 AM (Pv3Rg)

139 130 https://tinyurl.com/mrxcsuw9

Week in Pictures
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 07:56 AM (RIvkX)

"Dig if you will these cookies"!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 07:59 AM (CQE5S)

140 There's this actress from Ozark and more recently Wolf Man who thinks eye-blinking is acting, Julia Garner.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

It very effective....if you know Morse Code.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 08:00 AM (iJfKG)

141 he's wearing dark blue - navy really - that is equal to wearing black for funerals

--

I always thought so too. They're saying there's a strict protocol, and blue isn't permissible? I have no idea, but they get to rag on Trump. I looked at many crowd pictures and saw several dark blue suits. They probably lightened his to make it look inappropriate.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2025 08:02 AM (qBdHI)

142 Please send up prayers.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

Will do

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 26, 2025 08:02 AM (gDlxJ)

143 And it's designed to be repairable by the owner,

No mention of the repair frequency. Could be like the F-35 where the maintenance per operational hour is 7.5 hours.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)

144 Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 07:59 AM (Pv3Rg)

I have never had luck with bleeding hearts. Tried them in baskets and pots, but never in the ground.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 26, 2025 08:03 AM (3Ope8)

145 NYPost

The president and first lady, along with the US delegation, were also seated nearby Ethiopia and Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, due to Vatican protocol that organizes world leaders in alphabetical order according to the name of their country in French.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:06 AM (CQE5S)

146 There aren't any better words to describe women who are "manipulative" or "mercenary" or "nasty" or "corrupt"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 06:16 AM (DPzJO)

Well, we call men dicks, so......and for lesser offenses!

Posted by: BonnieBlue at April 26, 2025 08:06 AM (wwFcv)

147 I have never had luck with bleeding hearts. Tried them in baskets and pots, but never in the ground.

I literally do nothing and they go crazy under my trees. that's why I forgot the lenten rose and the bleeding hearts - they are back in the woods.

they probably like shade?

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 08:06 AM (Pv3Rg)

148 I am about to bogart all the fresh nood coffee

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 26, 2025 08:07 AM (gDlxJ)

149 "I have never had luck with bleeding hearts. Tried them in baskets and pots, but never in the ground."

There is an obvious joke about liberals in that sentence.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2025 08:07 AM (a1415)

150 150

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:08 AM (CQE5S)

151 146 There aren't any better words to describe women who are "manipulative" or "mercenary" or "nasty" or "corrupt"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 06:16 AM (DPzJO)

Umm...

Posted by: See you next Tuesday at April 26, 2025 08:10 AM (dg+HA)

152 never enough - prayers to your DH

I'm not a fan of falls myself as of late.. hope he's ok

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 08:10 AM (Pv3Rg)

153 speaking of prayers I'll repost this in the pet thread but it's timely

my bengal had a NIGHT Thursday - thankfully the dog (who must actually like him) woke me up to him struggling to pee

took to 24 hour ER - no blockage thankfully - but no idea why he got the UTI - anyway on three different meds and seems better but it sure freaked me out. dangerous stuff for a male cat

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 08:12 AM (Pv3Rg)

154 Just saying, instead of putting inhard to find spaces and line breaks, you could use a url shortener.

You don't have to but you could.

Posted by: Kwak! at April 26, 2025 08:13 AM (89Sog)

155
Last night night, we watched a new Netflix action thriller titled, "Havoc".

On the downside, it was filmed in MumbleVision(TM).

On the upside: It contained more violent death than ten average action movies. I think a thousand or so people were killed with shotguns, pistols, and machine guns at the climax.

No long bows were involved. Though a Spear Gun(!) was.

A whole Great Lake or two of fake blood was unleashed during this cinematic masterpiece.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2025 08:15 AM (iJfKG)

156 153 speaking of prayers I'll repost this in the pet thread but it's timely

my bengal had a NIGHT Thursday - thankfully the dog (who must actually like him) woke me up to him struggling to pee

took to 24 hour ER - no blockage thankfully - but no idea why he got the UTI - anyway on three different meds and seems better but it sure freaked me out. dangerous stuff for a male cat
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 08:12 AM (Pv3Rg)

Yikes. Good kitty!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:17 AM (CQE5S)

157 The Vatican reports an on-site audience of 200,000 people.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:21 AM (CQE5S)

158 Vatican online

https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html

Apostolica Sedes Vacans

"The Apostolic See is Vacant"

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 08:23 AM (CQE5S)

159 I see a guy walking his Bengal kitteh on a leash in GG park.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 08:31 AM (RIvkX)

160 When John Paul II z"l passed Mrs. F. and I stayed up all night to watch.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

161 Ummm...nood

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 08:37 AM (RIvkX)

162 "Netflix now has dialogue-only subtitles because of the current trend for actors to mumble incoherently through their lines."

The trend has been coming for some time. Harrison Ford, for example, mumbled his way through "Star Wars".

But for an example of superb diction, just listen to any recording by Ella Fitzgerald. Every word of every lyric is clear as a bell, but without sounding labored or forced. She's still the best.

Posted by: Nemo at April 26, 2025 09:31 AM (4RPgu)

163 Google being Google ...

Google says it will end support for 1st- and 2nd-gen Nest thermostats on October 25, and won't launch new models in Europe due to its “unique” heating systems

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2025 09:31 AM (GITLP)

164 But you can already get Chrome-based browsers like Brave and Vivaldi for free.

BUT those browsers rely on Google doing all the maintenance hard work, before forking off their latest version. Will they be able to continue doing that?

Posted by: GWB at April 26, 2025 10:13 AM (wbjSL)

165 "Is PaleMoon still a thing?"

PM is still a thing but it doesn't work very well, I can't use it at all with ACE. And many comments sections are broke with PM.

On MAX there are old movies and new movies, what I've noticed is that I need the volume at least at 35 for new movies but have to (quickly) move it down to 20 for the older movies on TCM.
With some young actors high volume doesn't help, they are indecipherable. I wonder which one is their home planet?

Posted by: John the River at April 26, 2025 03:49 PM (CYUsh)

More Powerful Than An ONT

Oh no! It's Friday!

Fido Friday: The last retrieve

pic.twitter.com/vjfh6uvIdy
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 25, 2025

Today's question

Gen Z invents hanging out

Guys being guys

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 25, 2025

What do you do? I walk out, and I tip very well

Thought exercise

This is funny

?￰ﾟﾘﾂ? pic.twitter.com/35lLRPZlxQ
— Dave's Not Here (@Weirddave0) April 23, 2025

Today's pun

Today's second pun

Prank

pic.twitter.com/ELzRozTBsb
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 25, 2025

Shall not be infringed

Where's FEMA?

Impressive

pic.twitter.com/yW90qECPyn
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 25, 2025

Baking tip

Self defense

Why does nobody in these types of vids ever say “Uh, guys?”

pic.twitter.com/bnCZRtzvCW
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 25, 2025

Remember today is perfect

Muppet Armageddon

Woman vs man in real life, not a movie

pic.twitter.com/NfdJrgacHt
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 26, 2025

What libs fail to understand

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Robocop 1924:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 never forget

Posted by: Ciampino - irony at April 25, 2025 09:58 PM (sPQoU)

2 foist foist!

Posted by: Ciampino - irony at April 25, 2025 09:58 PM (sPQoU)

3 I tried...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 25, 2025 10:00 PM (0ohAJ)

4 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 25, 2025 10:02 PM (w3u3d)

5 Hey

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at April 25, 2025 10:02 PM (FAviO)

6 Sorry I'm late, my hula hoop got caught on a moose antler.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:04 PM (x/vdX)

7 Why do June bugs always end up wiggling helplessly on their backs?

Posted by: mindful webworker - dumb bugs at April 25, 2025 10:05 PM (+bW3+)

8 Good evening morons e grazie wd for Friday Night Memes

The Shat!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 10:07 PM (RIvkX)

9 What would be accomplished by covering France with three inches of ranch dressing? Well, the smell would immediately improve.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:08 PM (x/vdX)

10 Say, do they make a sex robot version of that Radio Police Automaton? I mean, it's kinda hot and you wouldn't need the tear gas dispenser.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:08 PM (hY4dx)

11 Let's see. On the screen for the tip, I'd tap custom, and add a 50 cent tip. If you're that arrogant, you don't deserve more.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

12 I'm a frankly ridiculous tipper... I have a soft spot for wait staff. Very generous.

If I saw that bullshit, I'd walk the fuck out. If I saw ANY charge on my card in the morning I'd call the bank, contest it as fraudulent, and stop payment.

And then I'd go on Google Reviews and tell everyone I got Hep A from the fish sandwich and had to get a liver transplant and it didn't work and now I'm GOING TO DIE.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:08 PM (BI5O2)

13
Videos of heavy equipment in Third World countries provide hours of entertainment. Guys running around yelling "Ya, ya, ya, ya!" while trucks, cranes and rollers plunge into an abyss.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (QnmlO)

14 What do you do? I walk out, and I tip very well

Dear server, my 'custom tip' is you're an entitled cvnt and I will laugh when your stupid whiny ass gets fired.

Would bet the 'barista' has some worthless basket-weaving degree with 6-digit debt.

.... and yeah, I tend to give fatter tips too. Not always though!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (Vqx30)

15 Darn, that WDONT content will trip me up every time!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

16 So, is the champion baker saying that no one can tell the difference if you use butter, extra egg, and milk, or that no one can tell the difference between box mix and champion baking if you do that?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (EXyHK)

17 7 Why do June bugs always end up wiggling helplessly on their backs?
Posted by: mindful webworker - dumb bugs at April 25, 2025 10:05 PM (+bW3+)

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Substandard mechanical engineering. Probably designed by interns.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (hY4dx)

18 Evenin'

Robocop 1924

Is that available for sale?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2025 10:10 PM (AdHga)

19 When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see

And I, I won't be afraid
I won't be afraid
Just as long as I have my ONT.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 25, 2025 10:10 PM (TrKJG)

20 Some goats get struck down by Zeus's thunderbolt.

Some goats get struck down by Liberace.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:10 PM (x/vdX)

21 Puddleglum - Sarris is fully stocked with chocolate. I repeat. Sarris is fully stocked with chocolate.

Posted by: TRex at April 25, 2025 10:11 PM (cCn4/)

22
Ah, Hugo Gernsback.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 10:11 PM (QnmlO)

23 > Why do June bugs always end up wiggling helplessly on their backs?
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Because the Mayflies already borked 'em.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 10:12 PM (Q4IgG)

24 Sorry I’m late, I was helping a moose with a hula hoop stuck on his antler.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 10:12 PM (u73oe)

25 Hey Dave psst 4chan is back. Not sure if this is good or bad.

Posted by: Anon at April 25, 2025 10:13 PM (ZwGhR)

26 Food for thought, but probably real...

https://x.com/RealHickory/status/1915937363819143387

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 25, 2025 10:14 PM (hOUT3)

27 Gen Z invents hanging out

We called that the 80s

Posted by: 80s kid Miklos at April 25, 2025 10:15 PM (IKhKt)

28 Food for thought, but probably real...

https://x.com/RealHickory/status/1915937363819143387

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 25, 2025 10:14 PM (hOUT3)

It's real. Her family announced it.

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 10:15 PM (OVKfs)

29 Why does nobody in these types of vids ever say “Uh, guys?”

Because they're morons? I thought that was understood.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 10:15 PM (s8j++)

30 Did Norm Macdonald write that Bert and Ernie joke?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 10:16 PM (63Dwl)

31 1 never forget

Posted by: Ciampino - irony at April 25, 2025 09:58 PM (sPQoU)

Thanks for reminding me.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:16 PM (x/vdX)

32 Almond extract is of the devil. Add it to the trash.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 10:16 PM (Vqx30)

33 Evenin’, All.

I’ve already forgotten what I was on about on the previous thread, so I love you all, including those that I have been arguing with there.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:17 PM (77rzZ)

34 21 Puddleglum - Sarris is fully stocked with chocolate. I repeat. Sarris is fully stocked with chocolate.
Posted by: TRex

Shearer's closed earlier this year, sadly.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2025 10:18 PM (AdHga)

35 Robocop 1924 - my favorite bit is the strategic placement of the engine exhaust.

Posted by: mindful webworker - iron man would win against it at April 25, 2025 10:18 PM (+bW3+)

36 24 Sorry I’m late, I was helping a moose with a hula hoop stuck on his antler.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 10:12 PM (u73oe)

You win.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:19 PM (x/vdX)

37 One the theft, grift, graft and embedded rate taps are closed Social Security is solvent, retirements funded and the deficit amortized. More Chardonnay?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 10:19 PM (QSrLX)

38 34 Shearer's closed earlier this year, sadly.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2025 10:18 PM
***
Got it. Don't invade Mexico.

Posted by: TRex at April 25, 2025 10:19 PM (cCn4/)

39 Good grief...
We have to go through a whole pile of shit to talk to each other...
These adds can suck a bunch of dickage....
Come on AoS ..Jeez..? Honestly....
Or I am missing something.... 😒😒😒

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 25, 2025 10:20 PM (0ohAJ)

40 Interesting that they thought that the most important functions for a copbot was to gas and flail people. So... pretty much like regular cops.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2025 10:20 PM (/y8xj)

41 That mandatory tip screen? Expect to see more like it if "No taxes on tips" becomes the law of the land. I foresee employers cutting back on wages since tip income is untaxed.

You can start to really worry when the last page of the sign-in form at your doctor's office asks how much of a tip you'll be leaving.

Go on, you can get started on your circumcision jokes now.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 10:21 PM (eIjvK)

42 I would select "Custom Tip" and leave $0.01.

It's only once in a blue moon that I tip above 20%. Equally rare that I tip below 15%, but I have no sympathy with this demand for 30% or higher.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2025 10:21 PM (lHPJf)

43 I have a theory about the wallet switch. Perhaps it just highlights my behavior. BUT, I hate switching wallets. I know what's in there. I know where it is. Most importantly, I don't want to have to pressure myself into streamlining things I really don't need in there, but need to keep somewhere. That just creates more decisions, that require consideration and thought about possible occurrences where that particular removed item might be necessary.

In other words, my wallet is just fine. Leave me alone. See, it still fits in my pocket and everything, and it only causes minor back pain. Mind your own business.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 10:22 PM (dIske)

44 Let's see. On the screen for the tip, I'd tap custom, and add a 50 cent tip. If you're that arrogant, you don't deserve more.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Oh, I didn't see the custom button. I thought, that's really arrogant. "Not optional" - still arrogant and says to me, "won't be back."

Posted by: mindful webworker - here's your tip--buy low, sell high at April 25, 2025 10:23 PM (+bW3+)

45 I just got "swatted" in the Late Nite hours

Was OK

Just Darleen, Marleen and Charleen got off shift at the same time.

Posted by: Miklos feared for his life at April 25, 2025 10:23 PM (IKhKt)

46 Has anybody mentioned boobs yet?

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ)

47 Yay, National Hairball Awareness Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2025 10:24 PM (lUFok)

48 And shouting. I forgot the shouting.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (/y8xj)

49 Notice she doesn't complain that we similarly have a hard time giving up an old, faithful, falling apart wife.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (x/vdX)

50
On the tipping, i flat refuse to tip if there isn't food, or interpersonal customer service involved. Especially in states where food service people get minimum wage (Nevada).

Was forced to use a kiosk to order a sandwich, employee retrieves bag, puts it on a shelf, says nothing. My phone beeps that my food is ready. I go show the message and number, clerk spins the paysystem around and that 30% minimum tip is staring at me. I aks if tips are shared with the cooks in the back.was told no. I hit custom tip, selected zero, and swiped the card.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (MsrgL)

51 Circumcision is no joke.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)

52 Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 25, 2025 10:20 PM (0ohAJ)
====

I just work here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 10:26 PM (RIvkX)

53 15 Darn, that WDONT content will trip me up every time!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (hOUT3
Yeah, I was just gonna brush my teeth and be right back.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2025 10:26 PM (LHPAg)

54 46 Has anybody mentioned boobs yet?
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ)

Not that I've noticed,. Please feel free to do so.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:26 PM (x/vdX)

55 Sorry I’m late, I was helping a moose with a hula hoop stuck on his antler.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

*offers Pop Rocks to make it Perfect*

Posted by: Miklos will not try to tell the Kids that at April 25, 2025 10:26 PM (IKhKt)

56 My old wallet fits impression in my ass cheeck.
The new wallet, even if the exact same product will have sharp corners and be uncomfortable.

Really not much different from a comfortable pair of old shoes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 10:26 PM (/lPRQ)

57 > Gen Z invents hanging out

We called that the 80s
---------
The 60's would like a word or two.

In fact... generations going back a century would, if not longer.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 10:27 PM (Q4IgG)

58 Top picture Rainbow Demon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 10:27 PM (63Dwl)

59 51 Circumcision is no joke.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)

Nothing like a cutting remark so early in the ONT responses!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 25, 2025 10:27 PM (hOUT3)

60 Robocop 1924 - my favorite bit is the strategic placement of the engine exhaust.

Then I guess you'll love the tear gas outlets.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 10:28 PM (s8j++)

61 Re: the wallet thing, every few years my wife gives me a new wallet for Christmas. I have half-dozen brand new ones in a drawer and am still using one from the 1990's. It works perfectly well, fits my ass, and looks better than the one in the picture.

Re: mandatory tips, I would walk out without paying anything, after "accidentally" knocking over the overpriced shitty coffee all over their counter. I also tip well for good service, however I *never* tip for service when I have to order at the counter.

Posted by: BillyD at April 25, 2025 10:28 PM (Yt3ED)

62 Is it too much to hope that a judge arrested on a Friday might just have to sit in the clink until Monday to be arraigned?

Lie to me if you must

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 25, 2025 10:28 PM (pIfcn)

63 'nother thing about the tip -- even if I pay by credit card, I like to leave the tip in cash. Where's the button for that, huh, eh huh?

Posted by: mindful webworker - nobody needs to know at April 25, 2025 10:28 PM (+bW3+)

64 Guys being Guys.... yes...

But if they were MILITARY Guys... much more explosives.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 10:28 PM (QAkQ3)

65 >>> 41 That mandatory tip screen? Expect to see more like it if "No taxes on tips" becomes the law of the land. I foresee employers cutting back on wages since tip income is untaxed.
==
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 10:21 PM (eIjvK)

Maybe, but that might not work out so well either.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 10:28 PM (Vqx30)

66 TCM is very Svengooly-esque tonight. Me likey.
Except for that commie Been Mangy-wits.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:29 PM (77rzZ)

67 Hello. How is everyone?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 10:29 PM (CHHv1)

68 Even at Michelin star restaurants, a 20% tip is the starter. I think that one is either a truly bizarre exception or bullshit.
Another thing that drives me nuts with those iPad type cashier things is they always pop up a tip when you go to pay. If I'm at a bakery and all the person did was turn around and take a croissant off the shelf and hand it to me, you are not getting a tip.

Posted by: keena at April 25, 2025 10:29 PM (QwK6F)

69 I tip generously, sometimes 25%, because when I was in college I worked as a waitress. But if I were given that demand for a tip, I would probably stop going to that restaurant. If tips aren't going to be voluntary, then do away with tipping, raise the servers' pay, and raise the price of the food.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

70 Posted by: COMountainMarie

*deplorable crush*

Don't tell

It's a Secret

Posted by: Shy and retiring Miklos at April 25, 2025 10:29 PM (IKhKt)

71 Thanks, WD. My Friday is finally, actually, Friday.

Posted by: GWB at April 25, 2025 10:30 PM (wbjSL)

72 I really enjoyed meeting a bunch of you at the 2024 NoVaMoMe. I'm not used to fun. But the event was "fun."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 10:30 PM (CHHv1)

73 Oh, and BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:30 PM (77rzZ)

74 In other words, my wallet is just fine. Leave me alone. See, it still fits in my pocket and everything, and it only causes minor back pain. Mind your own business.
Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 10:22 PM (dIske)

Try finding a new wallet that is identical to the one you've been carrying forever. After my ancient wallet disintegrated, I had to try three new ones before I found one I could live with.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 10:30 PM (eIjvK)

75 51 Circumcision is no joke.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)

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Do you tip your mohel?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:31 PM (hY4dx)

76 51 Circumcision is no joke.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM

Are you trying to cut off this conversation?

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:31 PM (x/vdX)

77 58 Top picture Rainbow Demon.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 10:27 PM (63Dwl)
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Oh, thank God. I thought that was a leprechaun who got carried away with hormone transitioning process and wigged out on the testosterone shots.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 10:31 PM (dIske)

78 There's always this confusion that happened after Covid when we thought we had to tip everyone because they were potentially risking their lives to hand us a sandwich off the shelf. This whole tipping thing came into effect and then I was kind of OK with it. But I read this thing where someone said if I am standing up when I order my meal, you are not getting a tip. I pretty much go by that. Except when I am at a sandwich place like Jersey Mike's, where all the young kids are really Cheerful and helpful and working their asses off. Then I will definitely tip them.

Posted by: keena at April 25, 2025 10:31 PM (QwK6F)

79 Gosh Miklos! So sorry honey....yet.... perhaps you're a lucky guy....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 25, 2025 10:31 PM (0ohAJ)

80 But the event was "fun."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 10:30 PM (CHHv1)

Then you better be planning to show up for the 2025 NoVaMoMe!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 25, 2025 10:31 PM (hOUT3)

81 The worst thing about living with a cat: the cat.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 10:32 PM (CHHv1)

82 Hello. How is everyone?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

About like an honest weather report-

Tomorrow about like Yesterday

Posted by: Miklos sees stars at April 25, 2025 10:32 PM (IKhKt)

83 IRL i think I've met MS. RI; but in California.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2025 10:32 PM (p1SS+)

84 Is it too much to hope that a judge arrested on a Friday might just have to sit in the clink until Monday to be arraigned?

Lie to me if you must
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 25, 2025 10:28 PM (pIfcn)

Hopefully they're in the holding cell with some illegals and some hardened criminals. Might provide some perspective.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 10:32 PM (VNX3d)

85 >>> 69 I tip generously, sometimes 25%, because when I was in college I worked as a waitress. But if I were given that demand for a tip, I would probably stop going to that restaurant. If tips aren't going to be voluntary, then do away with tipping, raise the servers' pay, and raise the price of the food.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

Yeah, "It's rude not to" says the entitled asshoe? Fck you (the 'server', not YOU). I know a few people who had those jobs and I highly doubt any of them would put something like that out there.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 10:32 PM (Vqx30)

86 Yay, National Hairball Awareness Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2025

***
About time!

Posted by: Wolfus's Cats, Among Others at April 25, 2025 10:33 PM (omVj0)

87 Do you tip your mohel?

That scans like it ought to be a parody of a Lonnie Donegan song.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 10:33 PM (EXyHK)

88 16 So, is the champion baker saying that no one can tell the difference if you use butter, extra egg, and milk, or that no one can tell the difference between box mix and champion baking if you do that?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (EXyHK

That was my question as well.

Posted by: Emmie at April 25, 2025 10:33 PM (Sf2cq)

89 Good evening good people.

I heard #4 son said "Nice job, Asshole!" today.

Clearly, sarcasm is passed along the generations.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 10:33 PM (vKNmo)

90 I no longer use a wallet, because it's too obvious. If I use something obvious like that, my 5 year old daughter WILL find it, and those cards WILL vanish. She has an obsession with my wallet.

I have no idea where the heap of cards and cash she's already pilfered is stashed, but I'm not dealing with it anymore. My cards now go in a shelf in the back bathroom I myself can barely reach. She doesn't know about it because I lock the room and just sneak in there to select needed cards, which I hide in my clothing til I return them.

It's like I'm having an affair with the pizza parlor and the liquor store and the Ace Hardware.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:33 PM (BI5O2)

91 I tip and well. That prompt is rude and there is not a single reasonable default tip option displayed. If I saw that sign, I'd be inclined to not tip, never come back, and make a point of saying whyto management.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 25, 2025 10:33 PM (V9cMX)

92 Heh, they had to link two sets of handcuffs together to get that judge’s hands behind her back.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 10:34 PM (u73oe)

93 The mandatory tip screen has a button for "Custom Tip." I'd investigate that and see how low an amount I could leave. Then I'd register my complaint, loudly enough for everyone in the restaurant to hear, and walk out for good.

I try to pay cash for meals out anyway, and leave a tip in cash even if I use a card.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 10:35 PM (omVj0)

94 81 The worst thing about living with a cat: the cat.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 10:32 PM (CHHv1)

The worst thing about living with a human: the human.

Posted by: The Cat at April 25, 2025 10:35 PM (x/vdX)

95 92 Heh, they had to link two sets of handcuffs together to get that judge’s hands behind her back.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 10:34 PM (u73oe)

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You need two sets to keep her from gumming her way to freedom.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:36 PM (hY4dx)

96 Many moons ago, I was a sales manager at a place.
Took the whole crew over to a bar across the street Friday afternoon.
We drank top shelf. Had to wave the waitress over every time we wanted something. Had to ask for the ashtrays to be emptied (I'm that old).
We ran a tab over $100, which took some doing then, and I left a $.10 tip.
Manager came over. I told him what I thought of the service. He comped the ticket.
She wasn't there the next Friday.

Posted by: MkY at April 25, 2025 10:36 PM (cPGH3)

97 On the ol' worn wallet - not to worry, he keeps familiar things that are good. You're good, right?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 10:36 PM (vd6bO)

98 63 'nother thing about the tip -- even if I pay by credit card, I like to leave the tip in cash. Where's the button for that, huh, eh huh?
Posted by: mindful webworker - nobody needs to know at April 25, 2025 10:28 PM (+bW3+)

Yeah... that tip thing? I'd leave nothing... tell them I am not legally obligated to pay their employees wages... and never go back again.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 10:36 PM (QAkQ3)

99 Re: Tipping. On the other hand, there are people who are notoriously low tippers. And it's not a state secret that some of the worst tippers are part of the post-Sunday church brunch/lunch crowd. Whether they haven't gotten up to speed with 20% being considered the minimum instead of 10-15%, or they're just cheap, I dunno. But there have been times when someone else has paid the bill and I'll quietly slip some extra cash on the table.

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 10:38 PM (OVKfs)

100 In California, they started a sneaky little thing where they would add on a 6% "service charge "to help the workers with living costs. Then the state legislature actually mandated that this show up on the menu in a statement so you know going in. Well, good for them that was probably the only non-hare brained thing they've done in the past 10 years. So now there will be a small little statement on the bottom of the menu saying that. And yet they still ask you to tip them 20%.
This is all about the restaurant owners who don't have the balls to just raise the prices on the menu by 6% I know they've got it rough too, but for God sake stop trying to sneak all these extra charges in here.
Does this happen in any other state besides California?

Posted by: keena at April 25, 2025 10:38 PM (uz6ub)

101 >>> 93 The mandatory tip screen has a button for "Custom Tip." I'd investigate that and see how low an amount I could leave. Then I'd register my complaint, loudly enough for everyone in the restaurant to hear, and walk out for good.

I try to pay cash for meals out anyway, and leave a tip in cash even if I use a card.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 10:35 PM (omVj0)

I used to tip in cash most if not all of the time, until some other asshoes thought it would be SMAHHHHRRRT to go to farcebuk and claim to have received a $0 tip along with a rayciss / sexiss / whateveriss note.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 10:38 PM (Vqx30)

102 Yay, National Hairball Awareness Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2025

***
About time!
Posted by: Wolfus's Cats

Cough it up girl

GET IT AOUT

*files lawsuit about Disproportionate Impact on Dogs v Cats*

Posted by: Miklos encourages Miss Dixie at April 25, 2025 10:38 PM (IKhKt)

103 Instead of a Saturday Night Special, that gun is a Handyman's Special.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 25, 2025 10:39 PM (0Htd1)

104 Almond extract is of the devil. Add it to the trash.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Not completely worthless - I'll add a bit to my pizzelles at Christmastime.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 10:39 PM (vKNmo)

105 When I was 12 my dad gave me my first real wallet. It was special bc it was made out of real leather and meant to be a really nice gift for me. Decades later, I still use it. Part of it finally fell off and it's more of just a credit card holder now, but it still works. Only wallet I've ever had.

Posted by: brak at April 25, 2025 10:39 PM (18TC8)

106 The lazy guy's old wallet looks infected. Not sure if it's fungus, bacteria, lichen or what. Switch over and ditch that thing before you develop a serious ass disease. Never mind touching the wallet, then putting fingers in mouth.

Posted by: Infection Control at April 25, 2025 10:39 PM (G5+As)

107 By the way, let me just say I tip standard at 20% and more of the service is better, but I really resent being forced into tipping in any way shape or form. And actually, we've created a bad precedent in the US. . When we were in the Amalfi coast last summer, They all expect you to tip them. It's known that Americans tip. They will even ask for it. Now they're all very nice, but they most definitely expect a tip. I'm sure the Germans don't get bothered like that.

Posted by: keena at April 25, 2025 10:39 PM (uz6ub)

108
Not completely worthless - I'll add a bit to my pizzelles at Christmastime.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 10:39 PM (vKNmo)

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Seems like that would sting, but you be you.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (hY4dx)

109 -
Circumcision is no joke.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)

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Do you tip your mohel?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:31

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Nope. He will just take your tip and expect to be paid for doing THAT.

Posted by: irright at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (/Clly)

110 On the other hand, there are people who are notoriously low tippers. And it's not a state secret that some of the worst tippers are part of the post-Sunday church brunch/lunch crowd. Whether they haven't gotten up to speed with 20% being considered the minimum instead of 10-15%, or they're just cheap, I dunno. But there have been times when someone else has paid the bill and I'll quietly slip some extra cash on the table.
Posted by: Vendette

Got a daughter in law who used to waitress. NO ONE wants to work the post church crowd.

Posted by: MkY at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (cPGH3)

111 Yeah, "It's rude not to" says the entitled asshoe? Fck you (the 'server', not YOU). I know a few people who had those jobs and I highly doubt any of them would put something like that out there.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 10:32 PM (Vqx30)
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Looks fake to me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

112 Changing to a new wallet is an experience every man experiences but which cannot be described in words. Not exactly a religiously cosmic sort of thing. Or maybe it is. I mean, you know how the current one feels in you hands, knowing which side is which because one side is flatter from being against your butt in a back pocket. You know exactly where everything is and how to access every every little section, nook, and cranny.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (aBgBM)

113 I don't leave tips. I leave gratuities.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (TrKJG)

114 And she doesn't do it to her mom. Lady YD leaves her purse, with its nearly inexhaustible bounty of colorful cards spilling out like a cornucopia, wherever she pleases. No problems.

But if that little girl so much as smells me thinking about a wallet it will be as empty as the day I bought it before I can lay a hand on it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (BI5O2)

115 I usually tip a lot (20%+), but I have also walked out of three places in a row because they didn't notice me in a "Please Wait to be Seated" place, or the waitstaff were really slow in showing up at the table, or the fast food people were rude on taking an order. Best to cut your losses. If they're rude at the beginning, it usually doesn't get any better. But if they do a good job, lay it on 'em.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 10:41 PM (vd6bO)

116 She wasn't there the next Friday.
Posted by: MkY

Asshole

I was a single mother at the time, and needed that tip money for rent and diapers

Posted by: Miklos remembers that at April 25, 2025 10:41 PM (IKhKt)

117 Did Norm Macdonald write that Bert and Ernie joke?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 10:16 PM (63Dwl)

Naw. Norm would have followed up with an explanation like, "it's you know, a play on words. Ernie kind of, well, is trying to, you know, lighten the mood in a pretty intense situation, you know."

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 25, 2025 10:41 PM (0aYVJ)

118 113 I don't leave tips. I leave gratuities.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (TrKJG)

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WE GOT A TOFF HERE!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:41 PM (hY4dx)

119 Hi! I am going camping tomorrow with Girl Scouts. Why did I agree to this? 😂

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 10:41 PM (KQxQb)

120 Question on the legality of mandatory tips.

If it is not on the menu price, does that not constitute fraud, as it is a bait and switch? It is advertising one price (for the meal or whatever) then forcing you to pay more to cover their employee wages?

Same as if a car dealer put a deal in front of you for $30 K for a car, but then said we will charge you $8 K more to cover the car Salesmans salary.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 10:42 PM (QAkQ3)

121 Let's see. On the screen for the tip, I'd tap custom, and add a 50 cent tip. If you're that arrogant, you don't deserve more.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

That calls for a 1% tip.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 10:42 PM (8zz6B)

122 I’m a very generous tipper but that screen is a walk out for me. In fact, I really hate the tip screens. Let me add a tip if I’d like to.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 10:43 PM (/dDa4)

123 >>> 104
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Not completely worthless - I'll add a bit to my pizzelles at Christmastime.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 10:39 PM (vKNmo)

I had to look that up. It sort of makes sense there but please, not in vanilla cake. Ick.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 10:43 PM (Vqx30)

124 Miss Congeniality is a great silly film and Miss Rhode Island is a special pleasure

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 10:43 PM (lIBIk)

125 If it is not on the menu price, does that not constitute fraud, as it is a bait and switch? It is advertising one price (for the meal or whatever) then forcing you to pay more to cover their employee wages?

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*ahem*

Posted by: Las Vegas "Resort Fees" at April 25, 2025 10:43 PM (hY4dx)

126 That was my question as well.
Posted by: Emmie at April 25, 2025 10:33 PM (Sf2cq)

______________________________

I make one of those cake mixes (usually Duncan Hines) on average once a week. I'm looking forward to giving those switches a shot. It's going to be more healthy just cutting out the vegetable oil. I notice he doesn't detail whether the butter should be salted or unsalted.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 10:44 PM (dIske)

127 106
Hey, there, fella! Get yer fingers outta yer mouth!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 10:44 PM (vd6bO)

128 Conversations about wallets and circumcision means I have to share:

There was once a rabbi who was never able to dispose of the foreskin after a bris- he just thought it disrespectful, so he kept them all in a jug. When the jar started getting full, he wondered if he could do anything useful with them, and the Ides came to him that maybe a leather worker could make something from them. So, off the the leather worker he goes with the jar, and is assured that the craftsman will, indeed, be able to make something of them. "Come back in a week, and you'll get your item."

A week passes and he returns to the leather worker, who presents him with a brand new wallet.

"Wait a second," said the rabbi. "That was an almost full gallon jug, and all I get from it is a wallet?"
The leather worker looked at him and said, "Sir, all you have to do is rub it a few times and it grows into a briefcase."

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:44 PM (x/vdX)

129 Not getting a new wallet every Christmas is what I miss about the sons getting older.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2025 10:45 PM (TfUTr)

130 Tipping is for porta potties. Tennessee has a ruffed grouse season. Suddenly I have this urge to move.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 10:45 PM (amnH6)

131 WE GOT A TOFF HERE!!!
Posted by: Cicero

You ain't a Toff unless you Doff

Posted by: Miklosadjusts monocles and politely glares at April 25, 2025 10:45 PM (IKhKt)

132 Question on the legality of mandatory tips.

If it is not on the menu price, does that not constitute fraud, as it is a bait and switch? It is advertising one price (for the meal or whatever) then forcing you to pay more to cover their employee wages?

Same as if a car dealer put a deal in front of you for $30 K for a car, but then said we will charge you $8 K more to cover the car Salesmans salary.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 10:42 PM (QAkQ3)

They're having that issue in DC after the mandatory minimum wage relating to restaurants went into effect. Restaurants have been adding Prop 82 surcharges to bills, in some cases up to 5% of the bill. So people who happily voted for Prop 82 are complaining about the extra fee being tacked on by restaurants to pay for it.

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 10:45 PM (OVKfs)

133 20% being considered the minimum instead of 10-15%, or they're just cheap, I dunno. But there have been times when someone else has paid the bill and I'll quietly slip some extra cash on the table.
Posted by: Vendette

20% minimum tip? That is bullshit. Tips are for good service, not even normal service... we are just being expected to subsidize the Salaries of employees... which is IMO fraud.

And at a place where all you are doing is handing me a coffee, or food? Fuck that.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 10:46 PM (QAkQ3)

134 Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:44 PM (x/vdX)

Well done TD!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 25, 2025 10:46 PM (hOUT3)

135 >>> 111

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Looks fake to me.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

C'mon man, it's on the internet!!!

I mean, it *could* be a troll, but I wouldn't be all that surprised if it were real, and I don't see anything obvious like a six-fingered hand to clue me in.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 10:46 PM (Vqx30)

136 Tipping is for porta potties. Tennessee has a ruffed grouse season. Suddenly I have this urge to move.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Come and do your worst

We gone take yo ass

Posted by: Unruffled Grouse at April 25, 2025 10:47 PM (IKhKt)

137 As much as I love my guns and other more effective weapons, I still kind of want one of those night stands.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2025 10:47 PM (wgbpW)

138 13
Videos of heavy equipment in Third World countries provide hours of entertainment. Guys running around yelling "Ya, ya, ya, ya!" while trucks, cranes and rollers plunge into an abyss.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (QnmlO)

+1 The concept of center of gravity of heavy equipment and of truck loads of logs and rocks, seems to be unknown in the Third World.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 10:48 PM (aBgBM)

139 And she doesn't do it to her mom. Lady YD leaves her purse, with its nearly inexhaustible bounty of colorful cards spilling out like a cornucopia, wherever she pleases. No problems.

But if that little girl so much as smells me thinking about a wallet it will be as empty as the day I bought it before I can lay a hand on it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (BI5O2)

Get a decoy wallet with fake credit cards?

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 10:48 PM (OVKfs)

140 Can you imagine the paybacks on tippin' a port-o-potty?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 10:48 PM (vd6bO)

141 137 As much as I love my guns and other more effective weapons, I still kind of want one of those night stands.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2025 10:47 PM (wgbpW)

LOL, I'm sitting within 20 feet of 3 Guns and /counts... 15 swords right now...

Night stand?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 10:49 PM (QAkQ3)

142 >>> 114 And she doesn't do it to her mom. Lady YD leaves her purse, with its nearly inexhaustible bounty of colorful cards spilling out like a cornucopia, wherever she pleases. No problems.

But if that little girl so much as smells me thinking about a wallet it will be as empty as the day I bought it before I can lay a hand on it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:40 PM (BI5O2)

In a way that's pretty adorable.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 10:49 PM (Vqx30)

143 Is it too much to hope that a judge arrested on a Friday might just have to sit in the clink until Monday to be arraigned?

Lie to me if you must
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here

They can be held for years w/o arraignment if classed "J6".
Even if by mistake.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 10:49 PM (/lPRQ)

144 Waiting tables is hard work. There's a lot of jerks. Probably not too many people leave a big tip. Unless the service is execrable, I automatically leave a big tip. It probably doesn't change the night's take all that much, but it probably improves the waitress's mood quite a bit.

But if you're demanding it? Fuck you.

I was shocked by that crap in Europe twenty years ago. Barbaric.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:49 PM (BI5O2)

145 Evenin’, All.

I’ve already forgotten what I was on about on the previous thread, so I love you all, including those that I have been arguing with there.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:17 PM (77rzZ)

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 10:49 PM (FCbAQ)

146 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)

147 119 Hi! I am going camping tomorrow with Girl Scouts. Why did I agree to this? 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 10:41 PM (KQxQb)

Did you feel a need for penance?

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (x/vdX)

148 Adios, Au Revior, Auf Weiedersehen to you.

Posted by: Miklos Welk, turning in early, because started early at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (IKhKt)

149 20% minimum tip? That is bullshit. Tips are for good service, not even normal service... we are just being expected to subsidize the Salaries of employees... which is IMO fraud.

And at a place where all you are doing is handing me a coffee, or food? Fuck that.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 10:46 PM (QAkQ3)

Sorry, I meant 20% for sit-down places, but it is considered the standard these days. As for the non-sit-down spots, maybe a dollar or two in the jar depending on the circumstances (I don't drink coffee, so rarely venture into a coffee shop).

Believe it or not, I've seen tip jars in liquor stores.

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 10:51 PM (OVKfs)

150 Can you imagine the paybacks on tippin' a port-o-potty?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 10:48 PM (vd6bO)

Or tipping a cow into a porta-potty?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 10:51 PM (VNX3d)

151 WE GOT A TOFF HERE!!!
Posted by: Cicero

I'll have you know , my formal overalls are by Carhart.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 25, 2025 10:51 PM (TrKJG)

152 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)

He and Kaepernick could train together. It could be fun.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 25, 2025 10:51 PM (0aYVJ)

153 Hi! I am going camping tomorrow with Girl Scouts. Why did I agree to this? 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 10:41 PM (KQxQb)

Sounds like fun!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 10:51 PM (/dDa4)

154
I love the things I see, "If you're not going to leave a 30% tip, stay home." OK, what's 30% of $0.00?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 10:52 PM (QnmlO)

155 Re: old wallet

This woman does not understand us at all. Sad.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 10:52 PM (9ypnH)

156 Evenin’, All.

I’ve already forgotten what I was on about on the previous thread, so I love you all, including those that I have been arguing with there.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 10:49 PM (FCbAQ)

Well hell, I had a comment to make and it seemed to post itself just as a copy/paste.

At any rate, you're nearly the perfect Moron.
If you can take abuse from someone who's already forgotten what they were on about, then you're custom made for here.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 10:52 PM (FCbAQ)

157 >>> 119 Hi! I am going camping tomorrow with Girl Scouts. Why did I agree to this? 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 10:41 PM (KQxQb)

Because you're a nice mama???

I thought of you (even though kale is not mentioned) when I saw this comment in an earlier thread:

235 In honor of Ace's vacation, I'd like to report my GAINZZZ progress--I haven't seen a thread for a while.

I started dedicating myself to getting healthy (body, mind, emotions) on August 12, the first day of the school year.

I've lost 75 pounds and, thanks to Pure Barre, developed muscle tone and definition and greater strength, flexibility, and balance. Vigorous walking (30 minutes 5 times a week) has also helped my stamina.

It's never too late to choose health. It can be challenging to break bad habits and build new ones, but feeling (and looking) truly well is worth it.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (USyCi)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 10:52 PM (Vqx30)

158 They sit at the bar
And put bread in my jar

Posted by: The Piano Man at April 25, 2025 10:52 PM (hY4dx)

159 Re: Tipping. On the other hand, there are people who are notoriously low tippers. And it's not a state secret that some of the worst tippers are part of the post-Sunday church brunch/lunch crowd. Whether they haven't gotten up to speed with 20% being considered the minimum instead of 10-15%, or they're just cheap, I dunno. But there have been times when someone else has paid the bill and I'll quietly slip some extra cash on the table.
Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 10:38 PM (OVKfs)

IMHO, the "standard" tip is still 15%. So, the cost of living has gone up? It has for all of us. The meal I got for 12 bucks a few years ago is now 20 bucks. So if I tip 15%, you're now getting 3 bucks instead of two. You're keeping up better than me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 10:53 PM (8zz6B)

160 -
Adios, Au Revior, Auf Weiedersehen to you.
Posted by: Miklos Welk, turning in early, because started early -
-

Wunnerful, wunnerful.

Posted by: irright at April 25, 2025 10:53 PM (/Clly)

161 Happy Friday Everybody!

I don't care how great of a president he is....fifty bucks is a lot of money for a hat.....

Early to bed tonight - up early to hike up to the Hollywood sign tomorrow morning. Maybe a side trip to Bronson Cave - which is the cave they used at the opening of the old Batman series in the 1960's - the cave the batmobile came out of....

Hello Jim SND.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 25, 2025 10:53 PM (QGaXH)

162 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)

Coming soon to the WNBA, Shedeura Sanders.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 10:53 PM (VNX3d)

163 30%?!?

Are you giving me a blow job with the meal? Are you hot?

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 10:53 PM (9ypnH)

164 If you're not going to leave a 30% tip, stay home

--------

What? Like, a sign that says this? Are you from Boston?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:54 PM (BI5O2)

165 >I’m a very generous tipper but that screen is a walk out for me. In fact, I really hate the tip screens. Let me add a tip if I’d like to.
---

there's a 'custom tip' option
select custom tip
enter 0.01%

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:54 PM (AOsQT)

166 You're keeping up better than me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 10:53 PM (8zz6B)

These people are not smart, AOP.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 10:55 PM (9ypnH)

167 Or tipping a cow into a porta-potty?
_-_-_
Kinda funny - I grew up in cattle country, went to school with other fellas that took time off from school in the spring for branding, but never even heard of cow-tipping until I went to college...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 10:55 PM (vd6bO)

168 146 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)

The issue with Shedeur Sanders: If you add him to your team you get his father as a team-disruption bonus that you can only get rid of by getting rid of Shadeur.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 10:55 PM (aBgBM)

169 It's not a rickshaw it's a dogshaw.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7p3bj2

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 10:55 PM (MJMyx)

170 've lost 75 pounds and, thanks to Pure Barre, developed muscle tone and definition and greater strength, flexibility, and balance. Vigorous walking (30 minutes 5 times a week) has also helped my stamina.

It's never too late to choose health. It can be challenging to break bad habits and build new ones, but feeling (and looking) truly well is worth it.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (USyCi)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

That is so cool! It really is a great workout, even if I am biased. But it’s why I own a Pure Barre!

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 10:56 PM (p4NUW)

171
What? Like, a sign that says this? Are you from Boston?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:54 PM (BI5O2)

_________

https://images.app.goo.gl/THFUQ

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 10:57 PM (QnmlO)

172 I think that tipping screen is fake

the tablet seems to be tilted away from the camera, but the text on the screen isn't similarly tilted

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:58 PM (AOsQT)

173 Except when I am at a sandwich place like Jersey Mike's, where all the young kids are really Cheerful and helpful and working their asses off. Then I will definitely tip them.
Posted by: keena

Sounds like Chick-fil-a.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 25, 2025 10:58 PM (0Htd1)

174 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)

Coming soon to the WNBA, Shedeura Sanders.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Picks 92 and 94 went QB and still the Legendary Prima Donna sits.

I am trying to decide if he is a more of McDonald's assistant manager type or if he should go all out and apply at a call center.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 10:58 PM (amnH6)

175 172 I think that tipping screen is fake

the tablet seems to be tilted away from the camera, but the text on the screen isn't similarly tilted

--------

I hope this doesn't mean that 50 comments of indignant outrage were typed in vain.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:59 PM (hY4dx)

176 169 It's not a rickshaw it's a dogshaw.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7p3bj2
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 10:55 PM (MJMyx)

Dogshaw meet dog roll
http://tiny.cc/k0qh001

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 11:00 PM (x/vdX)

177 I hope this doesn't mean that 50 comments of indignant outrage were typed in vain.
_-_-_
Harumph!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 11:00 PM (vd6bO)

178 30% minimum tip? Sorry, but I'm going to have to see some amazing tiddies first.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2025 11:00 PM (wgbpW)

179 Yudhishthira's Dice,
How long before she figures out how to charge stuff at Amazon?

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 25, 2025 11:02 PM (0Htd1)

180 Off to bed, don’t think I will have much in the way of service so enjoy your Saturday! I will get pics in this week of Saijo for next week. He is now playing and wagging his tail. He went to the vet today, he does have two ear infections, poor guy. Otherwise he is a healthy puppy!

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 11:02 PM (p4NUW)

181 I notice he doesn't detail whether the butter should be salted or unsalted.

I’ve generally found no difference in baking between the two if the recipe also calls for salt.

I made some Dominique Ansel peppermint buttercrunch on Easter. Amazing stuff. The recipe called for unsalted butter and then a small amount of salt. I did the math and the amount of salt called for was the amount of salt in the salted butter I used.

If using unsalted butter in that recipe would have made it noticeably better, I don’t think I want to know.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 11:02 PM (EXyHK)

182 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 10:33 PM (BI5O2)
====

If I were you I would expect delivery of a pony any day now...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

183 I liked the bait Tesla prank.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:04 PM (8zz6B)

184 Have to admit that sometimes there just ain't a tip big enough - like the time my daughter threw up all over the table...BIG mess, no apologies seemed adequate, and they insisted on cleaning it up. We were all dressed up and the kid was too old, so no diaper bag full of baby wipes and stuff.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 11:04 PM (vd6bO)

185 https://images.app.goo.gl/THFUQ
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 10:57 PM (QnmlO)

"Friday Special:

Hot Ham & Cheese: $57.50

Free-Floating Aggression: FREE, you stupid, poor asshole who should've died in a gutter"

What a sales pitch.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 11:04 PM (BI5O2)

186 Wait, how can you tell the text is tilted or not???

I second Don in SoCo's Harumph!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2025 11:04 PM (Vqx30)

187 I hope this doesn't mean that 50 comments of indignant outrage were typed in vain.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:59 PM (hY4dx)
====

Comments of indignant outrage are literally my only social communication.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 11:04 PM (RIvkX)

188 I just drafted Shadeur Sanders. We are going to change positions for him from quarterback to janitor.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2025 11:04 PM (wgbpW)

189 Is it too late for Shedeur to go back to Colorado?

He's either learning humility or he's seething.
I'm guessing humility wasn't big in the D Sanders household.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 11:05 PM (FCbAQ)

190 Is it too late for Shedeur to go back to Colorado?

He's either learning humility or he's seething.
I'm guessing humility wasn't big in the D Sanders household.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 11:05 PM (FCbAQ)

Considering the big necklaces he wears have the word "LEGENDARY" on them...

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 11:06 PM (OVKfs)

191 51 Circumcision is no joke.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)
----
Castration: The unkindest cut of all.

Posted by: Ciampino - more than a tip at April 25, 2025 11:06 PM (sPQoU)

192 >>> 178 30% minimum tip? Sorry, but I'm going to have to see some amazing tiddies first.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2025 11:00 PM (wgbpW)

How about amazing boobs? Would boobs work?

Posted by: Ambitious Waitress at April 25, 2025 11:06 PM (Vqx30)

193 Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (USyCi)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

That is so cool! It really is a great workout, even if I am biased. But it’s why I own a Pure Barre!
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 10:56 PM (p4NUW)
====

So glad you saw that. Seventy five pounds is a LOT.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 11:06 PM (RIvkX)

194 Is it too late for Shedeur to go back to Colorado?
_-_-_
As long as he's not from California.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 11:06 PM (vd6bO)

195 My wallet story:

I knew me dear old Mum (pbuh) kept Dad's wallet when he passed. Just brought it home and put it in a drawer, like a little leather time capsule.
Years later, my wallet fell apart and I asked Mom for Dad's wallet. She gave it to me. When I took his old cards and bits of paper out of the wallet to be replaced my mine, I found five crisp $100 bills.
Mom was surprised. MY guess was: Dad grew up poor (Appalachia during the Depression), and I think carrying that kind of cash in his wallet made him feel good.

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:09 PM (AOsQT)

196 193 So glad you saw that. Seventy five pounds is a LOT.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025

It really is and I am so proud of her for doing this, it’s hard, it’s hard to change your entire life like that!

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 11:10 PM (pZEOD)

197 30% minimum tip? Sorry, but I'm going to have to see some amazing tiddies first.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2025 11:00 PM (wgbpW)

Bob! BOB! Waddle out here and take your shirt off! Now!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 11:10 PM (VNX3d)

198 ANNNNND! When he does get drafted, he'll even be seething against the team that drafts him.
Plently of QBs have used falling in the draft to grow that chip on their shoulder, to stoke that competitive fire. Aaron Rodgers famously comes to mind. But that's tough to do when every body has passed on you.
More than once.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 11:10 PM (FCbAQ)

199 16 So, is the champion baker saying that no one can tell the difference if you use butter, extra egg, and milk, or that no one can tell the difference between box mix and champion baking if you do that?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 10:09 PM (EXyHK)
----
Yes.

Posted by: Ciampino - choice is yours at April 25, 2025 11:11 PM (sPQoU)

200 I have reviewed the image using a Hewlett-Packard 5710-A dual-column gas chromatograph with flame analyzation detectors.

I have determined to a high degree of confidence that the text that appears on the screen is at a significant deviation from the frame of reference perspective that applies to the frame.

The image is fake.

Posted by: An Official FBI Forensic Image Analyst at April 25, 2025 11:12 PM (hY4dx)

201 If we outlaw tips I’m going to start writing software for free but with a mandatory $200 /hr tip. Take that, IRS! From Hell’s heart I stab at thee!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 11:13 PM (/dDa4)

202 And it's not a state secret that some of the worst tippers are part of the post-Sunday church brunch/lunch crowd. …
Posted by: Vendette

When Daughter was waitressing, she said some of the Church folk would leave little evangelical pamphlets as a "tip." Adding insult to injury, IIRC, some of them looked like a dollar on the outside.

Posted by: mindful webworker - pays the Lord at April 25, 2025 11:13 PM (+bW3+)

203 There's a button for "custom". If 0 doesn't work, 1% (17 cents) should send the message. I would also tell the person presenting me with this tablet, "This is insulting, I will never be back".

Posted by: buddhaha at April 25, 2025 11:14 PM (cIFM2)

204 Coming soon to the WNBA, Shedeura Sanders.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 10:53 PM (VNX3d)

aLOL, funny shit right there

Posted by: Otto Pen at April 25, 2025 11:14 PM (sJHOI)

205 BTW, my county assessor is asshoe. I might run against him next year, since it's an elected office.

Simple campaign:

"JKA, Jr. is asshoe, but you all know that. Vote for YD, and I promise you in 2030, nobody gets an assessment higher than 10% less than 2025's absurd assessment. It doesn't matter if your property is worth more by then. He made up the numbers when he swindled you, and I'll make up whatever numbers I need to make it right.

Vote YD - not asshoe."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 11:15 PM (BI5O2)

206 200
Dad used to run one of those machines back when you had to work over the paper output to calculate the final result - said he'd retire if they ever computerized those machines, but he didn't. Then he taught me how to code, and that stuck.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 11:16 PM (vd6bO)

207 >>>The primary mechanism of solvent-based paint removers is to interrupt the bond between the painted object and the paint. These removers contain specific ingredients that induce the paint to expand, ultimately decreasing its adherence to the surface.
---
Don't think one can buy that good stuff in Merika.

https://tinyurl.com/ypkzbd3e

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 11:16 PM (MJMyx)

208 That top pic is disturbing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2025 11:16 PM (bss/y)

209 You know, it really doesn't matter if the tip screen presented above is or is not genuine. The question remains, what would you do if confronted with such grasping rudeness?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:18 PM (8zz6B)

210
There are very few industries that can afford to be openly contemptuous of their customers. Restaurants are not one of them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 11:19 PM (QnmlO)

211 I remember when the silicone lab I worked in wanted to change from acetone to 'safety solvent' (some kind of oil based thing.)

This shit did not cut at all. It was like you were rubbing the vessels clean. Which I guess, you were.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2025 11:20 PM (bss/y)

212 Don't think one can buy that good stuff in Merika.

https://tinyurl.com/ypkzbd3e
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 11:16 PM (MJMyx)

Methylene chloride is often used for that. Often made as a runny gel, so it will adhere better to the work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (8zz6B)

213 Round 3 of the NFL draft is done and Coach Prima Donna is still not drafted. Being completely fair here he is the worst stage mom since Patsy Ramsey and we all know how that worked out.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (amnH6)

214 You know, it really doesn't matter if the tip screen presented above is or is not genuine. The question remains, what would you do if confronted with such grasping rudeness?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:18 PM (8zz6B)

Turn around and walk out?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (/dDa4)

215 On to Round 4 tomorrow.

Let's say, hypothetically, that Sanders does not get drafted, not even good enough for Mr. Irrelevant. How soon do the accusations of collusion start flying? Because even if there wasn't any, I bet there would be people claiming there was.

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (OVKfs)

216
I have reviewed the image using a Hewlett-Packard 5710-A dual-column gas chromatograph with flame analyzation detectors.

_________

Should have used a Hewlett-Packard 5710-A dual-column, Fourier-transform gas chromatograph with flame analyzation detectors. Loser.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (QnmlO)

217 >The question remains, what would you do if confronted with such grasping rudeness?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

give it a quick disdainful glance on my way to the door

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:23 PM (AOsQT)

218
N-methylpyrrolidone is another paint remover.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 11:23 PM (QnmlO)

219 Should have used a Hewlett-Packard 5710-A dual-column, Fourier-transform gas chromatograph with flame analyzation detectors. Loser.
_-_-_
Oh, nice! Fourier Transform, eh? Look at the big brain on Hadrian! Don't need no Fourier-transform - just count the little squares on the paper...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 11:25 PM (vd6bO)

220 Virginia Giuffre didn't kill herself.

Bondi, release all the files.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 11:25 PM (/lPRQ)

221 I'm a Mohel, what do you think I should put in the front window?

--Just the punchline

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 11:25 PM (D7oie)

222 Turn around and walk out?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (/dDa4)

And then tell everyone you meet that their fish sandwich gave you hepatitis A, I presume?

It's the gentlemanly rejoinder.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 11:25 PM (BI5O2)

223 Turn around and walk out?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (/dDa4)

Well, you're not going to see that screen until you are done eating, and getting ready to pay for it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:25 PM (8zz6B)

224 >Let's say, hypothetically, that Sanders does not get drafted, not even good enough for Mr. Irrelevant. How soon do the accusations of collusion start flying?
----

well, the accusations of racism are already flying-
which is odd, considering how many Negroes have been drafted so far, same as it ever was.

NFL teams are shying away from all the PrimeTime shit that would come with drafting the guy.

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:27 PM (AOsQT)

225
Sorry, any quarterback with 2 as the jersey number is trouble. Jamarcus Russell, Johnny Manziel, Ryan Leaf, etc.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 11:27 PM (QnmlO)

226 duckduckgo's 'mohel'...Ow, no way, man!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 11:27 PM (vd6bO)

227 "JKA, Jr. is asshoe, but you all know that. Vote for YD, and I promise you in 2030, nobody gets an assessment higher than 10% less than 2025's absurd assessment. It doesn't matter if your property is worth more by then. He made up the numbers when he swindled you, and I'll make up whatever numbers I need to make it right.

Vote YD - not asshoe."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 11:15 PM (BI5O2)

This is basically the way to win my vote.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 11:27 PM (/dDa4)

228 Should have used a Hewlett-Packard 5710-A dual-column, Fourier-transform gas chromatograph with flame analyzation detectors. Loser.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (QnmlO)

Maybe an ICP-MS?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2025 11:28 PM (bss/y)

229 Stanley Cup playoffs are lit AF so far

Canadiens vs Caps
BOTH goalies left the game, hurt

now, Kings v Oilers is F&F

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:29 PM (AOsQT)

230 ICP-MS
Looks pretty spendy...other than the vacuum pump part and it, well, you know.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 11:30 PM (vd6bO)

231 Virginia Giuffre didn't kill herself.

Bondi, release all the files.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 11:25 PM (/lPRQ)

She had close to 20 years to compile a list of all the Deep State/Globohomo creeps that boinked her. Why has that never come out?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:30 PM (8zz6B)

232 Heh. Co-Worker wanted to watch the draft and options are limited here at work, so the draft was on all night. The pearl clutching over Sanders not getting picked is amusing and pathetic. Maybe scouting departments of all the NFL teams saw something about him they didn't like. ESPN is acting teen girls crying over there QB being dissed. It's retarded.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2025 11:31 PM (AdHga)

233 NFL teams are shying away from all the PrimeTime shit that would come with drafting the guy.

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:27 PM (AOsQT)

Absolutely; it's a package deal. Helicopter coaching, and I bet he would show up on Sundays too.

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 11:31 PM (OVKfs)

234 Thank you, Ace, for all you do for us.

(Lines like, "And then she ate a Volkswagen Jetta" sustain me.)

Best blog on Earth. Best writing. Best co-bloggers. Best (smartest, funniest, most capable, most genuinely decent) commenters you'll ever find.

Wish you true rest, relaxation and enjoyment. God bless you and good on ya, man. And may God bless and keep every single member of the Moron Horde.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 11:32 PM (X+xvk)

235 Let's say, hypothetically, that Sanders does not get drafted, not even good enough for Mr. Irrelevant. How soon do the accusations of collusion start flying? Because even if there wasn't any, I bet there would be people claiming there was.
Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 11:21 PM (OVKfs)
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What's an 80 year old.softboy going to do for a football tsam, anyway?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 11:33 PM (6YdsJ)

236 BTW ladies, the old wallet fits the shape of our ass like a glove. New wallets feel like a lump for the first 4 weeks.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2025 11:34 PM (wgbpW)

237
The pearl clutching over Sanders not getting picked is amusing and pathetic. Maybe scouting departments of all the NFL teams saw something about him they didn't like. ESPN is acting teen girls crying over there QB being dissed. It's retarded.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2025 11:31 PM (AdHga)

___________

If a team really thought a potential pick could help them, they wouldn't care if he was a Martian. All I, and likely they, see is trouble.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 11:34 PM (QnmlO)

238 Also, huge bench clearing brawl at end of 2nd period between Caps and Canadiens

spilled into the seats

one guy got a 12 minute penalty

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:35 PM (AOsQT)

239 "On Thursday, Sanders made it clear he felt he was worthy of a first-round pick and told a group gathered at the Sanders family home in Texas for a draft party “this shouldn’t have happened,” according to a video shared by his father and coach at Colorado, Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders"

Yep, that's the sort of attitude you want in a rookie player. /s

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 11:36 PM (eIjvK)

240 >ESPN is acting teen girls crying over there QB being dissed. It's retarded.
---

another angle to it: Shadeur being drafted #1 was the story that the sporting press really wanted to write. I mean they had a hardon for that story. That is didn't happen broke the spirits of many ink-stained wretches.

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (AOsQT)

241 Also, huge bench clearing brawl at end of 2nd period between Caps and Canadiens

spilled into the seats

one guy got a 12 minute penalty

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:35 PM (AOsQT)

Heck, a chunk of the fight between Wilson (WAS) and Anderson (MTL) was on the Caps' bench, with a linesman along for the dance. They each got a 2-minute minor and 10-minute misconduct, so 12 minutes total (not the linesman, of course). I've been to regular season games in Montreal; I'd love to experience a playoff game.

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (OVKfs)

242 Okay - you are gonna get half of the news now, and whenever the radiology department sends their report to my doctor, I will pass along the rest of the results. It may be sometime Monday, because my scan wasn't done until 2:00 pm today.

My CA19-9 results keep going in the right direction - DOWN!!!! Today's number was 4.4 - the lowest it has been in the 6 months (😲

since my initial diagnosis 🥳🥳🥳

Fingers crossed that this means the tumors are also shrinking - I will know more in a couple of days. I see the oncology surgeon in Dallas on Monday, and I have a feeling he will be letting us know what the plan will be going forward. I will see my oncologist in Fort Worth on Tuesday.

So far, so good! ❤️😊🥳

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (SRRAx)

243 I really wish I could travel back in time and sit down with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, show them videos of modern day tranny supporters, and be like “You know what you jackasses are doing here, right?”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (/dDa4)

244 so 4chan is back i guess

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2025 11:41 PM (gKWVE)

245 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (SRRAx)

Yay!

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 11:41 PM (OVKfs)

246 I read something for increasing your tip income years ago if you were had one of those pay apps. It was set the middle value higher because people tend to select that.

So if rude coffee barista wants 35% tip, they should have 20%, 35%, and 50% options and drop the mandatory BS.

I have a very cheap co-worker. 15-20 years ago or so a bunch of us routinely walked to a coffee shop after the work cafeteria and get coffees. Mr Cheapo would pay with a check for $10 extra to have a bit of cash and still not leave a tip. Now that was rude as a customer. By that apps standards I was cheap, I think I usually left .50 on the $2.xx drink.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 25, 2025 11:41 PM (bP/i4)

247 >>>Why has that never come out?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Wasn't part of her job assignment.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 11:42 PM (MJMyx)

248 Mom was surprised. MY guess was: Dad grew up poor (Appalachia during the Depression), and I think carrying that kind of cash in his wallet made him feel good.
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:09 PM (AOsQT)

If you could keep a C note in your wallet, you were never poor. I have run across that sentiment before, from men talking about living through the Depression

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 11:42 PM (D7oie)

249 221 I'm a Mohel, what do you think I should put in the front window?

--Just the punchline

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 11:25 PM (D7oie)
----
With time I remembered the joke.

Posted by: Ciampino - Tik Tok at April 25, 2025 11:43 PM (sPQoU)

250 Fingers crossed that this means the tumors are also shrinking - I will know more in a couple of days. I see the oncology surgeon in Dallas on Monday, and I have a feeling he will be letting us know what the plan will be going forward. I will see my oncologist in Fort Worth on Tuesday.

So far, so good! ❤️😊🥳
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (SRRAx)

Good news, Teresa! Any chance you could go down to Galveston and give a big hug to Jim Sunk New Dawn? Maybe some of that magic would rub off on him, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:44 PM (8zz6B)

251 Current GF bought me a wallet a few years ago. I don't think I've ever bought a wallet for myself, first from my parents the rest from GFs over the years so there definitely is something to this...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:44 PM (t0Rmr)

252 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (SRRAx)

That’s wonderful news, Teresa!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 11:44 PM (/dDa4)

253 At that time 20% was a generous tip. I hardly eat out these days but I tend to bump the tip percentage up if its a lower cost meal place.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 25, 2025 11:45 PM (bP/i4)

254 When I was a kid,watching the draft was an oddball thing for compulsive gamblers. If normies are watching it these days, I'm guessing it's for fantasy football reasons?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 11:45 PM (BI5O2)

255 If you could keep a C note in your wallet, you were never poor. I have run across that sentiment before, from men talking about living through the Depression
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 11:42 PM (D7oie)
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In the 70s-80s, I carried $80 or so on me. Now, not so much.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 11:46 PM (6YdsJ)

256 TIFW
Congrats. We're dealing with cancer in my wife now.
Have you had issues with phantom pains?

Posted by: MkY at April 25, 2025 11:46 PM (cPGH3)

257 >>>So far, so good! ❤️😊🥳
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.
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YES!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 11:46 PM (MJMyx)

258 More falling objects, please.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 11:47 PM (VJc7E)

259 Looking forward to seeing you in TX, Teresa.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 11:48 PM (6YdsJ)

260 Whoa it was more like 30 years ago that my work group did that coffee shop thing. I'm getting so old.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 25, 2025 11:48 PM (bP/i4)

261 In 2000 mother's brother told her, 'always have at least $100 when you leave the house'. That would be about $250 or 300 today.
Sounds about right. You never know what's going to happen out on the streets.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 11:51 PM (MJMyx)

262 I just woke up because I thought I had not started the dishwasher.

Darleen said, no honey, you got the dishwasher started and finished, on the One Hour Cycle.

Posted by: Darleen Does Dishes at April 25, 2025 11:51 PM (IKhKt)

263 In the 70s-80s, I carried $80 or so on me. Now, not so much.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 11:46 PM (6YdsJ)

I always carry a silver dollar, a silver ounce and three dollars in quarters. The first two are for luck and the quarters are for parking meters.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 11:51 PM (D7oie)

264 >>>Why has that never come out?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Looking over some old articles...
For such a big news case only a handfull of names are known.
Three so far suicided.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 11:52 PM (/lPRQ)

265 another angle to it: Shadeur being drafted #1 was the story that the sporting press really wanted to write. I mean they had a hardon for that story. That is didn't happen broke the spirits of many ink-stained wretches.
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 11:39 PM (AOsQT)

All the sports writers already wrote that #1 pick story and just left the team name blank. They are pissed over all the time they wasted.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 11:52 PM (eIjvK)

266 IMHO, the "standard" tip is still 15%. So, the cost of living has gone up? It has for all of us. The meal I got for 12 bucks a few years ago is now 20 bucks. So if I tip 15%, you're now getting 3 bucks instead of two. You're keeping up better than me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Bingo! Tip percentage doesn't have to "keep up with inflation". When income is a percentage of price, it is, by definition, keeping up.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 25, 2025 11:53 PM (cIFM2)

267 Was going to put up intro to Homicide, Life on the Streets but even the intro is copyrighted. money money money

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 11:54 PM (MJMyx)

268 More falling objects, please.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 11:47 PM (VJc7E)

Like Shadeur Sanders?

(rimshot)

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 11:55 PM (eIjvK)

269 The self-agrandizement of the Sanders family has turned me off since Daddy played for the 9r's.
OVERRATED

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 11:55 PM (VJc7E)

270 Lol!

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 11:56 PM (VJc7E)

271 261 In 2000 mother's brother told her, 'always have at least $100 when you leave the house'. That would be about $250 or 300 today.
Sounds about right. You never know what's going to happen out on the streets.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 11:51 PM (MJMyx)

While having some cash is always useful, the ease of use for debit cards these days means you probably don't have to carry as much.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 11:56 PM (x/vdX)

272 TIFW - Prayers for more good results!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 11:57 PM (vd6bO)

273 Like Shadeur Sanders?

(rimshot)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 11:55 PM (eIjvK)

Needs a meme of him sitting in an auditorium chair backed against the wall at a dance, with a fat chick sitting two seats away.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:57 PM (8zz6B)

274 Oh, now I see the picture. I though a Shedeur was one of those big, black veils that the gals have to wear in muzzie territories. He's a sportsball guy! Helps if ya spell it right.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:00 AM (vd6bO)

275 I am making it publicy known that in in way, shape or form am I suicidal. I have made this know to my therapist and GP – If something happens to me – in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quited.

https://tinyurl.com/3emvbk9a
---

Especially your handlers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:01 AM (MJMyx)

276 146 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)

I could use a guy to mow my lawn while I christen my sloop.

Posted by: Judge Smails at April 26, 2025 12:05 AM (Yt3ED)

277 I always carry a silver dollar, a silver ounce and three dollars in quarters. The first two are for luck and the quarters are for parking meters.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 11:51 PM (D7oie)

I used to carry a Liberty head half eagle around. There’s something nice about physical money.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 12:06 AM (/dDa4)

278 I'd of been here sooner but I was staring at the goat.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 12:06 AM (W/lyH)

279 If you could keep a C note in your wallet, you were never poor.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Never?
I keep a couple c-notes in my wallet, but my single mother family was working class poor. We did ok as long as the job held out, but when the economy turned down, household income went to zero for months on end. There were times when I ate once a day, while mom dodged the landlord.
I was poor until I got my first job out of college, then, at a salary almost three times what most of my family ever made, I was rich.
Never say never, to quote a movie.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 26, 2025 12:08 AM (cIFM2)

280 278
I ustacud say I'd of but I hear you affosta do that.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:08 AM (vd6bO)

281 Today's question

We guys use stuff until it doesn't work and can't be fixed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:08 AM (ynpvh)

282 I'd of been here sooner but I was staring at the goat.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 12:06 AM (W/lyH)

Goat is startled because a pot of gold just appeared in his colon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:10 AM (8zz6B)

283 What do you do? I walk out, and I tip very well

Custom tip option...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:10 AM (ynpvh)

284 Uh...ain't[\i] affosta do that.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:10 AM (vd6bO)

285 Pretty sure IRL podcast thing is a joke.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:11 AM (ziEdw)

286 Oh, no, Jim! Look what I've done! the [\i] didn't kill the italics!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:12 AM (vd6bO)

287 Oh, no, Jim! Look what I've done! the [\i] didn't kill the italics!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:12 AM (vd6bO)

Frontslash, not backslash

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:13 AM (8zz6B)

288 Shedeur Sanders still available

didn't get drafted
again

Anybody need a quarterback?

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)

I could use a guy to mow my lawn while I christen my sloop.
Posted by: Judge Smails at April 26, 2025 12:05 AM (Yt3E
***

Uncle Sam wants YOU!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 12:13 AM (W/lyH)

289 Andy Ngo@MrAndyNgo

I’ve learned that a trans Portland Antifa Satanist leader who celebrated when I was beaten in 2019 by Antifa ended up k—lling himself.

Ralph Baker, who used the alias “Rani Baker,” committed s—icide in October 2023. He ran the @destroyed4com4t account
----

James Woods @RealJamesWoods

Never speak ill of the dead regardless how evil their actions were in life.
If you can’t say something good about a person, say nothing at all.

Rani Baker is dead...

Good

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:14 AM (MJMyx)

290 Stopped carrying a wallet long ago. I have 1 credit card, drivers license and $20 in my pocket.Thats my “wallet”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:14 AM (ziEdw)

291 Frontslash, not backslash
_-_-_
Thanks. It's like I was trying to escape something, eh? Probably should drink less, too.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:15 AM (vd6bO)

292 Goat in that top pic has a cousin:

youtube.com/watch?v=U-EZizbG7ms

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:15 AM (MJMyx)

293 When I was just getting started, I always had change for a phone call. Later I always had $5 tucked away in my wallet. Then. $10. Today it's $20. No more. I also have a credit card, and concealed carry.
No need for anything more.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 12:19 AM (W/lyH)

294 290 Stopped carrying a wallet long ago. I have 1 credit card, drivers license and $20 in my pocket.Thats my “wallet”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 26, 2025 12:14 AM (ziEdw)

I have credit cards, driver's license, medical card, business cards, cash, pics of my kids when small, and some cash and receipts in mine...
Wife, God rest her soul, streamlined it all into her cell phone case...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:19 AM (ynpvh)

295 I used a money clip for necessaries however, I keep my wallet and other stuff in a handy stash.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:20 AM (MJMyx)

296 293 When I was just getting started, I always had change for a phone call. Later I always had $5 tucked away in my wallet. Then. $10. Today it's $20. No more. I also have a credit card, and concealed carry.
No need for anything more.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 12:19 AM (W/lyH)

Does you concealed carry fit in your wallet?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:20 AM (ynpvh)

297 What really cracked me up about Shedeur was that he had this whole glammed up media room ready to celebrate his first round draft choice in. What an ass!!! I don’t know anything about him and I’m glad he got dissed just for that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2025 12:21 AM (ZEzFB)

298 James Woods @RealJamesWoods

Never speak ill of the dead regardless how evil their actions were in life.
If you can’t say something good about a person, say nothing at all.

Rani Baker is dead...

Good
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:14 AM (MJMyx)

And it took a year and a half for the good news to get out?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:22 AM (8zz6B)

299 Woman who was an Epstein Client Accuser... suddenly dies at 41 of suicide...

Yeah.... Epstein...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2025 12:22 AM (QAkQ3)

300 Does you concealed carry fit in your wallet?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:20 AM (ynpvh)

No.
It just protects it.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2025 12:22 AM (W/lyH)

301 Virginia Giuffre was dealt a crummy hand. I felt badly for her. Hopefully she mailed a packet spilling all the beans.

Posted by: 496 at April 26, 2025 12:23 AM (FASZa)

302 231 Virginia Giuffre didn't kill herself.

Bondi, release all the files.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 11:25 PM (/lPRQ)

She had close to 20 years to compile a list of all the Deep State/Globohomo creeps that boinked her. Why has that never come out?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:30 PM (8zz6B)

I thought she was involved in a serious car accident earlier in the year and was given only weeks to live...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 26, 2025 12:25 AM (bA75n)

303 295 I used a money clip for necessaries however, I keep my wallet and other stuff in a handy stash.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:20 AM (MJMyx)

I had a money belt... nice standard looking leather belt, with a zipper inside... that I had for many many years, with $1000 in it...

Traveled all over the world with it... thinking that $1K could get me out of just about any local type of trouble I could get into as a Young sailor.

Never had to use.... now I have multiple $K in the locked gun safe that I travel with...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2025 12:27 AM (QAkQ3)

304 My wallet is merged with my cell phone case.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 26, 2025 12:28 AM (vm8sq)

305 I have like 9 credit/debit cards in my wallet. But every one has a purpose. One gives me 6% back at supermarkets, another 5% back on restaurants, another 3% back on prescriptions. Each has its place.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 12:29 AM (/dDa4)

306 301 Virginia Giuffre was dealt a crummy hand. I felt badly for her. Hopefully she mailed a packet spilling all the beans.
Posted by: 496 at April 26, 2025 12:23 AM (FASZa)

Those of us with eyes to see... know the situation...

The LAW will not do a thing... which is why those with Eyes to See, no longer have any confidence, in what we call the 'Justice' system.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2025 12:30 AM (QAkQ3)

307 305 I have like 9 credit/debit cards in my wallet. But every one has a purpose. One gives me 6% back at supermarkets, another 5% back on restaurants, another 3% back on prescriptions. Each has its place.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 12:29 AM (/dDa4)

3 Cards... 2 Debit cards which lead to multiple K bank accounts... and a 'Gift' Card, with $2 K on it... I don't do credit... ANY credit adds to inflation through Fractional Lending.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2025 12:32 AM (QAkQ3)

308 That mandatory tip screen? Expect to see more like it if "No taxes on tips" becomes the law of the land. I foresee employers cutting back on wages since tip income is untaxed.
==
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 10:21 PM (eIjvK)

Maybe, but that might not work out so well either.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at Ap
****
$20 hour wage for fast food in California.
BK #1 $13

Posted by: torabora at April 26, 2025 12:33 AM (riPCw)

309 Those 'Epstein Files' are long gone.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 26, 2025 12:33 AM (AdHga)

310 Where can I say “I don’t believe in tipping?”

Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 26, 2025 12:34 AM (vm8sq)

311 I keep a $100 bill in my glove compartment, concealed.
Only because, on the weekends, when doing errands, I don't always remember to pack my wallet.
Driving 15 miles to pick up straw, only to realize I got no cash, I got no cards...

Posted by: MkY at April 26, 2025 12:34 AM (cPGH3)

312 306
Even DU agrees - of course they add "recruited at Mar a Lago" to her name.

And I know it's old news, but, dang, what happened to Drudge? He hates us all as far as I can tell.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:35 AM (vd6bO)

313 ANY credit adds to inflation through Fractional Lending.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2025 12:32 AM (QAkQ3)

Of course. But consider the Cantillon Effect: he who is closest to the creation of new money derives the most benefit. As the one spending new money into existence, I derive the most benefit.

Plus cash back. They’re literally paying me to use their cards. It’s free money!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 12:38 AM (/dDa4)

314 Twenty dollars is lunch for one at GoodBurger's or a tip for Tasty Lunch. Some people have a get-a-way bag in the trunk. In a general emergency cash is a better option.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:38 AM (MJMyx)

315 Those 'Epstein Files' are long gone.
Posted by: Puddleglum

As are most of the publically known involved the racket.

Weird. Not a single known John but Maxwell waiting in prison for her inevitable suicide after being convicted of trafficing to ... nobody.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 12:40 AM (/lPRQ)

316 307 305 I have like 9 credit/debit cards in my wallet. But every one has a purpose. One gives me 6% back at supermarkets, another 5% back on restaurants, another 3% back on prescriptions. Each has its place.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
---

Ramsey wants to talk to you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:41 AM (MJMyx)

317 Virginia Giuffre was dealt a crummy hand. I felt badly for her. Hopefully she mailed a packet spilling all the beans.
Posted by: 496 at April 26, 2025 12:23 AM (FASZa)

Those of us with eyes to see... know the situation...

The LAW will not do a thing... which is why those with Eyes to See, no longer have any confidence, in what we call the 'Justice' system.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2025 12:30 AM (QAkQ3)

She said she was in a serious car wreck. "hit by a school bus going 110 km/hr", and that her kidneys had shut down as a result. She was going to die in a few days. Then the hospital released her and sent her home? Apparently the school bus driver reported a minor collision the next day. A 70 mph wreck would have done major damage to a school bus, too. I don't know who to believe here. Sounds like there may well be some false information being put out there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:42 AM (8zz6B)

318 >>>but, dang, what happened to Drudge? He hates us all as far as I can tell.
Posted by: Don in SoCo
---------

During Drudge's heyday Andrew Breitbart was his editor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:43 AM (MJMyx)

319 I tip. Used to be only at waitress restaurants. Now it's everywhere even fast food. Thing is, if you go to place that might remember you and considering the general bad behavior and lack of morals now, it's kind of risky NOT to tip even though you already have the food. Who knows what they might do in the back next time?

Posted by: azjaeger at April 26, 2025 12:44 AM (3/XaG)

320 She's had the list for years. She could have published it, passed it off to a friend, seen to it that it was circulated any number of ways.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:45 AM (MJMyx)

321 but, dang, what happened to Drudge?

He sold out years ago with the contract apparently requiring he claims to still run it. Still useful as a one stop headline conglomerate of what the Establishment wants you to think

Posted by: azjaeger at April 26, 2025 12:47 AM (3/XaG)

322 319 I tip. Used to be only at waitress restaurants. Now it's everywhere even fast food. Thing is, if you go to place that might remember you and considering the general bad behavior and lack of morals now, it's kind of risky NOT to tip even though you already have the food. Who knows what they might do in the back next time?

Posted by: azjaeger at April 26, 2025 12:44 AM (3/XaG)

I only tip cash, even if I pay the bill with a credit card.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:48 AM (ynpvh)

323 I've never tipped a cow.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:48 AM (ynpvh)

324 She's had the list for years. She could have published it, passed it off to a friend, seen to it that it was circulated any number of ways.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:45 AM (MJMyx)

Well, if Virginia Giuffre had a deadman's switch, it might take time for the results to appear. The people holding the goods have to verify to their own satisfaction that she is in fact dead, and then find a way to disseminate the information without it being traced to them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:49 AM (8zz6B)

325 321
Yep. I try not to click on anything over there, but, you're right. Opposition research matters. I am very grateful for the Morning Report here.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:49 AM (vd6bO)

326 What's in my wallet?

For thirty years a single crisp new $1.
First dollar in cash I got after crazy ex diitched me downtown, drove home, and cleaned out the joint accounts on the way. Couldn't even draw $5 (the min from ATMs then) to get bus fare.
Walking home I swore to keep the first $1 I get for bus fare because I sure could have used that instead of walking 12 miles.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 12:49 AM (/lPRQ)

327 She said she was in a serious car wreck. "hit by a school bus going 110 km/hr", and that her kidneys had shut down as a result. She was going to die in a few days. Then the hospital released her and sent her home? Apparently the school bus driver reported a minor collision the next day. A 70 mph wreck would have done major damage to a school bus, too. I don't know who to believe here. Sounds like there may well be some false information being put out there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:42 AM (8zz6B)

Based on that, her story makes very little sense. No dialysis? I guess it’s not inconceivable she was released to die at home, but her medical records should reflect that. Trauma can definitely kill you weeks or even years away, but it seems odd, especially given the suicide.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 12:50 AM (/dDa4)

328 I've never tipped a cow.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:48 AM (ynpvh)

And you wonder why your milk goes off so soon, even in the fridge, right?

Posted by: Elsie at April 26, 2025 12:51 AM (8zz6B)

329 I've never tipped a cow.
_-_-_
I explained to one once about not standing in the middle of the road. She didn't budge. So, being a little green at the time, I honked my horn. She kicked and broke my passenger-side headlight. Then all the other cattle swarmed the road...didn't quite get that until I saw the cowboy working that ranch was kicking bales off the back and honking his horn later that year...oh.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:53 AM (vd6bO)

330 323 I've never tipped a cow.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 12:48 AM (ynpvh)

Yeah... about that...

/Lived in a county with more cattle than people...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2025 12:54 AM (QAkQ3)

331 Just got back from Walmart What have I missed?

Speaking of Walmart. Lately they have become quite aggressive with their demands to see my receipt before I can leave the building. I refuse to show it to them because I have zero contractual obligation to do that; Walmart is not Sam's Club or Costco.

Additionally, every second I was shopping and checking out I was under intense surveillance; if they didn't have probable cause to think I was shoplifting before I paid for my goods I am of the opinion they can pound sand once I did.

Am I out in left field here legally? It seems to be quite the grey area.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 12:55 AM (amnH6)

332 Well, if Virginia Giuffre had a deadman's switch, it might take time for the results to appear. The people holding the goods have to verify to their own satisfaction that she is in fact dead, and then find a way to disseminate the information without it being traced to them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

She testified against two.
One's dead.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2025 12:55 AM (/lPRQ)

333 whispers to Elsie, "Seabiscuit to win in the fourth."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 12:56 AM (8zz6B)

334 330
https://tinyurl.com/Cows-Around

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:56 AM (vd6bO)

335 331
I always tell them no at Walmart. At Sam's the say "Can I see your receipt?" I hand it to them and keep going.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 12:57 AM (vd6bO)

336 WalMart greeter, oh shit, here comes Altaria, get ready for the grief.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 12:58 AM (MJMyx)

337 >> Who knows what they might do in the back next time?

I never worked in food service, but nearly everyone I know has in some capacity. So I’ve heard stories.

It doesn’t matter what you tip, at some point in your life some guy has shoved the buns from your burger into his pants, or somebody spit in your coffee. Earning a reputation as a good tipper might help reduce the number of those incidents, but it won’t eliminate them. The guys in the back aren’t even seeing you, they’re just having fun.

And there’s the indiscriminate stuff, like the 3-star restaurant where they throw live rats into the deep fryer? How can you avoid that?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 01:00 AM (/dDa4)

338 How can you avoid that?
_-_-_
Bring a sack lunch.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:02 AM (vd6bO)

339 There are a few states where you must show a receipt at Walmart, but in most you can refuse. IANAL.

I always comply, very politely. Which is why they always ask me. Because I don’t look like the kind of person who’s going to say no or make a scene or actually be shoplifting.

They gotta meet their quota somehow.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 01:04 AM (/dDa4)

340 331: rarely, if ever, will Walmart do that to me. Maybe I just give off the vibe that it’s just a bad idea to accuse me of thievery.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 26, 2025 01:04 AM (vm8sq)

341 Additionally, every second I was shopping and checking out I was under intense surveillance; if they didn't have probable cause to think I was shoplifting before I paid for my goods I am of the opinion they can pound sand once I did.

Am I out in left field here legally? It seems to be quite the grey area.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 12:55 AM (amnH6)

Well, WalMart has been hit hard by low-lifes committing scanner fraud at the self checkout. I don't blame them for trying to police it a bit. Usually, the guy or woman assigned that task recognizes me, and waves me through.

Funny thing happened: I bought a few things last night there, Including one of those small pouches of white chicken chunks. Which slipped out of my sight between the panels of the shopping cart, and I failed to scan it. Got everything else, and paid for it. Found it when I got to the car. And I really, really had to go home and pee, so i didn't go back in the store. But what I will do is go back there, buy one more of those pouches, and scan it twice. That will square me up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:05 AM (8zz6B)

342 339 There are a few states where you must show a receipt at Walmart, but in most you can refuse. IANAL.

I always comply, very politely. Which is why they always ask me. Because I don’t look like the kind of person who’s going to say no or make a scene or actually be shoplifting.

They gotta meet their quota somehow.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 01:04 AM (/dDa4)

Until the change in the law here recently, in the People Republik of Kalifornia, shoplifters were mostly not stopped...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 01:06 AM (ynpvh)

343 Debit, credit, cash, oh my...

Credit card because it is quite handy for larger expenses. Rule: I always pay it off within 48 hours.

Debit card is plastic cash because at some establishments it is just easier to go that route.

Cash is on the up swing again in my life because when I am out of cash it is time to go home. Just like in the good old days.

I do like the idea of stashing a $100.00 somewhere in the care for those moments when you need a quick $100.00.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:06 AM (amnH6)

344 338 How can you avoid that?
_-_-_
Bring a sack lunch.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:02 AM (vd6bO)

That means something different to Kumala Whoris...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 01:07 AM (ynpvh)

345 344
Oof. Sure glad we dodged that bullet.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:10 AM (vd6bO)

346 Whoohoo!

Hello horde! What’s shakin? Hopefully the Manhattans.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:11 AM (mT+6a)

347 Oof. Sure glad we dodged that bullet.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:10 AM (vd6bO)

With Hillary, it would have been a box lunch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:11 AM (8zz6B)

348
Hello horde! What’s shakin? Hopefully the Manhattans.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:11 AM (mT+6a)

Well, I had two Caesars earlier, but ran out of Clamato. So a Cuba Libre, it is.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:13 AM (8zz6B)

349 But what I will do is go back there, buy one more of those pouches, and scan it twice. That will square me up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:05 AM (8zz6B)

😓 You had me sweating there until the end. That’s what I would do in your situation.

I understand the need for loss prevention. I wish I lived in a society where shoplifters were more heavily prosecuted. Instead the Walmart Stasi look at me and say “This is a put-together middle-aged white dude. He’s not going to stab me in the heart because he’s trying to steal $12 of Smirnoff Ice by not scanning it at the self checkout.”

I can hardly blame them. Walmart greeter is not a job worth dying over. So they pretend to look for shoplifting and I pretend to not be insulted.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 01:13 AM (/dDa4)

350 President Trump says Ukraine's "Zelenskyy, has not signed the final papers on the very important Rare Earths Deal with the United States."

"It is at least three weeks late."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:18 AM (MJMyx)

351 Hey AOP!

I just got home from the Mariners game. We lost. But. It’s a beautiful evening for sitting outside, drinking beer and watching baseball.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:18 AM (mT+6a)

352 So they pretend to look for shoplifting and I pretend to not be insulted.
_-_-_
Thing is, if the one or two employees loitering around the self-checkout and checking receipts were actually doing the checkout for you, it seems that the rate of loss would go way down. But then there's Pueblo.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:18 AM (vd6bO)

353 I get the consensus about showing a receipt is a minor inconvenience. On the other hand when this employee stepped in front of my cart and made it clear he wasn't moving until I showed my receipt, welp, that was a quite GFYS monument.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:20 AM (amnH6)

354 Hey nurse, I hope you had fun at the ball game! I am just stopping in to glance at the ONT, fell asleep on the couch with a book in my hand and now I need to sleep. I always have some cash on hand, I had to bail my neighbor out last fall when she couldn't gas up her car with a credit card during a power outage.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 26, 2025 01:21 AM (0nHVk)

355 Went out to the desert today and exercised some cordless hole punchers. The "AR-9" pistol-caliber carbine ran really well with 124 grain ammo. No jams at all, and one failure to feed, which I think may have been caused by the mag not fully seated in the mag well. Went through 100 rounds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:21 AM (8zz6B)

356 353
Yeah, that sure seems like an accusation to me. I have noticed that on days I have to open carry, they never bother me. Of course, I go out of my way to be very polite and friendly.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:22 AM (vd6bO)

357
_Pakistan suspends all trade with India.

_India reportedly preparing to end LoC ceasefire agreement with Pakistan.

_Pakistan says any attempt by India to cut off Indus river supply is an 'act of war'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:22 AM (MJMyx)

358 The "AR-9" pistol-caliber carbine ran really well with 124 grain ammo. No jams at all, and one failure to feed, which I think may have been caused by the mag not fully seated in the mag well. Went through 100 rounds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I just find a new thing to buy. I need one of those.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:23 AM (amnH6)

359 @visegrad24

Pakistan starts sending tanks, artillery and other heavy weapon systems toward the border with India

@9mm_smg
It's going to be wild if this escalates. Might be the first time since ww2 we see nukes go off.

Conventional warfare wise, India destroys Pakistan. Bigger military, better equipment etc... But if Pakistan is suffering huge losses, they might just decide to go nuclear. India has a very defensive nuclear weapon policy where they wouldn't be a 1st strike, but they would retaliate massively. It's going to be interesting to see if this spreads to more than localized skirmishes

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:25 AM (MJMyx)

360 I get the consensus about showing a receipt is a minor inconvenience. On the other hand when this employee stepped in front of my cart and made it clear he wasn't moving until I showed my receipt, welp, that was a quite GFYS monument.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:20 AM (amnH6)

Some of the greeters are good, and some are not so good. Green, or poorly trained? Or just assholes?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:25 AM (8zz6B)

361 357
_Pakistan suspends all trade with India.

_India reportedly preparing to end LoC ceasefire agreement with Pakistan.

_Pakistan says any attempt by India to cut off Indus river supply is an 'act of war'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:22 AM (MJMyx)

What happens if 1,000,000,000 Indians bathe in the river before it gets to Paki-land?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 01:26 AM (ynpvh)

362 Thing is, if the one or two employees loitering around the self-checkout and checking receipts were actually doing the checkout for you, it seems that the rate of loss would go way down. But then there's Pueblo.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:18 AM (vd6bO)

Some bean counter in Bentonville was like “Well, self-checkout increases our shrink rate by 90% but the increase in legitimate purchases gives us that 0.1% increase in profits we’ve been looking for.”

I shop in two places, a very rural red area where the Walmart has no receipt checkers ever, and a somewhat rural blue area where the receipt checkers hassle me and not the large, loud group of youths who are obviously stealing alcohol but everyone is too afraid to confront them.

In some chain stores in certain areas everything is under glass and the store employees are basically risking their lives to protect the stash of deodorant.

God bless GloboHomo!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 01:26 AM (/dDa4)

363 All Quiet On The Western Ports... Is This The Calm Before The Trade War Storm? _zerohedge

No, we're in the middle of the trade storm now.
Someone should employ Rick Santelli to call it ringside.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:27 AM (MJMyx)

364 Re: Virginia Giuffre, I read that she was in the middle of a messy divorce/custody thing, sounded like she didn't have custody of her kids, and was under some domestic restraining order. She wouldn't be the first woman to end it in those circumstances. :-(

Posted by: Momlady at April 26, 2025 01:28 AM (m+A2x)

365 more info:

@Global_Mil_Info 2h

For the second consecutive night, Indian and Pakistani forces exchanged fire along the Line of Control.

According to the Indian Army, no casualties were sustained.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:29 AM (MJMyx)

366 I just find a new thing to buy. I need one of those.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:23 AM (amnH6)

This was built by me from an 80% lower, and upper and lower parts kits. It uses a mag well adaptor, and Colt 30-rd SMG mags. Recoil is negligible. I need to make a stock with more drop in it, as i have a hard time getting my eye down to the level of the sights.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:30 AM (8zz6B)

367 Some of the greeters are good, and some are not so good. Green, or poorly trained? Or just assholes?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Well, the guy tonight that was hassling me was wearing a surgical mask. Out of your three options asshole seems to fit the best.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:30 AM (amnH6)

368 367
I have noticed the mask thing lingering in New Mexico. Colorado was pretty eat-up with it for a while, but you don't see it so much anymore - at least in the smaller towns.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:34 AM (vd6bO)

369 It's going to be interesting to see if this spreads to more than localized skirmishes
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:25 AM (MJMyx)

It won’t, because the people running things aren’t total morons. Oh, they’re evil, but they don’t want to rule over ashes.

This is why nukes effectively ended war between large powers: they’re a weapon that can kill the old men responsible for making wars, guaranteeing they won’t be used.

Small-scale wars or proxy wars from here on out. The nice thing about modern, conventional weapons is they chew through young, male cannon fodder, leaving behind a generation of young, fertile women in need of support from the old men who wage war.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 01:34 AM (/dDa4)

370 Re: Virginia Giuffre, I read that she was in the middle of a messy divorce/custody thing, sounded like she didn't have custody of her kids, and was under some domestic restraining order. She wouldn't be the first woman to end it in those circumstances. :-(
Posted by: Momlady at April 26, 2025 01:28 AM (m+A2x)

She was apparently abused, and on the streets when she got recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell, so it's quite possible that she has had a pattern of erratic behavior. Sad story.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:34 AM (8zz6B)

371 The President on Iran, Israel, and the bomb:

..."Ultimately I was going to leave that choice to them, but I said I would much prefer a deal than bombs being dropped," Trump described in the interview. "We can make a deal without the attack. I hope we can."
...
But Trump has said he's not worried that Israel would drag him into war. But that's when he warned that, "I may go in very willingly if we can't get a deal. If we don't make a deal, I'll be leading the pack."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:34 AM (MJMyx)

372 I want to by a Honda Shadow Aero because at my age creating more opportunities to end what little time I left on this prematurely somehow is striking me as the rational thing to do. For extra credit I have never owned or ridden a bike this big. I have gone nuts.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:35 AM (amnH6)

373 Well, the guy tonight that was hassling me was wearing a surgical mask. Out of your three options asshole seems to fit the best.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:30 AM (amnH6)

Yep. The mark of the beast, LOL.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:36 AM (8zz6B)

374 Let's see. On the screen for the tip, I'd tap custom, and add a 50 cent tip. If you're that arrogant, you don't deserve more.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Yeah, that's a level of dickish I haven't seen outside of politics.

I might see if it took negative numbers.

Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 01:36 AM (DgGvY)

375 368 367
I have noticed the mask thing lingering in New Mexico. Colorado was pretty eat-up with it for a while, but you don't see it so much anymore - at least in the smaller towns.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:34 AM (vd6bO)

Was asked by doc if I had my flu shot and if not, if I'd like one during visit; I said no and no.
I'm high risk, but my faith in the system is at an all-time low after the COVID stuff.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 01:37 AM (ynpvh)

376 Well, the guy tonight that was hassling me was wearing a surgical mask. Out of your three options asshole seems to fit the best.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:30 AM (amnH6)

Did you cough all over him while he attempted a cavity search?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 26, 2025 01:38 AM (eIjvK)

377 373 Well, the guy tonight that was hassling me was wearing a surgical mask. Out of your three options asshole seems to fit the best.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:30 AM (amnH6)

Yep. The mark of the beast, LOL.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:36 AM (8zz6B)

When COVID was near full-tilt, I saw an Asian guy at Costco with a mask over his nose, a mask over his mouth, his ears covered, and glasses over his eyes...he was eating and drinking between the mouth and nose mask. He looked like some deranged Muppet.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 01:38 AM (ynpvh)

378 376 Well, the guy tonight that was hassling me was wearing a surgical mask. Out of your three options asshole seems to fit the best.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 26, 2025 01:30 AM (amnH6)

Did you cough all over him while he attempted a cavity search?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 26, 2025 01:38 AM (eIjvK)

I only allow my dentist to do cavity searches...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 01:39 AM (ynpvh)

379 night all, I'm out.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2025 01:39 AM (ynpvh)

380 The nice thing about modern, conventional weapons is they chew through young, male cannon fodder, leaving behind a generation of young, fertile women in need of support from the old men who wage war.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

I'm not in charge of waging any wars, but if there's a 22-year-old Ukrainian smokeshow with no better option than me, who am I to say "no"?

Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 01:40 AM (DgGvY)

381 Didn’t see many, but did see some folks still wearing masks at the baseball game.

Whatever. Thank you for alerting me to the fact I need to give you a wide berth.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:40 AM (mT+6a)

382 Why is the MSM so focused on pope Frankie?

It’s very interesting.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:45 AM (mT+6a)

383 I have a question about China.

You may have heard me talking about The China Show on yewtewb lately. Getting the inside view has been fascinating.

It seems that many Chinese are already suffering grinding poverty, and the tariffs are going to make everything worse. I feel for the Chinese people.

But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

384 Didn’t see many, but did see some folks still wearing masks at the baseball game.

Whatever. Thank you for alerting me to the fact I need to give you a wide berth.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:40 AM (mT+6a)

Masks have joined danger hair and face tats...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:45 AM (8zz6B)

385 *tap tap tap*

*tappity tap tap*

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:46 AM (mT+6a)

386 I get the consensus about showing a receipt is a minor inconvenience. On the other hand when this employee stepped in front of my cart and made it clear he wasn't moving until I showed my receipt, welp, that was a quite GFYS monument.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

What is the legal situation with these dickheads?

If I try to blow by them, and claim false arrest/false imprisonment if I don't want to bother with the receipt nazis, do I have a case? Especially if I went through an actual manned checkout lane, and not the self-check, like the last time I was at WallyWorld?

Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 01:47 AM (DgGvY)

387 My daughter is yucking it up over the "danger hair" line. We run in the musical crowd around here, and oh, brother, you should...well no, you don't wanna.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:48 AM (vd6bO)

388 Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
------------

Think of all the starving children in China.
That was the inducement to clean my plate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:49 AM (MJMyx)

389 But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

Well, the Party members weren't. But most of the plebes? Yes. The Commies did a lot of absolutely insane shit that wrecked what little economy that China had.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:49 AM (8zz6B)

390 The receipt checkers are just doing a job. They hassle low risk folks because the cameras are on. Prolly even get a bonus.

But if they harassment a BIOPIC person……. No no no. The company would be sued into oblivion. So, they have to harass the low risk folks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:50 AM (mT+6a)

391 390
Like the way Colorado hassles the legal gun owners instead of going after the real problems.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:51 AM (vd6bO)

392 Think of all the starving children in China.
That was the inducement to clean my plate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:49 AM (MJMyx)

Hory shit! look at all the peas!

Posted by: some starving kid in China at April 26, 2025 01:52 AM (8zz6B)

393 I've ordered extra hours for the day from Amazon, but my order seems to keep getting lost in transit. Meanwhile, I can't seem to get caught up.

Wonder if I can get up for the coffee & prayer thread tomorrow. In case I don't make it, somebody put in a good word for healing of broken families? It's high on my list.

I'm exiting now. (Shows receipt to the moose at the door.)

https://youtu.be/DgV7RG9Qgvk

G'nite y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and that's that at April 26, 2025 01:54 AM (+bW3+)

394 I don't mind showing my receipt... at Costco... where they check *everyone's* papers.

When lowbrow places like wallyworld wannabe Costco, but select only a few to be checked, rather than ALL?

KMA!

Maybe they should charge "cover" upon entry, to cut out the riffraff? Make it 5 or 10 bucks, refundable with purchase over 30? I dunno.

Posted by: JQ at April 26, 2025 01:54 AM (rdVOm)

395 372
That Honda looks like a fun bike to own...and not horrifically expensive

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 01:55 AM (vd6bO)

396 The receipt checkers are just doing a job. They hassle low risk folks because the cameras are on. Prolly even get a bonus.

But if they harassment a BIOPIC person……. No no no. The company would be sued into oblivion. So, they have to harass the low risk folks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 01:50 AM (mT+6a)

Consider it as theater. We are playing a role, so the receipt checkers can claim to be even-handed when they do bust some illegal alien with 20 stolen boxes of Tide.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 01:55 AM (8zz6B)

397 But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Mainly, yes

Posted by: Miklos was last there in 1989 at April 26, 2025 01:56 AM (IKhKt)

398 Think of all the starving children in China.
That was the inducement to clean my plate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 01:49 AM (MJMyx)

Hory shit! look at all the peas!

Posted by: some starving kid in China at April 26, 2025 01:52 AM (8zz6B)

In our house it was the starving children in India. They actually like peas, so...

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 01:57 AM (w6EFb)

399 We are playing a role, so the receipt checkers can claim to be even-handed when they do bust some illegal alien with 20 stolen boxes of Tide.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I stopped stealing P&G products years ago.

A kind of boycott.

Posted by: Mikloso El Americano at April 26, 2025 01:58 AM (IKhKt)

400 But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 01:45 AM

at what point did we give the Chinese “all of our manufacturing”?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 26, 2025 01:59 AM (vm8sq)

401 Hory shit! look at all the peas!
Posted by: some starving kid in China

You can have the liver, too kid

Posted by: Mikloso El generoso at April 26, 2025 02:00 AM (IKhKt)

402 Consider it as theater. We are playing a role, so the receipt checkers can claim to be even-handed when they do bust some illegal alien with 20 stolen boxes of Tide.
_-_-_

Funny, I just heard that in Stephen Fry's voice. (No disrespect intended).

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 02:02 AM (vd6bO)

403 Hory shit! look at all the peas!
Posted by: some starving kid in China

You can have the liver, too kid
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And the brussels sprouts! (I like them *now* but didn't when I was little, LOL)

Posted by: JQ at April 26, 2025 02:02 AM (rdVOm)

404 You can have the liver, too kid
Posted by: Mikloso El generoso at April 26, 2025 02:00 AM (IKhKt)

Too rich for me. I'd just puke it back up. Got any chicken bones?

Posted by: some starving kid in China at April 26, 2025 02:03 AM (8zz6B)

405 But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 01:45 AM

at what point did we give the Chinese “all of our manufacturing”?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

They were given the opportunity to take it and the multinationals had a cost-cutting incentive. Accelerated by wholesale theft of IPR.

What does means, motive, and opportunity normally mean?

Posted by: Miklos enjoyed his Third Siesta at April 26, 2025 02:03 AM (IKhKt)

406 Well, past 2300 here. Time for me to get some sleep. Night, Horde.

Posted by: some starving kid in China at April 26, 2025 02:05 AM (8zz6B)

407 308
****
$20 hour wage for fast food in California.
BK #1 $13
Posted by: torabora at April 26, 2025 12:33 AM (riPCw)

Unintended Consequences: $20/hour was only supposed to apply to big fast food places with more than 100 (?) locations or somesuch ie BK, MickyD, In-n-Out....

What happened as soon as it went into effect? The smaller places lost all their good people to the $20/hour places. As did most anyplace else that paid less than $20/hour.

Now...effective minimum wage everywhere here is $20/hour because anyone with a brain can go get a fast food job for $20/hour....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 26, 2025 02:05 AM (QGaXH)

408 drat. Off, starvingsock

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2025 02:05 AM (8zz6B)

409 But here's my question: what was it like before we gave them special status as a developing nation and all of our manufacturing? Were they starving wretches?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

I don’t think China’s suffering that much now because of the tariffs. Probably no worse than us.

But, yeah, they were pretty poor in the recent past. Giving them favored nation status and the WTO was a big step for them.

That said, they probably would have built up a lot on their own. The confluence of events that made China an industrial superpower wasn’t down to a single bad policy. It was decades of bad decisions compounding, and now we’re paying the long-overdue price.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:06 AM (/dDa4)

410 Things I've learned from that channel:

There's no welfare in China, so you need a kid to take care of you when you're old (not a bad thing in the US, either). There's a massive child kidnapping issue that China doesn't allow people to talk about. They're not all adopted to childless couples, of course. Trafficking for other reasons, just like here in the US.

Despair and anger drives people to plow into crowds with cars, especially crowds of schoolchildren. It's very common, so they have bollards everywhere to discourage that. Problem is, the bollards are hollow because that's how China rolls.

There's a lot of drug users.

China gives fentanyl producers tax breaks while denying that any fentanyl is made in China.

Theft is rampant. There are bars on ALL windows, even on the 32nd floor. Yes. people climb up that high. It's crazy.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:07 AM (w6EFb)

411 386 I get the consensus about showing a receipt is a minor inconvenience. On the other hand when this employee stepped in front of my cart and made it clear he wasn't moving until I showed my receipt, welp, that was a quite GFYS monument.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
------------

Around here that's a direct threat. Never seen it. Only encountered polite personnel understanding that it's an inconvenience.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2025 02:09 AM (MJMyx)

412 Now...effective minimum wage everywhere here is $20/hour because anyone with a brain can go get a fast food job for $20/hour....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

*convenes Waffle House All Hands staff meeting including Dwayne Swain, Regional Associate Engagement Manager*

Posted by: Miklos sys put down the butter knives at April 26, 2025 02:09 AM (IKhKt)

413 402
Like this:
https://tinyurl.com/43khw7ju

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 02:09 AM (vd6bO)

414 386
What is the legal situation with these dickheads?

If I try to blow by them, and claim false arrest/false imprisonment if I don't want to bother with the receipt nazis, do I have a case? Especially if I went through an actual manned checkout lane, and not the self-check, like the last time I was at WallyWorld?
Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 01:47 AM (DgGvY)

If I was seriously going to do something like that I would first carefully check the front windows and make sure there isn't a postage-stamp size notice posted somewhere stating that by entering the premises you consent to a search upon exit.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 26, 2025 02:10 AM (QGaXH)

415 I don’t think China’s suffering that much now because of the tariffs. Probably no worse than us.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:06 AM (/dDa4)

Factories are already closing. You do understand that there is no safety net whatsoever, right? No welfare, unemployment, food stamps.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:13 AM (w6EFb)

416 It's crazy.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

You forgot the sex preference for boy babies, leading to abortion of fetus girls. So. At least 80 million permanently dateless guys-prostitution, kidnapping, buying Nork chicks etc.

But basically tens of millions of permanently unhappy men. The traditional outlet is war.

Posted by: Miklos only repeats what is and has been known at April 26, 2025 02:14 AM (IKhKt)

417 at what point did we give the Chinese “all of our manufacturing”?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 26, 2025 01:59 AM (vm8sq)

During the Clinton years. They ripped out a plastics factory I worked at and shipped it there. That was in 95 and there were articles in trade mags about what was happening up in Wisconsin and that area. They also buy a lot of our old amusment park stuff that doesn't meet regulations anymore. Lots of the older dufunct roller coasters are set up over there.

Posted by: Reforger at April 26, 2025 02:17 AM (xcIvR)

418 416 It's crazy.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

You forgot the sex preference for boy babies, leading to abortion of fetus girls. So. At least 80 million permanently dateless guys-prostitution, kidnapping, buying Nork chicks etc.

But basically tens of millions of permanently unhappy men. The traditional outlet is war.
Posted by: Miklos only repeats what is and has been known at April 26, 2025 02:14 AM (IKhKt)

And all they had to do to prevent it, or most of it, was to say if the first child was a girl you could keep trying until you got a boy or hit some arbitrary maximum like 3.

Now they have an 80 million man nightmare as you rightly pointed out.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 26, 2025 02:18 AM (QGaXH)

419 drat. Off, starvingsock
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Eat your peas, Pierre

Posted by: LBJ to Pierre Salinger at April 26, 2025 02:18 AM (IKhKt)

420 415 I don’t think China’s suffering that much now because of the tariffs. Probably no worse than us.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:06 AM (/dDa4)

Factories are already closing. You do understand that there is no safety net whatsoever, right? No welfare, unemployment, food stamps.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:13 AM (w6EFb)

I thought it was a communist country? I thought the whole point of communism was you didn't need welfare because from each according to his ability to each according to his need?

(I know.."the whole point of having a doomsday machine yadda yadda yadda....")

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 26, 2025 02:20 AM (QGaXH)

421 Factories are already closing. You do understand that there is no safety net whatsoever, right? No welfare, unemployment, food stamps.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:13 AM (w6EFb)

No welfare sounds nice. Unfortunately it’s not true. It’s pretty easy to verify that China has a welfare system.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure you’ve never been to China and are just repeating some really obviously goofy propaganda you saw.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:23 AM (/dDa4)

422 America was becoming a "service economy" and we didn't need those icky plastics factories anymore.

Posted by: Reforger at April 26, 2025 02:23 AM (xcIvR)

423 417 at what point did we give the Chinese “all of our manufacturing”?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 26, 2025 01:59 AM (vm8sq)

During the Clinton years. They ripped out a plastics factory I worked at and shipped it there. That was in 95 and there were articles in trade mags about what was happening up in Wisconsin and that area. They also buy a lot of our old amusment park stuff that doesn't meet regulations anymore. Lots of the older dufunct roller coasters are set up over there.
Posted by: Reforger at April 26, 2025 02:17 AM (xcIvR)

Same with the defunct Kaiser Steel Plant in Fontana. The irony was the union that represented the former workers at the plant got into a fight with the owners over who would disassemble the plant for shipment...the union people or the new owner's Chinese people...talk about rats fighting while the ship sinks...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 26, 2025 02:24 AM (QGaXH)

424 I'm supposed to get up early and go hiking.

Good night everyone.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 26, 2025 02:26 AM (QGaXH)

425 382: because he was a commie?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 26, 2025 02:27 AM (AdHga)

426 They're doing it in Scunthorpe England right now... or were.
According to my in-laws they have been running trucks out of the pit for months while shutting down parts of the foundry.

Posted by: Reforger at April 26, 2025 02:27 AM (xcIvR)

427 There's no welfare in China, so you need a kid to take care of you when you're old (not a bad thing in the US, either). There's a massive child kidnapping issue that China doesn't allow people to talk about. They're not all adopted to childless couples, of course. Trafficking for other reasons, just like here in the US.
Posted by: Miley

You forgot the sex preference for boy babies, leading to abortion of fetus girls. So. At least 80 million permanently dateless guys-prostitution, kidnapping, buying Nork chicks etc.
Posted by: Miklos

No welfare. Children are responsible for their parents in their dotage.

If a guy gets married and has a kid, his wife stops working. "Tradwife" never stopped there.

Now, hubby is pulling one salary, and is responsible for seven people. Himself, his wife, all four of their parents, and the new kid.

Gotta have a pretty swell job to pull that off.

So the other side of the child trafficking is the families trying to do things "the right way," which leads to grandma and grandpa abandoning their identities and moving back to the sticks and living as beggars. Or just wandering into the wilderness to die. So their children can have children.

Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 02:30 AM (DgGvY)

428 Yeah, our "capitalism" does more than their "communism."

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:30 AM (w6EFb)

429 Anyway, I’m pretty sure you’ve never been to China and are just repeating some really obviously goofy propaganda you saw.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:23 AM (/dDa4)

I have never been to China, no. But these guys lived there for a long time and they seem to know what they're talking about. Meanwhile, the CCP puts out a shitton of propaganda.

Please show me how to easily verify that they have a welfare system.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:33 AM (w6EFb)

430 Some punk at Wal-Mart demands to see my receipt, I'll show him all the hand to hand combat moves I learned back in the Parachute Ski Marines.
Right after I get off the electric cart I've been running around in the aisles and terrorizing the other customers with.
I sure hope my oxygen concentrator is impact resistant. That punk will never see it coming when I loop the hose around his ankles and pull.

Posted by: A Grumpy Old Fart at April 26, 2025 02:35 AM (eIjvK)

431 Meep meep.

That’s all folks!

Goodnight.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 02:37 AM (t1jwT)

432 Y'all are great fun, but there goes my battery...goodnight!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 26, 2025 02:37 AM (vd6bO)

433 No welfare sounds nice. Unfortunately it’s not true. It’s pretty easy to verify that China has a welfare system.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure you’ve never been to China and are just repeating some really obviously goofy propaganda you saw.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

I don't normally respond to ignorant shitstains, however-

Please provide your personal knowledge of the Chinese welfare and/or public health and/or pension systems.

I'll wait while you consult some AI bot.

Posted by: Miklos laughs at fools, and enjoys the tomfoolery at April 26, 2025 02:38 AM (IKhKt)

434 Goodnight.
Posted by: nurse ratched

And God Bless

Posted by: Miklos in best Red Skelton voice at April 26, 2025 02:39 AM (IKhKt)

435 I have never been to China, no. But these guys lived there for a long time and they seem to know what they're talking about. Meanwhile, the CCP puts out a shitton of propaganda.
Posted by: Miley

Never been there myself. One of my sis-in-laws has, for business reasons. She said what I wrote in #427.

When you hear "16% of people strongly approve of congressional Democrats?" She's part of that 16%. I can't imagine her making shit up to badmouth China.

She knows our politics don't align, to put it mildly, but if she knew I was MAGA enough to read/post here, she'd probably never speak to me again.

Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 02:39 AM (DgGvY)

436 Miklos, did you get the email I sent you some days ago?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:41 AM (w6EFb)

437 >>>She knows our politics don't align, to put it mildly, but if she knew I was MAGA enough to read/post here, she'd probably never speak to me again.

LOL!

I never thought of AoS as a MAGA stronghold. It sure as hell wasn't in 2016.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:45 AM (w6EFb)

438 Miklos, did you get the email I sent you some days ago?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Did it involve a regrettable color and texture of carpet?

Posted by: Miklos thinks "Green with Envy" does not mean avocado green at April 26, 2025 02:47 AM (IKhKt)

439 I never thought of AoS as a MAGA stronghold. It sure as hell wasn't in 2016.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I wasn't neither. It was hard for me to understand why Old Papa was such an ardent supporter of some rich guy from New York.

As always, Papa was right.

Posted by: Make Miklos Great Again at April 26, 2025 02:50 AM (IKhKt)

440 FUN FACT

The State Dance of South Carolina is the Shag

You can get Shag Tags for your car.

I think my parents had Shag 161 on the Cadillac, sadly, those can not be passed down.

Posted by: Miklos votes for Joe Pope and the Tams for Pope at April 26, 2025 02:53 AM (IKhKt)

441 Yes, yours languished in the spam folder for almost a week before I found it.

No matter how many times I tell it you aren't spam, it persists.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:53 AM (w6EFb)

442 I never thought of AoS as a MAGA stronghold. It sure as hell wasn't in 2016.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I may have overstated it, but it would be accurate from the view of a woman with a book by Hillary as a coffee-table ornament.

Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 02:53 AM (DgGvY)

443 Please show me how to easily verify that they have a welfare system.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:33 AM (w6EFb)

Are you really that incapable of working the Google machine? I don’t know anyone who seriously disputes its existence.

Do you want the first ten links from Google? Because if someone tells me America doesn’t have a welfare system, that’s all I can really do. I can lead you to water but I can’t make you do a rudimentary amount of research before you make an easily disproven claim.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:54 AM (/dDa4)

444 No matter how many times I tell it you aren't spam, it persists.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

*Sends a can of actual Spam, labelled "Not Me"*

Posted by: Miklos has never tried Spam, got a can, for every man needs a can of Spam at April 26, 2025 02:57 AM (IKhKt)

445 I wasn't neither. It was hard for me to understand why Old Papa was such an ardent supporter of some rich guy from New York.

As always, Papa was right.

Posted by: Make Miklos Great Again at April 26, 2025 02:50 AM (IKhKt)

God bless Old Papa. He made a good one. Sadly, my dad didn't make it to Trumpy times. I was still a default lib when he died. I think his spirit possessed me and made me pay attention to politics.

Life was better before I knew what I know now. Ignorance is kinda blissful, maybe.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 02:57 AM (w6EFb)

446 >> When you hear "16% of people strongly approve of congressional Democrats?" She's part of that 16%. I can't imagine her making shit up to badmouth China.

You do realize Democrats spend a lot of time complaining about China, right? The most China-obsessed person I know is a TDS-afflicted Boomer.

I don’t know anyone under the age of 40 who actually cares that much. It’s like “Well, we shouldn’t have let our politicians and oligarchs make us dependent on them, but may as well separate while we can.”

Frankly, even though I know for a fact China has a welfare system, I could give a damn. America’s enough of a shithole in need of fixing, I don’t know why I would care about China.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:59 AM (/dDa4)

447 Do you want the first ten links from Google? Because if someone tells me America doesn’t have a welfare system, that’s all I can really do. I can lead you to water but I can’t make you do a rudimentary amount of research before you make an easily disproven claim.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 02:54 AM (/dDa4)

Ah, you're a Google man. Do you know that Google lies on behalf of the CCP and claims China made the first glass bridge?

You're an idiot and I'll waste no time on you.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 03:00 AM (w6EFb)

448 I may have overstated it, but it would be accurate from the view of a woman with a book by Hillary as a coffee-table ornament.

Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 02:53 AM (DgGvY)

Wow, she's got it bad, poor thing.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 03:03 AM (w6EFb)

449 I may have overstated it, but it would be accurate from the view of a woman with a book by Hillary as a coffee-table ornament.

Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2025 02:53 AM (DgGvY)

If it's autographed, consider insurance

Posted by: Prudential Miklos at April 26, 2025 03:13 AM (IKhKt)

450 >> Ah, you're a Google man.

Ok, use DuckDuckGo. Or literally any other tool for searching through data. Or have those all been infested with gremlins, too?

>> Do you know that Google lies on behalf of the CCP and claims China made the first glass bridge?

I don’t.. even really know what you’re referring to. Was that something vitally important to you? The first glass bridge?

Look, if it makes you feel better about your life to live vicariously through achievements in transparent bridge construction, I’ll agree with you. Whatever it takes, man. I don’t you to feel threatened by anyone’s lead in glass bridge technology.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 03:17 AM (/dDa4)

451 You're an idiot and I'll waste no time on you.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I approve, as a matter of General Policy-

Don't like oysters? More for me

Don't like okra? More for me

Man who doesn't like women? More for me

Posted by: Miklos likes talking to Miley at April 26, 2025 03:17 AM (IKhKt)

452 FEED NOT THE TROLLS

Posted by: First Rule of ONT Club at April 26, 2025 03:18 AM (IKhKt)

453 I haven't spent much time on the ONT lately, so I didn't know he was an ass. Now I know.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 03:20 AM (w6EFb)

454 You should come visit.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 03:23 AM (w6EFb)

455 Speaking with Publius is a bit different.

"I am still confused, but at a much higher level".

Posted by: Fermi, Einstein, and Publius walk into a bar at April 26, 2025 03:25 AM (IKhKt)

456 You should come visit.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

WOOF

Posted by: Miss Dixie at April 26, 2025 03:26 AM (IKhKt)

457 In America our welfare system supports inner-city folks, single mothers, illegal immigrants, veterans, Boomers and other useless eaters.

In China the welfare system mostly supports the rural population.

I’d really prefer to live in a country without a welfare system. It’s really sad having to pay taxes to keep 350 pound beasts in Coca-Cola and diabetes medication.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 03:28 AM (/dDa4)

458 If you slept under bridges, the presece of glass bridges might be more important.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 26, 2025 03:34 AM (LSoM1)

459 I miss Miss Dixie too. You should both come soon.

Okra's gonna be planted this weekend, if it stops raining.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 03:39 AM (w6EFb)

460 Goodnight, gotta start winding down. 9 am comes too quickly.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2025 03:41 AM (w6EFb)

461 Later than I thought, but still too early to get up

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 03:41 AM (ypFCm)

462 I have never been cooperative with the receipt checkers. Over time I have trained them to leave me the hell alone.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 26, 2025 03:51 AM (LSoM1)

463 Look, if it makes you feel better about your life to live vicariously through achievements in transparent bridge construction, I’ll agree with you. Whatever it takes, man. I don’t you to feel threatened by anyone’s lead in glass bridge technology.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 26, 2025 03:17 AM (/dDa4)

Hmmm... gotta say, just coming into this late, that if a 'source' lies about one thing, can you then trust them on other things.

It aint about the Glass Bridge... its about the Transparent lie.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2025 03:51 AM (QAkQ3)

464 Later than I thought, but still too early to get up
Posted by: Skip

Not a School Night, you little scamp

Your little friends are approved for a Saturday sleepover.

Posted by: Affectionate but Concerned Auntie Miklos at April 26, 2025 03:52 AM (IKhKt)

465 It aint about the Glass Bridge... its about the Transparent lie.
Posted by: Romeo13

Clearly.

Posted by: Miklos sees and perceives at April 26, 2025 03:53 AM (IKhKt)

466 465 It aint about the Glass Bridge... its about the Transparent lie.
Posted by: Romeo13

Clearly.
Posted by: Miklos sees and perceives at April 26, 2025 03:53 AM (IKhKt)

funny how a lot of folks can't 'See that' though...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2025 03:59 AM (QAkQ3)

467 funny how a lot of folks can't 'See that' though...
Posted by: Romeo13

This reminds me of Vaclav Havel's "Power of the Powerless" in which he describes the reason and method of not simply lying from a position of power, but finding and enforcing ways of getting people to repeat what, at least before, they knew to be lies.

Posted by: Miklos survived a Socialist People's Republic at April 26, 2025 04:05 AM (IKhKt)

468 Another tipoff on the authenticity of that 30% tip thing?

There's no such business as Caut Coffee & Tea.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 26, 2025 04:17 AM (/HDaX)

469 If anyone is still here
TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 04:35 AM (ypFCm)

470 Gen Z invents hanging out

We called that the 80s
Posted by: 80s kid Miklos at April 25, 2025 10:15 PM (IKhKt)

We called that the early 60's.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 26, 2025 08:16 AM (5xuJ/)

471 That video clip of Raj and his father is hilarious. My son gave me the box set, all 279 episodes, of The Big Bang Theory for my birthday last year. So many funny moments. Being an electronics nerd all my life, there are many scenes I can relate to. I knew people like Sheldon, for sure, and Howard throughout my career.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 26, 2025 08:46 AM (5xuJ/)

472 My old Boykin retrieved her last Wood duck this year. She was so worn out I had to carry her back to the truck.

Posted by: Bob at April 26, 2025 10:09 AM (YiqZD)

473 You should not see this if all went right.

It was my intention to be banned.

One last song that won't be heard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkBgnD_k8kQ

Posted by: somejoe at April 26, 2025 12:54 PM (RCAte)

474 Look. I can be really absolutely fucking offensive.

And I am absolutely fucking willing to fucking be as fucking offensive as it fucking takes for you fucking useless fucking retarded fucking faggots to unfuck your fucking selves and fucking do what fucking should be fucking done.

You fucking retarded fucking fucked up fucking fuck ups.

(Fuck! That is a lot of fucks)

Posted by: somejoe at April 26, 2025 01:19 PM (RCAte)

Mouse Cafe

Whew. Another week down.

Thank you all for your readership and commentership (?).

Golden retriever works on whale-watch boat barking at whales, just to let people know they're there. After 11 years of barking at whales, one finally came over Stimulating Saint Bernards by letting them play at their chosen profession. (IG)

Kangaroo couch potato.

Ostrich says "no" to bully.

Little beaver dances like the groundhog in Caddyshack.

Here's the longer version of the Mouse commercial. I still don't know what the hell is even going on. Here's another longer version.

Road Rage Turkey. (IG)

Little dog in a bunny costume. The bunny costume allows him to channel Bunny Jumping Power.

Doggy and ducky roughhouse.

Teaching a puppy how to howl. Sounds cute now, but in six months, you will regret your folly.

Dogs stealing candy from babies.

Kitten is trying to break through a German shepherd's tough exterior.

Rescued kitten and bird grow up together.

A puppy is in howl training.

ICYMI: This deer is judging you.

Kangaroos lope across a lake at sunset.

Dogs showing the good sense of being afraid of escalators:

Dogs not liking escalators 😀 pic.twitter.com/Yqp5K9Z0Wm
— Puppies 🐶 (@PuppiesIover) April 24, 2025

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His friends at the dog park won’t believe him pic.twitter.com/kVpeHzph83
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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 07:29 PM (ypFCm)

2 Hope you have a great week off Ace

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 07:30 PM (ypFCm)

3 The court pleadings for TdA member that was being harbored by Judge Cano (now former) and his wife here in Las Cruces, NM show him with guns, ammos, and shooting them at the local municipal gun range. How the Feds got on to him is he posted all the crap on Facebook. This is first known time Facebook proved useful.

When the Feds interrogated him he coughed up he was living with the Canos and that old lady Cano was getting him day jobs. Oops. Somewhere in the swirl of court documents it was noted the TdA guy's phone was in the Cano's possession and apparently contained inquires about getting hand grenades and something about some headless corpses.

Old man Cano, when he got wind of the extent of what was coming smashed this dear youth's phone and tossed in a dumpster. Big guess: getting a federal obstruction charge was way better the getting snarled up in what was on that phone.

Plus their attorney is my attorney. Las Cruces is just, well, it is what it is.

New Mexico, it is not a state, its a 2.5 world country.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 07:31 PM (amnH6)

4 thank you, skip. I will definitely decompress

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2025 07:31 PM (KRtlO)

5 Thank you all for your readership and commentership (?).

==

sure! no problem! thank you for the penguins!

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 07:32 PM (g47mK)

6 Let us hope India and Pakistan don't nuke each other and fling poo in the stratosphere next week

Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 07:32 PM (gVhuc)

7 Ace, wanna read my books for free? I'll send all of them if you like. Space Chinese fighting the Vampires of The Spanish Civil War, while Beowulf tries to fix the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill reading Jane Austen's Dune.

Yours for the taking, dude. I trend to send it all to you a while ago. Thanks again for the plug, btw.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:33 PM (ZOv7s)

8 Bad doggies

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 07:33 PM (ypFCm)

9 Ace, garrett and Alberta Oil Peon were speculating about maybe you going drift-fishing? With garrett? In Montana? On the Missouri river?

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 07:34 PM (CQE5S)

10

Ace,

I hope you and garrett have a wonderful time in Thailand!

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:34 PM (3ek7K)

11 I gotta say, the three fat guys showing their bellies in the ad I'm getting aren't the worst I've ever seen.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:35 PM (oXfCm)

12 Ace, have a great week. Not having to think about the all this should be a "who let the dogs out" time. You're the best.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 07:35 PM (amnH6)

13 AH Lloyd, has anyone yet reviewed Long Live Death than didn't like it? I mean apart from Stalin but he's dead.

Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 07:35 PM (gVhuc)

14 Gonna show any leg on destination for your vacation, ace?

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2025 07:35 PM (1m82a)

15 garrett is not going to Thailand because they drive on the wrong side

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 07:35 PM (g47mK)

16 I'll be smiling all week about the Vegan Butcher going out of business.

Posted by: F*ck vegan bacon at April 25, 2025 07:35 PM (Ye9wI)

17 >>Ace,

>>I hope you and garrett have a wonderful time in Thailand!

I love this place.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 07:36 PM (viF8m)

18
Guys,

Don't forget to pack your crocs!!!

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:37 PM (3ek7K)

19 Enjoy the break, Ace.

Little rescue beaver is adorable.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 07:37 PM (Wnv9h)

20 Stay away from the oyster bars in Mikonos, Ace. They're clip joints.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 07:37 PM (hY4dx)

21 Enjoy your week ace, the internet wouldn't be the same without you.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:37 PM (E0p3T)

22 AH Lloyd, has anyone yet reviewed Long Live Death than didn't like it? I mean apart from Stalin but he's dead.
Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 07:35 PM (gVhuc)
---
People have griped about the typos, which were a problem when it first was published, but I'm surprised at how positive people have been. It is by far my most successful book.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:37 PM (ZOv7s)

23 Ben Had, instapundit for awhile had some 250lb woman with her belly showing trying to close the clasp on her pants.
The Right has a real problem attracting non shitty advertisers.

Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 07:38 PM (gVhuc)

24 ace, I hope you really can tune out, check out and find some sunshine.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:38 PM (oXfCm)

25 >>Ace,

>>I hope you and garrett have a wonderful time in Thailand!

I love this place.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 07:36 PM

We're weird, but oddly lovable. Or so I've been told.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 07:38 PM (Wnv9h)

26 15 garrett is not going to Thailand because they drive on the wrong side
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 07:35 PM (g47mK)

Garrett is not going to Thailand because he won't go anywhere he can't drive to.

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 07:38 PM (CQE5S)

27 This is one of those titles I could see corrupted into another word. Muskafee. Mosscafay

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:38 PM (2VST1)

28
Ace will drive

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:39 PM (3ek7K)

29 If you're interested, Ace, just drop me a line (link in sig) from one of your many burner emails, and I'll ship the lot of 'em to ya, and even keep it quiet.

I'm crashing out, looking forward to a tanned, rested, and ready Ewok when you get back.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:39 PM (ZOv7s)

30 We're weird, but oddly lovable. Or so I've been told.

Cake Girl thought we were terrifying and ran for her life

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:39 PM (2VST1)

31 MSN headline I just saw...

Impeachment gains support after Supreme Court ruling.

Wow.. they really do want a revolution.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 07:39 PM (QAkQ3)

32 Ace will drive
Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:39 PM (3ek7K)

-------

He'll need a good running start

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 07:39 PM (hY4dx)

33 It's International P*ng**n Day, and nary a whiff of a mephitic p*ng**n in the Café.

Perhaps the evil influence of Big Penguin is waning here. It is to be wished for!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

34 Cake Girl thought we were terrifying and ran for her life
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:39 PM

Well...Cake Girl is from MA.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 07:40 PM (Wnv9h)

35 28 Ace will drive
Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:39 PM (3ek7K)

Well, I don't know; from the previous thread:

200 I would never in a million years travel to Thailand or Asia.

Basically, if I can't drive there I'm not going there.
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 07:01 PM (qmgeg)

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 07:41 PM (CQE5S)

36 Wow.. they really do want a revolution.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 07:39 PM (QAkQ3)

They know not what they seek. To paraphrase Mike Tyson, it's all fun and games until the first bullet goes whizzing by your head.

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2025 07:41 PM (gKDq2)

37 Garrett is not going to Thailand because he won't go anywhere he can't drive to.
Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 07:38 PM (CQE5S)

You can drive anywhere on earth if you don't mind driving on a boat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 07:41 PM (7J06y)

38 You all are so liveable I've made it a mission to meet a bunch of you every year.

TXMOME X

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:42 PM (oXfCm)

39 I suggest ladies get a business card set with "I like you" and a name and phone number on it and hand them to the fellow in these situations.

See, that's something we can get our hands on, something tangible. The drawback is that it has no plausible deniability. She cannot at any point go "no, that's not what I meant, I was just being nice"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:42 PM (2VST1)

40 You all are so liveable I've made it a mission to meet a bunch of you every year.

TXMOME X
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:42 PM

*fistbump*

Soon...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 07:43 PM (Wnv9h)

41 Well, not liveable. My place kills bugs dead

Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 07:43 PM (gVhuc)

42 Nice tree up top.

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 07:43 PM (CQE5S)

43 One of last night's NFL draftees was wearing a totally-blinged out pair of Crocs.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

44 PSA:

"This week, the FDA issued a stark warning over a hugely popular hair-loss drug taken by millions of men — saying it may pose a 'potentially serious risk' to their genitals.

Now, men who took the drug, finasteride, are coming forward with disturbing claims — alleging it left them with shrunken or bent penises, burning testicles, and deep emotional scars. "

End PSA.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 07:44 PM (g47mK)

45 ace, have a great week break. Mainly lurker, seldom nooder, and 2! firsts on krakatoa's weekend EMT threads.
You are 'way past deserving the hiatus.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 25, 2025 07:44 PM (NcvvS)

46 Ace,

I hope you and garrett have a wonderful time in Thailand!

Do not wear chaps. I don't care how much garrett begs.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 07:44 PM (McYvC)

47 She cannot at any point go "no, that's not what I meant, I was just being nice"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:42 PM (2VST1)

Derivatives markets would be a nightmare.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 07:44 PM (7J06y)

48 >>You can drive anywhere on earth if you don't mind driving on a boat.

This guy gets it.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 07:44 PM (viF8m)

49 Well...Cake Girl is from MA.

To be fair, she seemed kind of based, but when she checked in all the guys were talking about how they'd strain her underwear for soup and that kind of thing, I'd be horrified as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:45 PM (2VST1)

50 Have a good vacation, Ace.

Posted by: scamoydog at April 25, 2025 07:45 PM (9Jl9a)

51 The new target comes after UC Berkley reportedly failed to disclose $220 million in 2023 that it received from China, which the school admitted occurred because it misunderstood its "legal duty to disclose that funding."
---

Any law students from Berkeley?
Any editors for JustTheNews?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 07:45 PM (MJMyx)

52 To be fair, she seemed kind of based, but when she checked in all the guys were talking about how they'd strain her underwear for soup and that kind of thing, I'd be horrified as well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:45 PM

I must have missed that thread. Not gonna lie...I'd be a bit weirded out, myself.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 07:46 PM (Wnv9h)

53
Misunderstood?? Do they think we just fell off the turnip truck??

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:46 PM (3ek7K)

54 all the guys were talking about how they'd strain her underwear for soup and that kind of thing, I'd be horrified as well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:45 PM (2VST1)

Everything comes back to food with this place.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:46 PM (E0p3T)

55 I must have missed that thread. Not gonna lie...I'd be a bit weirded out, myself.

So would I. I've seen my underwear.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 07:47 PM (McYvC)

56 Stay away from the oyster bars in Mikonos, Ace. They're clip joints.
-----------
Floyd's Barbershop is the best clip joint in town!

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 07:47 PM (TN0g+)

57 Not gonna lie...I'd be a bit weirded out, myself.

Well, you know how things go here, someone makes a great joke or has a fun line, and then they have to get topped and it can go downhill pretty bad at times. Someone says they'd be crowned king of England if they were pulled out and that's just a challenge to go further

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:48 PM (2VST1)

58 Mulligathongey?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 07:48 PM (7J06y)

59 Ace and garrett are going to Phuket?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 07:48 PM (0sNs1)

60 Ace and garrett are going to Phuket?

More than once if garrett has any say.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 07:49 PM (McYvC)

61
Ace says Phuket but garrett isn't on board.

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:49 PM (3ek7K)

62 Duncanthrax, Bangkok

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:49 PM (oXfCm)

63 Do they think we just fell off the turnip truck??

"Just fell out of the cocanut tree! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
--Kamala

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:50 PM (2VST1)

64 58 Mulligathongey?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 07:48 PM (7J06y)

And Tyler, too.

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 07:51 PM (CQE5S)

65 Duncanthrax, Bangkok

That is so gross.

Posted by: Suzy Scissors at April 25, 2025 07:51 PM (McYvC)

66 Just watched Breaking Away (1979)

Apparently it won an Oscar? I think it won others and gets ranked in top lists all the time.

I'm not sure I get the hype on that one.

Good but not great.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 07:53 PM (cWNll)

67 And I am officially on vacation!

Enjoy, boss.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2025 07:53 PM (mH6SG)

68 m , there are no gay bars in Tyler

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:53 PM (oXfCm)

69 I can load AofSHQ for the first time in years. What happened? It always crashed my IPad. This is great.thanks to whoever finally fixed the site.

Posted by: GB at April 25, 2025 07:54 PM (FtBsX)

70 Enjoy the time off, Ace.

We appreciate all you do and have done for years and years.

Don't read the news while you're off.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 07:56 PM (cWNll)

71 Ace, wanna read my books for free? I'll send all of them if you like. Space Chinese fighting the Vampires of The Spanish Civil War, while Beowulf tries to fix the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill reading Jane Austen's Dune.

Yours for the taking, dude. I trend to send it all to you a while ago. Thanks again for the plug, btw.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:33 PM (ZOv7s)

The Chinese and Spanish CW books are very good, ive finished one and part way on the Chinese.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:56 PM (n7h9X)

72 Yeah I enjoyed Breaking Away quite a bit but Oscar?

There are a bunch of films that make me scratch my head, especially lately.

Get this: they just, this year, added in a requirement that all of the people who vote on best film have to actually watch the movie.

Kramer vs Kramer actually won that year but Breaking Away was nominated. But the competition wasn't strong: Normal Rae, Apocalypse Now, and All That Jazz were the other nominees. I think Apocalypse Now is a really interesting and memorable movie but best? Its pretty flawed and doesn't even really have a story.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:56 PM (2VST1)

73 Late OT:

John Cusak, LOL! I suspect he'll soon be sharing the same bathtub with Olberman, weeping in his blanky as Keith screams at the ceiling.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2025 07:57 PM (AdHga)

74 72 Yeah I enjoyed Breaking Away quite a bit but Oscar?

There are a bunch of films that make me scratch my head, especially lately.

Get this: they just, this year, added in a requirement that all of the people who vote on best film have to actually watch the movie.

Kramer vs Kramer actually won that year but Breaking Away was nominated. But the competition wasn't strong: Normal Rae, Apocalypse Now, and All That Jazz were the other nominees. I think Apocalypse Now is a really interesting and memorable movie but best? Its pretty flawed and doesn't even really have a story.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:56 PM (2VST1

Apocalypse Now did crush the cinematography part though. Just superb.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 07:58 PM (cWNll)

75 Mouse Cafe reminds me of mowing the lawn, as I was mowing along the fence line, a little mouse jumped out and ran along the chain link fence. Instead of dodging through he went straight ahead of the super loud mincing machine. I wasn't sure he would get away but he finally slipped under it and ran away. I could have served minced mouse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:59 PM (2VST1)

76 Early explorers in Antarctica found that packing salted penguins in barrels for the long trip home was a serious mistake, as they later discovered "the black flesh of the body is rank and oily, and has rather a perfumed taste". Many sailors perished rather than consume what was on the mephitic menu, or contracted brain worms from the syphilitic penguin meat.

Subsequent attempts at canning penguins failed miserably, as no one in their right mind would even consider eating canned penguin.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at April 25, 2025 08:00 PM (vFG9F)

77
I suggest ladies get a business card set with "I like you" and a name and phone number on it and hand them to the fellow in these situations.

See, that's something we can get our hands on, something tangible. The drawback is that it has no plausible deniability. She cannot at any point go "no, that's not what I meant, I was just being nice"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:42 PM (2VST1)

That's why it says "like" and not "lets have sex"

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 08:00 PM (n7h9X)

78 A H Lloyd, I'd to get just one signed copy of one of your books for a door prize at the MoMe.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 08:00 PM (oXfCm)

79 OK I don't like making fun of people's looks, because we all are unfortunate in some ways and all but... damn. Princess Kalina of Bulgaria

tinyurl.com/bulgaria-princess

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:01 PM (2VST1)

80 I gotta say, the three fat guys showing their bellies in the ad I'm getting aren't the worst I've ever seen.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:35 PM (oXfCm)

There was a Hotrod shop magazine back in the 90's that had "The Biggest Swimsuit Edition Ever" which sponsored on the cover thee extremely chubby biker looking guys with grey beards, fortunately wearing swim trunks and tee shirts, lounging on the fenders and hoods of tricked out hotrods.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 08:01 PM (D7oie)

81

Ben Had, My late buddy worked with both county and city at every leo duty there was, including undercover. His stories would keep you laughing for hours ‘hey what you boys doin’?’

68 m , there are no gay bars in Tyler
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:53 PM (oXfCm)

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2025 08:03 PM (LHPAg)

82 Wonder what that dog hang gliding thought

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 08:04 PM (ypFCm)

83 Read a theory about Apocalypse Now. That Capt. Willard did actually shoot himself at the beginning of the movie. The rest of the movie is just him doing a 'Dante's Inferno' on the way to hell. Doesn't quite do that IMO but I liked the idea. The movie had a dreamy/nightmare vibe to it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2025 08:05 PM (AdHga)

84 Happy vacation, Ace.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2025 08:06 PM (NRF0d)

85 Apocalypse Now did crush the cinematography part though. Just superb.

Acting was good too, although apparently that breakdown at the beginning of the movie with Martin Sheen was not acting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:06 PM (2VST1)

86 I've wondered for a long time whether Kramer vs Kramer wasn't explicitly designed to "normalize" divorce in a US society where it was (then) still frowned upon?

Or am I just trying to hard to make something out of nothing?

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 08:06 PM (TN0g+)

87 Early explorers in Antarctica found that packing salted penguins in barrels for the long trip home was a serious mistake, as they later discovered "the black flesh of the body is rank and oily, and has rather a perfumed taste". Many sailors perished rather than consume what was on the mephitic menu, or contracted brain worms from the syphilitic penguin meat.

Subsequent attempts at canning penguins failed miserably, as no one in their right mind would even consider eating canned penguin.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 08:08 PM (g47mK)

88 "The Administration's arrest of a sitting judge in Wisconsin is a drastic move that threatens the rule of law."
-Amy Klobuchar

"In America, the law is king. Everyone has to follow the laws."
-also Amy Klobuchar

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:09 PM (2VST1)

89 runner at April 25, 2025 08:08 PM (g47mK)

Well said.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 08:09 PM (viF8m)

90 Re the Japan Mouse commercials. Japan Mouse fixes your computer. Their ads rely on cute (for Japanese version of cute, pretty appealing to a Westerner, but a little strange) girls who cosplay just a little as mice, plus a lot of completely lost on a gaijin word play (must be a native speaker to really get it) plus a little bit of what is essentially who’s on first in Japanese. You can find an English subtitled longer ad on YouTube where everything is explained, but even then it goes by so fast that you as a gaijin are left way far behind.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:10 PM (12Bbv)

91 79 OK I don't like making fun of people's looks, because we all are unfortunate in some ways and all but... damn. Princess Kalina of Bulgaria

tinyurl.com/bulgaria-princess
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:01 PM (2VST1
I thought they couldn’t stand direct sunlight?

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2025 08:10 PM (LHPAg)

92 Yeah, I read that about Sheen. They had to get him help afterwards. He actually punches the mirror and cuts his hand open. All real blood.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 08:11 PM (cWNll)

93
Hey Amy,

Eating a salad with a comb should threaten the rule of law. Wait, didn't you lambast the aide who forgot the fork??

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 08:11 PM (3ek7K)

94 Or am I just trying to hard to make something out of nothing?

No, I think there's something to that. Hollywood did that a lot over the years, but they aren't very good at it any more and their impact is very reduced.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:11 PM (2VST1)

95 Or am I just trying to hard to make something out of nothing?
Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 08:06 PM (TN0g

I don't think you're wrong.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 08:11 PM (cWNll)

96 FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKK

Posted by: Dog on a hang glider at April 25, 2025 08:11 PM (u73oe)

97 > OK I don't like making fun of people's looks, because we all are unfortunate in some ways and all but... damn. Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
---------
That's a man, baby.

Or maybe a Gorilla. Either way, it's male. Or trans. Or alien.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 08:13 PM (Q4IgG)

98

I thought comment 96 was runner, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 08:13 PM (3ek7K)

99 tinyurl.com/bulgaria-princess

That’s a man! baby.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:14 PM (12Bbv)

100 County in Minnisota has renamed itself

www.blueearthcountymn.gov

really.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 08:14 PM (MJMyx)

101 What is it with blue? I always associate it with deoxygenated blood

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 08:16 PM (oXfCm)

102 I improved @76 with @87.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 08:17 PM (g47mK)

103 The county of Blue Earth was created after a division of the Minnesota Territory on March 5, 1853, from portions of Dakota County and free territory. It was named for the Blue Earth River.[6]
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Is this an indication that they started out, you know, on an elliptic?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 08:17 PM (MJMyx)

104 I don't know nothing about dogs on gliders.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 08:17 PM (g47mK)

105
She cannot at any point go "no, that's not what I meant, I was just being nice"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:42 PM (2VST1)

___________

I've never had a woman flirt with me. How can you tell? Then again, I'm nothing but an empty space.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 08:18 PM (QnmlO)

106 I thought they couldn’t stand direct sunlight?

Shouldn't someone in her position have people to help her dress?

"perhaps madame would prefer something with sleeves... and a veil."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:18 PM (2VST1)

107 A wholesale vegan butcher is a lumberjack.
A retail vegan butcher is a greengrocer.

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile here at April 25, 2025 08:19 PM (sPQoU)

108 27 This is one of those titles I could see corrupted into another word. Muskafee. Mosscafay

Moscovy?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:19 PM (12Bbv)

109 Some people should opt for a burqha.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 08:20 PM (oXfCm)

110 Vegan butcher was sort of hawt.

Too bad she won't have anything to do with my meat. Sad!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 25, 2025 08:20 PM (ufFY8)

111 You can strike at the truth but the facts will come thru.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at April 25, 2025 08:20 PM (vFG9F)

112 Years ago in Vegas:

Me: That chick is really coming on to me.

My Buddy: That’s a hooker, dumbass.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 08:21 PM (u73oe)

113 I improved @76 with @87.
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 08:17 PM

There'll be an extra bit of Surströmming in your sushi ration this week.

Posted by: Big Penguin at April 25, 2025 08:21 PM (0sNs1)

114 > Don't forget to pack your crocs!!!
Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:37 PM (3ek7K)

And white socks.

The "crocs 'n socks" look is all the rage in the Beautiful People hangouts this summer.

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at April 25, 2025 08:22 PM (W5ArC)

115 I've never had a woman flirt with me. How can you tell?

I am not sure... if I have or not, ever?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:22 PM (2VST1)

116 Plantmonger sounds better.

Maybe Floramonger?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 08:22 PM (7J06y)

117 104 I don't know nothing about dogs on gliders.
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 08:17 PM (g47mK)

It explains how the dog shit got on the roof. I thought we had condors.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 25, 2025 08:24 PM (pIfcn)

118 A dating coach reveals some signs a woman is interested in you:

https://tinyurl.com/mr4v3mbc

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 08:25 PM (0sNs1)

119 Moscovy?

That's a good one

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:25 PM (2VST1)

120 Years ago I was at a dance and this women, just my type, really came on to me in an aggressive sexual manner. Just when l thought I was some kind of stud, she began listing options and prices. Chagrined, I turned her down and left.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:25 PM (12Bbv)

121 > It explains how the dog shit got on the roof. I thought we had condors.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 25, 2025 08:24 PM (pIfcn)

We had a tourist's yappy dog taken by an eagle here some years ago.

They let it out of the RV to crap and that was all she wrote. Witnesses reported that the old lady was shrieking and crying, while the old man was all "Yes!"

There's a reason for the Tundra cartoon captioned "Alaska: step out of the tour bus and into the food chain."

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at April 25, 2025 08:27 PM (W5ArC)

122 Learned never to slow dance in a Cowboy bar.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 08:27 PM (oXfCm)

123 Women flirt with men?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 08:27 PM (cWNll)

124 DJT tweeting about the draft. (the sportball draft)

Driving the dum dums crazy. lol.

What I love about it is they hate hate hate it when he has fun.

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 08:28 PM (0HaGk)

125 I have a few times , but wasn't playing so ignored the moments

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 08:28 PM (ypFCm)

126 Princess Kalina of Bulgaria

tinyurl.com/bulgaria-princess
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:01 PM (2VST1)

What.Was.That?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 25, 2025 08:28 PM (ufFY8)

127 Learned never to slow dance in a Cowboy bar.

Just line dancing to Achey Breakey Heart?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:28 PM (2VST1)

128 Define "flirt".

Posted by: If she's breathing? at April 25, 2025 08:29 PM (vFG9F)

129 Women flirt with men?

I've seen it in movies and on TV

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:30 PM (2VST1)

130 Women flirt with men?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 08:27 PM

Of course they do. In fact, they always make the first move. You just have to be paying attention.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 08:30 PM (0sNs1)

131 "Women flirt with men?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

I seen it in a movie.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 08:30 PM (vFG9F)

132 Christopher Taylor, there aren't many songs I detest more than that. Line dancing came about because people forgot what dancing was like.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 08:31 PM (oXfCm)

133 Y'all know that The Paolo sells treasure maps, where g marks the spot, right?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 08:31 PM (0sNs1)

134 Washington scored the equalizer after Montreal went ahead 2-1.

Don't know if "Ovenchicken" scored the first goal.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2025 08:31 PM (ufFY8)

135 126 Princess Kalina of Bulgaria

tinyurl.com/bulgaria-princess
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:01 PM (2VST1)

What.Was.That?
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 25, 2025 08:28 PM (ufFY

Oh horse shit. That's an extra from that new series Fallout on Amazon.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 08:31 PM (cWNll)

136 "Y'all know that The Paolo sells treasure maps, where g marks the spot, right?
Posted by: Duncanthrax"

Are we still talking about flirting?

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 08:33 PM (vFG9F)

137 Ace, when you come back you owe us a link to the golden whale watcher. Honestly, i don't know if I'll survive a week without the Cafe'.

Posted by: Born Free at April 25, 2025 08:33 PM (raD1m)

138 Later in life, I struck gold with my late wife. We really loved each other very much and very passionately. Decades later the passion had cooled somewhat, but the love was still there.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:33 PM (12Bbv)

139 Oh horse shit. That's an extra from that new series Fallout on Amazon.

I saw some pictures of her when she was younger, she always had that wierd high goblin nose and odd features but they have only gotten... more exaggerated.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:35 PM (2VST1)

140 Kalina let man know she like by hit head with club, drag off into cave.

That what Kalina do.

Posted by: Princess Kalina at April 25, 2025 08:35 PM (W5ArC)

141 Spring is such a fantastic time around here. Fall is the best but Spring is pretty special.

Guest bedroom is always ready for you Ben Had.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 08:35 PM (viF8m)

142 Been watching weird British series lateky on Prime. Seems like the women flirt with the guys, and they are all dudes of some non-white colo(u)r.

Into the second episode of Generation Z, and I can't quite decide if it is a darkish satire of generations, as the older generation seem to be "smart zombies".

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2025 08:35 PM (ufFY8)

143 Line dancing came about because people forgot what dancing was like.

Sadly, part of my language classes in high school was "cultural" study in which mostly we did these cringy circle folk dances. I hated it. All of it. I wished I would know ahead of time when the teachers was gonna pop those on us so I could get sick that day.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:36 PM (2VST1)

144 I think an early Saturday morning prayer is in order.
Lord,
Let Ace rest in peace and then get back to work.
For free, for all of us here.
Kind of like JC.
Amen.

Sorry for any offense.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at April 25, 2025 08:36 PM (mMAM5)

145 Ben Had, instapundit for awhile had some 250lb woman with her belly showing trying to close the clasp on her pants.
The Right has a real problem attracting non shitty advertisers.
Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 07:38 PM (gVhuc)

I maintain that whatever entity runs Ace's adserver is deliberately trying to drive viewers away from the site by serving only the most disgusting ads possible.

Posted by: Her Cats at April 25, 2025 08:36 PM (8zz6B)

146
I just read the Bulgarian Princess had some major dental issues. She developed some type of infection up in her nasal cavity that apparently caused some of the damage to her face.

Boy howdy, I wouldn't go out in public. She's very brave.

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 08:38 PM (3ek7K)

147 Dear Penthouse Forum,

I never thought this would happen to me. I had just met Princess Kalina. I turned around to pick up a flute of champagne, when suddenly the world went black, and I woke up in a cave ...

Posted by: That Guy who just met Princess Kalina at April 25, 2025 08:38 PM (0sNs1)

148 Local Farcebook has a post of some homeless copulating under a tarp on a Methodist church steps.
Lovely.

I wish they would just go to LA.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2025 08:40 PM (ufFY8)

149 Acting was good too, although apparently that breakdown at the beginning of the movie with Martin Sheen was not acting.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:06 PM (2VST1)

He was tripping on acid.

Posted by: The freak out was indeed real at April 25, 2025 08:40 PM (TbWk/)

150 What language has a culture with cringey circle dance? Wait there are English circle dances! But I don’t think they’re cringey, just not very well known.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:40 PM (12Bbv)

151 146
I just read the Bulgarian Princess had some major dental issues. She developed some type of infection up in her nasal cavity that apparently caused some of the damage to her face.

Boy howdy, I wouldn't go out in public. She's very brave.
Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 08:38 PM (3ek7K

Wow. That sucks.

At least she's rich.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 08:40 PM (cWNll)

152 What language has a culture with cringey circle dance?

Evidently both Germany and Russia.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:42 PM (2VST1)

153 I wasn't sure he would get away but he finally slipped under it and ran away. I could have served minced mouse.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:59 PM (2VST1)

If you ran over a sparrow, you'd have shredded tweet.

Posted by: Her Cats at April 25, 2025 08:42 PM (8zz6B)

154 "Sadly, part of my language classes in high school was "cultural" study in which mostly we did these cringy circle folk dances. I hated it. All of it. I wished I would know ahead of time when the teachers was gonna pop those on us so I could get sick that day.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"

We had to square dance sometimes in gym class if it was raining. A few times I even danced with a cousin. That's it though. Really. She hated me.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 08:42 PM (vFG9F)

155

Diana's sister Rosalind placed third in her class at the National Specialty today. Her Majesty thought she should have been first or second, but from what she told me earlier, Ros is out of shape. Daddy will get to work on her.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 08:42 PM (QnmlO)

156 112 Years ago in Vegas:

Me: That chick is really coming on to me.

My Buddy: That’s a hooker, dumbass.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 08:21 PM (u73oe)
They usually go the other way when they see me.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2025 08:43 PM (LHPAg)

157 153 I wasn't sure he would get away but he finally slipped under it and ran away. I could have served minced mouse.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:59 PM (2VST1)

If you ran over a sparrow, you'd have shredded tweet.
Posted by: Her Cats at April 25, 2025 08:42 PM (8zz6B

Lol

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 08:43 PM (cWNll)

158 Anyone seen Marc Almond lately? He is a walking advertisement for men not getting plastic surgery. Like Al Jorgensen advertises not getting face tats

Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 08:43 PM (pjEN2)

159 Women flirt with men?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 08:27 PM (cWNll)

They'll glance in your direction for .83 seconds instead of .37 seconds. It's your fault for not picking up on the overt signs.

Posted by: She's practically throwing herself at you at April 25, 2025 08:45 PM (TbWk/)

160 Anyone seen Marc Almond lately? He is a walking advertisement for men not getting plastic surgery.

George Clooney looks uncanny valley lately as well. His hair is all dyed black for a play and he looks ridiculous.

you'd have shredded tweet.

Its musically deliciouis

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:45 PM (2VST1)

161
They'll glance in your direction for .83 seconds instead of .37 seconds. It's your fault for not picking up on the overt signs.
Posted by: She's practically throwing herself at you at April 25, 2025 08:45 PM (TbWk

How do you know if it's flirting or if you have mustard on your shirt?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 08:46 PM (cWNll)

162 Or maybe a Gorilla. Either way, it's male. Or trans. Or alien.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 08:13 PM (Q4IgG)

She looks like like a full-blooded Neanderthaler. And with those arms, it looks like she could roll me into a ball and shoot a three-pointer.

Posted by: Her Cats at April 25, 2025 08:47 PM (8zz6B)

163 The Me Too moment probably ended flirting for a while.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 08:49 PM (cWNll)

164 "How do you know if it's flirting or if you have mustard on your shirt?
Posted by: AlaBAMA"

It might be both.

Posted by: An optimist at April 25, 2025 08:50 PM (vFG9F)

165 If you can’t tell if she’s flirting or if you have mustard on your shirt, you have mustard on your shirt.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:50 PM (12Bbv)

166 >>>Golden retriever works on whale-watch boat barking at whales, just to let people know they're there. After 11 years of barking at whales, one finally came over

Sounds like an interesting video. Probably be even better if there was a link to it, Lamont.

Someone checked out early for their vacation. lol

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2025 08:50 PM (klJTj)

167 And with those arms, it looks like she could roll me into a ball and shoot a three-pointer.

Yeah I can buy some surgical damage to the face (although she's looked somewhat like that for decades) but why does it look like she can bench a Miata?

The Me Too moment probably ended flirting for a while./i]

I have read more than one article and seen more than one video of women complaining that guys just pay no attention to them in the office any more. Like they don't exist. And that at least some offices hire few women just to avoid the problem or even the hint of an appearance of it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:51 PM (2VST1)

168 Did I miss a caption or something? What kind of tree is that up top?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:51 PM (12Bbv)

169 >>Women flirt with men?

Of course they do.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 08:51 PM (viF8m)

170 Years ago in Vegas on honeymoon with crazy first wife, hooker comes on to me -- given how that marriage worked out, I should have taken her up on her offer.

Posted by: Archer at April 25, 2025 08:52 PM (IDphi)

171 I looked over and just realized again how much apple juice in a glass looks like a tumbler full of urine.

And you know, I have just got to stop pissing in tumblers

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 08:53 PM (D7oie)

172 165 If you can’t tell if she’s flirting or if you have mustard on your shirt, you have mustard on your shirt.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:50 PM (12Bbv
You have mustard on your shirt and your pants are unzipped. What the heck you been doing?

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2025 08:53 PM (LHPAg)

173 Here's a link to Macy the whale-watching Golden Retriever:

https://tinyurl.com/46vu4cdh

Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2025 08:53 PM (3ImbR)

174 I wonder how hookers pick their marks. "He looks like he has more money than sense..."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:54 PM (2VST1)

175 I have read more than one article and seen more than one video of women complaining that guys just pay no attention to them in the office any more. Like they don't exist. And that at least some offices hire few women just to avoid the problem or even the hint of an appearance of it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 08:51 PM (2VST1)

Too much "like, oh my GAWD, that creep from IT like totally said I looked nice today! Total ick! I'm going to HR and making a complaint!"

Posted by: It's not harassment if you're a stud at April 25, 2025 08:54 PM (TbWk/)

176 What, Ace is going on vacation?
How can a made-up algorithm go on vacation?

Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2025 08:55 PM (Ht95S)

177 165 If you can’t tell if she’s flirting or if you have mustard on your shirt, you have mustard on your shirt.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:50 PM (12Bbv
You have mustard on your shirt and your pants are unzipped. What the heck you been doing?
Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2025 08:53 PM (LHPAg)

Dressing the hot dog IYKWIM

Posted by: Topping the frankfurter at April 25, 2025 08:55 PM (TbWk/)

178 168 Did I miss a caption or something? What kind of tree is that up top?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:51 PM (12Bbv)

Here you go.
Oak tree about 800 years old,
Fredville Park, England - trees post - Imgur -
https://is.gd/SXE6y6

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2025 08:56 PM (klJTj)

179 Real Donnybrook between the Caps and Hans at the end of the second period. Fight starts on the ice and continues onto the bench. Old time hockey!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 08:56 PM (u73oe)

180 I have a cousin that was a very expensive call girl in Vegas. She must have had supernatural powers in the sack because she was not a looker.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 08:56 PM (oXfCm)

181 I had a girl flirt with me once.

Sure, the teachers made everyone give out valentines candy to each other in kindergarten but she gave me that heart that said 'Maybe'.

I'll never forget it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2025 08:57 PM (cWNll)

182 Posted by: It's not harassment if you're a stud at April 25, 2025 08:54 PM (TbWk/)

Why don't you pick one handle and just stay with it instead of making various animadversions about women your changing handle? I'm sorry you're unhappy, but we probably can't help with that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 08:58 PM (JyhgO)

183 Massive fight in Montreal just before the intermission.

Habs up 3-2.
They scored with 8 seconds left.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2025 08:58 PM (ufFY8)

184 Yes pretty good Donnybrook. Go Habs go!

Posted by: Archer at April 25, 2025 08:58 PM (IDphi)

185 Have a well-deserved vacation, Ace.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 25, 2025 08:59 PM (/3YYe)

186 >>Here's a link to Macy the whale-watching Golden Retriever:

Good girl.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 08:59 PM (viF8m)

187 I have a cousin that was a very expensive call girl in Vegas. She must have had supernatural powers in the sack because she was not a looker.

==

she was a good listener !

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 09:00 PM (g47mK)

188 Went to the fights once... a hockey game broke out.

Posted by: MkY at April 25, 2025 09:00 PM (cPGH3)

189 runner, she was good at something.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 09:01 PM (oXfCm)

190 NHL playoff season is the only time I miss having cable TV.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 25, 2025 09:01 PM (0aYVJ)

191 Dog is telling me it's dinner time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 09:02 PM (8zz6B)

192
I keep getting told that European hockey doesn't have the fighting they have in the NHL. Except that the European players in the NHL fight just as enthusiastically as the Canadians and Americans.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 09:02 PM (QnmlO)

193 My understanding is that retrievers are sort if dumb?

Well, they are smart to fear escalators.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2025 09:03 PM (ufFY8)

194 180 I have a cousin that was a very expensive call girl in Vegas. She must have had supernatural powers in the sack because she was not a looker.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 08:56 PM (oXfCm
Like Julia Roberts, huh? That explains Lyle Lovett.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2025 09:03 PM (LHPAg)

195 It seems Milwaukee judge has pushed Maryland Father out of the top spot for the affection of the left...

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 09:03 PM (YwEeS)

196 Hank is a snazzy dresser. I have never looked good in a suit.

Posted by: Archer at April 25, 2025 09:04 PM (IDphi)

197 A hooker and a shrink!

hahahah!

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 09:04 PM (g47mK)

198 The ostrich one is begging for the Inman treatment.

Posted by: GWB at April 25, 2025 09:04 PM (wbjSL)

199 I keep getting ads of MILFs with big racks.

Ad the occasional King Harv riding a shark.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 25, 2025 09:05 PM (ufFY8)

200 Hadrian, asking now if you will accept a hug in October.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 09:05 PM (oXfCm)

201 If you can’t tell if she’s flirting or if you have mustard on your shirt, you have mustard on your shirt.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 08:50 PM

Maybe she wants your Grey Poupon.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 09:06 PM (Wnv9h)

202
asking now if you will accept a hug in October.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 09:05 PM (oXfCm)

_________

I'm getting the sickening feeling there may be shows in Belton that weekend.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 09:06 PM (QnmlO)

203 Water dogs gotta water.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 09:07 PM (RIvkX)

204 jeezus

@disclosetv 3m
JUST IN - Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivor, "dies by suicide." — NBC

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2025 09:08 PM (mlg/3)

205 204 Trump's fault ofc, now the media will be interested

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 09:09 PM (YwEeS)

206 I have a cousin that was a very expensive call girl in Vegas. She must have had supernatural powers in the sack because she was not a looker.

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

Growing up in Vegas in the 60s and 70s was a trip (don't recognize it now).

Had a fair number of friends (including my first girlfriend) whose fathers were in the mafia. Most of those kids got great jobs out of high school in the casinos parking cars (valets) and carrying bags (bellmen) -- making near minimum-wage but six figures annually in tax-free tips.

One of my buddies from football got THE primo gig at Caesar's Palace (the classiest & most expensive place back then): bellman who helped "run the hookers." Rich guys would come into town and ask him to arrange $1000/night hookers to visit their rooms -- and of course he'd get paid a decent referral fee.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 09:10 PM (dZE4s)

207 ...Her Majesty thought she should have been first or second, but from what she told me earlier, Ros is out of shape. Daddy will get to work on her.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 08:42 PM (QnmlO)
====

Are you going to be her Chubby Checker??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 09:10 PM (RIvkX)

208

There was something strange about the accident Virginia had with a bus. Her version and the officials version.

It will be interesting to find out the truth.

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 09:11 PM (3ek7K)

209 jeezus

@disclosetv 3m
JUST IN - Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivor, "dies by suicide." — NBC

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2025 09:08 PM (mlg/3)

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

Hillary 2028 -- I Have An Alibi!

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 09:11 PM (dZE4s)

210 91
Planet of the Apes reboot?

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile .... at April 25, 2025 09:12 PM (sPQoU)

211 One of my buddies from football got THE primo gig at Caesar's Palace (the classiest & most expensive place back then): bellman who helped "run the hookers." Rich guys would come into town and ask him to arrange $1000/night hookers to visit their rooms -- and of course he'd get paid a decent referral fee.

Not fair, we had to do that for free - JFK Secret Service Detail

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 09:12 PM (YwEeS)

212 @disclosetv 3m
JUST IN - Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivor, "dies by suicide." — NBC
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2025 09:08 PM (mlg/3)

A few weeks ago, she was crying that she had only a few days to live because she had been in a car wreck (in Perth, Australia) and her liver was destroyed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 09:12 PM (8zz6B)

213 117
It explains how the dog shit got on the roof. I thought we had condors.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 25, 2025 08:24 PM (pIfcn)
----
Hilarious!
How did you narrow it down to 'dog'?

Posted by: Ciampino - roofing treasures at April 25, 2025 09:15 PM (sPQoU)

214
Are you going to be her Chubby Checker??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 09:10 PM (RIvkX)

_________

Among Daddy's manifold duties is keeping the dogs being show in condition. And it's been effective.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 09:16 PM (QnmlO)

215
...Her Majesty thought she should have been first or second, but from what she told me earlier, Ros is out of shape. Daddy will get to work on her.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 08:42 PM (QnmlO)
====

Are you going to be her Chubby Checker??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 09:10 PM (RIvkX)

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

[Westminster Dog Show announcer:] Next up is Ros and -- hold on a minute -- There's A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On!

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 09:16 PM (dZE4s)

216 Lori Vallow Calls Conviction for Murdering Husband 'a Bit of a Surprise,' Has Bizarre Excuse for Daughter's Death

“Well, I understand where Tylee is in heaven,” Lori said. “I know what she’s doing and where she is, so it’s been almost six years since she passed away.”
She added, “I mean, this is the catalyst, right? What happened with her and Charles was the catalyst of her killing herself. So I was precluded from talking about that. I was precluded from bringing that up. But the detectives obviously don’t say that she killed herself.”
Lori further claimed that she told her surviving son, Colby Ryan, that Tylee died by suicide after killing her younger brother J.J., per the outlet.

https://shorturl.at/PnMNr

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 09:16 PM (L/fGl)

217 I didn't look, does the Bulgarian princess have a unibrow? Because I expect a unibrow.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 09:16 PM (YwEeS)

218 Re the princess:

She was left badly disfigured after a dental procedure resulted in infection that spread to her nasal cartilage. The infection left permanent facial damage. At the time she was on an expedition and not near medical help. She almost died. She was saved by emergency surgery back home.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2025 09:18 PM (cvWHI)

219 >>My understanding is that retrievers are sort if dumb?

My last Golden was a pretty typical goof ball. Absolutely loved ever person he ever met.

We were out for a walk in Boston one day and ran into Leslie Bibb who was in town for some acting thing. She spent about 15 minutes covering him with kisses and love. Her boyfriend who was with her, Sam Rockwell, was not happy and looked at me as if it was my fault. Made me smile which made him even more unhappy.

Not bad for a dumbass dog.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 09:19 PM (viF8m)

220 She must have had supernatural powers in the sack because she was not a looker.

Maybe she was the best in the house at faking attraction to back hair and big sagging guts

Growing up in Vegas in the 60s and 70s was a trip (don't recognize it now).

The mob ran Vegas way better

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 09:19 PM (2VST1)

221 DJT tweeting about the draft. (the sportball draft)

Driving the dum dums crazy. lol.

What I love about it is they hate hate hate it when he has fun.

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 08:28 PM (0HaGk)

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Nothing embitters a miserable lefty Karen scold more than a happy, funny person enjoying and living a productive life.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 09:20 PM (dZE4s)

222
Crikey. I'd rather sneak into the Silverback Gorilla enclosure at the local zoo and get some monkey lovin' than contemplate snu snu with Princess Kalina.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2025 09:21 PM (MsrgL)

223 We were out for a walk in Boston one day and ran into Leslie Bibb who was in town for some acting thing.

Was she the reporter in Iron Man? The girl that Pepper Potts had to show out?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 09:21 PM (2VST1)

224
Nothing embitters a miserable lefty Karen scold more than a happy, funny person enjoying and living a productive life.
Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 09:20 PM (dZE4s)

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Hell is having to listen to Elizabeth Warren, forever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 09:22 PM (QnmlO)

225 Those were springers, after the guy's shoe. I've had four, all males, and all given away at the age that most people can't deal with their energy.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2025 09:22 PM (cvWHI)

226 170
'given how that marriage worked out, I should have taken her up on her offer.'

Probably would have cost you less. Run the numbers next time.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 09:23 PM (3wi/L)

227 Nothing embitters a miserable lefty Karen scold more than a happy, funny person enjoying and living a productive life.

Remember the NY Times (I believe) columnist that wrote that Trump being at the Superbowl "ruined it"? LOL

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 09:23 PM (YwEeS)

228 The mob ran Vegas way better

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 09:19 PM (2VST1)

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Oh yeah; I have lots of stories along those lines ... my favorite being a guy (everybody hated on the football team in high school) trying to rob a downtown casino (to feed his steroid habit which eventually led to a brief NFL career) by snatching a "drop box" being collected by security guards from one of the gaming tables in the middle of the night.

He was immediately met by other security once outside the casino, and instead of calling the police -- they took him to a nearby alley and beat the sh*t out of him. Last time he tried that stunt ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 09:24 PM (dZE4s)

229 Regarding flirting women, I had a woman and her boyfriend flirt with me at a hotel bar in Europe. She kept touching my arm and smiling at me.
The next day I realized they wanted a threesome. I was on a vacation with my wife and kids and just wanted a beer and to be left alone.
Tales of the Terrible American Lover to be released with George Clooney playing the cucked boyfriend, Reece Witherspoon the ignored woman and Guy Pearce as the clueless American abroad.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at April 25, 2025 09:25 PM (mMAM5)

230 We were featured last night, but today is International Penguin Day, irregardless. We are accepting buckets of herring until midnight. You can substitute menhaden in case you are herring-deficient.

Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at April 25, 2025 09:25 PM (G5+As)

231 Oh yeah; I have lots of stories along those lines

They made more money at the casinos even with the mob guys taking a suitcase out every day LOL. If it hadn't been for the hole in the wall guys I think they could have gotten away with it much longer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 09:27 PM (2VST1)

232 Jack-n-the-Box closing up to 200 ‘underperforming’ locations.

Why are they underperforming? Crappy locations? Crappy upper management choosing unqualified subordinates? hmmm

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 09:27 PM (MJMyx)

233 Virgina Guiffre committed suicide.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 09:28 PM (pZEOD)

234 Lori further claimed that she told her surviving son, Colby Ryan, that Tylee died by suicide after killing her younger brother J.J., per the outlet.

https://shorturl.at/PnMNr
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 09:16 PM (L/fGl)

If Idaho needs volunteers for the firing squad, I am available. That bitch is evil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 09:28 PM (8zz6B)

235 Any good small Tennessee towns I should visit? If I find a winner I might move. Some wants: 90 minutes to a bigger city, affordable real estate, has pubs, music, good restaurants, good motorcycle roads, and guns are encouraged.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 09:28 PM (amnH6)

236 Jack-n-the-Box closing up to 200 ‘underperforming’ locations.

Turns out bad food targeting late night stoners getting the munchies isn't a great business model. Their menu is the biggest of any fast food joint and almost nothing is any good on it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 09:28 PM (2VST1)

237 To be fair, most of the left have never attended any sort of Bible study so their understanding mostly comes from the Peanuts Christmas special..but Jesus and his early followers got their largest pushback from...the traditional Jewish establishment. They had put too much effort into getting credentialed and established to want anybody and their ideas to upset their status quo. Romans could care less about the theology of the Jews. All they wanted was the Jews under control. The Jewish top establishment would work with them to keep the lid on so Romans would go along with them to an extent. They feared that Jesus was interested in leading some sort of uprising but once they determined He didn't intend to be that sort of king they didn't really care. Pilate just wanted to keep the top Jews agreeable.

Posted by: azjaeger at April 25, 2025 09:29 PM (3/XaG)

238 Good evening good people.

Yes, I'm talking to you.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 09:30 PM (vKNmo)

239 Re the princess:

She was left badly disfigured after a dental procedure resulted in infection that spread to her nasal cartilage. The infection left permanent facial damage. At the time she was on an expedition and not near medical help. She almost died. She was saved by emergency surgery back home.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2025 09:18 PM (cvWHI)

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Yikes!

I recently became aware of a tender bump in my gums and thought I'd better have it checked (because I've heard that untreated dental abscesses or infections -- if left untreated -- can possibly infect the brain and kill you).

Good call -- a 25-year-old root canal had become reinfected, so was able to get that properly treated.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 09:30 PM (dZE4s)

240 Turns out bad food targeting late night stoners getting the munchies isn't a great business model. Their menu is the biggest of any fast food joint and almost nothing is any good on it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 09:28 PM (2VST1)

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Those 99 cent mystery tacos used to be good.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:31 PM (hY4dx)

241 235 Any good small Tennessee towns I should visit? If I find a winner I might move. Some wants: 90 minutes to a bigger city, affordable real estate, has pubs, music, good restaurants, good motorcycle roads, and guns are encouraged.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 09:28 PM (amnH6)

Sounds like Knik to me.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025 09:31 PM (a4NoL)

242 Virgina Guiffre committed suicide.
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 09:28 PM (pZEOD)

Oh God. That poor woman.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 09:31 PM (ipN0W)

243
This woman doing the Caps-Habs game is dreadful.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 09:31 PM (QnmlO)

244 Mob knew how to make money. MBAs know how to make a spreadsheet look good.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 09:32 PM (MJMyx)

245 Any good small Tennessee towns I should visit? If I find a winner I might move. Some wants: 90 minutes to a bigger city, affordable real estate, has pubs, music, good restaurants, good motorcycle roads, and guns are encouraged.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Try Cookeville/Crossville/Fairfield Glade TN. as a possibility. Meets many, but not all of your requirements. Reach out for more details.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 09:32 PM (vKNmo)

246 The Legendary Shedeur Sanders didn't get drafted in the NFL 2nd round. So, so, so, sad. Apparently the prima donna position is not priority this season. This is so excellent.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 09:32 PM (amnH6)

247 Major #winning
nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities
To keep getting funding, the NSF is no longer doing DEI or blocking malinformation

Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 09:32 PM (mDaFw)

248 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2025 09:33 PM (KnnTg)

249 242 Virgina Guiffre committed suicide.
Posted by: Piper
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Like Epstein, she became a problem not a prop.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 09:33 PM (MJMyx)

250
Mob knew how to make money. MBAs know how to make a spreadsheet look good.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 09:32 PM (MJMyx)

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You could get an equal number of blueberries in each muffin.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 09:33 PM (QnmlO)

251 Virginia Guiffre tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/4cchtznf

The Independent: Virginia Giuffre, prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, dies by suicide

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2025 09:34 PM (KnnTg)

252 Why are they underperforming? Crappy locations? Crappy upper management choosing unqualified subordinates? hmmm

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 09:27 PM (MJMyx)

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F. Joe Mugabe's starveflation at least doubled fast food prices since 2020 -- and the ridiculous minimum wage laws aren't helping.

We used to get a pound of brisket at the local BBQ places around here for about $10/pound. Now it's $24/pound.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 09:35 PM (dZE4s)

253 You could get an equal number of blueberries in each muffin.

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Al Pacino, Andy Garcia or Robert DiZero? I can't place it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:35 PM (hY4dx)

254 OK, Bible scholars. My wife's friend contents that years ago when she was a child, her minister father told her a very beautiful Bible story about Jesus curing a crippled man by removing petals from a pansy which eventually grows to resemble the crippled man and, as it does, the man is healed. Ring any bells?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 09:36 PM (L/fGl)

255 Try Cookeville/Crossville/Fairfield Glade TN. as a possibility. Meets many, but not all of your requirements. Reach out for more details.
Posted by: Tonypete

I saw a you tube video about Fairfield Glade today. That area was looking pretty good. I will reach out as I get further along with my planning my road trip.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 09:36 PM (amnH6)

256 Just watched a cool 50s sci-fi movie on TCM.

But then that commie stooge Ben Mangy-wits had to ruin it with his hyperventilating “Red Scare” outtro.

Screw that bolshie.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:36 PM (77rzZ)

257
The lockdowns killed off a lot of restaurants.

In my opinion, it was criminal what happened because of the pandemic and lockdowns.

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 09:36 PM (3ek7K)

258 The Independent: Virginia Giuffre, prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, dies by suicide
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2025 09:34 PM (KnnTg)

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It's a heartbreaking tragedy.

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary! Dark Horse Candidate 2026 at April 25, 2025 09:36 PM (hY4dx)

259 Hi Robert

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 09:37 PM (D7oie)

260 Al Pacino, Andy Garcia or Robert DiZero? I can't place it.

DeNiro, apparently the character he was playing really did have that discussion in real life LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 09:37 PM (2VST1)

261 254 Nope. Sounds like some New-Testament apocrypha.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:37 PM (77rzZ)

262 254 OK, Bible scholars. My wife's friend contents that years ago when she was a child, her minister father told her a very beautiful Bible story about Jesus curing a crippled man by removing petals from a pansy which eventually grows to resemble the crippled man and, as it does, the man is healed. Ring any bells?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 09:36 PM (L/fGl)

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Did he have scrofula? She might be confusing Jesus with King Arthur.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:37 PM (hY4dx)

263 Re Epstein and Guiffre, people forget that being rented out as a child is not good for the adult she (or he) should grow into.
I am using the word "people" to refer to politicians. Maybe I shouldn't.

Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 09:38 PM (mDaFw)

264 Shedeur Sanders draft disaster blamed on racism ... - Fox News

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 09:38 PM (MJMyx)

265 OK, Bible scholars. My wife's friend contents that years ago when she was a child, her minister father told her a very beautiful Bible story about Jesus curing a crippled man by removing petals from a pansy which eventually grows to resemble the crippled man and, as it does, the man is healed. Ring any bells?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 09:36 PM (L/fGl)

I mean her father very likely told her that story but it wasn't biblical which makes him a lying sonovabitch fit only for the fires of HAAAAAYLLLLLL!!!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2025 09:38 PM (KnnTg)

266 But then that commie stooge Ben Mangy-wits had to ruin it with his hyperventilating “Red Scare” outtro.

we all miss Robert Osborne more every day.

her minister father told her a very beautiful Bible story about Jesus curing a crippled man by removing petals from a pansy which eventually grows to resemble the crippled man and, as it does, the man is healed.

not in the Bible, possibly one of those alternate "gospels" or just a traditional story.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 09:38 PM (2VST1)

267 235 Any good small Tennessee towns I should visit? If I find a winner I might move. Some wants: 90 minutes to a bigger city, affordable real estate, has pubs, music, good restaurants, good motorcycle roads, and guns are encouraged.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Pretty much anything 30 or 40 miles to either side of I-65 just North of the 'bama line. Pubs? You mean country watering holes with rusting Jax Beer signs? Good restaurants can be the 80 year old dude making bbq at the wide spot in the road gas station. Music? Nashville is right there, Muscle Shoals is just as close.

Motorcycle roads? The Trans America Trail runs through there.
https://www.gpskevinadventurerides.com
/trans-america-trail

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2025 09:38 PM (MsrgL)

268 In my opinion, it was criminal what happened because of the pandemic and lockdowns.
Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 09:36 PM (3ek7K)

And the suicides, and death by negligence and forced vaccinations with experimental treatments, and remdesevir, and the apparent murders. Yeah.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 09:39 PM (D7oie)

269 Hi Robert
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 09:37 PM (D7oie)

'Sup?

Posted by: Robert, trying to be cool at April 25, 2025 09:39 PM (KnnTg)

270 >>Turns out bad food targeting late night stoners getting the munchies isn't a great business model. Their menu is the biggest of any fast food joint and almost nothing is any good on it.

Has nothing to do with the food. Has to do with leftist policies.

Turns out mandating stupid minimum wage policies have a cost.

>>Jack in the Box, headquartered in San Diego, currently operates and franchises 2,200 fast-food restaurants across 22 states. The locations are primarily on the West Coast and the Midwest.

https://tinyurl.com/mrybk5a8

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 09:40 PM (viF8m)

271 The Egerton Papyrus had a botanic story so I dunno what they while thing said

Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 09:40 PM (mDaFw)

272 The Independent: Virginia Giuffre, prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, dies by suicide
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2025 09:34 PM (KnnTg)

Did she ever name any of the other Epstein clients to whom she was trafficked, besides Prince Andrew?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 09:40 PM (8zz6B)

273 Pretty much anything 30 or 40 miles to either side of I-65 just North of the 'bama line. Pubs? You mean country watering holes with rusting Jax Beer signs? Good restaurants can be the 80 year old dude making bbq at the wide spot in the road gas station. Music? Nashville is right there, Muscle Shoals is just as close.

Motorcycle roads? The Trans America Trail runs through there.
https://www.gpskevinadventurerides.com
/trans-america-trail

Posted by: BifBewalski

That was an excellent translation of my some wants list.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 09:40 PM (amnH6)

274
Kindltot,

Yep and there will never be a reckoning for the assholes who planned it.

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 09:41 PM (3ek7K)

275
Shedeur Sanders draft disaster blamed on racism ... - Fox News
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 09:38 PM (MJMyx)

__________

How you know someone went to Colorado without knowing they went to Colorado.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 09:41 PM (QnmlO)

276 All visas are cancelled.

Pakistani citizens have to leave India immediately. And that is how it is done. India’s Prime Minister Modi announced: “India will identify, track and punish every terrorist, their handlers and their backers.

We will pursue them to the ends of the earth.
India’s spirit will never be broken by terrorism.”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 09:41 PM (MJMyx)

277 'Sup?
Posted by: Robert, trying to be cool at April 25, 2025 09:39 PM (KnnTg)

I planted an apple tree, which may or may not survive, I stacked wood, and I made a pizza.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 09:41 PM (D7oie)

278 Also, The Epic of Gilgamesh occurs to me. That Enkidu had some weird powers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:41 PM (hY4dx)

279 254 OK, Bible scholars. My wife's friend contents that years ago when she was a child, her minister father told her a very beautiful Bible story about Jesus curing a crippled man by removing petals from a pansy which eventually grows to resemble the crippled man and, as it does, the man is healed. Ring any bells?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 09:36 PM (L/fGl
Jesus healed the man’s withered hand without touching him. He just told the man ‘stretch forth your hand.’ This was after asking the Jews ‘is it better to do evil or good?’ because it was on Sabbath day.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2025 09:41 PM (LHPAg)

280 There was so much apocryphal Biblical lore, both Jewish and Christian, floating around back in the day, that it boggles the imagination.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:42 PM (77rzZ)

281 The fight in Montreal involving Tom Wilson (43) on the bench was incredible-he drove the linesman and a Montreal player several feet down the players bench. Don't like him much but what a great hockey player.

Posted by: Glenn at April 25, 2025 09:42 PM (8gHvT)

282 Shedeur Sanders draft disaster blamed on racism ... - Fox News
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 09:38 PM (MJMyx)

He's black, and doesn't look like a thug. That's his problem.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 09:43 PM (8zz6B)

283 276 My guess is no judge will place an injunction ...

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 09:44 PM (YwEeS)

284 Only pubs in my state are uptown, over priced watering holes.
Now, if you're interested in ice-houses there are plenty.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 09:44 PM (MJMyx)

285
“India will identify, track and punish every terrorist, their handlers and their backers."

__________

"No you won't." - "Random" District Judge #342

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 09:44 PM (QnmlO)

286 All visas are cancelled.

Pakistani citizens have to leave India immediately. And that is how it is done. India’s Prime Minister Modi announced: “India will identify, track and punish every terrorist, their handlers and their backers.

We will pursue them to the ends of the earth.
India’s spirit will never be broken by terrorism.”
Posted by: Braenyard

Have the ACLU and the State of New Mexico filed law suits over this outrage?

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 09:45 PM (amnH6)

287
A.P., if you do come down, hollar at me. Smash & I make day trips on the bikes nearly every weekend. I'm doing the TAT from Elkmont Tn -to- Corinth Ms this July. Gonna try to get my coworker ewetoober buddy to come with and see what kind of camping gear goodies he has this time.

https://www.youtube.com/
@BBombsBigAdventure

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2025 09:45 PM (MsrgL)

288 There was so much apocryphal Biblical lore, both Jewish and Christian, floating around back in the day

Yeah, some of it showed up in the Quran. Basically Muhammad believed every story he was told and added it to his false book.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 09:46 PM (2VST1)

289 Lady bullies ostrich: lucky she didn't get a powerful kick up her ass.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 25, 2025 09:47 PM (4x8rv)

290 Only pubs in my state are uptown, over priced watering holes.Now, if you're interested in ice-houses there are plenty. Posted by: Braenyard

What are these ice-houses that you speak of? They sound most interesting.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 09:48 PM (amnH6)

291 288 CRT, agreed.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:48 PM (77rzZ)

292
Lady bullies ostrich: lucky she didn't get a powerful kick up her ass.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 25, 2025 09:47 PM (4x8rv)

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Ostriches are nasty birds who won't put up with your crap.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 09:49 PM (QnmlO)

293 Hey, All. Prayers, please, for safe travels for my son. He’s on his way to Spain to visit his girlfriend.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:50 PM (77rzZ)

294
What are these ice-houses that you speak of? They sound most interesting.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 09:48 PM (amnH6)

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I don't drink myself, but ice houses are one of the charms of Texas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 09:51 PM (QnmlO)

295 India: "We will pursue them to the ends of the earth."

But it's a sphere, where are the ends?

Posted by: Ciampino - maybe it is flat? at April 25, 2025 09:51 PM (sPQoU)

296
But it's a sphere, where are the ends?
Posted by: Ciampino - maybe it is flat? at April 25, 2025 09:51 PM (sPQoU

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Sure, they TELL you it's a sphere.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:52 PM (hY4dx)

297 India: "We will pursue them to the ends of the earth."

But it's a sphere, where are the ends?

Posted by: Ciampino - maybe it is flat?

Myabe they mean they'll be the proverbial cat knocking shit off the edges. Shit being knocked off are Pakis.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2025 09:52 PM (MsrgL)

298 But it's a sphere, where are the ends?

"Drag him out back and beat him with wooden rods"
--Indian Prime Minister

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 09:52 PM (2VST1)

299 I don't drink myself, but ice houses are one of the charms of Texas. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Did a search. Those are a thang. I like.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 09:54 PM (amnH6)

300 293 Hey, All. Prayers, please, for safe travels for my son. He’s on his way to Spain to visit his girlfriend.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:50 PM (77rzZ)
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Hey Bulg, does he know that it rains mainly in the plain there? Tell him to keep to the higher ground.

Posted by: Ciampino - maybe it is flat as a plain? at April 25, 2025 09:54 PM (sPQoU)

301 >>>What are these ice-houses that you speak of? They sound most interesting.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 09:48 PM (amnH6)
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Best answer I could find

https://tinyurl.com/y6rskj6j

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 09:55 PM (MJMyx)

302 Those Mouse commercials make the 4 1/2 years I've been trying to cram Japanese into my brain worth it.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 25, 2025 09:55 PM (ERYKL)

303 300 His mom and I have a common love of My Fair Lady. I don’t think he knows about that.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:57 PM (77rzZ)

304 Well... India is an actual country. Not a running gag by unfunny comedians who should have been dragged off stage with a shepherd's crook and beaten to death years ago. Unsurprising.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 09:57 PM (BI5O2)

305 Best answer I could find

https://tinyurl.com/y6rskj6j
Posted by: Braenyard

That is the web site I found when I did a search. Those are right over the bullseye of the type of places I like.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 09:57 PM (amnH6)

306 I have a new grand niece.

Julia Townsend

My 4tth favorite person ever is my grand niece Kaileigh.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 09:58 PM (gbOdA)

307 Did I make it? Probably not...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 25, 2025 09:59 PM (0ohAJ)

308 235. Check out Watertown Tn

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at April 25, 2025 09:59 PM (FAviO)

309 >>Well... India is an actual country.

So is Israel.

So is every country every founded since the dawn of time They all suck other than the alternative.

What would that be?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 10:08 PM (viF8m)

310 Check out Watertown Tn
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo

That looks great. Has a downtown, a few restaurants, sportsball bars, far enough from Nashville but close enough when needed/wanted, rural motorcycle roads. And a drive in movie theater - geezh, that is awesome.

I am looking for the perfect putzing around place.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 10:27 PM (amnH6)

311 Tennessee has ruffed grouse. OMG. And you can shoot them, clean them, and eat them. This state just moved up the list.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 25, 2025 10:31 PM (amnH6)

312 Your A tag is broken around the story about the whale-spotting dog. The link is here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIEpQ2wPHf4

Posted by: Spamf Roming at April 26, 2025 03:35 PM (Ntfez)

The Week In Woke

Vegan "butcher" complains has her "vegan butcher shop" goes bankrupt.

Vegan 'butcher' unleashes as business dries up amid surprising new trend: 'We're out of money'
The owner of a once bustling vegan butcher shop in Sydney fears her business will soon close amid an emerging trend away from meat-free products.
The shift has resulted in dozens of vegan restaurants closing, companies that made meat alternatives collapsing and supermarkets shrinking their vegan offerings - though those in the industry have struggled to put a finger on why.
Suzy Spoon has run meat-free butcheries that bear her name in the Sydney suburbs of Marrickville and Newtown for more than a decade but business is drying up.
'Woolworths has reduced our range dramatically and Harris Farm has quartered what they would buy from us before Covid. It's terrible for our business,' the entrepreneur told news.com.au.
'We're out of money. We're out of everything, we're tired.'
She said she has seen other vegan business making a shift to serving up some meat products.
'But I can't do that, because that's just not how I roll. That will never be what I do.'
A shift away from meat had been happening over the last decade. At its peak, one report found that between 2020 and 2023 there was a 47 per cent increase in plant-based meat sales - but over the last two years it seems the bubble has burst.

...
A quick browse of the Australian Vegan Reddit thread showed that its being noticed by those who adhere to the diet.
'What happened? For a little while it was awesome being vegan in Australia. But the last few years have been brutal,' one person said.

See if you can psychically divine what this "Suzy Spoons" pyrsyn might look like.

Do you have an image in your mind's eye?

Pete Hegseth fired Benghazi cover-up architect Susan Rice. As well as all the other leftists bitterly clinging to power in the DOD.

Why the hell was she still on "advisory boards" with access to Pentagon officials?

Breanna Morello
@BreannaMorello
BREAKING NEWS
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ended the service of all committee members on DOD advisory committees.
This would include the seat held by Susan Rice.
Hegseth thanked the members for their work but said changes are needed to align with the department's new goals and to use resources more effectively.

You probably know that when the White House began investigating the leaks of top-secret information to leftwing "news" outlets, one group of suspected culprits were all the Obama/Biden appointees hanging on to "advisory" board positions.

They've now all been fired. Thank goodness.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Good move. There are thousands of committees that take up a lot of time without clear accomplishments.
A reset was needed.

Surprise! Adam Carolla was right when he said that California would slow-roll approvals for rebuilding the houses the city and state conspired to destroy, and Karen Bass and Gavin Newsome were lying when they said they'd accelerate the permitting process.

Months after the catastrophic wildfires that devastated large swaths of Southern California, Los Angeles--under Democrat leadership--continues to lag in its rebuilding efforts. Despite President Donald Trump's swift declaration of a national emergency and promises to waive federal red tape, city officials have only approved a fraction of the necessary rebuilding permits.
Key Details:
As of late April, just 23 rebuilding permits have been issued in Pacific Palisades, where 5,619 structures were damaged or destroyed.
President Trump declared a national emergency within days of his inauguration and pledged to waive all federal permits to speed up rebuilding.
California Assembly Leader James Gallagher blames Governor Newsom and Democrat lawmakers for dragging their feet despite federal action.

John Cusack, who seems to be learning disabled, claimed that MAGA crucified Jesus or something.

John Cusack
@johncusack
Happy Easter - Christ was tortured and executed as a Political calculation by the Trumps of the Day...
Happy Easter

Does this developmentally-disabled adult know what "calculation" even means?

Terrorist propaganda organization the AP lost its motion to compel Trump to restore its previous unearned privileges.

A federal judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a new White House press policy that downgrades The Associated Press to the same status as newspapers, eliminating the wire service's previously privileged access to the president.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee who had earlier ruled that the White House unlawfully discriminated against AP for declining to use the term "Gulf of America," said the revised policy appears to be viewpoint neutral.
"I'm not inclined to see anything wrong with it," said McFadden during a Friday hearing.
The new policy places reporters from the Associated Press--along with those from Bloomberg and Reuters--on equal footing with newspaper outlets like The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Under the revised rules, AP photographers will also hold the same status as other photojournalists.
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As a result, AP reporters will now join the rotating pool of journalists who cover the president's daily activities. With dozens of outlets in the rotation, this means AP will receive special access less than once a month, on par with the newspapers.

Ugly charisma vacuum Pedro Pascal once again showed that Disney allows leftwing firebrands to alienate as much as the public as they like while also firing Gina Carano for saying that the Nazis began their campaign of hatred by first normalizing the hatred of one neighbor for another.

That's not the real reason they fired her. They fired her because she wouldn't bend to the trans mafia and post her pronouns.

But Disney didn't want to admit that they fired a popular actress for not obeying the corporate line on constant promotion of transgenderism for children, so they claimed that Carano's warning about the Nazi campaign of hate was some kind of attack on the Jews.

Really.

Anyway, here's the guy who's about to lose his career after Fantastic Four makes $60 million in its opening weekend:

Pedro Pascal blasted author J.K. Rowling for her latest trans tweets, calling the author a "heinous loser" in a comment on Instagram.
The Last of Us star was responding to a post by activist Tariq Ra'ouf, who criticized the author for celebrating the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom's landmark ruling last week that trans women should not be recognized as women and that "sex" should legally mean biological sex.
Rowling had posted, "I love it when a plan comes together," along with noting to a critic, "I get the same royalties whether you read [my books] or burn them. Enjoy your marshmallows!"
Wrote Pascal in the comment section of Ra'ouf's post: "Awful disgusting SHIT is exactly right. Heinous LOSER behavior."

In related news, Pedro Pascal's skin looks exactly like an aerial photograph of Dresden in June 1945.

BTW, Gina Carano is obtaining information about how much Disney pays Pedro Pascal. She wants to show the court how much Disney will pay someone for following their corporate political line.

Gina Carano is getting the salaries she's looking for.
A federal judge has ruled that the mixed martial arts fighter turned actor will be allowed to see compensation information for other stars in the "Star Wars" universe on Disney+, including Pedro Pascal, Diego Luna, and Rosario Dawson.
The April 3 ruling came in a lawsuit Carano filed against Disney over her termination from the "Star Wars" spinoff show "The Mandalorian" after two seasons.
Disney announced in 2021 that Carano wouldn't return to the show for a third season after she had made social media posts comparing political conservatives in America to Jews in the Holocaust, questioning the results of the 2020 election and the use of masks during the coronavirus pandemic, and using the pronouns section of her Twitter (now known as X) page to mock transgender people.
Carano's lawsuit, which was funded by X owner Elon Musk, accuses Disney of violating California labor laws by firing her because of her political views. Disney says the company has creative control over which characters it discontinues as well as a First Amendment right to disassociate itself from Carano's views.
As part of the lawsuit, Carano's attorneys asked for salary information related to a constellation of other stars in "Star Wars" shows on Disney's streaming service.
They said the information was crucial for calculating damages if Carano were to win her lawsuit.
Carano's lawyers also argued Disney should be forced to disclose salary information for the lead actors of other "Star Wars" shows -- such as Amandla Stenberg and Luna -- because Carano had been set to star in a "Mandalorian" spinoff titled "Rangers of the New Republic" before Disney fired her.
US Magistrate Judge Steve Kim ruled in Carano's favor, ruling that Disney needed to turn over a spreadsheet or chart of the compensation Pascal, Dawson, and the costar Carl Weathers received for the first three seasons of "The Mandalorian," Dawson's salary for "The Book of Boba Fett" and the first two seasons of "Ahsoka," Stenberg's salary for "The Acolyte," and the compensation Luna received for the first two seasons of "Andor."

Remember, California passed a law to protect communists. The law says that employers cannot punish employees for political speech. If it protects dirty filthy communists, it also protects nice Catholic girls like Gina Carano.

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

The plan we're watching play out:
Overload the country with as many unvetted illegals as possible, by any means necessary.
Know that mobilization of resources and enforcement operations to remove them would be extraordinarily daunting.
Rely on heavily funded leftwing legal groups and activist courts to delay, obstruct and impede deportations at every possible turn --
-- in an attempt to nullify the election result and override Americans' overwhelming desire for deportations, while looking to enshrine millions of illegals permanently into the country, reshaping congressional apportionment and securing future voter blocs for the Democrat party.
In parallel, utilize that same set of lawfare groups and activist judges to fight any and all election security measures, such as implementing voter ID and stopping non-citizen voting.
And, of course, count on their legacy media PR arm to run information ops and secrete a never-ending deluge of propaganda to run cover for it all.
The end goal being: Single-party, permanent power.
If Kamala would've won, the borders would have remained open, and mass importation would've continued. Game over.
Because Trump won, and the border closed -- the judicial contingency has been implemented.
That's where we are now.
The plan stays in motion, as they attempt to run out the clock on Trump 47.

Firealarm-puller and antisemite Jamaal Bowman says that the NFL is rigged against black players.

BLM influencer calls for "hunting" whites and piling up their bodies on the floor.

An illegal alien captured, but then released into the country again by Biden, forcibly sodomized a 13-year-old boy. No big deal, just a kid exposed to AIDS who will have permanent trauma. I hope the somewhat-lower costs to trim the verge on your mansions was worth it!

Hope this was worth it, too!

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
EXCLUSIVE: The families of two teens killed by an illegal alien who crashed into them while drunk, high, & speeding at 100 mph in OC in 2021 have been told by the state of CA that their killer will be released from prison early in July, just 3.5 years into a 10-year sentence for killing the teens, who both burned alive.
Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, a twice deported Mexican illegal alien, had a lengthy rap sheet prior to killing 19-year-olds Anya Varfolomeev & Nikolay Osokin in the DUI crash on the 405 freeway in Seal Beach in November 2021. Both were US citizens, and they were dating. Ortega-Anguiano had several felony convictions, had gone to state prison, and had multiple convictions for driving without a license, but was still on the streets when he crashed into the teens' vehicle.
In spring of 2022, Ortega-Anguiano was convicted in OC of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for killing the teens, and a judge sentenced him to serve 10 years in prison for each count, but concurrently, meaning he would serve both 10-year-sentences at the same time.
The victims' families felt that was already a weak sentence, but they tell me they were notified by the CA Department of Corrections on Easter Sunday that Ortega-Anguiano is scheduled for an early release on July 19th, 2025, only a little more than 3 years into his sentence, leaving the victims' families shocked, and outraged given the seriousness of the crime and his prior criminal history. They provided us the CDCR document showing the July 19th release date.
The CA Department of Corrections wouldn't confirm the release date when I reached out, saying they "cannot provide information on an incarcerated person's release date or location in advance of their release." They added that "incarcerated persons may earn credits for participating in rehabilitative programming, which may move parole eligible dates to an earlier date.
ICE confirms to @FoxNews that they have placed a detainer on Ortega-Anguiano with the CA Dept of Corrections and intend to take him into custody upon his release. They hope the CA Dept. of Corrections will honor the detainer request and transfer him to their custody upon his release, which they often do. But the families fear, even if he is deported, he will just re-enter the US as a gotaway, as he's done twice before.

Noted Astronaut Katie Perry has hit the Demented Bag-Lady Madonna phase of her career faster than I ever would have guessed.

Unhinged Democrats in Florida are OPPOSING a bill that would remove p*rnographic books from schools.

Why do Democrats want to give your kids p**n in schools?pic.twitter.com/8ryxHCnsCx
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 24, 2025

Of course True Conservative David French agrees with them.

The noodle-armed wokescold attacks the "anti-woke right" for making his LGBT allies sad.

This pathetic cuck opened up his dicksucker to complain about the right's anti-speech efforts.

Remember, this pansy called drag queen story hours for children "a blessing of liberty," so that's his default setting.

All of this has been obvious for some time. Or, another way to put it is that Ron DeSantis walked so that Donald Trump could run. When the time came to formulate a policy response to the woke left, no one mattered more than the governor of Florida.
He tried to ban critical race theory in education. He sharply limited discussion of gender and sexuality in public schools. He tried to limit the free speech of university professors. He retaliated against Disney when it had the audacity to exercise its freedom of speech to criticize the governor's policies.
And through it all, DeSantis declared that Florida was the place where "woke goes to die."
In his second term, Trump is a scaled-up version of DeSantis. Every element of the DeSantis model has been deployed against Trump's ideological enemies. Trump retaliated against law firms based on politics. He's attacking the academic freedom and independence of private universities. He's sweeping immigrants off the street based on nothing more than the content of their speech.
Precious few anti-woke activists objected to DeSantis's tactics. And precious few object to Trump today. It turns out that when they said, "Let us speak," they weren't embracing free speech as a universal value, but rather as an instrumental value -- free speech is important only so long as they get to say what they think.
The left? It's too dangerous to be heard.

He continually fails to note that the speech being "controlled" here is the speech of paid employees of the state "teaching" children.

He thinks woke teachers have an unassailable right to fly their freak flags for other people's children. He's in favor of censoring rightist speech so that adults can't hear it, but when right-leaning people forbid radicals to indoctrinate children on the taxpayer's dime (and therefore rightly subject to oversight by the government cutting their checks), he claims their speech rights are absolute.

We must protect adults from hearing Trumpian claims, but children? Feel free to talk about anal dildos and polyamory with them.

Like other hard left-wing propaganda organizations, the Dispatch is offering up the canard, "Well, some of the most extremist left-wingers accuse us of not being left-wing enough, therefore, we must be down-the-middle centrist."

Mollie Hemingway isn't having that:

Let’s let your managing editor weigh in with her thoughts on this week’s oral arguments. pic.twitter.com/oO9B2kR8lN
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 23, 2025

Diagnosable moron Jasmine Ratchet appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's Unfunny Sweaty Propaganda Hour to declare that Elon Musk is an "idiot" and she wants to take head-to-head IQ tests to prove that she's as smart as the guy sending Corvettes to f***ing Mars.

Jasmine Crockett: "Elon ain't a genius, he an idiot" pic.twitter.com/QKx46dNDVa
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 23, 2025

Trump doesn't agree that Jasmine Ratchet is smarter than Musk:

"It's just so bad. Their policy is so bad," Trump said, shaking his head. "You know, they're great at cheating, and they're great at certain things, but they are so bad on policy, they're so far off."
Trump pointed out the absurdity of the Democrats clinging to the same losing strategies that already cost them a major election defeat. "When I watched them trying to prosecute the same things that just lost an election in a landslide on, and they're still going through the same things. It's just crazy," he said. "And they don't know who their leaders are."
Turning to the party's emerging figures, Trump singled out Crockett.
"They have a new one, Crockett. Have you seen Crockett? Have you ever seen her talk? This is going to be their leader?" he asked incredulously.
Beck joked that he hoped Crockett would be the next Democratic presidential candidate, to which Trump responded with a mix of amusement and concern.
"Well, we can hope in one way," Trump said, "but in another way, it's pretty demeaning. It's demeaning to our country. You don't see anybody out there."

Video at the link.

This classic deserves a repost:

Michelle Obama: "As black women, we don't articulate our pain" pic.twitter.com/UHoI7ZryTy
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 23, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:10 PM

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1 David Lynch wants his haircut back.

Posted by: Allen at April 25, 2025 06:13 PM (zqb2F)

2 Jews

Posted by: Pointless at April 25, 2025 06:14 PM (RihOl)

3 U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee who had earlier ruled that the White House unlawfully discriminated against AP for declining to use the term "Gulf of America," said the revised policy appears to be viewpoint neutral.

That a Judge is even involved in this, is stupid...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 06:14 PM (QAkQ3)

4 Satan. Believe it.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 06:14 PM (QSrLX)

5 Meat. Free. Butcher.

The crazy years, we're living in it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 06:15 PM (xcxpd)

6 Pete Hegseth fired Benghazi cover-up architect Susan Rice. As well as all the other leftists bitterly clinging to power in the DOD.

Why the hell was she still on "advisory boards" with access to Pentagon officials?

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Interesting! This was brought up in Tucker's interview with Caldwell, who pretty much said that if you are looking for leakers and leaks - that board is your place. Not only are those traitorous, insidious goons are sitting on advisory board, their web inside the Pentagon is intact.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 06:15 PM (g47mK)

7 Its a hard habit to break. Many times impossible.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 06:16 PM (QSrLX)

8 I hope somebody gave Mr. Cusack what for.

And hasn't Michelle Obama been articulating her pain for years?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 06:16 PM (42Vb+)

9 though those in the industry have struggled to put a finger on why.
______________

It's a mystery, I tells ya!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:17 PM (YqDXo)

10 OK, so the majority is not aligned with teaching LGBT crap in school...

Why can't the Gays and those aligned with them, go to private school? After all, we are supposed to be (in their words) a Democracy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 06:17 PM (QAkQ3)

11 Being vegan caused Suzy Spoon's hair to stand up on end?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 06:17 PM (42Vb+)

12 Michelle Obama: "As black women, we don't articulate our pain"
_________________

Do black women ever STFU? I've yet to see it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:18 PM (YqDXo)

13 Being vegan caused Suzy Spoon's hair to stand up on end?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 06:17 PM (42Vb+)

It's trying to escape the craziness in her head.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 06:19 PM (VNX3d)

14 Being vegan caused Suzy Spoon's hair to stand up on end?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 06:17 PM (42Vb+)
______________

She stuck a fork in a power outlet.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:19 PM (YqDXo)

15 WTF is on Big Mike's head, Gus!?

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 06:19 PM (qmgeg)

16 Jasmine Crockett: "Elon ain't a genius, he an idiot"
______________

So says a charter member of Club 85.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:20 PM (YqDXo)

17
Do black women ever STFU? I've yet to see it.
Posted by: Deplor

not when they get pulld over by the cops

Posted by: n at April 25, 2025 06:21 PM (VeQ5W)

18 Damn, Pascal does a good Din Djarin...but he comes from an exceptionally weird family. He has a brother who is now a sister. His father is some kind of criminal ( I think), and the rest of the family are all a mess. What a shame...

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 06:21 PM (g47mK)

19 Vegan 'butcher' unleashes as business dries up amid surprising new trend: 'We're out of money'
_______________

She's just experienced the Invisible (Pimp) Hand.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:21 PM (YqDXo)

20 So, how many USAID dollars were going to the 'Beyond Meat' movement worldwide?

Posted by: Red Robin at April 25, 2025 06:21 PM (2HvAK)

21 And with a name like "Suzy Spoon" the vegan lady should really should be running a lactose free ice cream shop.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 06:22 PM (42Vb+)

22 I can’t wait to see Pudgy Mustache tank the box office of not-so-Fantastic Four.

Posted by: Open Channel D at April 25, 2025 06:22 PM (tgTrV)

23 Why the hell was she still on "advisory boards" with access to Pentagon officials?
______________

Easy. Solicit her advice, and make sure you do something else.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:23 PM (YqDXo)

24 BLM influencer calls for "hunting" whites and piling up their bodies on the floor.

Bring it, motherfucker. Light than damned fuse. I guarantee you won't like the result.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2025 06:23 PM (MsrgL)

25 I'm guessing the Democrat-Communists are already planning Nuremburg Trials 2.0 if they take back the Presidency in 2028. I can already hear the far left members of my family vociferously cheering as Trump's cabinet members are all arrested and denied bail. I guess the civil war comes after that.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at April 25, 2025 06:24 PM (qUkBO)

26 Elon Musk @elonmusk
Good move. There are thousands of committees that take up a lot of time without clear accomplishments.

A reset was needed.
_________

A fair description of corporate America in general.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025 06:24 PM (UBKzV)

27 I can’t wait to see Pudgy Mustache tank the box office of not-so-Fantastic Four.
Posted by: Open Channel D at April 25, 2025 06:22 PM (tgTrV)

Supposedly, he is not even the focus of the movie. That honor goes the the In visible Woman (heh.) He is just a pudgy, passive... well, you know.

Posted by: Red Robin at April 25, 2025 06:24 PM (2HvAK)

28 And with a name like "Suzy Spoon

she was famous for her girl-grl sex scenes

Posted by: n at April 25, 2025 06:24 PM (VeQ5W)

29 Vegan 'butcher' unleashes as business dries up amid surprising new trend: 'We're out of money'

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PRO TIP: There is still time to get in on the ground floor in the exciting world of All-Insect restaurants! Experts predict arthropods will be the wave of the future in cutting-edge cuisine.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 06:24 PM (JkO4W)

30 "Lord Tiberius, according to my political calculation (checks abacus) Make Rome Great Again shows the highest probability of increased (checks scroll) GPD growth if we go short on Jesus futures"

Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 06:24 PM (q177U)

31 I can’t wait to see Pudgy Mustache tank the box office of not-so-Fantastic Four.
Posted by: Open Channel D at April 25, 2025 06:22 PM (tgTrV)

He's playing Sue Storm, isn't he?

It's modern day Hollywood, so that's what I expect. He's the Boy Named Sue.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 06:24 PM (VNX3d)

32 /off sock

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 06:26 PM (2HvAK)

33 he played a good villain in the equalizer sequel, he might not have been playing, and a turrble role in Wonder Woman sequel,

there's a riff in the latest Watson where one of the patients owns an artificial meat company and he gives a pallet of same as a gift, well that's how he intended it,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 25, 2025 06:26 PM (bXbFr)

34 BLM influencer calls for "hunting" whites and piling up their bodies on the floor.

Bring it, motherfucker

sometimes, when they suggest these things, you have the impression they do not understand theres no off switch for these things.

Posted by: n at April 25, 2025 06:26 PM (VeQ5W)

35 We must protect adults from hearing Trumpian claims, but children? Feel free to talk about anal dildos and polyamory with them.
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French is a pervert. This much is known. No one who is as sanctimonious as he is doesn't have a bunch of rent boys on his credit card.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:26 PM (ZOv7s)

36 She said she has seen other vegan business making a shift to serving up some meat products.

'But I can't do that, because that's just not how I roll. That will never be what I do.'

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Yeah. And there are still entrepreneurs out there who predict that the buggy whip is due for a huge comeback.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 06:27 PM (JkO4W)

37 >> Remember, California passed a law to protect communists. The law says that employers cannot punish employees for political speech. If it protects dirty filthy communists, it also protects nice Catholic girls like Gina Carano.

Wrong!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at April 25, 2025 06:27 PM (/dDa4)

38 So, that BLM "influencer" wants to hunt whites and pile up their bodies? Go ahead, pal. Start a race war? You're about 14% of the population. The numbers aren't in your favor.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 25, 2025 06:28 PM (5xuJ/)

39 She said she has seen other vegan business making a shift to serving up some meat products.

'But I can't do that, because that's just not how I roll. That will never be what I do.'

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Yeah. And there are still entrepreneurs out there who predict that the buggy whip is due for a huge comeback.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 06:27 PM (JkO4W)

Her next venture is Amish and Mennonite carriages.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 06:28 PM (VNX3d)

40 French is a pervert. This much is known. No one who is as sanctimonious as he is doesn't have a bunch of rent boys on his credit card.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:26 PM (ZOv7s

And only half of them are for his wife! *rimshot*

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 06:28 PM (2HvAK)

41 Ok, I give. What does a vegan butcher butcher?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:29 PM (oXfCm)

42 I got nothin’ against vegans so long as they leave me alone, but wtf is a vegan butcher shop?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 06:29 PM (/dDa4)

43 Re: stupid vegans and vegan stupidity

Remember the man made food shortages during covid?

One of the funniest things I saw during the scamdemic was the photos of the bare shelves and empty meat and produce aisles.

Except for the meat substitute section. It was stacked full. Empty shelves all around it, but not a package missing from the vegan section.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at April 25, 2025 06:30 PM (uukly)

44
I read last week about a fake meat company filing for bankruptcy. I can't remember which one it was.

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 06:30 PM (3ek7K)

45 Ok, I give. What does a vegan butcher butcher?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:29 PM (oXfCm)

It would have to be the product they try like hell to taste like meat, right?

Kind of a metaphor for gay relationships.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 06:30 PM (2HvAK)

46 Wow the Dems are going hysterical over the arrest of the Judges... It's the 3rd Reich all over again...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 06:30 PM (VE6XX)

47 Michelle Obama: "As black women, we don't articulate our pain"
_________________

Do black women ever STFU? I've yet to see it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:18 PM (YqDXo)

Well, the ghetto queens make a lot of noise, but little of it is well-articulated.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 06:30 PM (8zz6B)

48 French's mustard should be tried in small doses, like idocaine,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 25, 2025 06:31 PM (bXbFr)

49 She said she has seen other vegan business making a shift to serving up some meat products.

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That's how you can tell they're morally and ethically serious regarding animals.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at April 25, 2025 06:31 PM (uukly)

50 I'm not sure I understand what Suzy Spoon's complaint is.

I mean, she doesn't want to eat meat, fine. Don't they have vegetables in the supermarkets there?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 25, 2025 06:31 PM (kJuzF)

51 it has been much harder for vegan butchers since the salad shooter was sold for under $50

Posted by: n at April 25, 2025 06:31 PM (VeQ5W)

52 White Castles mustard is good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 06:32 PM (2HvAK)

53 45 Ok, I give. What does a vegan butcher butcher?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:29 PM (oXfCm)

Everything they touch... That being said if Vegan is so great why do they have to make the stuff they make try to look and taste like meat , cheese, eggs and butter ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

54 That's how you can tell they're morally and ethically serious regarding animals.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at April 25, 2025 06:31 PM (uukly)

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Maybe she only sells meat products from animals that committed suicide.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 06:32 PM (JkO4W)

55 "Happy Easter - Christ was tortured and executed as a Political calculation by the Trumps of the Day...

Happy Easter"
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Wait, I need this explained further. Who was the Trump in the Passion Narrative? Pilate? The Pharisees? Herod?

If anything, Trump is the disrupter, the rebel.

He's also the one who the state persecuted and tried to kill. Twice.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:32 PM (ZOv7s)

56 Had no idea Susan Rice, Barky's go between still had a government position

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 06:33 PM (ypFCm)

57 Michelle Obama: "As black women, we don't articulate our pain"
_________________

heres some vid that suggests otherwise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoftQCVehe8

Posted by: n at April 25, 2025 06:33 PM (VeQ5W)

58 "Christ was tortured and executed as a Political calculation by the Trumps of the Day..."

I don't even understand the tortuous theology suggested there, and I'm too tired to read the entire article. Trump is what-a Jewish political /religious leader? A Roman political authority figure? Trump is the anti Christ? In what way?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 06:33 PM (42Vb+)

59 Wow the Dems are going hysterical over the arrest of the Judges... It's the 3rd Reich all over again...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 06:30 PM (VE6XX)
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I missed that thread. Were the "I WANT ARRESTS!" people finally happy?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:34 PM (ZOv7s)

60 Michelle Obama: "As black women, we don't articulate our pain"
_________________

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Yes, they're generally inarticulate as heck. Iirc Biden even noted that Barry was unusual because of that.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at April 25, 2025 06:34 PM (uukly)

61

The week ending media wrap up we've been waiting for! This sheer volume of idiocy beggars the mind

Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 06:34 PM (g6TN6)

62 ---
I missed that thread. Were the "I WANT ARRESTS!" people finally happy?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:34 PM (ZOv7s)

Never

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 06:34 PM (VE6XX)

63 Christ was tortured and executed as a Political calculation by the Trumps of the Day..."

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I'll play.

Fine. Now tell me how long the Earth existed before that.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at April 25, 2025 06:35 PM (uukly)

64 46 Wow the Dems are going hysterical over the arrest of the Judges... It's the 3rd Reich all over again...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 06:30 PM (VE6XX)

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I don't get the Nazi slur. Roland Freisler was allowed to adjudicate freely right up until the afternoon he noticed a 500-lb. bomb in his lap.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 06:35 PM (JkO4W)

65 Wait, I need this explained further. Who was the Trump in the Passion Narrative? Pilate? The Pharisees? Herod?

If anything, Trump is the disrupter, the rebel.

He's also the one who the state persecuted and tried to kill. Twice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:32 PM (ZOv7s

It would be hard to find the Trump analogies they are going for. Maybe the pharisees? It is kind of a group effort (which is the point and reason for the Savior.)

They are probably just idiots and think Pilate/Judas (who have very different motivations and purpose.)

I dunno. I think they are just retards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 06:35 PM (2HvAK)

66

Of course they articulate their pain. Don't you all recall "I ain't in No Ways tarred"

Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 06:35 PM (g6TN6)

67 So, how many USAID dollars were going to the 'Beyond Meat' movement worldwide?
Posted by: Red Robin at April 25, 2025 06:21 PM (2HvAK)

Had to be a lot, the Burger King I sometimes patronized had at least half a dozen different menu choices on the displays. They probably sold a dozen a day, tops.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:36 PM (n7h9X)

68 I don't normally follow Football news of any kind but the drama of Deion Sanders' son not making the first round draft of the NFL is delicious tears. Google it, it's lots of fun.

Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 06:36 PM (q177U)

69 18
' Pascal does a good Din Djarin...but he comes from an exceptionally weird family'

I think he's from Chile and some of his family ended up on the wrong side of the Pinochet regime.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 06:36 PM (3wi/L)

70 these people are patently ridiculous

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 25, 2025 06:37 PM (bXbFr)

71 Oh it was the Democrats torturing Jan6 Ralliers

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 06:37 PM (ypFCm)

72 in vid the articulation starts halfway through with the taser ride

Posted by: n at April 25, 2025 06:37 PM (VeQ5W)

73 don't normally follow Football news of any kind but the drama of Deion Sanders' son not making the first round draft of the NFL is delicious tears. Google it, it's lots of fun.

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He was rated as the best QB in that recent video game. I'm certain Deon was involved.

Yeah, it's laughable.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at April 25, 2025 06:37 PM (uukly)

74 Had to be a lot, the Burger King I sometimes patronized had at least half a dozen different menu choices on the displays. They probably sold a dozen a day, tops.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:36 PM (n7h9X)

*lights a candle for the McLean*

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 06:37 PM (2HvAK)

75 65 Wait, I need this explained further. Who was the Trump in the Passion Narrative? Pilate? The Pharisees? Herod?

He's the destroyer of the Jesus like Maryland Man....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 06:37 PM (VE6XX)

76 Had to be a lot, the Burger King I sometimes patronized had at least half a dozen different menu choices on the displays. They probably sold a dozen a day, tops.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:36 PM (n7h9X)

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Burger King also sold Gayburgers during Pride Month so their marketing strategies may be suspect.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 06:38 PM (JkO4W)

77 Yellow mustard is great on grilled hot dogs and that's it. It should come with a warning on the label.

Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 06:38 PM (q177U)

78 it has been much harder for vegan butchers since the salad shooter was sold for under $50
Posted by: n at April 25, 2025 06:31 PM (VeQ5W)

...And all the Schmoos were wiped out by foot and moustache disease.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 06:38 PM (8zz6B)

79 >>This pathetic cuck opened up his dicksucker to complain about...

How will we survive a week without these sentences which are like running a gauntlet of shock, laughs, and horror.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 06:39 PM (Zhfc2)

80 Burger King also sold Gayburgers during Pride Month so their marketing strategies may be suspect.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 06:38 PM (JkO4W)

This burger tastes like shit.
-unwary customer

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 06:39 PM (2HvAK)

81 "Christ was tortured and executed as a Political calculation by the Trumps of the Day..."

Umm...I dare say that Christ was the Trump of the Day.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 25, 2025 06:40 PM (SRRAx)

82 Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes

Financial Manager for the Army setup a fake NGO and stole $108 million dollars from taxpayers. Buys 31 homes and 80 vehicles, paid for by you

“She incorporates a fake children's charity and awards herself an army contract — US Army approves this children's charity — A totally fake nonprofit. There's absolutely nothing for children. 7 year period. She steals $108 million

From you and I, the taxpayer. All of it goes into her pocket. Not a dime of that money goes to the kids. It's all going into her bank accounts

She spends the money

- 31 different homes in Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington
- She bought 80 motor vehicles
- Packages were arriving every day from high end retailers. The UPS guy is the one who gave her the nickname, the Gucci goddess, because he was constantly delivering these high end items to this McMansion that she bought.“

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2025 06:40 PM (GITLP)

83 45 Ok, I give. What does a vegan butcher butcher?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:29 PM (oXfCm)

Everything they touch... That being said if Vegan is so great why do they have to make the stuff they make try to look and taste like meat , cheese, eggs and butter ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

Vegetarian Indian food can be tasty, and you can get meat in dishes too.

The Vegan foods I have are always joyless limp things. And the fact that the consumers look like they have a wasting disease does not help.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:40 PM (n7h9X)

84 I think he's from Chile and some of his family ended up on the wrong side of the Pinochet regime.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 06:36 PM (3wi/L)

yes, related to Alende..first time I saw him was in the role of Oberyn Martell in GOT, did a good job there too..shame but..actors are weird

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 06:40 PM (g47mK)

85 If we don't give third graders graphic depictions of minor boys sucking dick, free speech and education will collapse!

Posted by: Shorter Democrat argument at April 25, 2025 06:40 PM (TbWk/)

86
This burger tastes like shit.
-unwary customer
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 06:39 PM (2HvAK)

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Don't ask about the Secret Sauce.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 06:40 PM (JkO4W)

87 The Vegan butcher really butchered her hair

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 06:40 PM (VE6XX)

88 BLM influencer calls for "hunting" whites and piling up their bodies on the floor.
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Proof positive that they're stupid. They're one-seventh of the population, and can be spotted from 100 yards away.

If it comes down to it, America could be a lily-white nation in a couple of months. So, I'd suggest holstering the mouth.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:41 PM (YqDXo)

89 Jews
Posted by: Pointless at April 25, 2025 06:14 PM (RihOl)

Whichever one of you has the keys to the weather machine, can I get a few more days of moderate temperatures before summer starts?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:41 PM (ExV1e)

90 hes related to the Allende family the other daughter married a Cuban inteligence agent, so common sense doesnt really
drip down,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 25, 2025 06:41 PM (bXbFr)

91

Big Mike's pain stems from pulling muscles or spraining joints during the mysterious deaths of several of his husband's "friends." Any articulation of the pain would waive the Fifth Amendment privilege

Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 06:41 PM (g6TN6)

92 Aside from her "finger in the electrical socket" style of hair, I think Suzy Spoon is cute (At least she's smiling) and no, I don't want to date her, and I think calling your business a vegan butcher shop is stupid.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 06:41 PM (42Vb+)

93 Cusack is looking pretty rough. Even for however old he is now.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025 06:41 PM (UBKzV)

94 >>This pathetic cuck opened up his dicksucker to complain about...

How will we survive a week without these sentences which are like running a gauntlet of shock, laughs, and horror.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 06:39 PM (Zhfc2)

We'll survive, with the knowledge that he'll be rested and back with more zingers.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 06:42 PM (VNX3d)

95 Yellow mustard is great on grilled hot dogs and that's it. It should come with a warning on the label.
Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 06:38 PM (q177U)

Yellow mustard is also great on ham and cheese sandwiches. Preferably on cheap white bread.

Posted by: An American classic at April 25, 2025 06:42 PM (TbWk/)

96 yes, related to Alende..first time I saw him was in the role of Oberyn Martell in GOT, did a good job there too..shame but..actors are weird

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 06:40 PM (g47mK)
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I believe "stupid" is the word you're looking for.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:42 PM (YqDXo)

97 I think he's from Chile and some of his family ended up on the wrong side of the Pinochet regime.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 06:36 PM (3wi/L)

Still treading water in the Humboldt Current?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 06:42 PM (8zz6B)

98 A vegan butcher is a lumberjack.

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at St Peter's house on Friday: Sardines!? Again?! at April 25, 2025 06:42 PM (sPQoU)

99 And hasn't Michelle Obama been articulating her pain for years?

I'm guessing tucking chafes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:42 PM (ExV1e)

100 Trump said:
"When I watched them trying to prosecute the same things that just lost an election in a landslide on, and they're still going through the same things. It's just crazy,"

This should be a big hint that their strategy does not include elections. I expect them to be taking the European route of outlawing all future conservative candidates, thinking they will make it work this time.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 06:42 PM (Zhfc2)

101 My first guess was that a vegan butcher is someone who chops carrots. But then I thought, maybe she's one of those trans nuts that kills people. And not just with her cooking.

Posted by: Toad-0 at April 25, 2025 06:42 PM (cct0t)

102 BLM would like a civil war going

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 06:43 PM (ypFCm)

103 My first guess was that a vegan butcher is someone who chops carrots. But then I thought, maybe she's one of those trans nuts that kills people. And not just with her cooking.

Posted by: Toad-0 at April 25, 2025 06:42 PM (cct0t)

A vegan could be a fine butcher. You don't have to eat what you carve up.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:43 PM (n7h9X)

104 He's the destroyer of the Jesus like Maryland Man....
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 06:37 PM (VE6XX)
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So in this scenario the Apostles are human traffickers and the Romans are trying to stop them?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)

105 BLM Bro needs to come to my block. Ten houses, and I would guesstimate 50-60 firearms of all shapes and sizes. People who know how to shoot. Also, two backhoes and a few boats for cleanup. Bring it!

Posted by: Country-Fried Snake at April 25, 2025 06:44 PM (G5+As)

106 102 BLM would like a civil war going
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 06:43 PM (ypFCm)

Don't think they'd like the outcome

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 06:44 PM (VE6XX)

107 99 And hasn't Michelle Obama been articulating her pain for years?

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Bitch won't shut her mouf.

Posted by: Ike Turner at April 25, 2025 06:44 PM (JkO4W)

108 She stuck a fork in a power outlet.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:19 PM (YqDXo)

That's a common trope but I suspect that you wouldn't get shocked as the path of least resistance should be through the metal in the fork from hot to neutral.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:44 PM (ExV1e)

109 I'm sure that J.K. Rowling is incredibly concerned with what Edward James Almost over there thinks about anything.

Rowling is a hero. This guy is random Hispanic actor #4.

Posted by: C.M. Funk at April 25, 2025 06:44 PM (6a3Rq)

110 Pascal looks like a serious drinker.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 06:44 PM (g47mK)

111 We'll survive, with the knowledge that he'll be rested and back with more zingers.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 06:42 PM (VNX3d)
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The Ewok's fur will be freshly washed and his tail will have its curl back.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:45 PM (ZOv7s)

112 Michelle Obama: "As black women, we don't articulate our pain"
________________

What about Chlamydia? She articulated ... uh ... something. Not sure what.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:45 PM (YqDXo)

113 BLM would like a civil war going
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 06:43 PM (ypFCm)

Not for long they wouldn't.

Their leadership lives out in the suburbs where guns are allowed. Their followers, if any, live in the inner cities.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:45 PM (n7h9X)

114 If I slice up a cucumber, am I a vegan butcher ?

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 06:45 PM (McYvC)

115 John Cusack opens his mouth and once again proves he is a fool.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:45 PM (oXfCm)

116 08 She stuck a fork in a power outlet.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:19 PM (YqDXo)

That's a common trope but I suspect that you wouldn't get shocked as the path of least resistance should be through the metal in the fork from hot to neutral.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:44 PM (ExV1e)
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But you forgot to take into account the ingenuity of idiots.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:46 PM (YqDXo)

117 OT

I am really disappointed that JFK has not taken the covid jab off the Childhood vaccine schedule. What the hell is he waiting for?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 06:46 PM (Zhfc2)

118 106 102 BLM would like a civil war going
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 06:43 PM (ypFCm)

Don't think they'd like the outcome
Posted by: It's me donna

Frankly, that's the point. To be used up in the justification for martial law. I don't know though, if significant pluralities of Black and Hispanic men are voting Trump, that doesn't leave a whole lot of manpower on the bipoc side

Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 06:46 PM (g6TN6)

119 Susan "by the book" Rice.

Posted by: Adrienne Barbeau's Bountiful Breasts at April 25, 2025 06:47 PM (rtqtT)

120 I wonder what the Democrats of yesteryear would say about their party's current full-throated advocacy of furnishing ghey pron and drag Queen groomers to six-year-olds.

Posted by: Even a shitbag like LBJ would not take kindly at April 25, 2025 06:47 PM (TbWk/)

121 The bloom is off the vegan rose.
The public was promised all sorts of benefits to "plant-based" "meat". It was supposed to be more nutritious, taste better, use less resources, thereby being cheaper, and reduce global warming.
Despite all the promises, most of these products are significantly less nutritious, deficient in many amino acids. People tried the stuff and it certainly didn't taste better, and the ones claiming to taste like meat actually tasted much worse.
The ones which actually were nutritious were more expensive that even great cuts of meats, which blows the "less resources" argument.
To top it off, the average person doesn't believe the global warming crap.
They promised, they were given a chance, it turned out to be bullshit, and the market has moved on. "Creative destruction", I think it's called.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 25, 2025 06:47 PM (cIFM2)

122 If you only put tines in one side of the outlet, aren't you ground?

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 06:47 PM (2HvAK)

123 HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE OF CHARGE, AND MAY NO ONE BE LEFT BEHIND!"

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 25, 2025 06:47 PM (Jhc5W)

124 >>See if you can psychically divine what this "Suzy Spoons" pyrsyn might look like.
Do you have an image in your mind's eye?

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Gordon Ramsey?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 06:47 PM (Zhfc2)

125 Suzy Spoons is a weak ass bitch not worthy of wearing plaid or driving a Subaru. No Mellisa Etheridge for her poser ass. Leave softball to the real sisters.

Posted by: Suzy Scissors at April 25, 2025 06:48 PM (McYvC)

126 I am really disappointed that JFK has not taken the covid jab off the Childhood vaccine schedule. What the hell is he waiting for?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 06:46 PM (Zhfc2)

His death in 1963 cuts into his office time.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:48 PM (n7h9X)

127 "Noted Astronaut Katie Perry has hit the Demented Bag-Lady Madonna phase of her career faster than I ever would have guessed."

After their ride, Perry and Gayle King could have said something such as, "Wow! It was a blast! Fun as hell! Terrific views! I want to do it again!" Period. But Attention Whores don't operate that way. If they get any fan blowback or bad press for their attention whoring blather, they are dumbfounded and turn vicious.

You know what Neil Armstrong did in late 1969? No, not write a book or go attention whoring in the USA. He went on Bob Hope's USO Christmas Tour to US military installations and USN ships. You can find videos on YouTube. The sailors, soldiers, and Marines cheered him like crazy. 'Murican hero. REAL Astronaut.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 06:48 PM (aBgBM)

128 That's a common trope but I suspect that you wouldn't get shocked as the path of least resistance should be through the metal in the fork from hot to neutral.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:44 PM (ExV1e)

Well, if you bent the fork (and you pretty much have to, to get any of the tines into the receptacle), and got one tine into the hot slot, you'd get a zap. Unless it was a GFCI outlet, which are normally found near where forks frolic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 06:48 PM (8zz6B)

129 Of course they articulate their pain. Don't you all recall "I ain't in No Ways tarred"

Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 06:35 PM (g6TN6)
_________________

She may not be "tarred," but she didn't say anything about being feathered.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:49 PM (YqDXo)

130 Frankly, that's the point. To be used up in the justification for martial law. I don't know though, if significant pluralities of Black and Hispanic men are voting Trump, that doesn't leave a whole lot of manpower on the bipoc side
Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 06:46 PM (g6TN6)
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This is why the want Hegseth gone. He's purging the military of the woke fatbodies and filling it with actual warriors.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:49 PM (ZOv7s)

131 Gref, big hug to you.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:49 PM (oXfCm)

132 Ok, I give. What does a vegan butcher butcher?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:29 PM (oXfCm)

Near as I can tell... soy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:49 PM (ExV1e)

133 "See if you can psychically divine what this "Suzy Spoons" pyrsyn might look like."

Her hair is On Fire.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 06:50 PM (Cus5s)

134 That's a common trope but I suspect that you wouldn't get shocked as the path of least resistance should be through the metal in the fork from hot to neutral.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:44 PM (ExV1e)

Well, if you bent the fork (and you pretty much have to, to get any of the tines into the receptacle), and got one tine into the hot slot, you'd get a zap. Unless it was a GFCI outlet, which are normally found near where forks frolic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 06:48 PM (8zz6B)
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Jeez, you guys are so literal. How about an incorrectly wired outlet? Or, for guys, sticking their dicks in light sockets?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:50 PM (YqDXo)

135 >>>Vegan "butcher" complains as her "vegan butcher shop" goes bankrupt.

Butcher? I didn't even KNOW her.

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 06:50 PM (CQE5S)

136 98 A vegan butcher is a lumberjack.
Posted by: Ciampino

Or a Grim Reaper.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 06:50 PM (Zhfc2)

137 Ok, I give. What does a vegan butcher butcher?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:29 PM (oXfCm)

Near as I can tell... soy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:49 PM (ExV1e)

Tofu?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 06:51 PM (VNX3d)

138 84
'did a good job there too..shame but..actors are weird'

Yes, but he's pissing away the good will he built up as a good actor. Robert DeNiro and Alec Baldwin are good actors too but I won't watch them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 06:51 PM (3wi/L)

139 Ace, you can't quit us!

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 06:51 PM (CQE5S)

140 Vegan "butcher" complains as her "vegan butcher shop" goes bankrupt.

Butcher? I didn't even KNOW her.
Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 06:50 PM (CQE5S)

She is kinda butch.

Posted by: Not butchest at April 25, 2025 06:52 PM (TbWk/)

141 >> His death in 1963 cuts into his office time.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:48 PM (n7h9X)

Bastard. I just spit my beer.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 06:52 PM (NdPqb)

142 I'd like two 8 0z tofu filets, please/////

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:52 PM (oXfCm)

143 I just watched the Katie Perry clip.

Wow. She looks completely crazy, and the clip isn't flattering at all. She obviously has NOBODY in her camp that will tell her the truth.

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 06:52 PM (TN0g+)

144 You know what Neil Armstrong did in late 1969? No, not write a book or go attention whoring in the USA. He went on Bob Hope's USO Christmas Tour to US military installations and USN ships. You can find videos on YouTube. The sailors, soldiers, and Marines cheered him like crazy. 'Murican hero. REAL Astronaut.
Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 06:48 PM (aBgBM)

Think he also had a close call in the Gemini program where his little handheld jet went nuts on an EVA and he came close to dying.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:52 PM (n7h9X)

145 The end goal being: Single-party, permanent power.

Ummm. I'm thinking that the end goal may not be what they think it will be.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 06:52 PM (W/lyH)

146 "I can't believe it's not meat" (or whatever).

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 06:53 PM (CQE5S)

147 They promised, they were given a chance, it turned out to be bullshit, and the market has moved on. "Creative destruction", I think it's called.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 25, 2025 06:47 PM (cIFM2)
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My oldest bought into that big time. Whole song and dance, yet struggled to maintain weight. Her boyfriend at the time was just a regular dude and at one point offered her a chicken wing at a bar, and she forgot herself and bit into it...

...and oh the JOY of that bite! It was so filling, so flavorful, the texture, she had another, and then another and could feel strength flowing into her system.

And that was the end of that. She still likes the designer feel-good foods, but has no objection to poaching one of my steaks when the grill is running.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:53 PM (ZOv7s)

148 gaaak, I can believe it's not meat.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (oXfCm)

149 Vegans remind me it’s time again for a nice cabrito.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (NdPqb)

150 So Trump is Hitler has finally been completely worn down and they're onto Trump Killed Jesus.

Well that's something.

You know who else thought certain people killed Jesus??

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (E0p3T)

151 >>Ace, you can't quit us!

Is he shutting the Blog down again?

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (qmgeg)

152

I'm not sure if that's an old picture or a new one, but Susie Spoon looks more like Susie fucking stew ladle on an image search. Maybe the fact that she hasn't had any sales is causing her to starve to death, but the pictures I find of her online show that she is more than well fed

Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (g6TN6)

153 ....where forks frolic...
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The new album from Kitchens of Distinction.

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (TN0g+)

154 121 The bloom is off the vegan rose.

Posted by: buddhah

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How much of that big vegan push was gov. funding? Probably through grants, like with solar and wind. All those companies popping up with no market, no product, and no taste.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (Zhfc2)

155 emember, California passed a law to protect communists. The law says that employers cannot punish employees for political speech. If it protects dirty filthy communists, it also protects nice Catholic girls like Gina Carano.
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In 1959 SF fired two teachers for suspected communist sympathies.

San Francisco

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (YqDXo)

156 Tofu?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 06:51 PM (VNX3d)

Heh! (has vision of meat-cutting diagram for a Tofudebeest, with every cut labeled: crap)

Aside. I actually like tofu in Chinese cooking, as a conveyor of yummy sauce.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 06:55 PM (8zz6B)

157 97
'Still treading water in the Humboldt Current?'

You'd think Pedro would send them a raft.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 06:55 PM (3wi/L)

158 151 >>Ace, you can't quit us!

Is he shutting the Blog down again?
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (qmgeg)

Starting tomorrow, he's taking vacation time. With garrett ... oh.

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 06:55 PM (CQE5S)

159 The end goal being: Single-party, permanent power.

Ummm. I'm thinking that the end goal may not be what they think it will be.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 06:52 PM (W/lyH)

You have to ignore a lot of history to forget that autocrats and kings have to be nearly as responsible to the people in their vicinity as a President.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:55 PM (n7h9X)

160 Six years ago the Camp Fire destroyed Paradise. About 55000 people lived there in area.
10% of buildings survived.
Only 10% of burned residences have been rebuilt.
Insurance big impediment.
Also lack of builders.
Builders are busy building huge apartment megaplexes in urban areas.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2025 06:55 PM (riPCw)

161 I'm not sure if that's an old picture or a new one, but Susie Spoon looks more like Susie fucking stew ladle on an image search. Maybe the fact that she hasn't had any sales is causing her to starve to death, but the pictures I find of her online show that she is more than well fed

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Word is that she eats a lot of kale.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (hY4dx)

162 John Cusack opens his mouth and once again proves he is a fool.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:45 PM (oXfCm)

The poster child for a frigging Hollywood idiot.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (W/lyH)

163 My oldest bought into that big time. Whole song and dance, yet struggled to maintain weight. Her boyfriend at the time was just a regular dude and at one point offered her a chicken wing at a bar, and she forgot herself and bit into it...
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Why are women so uniquely susceptible to stupid crap like this? Social pressure, what?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (YqDXo)

164 I just watched the Katie Perry clip.

Wow. She looks completely crazy, and the clip isn't flattering at all. She obviously has NOBODY in her camp that will tell her the truth.
Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 06:52 PM (TN0g+)
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She's a 0 now. Unremarkable body, and her weird eyes seem even farther apart now.

Obviously the no dick in the crazy rule applies, but this one isn't even a close call.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (ZOv7s)

165 >>Starting tomorrow, he's taking vacation time. With garrett

Can you imagine that furry little fop in MT?

That would be hysterical.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (qmgeg)

166 100
'I expect them to be taking the European route of outlawing all future conservative candidates, thinking they will make it work this time.'

If we don't send a lot of them to jail, they may.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (3wi/L)

167 Are crickets vegan?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (qBdHI)

168 MarcusT, mmmmmm cabrito

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (oXfCm)

169 obviously has NOBODY in her camp that will tell her the truth.
Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 06:52 PM (TN0g+)

The Waylon Smithers' of the world is who I actually blame for the fix we are in in this modern world.

From Obama to Romney to Gates to Kathleen Kennedy to any assfag you can name, there is a legion of yes-men who will never ever tell them the truth - in exchange for just a morsel of getting ahead.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (E0p3T)

170 So Trump is Hitler has finally been completely worn down and they're onto Trump Killed Jesus.

Well that's something.

You know who else thought certain people killed Jesus??
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (E0p3T)

Atheists are trying religion shame anyone? Life is funny.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (n7h9X)

171 Suzy Spoons looks like the Heat Miser's sister. What's with the hair?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (qBdHI)

172 You have to ignore a lot of history to forget that autocrats and kings have to be nearly as responsible to the people in their vicinity as a President.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:55 PM (n7h9X)
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Xi nods sadly, pulling aside the curtains to look at furious Chinese outside.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (YqDXo)

173 Of the world, in the world? Yep I need sleep.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (E0p3T)

174 167 Are crickets vegan?
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (qBdHI)

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Crickets will eat almost anything.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (hY4dx)

175
Garrett,

Rumor is you and Ace are travelling to Thailand for vacation.

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (3ek7K)

176 {{{Ben-Had}}}

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (aBgBM)

177 "Christ was tortured and executed as a Political calculation by the Trumps of the Day..."

I don't even understand the tortuous theology suggested there, and I'm too tired to read the entire article. Trump is what-a Jewish political /religious leader? A Roman political authority figure? Trump is the anti Christ? In what way?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 06:33 PM (42Vb+)

You know, the thing I've never understood about the "Christ killer" Jew hate is that he came in order for that specific event to occur. Assuming the Sanhedrin had been "better people" (or, I suppose, Pilate had a spine) rather than the equivalent of modern politicians, GOD would have achieved his ends via different means. Not to mention the fact that they would have, presumably inadvertently, been thwarting HIS will. Even assuming that all Jews, for all time, bear the burden of the actions of people over 2000 years in the past, they were acting as GOD required, albeit unknowingly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (ExV1e)

178 110-
Pascal does look awful. The only thing I've really watched him in was Narcos. I know that was long ago, but even his skin texture looks entirely different.

Posted by: Ktgreat at April 25, 2025 06:58 PM (33LJY)

179 >>Why are women so uniquely susceptible to stupid crap like this?

They are intuitively empathetic.

They see baby animals and they go Full Retard.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 06:58 PM (qmgeg)

180 How much of that big vegan push was gov. funding? Probably through grants, like with solar and wind. All those companies popping up with no market, no product, and no taste.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (Zhfc2)
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"Food deserts." We need to build subsidized health food stores because poor people crave tofu but can't get it.

Store gets robbed and closes in a couple of months, but the developers got paid.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:58 PM (ZOv7s)

181 And that was the end of that. She still likes the designer feel-good foods, but has no objection to poaching one of my steaks when the grill is running.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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My standard first date when I lived in CA was Ruth's Chris.
Sure fire way to weed out the ...well, Californians.

(Another place was a 3-star in San Jose off 1st to get Foie gras)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 06:58 PM (Zhfc2)

182 Why are women so uniquely susceptible to stupid crap like this? Social pressure, what?

Men are hunters. Women are gatherers. Its hardwired in our DNA.

Women SURVIVE by perceiving and joining consensus.

Posted by: Suzy Scissors at April 25, 2025 06:58 PM (McYvC)

183 Susan Rice is a commie asshole. She should be the first to go.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2025 06:58 PM (NRF0d)

184 Were the "I WANT ARRESTS!" people finally happy?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:34 PM (ZOv7s)

Don't be silly. Not enough, not fast enough, no one has been executed yet, why isn't Congress in prison.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (ExV1e)

185 Can you imagine that furry little fop in MT?

That would be hysterical.
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (qmgeg)

Drift-fishing on the Missouri river?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (8zz6B)

186 I'd like two 8 0z tofu filets, please/////

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:52 PM (oXfCm)
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"It tastes just like something I'd like to eat."

"Not really."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (YqDXo)

187 why isn't Congress in prison.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (ExV1e)

Finally a voice of reason.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (E0p3T)

188 Susie Spoon cheats.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (riPCw)

189 165 >>Starting tomorrow, he's taking vacation time. With garrett

Can you imagine that furry little fop in MT?

That would be hysterical.
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (qmgeg)

I gather he's going to be hanging around home. Spring cleaning and just relaxing.

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (CQE5S)

190 Why are women so uniquely susceptible to stupid crap like this?

They are intuitively empathetic.

They see baby animals and they go Full Retard.
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Let's consider the implications...

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (TN0g+)

191 My oldest bought into that big time. Whole song and dance, yet struggled to maintain weight. Her boyfriend at the time was just a regular dude and at one point offered her a chicken wing at a bar, and she forgot herself and bit into it...
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Why are women so uniquely susceptible to stupid crap like this? Social pressure, what?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (YqDXo)

Traditionally women spent tons of time in the village doing communal work with the others. This fed their talking abilities, but meant not fitting in was something to be feared.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (n7h9X)

192 Don't be silly. Not enough, not fast enough, no one has been executed yet, why isn't Congress in prison.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (ExV1e)
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So is Pinochet acceptable or do we have to do the full Franco?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:00 PM (ZOv7s)

193 Women SURVIVE by perceiving and joining consensus.

Posted by: Suzy Scissors at April 25, 2025 06:58 PM (McYvC)
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Truth.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:00 PM (YqDXo)

194 I don't get the Nazi slur. Roland Freisler was allowed to adjudicate freely right up until the afternoon he noticed a 500-lb. bomb in his lap.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 06:35 PM (JkO4W)

Honestly, you'd have thought he'd have seen the crane approaching.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 07:00 PM (ExV1e)

195 I gather he's going to be hanging around home. Spring cleaning and just relaxing.
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I imagine he'll be straightening the shelving...

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 07:00 PM (TN0g+)

196 So is Pinochet acceptable or do we have to do the full Franco?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:00 PM (ZOv7s)
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Why not both?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:00 PM (YqDXo)

197 171 Suzy Spoons looks like the Heat Miser's sister. What's with the hair?
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (qBdHI)

She's been pulling it out!

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 07:00 PM (CQE5S)

198 She's come undone.
She didn't know what she was headed for.
She never even broke the stratosphere,
But it was too-oo late! Ohooooo.
It's too late, she touched her fun,
She's Bezos'scrunt.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 07:01 PM (VJc7E)

199 Crickets will eat almost anything.

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Heh, I knew I stepped into it right after I hit post. Let me amend that. Is cricket meal considered vegan?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:01 PM (qBdHI)

200 >>Rumor is you and Ace are travelling to Thailand for vacation.

Nope.

I would never in a million years travel to Thailand or Asia.

Basically, if I can't drive there I'm not going there.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 07:01 PM (qmgeg)

201 Why isn't Congress in prison? I ask myself that every day

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:01 PM (oXfCm)

202 185 Can you imagine that furry little fop in MT?

That would be hysterical.
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (qmgeg)

Drift-fishing on the Missouri river?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (8zz6B)

Maybe he'd like to be asked!

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 07:01 PM (CQE5S)

203 It's not merely the fear of being ostracized the controls women, but what the Left expertly does is manipulate them through their give-a-fuck gene which is there (purportedly - you should meet my mother) to help them care for children and be nurses etc.

The commies tell you they are the Party That Cares and why would the Party That Cares lie about something like that?

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:02 PM (E0p3T)

204 Vegan. Butcher.

You mean a greengrocer?

Posted by: DaveL at April 25, 2025 07:02 PM (9w232)

205 I would never in a million years travel to Thailand or Asia.

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Thailand is worth the trip just for the durian.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 07:02 PM (hY4dx)

206 So is Pinochet acceptable or do we have to do the full Franco?
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Francisco Franco is still dead...

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 07:02 PM (TN0g+)

207 >>Drift-fishing on the Missouri river?

How long you think ace lasts in his first fly fishing lesson before I make him cry / or he hooks himself / or Both?

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 07:02 PM (qmgeg)

208 Traditionally women spent tons of time in the village doing communal work with the others. This fed their talking abilities, but meant not fitting in was something to be feared.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (n7h9X)
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Also, for most of human history, a woman's life was dominated by reproduction. Repeated pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, etc. took up almost all of their time and energy, so having social support was critical in surviving.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:02 PM (YqDXo)

209 You know, the thing I've never understood about the "Christ killer" Jew hate is that he came in order for that specific event to occur. Assuming the Sanhedrin had been "better people" (or, I suppose, Pilate had a spine) rather than the equivalent of modern politicians, GOD would have achieved his ends via different means. Not to mention the fact that they would have, presumably inadvertently, been thwarting HIS will. Even assuming that all Jews, for all time, bear the burden of the actions of people over 2000 years in the past, they were acting as GOD required, albeit unknowingly.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (ExV1e)

They didn't hate the Jews because of Christ-killing, they accused them of Christ-killing because they hated Jews first.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:02 PM (n7h9X)

210 Wait, I need this explained further. Who was the Trump in the Passion Narrative? Pilate? The Pharisees? Herod?

If anything, Trump is the disrupter, the rebel.

He's also the one who the state persecuted and tried to kill. Twice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 06:32 PM (ZOv7s

It would have to be Pilate. Admittedly, I'm an awful Christian but I'm pretty sure that the Pharisees didn't do more than agitate for HIS arrest. As for Herod, wasn't he dead prior to the crucifixion?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 07:03 PM (ExV1e)

211 Traditionally women spent tons of time in the village doing communal work with the others. This fed their talking abilities, but meant not fitting in was something to be feared.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (n7h9X)
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In a morally grounded society, this is a tremendous strength. Women enforce a sense of decency, policing each other as well as supporting the men.

But this has all been subverted, and women have been brainwashed to think that killing babies is the highest good and that the ideal outcome is to have 10 cats will living in a rent-subsidized apartment while working as a barista and carrying $200,000 in student loans for that masters in gender studies.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:03 PM (ZOv7s)

212 You are wise as usual to go easy on Kash, et al. They are facing odds we cannot even imagine when it comes to lawfare and the unlimited resources of the federal govt.

I am positive they are facing the impossible; give them time to unbreakable inctments.

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 25, 2025 07:03 PM (nT4HF)

213 198 She's come undone.
She didn't know what she was headed for.
She never even broke the stratosphere,
But it was too-oo late! Ohooooo.
It's too late, she touched her fun,
She's Bezos'scrunt.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 07:01 PM (VJc7E)

undone --> undun (The Guess Who)

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 07:03 PM (CQE5S)

214

Ladies. Gentlemen. I think we are overlooking the most important factor here. David French is still a cuck fag

Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 07:04 PM (g6TN6)

215 Women SURVIVE by perceiving and joining consensus.

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This applied to me...when I was in high school. At 29, I don't give one rat's backside what the consensus of women might be. I'm usually on the opposite side of their consensus anyway. I'm probably not the only 'ette that feels that way.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:04 PM (qBdHI)

216 So is Pinochet acceptable or do we have to do the full Franco?

Dead serious, I would support either. Republic is dead, can't be revived. We're down to which groups survive to start over.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 07:04 PM (McYvC)

217 Yellow mustard is great on grilled hot dogs and that's it.

Plain bagel. Microwave 30 seconds. Yellow mustard. 2 slices bologna.

Heaven.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 07:05 PM (ExV1e)

218 “ MarcusT, mmmmmm cabrito
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (oXfCm)”

Friend of mine took me to a small ranch down here in South Texas. That guy slow cooked the cabrito over a mesquite fire. It was magnificent.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:05 PM (NdPqb)

219 DMV news says the California has surged ahead of Japan to be the 4th largest economy in the world. Wonder if CA surged or Japan dropped back?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 07:05 PM (MJMyx)

220 I used to have a different nic, I love you , guy. The script was already written and everyone else was a bit part player.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:05 PM (oXfCm)

221 They didn't hate the Jews because of Christ-killing, they accused them of Christ-killing because they hated Jews first.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:02 PM (n7h9X)
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This is just silly. Who even had contact with Jews until the Disaspora? The Irish, Germans, Spanish, etc. were busy sharpening their knives for the moment Jewish refugees came within arms' reach?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:05 PM (ZOv7s)

222 220 I used to have a different nic, I love you , guy. The script was already written and everyone else was a bit part player.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:05 PM (oXfCm)

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*nods knowingly*

Posted by: A Calvinist at April 25, 2025 07:06 PM (hY4dx)

223 Why are women so uniquely susceptible to stupid crap like this?

They are intuitively empathetic.

They see baby animals and they go Full Retard.
-----------
Let's consider the implications...

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 06:59 PM (TN0g+)
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Bear Gryll has a series of videos of men and women on an uninhabited island. The guys seemed to actually enjoy themselves (roughing it, camping, fishing, hanging out with the guys), whereas the gals ended up blubbing and bitching at each other, and refusing to kill animals for food.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:06 PM (YqDXo)

224 Dead serious, I would support either. Republic is dead, can't be revived. We're down to which groups survive to start over.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 07:04 PM (McYvC)
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Wow, that's great. I think I'll have another gin.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:06 PM (ZOv7s)

225 We should start a GoFundMe campaign for Michele "Big Mike" Obama. Something must be done to smooth her path and ease her pain.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:06 PM (X+xvk)

226 Nice last Ace post ... is Ace already on the plane to ? Hunt Elk in Montana with Garrett? Or maybe a shelf building trip to Switzerland? Or a romantic getaway with some special woman ... future mother of his children?

We await the news, but ... will probably be disappointed.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 07:07 PM (Cus5s)

227 It would have to be Pilate. Admittedly, I'm an awful Christian but I'm pretty sure that the Pharisees didn't do more than agitate for HIS arrest. As for Herod, wasn't he dead prior to the crucifixion?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 07:03 PM (ExV1e)

Herod the Great was the Herod of Christ's birth. At the Crucifixion it would be a different Herod (Antipas). I think in Acts of the Apostles it was Herod Agrippa.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:07 PM (n7h9X)

228 "Vegan "butcher" complains has her "vegan butcher shop" goes bankrupt."

Did they run out of vegans to butcher?

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:07 PM (vFG9F)

229

The Sanhedrin hated Christ and hated that he was able to actually heal people, discuss the scriptures, and put them in their place. They wanted him dead. The crowd said let it be on our heads and that of our children in the gospels. That doesn't mean that they could do that. As the Epistles and Christ Himself pointed out, man was no longer going to be punished for the sins of his father

Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 07:08 PM (g6TN6)

230 Lesbo lady has one of them lesbo lady wigs.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:08 PM (vFG9F)

231 Wonder if CA surged or Japan dropped back?

Posted by: Braenyard

Yen down bigly. It is all numerical and not physical.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 07:08 PM (Zhfc2)

232 I thought Pascal's best look was when Denzel.Washington threw him off the tower onto the rocks below in Equalizer 2.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 07:08 PM (W/lyH)

233 I guess the vegans were hard to clean

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2025 07:08 PM (gVhuc)

234 Wow, that's great. I think I'll have another gin.

Victory ? My favorite. Granted, also my only.

Posted by: Winston Smith at April 25, 2025 07:09 PM (McYvC)

235 >> Wow, that's great. I think I'll have another gin.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:06 PM (ZOv7s)

Is it time to drink out of the bottle?

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:09 PM (NdPqb)

236 My standard first date when I lived in CA was Ruth's Chris.
Sure fire way to weed out the ...well, ~~Californians~~ liberal transplants from the Northeast.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:09 PM (YqDXo)

237 "I guess the vegans were hard to clean
Posted by: gKWVE "

You have to brine 'em.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:10 PM (vFG9F)

238

In other words, Jews chose the worst of all possible options by listening to their leaders. See Schumer, Chuck.

Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 07:10 PM (g6TN6)

239 215 Women SURVIVE by perceiving and joining consensus.
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It's a genetic endowment for the perpetuation of the species
and perplexion to half of the males.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 07:10 PM (MJMyx)

240 We should start a GoFundMe campaign for Michele "Big Mike" Obama. Something must be done to smooth her path and ease her pain.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:06 PM (X+xvk)
________________

Fentanyl works wonders.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:10 PM (YqDXo)

241 Where I'm from, the Vegan Butcher Shop is known as "the produce section."

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:10 PM (X+xvk)

242 >I don't normally follow Football news of any kind but the drama of Deion Sanders' son not making the first round draft of the NFL is delicious tears.
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NY Giants passed on Sanders in the 1st round, and picked QB Jaxson Dart from Ole Miss
A white guy from the south? The horror!

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 07:10 PM (AOsQT)

243 Bear Gryll has a series of videos of men and women on an uninhabited island. The guys seemed to actually enjoy themselves (roughing it, camping, fishing, hanging out with the guys), whereas the gals ended up blubbing and bitching at each other, and refusing to kill animals for food.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:06 PM (YqDXo)

Thats pretty funny. Best seen being summarized TY commentor summarizing it with some wit. There was some trauma on the male side, but one argument turned out well when a man scorned for 'wasting time' trying to repair a fish net managed to break thru and catch many fish and was celebrated, and his main detractor apologized.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:10 PM (n7h9X)

244 Did they run out of vegans to butcher?

They're like bluegill. You have to clean a whole lot just to get very little.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 07:11 PM (McYvC)

245 And yes, they're saying they're on equal footing with Christ. Like all sane humble people.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:11 PM (E0p3T)

246 what sort of things does a vegan butcher chop up?

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 07:11 PM (AOsQT)

247 Is it time to drink out of the bottle?
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:09 PM (NdPqb)
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No. Too hard to get the ice into the bottle. Easier to pour into a glass with the ice already in it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

248 @Deplorable Jay Guevara,

Heh!

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:11 PM (X+xvk)

249 "Jews chose the worst of all possible options by listening to their leaders"

Ah, you read my book.

Posted by: Flavius Josephus at April 25, 2025 07:12 PM (gVhuc)

250 Herod the Great was the Herod of Christ's birth. At the Crucifixion it would be a different Herod (Antipas). I think in Acts of the Apostles it was Herod Agrippa.

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Herod Antipas was the ethnarch of Israel until 4 A.D. After that, it was placed under direct Roman rule.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 07:12 PM (hY4dx)

251 Friend of mine took me to a small ranch down here in South Texas. That guy slow cooked the cabrito over a mesquite fire. It was magnificent.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:05 PM (NdPqb)
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That's probably how the vagrants living in California's mesquite-covered canyons succeed in starting so many wildfires.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:12 PM (YqDXo)

252 Bitchface Obama has a net worth of 70 MILLION DOLLARS and was the FIRST LADY [sic] of the United States of America -- but it (I don't want to misgender!) is STILL whining about our country???

The. Mind. Boggles.

Posted by: Beverly at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (Epeb0)

253 >I don't normally follow Football news of any kind but the drama of Deion Sanders' son not making the first round draft of the NFL is delicious tears.
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NY Giants passed on Sanders in the 1st round, and picked QB Jaxson Dart from Ole Miss
A white guy from the south? The horror!
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 07:10 PM (AOsQT)

Don't know a lot about the situation, but I'd be a bit worried that a player hand guided by a famous dad to the extend of coaching his who career might not let him go in the NFL. And in NY!

Not sure Cleveland will be better for him though.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (n7h9X)

254 Anyone remember the Jon Lovitz-era SNL sketch about healing the animosity between the blacks and Jews, and during the meeting it comes out that the ROMANS, not the Jews akshually killed Jesus, and so the rappers start talking about poppin' caps into dagos.

You know, when SNL was funny.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (ZOv7s)

255 My standard first date when I lived in CA was Ruth's Chris.
Sure fire way to weed out the ...well, Californians liberal transplants from the Northeast.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:09 PM (YqDXo)

And then she goes and orders the lobster.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (W/lyH)

256 See Schumer, Chuck.
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I don't understand why we pretend we're advancing as a civilization and yet an idiot like Schumer can display un-cooked meat on a grill (with CHEESE on top!) and yet not a soul in his own party took any shots at him? I mean, that's just a mind-numbingly STUPID act by an alleged "leader" and the Democrats just all whistled and pretended nothing had happened.

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (TN0g+)

257 >> No. Too hard to get the ice into the bottle. Easier to pour into a glass with the ice already in it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

I’m not suppose to drink anymore, save the occasional beer. The only thing I really miss is bourbon. Oh, and for some reason there’s still a bottle of Stoli in the freezer.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (NdPqb)

258 Where I'm from, the Vegan Butcher Shop is known as "the produce section."
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:10 PM (X+xvk)

Evergreen:

https://youtu.be/KmK0bZl4ILM

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (8zz6B)

259 Bitchface Obama has a net worth of 70 MILLION DOLLARS and was the FIRST LADY [sic] of the United States of America -- but it (I don't want to misgender!) is STILL whining about our country???

The. Mind. Boggles.
Posted by: Beverly at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (Epeb0)

how do you think she made the 70 million.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:14 PM (n7h9X)

260 My cowshit and fish semen casserole restaurant failed as welll.

Where's my government subsidy?

She goes by "Suzy Spoon" because she's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

>
Sure fire way to weed out the ...well, Californians liberal transplants from the Northeast.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:09 PM (YqDXo)

We Alaskans enjoy taking people to one of the many local restaurants that serve reindeer sausage.

"And now you know what happens to the reindeer that don't make the cut for Santa's team."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 25, 2025 07:14 PM (W5ArC)

261 Vodka belongs in the freezer. It does. Forget about it.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 07:15 PM (QSrLX)

262

I have never understood people who are very wealthy feel like they still have to control the world.

For goodness sake, enjoy your money. (except you assholes who stole it from us)

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:15 PM (3ek7K)

263 Oldcat, she sold 17 million books, man

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:15 PM (oXfCm)

264 Anyone remember the Jon Lovitz-era SNL sketch about healing the animosity between the blacks and Jews, and during the meeting it comes out that the ROMANS, not the Jews akshually killed Jesus, and so the rappers start talking about poppin' caps into dagos.
_____________

At the instigation of the Sanhedrin.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:15 PM (YqDXo)

265 >> We Alaskans enjoy taking people to one of the many local restaurants that serve reindeer sausage.

That stuff is magnificent. It’s like crack.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM (NdPqb)

266 Why are women so uniquely susceptible to stupid crap like this? Social pressure, what?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:56 PM (YqDXo)

They are in general enslaved to their emotions to the point they will destroy themselves, their children, their husbands, their families if it is consonance with their immediate feelz, as generated by whatever the Current Thing is. There's a reason why the capricious, unpredictable, violently destructive and callous forces of disaster in this world are called Mother Nature.

Posted by: Left uncontained they annihilate without compunction at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM (TbWk/)

267 Don't know a lot about the situation, but I'd be a bit worried that a player hand guided by a famous dad to the extend of coaching his who career might not let him go in the NFL. And in NY!

Not sure Cleveland will be better for him though.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (n7h9X)
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I think Deion is the only coach his kid has ever had. From high school through JuCo and then Colorado.

Yeah, neat stats, but is he coachable by anyone else?

Oh, and retiring his number certainly won't give him an ego...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM (ZOv7s)

268 259 Bitchface Obama has a net worth of 70 MILLION DOLLARS and was the FIRST LADY [sic] of the United States of America -- but it (I don't want to misgender!) is STILL whining about our country???

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Take comfort in the fact that even with all the money, that complaining harridan will always be raging mad and miserable.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM (hY4dx)

269 That's probably how the vagrants living in California's mesquite-covered canyons succeed in starting so many wildfires.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:12 PM (YqDXo)

The Power company still has em beat.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM (n7h9X)

270 what sort of things does a vegan butcher chop up?

Anything you can grow in the garden. I prefer cauliflower, tomatoes, and cucumbers. Then, get this, eat 'em uncooked. Just imagine the scene from Sausage Party.

He's peeling my fooking skin !!!!

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM (McYvC)

271 Mooch would be like a million other grifters if she had not met Barky. Sort of like Hillary but not as ambitious.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM (vFG9F)

272 My standard first date when I lived in CA was Ruth's Chris.
Sure fire way to weed out the ...well, Californians liberal transplants from the Northeast.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:09 PM (YqDXo)

And then she goes and orders the lobster.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (W/lyH)
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The surf and turf, pecks away at it, then takes most of it home.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM (YqDXo)

273 Been trying to make a pizza the last hour and half, got something resemble as one in the oven finally

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 07:17 PM (ypFCm)

274 Bitchface Obama has a net worth of 70 MILLION DOLLARS and was the FIRST LADY [sic] of the United States of America -- but it (I don't want to misgender!) is STILL whining about our country???

The. Mind. Boggles.
Posted by: Beverly at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (Epeb0)

Envy is a renewable resource.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:17 PM (E0p3T)

275 At the instigation of the Sanhedrin.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:15 PM (YqDXo)
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You're ruining the joke.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:17 PM (ZOv7s)

276 You're selling semen??

Posted by: Fravid Dench at April 25, 2025 07:17 PM (gVhuc)

277 "Even assuming that all Jews, for all time, bear the burden of the actions of people over 2000 years in the past, they were acting as GOD required, albeit unknowingly."

"The Jews" are not one united group. Most of the Jews listened to Jesus ... sermon on the mount and other occasions. (JJ speaks of the current "self gassing Jews)

As always, groups get big then get taken over by evil forces. The recent pope for instance, but OT history has occasions of a few faithful Jews having to hide in caves, from the corrupted institution.

Corruption of large institutions is an OT theme. (Noah, Sodom and Gomorrah, others). No Group is universally United. Evil infiltrates and divides ... and conquers.

Even Apostle Paul said those that had stood wth hi had turned against him, and he names a few that stood faithful. The "remnant" of faithful are (generally) Never the Large Group.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 07:17 PM (Cus5s)

278 Oldcat, she sold 17 million books, man
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:15 PM (oXfCm)

Many of which are now at the bottom of the ocean, providing a basis for new reefs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 07:18 PM (VNX3d)

279 Admittedly, I'm an awful Christian but I'm pretty sure that the Pharisees didn't do more than agitate for HIS arrest.

Umm, they tried to stone Him to death.

Pilate said he found no fault in Jesus, offered him up for release, to which the Jewish mob cried "Crucify! Crucify! The Pilate washed his hands (literally and figuratively) of the sentencing, to which the Jewish mob cried "His blood be on our hands, and the hands of our children."

Other than that, they bear no responsibility in the matter.

Posted by: At least be honest at April 25, 2025 07:18 PM (RihOl)

280 I don't understand why we pretend we're advancing as a civilization and yet an idiot like Schumer can display un-cooked meat on a grill (with CHEESE on top!) and yet not a soul in his own party took any shots at him? I mean, that's just a mind-numbingly STUPID act by an alleged "leader" and the Democrats just all whistled and pretended nothing had happened.

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (TN0g+)
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I wanted to see him eat that essentially uncooked burger, and become violently ill.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:18 PM (YqDXo)

281 Been trying to make a pizza the last hour and half, got something resemble as one in the oven finally
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 07:17 PM (ypFCm)
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I ate my first pepperoni pizza since Ash Wednesday an hour ago, and washed it down with my first beer since then.

It was sublime.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:18 PM (ZOv7s)

282 The surf and turf, pecks away at it, then takes most of it home.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM (YqDXo)

Yay!

Posted by: Her Cats at April 25, 2025 07:19 PM (8zz6B)

283 Bitchface Obama has a net worth of 70 MILLION DOLLARS and was the FIRST LADY [sic] of the United States of America -- but it (I don't want to misgender!) is STILL whining about our country???

Nothing is ever enough. Eve had Eden, a perfect paradise on earth - but it wasn't enough. Had to go eat the forbidden fruit because she wanted more than the perfect state of existence God had given. Granted it was all a setup but it gives some insight on base female nature.

Posted by: And she was created directly by God - let that sink in at April 25, 2025 07:19 PM (TbWk/)

284 what if everybody is wrong about everything?

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 07:19 PM (g47mK)

285 Should be tell them the life and death of Christ was preordained on the Old Testament? Nah.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:19 PM (NdPqb)

286 Posted by: Left uncontained they annihilate without compunction at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM

So I guess you had a miserable mother and a bitter divorce, eh?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 07:20 PM (tJHAE)

287 The Power company still has em beat.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM (n7h9X)
_____________

Lessee, we've got a potential source of sparks, and bone-dry vegetation (aka "tinder") underneath.

Nope, I don't see any problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:20 PM (YqDXo)

288 258 Where I'm from, the Vegan Butcher Shop is known as "the produce section."
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:10 PM (X+xvk)

Evergreen:

https://youtu.be/KmK0bZl4ILM

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Ha!

"Carrot juice constitutes murder!" slew me.

Also loved the "Give Peas a Chance" signs.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:20 PM (X+xvk)

289 what if everybody is wrong about everything?
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 07:19 PM (g47mK)

apparently we would be forced to blame that on the Jews. And justify the pogroms that way too.

Jesus Fucking Christ, people.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 07:21 PM (D7oie)

290
I don't think Jesus *ucked.

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:21 PM (3ek7K)

291 I had a miserable mother so I found a wife that was everything she isn't.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:22 PM (E0p3T)

292 I wasn’t aware there is an Apostate Bible Study Group here. Gee, you just don’t know about some people.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:22 PM (NdPqb)

293 I am going to with... everybody is wrong about everything.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 07:22 PM (g47mK)

294 Freisler died in a building collapse related to bombing, I thought? Same same, basically. Shame he didn't survive to have his neck stretched after the festivities ended. Amazing that apparently he was not a model for DC Circuit judges, or for Kennedy in his Obergefell atrocity, because his rants fit right in.

Birria is the latest teen craze in SoCal taco shops, using beef instead of goat of course. Beef's good, goat would be great and different. Imagine one could find some goat birria in LA if one looked, but I haven't.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2025 07:22 PM (1m82a)

295 At the instigation of the Sanhedrin.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:15 PM (YqDXo)

Yeah the Passion Plays usually make that clear. Sometimes going too far in the line of making him compassionate. Likely a ham-fisted dude who cared little for local politics. In one instance a Roman whipped his tool out at Jewish festival and they went Berserk and Rioted. Pilate called in the Army and the mob panicked and many civilians were crushed trying to get away.

Reading a sufficiently detailed history of Judea in that period makes you think since the Jews then were as nutty as Islamists today.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:22 PM (n7h9X)

296 I don't think Jesus *ucked.

So he WAS married!!!

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 07:22 PM (McYvC)

297 "what if everybody is wrong about everything?
Posted by: runner"

Impossible. I am right about everything. Just ask Mrs fd.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:22 PM (vFG9F)

298 284 what if everybody is wrong about everything?
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 07:19 PM (g47mK)

Wouldn't that be interesting? Maybe we're all living a simulation and everything we think we know is a fabrication. Far-fetched but it would explain a few things.

Posted by: Like fuckin' magnets. How do they work? at April 25, 2025 07:22 PM (TbWk/)

299 "The Jews" are not one united group. Most of the Jews listened to Jesus ... sermon on the mount and other occasions. (JJ speaks of the current "self gassing Jews)

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 07:17 PM (Cus5s)
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The term "Arab Christians" is pure propaganda. They are as Arab as I am. They are the descendants of the Jews who converted to Christianity in the time of Christ. The notion that the Arabs who overran the Levant in the 7th Century AD would somehow product Christian converts is absurd.

The Chaldean Catholic liturgy still uses the actual Aramaic, which is as familiar to them as Shakespearean English is to us.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:23 PM (ZOv7s)

300 > salad shooter

What do you call a vegan with diarrhea?

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at April 25, 2025 07:23 PM (W5ArC)

301 Marcus T, I don't imagine Cusack and a Bible are well acquainted.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 07:23 PM (oXfCm)

302 I’m not suppose to drink anymore, save the occasional beer. The only thing I really miss is bourbon. Oh, and for some reason there’s still a bottle of Stoli in the freezer.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:13 PM (NdPqb)
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For medicinal purposes, amirite?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:23 PM (YqDXo)

303 Lessee, we've got a potential source of sparks, and bone-dry vegetation (aka "tinder") underneath.

Nope, I don't see any problem.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:20 PM (YqDXo)

And laws against cutting the tinder back, too.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:23 PM (n7h9X)

304 Simulation of what?

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:24 PM (E0p3T)

305 I wasn’t aware there is an Apostate Bible Study Group here. Gee, you just don’t know about some people.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:22 PM (NdPqb)
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Apostate or heretic?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:24 PM (ZOv7s)

306 Ruth's Chris for a first date? I guess if she were a smoking goddess of hawtness. Kinda pricey for a preliminary reconnaissance, though.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2025 07:24 PM (1m82a)

307 Well, I guess he showed her.

Chinese man gets in argument with girlfriend, jumps out hotel window

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 07:24 PM (L/fGl)

308 Kindltot is right as usual

Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 07:25 PM (gVhuc)

309 >> Apostate or heretic?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:24 PM (ZOv7s)

Do you have a coin I can borrow?

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:25 PM (NdPqb)

310 "Simulation of what?
Posted by: ... "

Your reality.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:25 PM (vFG9F)

311 This YT channel takes historic photos and AI animates them.

https://youtu.be/MiNujvkb3L4?si=kKUEafUUJnEwREP4

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 07:26 PM (YwEeS)

312 Do you have a coin I can borrow?
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:25 PM (NdPqb)
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There is a difference. You can be a heretic without ever being an apostate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:26 PM (ZOv7s)

313 "Simulation of what?
Posted by: ... "

Your reality.
Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:25 PM (vFG9F)

I reject your reality and replace it with my own.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 07:26 PM (VNX3d)

314 And she was created directly by God - let that sink in at April 25, 2025 07:19 PM (TbWk/)

And why did you have to change your handle at least twice in one thread?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 07:26 PM (tJHAE)

315 303 Lessee, we've got a potential source of sparks, and bone-dry vegetation (aka "tinder") underneath.

Nope, I don't see any problem.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:20 PM (YqDXo)

And laws against cutting the tinder back, too.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:23 PM (n7h9X)
______________

It's probably some endangered cockroachs' habitat.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:26 PM (YqDXo)

316 304 Simulation of what?
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:24 PM (E0p3T)

Existence. It's a dream we have inside a locked room. A dream about being a person.

Posted by: It's all an illusion, man at April 25, 2025 07:26 PM (TbWk/)

317 >> For medicinal purposes, amirite?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:23 PM (YqDXo)

You are correct. It’s a “break glass” contingency.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (NdPqb)

318 The left is 100% all in on how its unthinkable to arrest a judge. They cannot help stomping on rakes, its hilarious.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (2VST1)

319 Your reality.
Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:25 PM (vFG9F)

Yeah you wouldn't want to be in that.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (E0p3T)

320 Thanks for all of the great work, Ace! Enjoy your week off - you've more than earned it.

Posted by: Retired, thank God! at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (9BIt9)

321 Ruth's Chris for a first date? I guess if she were a smoking goddess of hawtness. Kinda pricey for a preliminary reconnaissance, though.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2025 07:24 PM (1m82a)

Exactly. I'm thinking 7-11 and Night Train.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (NRF0d)

322 271 Mooch would be like a million other grifters if she had not met Barky. Sort of like Hillary but not as ambitious.

Posted by: fd

She's staggeringly wealthy, and got there without doing half of the work that Hillary did. Impressive, in a Bernie Sanders "Didn't Earn It" kind of way.

And much like Hillary, she's dissatisfied, eternally complaining, always needing more.

I just wonder if we'll ever be allowed to know why she, Mooch, isn't allowed to practice law. (She did have a law license, didn't she?)

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (X+xvk)

323 Exactly. I'm thinking 7-11 and Night Train.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (NRF0d)

Circle K and Four Lokos

Posted by: These 1%era get on my nerves at April 25, 2025 07:28 PM (TbWk/)

324 The left is 100% all in on how its unthinkable to arrest a judge. They cannot help stomping on rakes, its hilarious.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (2VST1)
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But calling for the assassination of one (e.g., Kavanaugh) is A-OK. I mean, they weren't proposing to arrest him now, were they?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:28 PM (YqDXo)

325

I'm not Jewish, but I can predict the weather.

Our furniture and stuff from Columbia SC is supposed to be delivered next week to our home here in Wyoming.

Blizzard alert, lmao

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:28 PM (3ek7K)

326 "Your reality.
Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:25 PM (vFG9F)

Yeah you wouldn't want to be in that.
Posted by: ... "

My reality is the only one I can depend on.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:28 PM (vFG9F)

327 That DUI guy should be taken just across the border into Mexico. The parents of the two boys should be informed exactly where. ICE should "release" him into their custody for half an hour. Then retake custody of whatever is left and move it to a proper release point, well away from the border.

Posted by: GWB at April 25, 2025 07:29 PM (ij5yP)

328 Now I know what to do for this weekend's Food Thread: butcher a cabbage!

I'll let you all know how it goes.

Posted by: Bombadil at April 25, 2025 07:29 PM (MX0bI)

329 306 Ruth's Chris for a first date? I guess if she were a smoking goddess of hawtness. Kinda pricey for a preliminary reconnaissance, though.
Posted by: rhomboid

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Well, not today, but back when a first date was big deal. Nowadays I think people have 3 or 4 first dates a week (I am long out of the dating demographic.)

But yeah, not for non-serious dates, but for ones I wanted to impress. Also, being single I did not have much chance to spend my money or eat good meals, so it was worth the money.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 07:29 PM (Zhfc2)

330 I just wonder if we'll ever be allowed to know why she, Mooch, isn't allowed to practice law. (She did have a law license, didn't she?)

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (X+xvk)
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I believe her law license lapsed, and she blew it off.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 07:29 PM (YqDXo)

331 Exactly. I'm thinking 7-11 and Night Train.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (NRF0d)
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Whoa, whoa, WHOA! Let's not get carried away here.

Val-U-Rite and Kaboom.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:29 PM (ZOv7s)

332 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 07:29 PM (ypFCm)

333 The term "Arab Christians" is pure propaganda. They are as Arab as I am. They are the descendants of the Jews who converted to Christianity in the time of Christ.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 25, 2025 07:23 PM (ZOv7s)

Historically Arab Christians more of a post Islam effect, though there may have been some about earlier. The tribes living in the desert between Persia, then Islamic areas and the Levant held by Rome and Byzantium and Persia and Isalamic converted to one religion or the other and sold their cavalry to both sides for scouting, with a side line in Banditry. They used the religious tie to have a tenuous protection from the other rival empire.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:29 PM (n7h9X)

334 >> He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.”

Isaiah 53:3

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:30 PM (NdPqb)

335 323 Exactly. I'm thinking 7-11 and Night Train.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (NRF0d)

Circle K and Four Lokos
Posted by: These 1%era get on my nerves at April 25, 2025 07:28 PM (TbWk/)

Waffle House and bottomless pot of coffee.

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 07:30 PM (CQE5S)

336 Existence. It's a dream we have inside a locked room. A dream about being a person.
Posted by: It's all an illusion, man at April 25, 2025 07:26 PM (TbWk/)

That may be all it is but is it shared or are you the only one being simulated to? If it's shared then that may as well just be existence itself since there is no fundamental way to discern otherwise. If it's just you then you are just as likely to be God and yourself in this simulation in which case that's where it starts to get weird.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:30 PM (E0p3T)

337 Cusack's tweet is like watching a monomaniac play madlibs. He just fills in blanks with spittle-flecked words from a very small list that he keeps using over and over and over.

Its sad too because he used to be so reliably great in everything. Some of his movies are in my favorite all time list like Gross Point Blank and Better Off Dead. But the guy just cannot seem to help himself, and in the most hamfisted, incompetent ways.

That said... there might be a reason for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:30 PM (2VST1)

338 Oh speaking of endangered bugs, that wasp crawling around my upper window finally fell off and crawled around my floor. Dunno why it even entered my house if it was going to be miserable in it.
I flushed it.

Posted by: gKWhatever at April 25, 2025 07:30 PM (gVhuc)

339 Chinese man gets in argument with girlfriend, jumps out hotel window

The bitch is clazy. I can't risten to hel shit anymole.

Posted by: Chinese Man at April 25, 2025 07:31 PM (McYvC)

340 300 > salad shooter

What do you call a vegan with diarrhea?

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent

*howling!*

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:31 PM (X+xvk)

341 There was a very hawt Assyrian cardiologist (who understood Aramaic), she had a nice accent, and was stunned someone could talk (a bit) of shop re northern Iraq. But events intervened. That was a first (and last) date, restaurant was a very authentic Eye-talian place that was like being in Rome. Still, not as $$ as Ruth's Chris.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2025 07:31 PM (1m82a)

342 Now I know what to do for this weekend's Food Thread: butcher a cabbage!

I'll let you all know how it goes.
Posted by: Bombadil at April 25, 2025 07:29 PM (MX0bI)

Green for kraut or red for German cabbage (which is an addiction)?

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2025 07:31 PM (gKDq2)

343 329 306 Ruth's Chris for a first date? I guess if she were a smoking goddess of hawtness. Kinda pricey for a preliminary reconnaissance, though.
Posted by: rhomboid

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It would be a high-steaks move (SWIDT?) since the opportunities for an embarrassing pratfall or clueless faux pas are much greater at a nice joint, but some guys like the tightrope aspect of it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 07:31 PM (hY4dx)

344 There was an article I read a while back where some pretty famous guys who are basically over with their careers were talking about Hollywood and how it destroys your soul and what you have to do to get anywhere. And while we're all pretty familiar with the little girls being put through the molestation grinder... so are boys. And not-so boys.

Young men want to make it? Get on your knees boy. Lube up. Those producers and execs want to try out the new hot young actor and you want this part real bad, don't you? Its not just the girls.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:32 PM (2VST1)

345
Does anyone remember Steak and Ale?

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:32 PM (3ek7K)

346 You are correct. It’s a “break glass” contingency.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:27 PM (NdPqb)

MAZELTOV!

I mean . . . Um, what?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 07:33 PM (D7oie)

347 Waffle House and bottomless pot of coffee.
Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 07:30 PM (CQE5S)

Denny's has a special: Buy one breakfast, get a second for a dollar.

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2025 07:33 PM (gKDq2)

348 Chinese man gets in argument with girlfriend, jumps out hotel window
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If he was arguing it was a wall, he lost.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:33 PM (E0p3T)

349 You know why nobody wants those vegan meat substitutes? They're disgusting. Talk to anyone who works at a restaurant that serves them and nearly all of them would agree. They smell horrible when you cook them, stick to the grill and feel really weird and slimy when raw. Nobody who actually makes these eats them.
After a couple years the hype died down and the general public realized how gross these things are while hardcore vegans didn't eat them in the first place leaving them with no market.

Posted by: Surfperch at April 25, 2025 07:33 PM (bY9l0)

350 Chinese man gets in argument with girlfriend, jumps out hotel window
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At least now she knows what to name their child.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 07:34 PM (E0p3T)

351 @300

What do you call a vegan with diarrhea?

Normal.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 25, 2025 07:35 PM (hKoQL)

352 Admittedly, I'm an awful Christian but I'm pretty sure that the Pharisees didn't do more than agitate for HIS arrest.

Umm, they tried to stone Him to death.

Posted by: At least be honest at April 25, 2025 07:18 PM (RihOl)

Don't think so, they did not have the right to capital punishment under Roman Law. So they had to get Pilate's permission to do so.

When the Apostle Paul was similarly brought up on charges, he, as a citizen used his right to appeal to the Emperor in Rome and they had to ship him there.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:36 PM (n7h9X)

353 So, why are people who are so utterly convinced of the wrongheadedness of eating meat....

....always trying to come up with a meat substitute?

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:36 PM (X+xvk)

354 I have never dated an assyrian, but when I got my hat made for me in Grand Junction the young lady who did so was in her mid 20s, maybe? Tall and lean and brunette, cute. I think she was flirting with me, but maybe that was just her way of keeping customers? Its so hard to tell. But being me, I assumed it wasn't really her being interested in me, because why would she be, I'm an old man with bad health and not a lot of money. But she was talking about stuff like how the leather made her smell when she went home after work (good) and how tall I was.

This is the dilemma guys face ladies. You might not grok this: we can never tell if you're just doing it hoping for tips or being nice or actually interested. For the record I was only in town a day, am not interested in a hook up, and was too tired and not feeling great so no date, and was there with my cousin, so not able to date even if she jumped in my lap and asked for one. Its just... women complain about not being asked on dates or following through in "hints" and that's the problem

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:37 PM (2VST1)

355 Does anyone remember Steak and Ale?
Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 07:32 PM (3ek7K)

Had that with a half yard of Ale in St Louis once. A glass one and a half foot tall with a bulb on the bottom for more capacity.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:39 PM (n7h9X)

356 There is no substitute for meat.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:40 PM (vFG9F)

357 This is the dilemma guys face ladies. You might not grok this: we can never tell if you're just doing it hoping for tips or being nice or actually interested. For the record I was only in town a day, am not interested in a hook up, and was too tired and not feeling great so no date, and was there with my cousin, so not able to date even if she jumped in my lap and asked for one. Its just... women complain about not being asked on dates or following through in "hints" and that's the problem
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 07:37 PM (2VST1)

I suggest ladies get a business card set with "I like you" and a name and phone number on it and hand them to the fellow in these situations.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:41 PM (n7h9X)

358 "I suggest ladies get a business card set with "I like you" and a name and phone number on it and hand them to the fellow in these situations.

Posted by: Oldcat "

Damn. You really know how to get a guy in trouble, don't you?

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:42 PM (vFG9F)

359 So, why are people who are so utterly convinced of the wrongheadedness of eating meat....

....always trying to come up with a meat substitute?

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 07:36 PM (X+xvk)

Nutritionally it is extremely hard to deliver the 7 amino acids we can't manufacture ...called "Essential" although they are so unessential that the body can afford to risk going without for a while....lots of dodges need to be done to find and extract that from vegetable sources.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:44 PM (n7h9X)

360 "Because Trump won, and the border closed -- the judicial contingency has been implemented. That's where we are now. The plan stays in motion, as they attempt to run out the clock on Trump 47."

Yes, I think most of us already knew this. Question is, what's our plan?

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 25, 2025 07:45 PM (vsTPo)

361 The surf and turf, pecks away at it, then takes most of it home.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Hey, that unemployed drummer "roommate" needs sustenance, too!

Posted by: buddhaha at April 25, 2025 07:46 PM (cIFM2)

362 "Pilate said he found no fault in Jesus, offered him up for release, to which the Jewish mob cried "Crucify! Crucify! The Pilate washed his hands (literally and figuratively) of the sentencing, to which the Jewish mob cried "His blood be on our hands, and the hands of our children."

I view that as the current funded BLM/Antifa "riots". Pilate was perhaps weak, or overwhelmed by the masses, but yeah, it was certain manipulative (corrupted, not faithful) "Jews" that pushed for the crucifixion of Jesus.

Remember JC confronted some of those "Jews" and told them "you are of your father the Devil, and the works of your father you will do". That was not about all faithful Jews, but about these sellouts.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 07:48 PM (Cus5s)

363 "Because Trump won, and the border closed -- the judicial contingency has been implemented. That's where we are now. The plan stays in motion, as they attempt to run out the clock on Trump 47."

Yes, I think most of us already knew this. Question is, what's our plan?
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 25, 2025 07:45 PM (vsTPo)

Well Trump started using other vectors to ship out terrorists. The lawfare is still just delaying the cases in progress. A lot of the current cases have some serious procedural violations that can be exploited. Some judges are being charged of more clumsy obstructionism, which should keep them out of mischief.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:50 PM (n7h9X)

364 Damn. You really know how to get a guy in trouble, don't you?
Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:42 PM (vFG9F)

Less trouble than guessing I expect.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 07:52 PM (n7h9X)

365 Early explorers in Antarctica found that packing salted penguins in barrels for the long trip home was a serious mistake, as they later discovered "the black flesh of the body is rank and oily, and has rather a perfumed taste". Many sailors perished rather than consume what was on the mephitic menu, or contracted brain worms from the syphilitic penguin meat.

Subsequent attempts to can penguins failed miserably, as no one in their right mind would even consider eating canned penguin.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at April 25, 2025 07:56 PM (vFG9F)

366 > Subsequent attempts to can penguins failed miserably, as no one in their right mind would even consider eating canned penguin.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at April 25, 2025 07:56 PM (vFG9F)

I'll bet the French would.

Strike that. You did say "no one in their right mind".

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at April 25, 2025 08:16 PM (W5ArC)

367 > 271 Mooch would be like a million other grifters if she had not met Barky. Sort of like Hillary but not as ambitious.
Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:16 PM (vFG9F)

She'd probably be a corrupt Chicago alderwoman or some such. Of course "corrupt Chicago alderthing" is sort of redundant.

Chi-town is basically a collection of medieval baronies operating under the camouflage of a democracy.

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at April 25, 2025 08:19 PM (W5ArC)

368 Vegan butcher = salad chef

Posted by: Sam at April 25, 2025 08:50 PM (7jMef)

369

The bottom line on the "Jews and their Descendants" thing is one of the few things that Vatican II got right. No earthly power can supersede God's Authority and scope of condemnation. When Jesus said that a son is no longer responsible for the sins of his father, that was it.

Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 08:51 PM (g6TN6)

370 Watch some sort of global plague or full nuclear commitment will happen next week and while the living will envy the dead and trying to gather food and fighting off marauders, I will think 'Hah! Ace picked the wrong week to go on vacation! Schmuck.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at April 25, 2025 08:57 PM (7aGvc)

371 Actually Suzie Spoon is fairly hot for her age--and was probably smokin' when she was younger. No metal and no tats (as far as I can see). Hair is one attractive color, and that's about the only thing about her I can see that needs to be fixed.

Posted by: oopsie . . . too late at April 25, 2025 08:59 PM (kvDvI)

372 Michelle Obama: "As black women, we don't articulate our pain"

Oh bullshit - then what are those ugly noises always coming out of that flapping hole at the bottom of your face?!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 26, 2025 09:29 AM (NNYw1)

373 Director Bob Clark, who brought us A Christmas Story, and his son were killed by an illegal alien drunk driver in 2007.
Police determined that the SUV's driver, Héctor Manuel Velázquez-Nava, had a blood alcohol level of three times the legal limit and was driving without a license.[15] Velazquez-Nava was described by federal authorities as being in the U.S. illegally.[16] The driver initially pleaded not guilty to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter,[17] but changed his plea … and was sentenced to six years. He served 3 before being released and deported. Velazquez-Nava was later caught re-entering the US.

Posted by: Tmitsss at April 26, 2025 10:15 AM (/tFmy)

Fake News The Left Can Use: USAID Has Been Funding Leftwing "News" Agencies Around the World

Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
EXCLUSIVE - BOUGHT AND PAID FOR: HOW $472 MILLION BUILT A GLOBAL LEFT-WING MEDIA MACHINE
In February 2025, WikiLeaks pulled back the curtain on a government-funded media empire that's been quietly shaping what billions of people read, watch, and believe.
At the center of it all? A group you've probably never heard of: Internews Network. Funded mostly by USAID, Internews presents itself as a friendly nonprofit supporting "independent journalism."
But behind that noble-sounding mission lies a global operation that critics say is more about managing narratives than reporting facts.
The numbers are jaw-dropping.
Nearly $473 million--yes, that's nearly half a billion--has flowed to Internews from USAID and the U.S. State Department over the past 2 decades.
Add in millions more from billionaire-backed organizations like George Soros's Open Society, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and you've got a media Frankenstein stitched together with government cash and private influence.
In 2023 alone, Internews claims to have worked with 4,291 media outlets, produced 4,799 hours of programming, and trained over 9,000 journalists.
It also says it reached an audience of 778 million people worldwide. That's more than double the population of the United States.
But here's where things get murky. Internews isn't just giving media groups equipment and microphones. It's tying grants to ideological conditions.
In Hungary, for example, officials accused Internews of funding anti-government media under the guise of "media development." If you didn't toe the line, you didn't get the money.
In Ukraine, it funded 9 out of 10 major media outlets--almost all promoting pro-NATO, pro-conflict content during wartime.
And it's not just about news. In Kosovo, just months before major protests broke out in Serbia, Internews offered grants to reporters to write in Serbian.
The pitch? Promote "positive" stories about Albanian-Serb relations. Sounds harmless--until you realize this was a foreign-funded push to shape how people talk about sensitive ethnic conflicts.
Then there's Internews' Earth Journalism Network, which recently launched a $100,000 media grant focused on climate reporting in Asia.
Sounds great--except that the fine print gives Internews and its donors the rights to edit and publish all the content.
So yes, they're funding journalism--but they're also controlling the output.
Even advertising isn't off limits. Through its "Ads for News" program, Internews partners with GroupM, the world's biggest media buyer, to funnel ad dollars to "trusted" outlets. If you're not on the list, you get nothing. It's a digital loyalty program--except instead of points, you get credibility and cash.
Internews is led by Jeanne Bourgault, a former U.S. government official who made $451,000 last year. She previously worked on post-Soviet "transition programs" and oversaw a $250 million budget at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
In 2023, she launched a $10 million media fund at the Clinton Global Initiative--a project backed by Hillary Clinton. The Internews board includes big Democratic donors and political insiders, and WikiLeaks says at least one of its six subsidiaries is based in the Cayman Islands, a notorious offshore haven.
Meanwhile, its headquarters in California? Reportedly an abandoned building still listed in official filings.
Let that sink in: a half-billion-dollar media empire, pushing narratives in dozens of countries, funded by your tax dollars--and run from a ghost office.
Internews says it's here to "support press freedom." But as one media analyst put it, "It's not about giving journalists a voice--it's about choosing which voices get heard."
So the next time you read a "fact-check" or see a story calling something "disinformation," remember: it might just be brought to you by the same people who paid $473 million to decide what the world thinks is true.
Sources: Anadolu Agency, Hungary Gov, Ukrayinska Pravda, KoSSev, Earth Journalism Network, TRT World, Concordia, Shore News Network

Meanwhile, the left authorized $4 trillion in taxpayer dollars for their own political warfare uses:

Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
This thread shows how $4 Trillion in Federal Funds Were Funneled Through Leftist NGOs to Enrich Activists, Mobilize Voters, and Power Anti-Trump Protests--With Receipts
This is maybe the most important thread I have ever done. It explains how the two biggest pieces of legislation from the Biden administration filled the coffers of all of these activist groups that have been engaging in the Trump 2.0 resistance. From GOTV efforts, to Anti-Tesla protests to the legal battles against Trump.
The Center for American Progress (CAP), founded by Clinton ally John Podesta, is more than a think tank--it's the strategic command center for the modern Left. Under Biden, CAP helped orchestrate the biggest activist cash grab in U.S. history: $4 TRILLION.

When Biden tapped Podesta to oversee implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act--a $369B climate fund--it wasn't just about energy. It was about control. Podesta's real mission? Redistribute billions to Democrat-aligned NGOs.
But that $369B was just one piece. The combined total from COVID relief, infrastructure, and climate bills under Biden exceeds $4 TRILLION. CAP helped shape who got that money--and it wasn't the states. It was activist orgs.
Enter the Justice40 Initiative--designed to steer 40% of benefits to "disadvantaged communities." In practice, this meant bypassing elected officials and funneling funds directly to NGOs, most of them progressive-aligned.
These grants weren't just for "climate justice." They funded GOTV, "community empowerment," "trusted messengers," and "technical assistance." Translation: campaign infrastructure disguised as public service.

Organizations like Indivisible and the Sunrise Movement became major beneficiaries. Both have organized anti-Trump protests, Tesla shutdowns, and youth voter drives--and both have received massive indirect support through these federal programs.
Indivisible used its gains to grow chapters in every swing state, launch digital voter targeting, and coordinate pressure campaigns against GOP legislation. Their footprint expanded after receiving funds through "equity" and "democracy advancement" grants.

Sunrise Movement, tied to "climate resilience" grants, led protests at Tesla showrooms and occupied congressional offices. In 2024, they claimed to have made over 4 million youth voter contacts, playing a massive role in Democrat turnout.
Podesta and CAP created the policy architecture that made this possible. They advised federal agencies to embed "equity" mandates and prioritize "community-based organizations" (aka: progressive NGOs) in grantmaking.
In total, the Justice40 Accelerator--just one program--helped NGOs win $138 million in grants. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Let's be clear: these aren't apolitical charities.
* Indivisible was built to oppose Trump.
* Sunrise led sit-ins to demand Biden go further left.
* Faith in Action and EDF advocate openly for progressive legislation.
And they're all funded by your tax dollars--thanks to Podesta's CAP and their policy-to-grant pipeline. This is government-funded activism, hidden behind a green mask.
CAP didn't just lobby from the sidelines. Its alumni staff the Biden admin. Its reports became agency regulations. Its "equity" mandates were inserted into budget guidance.
This wasn't legislation. This was executive-branch capture. Voters never approved it. Congress never debated it. And now, the Left has permanent infrastructure--built and maintained by public funding.
Meanwhile, conservative groups get nothing. No parallel infrastructure. No grants. No embedded agencies. Just censorship, audits, and public smears.
This is what they mean by "saving democracy":
* Billions to leftist orgs
* Massive GOTV ops under federal cover
* Protest movements subsidized by taxpayers
* Power concentrated in NGOs that answer to no one
Final receipts:
*$600B+ allocated across 500+ programs (Justice40)
* $138M+ in direct awards via Justice40 Accelerator
* 4M+ voter contacts by Sunrise Movement
* Indivisible protest partnerships with House Democrats
* CAP's direct personnel pipeline into federal agencies
CAP built it. Podesta directed it. NGOs profited. And the Left now has a publicly funded political machine disguised as a climate plan.
The Trump administration MUST investigate this fully.

She included a lot of links with supporting evidence, which I did not copy and paste. You can see those here.

Posted by: Ace at 05:26 PM

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1 SOunds pretty fascist to me!

Posted by: night lifted at April 25, 2025 05:27 PM (FZn/N)

2 All this time, I thought left-wing oligarchs were funding the Left, it turns out it was coming out of all of our paychecks.

No wonder every election Democrats were able to handily outspend Republicans.

Thank heaven for Elon Musk exposing all of this.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 05:27 PM (4pwAx)

3 Melania looks really happy to be in Rome. Great shopping there!

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 05:30 PM (q6XPQ)

4 I will come back later to read article. Looks juicy!

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 05:32 PM (q6XPQ)

5 Time to bomb some Teslas!
- the left

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 05:33 PM (IZezY)

6 We can't understand the post-Cold War world until we accept that the USA has been Global Shit Stirrer Number One.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 05:33 PM (2dQ6Q)

7 No way, really?

Wait until people realize what John Roberts was doing with Norm Eisen around the world.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 05:34 PM (viF8m)

8 Add in millions more from billionaire-backed organizations like George Soros's Open Society, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and you've got a media Frankenstein stitched together with government cash and private influence.
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I think we've seen enough at this point to guess that the "millions more" didn't come directly from those Billionaires. It was likely another source of USAid of the equivalent that sent grants out to the Foundation Depots, who in turn laundered the money by sending to NGO's who then passed it on through to parties willing to use their names to contribute to "THE CAUSE."

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 05:34 PM (dIske)

9 She included a lot of links with supporting evidence, which I did not copy and paste. You can see those here.
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Here are the links without requiring an X account to view all of the tweets:
http://tiny.cc/yaph001

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 25, 2025 05:34 PM (mZtdJ)

10 #9 Addendum: And here's the whole Insurrection Barbie thread 'unwrapped' as a normal webpage:
http://tiny.cc/cbph001

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 25, 2025 05:36 PM (mZtdJ)

11 Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson

We're all so glad you understand all, "Eddie", and can inform us of what we previously didn't know.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:37 PM (vq3CE)

12 And let's be honest, the really dumb things they were stupid enough to name, that's probably not the bulk of it.

If you're sending hundreds of billions in aid globally, it's easy to skim off the top with something that sounds legit and it becomes a very big number.

How much of the $200 billion or so actually went to Ukraine?

Nothing would surprise me anymore.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 05:37 PM (4pwAx)

13 Time to bomb some Teslas!
- the left

It's really not a funny subject, and those people are terrible, but that sentence and the attribution made me laugh. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:39 PM (vq3CE)

14 Willowed:

As someone who still bears the scars of being stabbed with a fork in the chest by a drop-dead French underwear model, me thinks Solomon learned the hard way. Just a guess.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:23 PM (DixIx)

I guess she just misheard your come on:

"Hey, baby! You wanna fuck me!"

And the rest is history.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 05:40 PM (iJfKG)

15 If you're sending hundreds of billions in aid globally, it's easy to skim off the top with something that sounds legit and it becomes a very big number.

You don't aid anything with hundreds of billions in cash. You buy influence. Same as the Chinese.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 05:40 PM (2dQ6Q)

16 Speaking of filthy NGO's, Judge Hannah Dugan, arrested today, was formerly director of Catholic Charities.

https://tinyurl.com/5233jyzf

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 25, 2025 05:40 PM (paSBy)

17 Did the HQ just get hacked/DNS attacked or am I the only one left???

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 25, 2025 05:40 PM (mZtdJ)

18 This is really disgusting.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 05:40 PM (qBdHI)

19 Data Republican appears to be zeroing in on the center of the hive, the US Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC). The super NGO at the center of this bullshit.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 05:41 PM (viF8m)

20 I'm still waiting for the photos of nood journalists promised in the last thread. Hopefully, they aren't from Admiral Ackbar.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 05:41 PM (VNX3d)

21 What's a measly 4 Trillion amongst friends?

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 05:41 PM (qmgeg)

22 Thank you Congress, you dumb ---------. You are worse than the media.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 05:42 PM (oXfCm)

23
Looks like a job for RICO.

Now, if they can loop in some of those rogue judges with RICO and let them cool their heels in jail instead of interfering with the elected will of the people.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 05:43 PM (iJfKG)

24 But but "our democracy "...

Posted by: brak at April 25, 2025 05:43 PM (18TC8)

25 >>> USAID Has Been Funding Leftwing "News"

"Leftwing" == Globohomo Groomer Fascism

Most ludicrous niche political party ever. But somehow is taking over.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 05:43 PM (/lPRQ)

26 A movie review!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 25, 2025 05:43 PM (XYu4n)

27 The crazy thing is this is the second worst thing that our tax money could be used for. The worst would be sending money to support our enemies, like ISIS, Hamas, or Iran.

Wait, they did that too.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 25, 2025 05:44 PM (47/pr)

28 "Leftwing" == Globohomo Groomer Fascism. Most ludicrous niche political party ever. But somehow is taking over.

Most people are wired to follow something. Anything.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 05:45 PM (2dQ6Q)

29 >>>> USAID Has Been Funding Leftwing "News"

It's so insidious.

They fund the Criminal Orgs that cause the Riots and Protests.

They fund the News that Covers it.

They fund the Politicians who campaign onit.

And they do it ALL with stolen Tax Payer money.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 05:45 PM (qmgeg)

30 We have been funding our oppressers. Left wing Judges are demanding it continue.
Sad.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2025 05:46 PM (t/2Uw)

31
Ace,

You deserve a vacation. Howz about next week?

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 05:46 PM (3ek7K)

32
That Sunrise Movement is the most despicable, smug, dishonest bunch of snots you ever saw. Right up there with Saikat Chakrabarti's "Justice Democrats" that spawned AOC. GOD I hope it gets shut down.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2025 05:46 PM (MK3E4)

33 >> And the rest is history.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 05:40 PM (iJfKG)

No we were living together. She thought I liked her friend. Which was completely false. Plus she was nuttier than squirrel turds. I left after she said something about me sleeping with one eye open.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:46 PM (DixIx)

34 explanation for RINOs ?

I pray that all the guilty ones of any stripe are fully exposed for all to see, no matter what team they pretend to play for.

Posted by: jc at April 25, 2025 05:47 PM (P3EVa)

35 Uh-oh. Ten Paki soldiers reportedly killed in Balochistan.

https://tinyurl.com/ysfnmpf9

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 25, 2025 05:47 PM (paSBy)

36 I'm not sure, but I believe some law, or maybe two, was violated here.

Run this by Sarbanes-Oxley, that seems to cover stuff when money's involved.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 25, 2025 05:47 PM (47/pr)

37 I was curious why Lawfare went out of their way to shoot down Kari Lake's plans to fire a whole boatload of people from "Voice of America". That seem almost arbitrary, because no one listens to that crap (even in other countries).

Now, I'm curious as to whether "Voice of America" is more important in that it connects into the same programs that has been paying half a Billion to foreign press agitators. And, a counter message would lessen the value of this type program.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 05:47 PM (dIske)

38 I'm pretty sure the GOPe gets 10%of the corruption. The Dems get 90%. I'm sure the RINOs are good with that arrangement

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 05:48 PM (O8bOp)

39 >>As someone who still bears the scars of being stabbed with a fork in the chest by a drop-dead French underwear model, me thinks Solomon learned the hard way. Just a guess.

Sounds like you ran afoul of the Hot / Crazy Matrix.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 05:48 PM (qmgeg)

40 Here is the page listing the current leadership of the USGLC. See if you can spot the problem.

https://tinyurl.com/34vaztju

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 05:48 PM (viF8m)

41 Journalists make prostitution look like an honorable profession.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 05:49 PM (X+xvk)

42 Commies doing what commies do ... Lie Cheat Steal Kill

Steal Kill Destroy ... they are aligned with the Devil.

John 10:10

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 05:50 PM (Cus5s)

43 35 Uh-oh. Ten Paki soldiers reportedly killed in Balochistan.
---
This may be BS. Grok says it didn't happen.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 25, 2025 05:52 PM (paSBy)

44 Tell me someone's going to jail. Lie if you must.

Posted by: Case at April 25, 2025 05:52 PM (OrSPY)

45 Uh-oh. Ten Paki soldiers reportedly killed in Balochistan.
---
Moslem on Moslem; not the Indians although they were shooting it up in Kashmir today/yesterday.

BTW, peccavi.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 25, 2025 05:53 PM (mZtdJ)

46 Meanwhile, the left authorized $4 trillion in taxpayer dollars for their own political warfare uses

If only there had been some sort of alternate party that shared control of government, a party that had the ability to look into how funds were spent, a party that was involved in the budgetary process, that could have stood in the way of these leftists.

Posted by: Who Could it Be at April 25, 2025 05:54 PM (RihOl)

47 So. George Santos getting 70 years in prison in NY.

Where you get like 2-4 years for murder.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 05:54 PM (qmgeg)

48 See if you can spot the problem.

https://tinyurl.com/34vaztju
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 05:48 PM (viF8m)

Page not found. That could be a problem.

Posted by: Emmie at April 25, 2025 05:54 PM (NIkq3)

49 Rome is a strange city. Places like the Coliseum and the fountain at Trevi are beautiful although always crowded even off season. But the city itself is dirty, covered in Graffiti, everything covered in graffit, buildings, trash cans, streets. I have never been to a tourist mecca that was so filthy. No homeless on the streets though. the other places I visited, Bologna and Florence, although crowded, are what I was expecting. Gorgeous architecture, history,sculpture, so much art just walking down the street.Friendly. one trip was not enough.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2025 05:55 PM (t/2Uw)

50 Times of India...

Arabella (me/mine)🎗@ArabellaSL 12m Replying to @visegrad24
The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) is a separatist movement of Balochistan state in Pakistan. The BLA claimed responsibility for a roadside IED bomb attack in Quetta, Pakistan: 10 Pakistani soldiers killed, 3 soldiers injured.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 25, 2025 05:56 PM (mZtdJ)

51 Grok versus the Times of India! Two narratives enter! One narrative leaves!

Grok @grok 1h
Replying to @JimFreakGR @visegrad24 @hmardiris
The claim by Visegrád 24 about 10 Pakistani soldiers being killed in an ambush in Balochistan on April 25, 2025, appears to be inaccurate or false. No credible news outlets, like Dawn or Geo News, report this incident, and the video in the post likely shows a March 2025 attack by the Baloch Liberation Army, not a new event.

Visegrád 24 has a history of spreading misinformation, with a "low credibility" rating from Media Bias/Fact Check. This aligns with your skepticism about their posts.

While Balochistan faces ongoing separatist violence, there’s no evidence for this specific claim. The region’s unrest often stems from local grievances over resource exploitation, like the Sui gas field, but this doesn’t support the post’s narrative.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 25, 2025 05:58 PM (mZtdJ)

52 "Chaos At Pope Francis’ Vigil: Tension Rises As Guards BAN Phones...
Tensions erupted at the Vatican as the public gathered to pay respects to Pope Francis, only to be met with a strict photo ban imposed by security. After several pilgrims attempted to take selfies with the Pontiff's mortal remains, guards were forced to intervene, locking down the area and banning all phones in a bid to restore order. The solemn atmosphere quickly turned chaotic as the selfie-obsessed crowd clashed with security personnel. With the Pope’s body lying in state, this controversial move has sparked heated debates..."

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 06:00 PM (g47mK)

53 4 trillion in and they barely break even? Leftism sure is popular!.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:01 PM (n7h9X)

54 With the Pope’s body lying in state, this controversial move has sparked heated debates...
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Regardless of what one thinks of this particular Pope, what kind of souless ghoul would attempt a selfie with a corpse?

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 06:02 PM (TN0g+)

55 "Chaos At Pope Francis’ Vigil: Tension Rises As Guards BAN Phones...

Bury the confiscated phones with the Pope. It would give new meaning to Dial a Pope.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 06:03 PM (VNX3d)

56 Rome is a strange city. Places like the Coliseum and the fountain at Trevi are beautiful although always crowded even off season. But the city itself is dirty, covered in Graffiti, everything covered in graffit, buildings, trash cans, streets. I have never been to a tourist mecca that was so filthy. No homeless on the streets though. the other places I visited, Bologna and Florence, although crowded, are what I was expecting. Gorgeous architecture, history,sculpture, so much art just walking down the street.Friendly. one trip was not enough.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2025 05:55 PM (t/2Uw)

to be fair, when they dug up Pompeii, covered in a volcanic ash fall in 79 AD the walls were also covered in grafitti

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:03 PM (n7h9X)

57 With the Pope’s body lying in state, this controversial move has sparked heated debates..."
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 06:00 PM (g47mK)

____________________________

Awwwwww, but I wanted to take a photo with the dead Communist.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 06:03 PM (dIske)

58 I think Kruschev said the USSR would sell the US the rope with which it would hang itself.

Jokes on him, because we paid for the rope which was then sold to us so we could hang ourselves...

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 25, 2025 06:04 PM (tT6L1)

59 Heads need to be put on pikes.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2025 06:04 PM (MsrgL)

60
Yank the security clearances on each and every one of the ex-military folks on their advisory councils.

Without such access, what good are they?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 06:05 PM (xG4kz)

61 So. George Santos getting 70 years in prison in NY.

Where you get like 2-4 years for murder.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 05:54 PM (qmgeg)

About 7, not 70

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:05 PM (n7h9X)

62
Most people are ghouls.

Reminds me of my sister taking pictures of our mother in her casket. I asked her "what are you going to do with them? Have your friends over for dinner and have a slide show of mom in her casket?

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 06:05 PM (3ek7K)

63 Regardless of what one thinks of this particular Pope, what kind of souless ghoul would attempt a selfie with a corpse?
Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 06:02 PM (TN0g+)
----------------

Well, there was that recent Easter photo of Joe and family.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 25, 2025 06:05 PM (tT6L1)

64 to be fair, when they dug up Pompeii, covered in a volcanic ash fall in 79 AD the walls were also covered in grafitti
Posted by: Oldcat
_________

Imagine what they'll think when they dig up Chicago in a couple thousand years.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025 06:06 PM (UBKzV)

65 We have been funding our oppressers. Left wing Judges are demanding it continue.
Sad.
-----------
There are layers and layers that one could go into regarding this. Just think of all of the people who have had difficult lives due to "tax issues"...only to find that an *honest* government might have required them to only owe 1-tenth of the amount they've spent their lives running from or dealing with.

Posted by: Crusader at April 25, 2025 06:06 PM (TN0g+)

66 So. George Santos getting 70 years in prison in NY.

It's not 70; It's 7. Considering what Democrat politicians get away with, it's a miscarriage of justice though.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 06:06 PM (42Vb+)

67 Misallocation of Public Funds has just rocketed to the Top of my list for prospective Capital Punishment crimes.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 06:07 PM (qmgeg)

68 This is a really huge story, glad to see ACE pick it up. They aren't in the business of news, they are in the business of shaping HOW news is presented.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 06:07 PM (2VST1)

69 Misallocation of Public Funds has just rocketed to the Top of my list for prospective Capital Punishment crimes.

==

They should really take a look at "Judge" Boasberg's financials...

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 06:08 PM (g47mK)

70 >>It's not 70; It's 7. Considering what Democrat politicians get away with, it's a miscarriage of justice though.

Ah...caught it on the radio on my way home. I thought they said 70...and I was summarily blown away!

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2025 06:08 PM (qmgeg)

71 fter several pilgrims attempted to take selfies with the Pontiff's mortal remains, guards were forced to intervene, locking down the area and banning all phones in a bid to restore order.
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Obama is in Rome already??

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 25, 2025 06:11 PM (mZtdJ)

72 Ace done stomped this thread.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025 06:12 PM (UBKzV)

73 fter several pilgrims attempted to take selfies with the Pontiff's mortal remains, guards were forced to intervene, locking down the area and banning all phones in a bid to restore order.
---------
Obama is in Rome already??
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 25, 2025 06:11 PM (mZtdJ)

I think they should go upscale, and the the Ghana Dancing Pallbearers for Pope Francis.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 06:12 PM (VNX3d)

74 How much of the $200 billion or so actually went to Ukraine?

Nothing would surprise me anymore.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 05:37 PM (4pwAx)

Someone did a check on one of the earlier 60 billion chunks.

Something like half was payments/contracts with US weaponeers for equipment or ammo. Another 10-20 went to Ukraine government or NGOs there, most of which was proably stolen. So about a quarter got to the Ukraine military, where another chunk was stolen, leaving maybe 15 percent to actually hit the front line.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:12 PM (n7h9X)

75 The Center for American ~~Progress~~ Communism

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 06:13 PM (YqDXo)

76 Uh-oh. Ten Paki soldiers reportedly killed in Balochistan.
---
This may be BS. Grok says it didn't happen.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 25, 2025 05:52 PM (paSBy)

India needs to kill ten times that many. For a start.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 06:14 PM (8zz6B)

77 Imagine what they'll think when they dig up Chicago in a couple thousand years.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025 06:06 PM (UBKzV)

On average the Roman graffiti was more clever.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:14 PM (n7h9X)

78 Reminds me of my sister taking pictures of our mother in her casket. I asked her "what are you going to do with them? Have your friends over for dinner and have a slide show of mom in her casket?

Posted by: four seasons at April 25, 2025 06:05 PM (3ek7K)

Been a custom of many Eastern Europeans since I was a kid. They would take a picture to send back to the relatives in Poland, etc. Still done. Two years ago, the 100 year old mom of my neighbor passed away. She immigrated here from Poland after WW2. Pictures were taken that were then sent to her relatives in "the old country", Poland. No selfies.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 25, 2025 06:14 PM (5xuJ/)

79 Pretty bad, getting your water from India...

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 6h
BREAKING:
India’s Water Resources Minister Paatil after meeting with Interior Minister Shah:

“We made a roadmap with 3 steps. The gov. is working on short, medium & long-term measures so that not a drop of water goes to Pakistan. Desilting of rivers will be done to divert them”

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 25, 2025 06:15 PM (mZtdJ)

80 Addendum: And here's the whole Insurrection Barbie thread 'unwrapped' as a normal webpage:
http://tiny.cc/cbph001
Posted by: andycanuck

You're a Great American!

Posted by: Sean Miklos-Hannity at April 25, 2025 06:21 PM (IKhKt)

81 Pretty bad, getting your water from India...

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 6h
BREAKING:
India’s Water Resources Minister Paatil after meeting with Interior Minister Shah:

“We made a roadmap with 3 steps. The gov. is working on short, medium & long-term measures so that not a drop of water goes to Pakistan. Desilting of rivers will be done to divert them”
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 25, 2025 06:15 PM (mZtdJ)

The border is in the headwaters area of India's rivers, so that water is probably pretty clean. If they can manage to divert water flowing west back away that might play hell with the bulk of the country.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 06:21 PM (n7h9X)

82 My two regular Canadian geese had five goslings at pondside, which I just discovered as they were being led around the edges of the pond. ... They've had goslings before ... they walk them around to get exercised, and then ... ? idk, but I think they may walk them away to be raised in larger groups, as I read is how they do it.

But there is no shortage of Canadian geese, so if they all get eaten by raccoons, no big deal. End of Animal Life intermission.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 06:41 PM (Cus5s)

83 One of the most frustrating things about following politics for years was trying to figure out how so much unexplainable stuff was happening. How was all of this obviously crazy shit being funded when it was clearly not in our interests. We are finally getting to the bottom of the rabbit hole. And they know it.

https://tinyurl.com/4chm9t4v

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 06:49 PM (viF8m)

84 The amount of improper funding and misdirection popping up is awe inspiring. Maddening, when you consider the amount of actual good that could have occurred.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 25, 2025 06:57 PM (hKoQL)

85 drop-dead French underwear model

Did you leave out 'gorgeous'?

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at April 25, 2025 07:41 PM (sPQoU)

The Left Is Now Shrieking About a Right-Wing "Womanosphere," Even Worse Than the Manosphere, Because It Encourages Young Women to be "Thin, Fertile, and Republican"

The horror.

I mentioned this in last night's Quick Hits, I think.

Left-wing media has identified a dangerous new political archetype: the thin, fertile, Republican woman.
Beware the burgeoning online "womanosphere" urging an audience of young women away from feminism and towards marriage, children, and being attractive, warns The Guardian. The outlet points to prominent conservative commentators such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, along with publications like Evie Magazine, as emblematic of this clunkily-named counterpart to the "manosphere."
These women are united by their "desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview," according to The Guardian, which casts "women as submissive homemakers" and "men as strong providers."
Oh, the horror.

Hey I already said that.

"Gender-essentialism" refers to the outlandish belief that men and women are different. One is free to draw varied conclusions from this fact. The left has taken up a strange quarrel with the concept of biological sex itself, an argument which defeats itself at the outset. How can one analyze why female commentators specifically appeal to females without acknowledging the validity of the category?
The outlet warns of "an organized effort" to create an "alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences." One discerns the outlet's terror at the prospect -- no great wonder, given the much vaunted "podcast strategy" helped win over young male voters to Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
"Organized" is supposed to be a dirty word. It connotes an insidious masterplan to take women off birth control and put them on quick-slimming diets. But the legacy media, with its extreme left-wing bias, is surely no less organized and strident in its political and cultural prescriptions than the "right-wing media." Notice the asymmetry in terms. The New York Times and Netflix are simply media. They claim neutral ground. It's a powerful rhetorical trick. If they can successfully assert themselves as unbiased observers and artists, they fashion reality itself in their terms.
...
"Young women have been hailed as the saving grace of the Democratic party, the force that will deliver us from all those angry young men spending all their time listening to podcasts, but that's not a given," writes The Guardian.
Therein lies a sick admission. The Democratic Party prefers women fat, infertile, single, and unhappy. Why? Because those women make the most fervent ideologues. Leftism inverts natural hierarchies. It lofts the ugly and sick above the beautiful. It punishes any natural inclination towards the latter. This appeals to malcontents who depend on such an infrastructure to confer them status and meaning. Or a green card, as the case may be.
Who profits by a woman being thin and fertile? Why, only the woman herself, the young men interested in dating and marrying them, her future family, and all the rest of society by extension. The left's supposed concern for female "freedom" and "independence" is false. They'd just prefer women be dependent on the state, not a husband.

As I frequently say, the Democrat Party is the Husband of Last Resort for unmarriagable, miserable, mentally-ill women.

Here's a bit more from this deranged screed from The Guardian:

It's not only rightwingers who have gripes with contemporary feminism. Many on the left have been critical of shallow "girlboss feminism" (the bipartisan backlash to the embarrassing Blue Origin flight being a case in point), noting that impossible expectations are placed on women in a crassly capitalist society that offers little support for working mothers. According to a 2023 survey run by the non-profit Catalyst, four in 10 women said they felt they would need to change jobs in order to manage childcare demands, and the US is still the only rich country in the world without a national paid parental leave policy. Yet for this new womanosphere, the response is not advancing policies like paid family leave or affordable childcare, but to return to an idealized, illusory past where being a wife and mother was viewed as a woman's sole purpose.
Young women are particularly vulnerable to these appeals. Like their peers in the manosphere, these commentators are capitalizing on a real crisis of loneliness and economic precarity facing gen Z. "Social media has truly given gen Z a warped sense of reality," said Cooper, who has described dating apps as "treacherous" and a "barren" landscape.
The alternative vision these influencers are proposing is scarily retrograde and would strip women of their freedom and economic independence. "You want to go back and sit in a cubicle when you could have this, like, beautiful amazing child that you've created with the love of your life?" Cooper asked rhetorically on a recent podcast appearance.
Instead of trying to have it all, women, she said, need to change their priorities because "if you aren't going to the gym, if you aren't taking care of yourself, if you don't like children, if you only care about your career, and you hate the patriarchy" then a desirable man is "not going to go for you".
The type of woman these commentators valorize is thin, straight, fertile, traditionally feminine, conventionally attractive to men and white -- though they try to avoid overt racism, instead opting for sentiments like, "as a minority woman, I'm here to say that you'll be happier and more fulfilled if you aren't consumed by thinking about your race." Anyone who falls outside of this narrow mold is subject to relentless mocking and disparagement. Though they have different tactics and tones, like their cohorts in the manosphere, they play with the idea that calling women fat or ugly is fun and transgressive -- framing it as part of a virtuous quest to rid society of woke, feminist ideals.
Young women have been hailed as the saving grace of the Democratic party, the force that will deliver us from all those angry young men spending all their time listening to podcasts, but that's not a given. While young women still went blue in 2024, Joe Biden's 35-point lead in 2020 dwindled to a 24-point lead for Kamala Harris. Other demographics, like Black and Latino men, broke with historical trends to shift to the right this election. Emily Amick, an influencer and political analyst who has been observing the trend on her Substack, said that people might underestimate the womanosphere's impact at their peril. "What we saw in the 2024 presidential election was that the manosphere had a lot more impact than a lot of people expected," Amick said. "I believe that the conservative movement is running the same play with women, and in 2028 we are going to see a massive impact of the messaging machines they have been building."

LOL. If only the left had such a network of propaganda nodes...

...
In the past two decades, mainstream women's outlets have made attempts to emphasize overall wellbeing instead of outer beauty and valorizing thinness above all. Evie sees this as wokeness run amok. They want to bring back your mother's -- or your grandmother's -- women's magazine, in which it was OK to celebrate a certain body type over others. "When we encounter a heavily tattooed, blue-haired, obese, gender-neutral individual with a bull-ring, that person is communicating to us that they actively disregard the standards for normality that the majority of people agree on," read a 2021 piece titled Objective Feminine Beauty Is Not A Relic Of The Patriarchy.
...
Maggie Bullock, a women's magazine veteran who co-writes the Spread, a newsletter about the industry, said she saw outlets like Evie as trying to be something of a "gateway drug" into more extreme conservative ideologies. "Like, we're nice and we're pretty and we're not that radical, don't worry, we're just telling you the truth," she said. "It feels like a wolf in sheep's clothing."

What would we do without experts.

...

Evie's reach shouldn't be overstated -- it has 210,000 followers on Instagram, compared with Cosmopolitan's 4m, and has only put out three print issues in four years -- but they're increasingly finding new ways to garner attention.

The entire premise of this article, that the Womanosphere is a Great and Growing Threat, relies on overstating its reach.

But now, in paragraph 30, they tell you it only has 210,000 subscribers.

From Phyllis Schlafly in the 1970s, who helped mobilize young Christian women against the Equal Rights Amendment, to Ann Coulter and Moms for Liberty, women have long played a role in spreading conservative propaganda. But what sets these new voices apart is that they don't all market themselves as political commentators. In this sense, they are cribbing from the success of the manosphere, which won new Maga converts in part because most of its leading figures weren't explicitly partisan.

You mean how "journalists" pretend they're not partisan so that their clear partisanship passes under people's radar undetected?

If only the left had this sort of powerful messaging machine!

Multi-hours-long podcast episodes and Twitch streams from the likes of Rogan, the Nelk Boys or Theo Von are typically much more weighted to cover sports, gambling, drugs and dating than they are to talk about which bill is passing in the Senate.
The leading voices of the womanosphere are using a similar strategy. As Brittany Hugoboom put it in an op--ed for the rightwing outlet Quillette: "Conservatives will never win if they imagine themselves as combatants atop defensive battlements, hurling abuse on the mass media. We need to involve ourselves in the creation of pop culture."
...

The coalition drawn to fringe wellness ideas is multifaceted: from the "crunchy" moms frightened of toxic chemicals they believe are in our food and pharmaceuticals, to the chronic illness sufferers frustrated with a medical system they feel has let them down. Yet the savvy voices of the womanosphere have responded by weaponizing genuine anxieties -- which have complex roots and few easy answers -- and serving up far-right propaganda on a platter. "It's sneaky," Clark told the Washington Post. "I want to be seen as: Alex Clark, cool girl, loves health and wellness, happens to be conservative. I'm not trying to beat people over the head with that. I don't think that's persuasive."

You mean how celebrities attempt to leverage their fame and public goodwill into influencing people's political thinking?

If only the left had a network of propagandists such as these!

Oh, and I love how the left, which has for 60 years railed against artificial additives in food, are now positively in favor of adulterating food with as many unsafe chemicals as possible.

...

Clark's crusades against topics such as birth control -- that it "accelerates ageing", "induces abortion", causes cancer and fertility issues -- make more sense in light of the Trump administration's pro-natalist policy agenda, which organizations like Turning Point USA and Project 2025 have spent years crafting.
"It's all tied together with the goal of shaming women who have sex and who might get pregnant, and ensuring that they really are forced into the idea of this nuclear family because it preserves current power structures," said Dr Jennifer Lincoln, an OB-GYN in Portland, Oregon. "They come at it from this Maha angle of 'we have to protect women,' and then they legislate away people's choices to use these medicines that are literally life-saving for so many people."

Another expert weighs in.

Thin, fertile, and Republican? Sounds hot lol. pic.twitter.com/5De5lq6Zi5
— Brett Cooper (@imbrettcooper) April 24, 2025

Here's what the left turned an entire generation of young women into:

Posted by: Ace at 04:30 PM

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1 Beats fat, barren and crazy

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 04:32 PM (VE6XX)

2 Hey now, aren’t we supposed to be pro choice?
Choose to have kids, be fit, be conservative,,,,

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 04:32 PM (Hkcdp)

3 I thought the Left had the monopoly on spherical women.

Posted by: King Willy and his Voodoo Gang at April 25, 2025 04:33 PM (jc0TO)

4 The stereotypes are true that the most hard left are usually the ugliest of women.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 04:33 PM (4pwAx)

5 Brett Cooper's take on this was "sounds hot."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:34 PM (ExV1e)

6 Well, I'm kinda chubby, past menopause, and a little bit crazy, but the good kind of crazy. The chubby gives me nice big tatas, too. Does that pass muster?

And no, no pics.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025 04:34 PM (a4NoL)

7 It Encourages Young Women to be "Thin, Fertile, and Republican"

Well let me consider the alternative here.

Fat, sterile, and Democrat?

Tough call here.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:34 PM (2VST1)

8 Phyllis Schlafly should be worshiped as a god by the Strong Empowered Women.

Read her life story some time.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (jc0TO)

9 2 Hey now, aren’t we supposed to be pro choice?
Choose to have kids, be fit, be conservative,,,,
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 04:32 PM (Hkcdp)

The choice they have in mind is much like the choice in voting in the USSR before the wall came down.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (a4NoL)

10 Gosh, and young women are so darn happy nowadays! Nope, current progressive, feminist lifestyle is totally not contributing to record anti depressant use!

Heaven forbid women be exposed to a diversity of lifestyle options, huh?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (Hkcdp)

11 Meanwhile Cousin Lulu has passed away at the age of 78.

She was billed by Jack Ruby as 'the world's biggest Go-Go dancer' according to Wikipedia.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (FEpIj)

12 The party of satan himself.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (QhVwE)

13 Maggie Bullock, a women's magazine veteran who co-writes the Spread, a newsletter about the industry
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The "industry" you say? And what womens industry is that?

Never mind, I think I know.

Posted by: American Pimps Association at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (I69rP)

14 8 Phyllis Schlafly should be worshiped as a god by the Strong Empowered Women.

Read her life story some time.
Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (jc0TO)

Phyllis went to the same university I did. She was kinda awesome. Raised some good kids, too, she did.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (a4NoL)

15 One more step and the _________ gets it.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 04:36 PM (QSrLX)

16 10 Gosh, and young women are so darn happy nowadays! Nope, current progressive, feminist lifestyle is totally not contributing to record anti depressant use!

Heaven forbid women be exposed to a diversity of lifestyle options, huh?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (Hkcdp)

They will be okay if the cut off their tits and grow beards.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025 04:36 PM (a4NoL)

17 Who profits by a woman being thin and fertile? Why, only the woman herself, the young men interested in dating and marrying them, her future family, and all the rest of society by extension. The left's supposed concern for female "freedom" and "independence" is false. They'd just prefer women be dependent on the state, not a husband.

As I frequently say, the Democrat Party is the Husband of Last Resort for unmarriagable, miserable, mentally-ill women.

Yeah, that's the sad case of it. And by doing so, they are making it... if not acceptable, then at least less shameful to be miserable, mentally ill, ugly, fat, and single. You have ahome, you have people who'll gladly lie to support you.

Leftist: Lizzo is a TEN, she's so hot!!!
Guy: Wow, you have a body like Lizzo!
Leftist woman: YOU @$(*@%Y@!!!! DIE IN A FIRE!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:37 PM (2VST1)

18 I prefer the term babesphere over woman sphere. It helps to differentiate them from the women of the left.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 25, 2025 04:38 PM (Vyll1)

19 Maga has our "Womanosphere,"

Woketards have a "Weirdosphere"

BTW Kash is going Slap Happy locking up Judges

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at April 25, 2025 04:38 PM (r3F/z)

20 Thin, Fertile, and Republican

How can I subscribe to this magazine?

Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:38 PM (pMi6S)

21 Matt Walsh is encouraging white people to have more kids. The response:

WHY ARE YOU ENCOURAGING WHITE PEOPLE TO HAVE KIDS??? RAYCISSS!!!!!1!1!1!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:38 PM (2VST1)

22 When I was in college mumble mumble mumble years ago, the big deal was hugely fat lesbians, because they would be a turnoff for men. Also, cupcakes and tacos, but mostly sexual politics.

That has morphed into cutting of your boobs and growing really bad beards, and ruining your sexuality entirely.

The culture of death abounds.

St. Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle,
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025 04:38 PM (a4NoL)

23 No fat chicks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 04:38 PM (y5Qz+)

24 BTW Kash is going Slap Happy locking up Judges

"Somehow he's secretly doing nothing in the process though, I just know it!!!"
--guy with hair on fire

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:39 PM (2VST1)

25 womanosphere??

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2025 04:39 PM (qm5Wv)

26 I've got Kirsche on in the background. She is about to die from laughter. This female 'author' has segued from Wiccans in England fighting Nazis to AIPAC controls the US Congress.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:40 PM (FEpIj)

27 Womansplaining.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 04:40 PM (y5Qz+)

28 BTW Kash is going Slap Happy locking up Judges
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at April 25, 2025 04:38 PM (r3F/z)

He should also be slapping a few of them, but you know.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025 04:40 PM (a4NoL)

29 ACE!!!

Go take your vacay ya big nerd!

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 04:41 PM (0HaGk)

30 One wonders if these fat, blue-haired, tattoo-covered, nose-ringed freak shows ever walk past a mirror and say "what have I done?".

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 04:41 PM (s8j++)

31 25 womanosphere??
Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2025 04:39 PM (qm5Wv)

That's when all your dates go to the ladies room at once. This is known.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025 04:41 PM (a4NoL)

32
The Left's obsessions with spheres is interesting.

Could it spring from their very own roly-poly body types? The world wonders.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 04:41 PM (xG4kz)

33 And no, no pics.
Posted by: tcn in AK

and WY Knot ???!!!

: -))

Posted by: Adriane the Oh the Thyme, Oh the Morels Critic . . . at April 25, 2025 04:41 PM (tcomi)

34 I've never cared for nose rings, even the tiniest ones, but holy crap what is that "girl" in the YouTube still wearing?

Posted by: sharksauce at April 25, 2025 04:41 PM (oPUHl)

35 but to return to an idealized, illusory past where being a wife and mother was viewed as a woman's sole purpose.
_____________

Straw man alert. No "sole purpose," but for most women probably the most fulfilling scenario.

How many women quit corporate America to become full-time moms and wives? Are they less happy than the ones striving to become "girlbosses?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:42 PM (YqDXo)

36 Chubbs are fine if they have curves.
that's the thing.

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 04:42 PM (0HaGk)

37 Womansplaining.

One of my favorite bits from Dadvocate, where she explains male behavior to men and is surprisingly good at it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:42 PM (2VST1)

38
and ensuring that they really are forced into the idea of this nuclear family because it preserves current power structures

Oh baby, baby. Let insert my power structure into your pink flower!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2025 04:43 PM (y9nCu)

39 >> Womanosphere

Is this about me?

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell, getting sick of corned beef and Guinness at April 25, 2025 04:43 PM (/dDa4)

40 I've never cared for nose rings, even the tiniest ones, but holy crap what is that "girl" in the YouTube still wearing?

She's doing a bit, she's a really cute Eastern European girl who does satire and sweet hearted analysis of culture etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:43 PM (2VST1)

41 Young women are particularly vulnerable to these appeals

-----

No shit. It's an appeal to be "Thin, Fertile, and Republican."

I suppose any old hag can be a Republican. But being old and thin is much more of a challenge, and fertile is right out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 04:43 PM (BI5O2)

42 I would like to see Nancy Mace in a sheer negligee.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 04:43 PM (/U5Yz)

43 Green hair and a gold-plated boat anchor hanging from your nose is a great look.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 04:43 PM (X+xvk)

44 When I was young, I imagined the mythical island of Lesbos to be very different from what I imagine it to be like now.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 04:43 PM (Zhfc2)

45 Chubbs are fine if they have curves.
that's the thing.

There's chubby, and then there's morbidly obese. Not the same thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 04:43 PM (s8j++)

46 What would Dean Wormer say?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 04:43 PM (63Dwl)

47 1 25 womanosphere??
Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2025
*
That's when all your dates go to the ladies room at once. This is known.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025

***
What John D. MacDonald had Travis McGee describe in the '60s as "those guided trips to the biff."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 04:44 PM (omVj0)

48 Another expert weighs in.

In more ways than one.

Posted by: Lizzo at April 25, 2025 04:44 PM (0sNs1)

49 Manosphere? Who the hell makes up words like this? I’ve got two manospheres she can kiss.

Posted by: GeoNC at April 25, 2025 04:44 PM (c5Dde)

50 42 I would like to see Nancy Mace in a sheer negligee.

Posted by: Maj. Healey

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 04:44 PM (X+xvk)

51 This is like just before the last election, when Trump was ACCUSED of being a Populist!!! oh... the horror... but...

Populist is a person, especially a politician, who strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups:

Uh... how is that a BAD thing?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:44 PM (QAkQ3)

52 Thin, Fertile, and Republican
______________

The Reds haven't thought this through: if the women aren't fertile, then they have no need for abortions, do they?

Think, commies, think.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:45 PM (YqDXo)

53 Think, commies, think.

There's a first time for everything.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 04:46 PM (s8j++)

54 In a Democracy the populistist candidate wins.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 04:46 PM (y5Qz+)

55 Affirmative action, women's movement, black liberation, income tax, regulatory state,....

It's almost as if the entire progressive movement was a big fucking mistake. 100 years of regret.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 04:46 PM (Zhfc2)

56
I have limited date, but there appears to be a special and greater rage about what RFKj has been saying about autism and its potential causes.

Those who have added autism pins and credentials to their grievances' stashes seem to have been screaming the loudest about his utterances?

"Don't tase my creds, bro!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 04:46 PM (xG4kz)

57 That being in the last video--that's not a person, right? That's a creature from the new Doctor Who, I'm betting.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 04:46 PM (CHHv1)

58 Well the Left does think that White Women are the worst...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 04:46 PM (xcxpd)

59 That's when all your dates go to the ladies room at once. This is known.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025
______________

Where it's "standing room only."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:46 PM (YqDXo)

60 honestly for real laughing out loud

https://tinyurl.com/no-one-is-above

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:46 PM (2VST1)

61 This looks like my bus stop so I will kindly exit.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:46 PM (ctrM5)

62 Well the Left does think that White Women are the worst...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 04:46 PM (xcxpd)
____________

No. They're the Little Satan. White MEN are the Great Satan. Many of them don't even have criminal records. Sheesh.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:47 PM (YqDXo)

63 The Reds haven't thought this through: if the women aren't fertile, then they have no need for abortions, do they?

Think, commies, think.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:45 PM (YqDXo)

We need to develop artificial wombs so transwomen and Taylor Lorenz can experience the joy of having an abortion.

Posted by: Transhumanists at April 25, 2025 04:47 PM (/dDa4)

64
Well, that crossed into the grammatical mine field

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 04:47 PM (xG4kz)

65 That's when all your dates go to the ladies room at once. This is known.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025 04:41 PM

Pretty doggone clever of the powder manufacturers to have them all expire at the same time, so y'all have to go powder your noses simultaneously.

Otherwise, we think y'all are comparing notes and observations.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 04:47 PM (0sNs1)

66 In historic terms, this mass media Manosphere clearly started with a GANG... yes... a GANG... led by Spanky.

The 'He Man Woman Haters Club'...

Which decades later evolved in NO' MAAM... the Normal Men Against Amazonian Mastery... led by the notorious Al Bundy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:47 PM (QAkQ3)

67 The person with the lime green hair and the Omega nose ring seems less offensive than the Doctor's current companion.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:47 PM (FEpIj)

68 2 Hey now, aren’t we supposed to be pro choice?
Choose to have kids, be fit, be conservative,,,,
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 04:32 PM (Hkcdp)

You only have freedom to make the correct choices. Politically correct, that is.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 04:48 PM (xcxpd)

69 There's chubby, and then there's morbidly obese. Not the same thing.

Yeah I don't mind a little chubby, but hanging slabs of fat and inability to sit in an ordinary chair, that's a serious problem.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:48 PM (2VST1)

70 I think Nosering Girl would be an excellent employee.

Posted by: Nobody, seriously at April 25, 2025 04:48 PM (PiwSw)

71 51 This is like just before the last election, when Trump was ACCUSED of being a Populist!!! oh... the horror... but...

Populist is a person, especially a politician, who strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups:

Uh... how is that a BAD thing?
Posted by: Romeo13

Populism led to 2 world wars, that's why we must tamp it down, hard.

Posted by: Europe at April 25, 2025 04:48 PM (Dv3i1)

72 If it's evil to be Thin, Fertile, and Republican, then is the left advocating for everone to be fat, barren and socialist?

Oh wait. I was trying to make some kind of joke, but just ended up describing reality. My bad. Carry on.

Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:48 PM (pMi6S)

73 56
I have limited date, but there appears to be a special and greater rage about what RFKj has been saying about autism and its potential causes.

I heard some talk radio voice say, he wants to register all autistic people to do in depth causation studies. I'm not feeling so comfortable with that mindset myself.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 04:49 PM (/U5Yz)

74 Pretty doggone clever of the powder manufacturers to have them all expire at the same time, so y'all have to go powder your noses simultaneously.

Otherwise, we think y'all are comparing notes and observations.

We're pretty sure you're all laughing at us.
*pouts*

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 04:49 PM (s8j++)

75 Phyllis Schlafly should be worshiped as a god by the Strong Empowered Women.

Read her life story some time.
Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (jc0TO)

Phyllis went to the same university I did. She was kinda awesome. Raised some good kids, too, she did.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 25, 2025

***
Some twenty years ago, she spoke at the university where I worked. I'm sure there were objections from some quarters, but we didn't have any "fiery but mostly peaceful" protests.

If someone were to propose that she, or a similar speaker, give a lecture on campus today? Fire and brimstone would rain down upon the oh-so-foolish proposer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 04:49 PM (omVj0)

76 Pretty doggone clever of the powder manufacturers to have them all expire at the same time, so y'all have to go powder your noses simultaneously.

Otherwise, we think y'all are comparing notes and observations.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 04:47 PM (0sNs1)

Now a days... I'd not complain about all the wives and Ladies going to the Ladies Room together... safety in numbers with the Trans crap out there.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:49 PM (QAkQ3)

77 Reject everything that had ever worked before, since it wasn't perfect, unlike the world I'm going to build!

Posted by: Todays Liberal Youth at April 25, 2025 04:50 PM (Dv3i1)

78 Right-Wing "Womanosphere, Thin, Fertile, and Republican"

David French will have to lose some weight then.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 04:52 PM (/U5Yz)

79 The "run he's got a gun" twins are kind of cute.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 04:52 PM (2ap+5)

80 David French will have to lose some weight then.

He's going to cosplay as a Handmaid?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:53 PM (FEpIj)

81 "The conservative Christian case for fat, sterile and Democrat: how Jesus would want you to dye your hair blue and put on 140 pounds"
--David French, probably

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:53 PM (2VST1)

82 Do you think Pam Bondi is fertile? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 04:53 PM (/U5Yz)

83 If this keeps up the world will consist of Muslims, Mormons and Mennonites….

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 04:53 PM (PCK5/)

84 "Womanospheres?'....

BOOBs Thread!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:54 PM (QAkQ3)

85
The Guardian piece reads as something thrown together to meet a deadline. Like the utterly made-up 1970s article that claimed disco was an identifiable growing social phenomenon, when at the time it wasn't.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 25, 2025 04:54 PM (Ijbq0)

86 Do you think Pam Bondi is fertile? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025

***
Not any more. She's sixty years old now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 04:54 PM (omVj0)

87 "BOOBs Thread!"

He's right, you know.

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 04:54 PM (0HaGk)

88 The difference between Republican women and Democrat "women" is that Republican women don't have penises.

Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:55 PM (pMi6S)

89 They don't get it. The reason that something is "traditional" is because it works.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 04:55 PM (lXCUP)

90 86 Do you think Pam Bondi is fertile? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025

***
Not any more. She's sixty years old now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

No condom required then.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 04:55 PM (/U5Yz)

91 ...Because It Encourages Young Women to be "Thin, Fertile, and Republican"

They left out "sane"

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 04:55 PM (aBgBM)

92 Do you think Pam Bondi is fertile? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025

***
Says Wiki, she has had no children.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 04:55 PM (omVj0)

93 LMAO...in retrospect, you all knew something like this was coming.

Simple comparison shows conservative women to be more attractive, less crazy, in possession of a sense of humor, and not diametrically opposed to common sense.

So why not denigrate all these qualities? Or, better yet, project the thought that these women are just fooling you by playing the part.

Here's the silver lining. The article(s) are nonsense. The authors know it's nonsense. But, they have absolutely no idea how to show their own team in a positive light, and they won't be changing any time soon. So they create this chimera of an explanation hoping it rationalizes the behavior and appearance of their side.

This is funny, and they don't understand why it's funny. That's the best part.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 04:56 PM (dIske)

94 After 40 fertility is rare without infinite money.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 04:56 PM (y5Qz+)

95 81 "The conservative Christian case for fat, sterile and Democrat: how Jesus would want you to dye your hair blue and put on 140 pounds"
--David French, probably

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Now, that's funny!

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 04:56 PM (X+xvk)

96 Those who have added autism pins and credentials to their grievances' stashes seem to have been screaming the loudest about his utterances?

"Don't tase my creds, bro!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

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

There is a kind of perverse genius at work here. Autism seems to mean "we have no idea what, or why, but that boy ain't right."
Everything from non-verbal to "does not want the peas to touch the mashed potatoes on the plate."

And in between it somehow includes Rain Man.

So RFK is talking about the "profoundly" disabled. But everyone wants to be diagnosed as on the spectrum because it means they have no time limit on SAT. We end up with a class of millions defending their status as a class, claiming simultaneously that it is a disability, a protected class, *and* not bad or a problem in any way that we would want to reduce potential causes.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 04:56 PM (Zhfc2)

97 Traditions, like Stereotypes, exist for a reason…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 04:56 PM (PCK5/)

98 The biggest crime you commit when you do something different from a Leftist is you are not validating their choices. That's what all this is about--they cannot stand the idea that they might have been wrong.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM (CHHv1)

99 Traditions, like Stereotypes, exist for a reason…
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 04:56 PM (PCK5/)

Unlike the brontosaurus on the magazine cover.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM (VNX3d)

100 Most of the left's success has been propagandizing women to NOT have kids and pursue a career or to become a welfare baby mama.

If we had the female culture we had in the 50s the Dems would struggle to win MA and HI...

So really, if we could shut off the left's propaganda to young women they would die off...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM (t0Rmr)

101 I assume the hog rings in women’s noses are a Sign…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM (PCK5/)

102 Back in the '60s, the overwhleming meme was that left0wingers were sexy and liberated and young and attractive, while Republicans were old and ugly and mean and prudish and sexless.

Now things are exactly 180-degree reversed EVEN BY THE LEFT'S OWN ADMISSION.

Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM (pMi6S)

103 Populism led to 2 world wars, that's why we must tamp it down, hard.

Posted by: Europe at April 25, 2025 04:48 PM (Dv3i1)
_________________

Europeans led to two world wars, that's why we must tamp THEM down, hard.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM (YqDXo)

104 I find it interesting that they are afraid of some sort of propaganda being used to influence women to be feminine, whereas they have been using propaganda to try and convince women NOT to be feminine for decades.

Sort of an admission, really.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM (lTGtQ)

105 Now Kirsche has tumbled onto a guy who is merging the I-Ching with the Mandala?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:58 PM (FEpIj)

106 99 Traditions, like Stereotypes, exist for a reason…
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 04:56 PM (PCK5/)

Unlike the brontosaurus on the magazine cover.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM (VNX3d)

Good,though quirky point…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 04:58 PM (PCK5/)

107 Not any more. She's sixty years old now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 04:54 PM (omVj0)

Some dudes have an old lady fetish.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 04:58 PM (/dDa4)

108 Back in the '60s, the overwhleming meme was that left-wingers were ~~sexy and liberated and young and attractive~~ promiscuous as alley cats

FIFY.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:59 PM (YqDXo)

109 Some dudes have an old lady fetish.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 04:58 PM (/dDa4)
______________

Leave Emmanuel Maricon out of this.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:59 PM (YqDXo)

110 Brontosaurus?

Oh yeah, the newest vanity special mount in World of Warcraft is a Brontosaurus with an auction house. It will only set the player back $90.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 05:00 PM (FEpIj)

111 said Dr Jennifer Lincoln, an OB-GYN in Portland, Oregon

Who bitches about how we want them to be slender, good looking, and White, so we can make them Mom's... when....

Oh... she's slender, good looking, White, Doctor, AND A MOM. Guess she needs to divorce Hubby if she still has one.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 05:00 PM (QAkQ3)

112 108 Back in the '60s, the overwhleming meme was that left-wingers were sexy and liberated and young and attractive promiscuous as alley cats

FIFY.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:59 PM (YqDXo)

The “ Sexual Revolution” days, yes??

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

113 Macron.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 05:00 PM (y5Qz+)

114 108 Back in the '60s, the overwhleming meme was that left-wingers were sexy and liberated and young and attractive promiscuous as alley cats

FIFY.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:59 PM (YqDXo)

and we all smoked so were not fat...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 05:01 PM (QAkQ3)

115 The “ Sexual Revolution” days, yes??

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:00 PM (PCK5/)
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You betcha.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:01 PM (YqDXo)

116 The “ Sexual Revolution” days, yes??

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:00 PM (PCK5/)
_____________

Post sexual revolution, pre-AIDS and other STDs.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:01 PM (YqDXo)

117 Did they wear berets during the sexual revolution?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 05:02 PM (y5Qz+)

118 OT:REPORT: Republican Rep. Don Bacon is considering retirement.

GTFO Nancy boy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 05:02 PM (/U5Yz)

119 >> Young women have been hailed as the saving grace of the Democratic party, the force that will deliver us from all those angry young men spending all their time listening to podcasts

That's one possibility, sure.

The other possibility is that the media / deep state / propagandists went a bit too far with Covid / BLM / Antifa / 2020 election and that caused people to say "hey wait a second... maybe the media is full of shit."

But yeah, let's blame Joe Rogan and all of his talking about the benefits of Vitamin D and elk meat for why young men aren't falling for the media propaganda anymore.

Just like they used to do to Rush Limbaugh.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 05:02 PM (uCjyK)

120 Macron.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 05:00 PM (y5Qz+)
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Mispelled. "Maricon" is more appropriate.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:02 PM (YqDXo)

121
Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM

There's no "I" in zombe.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 05:02 PM (63Dwl)

122 110 Brontosaurus?

Oh yeah, the newest vanity special mount in World of Warcraft is a Brontosaurus with an auction house. It will only set the player back $90.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 05:00 PM (FEpIj)

Some people think Noah rode a brontosaurus, maybe… some people are misguided.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:02 PM (PCK5/)

123 103 Populism led to 2 world wars, that's why we must tamp it down, hard.

Posted by: Europe at April 25, 2025 04:48 PM (Dv3i1)
_________________

Europeans led to two world wars, that's why we must tamp THEM down, hard.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM (YqDXo)

Emperor Hirohito was a Populist? Never woulda thunk that one.....

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 05:02 PM (QAkQ3)

124 Zombe lost an i.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 05:03 PM (y5Qz+)

125 Emperor Hirohito was a Populist? Never woulda thunk that one.....

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 05:02 PM (QAkQ3)
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Maizie's dad?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:04 PM (YqDXo)

126 The left hates happiness. Hard to understand.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 25, 2025 05:04 PM (kTd/k)

127 "As I frequently say, the Democrat Party is the Husband of Last Resort for unmarriagable, miserable, mentally-ill women."

Ace, you need an editor because all of that could have been said with "unfuckable".

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 25, 2025 05:04 PM (k1E2D)

128 117 Did they wear berets during the sexual revolution?
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 05:02 PM (y5Qz+)

Yes, late in the Great Sexual Revolution....

Rasbery Berets!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 05:04 PM (QAkQ3)

129 Did they wear berets during the sexual revolution?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 05:02 PM (y5Qz+)
______________

Yes. And that's about all.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:04 PM (YqDXo)

130 I thought Maisie's relative was a kamikaze pilot?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 05:04 PM (FEpIj)

131 109 Some dudes have an old lady fetish.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 04:58 PM (/dDa4)
______________

Leave Emmanuel Maricon out of this.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

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He said lady, not dude.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 05:05 PM (Zhfc2)

132 Is this the reason why these old boomer women are protesting Trump, because their infertile saggy old bags?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 05:05 PM (/U5Yz)

133
You want to make me a sammich.

You NEED to make me a sammich.

Posted by: Auspex at April 25, 2025 05:06 PM (6hw2D)

134 Zombe lost an i.
_____________

(sobs)

Posted by: Dan Crenshaw at April 25, 2025 05:06 PM (YqDXo)

135 If the bluebird of happiness showed up at a Democrat convention, I'm sure they'd torture it to death.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 25, 2025 05:06 PM (kTd/k)

136 Marxism, what you find in a secondhand store.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 05:06 PM (FEpIj)

137 132 Is this the reason why these old boomer women are protesting Trump, because their infertile saggy old bags?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 05:05 PM (/U5Yz)

They are hoping to find some strange dick or scamper at them, just like in the 60's.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 25, 2025 05:07 PM (k1E2D)

138 Maybe the Olds are bitter because, to quote one of their Shining Cultural Leaders “ when the Truth is found to be lies” why then all that “ Love” within you dies, drys up, turns to bitterness…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:08 PM (PCK5/)

139 This is the front page on Dr. Lincoln's website:

Welcome! I’m an OBGYN whose passion is helping girls, women, and those assigned female at birth....

"Assigned female at birth"?! .I would immediately find another Obgyn, no matter what other egregious nonsense she had in her intro.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:08 PM (42Vb+)

140 Some people think Noah rode a brontosaurus, maybe… some people are misguided.
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025

***
Don't knock it. I do it at work and it pays great!

Posted by: Fred Flintstone at April 25, 2025 05:08 PM (omVj0)

141 Translation:

Thin = "not obese"

What we really want is the boobies.

Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 05:08 PM (q177U)

142 I thought Maisie's relative was a kamikaze pilot?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 05:04 PM (FEpIj)
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Jap officer: "Hey, I know. Why don't some of you dumb asses fly suicide missions into American ships? I'll be here guarding the women and the air base, but mostly the women. See you in Yasakuni, patriots!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:09 PM (YqDXo)

143 140 Some people think Noah rode a brontosaurus, maybe… some people are misguided.
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025

***
Don't knock it. I do it at work and it pays great!
Posted by: Fred Flintstone at April 25, 2025 05:08 PM (omVj0)

Hah!

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:09 PM (PCK5/)

144 Pam Bondi looks pretty damn good for a 60 year old.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 05:09 PM (/U5Yz)

145 Batching young women won't become boys

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 05:10 PM (ypFCm)

146 144 Pam Bondi looks pretty damn good for a 60 year old.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 05:09 PM (/U5Yz)

The closeups can be tough…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:10 PM (PCK5/)

147 BTW I've met a number of happy conservative women who are not thin.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 25, 2025 05:10 PM (kTd/k)

148 Love” within you dies, drys up, turns to bitterness…

And cats.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 25, 2025 05:10 PM (XYu4n)

149 Pam Bondi looks pretty damn good for a 60 year old.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025

***
And Melania is about to turn 55.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 05:10 PM (omVj0)

150 This is the front page on Dr. Lincoln's website:

Welcome! I’m an OBGYN whose passion is helping girls, women, and those assigned female at birth....

"Assigned female at birth"?! .I would immediately find another Obgyn, no matter what other egregious nonsense she had in her intro.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:08 PM (42Vb+)
_______________

Scene in the examination room: "Lessee, I'm looking for ... you know ... the usual female plumbing ... uh ... looking ... still looking ..."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:10 PM (YqDXo)

151 Wait. How is this thin part going to fly here at AoS? Most the male commenters here are of the “if she ain’t 180 she ain’t a lady” types. Chubby chasers!
I think only me n a few others here like them bikini model thin….

Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2025 05:11 PM (2lPeo)

152 Pretty doggone clever of the powder manufacturers to have them all expire at the same time, so y'all have to go powder your noses simultaneously.

Otherwise, we think y'all are comparing notes and observations.

We're pretty sure you're all laughing at us.
*pouts*
Posted by: Archimedes

Long long ago in the mists of yesteryear when people had good manners, it was expected that when a woman rose from the table to leave and return it was expected that all the men at that table would rise from their chairs, both upon her departure and upon her return.

In order to show consideration for the men at the table, so that they weren't bobbing up and down like corks in a bathtub every time a woman got up, women all left the table at the same time, so that all the men would only have to stand twice - once when the women left, and once when they returned.

The context has been lost, as men no longer stand when the women leave the table, but the habit of all the women leaving the table at once remains.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2025 05:11 PM (hB7mE)

153 What we really want is the boobies.
Posted by: Max Power

Yes; That is certainly a major theme at ASHQ.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:11 PM (42Vb+)

154 146 144 Pam Bondi looks pretty damn good for a 60 year old.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 05:09 PM (/U5Yz)

The closeups can be tough…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:10 PM (PCK5/)
____________

As my wife says, "Time is a good teacher, but a lousy beautician."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:11 PM (YqDXo)

155 Zombe lost an i.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 05:03 PM (y5Qz+)

Remember, there's no more important rule than to wear these, (Points to glasses) safety glasses.

Posted by: Norm Abram at April 25, 2025 05:12 PM (WvW+S)

156 Like doctors assign sex. They do this based on evidence.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 05:12 PM (y5Qz+)

157 Wait. How is this thin part going to fly here at AoS? Most the male commenters here are of the “if she ain’t 180 she ain’t a lady” types. Chubby chasers!
I think only me n a few others here like them bikini model thin….
Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2025

***
"Slim" is the word I like to use. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 05:12 PM (omVj0)

158 Patient screeching, "doc that's cold!!!"

Dr. Lincoln, "Calm down, only using the speculum to find your sexual organs."

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 05:12 PM (FEpIj)

159
Macron.
Posted by: Boss Moss

The man, or the feather in his cap?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 05:13 PM (xG4kz)

160 Wait. How is this thin part going to fly here at AoS? Most the male commenters here are of the “if she ain’t 180 she ain’t a lady” types.

Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2025 05:11 PM (2lPeo)
________________

Who the hell says that?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:13 PM (YqDXo)

161 151 Wait. How is this thin part going to fly here at AoS? Most the male commenters here are of the “if she ain’t 180 she ain’t a lady” types. Chubby chasers!
I think only me n a few others here like them bikini model thin….
Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2025 05:11 PM (2lPeo)

Nah... some of us Men who prefer thin, just don't talk about it anymore as it's like talking about Race...

There is no way to win... someone is gonna get pissed.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 05:13 PM (QAkQ3)

162 Macaroni is too carby.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 05:14 PM (y5Qz+)

163 . . . In order to show consideration for the men at the table, so that they weren't bobbing up and down like corks in a bathtub every time a woman got up, women all left the table at the same time, so that all the men would only have to stand twice - once when the women left, and once when they returned.

The context has been lost, as men no longer stand when the women leave the table, but the habit of all the women leaving the table at once remains.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2025

***
Really? That does make sense. (As did a lot of our old customs.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 05:14 PM (omVj0)

164 155 Zombe lost an i.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 05:03 PM (y5Qz+)

Remember, there's no more important rule than to wear these, (Points to glasses) safety glasses.
Posted by: Norm Abram at April 25, 2025 05:12 PM (WvW+S)

OK you MORONs! Who bought Zombe the Red Ryder BB Gun!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 05:14 PM (QAkQ3)

165 Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2025 05:11 PM (hB7mE)

That's very interesting. Thanks.

When at a social gathering I don't know that I have ever had bathroom girl group departure at the same time. They probably just didn't need to pee at the same time I did. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:14 PM (TLhEl)

166 Ace, you need an editor because all of that could have been said with "unfuckable".
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper

I am informed there's no such thing, even if a guy wouldn't admit it after the fact.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2025 05:15 PM (hB7mE)

167 I like smaller women, always have… it is merely a predeliction, not some damned carved on a stone tablet thing, though…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:15 PM (PCK5/)

168 It maintains power structures...
So its power you want... be a WIFE!!!!

You'll have more social, financial and actual fucking on call 24 7 muscle than you will as a cat lady. Then your children grow up and you have your own strike team. It's like the feminists have been taught to believe the opposite of reality.

Posted by: It's funny because it's true at April 25, 2025 05:16 PM (KZGYP)

169 "These women are united by their "desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview," according to The Guardian, which casts "women as submissive homemakers" and "men as strong providers."

Their bodies, their choices, right? Or no?

I guess that offer is only valid when making the Left-approved choice.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2025 05:16 PM (h7ZuX)

170 Most the male commenters here are of the “if she ain’t 180 she ain’t a lady” types. Chubby chasers!

That's some hilarious bs there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:16 PM (UT7mS)

171 Jap officer: "Hey, I know. Why don't some of you dumb asses fly suicide missions into American ships? I'll be here guarding the women and the air base, but mostly the women. See you in Yasakuni, patriots!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
___________

Putting aside entirely the suicide part, there's a decent argument that using kamikazes cost them fewer lives to inflict more damage than attempting to escort skilled torpedo or dive bomber pilots to the targets. And they didn't have many skilled pilots left at that point anyway.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025 05:16 PM (UBKzV)

172 What we want is a good, loving, mother and wife and mostly importantly someone who loves God.

The rest seems to fall into place.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:16 PM (DixIx)

173 This about killed Kirsche

New age guru video concludes with, "you are here to love yourself."

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 05:17 PM (FEpIj)

174 The cats are eyeing me. Well, they were; now they've decamped to the kitchen to hint about their dinner. I suppose I have to put on my butler coat and go dish out some of the Scottish smoked salmon for them.

(Not really. They get Friskies canned and Purina One dry food. *I* can't afford smoked salmon even for me!)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 05:17 PM (omVj0)

175 @160 Deplorable Jay Guevara-read many a complaint here about “too thin” when commenters post pics of women. Many of the male horde is into hoggin’ I think. Likes ‘em’ thick.

Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2025 05:17 PM (2lPeo)

176 A man went shopping with his wife. She came out of the dressing room with a new dress on. She asked "Does this dress make me look fat?"

"It depends."

"Depends on What?"

"How much is that dress?"

She answers, "$1500."

"Mooooooo!"

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 05:17 PM (VNX3d)

177 "These women are united by their "desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview,"
_______________

Gender-essentialist? Yeah, the Reds would never emphasize "gender," aka "sex."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:17 PM (YqDXo)

178 The Japanese planes were getting chewed up by newer better American planes

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 05:18 PM (y5Qz+)

179 Didn’t the left push to ban GMOs like 5 minutes ago? Now crunchy moms who like natural foods are dangerous.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 05:18 PM (IZezY)

180 Putting aside entirely the suicide part, there's a decent argument that using kamikazes cost them fewer lives to inflict more damage than attempting to escort skilled torpedo or dive bomber pilots to the targets. And they didn't have many skilled pilots left at that point anyway.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025

***
Just teach the hapless pilots how to take off, not how to land. Would have cut training time in half.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 05:18 PM (omVj0)

181 The cats are eyeing me. Well, they were; now they've decamped to the kitchen to hint about their dinner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 05:17 PM (omVj0)
________________

They were sizing up your health. /kidding!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:19 PM (YqDXo)

182 The context has been lost, as men no longer stand when the women leave the table, but the habit of all the women leaving the table at once remains.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

-----
That, and women are terrified of any subgroup being alone and able to gossip and conspire against any women left at the table.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 05:20 PM (Zhfc2)

183 “ A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life...”

Proverbs 31…

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:20 PM (DixIx)

184 How about 2 pilots in every plane. One to take off one to land. You can do the training in half the time.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 05:20 PM (IZezY)

185 175 @160 Deplorable Jay Guevara-read many a complaint here about “too thin” when commenters post pics of women. Many of the male horde is into hoggin’ I think. Likes ‘em’ thick.

Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2025 05:17 PM (2lPeo)
_______________

I don't recall Sir Mix-a-Lot commenting here.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:20 PM (YqDXo)

186 Will no one think of the salmonless cats?

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 05:21 PM (0HaGk)

187 I haven't spent much time typing at my home desk in a while. The lamp is vibrating and bothering the hell out of me; it's too lightweight. Maybe I should move the newly repaired lamp to the desk. It is heavy enough to crush somebody's skull in a crime novel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 05:21 PM (omVj0)

188 183 “ A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life...”

Proverbs 31…
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:20 PM (DixIx)

Solomon should have stuck with just a few, rather than well, you know…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:21 PM (PCK5/)

189 The cats are eyeing me. Well, they were; now they've decamped to the kitchen to hint about their dinner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025
________________

They were sizing up your health. /kidding!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025

***
Little Dagny slept next to me last night. Perhaps she's sniffing to see if I'm sick!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 05:23 PM (omVj0)

190 >> Solomon should have stuck with just a few, rather than well, you know…
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:21 PM (PCK5/)

As someone who still bears the scars of being stabbed with a fork in the chest by a drop-dead French underwear model, me thinks Solomon learned the hard way. Just a guess.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:23 PM (DixIx)

191 "When we encounter a heavily tattooed, blue-haired, obese, gender-neutral individual with a bull-ring, that person is communicating to us that they actively disregard the standards for normality that the majority of people agree on,"

They wear all that crap because if they look at a costume instead of themselves, they don't see the crazy in their eyes.

Posted by: huerfano at April 25, 2025 05:23 PM (n2swS)

192 BTW Kash is going Slap Happy locking up Judges
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at April 25, 2025 04:38 PM (r3F/z)

Lock up/string up.

220/221

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 05:23 PM (8zz6B)

193 190 >> Solomon should have stuck with just a few, rather than well, you know…
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:21 PM (PCK5/)

As someone who still bears the scars of being stabbed with a fork in the chest by a drop-dead French underwear model, me thinks Solomon learned the hard way. Just a guess.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:23 PM (DixIx)

Hmmm… so fork stabbing focuses the mind…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:24 PM (PCK5/)

194 Will no one think of the salmonless cats?
Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025

***
Not to mention the salmonless humans. Even Walmart's one-pound bag of frozen salmon (when you can find it) is pretty pricey.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 05:24 PM (omVj0)

195 As someone who still bears the scars of being stabbed with a fork in the chest by a drop-dead French underwear model, me thinks Solomon learned the hard way. Just a guess.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:23 PM (DixIx)
______________

Hence the cork stuck onto the end of the fork.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:25 PM (YqDXo)

196 I meant “drop-dead gorgeous”. I don’t need law enforcement coming around to dig up my yard.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:25 PM (DixIx)

197 The biggest crime you commit when you do something different from a Leftist is you are not validating their choices. That's what all this is about--they cannot stand the idea that they might have been wrong.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM (CHHv1)

+100

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 05:25 PM (g47mK)

198 I have kids in middle and high school. I see them
And their friends and they’re no different than when I was that age. I can’t speak much to millenials and older Zs, but the younger Zs….they seem to have their heads on straight.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 05:25 PM (IZezY)

199 As someone who still bears the scars of being stabbed with a fork in the chest by a drop-dead French underwear model, me thinks Solomon learned the hard way. Just a guess.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025

***
This sounds like the beginning of a fascinating story. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 05:25 PM (omVj0)

200 when you put it in crazy, be careful lest crazy put it in you

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2025 05:26 PM (sAbXF)

201 When you’re looking at a dinner fork sticking in your chest, it has a tendency to force you to focus on how short life is.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:26 PM (DixIx)

202 121
Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM

There's no "I" in zombe.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

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Fixed. Thanks for noting that!

I changed back from a joke sock and failed.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 05:26 PM (pMi6S)

203 179 Didn’t the left push to ban GMOs like 5 minutes ago? Now crunchy moms who like natural foods are dangerous.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 05:18 PM (IZezY)

In a sane world, the left would be delighted with their victory over public opinion. But if leftists win, they don't have any purpose for living.

Gotta keep agitating.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2025 05:27 PM (h7ZuX)

204 I’m surprised Trump went to Italy for the pope funeral.

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 05:27 PM (q6XPQ)

205 202 121
Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:57 PM

There's no "I" in zombe.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

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Fixed. Thanks for noting that!

I changed back from a joke sock and failed.
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 05:26 PM (pMi6S)

zumba would have been fun…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:27 PM (PCK5/)

206 As I frequently say, the Democrat Party is the Husband of Last Resort for unmarriagable, miserable, mentally-ill women.

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The Feral and State & Local Governments and Government-Organized "NGOs" is the Husband Teat of Last Resort, and the Democrat Party is The Pimp.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 05:27 PM (t6VO+)

207 when you put it in crazy, be careful lest crazy put it in you
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2025

***
The corollary I forgot to add . . .

Posted by: Nietzsche (the hell with the abyss) at April 25, 2025 05:28 PM (omVj0)

208 204 I’m surprised Trump went to Italy for the pope funeral.
Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 05:27 PM (q6XPQ)

Nice politic move, really..

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:28 PM (PCK5/)

209 >> This sounds like the beginning of a fascinating story. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 05:25 PM (omVj0)

My failures before I returned to God could probably fill a feature film and sequel. I’ve probably made more mistakes than anyone I know. That was back when I was chasing physical beauty instead of inner beauty. It led me in a lot of very wrong and sometimes dangerous directions. Why God saved me will be a mystery until I meet him again.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:28 PM (DixIx)

210 Nood journalists

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2025 05:29 PM (hB7mE)

211 I heard some talk radio voice say, he wants to register all autistic people to do in depth causation studies. I'm not feeling so comfortable with that mindset myself.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 04:49 PM (/U5Yz)

Perhaps he's obsessively compelled to want to do that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 05:29 PM (8zz6B)

212 In a sane world, the left would be delighted with their victory over public opinion. But if leftists win, they don't have any purpose for living.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
___________

That's when they turn on each other.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025 05:29 PM (UBKzV)

213 Saw a video of Katy Perry doing some cringe interpretative dance on her tour. Going to “space” appears to have fried her brain.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 05:29 PM (IZezY)

214 I just made one of those random connections that I am prone to.

The Federal employee enclaves that are getting decimated around DC, they are all cargo cults.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 05:29 PM (FEpIj)

215 Unmarriageable, miserable and mentally- ill women will always have Code Pink.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 05:30 PM (oXfCm)

216 Katy Perry's brain has been fried long before she met Russel Brand.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 05:30 PM (FEpIj)

217 Her brain has been fried since she abandoned God.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:31 PM (DixIx)

218 "These women are united by their "desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview," according to The Guardian, which casts "women as submissive homemakers" and "men as strong providers.""
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As opposed to the proper progressive view, which is a gender-essentialist worldview which casts men as inept yet omnipotent evil villains, and women as beleaguered heroines

Posted by: DaveL at April 25, 2025 05:32 PM (9w232)

219 Ace, you need an editor because all of that could have been said with "unfuckable".
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 25, 2025 05:04 PM (k1E2D)

Inscrutable, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 05:34 PM (8zz6B)

220 As someone who still bears the scars of being stabbed with a fork in the chest by a drop-dead French underwear model, me thinks Solomon learned the hard way. Just a guess.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 05:23 PM (DixIx)

I guess she just misheard your come on:

"Hey, baby! You wanna fuck me!"

And the rest is history.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 05:37 PM (iJfKG)

221 "Organized" is supposed to be a dirty word. It connotes an insidious masterplan to take women off birth control"

Racism keeps telegraphing that Whites and Asians are superior.

Feminism keeps trying to tell me that women have no mind of their own and are easily subjugated.

Posted by: Fen at April 25, 2025 05:39 PM (ciYHQ)

222 Traditions, like Stereotypes, exist for a reason…
Posted by: tubal

"Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution, and you get the problem back." - Donald Kingsbury

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2025 05:40 PM (DgGvY)

223 Quillette is now "rightwing"?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2025 05:42 PM (1bNHn)

224 I’m surprised Trump went to Italy for the pope funeral.
Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 05:27 PM (q6XPQ)

Nice politic move, really..

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 05:28 PM (PCK5/)
_____________

Yep.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 05:47 PM (YqDXo)

225 "Young women have been hailed as the saving grace of the Democratic party, the force that will deliver us from-"

And you gave them up for a Sissy of Crossdressers.

Because a guy's right to feel sexy in a flirty skirt trumps any character a girl might gain from competitive sports

Posted by: Fen at April 25, 2025 06:03 PM (ciYHQ)

226 "The Left's obsessions with spheres is interesting"

Apollo was astonished
Dionysius thought them mad

Posted by: Fen at April 25, 2025 06:19 PM (ciYHQ)

227 The difference between Republican women and Democrat "women" is that Republican women don't have penises.
Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:55 PM (pMi6S)

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: "Caitlyn Jenner" at April 25, 2025 06:54 PM (FCbAQ)

228 183 “ A wife of noble character who can find?"
_-_-_
I was veeery fortunate and found one. Best decision I ever made. Lots of things are so much easier when you pick a good spouse!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 07:21 PM (vd6bO)

The New York Times Whines That an Illegal Alien Was Deported After 21 Years (Cue the Violins) "to a 'Home' He Barely Knew"

Their headline and propagandistic twitter post omitted a highly relevant fact: He was a drug dealer convicted of kidnapping. He then served 15 years in prison for that crime.

Via Twitchy, this is outrageous propaganda.

Twitter should limit the NYT's account to exercise some control over this Fake News Russian Disinformation.

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio
The New York Times conveniently glossed over that this illegal alien, Nascimento Blair is a convicted kidnapper and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In 2008, he was issued a final order of removal. Because of the Biden administration's open border policies, this criminal illegal alien was released onto the streets of New York.

The article does grudgingly admit his ticky-tack kidnapping conviction and the 15 years he served in prison. Though the Times insists that that conviction is in doubt, because, the Times says, this deportee "disputes" the conviction.

Ah, I see. A convict "disputes" his conviction. Well why didn't you say so? Obviously he's innocent because no convicted criminal would ever lie.

But most people aren't going to see the article -- they're going to see the headline, and the twitter post, and those claim that he's just a guy who got deported.

Nascimento Blair returned home in shackles.
He landed in Jamaica in February, 21 years after he had abandoned the island, seated next to dozens of his countrymen who were also handcuffed. As he stepped off the plane at the seaside airport in Kingston and felt the scorching Caribbean sun of his youth, Mr. Blair, 46, was greeted with suspicion.
Still dazed, he looked out of place. He had on the same winter clothes -- a peacoat, turtleneck, gray suit and Chelsea boots -- he had been wearing when U.S. immigration authorities had abruptly detained him on a frigid morning in New York City weeks earlier.
He noticed his slightly Americanized accent as he sat through hours of interrogation by Jamaican authorities at the airport. And he felt like an outcast as Jamaican officials snapped his mug shot, took his fingerprints and asked about his past.
"They don't look at you like a Jamaican," Mr. Blair said. "They look at you like a criminal."

You are a convicted criminal. That's why they look at you like you're a convicted criminal.

Mr. Blair did not give them details about his past, an odyssey that began with a side hustle dealing marijuana in the New York suburbs as a 24-year-old Jamaican transplant, which led to a kidnapping conviction he disputed and a 15-year prison sentence he fulfilled.
It was his criminal past that had gotten him deported from the United States, where he had been rebuilding his life and seeking redemption.

So it was his kidnapping conviction that got him deported, and not racism and/or "fear of brown people," huh?

He had earned two college degrees, started a trucking business, mentored people released from prison, cared for a fiancée with breast cancer, taken classes at Columbia University.

Oh wow he took classes at Columbia night school. He's a regular Maryland Father.

None of it would stave off deportation: He was among the first few thousand immigrants scattered across the globe during the early days of President Trump's deportation campaign.
On paper, Mr. Blair fit the profile of the people Mr. Trump says he wants to deport: those with criminal backgrounds. In a statement, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security blamed the Biden administration for not deporting Mr. Blair sooner.
But to Mr. Blair and his supporters, his life story was one of rehabilitation, nuanced and filled with qualities that they believe Mr. Trump's deportation machine disregards as it flies out immigrants en masse.

LOL.

The article pushes the factoid that he was released from prison in 2020 -- the year of the covid crisis -- and Trump didn't deport him before he left office. The NYT seems to believe that if a president doesn't make it his top priority to deport you as soon as he can, then you are grandfathered into remaining into the country forever.

By the way, the NYT talks about this guy "living in America" for 21 years, as if he has squatters rights that kick in after that time period.

For fifteen of those years "living in America," he was living in federal cell because he's a drug-dealing kidnapper.

He kidnapped someone and was convicted of it within a few years of coming to America and enriching our precious diversity with his crimes.

The New York Times conveniently glossed over that this illegal alien, Nascimento Blair is a convicted kidnapper and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

In 2008, he was issued a final order of removal. Because of the Biden administration’s open border policies, this criminal… pic.twitter.com/qy3PvxBI2P
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) April 24, 2025

Just incredible stuff.

The media keeps actively trying to portray the worst people as victims. There is nothing in the entire article to suggest Blair, who unsurprisingly also was taking classes at Columbia University, was wrongly deported. https://t.co/jlzrJ7zt3t pic.twitter.com/3cdVGZHB11
— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 24, 2025

The media disinformation campaign continues at warp speed. His visa was revoked. He is an illegal alien. Criminal arrest warrants are for criminal prosecutions not deportations. https://t.co/C87H2EUdkS
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) April 25, 2025

It's all about reapportionment:

REMINDER: The reason Democrat judges are fighting so hard to keep illegals - even the criminal aliens - is all about control of the House. If illegals were removed or not counted for apportionment Democrats would lose 10 seats in the house giving the GOP a 27 seat advantage. pic.twitter.com/99pOCLan1H
— @amuse (@amuse) April 25, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 03:26 PM

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1 double

Posted by: Ciampino - irony at April 25, 2025 03:26 PM (sPQoU)

2 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 25, 2025 03:26 PM (rbKZ6)

3 First?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 25, 2025 03:26 PM (ZjmBg)

4 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 25, 2025 03:26 PM (GYt5+)

5 Dang!

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 25, 2025 03:27 PM (rbKZ6)

6 World's tiniest mariachi guitar.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 03:28 PM (pMi6S)

7 >>>this is outrageous propaganda.

It's also EFFECTIVE propaganda. The boomers and millennials are lapping this up.

Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 03:28 PM (q177U)

8 He was just doin the kidnapping and drug dealing that Americans won't do!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:29 PM (uCjyK)

9 Ah yes, the Disney remake of the Odyssey.

Posted by: mishdog at April 25, 2025 03:29 PM (Uvcir)

10 If we can't use this guy as the Poster Kidnapper for our our anti-Trump hit piece, then who can we use as our Poster Kidnapper?

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 03:30 PM (pMi6S)

11 Why don't we deport his breast cancer having likely also illegal immigrant girlfriend while we're at it?

And if she did manage to get immigration status here, at the very least throw her in jail for a few months for harboring a known illegal alien who ignore a deportation order.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:30 PM (uCjyK)

12 "He had earned two college degrees, started a trucking business"

Meaning: he took some classes and did some odd jobs.

Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (q177U)

13 Watching the TRUMP ARRESTED A JUDGE!!! freakout is making my Friday.

Posted by: Jay in PA at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (i7Q7S)

14 I'm still sort of shocked they can't find actual "hard luck" cases and instead decide to throw their crediblity behind violent criminals

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (4pwAx)

15 Think about how many millions of dollars this guy has stolen from us.

He has never legally worked in this country, I would imagine. We locked him up for 15 years, that's not cheap.

I imagine he's been on every welfare program known to man for the 21 years he was here, other than the 15 years he was in prison.

And I'm sure we've also paid for his cellphone, housing, medical care, etc.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (uCjyK)

16 "refugee" "escaping" a place to America which is completely alien to them and not like their home: heroic, noble, worthy of praise and assistance.

Deporting an illegal immigrant back to their home: alien, cruel, confusing, worthy of opposition

Got it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (2VST1)

17 Ex-con "redemption stories" are often pure bullshit.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 25, 2025 03:32 PM (rJ48h)

18 I missed the earlier thread. Have a great vacation Ace! You deserve it!!!

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 25, 2025 03:32 PM (rbKZ6)

19 The nyt is a cancer.

Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:32 PM (v5PRz)

20 12 "He had earned two college degrees, started a trucking business"

Meaning: he took some classes and did some odd jobs.
Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (q177U)

How did he start a trucking business if he did not have legal status? Can you get a CDL and all the proper paperwork to start a trucking company when you're "living in the shadows"?!

That should be investigated, no?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (uCjyK)

21 17 Ex-con "redemption stories" are often pure bullshit.
Posted by: mr tmz

I resent that insinuation.

Posted by: Tookie Williams at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (pMi6S)

22 We really should have gone to war with mexico a while ago for the way they have treated our country as their nation's sewer.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (4pwAx)

23 Noodled.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 03:34 PM (VNX3d)

24 He then served 15 years in prison for that crime.

______________________________

Wow, these Jamaican houses are much bigger than what I'm used to.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 03:35 PM (dIske)

25 19 The nyt is a cancer.
Posted by: Vivi

Considering how much they lie, I would have thought they were a Sagittarius.

Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 03:35 PM (pMi6S)

26 I am glad to see the FBI starting to arrest judges who harbored or protected illegals from the federal government. I get it, they think the illegal is a sad minority immigrant fleeing terrible things and the government are evil oppressors acting on racist motivations. I get it, they are using empathy instead of reason, feelings instead of truth. They think that its Worse Than Hitler™ to make a swarthy person feel bad.

But its still illegal, and always has been, and it is wonderful to see the DOJ actually enforcing this law after decades of it being ignored. Judges are not some superior form of life that is above the law.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 03:35 PM (2VST1)

27 The New York Times Whines That an Illegal Alien Was Deported After 21 Years (Cue the Violins) "to a 'Home' He Barely Knew"

Two parts to this...

1) This is so lefty LIVs can claim Trump is deporting citizens...

2) I don't care if he wasn't a wife beating, thug, human trafficker - all illegals go home

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 03:36 PM (t0Rmr)

28 He could have stayed in Jamaica, serving rum from his silver tray to white guys visiting Montego Bay. Maybe giving driving lessons cause it's all on the right side in Montego Bay and the Brits get confused after a few rums.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 25, 2025 03:36 PM (gm9Sb)

29 He should have been executed for kidnapping.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:37 PM (/dDa4)

30 How did he start a trucking business if he did not have legal status? Can you get a CDL and all the proper paperwork to start a trucking company when you're "living in the shadows"?!

He bought a couple trucks and paid guys outside Home Depot every morning to drive them, under the table. I started a publishing company and have published dozens of titles worldwide. Sounds impressive that way doesn't it?

What really happened is that I came up with a name and a logo and wrote over 24 books, adventures, and gaming supplements and sold some in Germany, Denmark, and England. Not so impressive sounding now, is it?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 03:37 PM (2VST1)

31 Illegals Should not be here, and Should not be counted for House seats.

Maybe Trump can can change "coulda, woulda, should" to "Coulda, Did, Done"?

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 03:38 PM (Cus5s)

32 OUT: You can't hate the media enough
IN: You can't beat the living hell out of the media enough

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 03:38 PM (wtvvX)

33 Pfft. Even by the twitter bit he was 25 when he left Jamaica. Oh and by the way NYTs. If he wasn't a thug, he probably could have gotten a green card if he was willing to be patient. Not sure how universal Jamaican education is, but the quality of their K-12 is much much better than black neighborhoods get in shitty DNC urban cities according the smart ones who got degrees and jobs at my workplace.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 25, 2025 03:38 PM (bP/i4)

34 The dindo nuffin defense?

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:39 PM (v0R5T)

35 People pay good money to feel the scorching Caribbean sun.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 03:39 PM (63Dwl)

36 I'm still sort of shocked they can't find actual "hard luck" cases and instead decide to throw their crediblity behind violent criminals
Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (4pwAx)

They no doubt exist, but I believe this is a deliberate strategy. See also: BLM.

There have been some very questionable police shootings in the U.S., of people of all races. But BLM never focused on that. They always chose the most divisive cases. I think it's the same operating theory here.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:39 PM (/dDa4)

37
Know another illegal alien the ass of which should have been kicked out of the country for his criminal deeds? Colonel Tom Parker. Those Elvis movies, yecch!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 03:41 PM (QnmlO)

38 As he stepped off the plane at the seaside airport in Kingston and felt the scorching Caribbean sun of his youth, Mr. Blair, 46, was greeted with suspicion.

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He was deported to the scorching hot sun! The hot, scorching Caribbean sun, you heartless maniacs!

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 03:41 PM (qBdHI)

39 He bought a couple trucks and paid guys outside Home Depot every morning to drive them, under the table.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 03:37 PM (2VST1)

Yeah, I agree thats very likely what happened. But that's infuriating to me. Because if someone trying to follow the law wanted to start a trucking company, that involves a lot of paperwork and DOT numbers and inspections and insurance and up front capital. Not to mention getting a CDL, and passing a physical, and random drug tests.

But when our buddy here (New York man?) violates all kinds of laws and regulations to run his illegal business, he obviously has a massive cost advantage to the guy trying to do it the right way.

That's not a victimless crime at all.

Not to mention, what happens if one of his uninspected, uninsured trucks, almost definitely driven by an unlicensed illegal alien, kills someone?

The whole thing is fucked.

As Mark Steyn said years ago, we're a nation of the undocumented and the overdocumented. Two sets of rules that massively disfavor the people who are citizens here. In our own fucking country. It's sick.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)

40 The media continues to push stories they're going to face plant on.

They absolutely refuse to read the room.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 25, 2025 03:42 PM (tT6L1)

41 >>>Well why didn't you say so? Obviously he's innocent because no convicted criminal would ever lie.

There are no guilty people people in prison, all innocent. It is us who are guilty for passing judgment on them.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2025 03:42 PM (i24o9)

42 Just an aspiring reggae singer.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:42 PM (v0R5T)

43
Not to mention, what happens if one of his uninspected, uninsured trucks, almost definitely driven by an unlicensed illegal alien, kills someone?

This is why YOUR car insurance price has exploded in the past few years

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)

44 They couldn't even get a sympathetic picture of him. He looks like he wants to kidnap someone right now.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 03:42 PM (bXihk)

45 Hell, he got a free flight to Jamaica. What's he bitching about? He broke the law, he knows he broke the law so all of this is on him.

Posted by: Case at April 25, 2025 03:42 PM (OrSPY)

46 They no doubt exist, but I believe this is a deliberate strategy. See also: BLM.

There have been some very questionable police shootings in the U.S., of people of all races. But BLM never focused on that. They always chose the most divisive cases. I think it's the same operating theory here.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:39 PM (/dDa4)

Absolutely correct.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:42 PM (uCjyK)

47
As Mark Steyn said years ago, we're a nation of the undocumented and the overdocumented. Two sets of rules that massively disfavor the people who are citizens here. In our own fucking country. It's sick.

As Tony Fauci said at one point, he couldn't clot shot the illegal aliens because "they have rights"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 03:43 PM (t0Rmr)

48 Dang it!

Oh, well - Hello, Horde! 😊💕🤒

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 25, 2025 03:43 PM (t5zu8)

49 He was deported to the scorching hot sun! The hot, scorching Caribbean sun, you heartless maniacs!
Posted by: Lady in Black
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We've got this

Posted by: Not-so-Great Britian at April 25, 2025 03:43 PM (5hfjS)

50 As he stepped off the plane at the seaside airport in Kingston and felt the scorching Caribbean sun of his youth,

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Pulitzer !

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 03:43 PM (g47mK)

51 This is why YOUR car insurance price has exploded in the past few years
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)

Yep. Went up nearly 50% last year in NY State, seemingly across the board with every company in every county (I didn't check way upstate, but at least in Westchester, NYC, and Long Island it went up dramatically)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:44 PM (uCjyK)

52 He could have come here legally. Bottom line. Then, after doing his fifteen year stretch, gone truckin' and made a big name for himself in Country Western.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 25, 2025 03:44 PM (gm9Sb)

53 greeted with suspicion ? Well, good to know Jamaicans treat criminals with suspicion.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 03:45 PM (g47mK)

54 Just a minor point here: we really need to stop going along with the left's double-speak of calling these fuckstains "immigrants".

They aren't any kind of immigrant.

They are illegal aliens.

"Invaders" would also be acceptable.

Same thing with the "gender" bullshit. Grammar in some languages has genders.

Human beings do not have "genders".

They have sexes, of which there are exactly two.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 25, 2025 03:45 PM (W5ArC)

55 Just incredible stuff.

The media keeps actively trying to portray the worst people as victims. There is nothing in the entire article to suggest Blair, who unsurprisingly also was taking classes at Columbia University, was wrongly deported.

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Next you'll be telling me that those on The Left routinely lionize the greatest mass-murderer in history -- and one of their heroes -- Chairman Mao.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 03:45 PM (sF1Er)

56 They always chose the most divisive cases. I think it's the same operating theory here.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:39 PM (/dDa4)

🛎️🛎️🛎️

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 03:45 PM (bXihk)

57 They don't look at you like a Jamaican," Mr. Blair said. "They look at you like a criminal.

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Should have hired an image consultant.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 03:45 PM (g47mK)

58 As he stepped off the plane at the seaside airport in Kingston and felt the scorching Caribbean sun of his youth,
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Of his youth. So, he's unfamiliar with the place he was sent to or felt like he'd just returned to the land of his birth?

Which is it?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 25, 2025 03:46 PM (tT6L1)

59 This is not difficult: are you in this country legally?
No?

We’ll. Bye.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 03:46 PM (Hkcdp)

60
Next you'll be telling me that those on The Left routinely lionize the greatest mass-murderer in history -- and one of their heroes -- Chairman Mao.
Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 03:45 PM (sF1Er)

__________

Yoo hoo!

Posted by: Homicidal Maniac Che Guevara on a T-Shirt at April 25, 2025 03:47 PM (QnmlO)

61 52 He could have come here legally. Bottom line. Then, after doing his fifteen year stretch, gone truckin' and made a big name for himself in Country Western.
Posted by: bill in arkansas
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Green card criminals can get deported for crimes just like others. Naturalized citizens though is a much more narrow grounds for future deportation like treason/espionage, lying on forms for citizenship or green card, etc.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:47 PM (ctrM5)

62 > He was deported to the scorching hot sun! The hot, scorching Caribbean sun, you heartless maniacs!
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 03:41 PM (qBdHI)

Reminds me of the bleeding hearts bitching because the prisoners at Gitmo are kept in chain-link cages with a roof over them, which is a perfectly reasonable and comfortable construction style for the Caribbean. It's not like it's Mary's Igloo, Alaska or something.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 25, 2025 03:47 PM (W5ArC)

63 2 degrees? and started a business ?? good, now he can enrich Jamaica with his knowledge and experience!

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 03:47 PM (g47mK)

64 I wonder who got his truck.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 03:48 PM (jc0TO)

65 The media continues to push stories they're going to face plant on.

Yeah its a bit of an uphill battle they are facing. They might be able to pull it off but its against pretty long odds. People keep calling this 80/20 issues and I think that's a fair depiction.

Like the post I saw where a woman was claiming victory because 34% of the country opposes the president's agenda. So... 2/3rds of the country supports it? That's a win in your eyes?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 03:49 PM (2VST1)

66 I'm still sort of shocked they can't find actual "hard luck" cases and instead decide to throw their crediblity behind violent criminals
Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (4pwAx)

Almost as if these various Congress-critters are being paid by criminal gangs to permit said gangs to operate in the U.S.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 25, 2025 03:49 PM (pJWtt)

67 As he stepped off the plane at the seaside airport in Kingston and felt the scorching Caribbean sun of his youth, Mr. Blair, 46, was greeted with suspicion.

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He was deported to the scorching hot sun! The hot, scorching Caribbean sun, you heartless maniacs!
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While he was wearing WINTER CLOTHES! So cruel!!

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2025 03:49 PM (Szews)

68 46 They no doubt exist, but I believe this is a deliberate strategy. See also: BLM.

There have been some very questionable police shootings in the U.S., of people of all races. But BLM never focused on that. They always chose the most divisive cases. I think it's the same operating theory here.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:39 PM (/dDa4)

Absolutely correct.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Problem with outrage flogging, eventually it becomes a known issue and much more difficult to raise up the crowds. Plus, the riot crowds are not so enamored of immigrants viewing them more as competitors than brothers from another mother.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:49 PM (ctrM5)

69
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 25, 2025 03:44 PM (gm9Sb)

I don't want him here legally, either.

He has a home. In Jamaica. I have a home here. He can stay there, I can stay here.

Why does the entire fucking world get to fill out some paperwork and throw some money at attorneys and all of a sudden they're just as American as I am? And half the time they're just here to make money, have some anchor babies, then retire back "home" where their money goes farther?

My family is buried here. My family fought in multiple wars here. Generations of my family paid taxes, worked shit jobs, got treated like shit to work their way up so that their grandkids and great grandkids could experience "the american dream".

And that all counts for nothing?

And the "we're all children of immigrants" thing is bullshit. It was in the US's best interest to settle the west when the huge wave of Irish and Italians came here in the late 1800s to early 1900s. It wasn't out of some ideal about unlimited immigration.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:49 PM (uCjyK)

70 > lying on forms for citizenship or green card, etc.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:47 PM (ctrM5)

The hell you say.

Posted by: Ilhan "Brofo" Omar at April 25, 2025 03:49 PM (W5ArC)

71 "...he was dealing marijuana, which led to a kidnapping conviction."

Boy, did they ever leave out some important stuff there.

It sounds like a line from the movie, Stripes:

Well sir, we were going to this bingo parlor at the YMCA, well one thing led to another, and the instructions got all fouled up...

Posted by: Mike S at April 25, 2025 03:50 PM (9JkZD)

72 65 The media continues to push stories they're going to face plant on.

Yeah its a bit of an uphill battle they are facing. They might be able to pull it off but its against pretty long odds. People keep calling this 80/20 issues and I think that's a fair depiction.

Like the post I saw where a woman was claiming victory because 34% of the country opposes the president's agenda. So... 2/3rds of the country supports it? That's a win in your eyes?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

The more they make criminals the poster child of the Dem party, the less sympathy that position will get. Even native criminals don't like competitors from other countries much.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:50 PM (ctrM5)

73
2 degrees? and started a business ?? good, now he can enrich Jamaica with his knowledge and experience!
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 03:47 PM (g47mK)

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Half his earnings would go to bribes for authorities, whereas in the US it would be only a quarter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 03:50 PM (QnmlO)

74 So is the idea to make us justify deportations on the fact that they are "bad people" not just here illegally?

Hear me out for one hot minute.

It's a strange flip of the script. Basically trying to *force* us to sound like we're just racist - "these are bad people".

I dunno. The Left are an incredibly strange breed.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 03:50 PM (bXihk)

75 “Back to a home he barely knew”

Choices have no consequences, huh?
He barely knows it by choice.
He chose to commit violent crimes in a foreign country in which he had not legally entered.

The way he might look at it is: thank God I didn’t do this in Thailand or Turkey, where I’d likely die in prison. But Americans, they send me back to my island paradise homeland!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 03:50 PM (Hkcdp)

76 Uh.... if you want to send the guy back to somewhere he is familiar with.... then send him back to prison, where he spent 15 years...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 03:50 PM (QAkQ3)

77 I'm not sure if we've been called xenophobes yet, but, gosh, why do you think we might be that way? Any chance there's cause and effect in play here? That turning up illegal immigration to 11 might have some role in our "get the hell out of our country" attitude?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 25, 2025 03:50 PM (tT6L1)

78 If illegals were removed or not counted for apportionment Democrats would lose 10 seats in the house giving the GOP a 27 seat advantage.
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Even though the next census is five years away, I am today issuing a proactive Order to the Census Department to count every resident as if they are citizens of the state in which they are found during census counts. Don't screw with me, Census Department!

Posted by: President James Boasberg at April 25, 2025 03:50 PM (tNwfv)

79 They always chose the most divisive cases. I think it's the same operating theory here.

I think the strategy is to provoke people on the right to go "HIM? That's the guy you want to make a saint??" and all ignorant people hear is "they hates my hero, the poor murdered George Floyd!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 03:51 PM (2VST1)

80
"They don't look at you like a Jamaican," Mr. Blair said. "They look at you like a criminal."

You are a convicted criminal. That's why they look at you like you're a convicted criminal.

Fenster: They treat me like a criminal. I'll end up a criminal.
Hockney: You are a criminal.
Fenster: Why you gotta go and do that? I'm trying to make a point.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2025 03:51 PM (y9nCu)

81 > 71 "...he was dealing marijuana, which led to a kidnapping conviction."

Without committing myself to anything for which the statute of limitations may or may not have run, I may have been rumored to occasionally partake of the devil's lettuce in my misspent youth.

I don't recall kidnaping ever being involved.

Posted by: Ilhan at April 25, 2025 03:52 PM (W5ArC)

82 Now he can make amends to the people of Jamaica by living right there.

Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2025 03:52 PM (FhXTo)

83 So when it comes to the people with a family or whatever and who aren't MS-13 (if they exist) it's like a new argument has to be formulated by us - and those people then become sympathetic.

Yes it's 4D chessish and really as we know the Left just loves criminals, but I've definitely seen more complicated machinations from the Left.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 03:52 PM (bXihk)

84 GASSSSS

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 25, 2025 03:52 PM (XYu4n)

85 He served all 15 years? Not one shot at parole? Must have been a model prisoner.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM (oXfCm)

86 Sending you back to a country you're "unfamiliar" with? Bad.

Crossing into a country illegally you're "unfamiliar" with? Good.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM (qBdHI)

87 The more they make criminals the poster child of the Dem party, the less sympathy that position will get. Even native criminals don't like competitors from other countries much.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:50 PM (ctrM5)

Who would? In all seriousness, half the violence on the streets right now is central american gangs fighting with black gangs over who gets to sell fentanyl to dope addicts.

Who the fuck would want this?

It's just ... insanity.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM (uCjyK)

88 On a similar topic, this is long but very much with a listen:
https://tinyurl.com/MichaelYonCandM

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM (vd6bO)

89
I remember a weepie in the NYT about Judith Clark, one of the Brinks robbers, and the cruelty of her being imprisoned for so long. It wasn't until the 34th paragraph (I counted) that the names of the murdered police officers were mentioned.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM (QnmlO)

90 The New York Times Whines That an Illegal Alien Was Deported After 21 Years (Cue the Violins) "to a 'Home' He Barely Knew"
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Look at it this way, NYT: he's getting to know it NOW.

After 21 years - 15 of them in prison - he's more familiar with prison that with Jamaica. So in fairness, let's put him back in his more familiar surroundings, viz., prison. Happy now?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM (YqDXo)

91 greeted with suspicion ? Well, good to know Jamaicans treat criminals with suspicion.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 03:45 PM (g47mK)

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"We always now question whether you shot the sheriff and not the deputy, mon."

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM (sF1Er)

92 Even if you could ignore the kidnapping conviction (which you can't), the dude was an illegal alien, which makes him a criminal by definition.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 25, 2025 03:54 PM (W5ArC)

93 Wow, he just tripped over from smoking a joint into kidnapping.

Coulda happened to any of us! I mean, yesterday I almost fell into grand larceny while walking the dog, and last week it was almost arson when I lit a candle, PHEW, so close, there but for the grace yada yada yada amirite?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 03:54 PM (Hkcdp)

94 Legal Insurrection has a related article on Frederica Wilson threatening lawmakers over illegals. Part of the comments are a fashion critique. This made me laugh:

"Angry black woman with terrible fashion sense rants and raves at the trees.
If only she did talk herself into oblivion".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 03:54 PM (42Vb+)

95 Maybe...don't break the law? Just sayin'.

Besides, he's free from the systemic raysism that has plagued him ever since he set foot in my country. What's the problem?

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 03:54 PM (lXCUP)

96 83 So when it comes to the people with a family or whatever and who aren't MS-13 (if they exist) it's like a new argument has to be formulated by us - and those people then become sympathetic.

Yes it's 4D chessish and really as we know the Left just loves criminals, but I've definitely seen more complicated machinations from the Left.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 03:52 PM (bXihk)

I do think that's part of it, which is why I don't like Trumps framing of "we're only sending back CRIMINAL illegal aliens. Everyone else is fine. Also, let's issue more visas so we can get more immigrants!"

How about "country's full, moose out front should have told you. Everyone go home. Enough is enough."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:54 PM (uCjyK)

97 this deportee "disputes" the conviction.
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Wait - he "disputes" his conviction? Stop press! That's never happened before!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:54 PM (YqDXo)

98 They always chose the most divisive cases. I think it's the same operating theory here.

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I think it's more in the category that the people that tend to break into our country and live this way, just tend to be dirt bag criminals.

The idea that it's some positive force for America is just bullshit.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 03:55 PM (4pwAx)

99 7 >>>this is outrageous propaganda.

It's also EFFECTIVE propaganda. The boomers and millennials are lapping this up.
Posted by: Max Power
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From polling, they aren't actually.

George Floyd was a one off and the Dems keep trying to recapture the dream that turned into a national nightmare of riots, crime, and BLM shakedowns.

Turns out illegal immigrant criminals just can't get that rioting feeling back again. They don't have a native criminal class to give a shit about them. George was one of them living the thug life. This guy wasn't. Long and short.

Plus he is still living so that detracts from his sainthood status like Abrego Garcia.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:55 PM (ctrM5)

100 All of these legal machinations reek of behind-the-scenes collusion. Are these judges and leftist advocates communicating and behind the scenes, and isn't that illegal?

What would be done with these judges if they have engaged in ex parte communications? Wouldn't they be barred from the bench?

Did John Roberts engage in illegal ex parte communications when he flew to Czech Republic and spent a week in secret meetings discussing "legal issues" with leftist lawfare architect Norm Eisen?

What, specifically, did Roberts and Eisen discuss?

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 03:56 PM (X+xvk)

101 I think someone told the NY Times they needed to get MS 13 wife abuser off the front page because that issue was killing them, so, the NY Times decided to create another victim of the inhumane Trump administration...and failed, badly.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 25, 2025 03:56 PM (tT6L1)

102 Who the fuck would want this?
_-_-_
Enemies, foreign and domestic.
Dems for the numbers, CCP for the destruction.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 03:56 PM (vd6bO)

103 greeted with suspicion ? Well, good to know Jamaicans treat criminals with suspicion.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 03:45 PM (g47mK)
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I suspect anyone with an ounce of sense treats Jamaicans generally with suspicion.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:56 PM (YqDXo)

104 He had earned two college degrees, started a trucking business, mentored people released from prison, cared for a fiancée with breast cancer, taken classes at Columbia University.

The NYT seems to have missed the point. This guy is great. A regular Father Teresa. The sort of person who could transform Jamaica into the sort of place people wouldn't need to escape.

How could we deny the poor people of Jamaica his tender guiding hand?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 03:56 PM (ExV1e)

105 Post # 94-This is the link to Legal Insurrection's article on
Rep. Fredrica Wilson on deportations:

https://tinyurl.com/35mmxsmu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 03:57 PM (42Vb+)

106
Besides, he's free from the systemic raysism that has plagued him ever since he set foot in my country. What's the problem?
Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 03:54 PM (lXCUP)

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Yeah, all the Goodthinkers tell me this is the worst country in the world. He should be happy he's leaving this hellhole.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 03:57 PM (QnmlO)

107 “Back to a home he barely knew”

How is that relevant in any way, shape, or form? He is an illegal alien, and goes back. The fact that nobody enforced our laws doesn't give him a right to be here.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2025 03:57 PM (lTGtQ)

108 I think someone told the NY Times they needed to get MS 13 wife abuser off the front page because that issue was killing them, so, the NY Times decided to create another victim of the inhumane Trump administration...and failed, badly.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 25, 2025 03:56 PM (tT6L1)
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"Kidnapping and drug dealing is part of their culture, h8ter!" - liberal

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:57 PM (YqDXo)

109 NY Times caters to the weak minded.

So he goes to Jamaica, geez, it's not a death sentence.

Even if this guy was in line to become the next pope, I don't care, he's not here legally, deport him. Not sorry in the least.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 03:58 PM (Dv3i1)

110 How many films were made about and based on Leopold and Loeb, and how many ever knew or heard the name of their

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 03:58 PM (sF1Er)

111 Its expensive to bus the usual suspects from city to city, house them, give them food, and set up all those palettes of water and bricks to use. That money is drying up because of efforts by DOGE and the Trump administration. I'm not sure they can pull off another riot. We've already see the cutbacks on their protests, they show up for a couple hours then pack up and leave because that 40 bucks an hour is getting tight to pay out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 03:58 PM (2VST1)

112 Who the fuck would want this?

It's just ... insanity.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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So was Obamacare or Green Nude Eel yet here we are. Never challenge a Democrat to a policy limbo dance. They can go a lot lower than we can.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:58 PM (ctrM5)

113 Howzabout "shoot on sight".
Has there been a court injunction over that?

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 03:58 PM (09exb)

114
"Kidnapping and drug dealing is part of their culture, h8ter!" - liberal
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:57 PM (YqDXo)
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Wait, he's from Haiti?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 25, 2025 03:58 PM (tT6L1)

115 ... 14-year-old murder victim.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 03:58 PM (sF1Er)

116 I think it's more in the category that the people that tend to break into our country and live this way, just tend to be dirt bag criminals.

The idea that it's some positive force for America is just bullshit.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 03:55 PM (4pwAx)

I know many immigrants who came here to work. I've never met one who came here because they're huge fans of George Washington and the American Way.

They see us as a giant economic zone where they came come and make money. The illegals do it while skirting / ignoring all of the laws that hold back Americans from doing those jobs. They pay no income tax and operating in the gray and black market. The legal ones play disgusting nepotism games to get their entire families on payrolls at companies to cheat the visa system.

And those are the best case scenarios.

If we're just an economic zone and not a country with a unique culture, then someone should tell us that, so we'll be sure to stop paying taxes and stop signing up to fight in the North American Economic Zone's wars.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:58 PM (uCjyK)

117 He had earned two college degrees, started a trucking business, mentored people released from prison, cared for a fiancée with breast cancer, taken classes at Columbia University.

The NYT seems to have missed the point. This guy is great. A regular Father Teresa. The sort of person who could transform Jamaica into the sort of place people wouldn't need to escape.

How could we deny the poor people of Jamaica his tender guiding hand?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 03:56 PM (ExV1e)
____________

He's basically a missionary!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:59 PM (YqDXo)

118 My family is buried here. My family fought in multiple wars here. Generations of my family paid taxes, worked shit jobs, got treated like shit to work their way up so that their grandkids and great grandkids could experience "the american dream".

And that all counts for nothing?

And the "we're all children of immigrants" thing is bullshit. It was in the US's best interest to settle the west when the huge wave of Irish and Italians came here in the late 1800s to early 1900s. It wasn't out of some ideal about unlimited immigration.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:49 PM (uCjyK)

Fuckin' A.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:59 PM (/dDa4)

119 Love the latest... Judge says DOJ can't revoke student visas without 'due process'...

DOJ says OK... give us a couple weeks... we'll go invent a Process.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 03:59 PM (QAkQ3)

120 Here's a Trump-appointed judge blasting the ACLU for attempting to engage in ex parte communications.

https://tinyurl.com/2a5xjh87

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 03:59 PM (X+xvk)

121 Re: framing - yes, they are trying to make us justify the deportation by saying , hey, we don’t want the really bad ones.

Homan an Miller have been very direct and unambiguous: they are scooping up the criminals first, but they all must go. There are no good ones - they all broke immigration laws.

It’s the media playing games by quibbling over just how bad they are.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 03:59 PM (Hkcdp)

122 "Kidnapping and drug dealing is part of their culture, h8ter!" - liberal
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Unfortunately true of Jamaica though. Very rough place to go outside the walled resorts and the gated and guarded rich enclaves.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:00 PM (ctrM5)

123 What, specifically, did Roberts and Eisen discuss?

Which racial group of 8 year olds has the tightest bungholes!

Posted by: David Hogger at April 25, 2025 04:00 PM (6FYeO)

124 It's also EFFECTIVE propaganda. The boomers and millennials are lapping this up.
Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 03:28 PM (q177U)

People predisposed to dislike and disagree with Trump are lapping this up. Just as they lap up everything else negative about him and positive about Democrats.

Most people are incapable of independent thought. They belong to a clique and they emote based on whatever their pod is emoting about.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:00 PM (ExV1e)

125 He had earned two college degrees, started a trucking business, mentored people released from prison, cared for a fiancée with breast cancer, taken classes at Columbia University.
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Two college degrees - in what?

Started a trucking business ... to transport drugs on a huge scale?

Mentored people released from prison? Aka recruited for his gang.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:00 PM (YqDXo)

126 So I guess when I rob a bank and get away with it for 30 years and the feds take my home I purchased with the money I stole The NY Times will write an article about how the feds are ripping me from the only home I know and how unfair it all is and what a big victim I am or nah.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2025 04:00 PM (mxvzO)

127 If we're just an economic zone and not a country with a unique culture, then someone should tell us that, so we'll be sure to stop paying taxes and stop signing up to fight in the North American Economic Zone's wars.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:58 PM (uCjyK)

Harry, Harry, Harry.. you should already not be paying taxes or signing up to fight for GloboHomo.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 04:00 PM (/dDa4)

128 And the "we're all children of immigrants" thing is bullshit. It was in the US's best interest to settle the west when the huge wave of Irish and Italians came here in the late 1800s to early 1900s. It wasn't out of some ideal about unlimited immigration.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:49 PM (uCjyK)

Yeah, I have family that was here before this was even a country... how the hell are they 'immigrants' to the US.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:01 PM (QAkQ3)

129 119 Love the latest... Judge says DOJ can't revoke student visas without 'due process'...

DOJ says OK... give us a couple weeks... we'll go invent a Process.
Posted by: Romeo13
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That one is likely to get overruled pretty quickly.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:01 PM (ctrM5)

130 Love the latest... Judge says DOJ can't revoke student visas without 'due process'...

DOJ says OK... give us a couple weeks... we'll go invent a Process.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 03:59 PM (QAkQ3)

Process: Revoke every student visa.

Simple and easy to implement.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 04:01 PM (VNX3d)

131 Are we required to deport them to places that they are familiar with now? So are they saying we should deport him back to prison, cuz he is familiar with prison.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2025 04:01 PM (wgbpW)

132 Side note, saw some footage of a guy in a dugout at a ballgame eating a banana. But he was eating it like an ear of corn. This is a man who knew he was on camera.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:01 PM (2VST1)

133 116

Illegals are basically parasites.

Truthfully I think that's most immigrants that come here.

It's just about making more money, period.

You can imagine what happens to culture that just basically runs on greed. It becomes a shit country pretty quickly.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 04:01 PM (4pwAx)

134 I'm still sort of shocked they can't find actual "hard luck" cases and instead decide to throw their crediblity behind violent criminals
Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (4pwAx)

You know how folks here will complain about the slow pace of the deportments? Ever wonder if they're going slow at first for a reason?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:02 PM (ExV1e)

135 Unfortunately true of Jamaica though. Very rough place to go outside the walled resorts and the gated and guarded rich enclaves.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:00 PM (ctrM5)
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And not savor the diversity?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

136 FREE MUMIA!

Posted by: Mumia at April 25, 2025 04:02 PM (paSBy)

137 USA Today: ICE to spend up to $45 billion on contractors for immigrant detention, deportation. Among the newest moves are a $72 million no-bid deal to hire a team stacked with former federal officials to fingerprint, DNA test and retina-scan detainees, help manage intake paperwork and track down high-priority targets, freeing up Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to conduct more arrests.

Immigrants now. Citizens next. Those who aren't "loyal" will be on the list at some point. History, and what’s his name’s obsession with Hitler, tell the story. I don’t put anything past this guy.

This is a big giveaway to republican donors. It makes my stomach turn as does everything this Administration does.

The SCHEME is give these fuckers money, that they will donate. Back to him some how. It's money laundering at its finest. That, i'm sure off. Some how they have gotta be stopped.

What Congressional bill is financing all of these ICE cost increases? Budget reconciliation is that still a thing? So Billions for ICE but we may have to shutter medicaid?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2025 04:02 PM (ycI94)

138 Ya know, had the 2020 election not have been stolen none of this would be happening now. Sing it, Bob, "You're invisible now. You got no secrets to conceal."

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 04:02 PM (QSrLX)

139 Homan an Miller have been very direct and unambiguous: they are scooping up the criminals first, but they all must go. There are no good ones - they all broke immigration laws.

It’s the media playing games by quibbling over just how bad they are.

Posted by: Lizzy
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ICE has resumed workplace raids and fortunately the NYT sees fit to focus on ejections of criminals.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:02 PM (ctrM5)

140 Did John Roberts engage in illegal ex parte communications when he flew to Czech Republic and spent a week in secret meetings discussing "legal issues" with leftist lawfare architect Norm Eisen?

What, specifically, did Roberts and Eisen discuss?
Posted by: Sam Adams
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Old media wouldn't be caught dead asking these questions.

I would like to see Tim Pool or others in the new media raise the question to Karoline Leavitt, to try to get this information publicized.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 04:02 PM (Dv3i1)

141 117 He had earned two college degrees, started a trucking business, mentored people released from prison, cared for a fiancée with breast cancer, taken classes at Columbia University.

The NYT seems to have missed the point. This guy is great. A regular Father Teresa. The sort of person who could transform Jamaica into the sort of place people wouldn't need to escape.

How could we deny the poor people of Jamaica his tender guiding hand?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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A person who could accomplish all of those things could easily have became a citizen. He chose not to. Bad decision.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 04:02 PM (MJMyx)

142 "now he can enrich Jamaica with - "

Hang on, I thought we were recasting the last scene from Silence of the Lambs? I bought a hat...

Posted by: Fen at April 25, 2025 04:02 PM (ciYHQ)

143 SEND THE COLONIALISTS BACK TO JAMAICA!!!!!

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 04:03 PM (dIske)

144 How did he start a trucking business if he did not have legal status? Can you get a CDL and all the proper paperwork to start a trucking company when you're "living in the shadows"?!

There's a code word. "No habla".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:03 PM (ExV1e)

145 By the way, the NYT talks about this guy "living in America" for 21 years, as if he has squatters rights that kick in after that time period.

For fifteen of those years "living in America," he was living in federal cell because he's a drug-dealing kidnapper.

It was always going to come to this. The longer the Dems could delay deportation, the more they would cry about the people who had been here for X years, and how could you deport someone who's been here for X years.

X is variable. It is whatever they want it to be. It could be a day.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 04:03 PM (s8j++)

146 Unfortunately true of Jamaica though. Very rough place to go outside the walled resorts and the gated and guarded rich enclaves.

Generally speaking Jamaicans are good natured, friendly, and happy people... who have no moral code and will do pretty much anything for not that much money. I mean there are good sorts too but overall yeah.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:03 PM (2VST1)

147 The GOPe would look at 27 extra seats and say ",that just wouldn't be sporting"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 04:03 PM (O8bOp)

148 What, specifically, did Roberts and Eisen discuss?

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Yoga and recipes.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 04:03 PM (qBdHI)

149 Deportable alien convicts should never be let loose on the street. They should go straight from prison to a deportation flight.

If they fight deportation or if their home country refuses to take them back they should remain in prison. Deportation should be the final requirement of their sentence.

Posted by: SchmuckChoomer45 at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (2Cwfq)

150 Schools Founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Wife to Help Inner City Kids Announce Closure

Slap Slap Slap noise coming from the boys shower in the locker room.

- Hey Zuck that Costanza defense we talked about? Not happening.

Yes, Jerry Sandusky is still in prison. He is currently serving his sentence at Greene Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania, where he is incarcerated for 30 to 60 years after being convicted of multiple counts of sexual abuse. Sandusky has been in prison since October 31, 2012,

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (r3F/z)

151 He served all 15 years? Not one shot at parole? Must have been a model prisoner.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM

Maybe it was a 20 year sentence.

Okay though, how long was he here before he accidentally dealt weed and kidnapped someone? How long has he been out of jail?

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (jc0TO)

152 He was a drug dealer convicted of kidnapping. He then served 15 years in prison for that crime.

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Well then deport him someplace more like "home:" CECOT.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (BI5O2)

153 If we're just an economic zone

Thats the problem Harry. Neither you or I were born early enough to get the "We Won The Cold War" participation trophy and nationalism that came with it.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (EXHEB)

154
FREE MUMIA!
Posted by: Mumia at April 25, 2025 04:02 PM (paSBy)

________

Sorry, pal. You're a back number now. When they removed the death penalty, everyone stopped caring.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (QnmlO)

155 Immigrants now. Citizens next. Those who aren't "loyal" will be on the list at some point. History, and what’s his name’s obsession with Hitler, tell the story. I don’t put anything past this guy.
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Interesting, Hitler is no longer the man whose name must not be uttered, it's Trump instead.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (Dv3i1)

156 Who would? In all seriousness, half the violence on the streets right now is central american gangs fighting with black gangs over who gets to sell fentanyl to dope addicts.

Who the fuck would want this?

It's just ... insanity.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM (uCjyK)

Supporters of anarchotyranny. It's the intended outcome.

Posted by: punish the lawful, ignore the lawless at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (TbWk/)

157 And not savor the diversity?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

A lot of the Caribbean has a violent crime and drug problem with a few notable exceptions.

Money for nothing by drug trafficking has ruined places that ought to be island paradises by now.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (ctrM5)

158 I know several people who came here legally from Jamaica. They've both been here for about 25-30 years. They are home health aides and wonderful women. They are conservatives and can't stand the people who came here illegally, when they did the process legally and correctly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (42Vb+)

159 Yeah, I have family that was here before this was even a country... how the hell are they 'immigrants' to the US.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:01 PM (QAkQ3)

Yeah, not to mention people like your family, who were definitely not immigrants, they were settlers of a new land.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (uCjyK)

160 So this criminal got free lodging, health care, and education for 15 years?

Great, he can go back to his home and remake it in the image of The USA.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (Cus5s)

161 I'm still sort of shocked they can't find actual "hard luck" cases and instead decide to throw their credibility behind violent criminals
Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (4pwAx)
________________

Communists do that intentionally. There are two outcomes, both positive from their perspective. 1) They succeed in getting the criminal off or out of prison, in which case they've demonstrated their power, or 2) They don't succeed, in which case they have an issue for further agitation ("free Mumia al Jabongie, or whatever his name is).

Win-win.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

162
I'm thinking it would be fun to demand that the pasty white commies tell us what's so great about their culture that it has to be imported... WITHOUT talking about food.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2025 04:05 PM (y9nCu)

163 What really happened is that I came up with a name and a logo and wrote over 24 books, adventures, and gaming supplements and sold some in Germany, Denmark, and England. Not so impressive sounding now, is it?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 03:37 PM (2VST1)

Piker. That's only over 24 more than me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:05 PM (ExV1e)

164 137
That's like a map to their own perfidy.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 25, 2025 04:05 PM (vd6bO)

165 What Congressional bill is financing all of these ICE cost increases? Budget reconciliation is that still a thing? So Billions for ICE but we may have to shutter medicaid?
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2025 04:02 PM (ycI94)
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Now they care about a funding bill? That bring joy to my tiny little heart, knowing these idiots are shrieking about that which has bothered me these last few years.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 25, 2025 04:05 PM (tT6L1)

166 Wow Judge Dugan engaged in a screaming match with Federal agents, went back into her courtroom and in front of the two people the illegal assaulted escorted Flores and his lawyer into her chambers, and then let them out. This resulted in a foot chase inside the courthouse before Flores was captured.

Judge Cano going to the shooting range with a guy who is sending out pictures of decapitated bodies. Now him and his wife are being charged with destroying evidence.

Quality judges. Not.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:05 PM (FEpIj)

167 140 Did John Roberts engage in illegal ex parte communications when he flew to Czech Republic and spent a week in secret meetings discussing "legal issues" with leftist lawfare architect Norm Eisen?

What, specifically, did Roberts and Eisen discuss?
Posted by: Sam Adams+
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He should be relieved of his chair.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 04:06 PM (MJMyx)

168 Yes, Jerry Sandusky is still in prison. He is currently serving his sentence at Greene Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania, where he is incarcerated for 30 to 60 years after being convicted of multiple counts of sexual abuse. Sandusky has been in prison since October 31, 2012,
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (r3F/z)

And some people to this day still run interference for Penn State for this. Sick and degenerate.

Posted by: Football over boy-raping at April 25, 2025 04:06 PM (TbWk/)

169 Who would? In all seriousness, half the violence on the streets right now is central american gangs fighting with black gangs over who gets to sell fentanyl to dope addicts.

Who the fuck would want this?

It's just ... insanity.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM (uCjyK)
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Let's hope for casualties. Lots and lots of casualties. Teach them marksmanship, so the idiots don't inadvertently shoot innocent bystanders, but only their fellow thugs.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:06 PM (YqDXo)

170 It's just ... insanity.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM (uCjyK)

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By 2020, half of the country in particular (and The West in general) had gone literally clinically insane.

Would be easy to blame chemtrails, HAARP, 5G, fluoride, petroleum based food dyes, et. al. -- but half a century of nihilistic satanic communist indoctrination via academia, media, tech companies, et. al. is the more likely explanation.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 04:07 PM (sF1Er)

171 A person who could accomplish all of those things could easily have became a citizen. He chose not to. Bad decision.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Before 2005 conviction and 2008 deportation order mebbe.

We tend to focus on teh border for illegals but a large chunk of them come by air on visiting visas or other temp visas and then overstay them.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:07 PM (ctrM5)

172 "They don't look at you like a Jamaican," Mr. Blair said. "They look at you like a criminal."

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To be fair, if someone fled the US to Jamaica so he could peddle dope and kidnap people I might view him as a criminal foreigner, too.

Or a Senator. Could be either way, really.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 04:07 PM (BI5O2)

173 The New York Times Whines That an Illegal Alien Was Deported After 21 Years (Cue the Violins) "to a 'Home' He Barely Knew"
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The home he knew best, the home for much of his adult life, was Attica but when his term was up they said he had to leave and go someplace else.

If the NYT wants to complain about a hometown rejecting this man, it should complain that he was forced to leave prison when prison is really his home.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 04:07 PM (EAwQ9)

174 He was deported to the scorching hot sun! The hot, scorching Caribbean sun, you heartless maniacs!
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 03:41 PM (qBdHI)

I paid good money to spend my honeymoon under the hot, scorching Caribbean sun.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:07 PM (ExV1e)

175 Here 21 years and no attempt to become a citizen ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 04:07 PM (VE6XX)

176 129 119 Love the latest... Judge says DOJ can't revoke student visas without 'due process'...

DOJ says OK... give us a couple weeks... we'll go invent a Process.
Posted by: Romeo13
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That one is likely to get overruled pretty quickly.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:01 PM (ctrM5)

If I read it right, the DOJ already rescinded all the order in front of the Court... killing the case... but said 'I'll be back....'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:08 PM (QAkQ3)

177 Wow Judge Dugan engaged in a screaming match with Federal agents, went back into her courtroom and in front of the two people the illegal assaulted escorted Flores and his lawyer into her chambers, and then let them out. This resulted in a foot chase inside the courthouse before Flores was captured.
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I think I see part of the problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

178 140 Did John Roberts engage in illegal ex parte communications when he flew to Czech Republic and spent a week in secret meetings discussing "legal issues" with leftist lawfare architect Norm Eisen?

What, specifically, did Roberts and Eisen discuss?
Posted by: Sam Adams
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Old media wouldn't be caught dead asking these questions.

I would like to see Tim Pool or others in the new media raise the question to Karoline Leavitt, to try to get this information publicized.

Posted by: Chuck Martel

Start firing this question at John Roberts and demanding answers, and his mask falls away for eternity. What legal consequences would a Supreme Court Chief Justice face if he was found to have engaged in this conduct?

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 04:08 PM (X+xvk)

179 Let's hope for casualties. Lots and lots of casualties. Teach them marksmanship, so the idiots don't inadvertently shoot innocent bystanders, but only their fellow thugs.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:06 PM

But enough about the NYPD.

Posted by: Broad side of a barn? Never heard of it. at April 25, 2025 04:08 PM (TbWk/)

180 Love the latest... Judge says DOJ can't revoke student visas without 'due process'...

DOJ says OK... give us a couple weeks... we'll go invent a Process.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Was there due process in issuing the student visas? I doubt it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:09 PM (YqDXo)

181 Our suffering from your discrimination can only be likened to that of the early Christians.

Posted by: King Willy and his Voodoo Gang at April 25, 2025 04:09 PM (jc0TO)

182 Just spoke to the dealership about a recall on my vehicle. It's going to take three days to replace the starter. Three days. I could rebuild the entire engine in three days.

Nothing in this country works anymore.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 04:09 PM (/dDa4)

183 I used to work with a lady from Jamaica. She was the laziest person I ever worked with. When her unmarried daughter got pregnant, twice, she lied and claimed she didn't know who the father was so Americans would have to pay for the kid. Then the lady brought her Jamaican father to the states for a "visit" and timed it exactly when he needed an operation. Gets him here, boom, took him to the emergency room for his operation and the American taxpayer paid for that too. Then she sent him back to Jamaica where he died shortly thereafter.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 04:09 PM (qBdHI)

184 For what it's worth, Schumer has pretty much come out and said he plans to make sure he impeaches and convicts Trump once Democrats retake the House in the mid-terms.*

I suspect Roberts is trying very hard to create a situation where President Trump has no recourse but to ignore the increasingly lawless actions of SCOTUS so as to precipitate President Trump being removed from office.

*I don't think the mid-terms are going to follow historical norms at all, but, Chuck is stupid enough to think so.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 25, 2025 04:09 PM (tT6L1)

185 There are no guilty people people in prison, all innocent.

Ellis Boyd Redding. Guilty.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:09 PM (ExV1e)

186 What, specifically, did Roberts and Eisen discuss?

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Yoga and recipes.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 04:03 PM (qBdHI)

Which character was better: Yoda or Yogurt?

Would you rather command the Force or the Schwartz?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 04:09 PM (VNX3d)

187 Let's hope for casualties. Lots and lots of casualties. Teach them marksmanship, so the idiots don't inadvertently shoot innocent bystanders, but only their fellow thugs.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Glock switches are becoming universal and increasing use of ARs. On occasion, I watch a fair number of cop dash cams or body cam footage, etc. on YT and definitely compared with past years, you see a big upgrade in firepower by thugs.

I got in the habit when I used to teach Criminal Procedure as it showed what the current traffic stop du jour language was being used by cops on the street.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:09 PM (ctrM5)

188
We tend to focus on teh border for illegals but a large chunk of them come by air on visiting visas or other temp visas and then overstay them.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:07 PM (ctrM5)

This. Consular officers are supposed to screen for potential adjusters, but State penalized us for "too many refusals" thirty years ago. I can only imagine what it was like for the last ten years.

Posted by: Moki at April 25, 2025 04:10 PM (wLjpr)

189 They are conservatives and can't stand the people who came here illegally, when they did the process legally and correctly.

It is so hard and slow to immigrate legally that generally speaking people who do so are very motivated, able, and hard-working. Its like how the guys who managed to settle and survive America tended to be exceptional people because it was an exceptional task.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:10 PM (2VST1)

190
I suspect Roberts is trying very hard to create a situation where President Trump has no recourse but to ignore the increasingly lawless actions of SCOTUS so as to precipitate President Trump being removed from office

Hello President Vance

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 04:10 PM (VE6XX)

191 148 What, specifically, did Roberts and Eisen discuss?

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Yoga and recipes.

Posted by: Lady in Black

Now, that's funny! Of course, at this point, what difference does it make?

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 04:11 PM (X+xvk)

192 Here 21 years and no attempt to become a citizen ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 04:07 PM (VE6XX)
_______________

"Did he 'write' any children's books or anything?" - Tookie Williams's lawyers

(I loved the Tookie's "book" sold 300 copies. Guess how many lawyers were in the firm defending him? No prizes for guessing "300.")

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:11 PM (YqDXo)

193 If I read it right, the DOJ already rescinded all the order in front of the Court... killing the case... but said 'I'll be back....'.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Sometimes withdrawal and a revised tactic works in court.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:11 PM (ctrM5)

194
They are conservatives and can't stand the people who came here illegally, when they did the process legally and correctly.

__________

Her Majesty is a green-card holder. Her views on illegals are, shall we say, spirited.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 04:12 PM (QnmlO)

195 It is so hard and slow to immigrate legally that generally speaking people who do so are very motivated, able, and hard-working. Its like how the guys who managed to settle and survive America tended to be exceptional people because it was an exceptional task.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:10 PM (2VST1)
________________

Unfortunately, the converse is also true.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:12 PM (YqDXo)

196 Green card criminals can get deported for crimes just like others. Naturalized citizens though is a much more narrow grounds for future deportation like treason/espionage, lying on forms for citizenship or green card, etc.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:47 PM (ctrM5)

And, yet, Henry, Doormat of Meghan, remains in the country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:12 PM (ExV1e)

197 I suspect Roberts is trying very hard to create a situation where President Trump has no recourse but to ignore the increasingly lawless actions of SCOTUS so as to precipitate President Trump being removed from office

Hello President Vance
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 04:10 PM (VE6XX)
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I think the assumption is removing President Trump will make JD Vance kiss the ring of the Deep State. I think it ends in civil war if they do that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 25, 2025 04:12 PM (tT6L1)

198 169 Who would? In all seriousness, half the violence on the streets right now is central american gangs fighting with black gangs over who gets to sell fentanyl to dope addicts.

Who the fuck would want this?

It's just ... insanity.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 03:53 PM (uCjyK)
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Let's hope for casualties. Lots and lots of casualties. Teach them marksmanship, so the idiots don't inadvertently shoot innocent bystanders, but only their fellow thugs.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

There was a sureveillance video last year from Oakland where some rival drug dealers drove past a group of gangbanger lungin on a corner in West Oakland, and after the car passed the guys on the sidewalk all took outntheir guns and started firing after it, and one of them had some kindof fully automatic high-end military style machine gun, and in the space of three seconds he unleashes at least 100 rounds -- aimed absolutely at random, barely missing his compatriots standing in front of him, and rainign the enitire neighborhood with a firestorm of hot lead. In addtin t 10 other guys also firing wildly.

"No one was injured" in the incident.

Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:12 PM (pMi6S)

199 I suspect Roberts is trying very hard to create a situation where President Trump has no recourse but to ignore the increasingly lawless actions of SCOTUS so as to precipitate President Trump being removed from office

Hello President Vance

Posted by: It's me donna

Bingo.

That's why it's long past time Roberts was called out for his illegal ex parte communications with Norm Eisen. Out him for his collusion with the Trump-hating lawfare architect, and let him try to explain himself. He has nowhere to go.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 04:13 PM (X+xvk)

200 I may be wrong, but I seem to recall that President Trump has disputed the massive amount of lawfare waged against him over the past 8 years. I don't seem to recall the New York Slimes giving such dispute any credence.

Mr. Blair may "barely know" his actual home, but he virtually never "knew" life as a person legally residing in the US. Came here in 2004 when he was about 20, convicted in 2005 (violating the terms of his admission), and paroled in 2020, while under an order of removal, the appeal of which was denied. Methinks he hath received more than the process due. But then, I'm not a fe(de)ral district judge.

Posted by: DougT at April 25, 2025 04:13 PM (FGQ01)

201 192 Here 21 years and no attempt to become a citizen ?

Posted by: It's me donna
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Donna, he had a deportation order about three years into his 15 year sentence for kidnapping and drugs. So he was released in 2020 from prison. Basically, with the outstanding deportation order, if he tried to get parole for green card status, he might have got it or might not have but then would be deported or on the run.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:13 PM (ctrM5)

202 Piker. That's only over 24 more than me.

To be fair about 10 of them are reprints or new editions. Which is the point: if you word things carefully, you can make things seem much more important than they really are, fluffing your resume and giving the impression that you are very important or accomplished. When in fact you're the janitor, not executive sanitation facilitator.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:13 PM (2VST1)

203 183 I used to work with a lady from Jamaica. She was the laziest person I ever worked with. When her unmarried daughter got pregnant, twice, she lied and claimed she didn't know who the father was so Americans would have to pay for the kid. Then the lady brought her Jamaican father to the states for a "visit" and timed it exactly when he needed an operation. Gets him here, boom, took him to the emergency room for his operation and the American taxpayer paid for that too. Then she sent him back to Jamaica where he died shortly thereafter.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 04:09 PM (qBdHI)

This is how the vast majority of people in the earth function. The US (and most of western europe) is the exception. That's why the US and western europe have been so wildly successful.

So instead of trying to export that "do the right thing" mindset to the world, we decided to import millions of people who don't believe in that, don't have a "social contract" with us, and could care less about Americans or their weird social norms or anything like that.

It will collapse our culture. We're watching it happen in slow motion right now.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 04:14 PM (uCjyK)

204 Think about if you're the Jamaican government. You watched a huge portion of your country flee over the last two decades of the 20th Century, go to the States, work their asses off and become a successful minority group, and the one you get back is this dope pushing kidnapper.

Are you gonna be thrilled with your sudden good fortune? Give him a laurel and hearty handshake?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 04:14 PM (BI5O2)

205 Plus, the riot crowds are not so enamored of immigrants viewing them more as competitors than brothers from another mother.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:49 PM (ctrM5)

If the rumors about them getting fuckloads of federal benefits are true, I expect that "viewing them more as competitors than brothers from another mother" is gonna get a whole lot worse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:14 PM (ExV1e)

206 I used to work with a lady from Jamaica. She was the laziest person I ever worked with. When her unmarried daughter got pregnant, twice, she lied and claimed she didn't know who the father was so Americans would have to pay for the kid. Then the lady brought her Jamaican father to the states for a "visit" and timed it exactly when he needed an operation. Gets him here, boom, took him to the emergency room for his operation and the American taxpayer paid for that too. Then she sent him back to Jamaica where he died shortly thereafter.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 04:09 PM (qBdHI)
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You're inflaming all of my prejudices.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:15 PM (YqDXo)

207 193 If I read it right, the DOJ already rescinded all the order in front of the Court... killing the case... but said 'I'll be back....'.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Sometimes withdrawal and a revised tactic works in court.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:11 PM (ctrM5)

Will also be before a different Judge then, as this one is clearly pro Illegal.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:15 PM (QAkQ3)

208 Now if we can only catch Boasberg in bed with an illegal alien.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:15 PM (FEpIj)

209 one of them had some kind of fully automatic high-end military style machine gun, and in the space of three seconds he unleashes at least 100 rounds -- aimed absolutely at random, barely missing his compatriots standing in front of him, and raining the entire neighborhood with a firestorm of hot lead.

Sounds like an Arabic wedding celebration

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:15 PM (2VST1)

210 There was a sureveillance video last year from Oakland where some rival drug dealers drove past a group of gangbanger lungin on a corner in West Oakland, and after the car passed the guys on the sidewalk all took outntheir guns and started firing after it, and one of them had some kindof fully automatic high-end military style machine gun, and in the space of three seconds he unleashes at least 100 rounds -- aimed absolutely at random, barely missing his compatriots standing in front of him, and rainign the enitire neighborhood with a firestorm of hot lead. In addtin t 10 other guys also firing wildly.

"No one was injured" in the incident.
Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:12 PM (pMi6S)

Clearly we need more onerous regulations placed on law-abiding non-criminal citizens who play by the rules.

Posted by: The standard progtard go-to at April 25, 2025 04:15 PM (TbWk/)

211 Plus, the riot crowds are not so enamored of immigrants viewing them more as competitors than brothers from another mother.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:49 PM (ctrM5)
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Probably no two of them have the same mother and father, if they even have any idea who the latter was.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:16 PM (YqDXo)

212 Yes, Jerry Sandusky is still in prison. He is currently serving his sentence at Greene Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania, where he is incarcerated for 30 to 60 years after being convicted of multiple counts of sexual abuse. Sandusky has been in prison since October 31, 2012,
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at April 25, 2025 04:04 PM (r3F/z)

And some people to this day still run interference for Penn State for this. Sick and degenerate.
Posted by: Football over boy-raping at April 25, 2025 04:06 PM (TbWk/)

I don't know or care about football, but the fact the man was convicted based on "recovered memories" from kids who underwent hypnosis by questionable shrinks who made large amounts of money in the civil suit is suspicious af.

The eyewitness account of the boy being raped in the shower wasn't even an eyewitness; it was hearsay.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 04:16 PM (/dDa4)

213 100 rounds -- aimed absolutely at random, barely missing his compatriots standing in front of him, and rainign the enitire neighborhood with a firestorm of hot lead. In addtin t 10 other guys also firing wildly.

"No one was injured" in the incident.
Posted by: zombe
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Trained at the L.A. Marksmanship Academy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 04:16 PM (MJMyx)

214 Zombie

Bright side no kids killed.

Dark side, no thugs killed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:16 PM (FEpIj)

215 Donna, he had a deportation order about three years into his 15 year sentence for kidnapping and drugs. So he was released in 2020 from prison. Basically, with the outstanding deportation order, if he tried to get parole for green card status, he might have got it or might not have but then would be deported or on the run.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:13 PM (ctrM5)

So he got here and almost immediately committed a serious crime

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 04:16 PM (VE6XX)

216 And I knew another guy who came from Haiti. He was a nurse when one of my congregants was in the hospital for an extended time. When I got o know him he said he came here legally and went to nursing school. he had all kinds of positive things to say about what coming to America had enabled him to do. Yes, he thought Haiti was a corrupt dump.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 04:16 PM (42Vb+)

217 They are conservatives and can't stand the people who came here illegally, when they did the process legally and correctly.

If you went to college and paid off your student loans, how do you feel about the people who got their loans "forgiven" by the Biden administration?

Kind of the same effect.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:16 PM (2VST1)

218 Trained at the L.A. Marksmanship Academy.

You mean the LAPD?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:17 PM (FEpIj)

219 And, yet, Henry, Doormat of Meghan, remains in the country.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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A life sentence chained the Meghan doesn't count as criminal conduct. The keys to his handcuffs are in his own pocket.

He should, however, been expelled for his lying on immigration forms (if he did not, then it is on the people admitting him).

Harry has pretty much shit in his own nest--if William takes the throne, Harry is fcked from returning ever to the UK and if he stays in the US, he will be under house arrest with Meghan. None of the Commonwealth appears to want the pair either which rules out Canada and Australia.

Maybe both of them could be exported to the Bahamas.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:17 PM (ctrM5)

220 167 140 Did John Roberts engage in illegal ex parte communications when he flew to Czech Republic and spent a week in secret meetings discussing "legal issues" with leftist lawfare architect Norm Eisen?

What, specifically, did Roberts and Eisen discuss?
Posted by: Sam Adams+
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He should be relieved of his chair.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

Agree.

Roberts needs to be removed from the Supreme Court, and we need to elevate a new Chief Justice. I'd be thrilled with Clarence Thomas. Watching liberal heads explode would be beyond delightful.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 04:17 PM (X+xvk)

221 Ok, so he's apparently demonstrated some degree of rehabilitation. Let him apply for a visa and citizenship like the law requires. And until that's granted, stay in your own country. How difficult is that?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 25, 2025 04:17 PM (3Ope8)

222 Now if we can only catch Boasberg in bed with an illegal alien.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:15 PM (FEpIj)

Or a horse's head. Better yet, a three day old barracuda or shark.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 04:17 PM (VNX3d)

223 There was a surveillance video last year from Oakland where some rival drug dealers drove past a group of gangbanger lounging on a corner in West Oakland, and after the car passed the guys on the sidewalk all took out their guns and started firing after it, and one of them had some kind of fully automatic high-end military style machine gun, and in the space of three seconds he unleashes at least 100 rounds -- aimed absolutely at random, barely missing his compatriots standing in front of him, and raining the entire neighborhood with a firestorm of hot lead. In addition t 10 other guys also firing wildly.

"No one was injured" in the incident.
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 04:12 PM (pMi6S)
__________________

Safest place to stand was right in front of his intended target.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:18 PM (YqDXo)

224 Watch the first 15 seconds of this clip (of a similar Oakland shooting with the same kind of gun). Horde gun experts: what kind of gun is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi9TtkmHGJE

Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:18 PM (pMi6S)

225 And by the way, it's President Trump. It's not Mr. Trump. It's not Dr. Trump. It's President Trump.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at April 25, 2025 04:18 PM (smB1O)

226 It is so hard and slow to immigrate legally that generally speaking people who do so are very motivated, able, and hard-working. Its like how the guys who managed to settle and survive America tended to be exceptional people because it was an exceptional task.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:10 PM (2VST1)

I hate to break it to you, but it's not hard at all. It costs about $20k US, depending on which country you're coming from. And yes, it can take some time (that's just how our government rolls), but as far as actual investment of a persons time? An hour to consult with the attorney, an hour to consult with the "consultants", and maybe an hour to talk to someone in the government if need be? Almost all of this done over Zoom.

Basically, you pay the consultant, he fabricates a resume for you, the lawyer does the paperwork and submits it all, and you get your visa.

I've personally witnessed at least 200-300 cases get processed like that from inside a law firm that did some immigration work as a side hustle.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 04:18 PM (uCjyK)

227 218 Trained at the L.A. Marksmanship Academy.

You mean the LAPD?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:17 PM (FEpIj)

No wonder they couldn't hit shit

Posted by: Three pets four innocent bystanders and a pigeon were shot at April 25, 2025 04:18 PM (TbWk/)

228 Christopher Taylor

NaNoWriMo has died. The non-profit is defunct. It is pushing up daisies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:19 PM (FEpIj)

229
We tend to focus on teh border for illegals but a large chunk of them come by air on visiting visas or other temp visas and then overstay them.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:07 PM (ctrM5)

During my drinking days, the Irish-style pub I used to frequent had a smokin' hawt Irish lass as bartender. She was an illegal who'd overstayed her student visa for several years. Openly admitted it too.

I'll admit that I had a tough time resisting the temptation to put a ring on her finger so she could get a green card. Depends on how long the honeymoon would have been.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2025 04:19 PM (y9nCu)

230 Ok, so he's apparently demonstrated some degree of rehabilitation. Let him apply for a visa and citizenship like the law requires. And until that's granted, stay in your own country. How difficult is that?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 25, 2025 04:17 PM (3Ope

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And it should never be granted, nor should he receive citizenship (we have enough shitheads here already) so there's that. Once bitten, and all that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:19 PM (YqDXo)

231 208 Now if we can only catch Boasberg in bed with an illegal alien.

Posted by: Anna Puma

I believe it was Chief Justice John Roberts who put the Trump-hating leftist Boasberg on the FISA court....

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 04:19 PM (X+xvk)

232 So he got here and almost immediately committed a serious crime
Posted by: It's me donna
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Yep as an adult and probably had a criminal record in Jamaica that was not flagged by immigration for a tourist visa. Around that time, there was a Jamaican based drug gang trafficking up and down the East Coast of the US using the I-95 corridor. So he might have been part of that or an indy contractor.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:19 PM (ctrM5)

233 If I were Musk-level rich, I would pay for PIs to dig into the background of key nasty figures like Boasberg, you know, the way pornographer and nasty man Larry Flynt did with Republican congressmen. Guarantee there's lots to find.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:19 PM (2VST1)

234 Christopher Taylor

NaNoWriMo has died. The non-profit is defunct. It is pushing up daisies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:19 PM (FEpIj)
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Another USAID casualty?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:20 PM (YqDXo)

235 During my drinking days, the Irish-style pub I used to frequent had a smokin' hawt Irish lass as bartender. She was an illegal who'd overstayed her student visa for several years. Openly admitted it too.

I'll admit that I had a tough time resisting the temptation to put a ring on her finger so she could get a green card. Depends on how long the honeymoon would have been.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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From what I gleaned of the Quiet Man, you would have to return with her to Ireland then fight dudes boxing to keep her.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:21 PM (ctrM5)

236 NaNoWriMo has died. The non-profit is defunct. It is pushing up daisies.

That is too bad, it really was a good idea and helped a lot of writers get started (including me).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:21 PM (2VST1)

237 Totally off topic...
If the Rumba grabs the dropped food within five seconds, is the five second rule still in effect when you open the rumba up ten minutes later?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 04:21 PM (W/lyH)

238 From what I gleaned of the Quiet Man, you would have to return with her to Ireland then fight dudes boxing to keep her.

Then spend fifteen minutes pushing, slapping, and punching her around the countryside.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:21 PM (2VST1)

239 So prison was the home he knew the best
Send him.back there

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 04:22 PM (ypFCm)

240 238 From what I gleaned of the Quiet Man, you would have to return with her to Ireland then fight dudes boxing to keep her.

Then spend fifteen minutes pushing, slapping, and punching her around the countryside.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:21 PM (2VST1)

Richly deserved

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

241 Then spend fifteen minutes pushing, slapping, and punching her around the countryside.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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And rescuing her from the Muzzies there.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:23 PM (ctrM5)

242 Prison is his home now, it is cruel to chase him out.

Posted by: PG at April 25, 2025 04:23 PM (Ohm5I)

243 2004. We were still in the thick of the War on Terror and Bush thought it was a good idea to let anyone just come in and stay in the country to kidnap, rape, murder and drug us up.

Thanks W!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2025 04:24 PM (Vh9CX)

244 Our "media"sucks. They can root around for who knows how long for a story like this but a few months back they could not tell the American people that Biden was just about brain dead. Really, they have stupid written all over themselves. The BIAS burns.

Posted by: Case at April 25, 2025 04:24 PM (OrSPY)

245 Harry has pretty much shit in his own nest--if William takes the throne, Harry is fcked from returning ever to the UK and if he stays in the US, he will be under house arrest with Meghan. None of the Commonwealth appears to want the pair either which rules out Canada and Australia.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:17 PM (ctrM5)
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Well played, Princess Harry.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:24 PM (YqDXo)

246 So most of Mr. Wonderful's 21 years here were spent in jail ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 04:24 PM (VE6XX)

247
Watch the first 15 seconds of this clip (of a similar Oakland shooting with the same kind of gun). Horde gun experts: what kind of gun is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi9TtkmHGJE
Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:18 PM (pMi6S)

The one with the elephant-sized muzzle blast? The vid is uberblurry, but probably a Glock with an autoswitch from Ali Express.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2025 04:25 PM (y9nCu)

248 NaNoWriMo has died. The non-profit is defunct. It is pushing up daisies.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:19 PM (FEpIj)

HOW many staff were they paying for?
For a non-profit 'write a novel in a month' contest with no prizes?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 04:25 PM (xcxpd)

249 It is so hard and slow to immigrate legally ...

No, it's not. It took me 2 years and app $2000 in admin fees, plus the cost of the flight to the American Embassy for my interview.

I get so sick of hearing how hard it is, if I could figure out the paperwork, physical exams, etc anyone can if they immigrate according to the law of their chosen country.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2025 04:25 PM (F3Dlr)

250 John Roberts has been to the Supreme Court what Pope Francis was to the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 25, 2025 04:25 PM (X+xvk)

251 Basically, you pay the consultant, he fabricates a resume for you, the lawyer does the paperwork and submits it all, and you get your visa.

I've personally witnessed at least 200-300 cases get processed like that from inside a law firm that did some immigration work as a side hustle.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 04:18 PM (uCjyK)

Even better is the new Rich Folks Visa... used to be if you 'invested' $1 Million in the US, and said you'd create 10 jobs, you got a Green Card... now Trump is 'selling' Green Cards for $5 million.

Used to be $1 million was a pile of money... now? Hell... I'm a fuckin Millionaire... don't mean squat.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:26 PM (QAkQ3)

252 234 Christopher Taylor

NaNoWriMo has died. The non-profit is defunct. It is pushing up daisies.

Posted by: Anna Puma
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Sarah Hoyt and the Mad Geniuses Club, Raconteur Press, and Larry Correia have similar writer development oriented sections on their blogs.

Larry's at Monster Hunter Nation is labeled Writer's DoJo, Raconteur Press, I think you get to it via the LawDog files (he moved from Wordpress to something else), and Sarah Hoyt found at According to Hoyt dot com plus the madgeniusclub should be able to be googled.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:26 PM (ctrM5)

253 Watch the first 15 seconds of this clip (of a similar Oakland shooting with the same kind of gun). Horde gun experts: what kind of gun is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi9TtkmHGJE
Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:18 PM (pMi6S)

The one with the elephant-sized muzzle blast? The vid is uberblurry, but probably a Glock with an autoswitch from Ali Express.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2025 04:25 PM (y9nCu)

That's my guess too. It's a handgun and that's way too much flash for any normal pistol config. You can see the difference between the other yutes with handguns around him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 04:26 PM (xcxpd)

254 247
Watch the first 15 seconds of this clip (of a similar Oakland shooting with the same kind of gun). Horde gun experts: what kind of gun is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi9TtkmHGJE
Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:18 PM (pMi6S)

The one with the elephant-sized muzzle blast? The vid is uberblurry, but probably a Glock with an autoswitch from Ali Express.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

But the muzzle blast is 20x brighter than all the other Glocks in the video.

Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:27 PM (pMi6S)

255 More judges to the pokey.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 04:27 PM (y5Qz+)

256 Ok, so he's apparently demonstrated some degree of rehabilitation.
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Nothing like an upcoming parole meeting to induce rehabilitation. And religious fervor, too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:27 PM (YqDXo)

257 Jay

Well not directly. It started to die for me when they decided to virtue signal against Trump in his first term.

But they were also pushing for AI writing. Then in the last 16 months it was found they had performed no vetting for any volunteers who were going to mentor authors who were minors. And the final bombshell is, they cannot get any loans because their financial paperwork is basically written in crayons.

Their own published stats show their participants started to decline in 2019 and kept declining during the COVID lockdown years. From about 132,000 in 2018 down to 95,000 in 2022.

But they were paying 65% of their annual income of $1.3 million in salaries.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:27 PM (FEpIj)

258 Even better is the new Rich Folks Visa... used to be if you 'invested' $1 Million in the US, and said you'd create 10 jobs, you got a Green Card... now Trump is 'selling' Green Cards for $5 million.

Used to be $1 million was a pile of money... now? Hell... I'm a fuckin Millionaire... don't mean squat.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:26 PM (QAkQ3)

It should be at least $10 billion, and creating a factory employing 200 employees for a minimum of 10 years.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 04:27 PM (VNX3d)

259 I don't understand this. Why can't William return to the UK and why would he and Meghan be put under house arrest if they stayed here?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 04:28 PM (42Vb+)

260 Zombie, what you described happening on Oakland is a running thing with Steve Sailer.

Shots to hits ratio is a dead giveaway for who was shooting, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 04:28 PM (Hkcdp)

261 But they forgot to call him a beloved Michael Jackson impersonator. So there were some lies they stopped at. That's almost like telling the truth. If you're the Times.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2025 04:28 PM (1bNHn)

262 BRM.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 04:29 PM (y5Qz+)

263 He had earned two college degrees, started a trucking business, mentored people released from prison, cared for a fiancée with breast cancer, taken classes at Columbia University.

Well, with those qualifications I have no doubt that he will be an asset in building Jamaica into a greater nation.

Why are these people so against letting highly qualified people return to their home countries to better them?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2025 04:29 PM (hB7mE)

264 By 2020, half of the country in particular (and The West in general) had gone literally clinically insane.

One of my sisters-in-law was broken by the Clinton/Lewinsky thing. A rabid feminist and lawyer. The sort who'd have argued, both before and after this event, that any other man should do prison time fell in line with the "everyone lies about sex".

I think it was probably the first time that obedience to the Party required her to betray one of her "core" beliefs. She's gone more and more loony every year since.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:29 PM (ExV1e)

265 Even better is the new Rich Folks Visa... used to be if you 'invested' $1 Million in the US, and said you'd create 10 jobs, you got a Green Card... now Trump is 'selling' Green Cards for $5 million.

Used to be $1 million was a pile of money... now? Hell... I'm a fuckin Millionaire... don't mean squat.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:26 PM (QAkQ3)

The e-5 visa (investment visa) is another huge scam. It's favored by the Chinese. Here's how it works: they get 50 people together to "pool their money" (ahem, CCP money) to invest in a new condo building in Queens. They claim it will create "x" number of jobs, and they use Obama math on that. They build a shitty Chineseium building and sell the units to unsuspecting retards and recoup their "investment".

The 50 people get their visas, the company that built the shitty building shuts down, the retards that bought the units sue everyone in sight, and then they move on to the next building.

Then those 50 people have kids here, get family visas for their spouses, etc. etc.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 04:30 PM (uCjyK)

266 I really need to finish up a story or something. Get back into the habit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 04:30 PM (FEpIj)

267 IIRC Japan also has 'rich foreigner' visas. If you deposit at least 10 million (or maybe it's 100 million now) yen in a Japanese bank, you can get a longer-than-average visa approval.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 04:30 PM (xcxpd)

268 Used to be $1 million was a pile of money... now? Hell... I'm a fuckin Millionaire... don't mean squat.

Probably enough to retire on, if you live somewhere relatively inexpensive. But yeah its not like it used to be. According to World Population Review

The average household in the United States spends $61,334 a year on expenses. On average, 34.9% of spending, or roughly $1,784 a month, is dedicated to housing and housing-related costs. The median price of a single-family home in the United States is $273,992. Nationwide, the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment runs $1,154 a month.

You can probably get away with less than that, because people tend to spend too much on crap they don't need like 6 streaming services, etc. But surely not much less than 40 grand a year on average.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:31 PM (2VST1)

269 Shots to hits ratio is a dead giveaway for who was shooting, lol.

Although if you look at the rounds per kill in any war its horrendously high, like hundreds of thousands. Even with a well trained army. Naturally some of that is saturation or suppression fire, but still its hilariously bad.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2025 04:32 PM (2VST1)

270 NOOD

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 04:33 PM (VE6XX)

271 Does everyone hear Ace's writing in George Newbern's voice?

Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 04:34 PM (2ap+5)

272 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 04:27 PM (YqDXo)

I hear you. Aside from the fact that I don't believe a fucking thing the MSM says, let alone puts in print, just let them continue to fumble along. The snippet said He had earned two college degrees, started a trucking business, mentored people released from prison, cared for a fiancée with breast cancer, taken classes at Columbia University.

Fine. Let him apply and be evaluated. He can stand on his own merit or suffer the consequences.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (3Ope8)

273 The median price of a single-family home in the United States is $273,992.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

!!??!! Seriously?

In my area, the median price is, like, $1.2 million.

$273,992 would buy you the tool shed in the backyard.

The absolute cheapest falling-down 1-bedroom shotgun-shack termite-infested bungalow in the deepest slum in Oakland will set you back $600,000.

Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:36 PM (pMi6S)

274 259 I don't understand this. Why can't William return to the UK and why would he and Meghan be put under house arrest if they stayed here?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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If you mean Harry, he and William have more or less become enemies over Harry and Meghan using their royal status to put out harmful lies about the Royal Family in print and interviews. Meghan because of her poisonous grifting personality has no popularity among the ruling set in England so a return to there would probably never be in her cards.

Harry basically repeated the Edward VIII story of his great uncle. Including being dominated by his gold digging spouse. And they were more or less treated as unpleasant creeps and Edward, in his abortive and useless attempt to regain the throne when his brother died poisoned any chance that Elizabeth would forgive and forget.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 04:36 PM (ctrM5)

275 Fine. Let him apply and be evaluated. He can stand on his own merit or suffer the consequences.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 25, 2025 04:35 PM (3Ope

How the hell did he get TWO College Degrees? oh... musta got them in F'n PRISON... on OUR DIME.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:37 PM (QAkQ3)

276 $273,992 would buy you the tool shed in the backyard.

The absolute cheapest falling-down 1-bedroom shotgun-shack termite-infested bungalow in the deepest slum in Oakland will set you back $600,000.
Posted by: zombe at April 25, 2025 04:36 PM (pMi6S)

/smile.... Zombie? he said 'in the United States'....

We live in California... don't think we count as US anymore.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 04:40 PM (QAkQ3)

277 "And some people to this day still run interference for Penn State for this. Sick and degenerate"

It's a group dynamic. I endured it when I reported a child molestor to leadership in the SCA. There's probably a better psychological term for it but basically, when people have invested a great deal of time and energy into a thing, like a football program or a mideval history group, and that thing is threatened by scandal, they will go to great lengths to defend it, even breaking character. And that's what makes so soul crushing - you go to the people you trust and respect and they turn on you Be aware of it so you're not crippled by it. Other than being falsely accused of stolen valor, probably the worst betrayal I've known.

Posted by: Fen at April 25, 2025 04:51 PM (ciYHQ)

278 If you went to college and paid off your student loans, how do you feel about the people who got their loans "forgiven" by the Biden administration?

Kind of the same effect.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't care, because I no longer owe money to the federal behemoth, and paying it off without waiting a) until my loans were eligible for forgiveness b) or for the feds to scrap the entire unconstitutional program, means that I paid less interest than they were expecting to receive when I took out the loans.

Paying off my student loan on my own, regardless of what other people did with theirs, means I won.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2025 04:55 PM (hB7mE)

279 And no, DD214 posted at tinyurl.com/FenDD214 but still no retraction.

Posted by: Fen at April 25, 2025 04:55 PM (ciYHQ)

280 Oh you meant the perp? Yah I got him in the end. And without shooting him too, which I still don't understand. No, I hounded him publicly for 3 years until he lost the will to live. I wish I could credit my strength of character and tenacity but, having everyone against me was so hard, I almost quit several times. It was one of my sparring partners (rapier) that kept me true. Nicknamed Blush because she was so easily embarrassed, so innocent. She was the same age the six girls the perp had victimized. It became one of those things you do because you simply won't be able to live with yourself if you turn away.

Posted by: Fen at April 25, 2025 05:20 PM (ciYHQ)

Trump Unveils His "Secret Weapon" to Bring Racist Universities in Line

He's ordering federal accreditors, the bureaucrats who certify higher ed institutions as legit and eligible for federal funds and loan guarantees for students, to start requiring schools allow free speech and prioritize actual merit.

Deep State Media organization NPR:

President Trump on Wednesday signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools.
One of the actions takes aim at college and university accreditors, organizations the White House says have "abused their authority by imposing discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-based standards."
Another promises new discipline guidance for K-12 schools, with the goal of "ensuring school discipline policies are based on objective behavior, not DEI," the White House said in a statement.
"Today's Executive Orders pave the way for critical innovations -- inviting more competition in the higher education accreditation system, ensuring transparency in college finances, supporting new technologies in the classroom, and more," Education Secretary Linda McMahon wrote on social media.
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The collection of orders aim to cement Trump's conservative agenda when it comes to education in America, including rolling back the policies from the Biden administration, bolstering workforce training, improving teaching about artificial intelligence in schools, and launching a new White House initiative on historically Black colleges and universities.

The order pertaining to college accreditation directs McMahon to "overhaul" the system. Accreditation is the process colleges are required to go through to receive federal financial aid, aimed at ensuring that a program meets an acceptable level of quality.
Trump referred to accreditation on the campaign trail as his "secret weapon" in his efforts to combat what he considers ideological bias in higher education. The executive action aims to use the process as a way to hold colleges accountable for "ideological overreach" and to increase "intellectual diversity" on campus.
The action directs the education secretary to recognize new accreditors in an effort to encourage more competition. Trump has previously modified the accreditation system: During his first administration, he removed restrictions that forced schools to use accreditors based on their geographic region.
"Trump's goal is to manipulate accreditors in order to force colleges and universities to do his bidding and punish them when they resist," said Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors in a statement. "He is weaponizing the accreditation process to gain the leverage he seeks."

What a weird way to say "he's fighting blatant racial (and political) discrimination in taxpayer-funded schools."

Another executive action warns that federal grants for universities could be revoked if schools do not complete "full and timely disclosure of foreign funding."
In a briefing announcing the order, White House staff secretary Will Scharf said, "We believe that certain universities, including, for example, Harvard, have routinely violated this law, and this law has not been effectively enforced."
Federal law already requires schools to disclose gifts or contracts worth $250,000 or more from foreign entities. In a statement, a Harvard spokesperson said the school had, for decades, been in compliance with the law.
On Truth Social on Thursday, Trump dug in on Harvard again calling the university "a Liberal mess" and "a threat to Democracy."

He also is revoking Obama's and Biden's executive orders which demanded that schools not punish black kids, and/or severely punish white kids to make up for the fact that so many black kids violate school rules.

In an executive action aimed at K-12 schools, Trump requested new federal guidance on school discipline. The measure calls for revoking previous policies by Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama aimed at reducing racial disparities in, for example, suspensions and expulsions. The new guidance would prohibit using "racially preferential discipline practices."
"Trump's order empowers local school boards by encouraging real discipline," said Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty and a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. "By ending federal overreach, it frees educators to focus on teaching, not chaos, ensuring kids get a quality education."
But some civil rights activists disagree.
"These executive orders are another move to dismantle civil rights protections," said Judith Browne Dianis, who runs the Advancement Project, a civil rights nonprofit. "The Administration wants to rebuild the school to prison pipeline but civil rights law is clear: schools cannot punish students more harshly because of race, color, national origin, sex, or disability."

LOL.

Princeton University's President defiantly continues racist policies which other Princeton professors admit deliberately disfavor whites, Jews, and males of all races.

Christopher F. Rufo and Ryan Thorpe report for City Journal:

Amid the ongoing showdown between the Trump administration and the Ivy League, one university president has positioned himself as a leader of the academic resistance: Princeton's Christopher L. Eisgruber.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants to Princeton as part of its investigation into racial discrimination and anti-Semitism at the New Jersey campus. Eisgruber, though, was defiant, telling the New York Times that he's "not considering any concessions" and calling for other university presidents to follow his lead.
This isn't Eisgruber's first bid for the spotlight. After the death of George Floyd in 2020, he declared that Princeton--where he has served as president since 2013--was guilty of "systemic racism." In a letter to students that September, he went so far as to claim that racism was embedded in the very "structures of the university itself."
Eisgruber was right to say that he presides over a system of racial discrimination--but not in the way he imagines. The university does not discriminate against "oppressed" groups, such as blacks and Latinos, but against those seen as "oppressors."
"At Princeton, it's totally common knowledge that there are favored groups and disfavored groups," one professor said. "And the disfavored groups are whites, Jews, males," and others commonly disliked by the Left.
A City Journal investigation confirms that Princeton has, in fact, entrenched a system of racial discrimination and segregation. We have obtained more than a dozen internal documents and conducted interviews with a half-dozen employees, who confirm that the university has flagrantly violated the principles of the Civil Rights Act in the name of "social justice."
The basic structure of this system is the university's "diversity, equity, and inclusion" bureaucracy, which has expanded dramatically under Eisgruber's tenure. An infographic circulated by Princeton shows at least 40 academic and administrative departments with established DEI committees, with the express purpose of adjusting the campus's racial composition. As Princeton's first annual diversity report noted, "Every administrative and academic leader is being held accountable for demographic evolution."
According to several Princeton faculty members, "demographic evolution" is a euphemism for racial quotas and outright discrimination in academic hiring. A 2021 internal report outlining best practices for faculty recruitment described how staff were trained to "increase the diversity of the applicants at every step in the process." The report advised search committees to discount negative references for minority candidates and to ensure that every shortlist included at least "two women and/or two underrepresented minority candidates."
The implicit message from Eisgruber and the administration: don't hire white men unless absolutely necessary. According to one professor, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal, this meant abandoning merit-based hiring in favor of race-based preferences--the only way, given the current pipeline, to accomplish Eisgruber's stated goal of increasing "by 50 percent the number of tenured or tenure-track faculty members from underrepresented groups over the next five years."
Though many of these policies relied on euphemism, some were openly and explicitly discriminatory. The university's Target of Opportunity Program, which was cancelled shortly before the 2024 presidential election, made funding available for departments to hire "candidates from groups that are underrepresented on campus." According to conversations with Princeton professors, this referred primarily to racial minorities and women. The program covered half of each hire's salary, allowing departments to bring on new faculty without bearing the full financial burden. In effect, the administration created financial incentives to prioritize hiring racial minorities.

Princeton also has an illegal policy to discriminate against white suppliers and vendors.

...

The reality is that Princeton has violated the principles of the Civil Rights Act. It may have gone further: in Morenoff's estimation, its contracting policy likely ran afoul of New Jersey civil rights law ("among the strongest, most sweeping non-discrimination statutes in the nation") and the Civil Rights Act of 1866. And its hiring preferences may have violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits racial discrimination in hiring unless the employer can fit one of a few narrow exceptions--which, Morenoff said, there is "good reason to doubt."
While Eisgruber has remained publicly defiant toward the Trump administration, he seems to recognize his vulnerability. The university has been quietly scrubbing its website of DEI materials and recently updated its page to include a statement on Princeton's ostensible commitment to "equal opportunity and non-discrimination."

One hundred Yale professors signed a statement recommending that the school freeze all new hiring and conduct an investigation into its own hiring practices. This, they hope, will forestall a federal investigation.

The statement points out that faculty hiring has "stagnated" while "administrative" staff -- mostly in DEI make-work "jobs" -- has grown by double.

This is fascinating. More than 100 Yale professors have called for an audit of the university's sprawling bureaucracy.

The audit, they say, would "preempt potential federal intervention" and send the message: "Yale prioritizes intellectual vitality over bureaucratic inertia." pic.twitter.com/C37Fjk6FuE
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) April 25, 2025

Is our academics learning?

Posted by: Ace at 02:23 PM

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1 go get 'em Trumpy!

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 02:23 PM (dCxaZ)

2 "Trump's goal is to manipulate accreditors in order to force colleges and universities to do his bidding and punish them when they resist," said Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors in a statement. "He is weaponizing the accreditation process to gain the leverage he seeks."

Gee, I sure hope so.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:25 PM (s8j++)

3 Biden canceled the School-to-Prison Pipeline, but Trump is reopening it. Drill, baby, drill!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:26 PM (/dDa4)

4 Nope

Posted by: Da Judge at April 25, 2025 02:26 PM (2UnvF)

5 Wish I could stay and chat on this thread, but I do have to go somewhere else...

This is very relevant to me because our Faculty Senate was discussing some of these things yesterday at their meeting.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 02:26 PM (7fElN)

6 Federal law already requires schools to disclose gifts or contracts worth $250,000 or more from foreign entities. In a statement, a Harvard spokesperson said the school had, for decades, been in compliance with the law.

They don't want to have to identify their Middle Eastern and CCP sugar daddies.

Posted by: Colleges and instathots suck Qatari dick for $ at April 25, 2025 02:28 PM (TbWk/)

7 More like demographic devolution.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 02:28 PM (63Dwl)

8 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (B9Prs)

9 Is our academics learning?

Posted by: Ace

Odds are yes to at least trimming the huge administrative staff overload. Ratio of staff/admin to professors is now something like 3 tenured faculty to one administrator. At Ivies, it is more like 1.5 or so admin to tenured faculty.

Used to be, administrators like Deans, etc. would do their stint and then return to their jobs as regular faculty. Instead, now, we have national searches for administrators that have no idea about the place they landed but are eager to rise up to the next position either at the current university or up the food chain.

That is where you get lame brained initiatives from admin that bulk up costs, do nothing, and consume useful faculty time for teaching or even the increasingly worthless research required to keep your position.

Admin simply have MOAR as their standard for promotion--more money, more spending, more staff.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (ctrM5)

10 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (GYt5+)

11 Wish I could stay and chat on this thread, but I do have to go somewhere else...

This is very relevant to me because our Faculty Senate was discussing some of these things yesterday at their meeting.

Did anyone actually have the courage to raise his hand and say "ya know, maybe we should stop treating white people like lepers".

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (s8j++)

12 Money. The secret weapon is always money.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 25, 2025 02:30 PM (wBaIH)

13 Trump Unveils His "Secret Weapon" to Bring Racist Universities in Line
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Yeah…. No

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at April 25, 2025 02:30 PM (9Xevu)

14 Not so fast there.

Posted by: The Honorable Judge Kiki Manaluaha at April 25, 2025 02:31 PM (jc0TO)

15 Do you know who else prioritized actual merit and allowed free speech?

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:31 PM (bXihk)

16 Eisgruber?
Seriously?

Posted by: Sound kinda nozzie at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM (vsUjd)

17 Hola
Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM

Brother!

Posted by: the insensible rock at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM (jc0TO)

18
"He is weaponizing the accreditation process to gain the leverage he seeks."

Fight weaponization with weaponization.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM (63Dwl)

19 Why are these universities entitled to any tax dollars at all, whether they be bastions of conservatism and free speech or raving liberal loons?

Posted by: F*ck Those Niggas at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM (RihOl)

20
Yeah…. No

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge

Fuck off, ya pineapple headed asshole.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM (MsrgL)

21

Harvard taught me everything I know!

Posted by: David Hogger at April 25, 2025 02:33 PM (6FYeO)

22 This is nice and all. I would like to see a Trumpian style home school and/or voucher arrangement that takes aim at the public school systems butts in seats = federal dollars, which is the main driver of how shitty the public education system has become.

It practically takes a Constitutional Amendment to kick an axe murder in the process of axe murdering out of a public school. I am only marginally exaggerating.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at April 25, 2025 02:33 PM (i24o9)

23 Eisgruber?
Seriously?
Posted by: Sound kinda nozzie at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM

Could it be any plainer??

Posted by: REEEE!! at April 25, 2025 02:34 PM (jc0TO)

24 8 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe

GOP officeholders come from the insulated class (see Codevilla's The Ruling Class versus the Country Class). Back when I studied regime longevity, there was a theoretical construct, I think the author was Eric A. Nordlinger but it has been years, posited that regimes get away with more shit with more insulation from the consequences of bad decisions.

From memory, he used the concepts of insulation, malleability, and resistance to determine regime longevity. Insulation from the people for ruling class is key because it protects them from removal and punishment for bad decisions.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:34 PM (ctrM5)

25 I would like to see a Trumpian style home school and/or voucher arrangement that takes aim at the public school systems butts in seats = federal dollars, which is the main driver of how shitty the public education system has become.

In the end, that is the only solution. Money must follow the student, and the parents make the decisions. "Educators" can KMA.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (s8j++)

26 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (B9Prs)

They'll try as soon as they control all three branches, a 9-0 SC, Hollywood, Academia, the pharmaceutical industry, the IPCC, the Intergalactic Federation of Martians, and Whoopi Goldberg's dusty dildo collection.

Then we will finally see action!! You have never seen sleeve rolling like this!

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (bXihk)

27 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

28 "Underrepresented minorities"? Are you kidding me?

If "underrepresented minority" is their criteria for who gets preferential treatment now, then that necessarily must mean that WHITE MEN should get preferential treatment, since after 50 years of racist "affirmative action" policies, they are the ones underrepreented as compared to how many would have been hired if everything was merit-based.

So yeah, let's bring it on. "Underrepresented." You got it.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (pMi6S)

29 In the end, that is the only solution. Money must follow the student, and the parents make the decisions. "Educators" can KMA.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (s8j++)

Disagree. Too many of them would prefer to bite the ass that pays them.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (VNX3d)

30 Please leave us out of this.

Posted by: Whoopi Goldberg's dusty dildo collection at April 25, 2025 02:36 PM (vsUjd)

31 24 8 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe

He has no need to worry about history or reputation. He's already been impeached...twice. He's already lost an election, at least for historical context. He's already survived 2 assassination attempts, one which actually hit him. He was and is a pariah to the whole governmental class.

So, unlike all the Rs of the past, he has nothing to lose and no sh&ts to give. It's very freeing, as you can tell.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2025 02:36 PM (tOcjL)

32 You can't just allow students to have civil liberties without due process.

Overturned. And now, you will blow me.

Posted by: Some Faggot in a Black Dress at April 25, 2025 02:37 PM (BI5O2)

33 They'll try as soon as they control all three branches, a 9-0 SC, Hollywood, Academia, the pharmaceutical industry, the IPCC, the Intergalactic Federation of Martians, and Whoopi Goldberg's dusty dildo collection.
=====

You left out the Klingon High Command

Posted by: GOPe at April 25, 2025 02:37 PM (9Xevu)

34 Everytime I see a college trying to avoid government investigations and keep their funding, I think of the Horta "no kill I". Except the Horta was sympathetic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 02:37 PM (6TePA)

35 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.

I agree, but I do wonder if we had to go through the lunacy of the last 17 years to get to the point where a majority finally said "enough of this!".

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:38 PM (s8j++)

36 25 I would like to see a Trumpian style home school and/or voucher arrangement that takes aim at the public school systems butts in seats = federal dollars, which is the main driver of how shitty the public education system has become.

In the end, that is the only solution. Money must follow the student, and the parents make the decisions. "Educators" can KMA.
Posted by: Archimedes
========
Reform is going to have to occur at the state level. Federales only account for about 10 percent or so of school funding and even that will decline if Trump wins his budget fights.

Constitutionally, education falls under the police powers reserved to the states under the 10th. As long as they do not discriminate (which the federales can punish), then fed power is limited to carrot and stick in certain areas like disabled or Title I students. Plus school lunch money.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:38 PM (ctrM5)

37 One hundred Yale professors signed a statement recommending that the school freeze all new hiring and conduct an investigation into its own hiring practices. This, they hope, will forestall a federal investigation. -Ace-

More likely, they're trying to "lock in their gains" while appearing to do something completely different, all the while stalling for time.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 02:38 PM (FCbAQ)

38 I remember when Trump University got closed and had to pay back tuitions due to "false advertising"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 02:39 PM (D7oie)

39 Reform is going to have to occur at the state level.
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That's not due process. Overturned. Blow me.

Posted by: Some Faggot in a Black Dress at April 25, 2025 02:40 PM (BI5O2)

40 Prioritize intellectual vitality over bureauqatic inertia.
Down the bureaucrats. Drown the bureaucrats.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM (MJMyx)

41 31 24 8 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe

He has no need to worry about history or reputation. He's already been impeached...twice. He's already lost an election, at least for historical context. He's already survived 2 assassination attempts, one which actually hit him. He was and is a pariah to the whole governmental class.

So, unlike all the Rs of the past, he has nothing to lose and no sh&ts to give. It's very freeing, as you can tell.
Posted by: Nova Local
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I would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)

42 Remember when they bragged that Obama was the "Deporter-in-Chief"?

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:42 PM (bXihk)

43 37 One hundred Yale professors signed a statement recommending that the school freeze all new hiring and conduct an investigation into its own hiring practices. This, they hope, will forestall a federal investigation. -Ace-

More likely, they're trying to "lock in their gains" while appearing to do something completely different, all the while stalling for time.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
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Fire the Bosses
Hire the Profs

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:43 PM (MJMyx)

44 I could care less about compliance, just defund them.

Ivy Leagues don't need federal tax dollars.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 02:43 PM (4pwAx)

45 I agree, but I do wonder if we had to go through the lunacy of the last 17 years to get to the point where a majority finally said "enough of this!".
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:38 PM (s8j++)

Without Trump "we" wouldn't be here doing this.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:44 PM (bXihk)

46 At the college i was at they would literally run things like chillers airhandlers vehicles to mechanical end of useful life failure while making sure Administration got 5% or more salary increases and free health care to go with their 30 paid days off a year.
A busy day for them was 3 hours of meetings.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2025 02:44 PM (riPCw)

47 38 I remember when Trump University got closed and had to pay back tuitions due to "false advertising"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 02:39 PM (D7oie)

Damn near every university has been engaged in decades-long campaigns of consumer fraud. It should be the subject of the biggest, most expensive, most punitive nationwide class action the world has ever seen.

Posted by: Mail and wire fraud are predicate offenses for RICO too at April 25, 2025 02:44 PM (TbWk/)

48 It's the Poison Ivy League.

Posted by: SWIDT? at April 25, 2025 02:44 PM (vsUjd)

49 I would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)

Quit reminding me of my naivete.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (FCbAQ)

50 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

Who said that was the goal?

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (bXihk)

51 Dated, but accurate, Mark Felt, "Deep Throat," "Follow the money." From the late 1900's.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (QSrLX)

52 -------
I would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig
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I consider whatever thoughts he had were superseded by the authority.
_Skull X Bones

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (MJMyx)

53 Giddyup, Donaldus Maximus!

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (09exb)

54 That Yale letter is an embarrassment.

>> our core mission: faculty, students, and research

Some might think a university's core mission would be the teaching and creation of knowledge. They seem to be identifying core "stakeholders."

>>Yale has five times as many administrators....
>>It's an absurdity--but one that, ironically, gives us an edge.

This is nuts. So it is an advantage to be so wasteful that they have lots of room to improve? Is this how they teach their kids? I can imagine "You got an F, but that gives you an advantage because you have so much to improve"!

This is 3rd rate high school logic. Yale.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (Zhfc2)

55 So, off topic and reposted from the previous thread because I was proud of finding the clip on Rumble:

Tracey Ullman did a bit on her show "Support group for the overly woke"
That was funny then, and completely unairable today

https://tinyurl.com/37d5csn7

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (D7oie)

56 How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?

Nerd Klingons?

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (0HaGk)

57 I could care less about compliance, just defund them.

Ivy Leagues don't need federal tax dollars.
Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 02:43 PM (4pwAx)

This. Stop giving them any money. Sick of this stuff.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (/dDa4)

58 50 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

Who said that was the goal?
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (bXihk)

That is kind of my point, DEI has harmed the supposed beneficiaries, and the whole of society.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:47 PM (Dv3i1)

59

Didn't that poor, poor black woman Michelle Esther Obama go to Princeton?

CAN YOU WHITES NOT UNDERSTAND HER PAIN!!!!!!

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 25, 2025 02:47 PM (et1vG)

60 How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?

Nerd Klingons?
Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (0HaGk)

Steal it from conquered societies. A time honored tradition

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM (FCbAQ)

61 Amid the ongoing showdown between the Trump administration and the Ivy League, one university president has positioned himself as a leader of the academic resistance: Princeton's Christopher L. Eisgruber.

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What, "Eisensatzgruppenführer" wasn't available?

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM (FH+Da)

62 Read through the post.

If I understand it correctly, it basically said that billion dollar endowment universities won't get stolen taxpayer money unless they suck up to Jews.

Posted by: TLDR at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM (RihOl)

63 Didn't that poor, poor black woman Michelle Esther Obama go to Princeton?

CAN YOU WHITES NOT UNDERSTAND HER PAIN!!!!!!

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 25, 2025 02:47 PM (et1vG)

Are you talking about how Aunt Esther never speaks up? Right, Michelle?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM (VNX3d)

64 Most if not all public universities do the same shit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 02:49 PM (IZezY)

65 Didn't that poor, poor black woman Michelle Esther Obama go to Princeton?

CAN YOU WHITES NOT UNDERSTAND HER PAIN!!!!!!

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 25, 2025 02:47 PM (et1vG)
___

If she would only open her maw to grunt out to us how much she suffers.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:49 PM (Dv3i1)

66 Dated, but accurate, Mark Felt, "Deep Throat," "Follow the money." From the late 1900's.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (QSrLX)

Geez, that has the potential to make some people feel old.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at April 25, 2025 02:49 PM (i24o9)

67 How can it not be, J.Kerry is a member and George Bush is a member, many elites are members of the Skull n Bones fraternity; How can it be that Skull n Bones is not a heavy player, especially considering the heavy hand that Yale is playing today, in part of DeepState?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (MJMyx)

68 I could care less about compliance, just defund them.

Ivy Leagues don't need federal tax dollars.
Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 02:43 PM (4pwAx)

This. Stop giving them any money. Sick of this stuff.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

===

Does anyone really believe Trump or any Republican is really going to reform these places?

Let's just be honest with ourselves they will never change, best thing is to just make them fund their own dumb country club.

99% of Americans resent the whole Ivy League scene, no tears if they have to dip into their $100+ billion endowments for everything.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (4pwAx)

69 The Ivy League has always been off putting to a majority of the country. It's the "who you know" not what you know attitude. As long as you know the right people and have lots of money you are in. In other words Snobs.

They really need to work on changing that. And I'm not talking about being politically correct. Their doors should be open to everyone who qualifies and wants the education.
Assholes should be kicked out they are not worth the trouble.

Posted by: Case at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (OrSPY)

70 50 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

Who said that was the goal?
Posted by: ...
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While reading this post my thinking was that we get our first black President and the main thing he does is stack the deck against whites.

Same with muzzies -- the first thing they do with power is try to harm whites and non-muzzies.

When who created and support Western Civilization (white and other colors) realize that this is how it all ends, not how it improves.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (Zhfc2)

71 62 Read through the post.

If I understand it correctly, it basically said that billion dollar endowment universities won't get stolen taxpayer money unless they suck up to Jews.
Posted by: TLDR

The trolls are weak these days.

Then again, they've always been weak.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (pMi6S)

72 Steal it from conquered societies. A time honored tradition
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM (FCbAQ)

The Klingons are space muslims?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (Dv3i1)

73 A real worker told me once that the FBI is the only agency that can turn a Ryder truck full of register tapes into a Federal case that sends 12 people to Leavenworth. So, yeah, little badge, big laws. When the rumor gets out that the CPA's have the numbers the race is on to roll over at the US Attorney's office.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (QSrLX)

74 would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM
*****
Because islam is religion of peace is why it's never going to happen. There won't be a Lady Gaga concert there either. Or a library with internet. Or a fashion show. Or a Christian church or a synagogue or an ashram.

Islam is a cultural death cult.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2025 02:51 PM (riPCw)

75 27 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Observational equivalence problems. Those that get passed through do benefit. Those that try and fail don't.

Closest example is by a UCLA law prof back in the day that did a rigorous study of affirmative action and law students. He found that attrition in mismatches between admits from aa to a highly ranked school that had below median scores and grades were more likely to drop out and not complete than if they attended a law school where their scores and grades were in the median (50 percent above and below).

The ones that survive the process benefit but the only way to raise the whole disadvantaged group up would be to water down standards.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:51 PM (ctrM5)

76 How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?

Nerd Klingons?
Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM

A benevolent race of aliens visited their planet seeking trade and they murdered them and stole their ship.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 02:51 PM (jc0TO)

77 Chinese and Saudis will just donate $249,999 a pop to get under the reportable limit. Sure, they’ll have to make over a thousand of those donations but hey, staying below radar.

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 25, 2025 02:51 PM (5SvjB)

78 "One hundred Yale professors signed a statement recommending that the school freeze all new hiring and conduct an investigation into its own hiring practices. This, they hope, will forestall a federal investigation.

The statement points out that faculty hiring has "stagnated" while "administrative" staff -- mostly in DEI make-work "jobs" -- has grown by double."

So, Yale is in favor of DOGE now?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2025 02:52 PM (ZR+Gx)

79 If I understand it correctly, it basically said that billion dollar endowment universities won't get stolen taxpayer money unless they suck up to Jews.
Posted by: TLDR at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM

The universe of things that you don't understand correctly is vast, Joe.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 02:52 PM (jc0TO)

80 How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?

Nerd Klingons?
Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (0HaGk)

Tech makes no sense in Star Trek. Every retarded hobo species of rock-like aliens has warp drives, but Starfleet's flagship is continually suffering near-lethal breakdowns that only clever, seat-of-the-pants engineering can solve.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:53 PM (/dDa4)

81 Posted by: TLDR
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It moved, Jerry!

Posted by: Sid at April 25, 2025 02:54 PM (paSBy)

82 Tech makes no sense in Star Trek. Every retarded hobo species of rock-like aliens has warp drives, but Starfleet's flagship is continually suffering near-lethal breakdowns that only clever, seat-of-the-pants engineering can solve.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:53 PM (/dDa4)
____

Maybe Starfleet should close down its DEI programs.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:54 PM (Dv3i1)

83 Klingons got space faring ability the same way the Packleds did. They stole it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 02:54 PM (6TePA)

84 A good week in the markets. I guess the recession is over.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (jc0TO)

85 49 I would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)

Quit reminding me of my naivete.
Posted by: OneEyedJack

I got off the Bush train when he mentioned Religion of Peace and his later comments about his amnesty program crashing and burning was due to racism on the right.

If I had not though John F'n Kerry was far worse in 2004, I would not have voted for Jorge Arbusto for reelection.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (ctrM5)

86 Trump sure has been keeping those Hawaiian judges busy. Usually they're just sitting in a hammock smoking da kine pakalolo.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (v0R5T)

87 "Oh no, this sub-literate species clothed in dirty rags used their cloaking technology and shield-bypassing transporter to kidnap Starfleet's number 1 captain!"

Posted by: TNG Writer at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (/dDa4)

88 That was funny then, and completely unairable today

https://tinyurl.com/37d5csn7
Posted by: Kindltot
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Forgot about her. Always enjoyed her early shows.
I understand why the X couldn't stand her.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (MJMyx)

89 More likely, they're trying to "lock in their gains" while appearing to do something completely different, all the while stalling for time.
Posted by: OneEyedJack

--------

I read it as the standard pissing contest between administration and faculty.

Faculty mostly complained about lack of salary increases and they see that big pot of money going to administrators.

This has nothing to do with DEI, or waste, it is them wanting the power. They want faculty back on top of the pay scale heap. Everything else is a bullshit diversion.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (Zhfc2)

90 He's ordering federal accreditors, the bureaucrats who certify higher ed institutions as legit and eligible for federal funds and loan guarantees for students, to start requiring schools allow free speech and prioritize actual merit.
________________

I love it! What a brilliant idea!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (YqDXo)

91 "How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?"

That kind of makes sense. Thinking of the Spartans who didn't leave much behind other than their reputation as a great warrior culture.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2025 02:57 PM (lJ0H4)

92 I'm givin' her all she's got Cap'n!

Posted by: Scotty at April 25, 2025 02:57 PM (v0R5T)

93

WHY YOU
NO CALL
ANYMORE
SPOCK

Posted by: The Horta at April 25, 2025 02:58 PM (jc0TO)

94 Every single K-12 and college I’m familiar with has padded their staff with useless administrators. It is the biggest sinkhole of money in the educational process. It also adds almost zero value to education outcomes which is allegedly the mission schools are meant to be pursuing. Why local school boards and those who run these colleges allow this to continue to the detriment of students is beyond reason.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 02:58 PM (AaEou)

95 So, Yale is in favor of DOGE now?
Posted by: Darrell Harris

There is actually an opportunity, if played right, to cause massive conflict in education over money between the line workers and the administrators.

Administrators in schools whether universities or K12 are increasingly divorced from any reality of classroom teachers. Yet, they get paid more and more while teacher salaries (and that of professors) have stagnated since the 70's in real terms) in most states.

If these were publicly traded corporations, they would have been gutted of administrator bloat years ago but with them controlling the budgets, they push the cuts inevitably downwards onto the professors or teachers leaving themselves unscathed. Lot of buried anger and hatred there to be exploited by the right politicians.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:59 PM (ctrM5)

96 "I'm givin' her all she's got Cap'n!"

Showin her my O face.

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 02:59 PM (0HaGk)

97 I got off the Bush train when he mentioned Religion of Peace and his later comments about his amnesty program crashing and burning was due to racism on the right.

If I had not though John F'n Kerry was far worse in 2004, I would not have voted for Jorge Arbusto for reelection.
Posted by: whig
---

Smart man. I so clung to the hope that he was a man and a Christian; that he had a sincere plan that would take time to execute but when he did it would complete the circle.
Well, he was completing a circle but it wasn't a conservative one.
_Brak

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (MJMyx)

98 to accomplish Eisgruber's stated goal of increasing "by 50 percent the number of tenured or tenure-track faculty members from underrepresented groups over the next five years."
_________________

Golden retrievers are an under-represented group. When are they going to start hiring them?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (YqDXo)

99 >> I would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)

And selling a bag of tainted goods which got thousands of my brothers, friends and neighbors killed. Fuck him.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (AaEou)

100 We have a 2 - 7 bench.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (7On0Y)

101 I got off the Bush train when he mentioned Religion of Peace
_________________

I gave the benefit of the doubt, and presumed he said that to keep the Muslim-infested countries on board, and to prevent his military action from becoming a religious war.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (YqDXo)

102 And selling a bag of tainted goods which got thousands of my brothers, friends and neighbors killed. Fuck him.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (AaEou)

Oh no! Were they drafted?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (/dDa4)

103 to accomplish Eisgruber's stated goal of increasing "by 50 percent the number of tenured or tenure-track faculty members from underrepresented groups over the next five years."

So, conservatives, libertarians, and Republican-donating?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (0sNs1)

104 >>> On Truth Social on Thursday, Trump dug in on Harvard again calling the university "a Liberal mess" and "a threat to Democracy."

Like the capital "L".
Would have preferred he just identified them as "degenerate fascist thugs". Maybe throw in an occasional 'sexual' as a prefix to 'degenerate', but I think that is the default for any degenerate.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 03:02 PM (/lPRQ)

105 The ones that survive the process benefit but the only way to raise the whole disadvantaged group up would be to water down standards.

Posted by: whig

---------
They benefit in salary, but a lot of that is DEI and affirmative action hiring.

When most people see a minority candidate from any school, including UCLA or Harvard, they wonder if they are competent.
This applies to all professions and anyone in business understands this. Black Harvard Doctor? I'll pass. Lawyer, accountant? Pass.

You never know if any minority is qualified because so many incompetents were helped along. This is a shame and a tragedy. This harms the qualified minorities the most -- their unqualified brethren get good paying jobs to make the annual report photos look diverse, but everyone considers them suspect.

Not-accidentally, it helps the white elite class the most.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 03:02 PM (Zhfc2)

106 WHY YOU
NO CALL
ANYMORE
SPOCK
Posted by: The Horta
......

It's not pon farr yet.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:03 PM (v0R5T)

107 Why local school boards and those who run these colleges allow this to continue to the detriment of students is beyond reason.
Posted by: Marcus T
=========
Easy, School board members are part time, get goodies from trips, etc. and get their egos stroked by smart administrators. Most have no training in running a business (not a corporate drone here), accounting, finance, etc. Often, they are retired educators themselves. So poor oversight until something bad happens then a change at the top sweeps nothing below and the cycle continues.

The looting is far worse in the big city districts because a lot of money, declining student enrollment, and easy to hide looting the system when you have a disengaged electorate.

Colleges have something similar plus the idiocies of Big Sports attached to them. NIL is likely to end that as in order to pay money sport players vast sums, they will gut and cut every non revenue sport they can to try to make ends meet.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:03 PM (ctrM5)

108 >> Oh no! Were they drafted?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (/dDa4)

Well, no. But fuck you very much.

People who signed up or were already serving aren’t the problem. It’s the people who lied to them about the reason for the mission. We pursued the mission because that’s what we signed up to do. Douchebag.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:04 PM (AaEou)

109 How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?
Nerd Klingons?
Posted by: eleven

A benevolent race of aliens visited their planet seeking trade and they murdered them and stole their ship.
Posted by: toby928

* looks at Chinese aircraft carriers *

Guess Klingons were better at reverse-engineering.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2025 03:04 PM (DgGvY)

110
Like the capital "L".
Would have preferred he just identified them as "degenerate fascist thugs". Maybe throw in an occasional 'sexual' as a prefix to 'degenerate', but I think that is the default for any degenerate.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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That's inflammatory. He doesn't say things to enrage people he says things to get their attention. If it enrages them then they are calling themselves out. _ all the better

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 03:05 PM (MJMyx)

111 100 We have a 2 - 7 bench.
____

Last week when 5th circuit was about to rule on the TdA deportation issue, and Roberts and the other 6 said hold up, SCOTUS is going to rule on this issue instead, proper procedure be damned, I had the impression that they would have published their ruling by now. I was wrong. I wonder how long they are going to hold out.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 03:05 PM (Dv3i1)

112 Constitutional Crisis 1!!1 (tm)

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 03:05 PM (g47mK)

113 If these were publicly traded corporations, they would have been gutted of administrator bloat years ago but with them controlling the budgets, they push the cuts inevitably downwards onto the professors or teachers leaving themselves unscathed. Lot of buried anger and hatred there to be exploited by the right politicians.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:59 PM (ctrM5)
_______________

Truth. You just haven't lived until you - as a tenured faculty member in STEM - get a finger-wagging lecture from a jumped-up former secretary (!) now in administration.

I disabused her rather cogently of her misapprehension of our relative statuses.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (YqDXo)

114 He's ordering federal accreditors, the bureaucrats who certify higher ed institutions as legit and eligible for federal funds and loan guarantees for students, to start requiring schools allow free speech and prioritize actual merit

Fascism!!!!!

Posted by: NPR talking head at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (TbWk/)

115 Well, no. But fuck you very much.

People who signed up or were already serving aren’t the problem. It’s the people who lied to them about the reason for the mission. We pursued the mission because that’s what we signed up to do. Douchebag.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:04 PM (AaEou)

They volunteered to spread gay communism to the Middle East and got their shit pushed in. Losers cry, winners win.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (/dDa4)

116 >>> Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin Admits Democrats Are ‘Weak and Woke’ — Urges Party to ‘F**king Retake The Flag’ With ‘Alpha Energy’
===

I just wanted post something with the unfortunate name "Slotkin" in it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (/lPRQ)

117 Nerd Klingons?
Posted by: eleven

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Alexander, son of Worf at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (0sNs1)

118 I hope this works but tje Cultural Marxists Seminaries will fight it tooth and nail,

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 03:07 PM (ypFCm)

119 >> Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:03 PM (ctrM5)

People on these local boards need to be kept in check by parents. As their taxes go up each year to pay for this garbage a lot of them never question the allocation of resources. They just write it off as part of the cost of the ride. Meanwhile their kids are getting shortchanged because teachers are not being hired and they’re being asked to do things like double as ESL resources.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:07 PM (AaEou)

120 Losers cry, winners win.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM

Winners go home with the prom queen.

Posted by: John Mason at April 25, 2025 03:07 PM (0sNs1)

121 106 WHY YOU
NO CALL
ANYMORE
SPOCK
Posted by: The Horta
......

It's not pon farr yet.
___

SPOCK NO
HEAR OF
EROXON?

Posted by: Horta at April 25, 2025 03:07 PM (Dv3i1)

122 And selling a bag of tainted goods which got thousands of my brothers, friends and neighbors killed. Fuck him.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (AaEou)

Oh no! Were they drafted?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (/dDa4)

Wow. That was really fucking shitty of you.

Posted by: A new low at April 25, 2025 03:08 PM (TbWk/)

123 One thing I like about this Trump presidency is he is attacking from so many different angles.

Shrub would try some half-assed thing and when it failed throw up his hands and stop trying.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 03:08 PM (t0Rmr)

124 108 >> Oh no! Were they drafted?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (/dDa4)

When you voluntarily sign up to fight Jew wars and kill people for money and then wind up getting killed, it's hard to feel bad for you.

Posted by: It is What It Is at April 25, 2025 03:08 PM (RihOl)

125 >> Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (/dDa4)

Look, you prove It here every day you’re an asshole, always stirring shit and making jackass comments. Give it a rest. Go doink the cat in the ass or something.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:09 PM (AaEou)

126 Truth. You just haven't lived until you - as a tenured faculty member in STEM - get a finger-wagging lecture from a jumped-up former secretary (!) now in administration.

I disabused her rather cogently of her misapprehension of our relative statuses.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM

No covalent bonding for you!

Posted by: Former Secretary, now in Administration at April 25, 2025 03:09 PM (0sNs1)

127 You never know if any minority is qualified because so many incompetents were helped along. This is a shame and a tragedy. This harms the qualified minorities the most -- their unqualified brethren get good paying jobs to make the annual report photos look diverse, but everyone considers them suspect.

Not-accidentally, it helps the white elite class the most.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
======
A lot of the answer depends on exactly what question you ask. I took the question to be whether it benefits disadvantaged minorities and yes it does as far as future earnings prospects. Sucks for the dropouts.

If you are discussing society wide, then probably not worth it from a cost benefit analysis given mismatch theory which is why Scotus finally acted in the Harvard and NC case to end it.

Much of it was created by Nixon and LBJ in part to prevent a return of the disastrous riots gutting a lot of American cities in the late 60's. So the idea was pay a Danegeld in order to prevent minority black leaders from going full on Commie insurgency.

Give them a stake in society sort of thing. But once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane peaceably.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:09 PM (ctrM5)

128 When most people see a minority candidate from any school, including UCLA or Harvard, they wonder if they are competent.
This applies to all professions and anyone in business understands this. Black Harvard Doctor? I'll pass. Lawyer, accountant? Pass.

You never know if any minority is qualified because so many incompetents were helped along.
_______________

Leave Neil deGrasse Tyson out of this. One glance at his publication list makes clear he was an affirmative action grad student whose entire subsequent career is attributable to melanin - nothing more.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:09 PM (YqDXo)

129 "Underrepresented minorities"? Are you kidding me?

If "underrepresented minority" is their criteria for who gets preferential treatment now, then that necessarily must mean that WHITE MEN should get preferential treatment, since after 50 years of racist "affirmative action" policies, they are the ones underrepreented as compared to how many would have been hired if everything was merit-based.

So yeah, let's bring it on. "Underrepresented." You got it.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (pMi6S)

Asians have it even worse. They're at the top of the merit scale, but the east coast schools are so racist they just outright claim that asians aren't "well-rounded" and have bad personalities so they can trash their applications.

The primary interest of these institutions is selling access to old money elites, not training new generations of the best and brightest.

Posted by: Sjg at April 25, 2025 03:10 PM (aqZN1)

130 Shit's getting pretty fucking nasty on this thread.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 25, 2025 03:10 PM (PSEDc)

131 If these were publicly traded corporations, they would have been gutted of administrator bloat years ago but with them controlling the budgets, they push the cuts inevitably downwards onto the professors or teachers leaving themselves unscathed. Lot of buried anger and hatred there to be exploited by the right politicians.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:59 PM (ctrM5)

Completely agreed. Simply do to these unis what was done to Trump University. Turnabout is fair play.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2025 03:10 PM (7C+9h)

132 Posted by: It is What It Is at April 25, 2025 03:08 PM (RihOl)

Whoa. I'm calling in an airstrike from the COBs.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:11 PM (YqDXo)

133 I like to think of it as a criminal to prison pipeline.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at April 25, 2025 03:11 PM (smB1O)

134 Link to NPR. NPR: conflict of interest much?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 03:11 PM (QSrLX)

135 >>> "At Princeton, it's totally common knowledge that there are favored groups and disfavored groups," one professor said. "And the disfavored groups are whites, Jews, males," and others commonly disliked by the Left.

What about the Irish?
It's still OK to hatethe Irish, right?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 03:11 PM (/lPRQ)

136 116 Wanting to "retake the flag" what a Slotkin.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 25, 2025 03:12 PM (wBaIH)

137 Truth. You just haven't lived until you - as a tenured faculty member in STEM - get a finger-wagging lecture from a jumped-up former secretary (!) now in administration.

I disabused her rather cogently of her misapprehension of our relative statuses.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM

No covalent bonding for you!

Posted by: Former Secretary, now in Administration at April 25, 2025 03:09 PM (0sNs1)
_______________

Yeah, I ionized her ass. Made it into a plasma.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:12 PM (YqDXo)

138 Thread getting nasty. As "Captain Obvious" says in the tech thread (But not about nasty threads. I think it's just a statement about leaving for work): Byeeeee.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 03:12 PM (42Vb+)

139 Oh no! Were they drafted?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (/dDa4)

I think your dog died.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 03:12 PM (D7oie)

140 SPOCK NO
HEAR OF
EROXON?
Posted by: Horta
......

I'm sure Bones can fix him up.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:13 PM (v0R5T)

141 Babylon Bee, Paper of Record.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Debunks 12 Popular Song Lyrics

Federal Judge Travels Back In Time To Overturn Trump’s Birth

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 03:13 PM (VNX3d)

142 2020 was stolen. How do you eggheads like Trump now? More Chardonnay?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 03:13 PM (QSrLX)

143 "At Princeton, it's totally common knowledge that there are favored groups and disfavored groups," one professor said. "And the disfavored groups are whites, Jews, males," and others commonly disliked by the Left.
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Someone should alert the "just noticing" guys.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 03:14 PM (RIvkX)

144 The new Predator: Badlands trailer features a super soy feminized predator. Looks like it's starting to trend.

SO CRINGE

Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 03:14 PM (q177U)

145 People on these local boards need to be kept in check by parents. As their taxes go up each year to pay for this garbage a lot of them never question the allocation of resources. They just write it off as part of the cost of the ride. Meanwhile their kids are getting shortchanged because teachers are not being hired and they’re being asked to do things like double as ESL resources.
Posted by: Marcus T

Part of it is we have a weird connection since desegregation in that real estate prices are strongly correlated with the better schools. So leaving out those who have their kids in private schools, those parents in public schools pay outsized property tax amounts (due to property values) to get their kids in good schools. They rarely rock the boat. Plus most of those school elections and bond issues are held at inconvenient off cycle elections where you are lucky to get 10 percent of the registered voters to turn out. A large proportion of those voters are teachers, staff, and administrators or family members thereof.

So nothing changes until there is a scandal causing changes at the top with little change in administration.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:15 PM (ctrM5)

146 Shit's getting pretty fucking nasty on this thread.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 25, 2025 03:10 PM (PSEDc)

shit stirring makes it stink.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 03:15 PM (D7oie)

147 Trump is fighting but the only answer by the Leftists I'd Lawfare

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (ypFCm)

148 >>>Shrub would try some half-assed thing and when it failed throw up his hands and stop trying.
Posted by: 18-1
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That was by design. It was bait to keep us in line.
Oh, yes, he's got a plan, he's trying, he's got great opposition but he's hard at it, look at him with the troops on Thanksgiving, stick with him he'll make it. It was all deepstate crap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (MJMyx)

149 People on these local boards need to be kept in check by parents. As their taxes go up each year to pay for this garbage a lot of them never question the allocation of resources. They just write it off as part of the cost of the ride. Meanwhile their kids are getting shortchanged because teachers are not being hired and they’re being asked to do things like double as ESL resources.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:07 PM (AaEou)
_________________

I wanted to go to the mat with our local HS that featured an incompetent DEI English teacher (who taught exclusively Maya Angelou, and who had a life-size cardboard cutout of our dusky Lord and Master, and who produced laughably wrong vocabulary lists), but the lovely Mrs Guevara wouldn't have it, for fear of reprisals on our kids.

I reluctantly agreed, to keep the peace on the home front.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (YqDXo)

150 Yeah, I ionized her ass. Made it into a plasma.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
=====
You are my hero. You set your phasers to kill

Had a similar pleasant discussion with a business manager over some stupid people soft travel issue involving 15-20 dollars in amount.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (ctrM5)

151 A lefty acquaintance chose a minority dentist and got exactly what she deserved....but still didn't get the lesson.

Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:17 PM (v5PRz)

152 >> I reluctantly agreed, to keep the peace on the home front.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (YqDXo)

I believe that’s called wisely choosing your battles.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:18 PM (Jm2uO)

153 I like to think of it as a criminal to prison pipeline.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at April 25, 2025 03:11 PM (smB1O)
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It's the little malefactor to felon pipeline.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:19 PM (YqDXo)

154 Did anyone actually have the courage to raise his hand and say "ya know, maybe we should stop treating white people like lepers".
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (s8j++)

——-

Comments like that would cause the “common sense man makes boss angry and gets thrown out the window” meme.

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 25, 2025 03:19 PM (gsgWV)

155 More Chardonnay?
Posted by: Deplorable Minion

ITS FUNNY BECAUSE WINE MOMS SIT AROUND DURING THE DAY DRINKING CHARDONNAY, EATING BON-BONS AND BITCHING ABOUT THEIR HUSBANDS AND TRUMP

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBURGER at April 25, 2025 03:20 PM (v0R5T)

156 I believe that’s called wisely choosing your battles.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:18 PM (Jm2uO)
______________

Thank you. Part of me thought I was wussing out, but the other part thought the same thing.

Also, imagine if she were right, and our kids paid the price for me going to the mat. /shudder

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:20 PM (YqDXo)

157 I was gonna say it was early for scogg to be daydrinking but it is after 3 eastern time.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 03:20 PM (jc0TO)

158 Part of it is we have a weird connection since desegregation in that real estate prices are strongly correlated with the better schools. ...
...They rarely rock the boat.
...whig
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Actual good schools, the parents don't have to rock the boat to get administration's attention. They have the money, their word (a phone call) is a heavy hand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 03:21 PM (MJMyx)

159
I wanted to go to the mat with our local HS that featured an incompetent DEI English teacher (who taught exclusively Maya Angelou, and who had a life-size cardboard cutout of our dusky Lord and Master, and who produced laughably wrong vocabulary lists), but the lovely Mrs Guevara wouldn't have it, for fear of reprisals on our kids.

I reluctantly agreed, to keep the peace on the home front.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (YqDXo)

She was probably right. Your kids would have had targets on their backs for the entire remainder of their time at that high school, and there wouldn't have been a thing you could do about it.

Posted by: They'll hurt your kids to hurt you at April 25, 2025 03:21 PM (TbWk/)

160 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.

Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM (v5PRz)

161 >> Also, imagine if she were right, and our kids paid the price for me going to the mat. /shudder
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:20 PM (YqDXo)

I’ve often found that succeeding in the face of such obstacles is always very satisfying. More satisfying than going for the very tempting throat punch and the ephemeral pleasure that comes with it.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM (Jm2uO)

162 Thank you. Part of me thought I was wussing out, but the other part thought the same thing.

Should've listened to that first part.

You did wuss out. Cuck.

Posted by: It is What It Is at April 25, 2025 03:23 PM (RihOl)

163 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.
Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM

Did he still have the murder weapon when he was apprehended?

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 03:23 PM (jc0TO)

164 150 Yeah, I ionized her ass. Made it into a plasma.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
=====
You are my hero. You set your phasers to kill

Had a similar pleasant discussion with a business manager over some stupid people soft travel issue involving 15-20 dollars in amount.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (ctrM5)
______________

Yeah, I was pissed. I believe she's still in therapy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:23 PM (YqDXo)

165 I’ve often found that succeeding in the face of such obstacles is always very satisfying. More satisfying than going for the very tempting throat punch and the ephemeral pleasure that comes with it.
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Ahh, the getting ahead vs getting even dilemma.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 03:24 PM (pZ64F)

166 Princeton is pretty much in crisis right now; faculties are agitated, and funding is tight for the first time ever. This is a school so wealthy departments can have in-house yoga and massage for staff members, and "vacation" days are so flexible that staff really do not distinguish between work days and vacation days. So money troubles are unknown, until now. Princeton just told a big chunk of bonds to raise cash, with rumors being Eisgruber expects legal costs in fighting the Trump administration to be large. Princeton is as smug a socialist utopia as you could possibly find, so trouble is completely foreign.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:24 PM (YjkhO)

167 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM
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Well, if I die on a hill for you, how can I continue to fight for you?

- Useless Republicans everywhere

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 25, 2025 03:24 PM (V3F+L)

168 Actual good schools, the parents don't have to rock the boat to get administration's attention. They have the money, their word (a phone call) is a heavy hand.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 03:21 PM (MJMyx)

The flip side is that usually the richest two or three couples with kids at the school run the show. And this can and does fuck other people over at times.

Posted by: If you don't put Brayden back in class we pull our donations at April 25, 2025 03:24 PM (TbWk/)

169 So the radical plan that Trump came up with is to make higher education actually have to follow the law.

Brilliant.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2025 03:25 PM (e5NfL)

170 This is very relevant to me because our Faculty Senate was discussing some of these things yesterday at their meeting.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Faculty Senate is another way of saying "Parliament of Dunces".

Posted by: Undereducated, and Glad Of It at April 25, 2025 03:25 PM (G5+As)

171 She was probably right. Your kids would have had targets on their backs for the entire remainder of their time at that high school, and there wouldn't have been a thing you could do about it.

Posted by: They'll hurt your kids to hurt you at April 25, 2025 03:21 PM (TbWk/)
_______________

Yeah, that was the dispositive factor in my decision. Imagine watching your kids suffer for something YOU did, and that had no consequences for you, but only for them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:26 PM (YqDXo)

172 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.
Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM

One pleads not guilty to assure a matter goes to trial. Now, it does raise a question whether any plea agreement negotiations have taken place and what those looked like.

Posted by: Mario is ashamed at April 25, 2025 03:26 PM (TbWk/)

173 When you voluntarily sign up to fight Jew wars and kill people for money and then wind up getting killed, it's hard to feel bad for you.
Posted by: It is What It Is

These leftist professional trolls get training in how to imitate what they think a "right-winger" is like--but the curriculum is so out of date they end up imitating their own side, since it is now the Left -- not paleo-neo-Nazis -- who want to stop fighting "Jewish wars" (i..e Israel defending itself and US military strength).

Go toi the back of the class!

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 03:27 PM (pMi6S)

174 Christopher L. Eisgruber looks exactly like I thought he would look like. I bet he was shoved into a locker or two.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 25, 2025 03:28 PM (VofaG)

175 Faculty Senate is another way of saying "Parliament of Dunces".
Posted by: Undereducated, and Glad Of It at April 25, 2025 03:25 PM (G5+As)
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I'll say.

Posted by: John Kennedy Toole at April 25, 2025 03:28 PM (RIvkX)

176 I’ve often found that succeeding in the face of such obstacles is always very satisfying. More satisfying than going for the very tempting throat punch and the ephemeral pleasure that comes with it.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM (Jm2uO)
________________

Both kids received academic merit scholarships to college, so there's that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:29 PM (YqDXo)

177 Actual good schools, the parents don't have to rock the boat to get administration's attention. They have the money, their word (a phone call) is a heavy hand.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Large enough school district, they don't give a shit about individual parents. Actual knowledge on the ground. And that is despite the fact that much of the time it was a happy hunting ground for the GOP and had schools rated at the top of the state pecking order in academics for public schools.

Parents can and do help control smaller districts and I have seen mixed results in medium sized from my observed experience.

But, where I live has a lot of corporate transients that come to a place, live a few years, watch their property values increase and then they are gone to another suburbia school district. Transients rarely get involved in school district politics because a) no time to do it due to transit and business demands, and b) they figure they will move on in a few years to somewhere else.

See the same dynamic in local politics as well which has a negative effect on corralling county and city commissions as well.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

178 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.
Posted by: Vivi
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Wasn't me!

Posted by: Luigi at April 25, 2025 03:29 PM (5hfjS)

179 163. Yes he had the gun and a DIY silencer among other bits of evidence. Send him to the Supermax in Colorado.

Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:30 PM (v5PRz)

180
Princeton just told a big chunk of bonds to raise cash

I tell my bonds to grow, man grow!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 03:30 PM (63Dwl)

181 Much of it was created by Nixon and LBJ in part to prevent a return of the disastrous riots gutting a lot of American cities in the late 60's. So the idea was pay a Danegeld in order to prevent minority black leaders from going full on Commie insurgency.

Give them a stake in society sort of thing. But once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane peaceably.

Posted by: whig

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This is all very true, but when do we wake up and understand that they do not want a stake in society, they want payback for fever dreams of an imagined world where they were kings and invented everything and built the country. Also for being the only race that was enslaved ever.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (Zhfc2)

182 Cornell, on the other hand, has never been particularly wealthy. But has raised a lot of money in recent years somehow, and recently we found out that a lot of that money came from the federal government. It's President, Mike Kotlikoff, is a dedicated DEI supporter, anti-conservative, anti-free speech, pro-antisemitic faculty, and as sneaky as all get out. The board is exactly the same way, dominated by a board chair as slimy as you can imagine.

Cornell is trying to hide, and let Harvard, Yale, and Princeton take the heat. I pray Trump can spare a few minutes for Cornell.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (tNwfv)

183 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.

Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM (v5PRz)

Did you honestly expect him not to want the longest possible trial? Clearly the guy wants to inflate his ego by keeping his name in the headlines and take advantage of the opportunity to enshrine himself as a martyr for the left.

Posted by: Sjg at April 25, 2025 03:32 PM (aqZN1)

184 Princeton just told a big chunk of bonds to raise cash

I tell my bonds to grow, man grow!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 03:30 PM (63Dwl)
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"sold"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:32 PM (tNwfv)

185 NOOD NYT

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 03:32 PM (VNX3d)

186 175 Faculty Senate is another way of saying "Parliament of Dunces".
Posted by: Undereducated, and Glad Of It
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It is actually clever, the administration largely ignores the faculty senate until they throw a temper tantrum, then they get talked down by some senior member aka provost, VP etc.
Administration also uses the Faculty Senate to address trial balloons for new policies and such which results in make work for everyone--surveys, focus groups, time in dept. meetings to go over line by line some statement or new policy.

I stayed out of that Faculty Senate gig preferring to work with student groups over a talk fest with no power. Bad enough to serve on tenure and promotions committee or hiring committees which I did frequently.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (ctrM5)

187 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.

Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM

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He'll claim self-defense and the NYC jury will acquit as well as recommend that he be awarded $100 billion for false arrest, pain, and suffering in a civil trial -- as well as be paid seven figures for an anchor job at MSLSD.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (6O/Zk)

188 167 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM
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Well, if I die on a hill for you, how can I continue to fight for you?

- Useless Republicans everywhere

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 25, 2025 03:24 PM (V3F+L)

As Patton said:

“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (wtvvX)

189 Christopher L. Eisgruber looks exactly like I thought he would look like. I bet he was shoved into a locker or two.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
......

and his wife Lori Martin looks like she beats him.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (v0R5T)

190 Senator Elissa Slotkin, the former CIA analyst turned battleground senator, says Democrats need to adopt “the g*ddamn Alpha energy”.

Here I am, Elissa. Follow me!

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at April 25, 2025 03:34 PM (0sNs1)

191 189 Christopher L. Eisgruber looks exactly like I thought he would look like. I bet he was shoved into a locker or two.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
......

and his wife Lori Martin looks like she beats him.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (v0R5T)

Ivy kink, man.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 03:35 PM (wtvvX)

192 If Scogg never existed some of you would have to invent him.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 03:36 PM (FlZMV)

193 Asians have it even worse.

Posted by: Sjg

I was friends with Vietnamese girl who was a Berkeley double major who fully supported affirmative action. She argued that without it, the school would be all Asian. (liker her!)

So you see, once someone makes it, they want everyone else on the ladder to be incompetent and unqualified and AA is the best way to ensure that.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 03:37 PM (Zhfc2)

194 But once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane peaceably.

Send the Dane to Ben Had's kitchen table, and geld the Dane.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 03:37 PM (0sNs1)

195 This is all very true, but when do we wake up and understand that they do not want a stake in society, they want payback for fever dreams of an imagined world where they were kings and invented everything and built the country. Also for being the only race that was enslaved ever.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (Zhfc2)
_________________

I believe the phrase is "We wuz kangs!" So ... everybody was king? Then nobody was king, dumb asses.

Regarding invention, how come the invention well has dried up so dramatically since *cough* when they invented everything?

And as for "building the country," how come they didn't build squat in Africa? Only two possibilities: 1) they needed the honkies to organize them and force them to build, and 2) the claim is bullshit.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:38 PM (YqDXo)

196 This is all very true, but when do we wake up and understand that they do not want a stake in society, they want payback for fever dreams of an imagined world where they were kings and invented everything and built the country. Also for being the only race that was enslaved ever.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Grievances rarely get resolved especially when you keep poking at the wound--see Euroland for example. But, one of the major factors hurting the black community is family breakdown. Blacks, before desegregation had about the same level of marriage and marriage length by statistics.

The center of the black community was black owned businessmen, lawyers, doctors, teachers, and civil servant workers like postmen. So they were the standard to be measured by in that community and the youths in that community had to play by the rules by and large.

No marriage with kids is a recipe for trouble with kids.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:38 PM (ctrM5)

197 and his wife Lori Martin looks like she beats him.
Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM

Perhaps more of a pegger than a beater?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 03:38 PM (0sNs1)

198
and his wife Lori Martin looks like she beats him.
Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (v0R5T)
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she's a tough cookie.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:39 PM (tNwfv)

199 190 Senator Elissa Slotkin, the former CIA analyst turned battleground senator, says Democrats need to adopt “the g*ddamn Alpha energy”.

Here I am, Elissa. Follow me!
Posted by: David Hogg

The Macron syndrome. Older mommy and fey kid married.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:40 PM (ctrM5)

200 I stayed out of that Faculty Senate gig preferring to work with student groups over a talk fest with no power. Bad enough to serve on tenure and promotions committee or hiring committees which I did frequently.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (ctrM5)
________________

Faculty Senate is the superannuated version of Student Council in HS, and equally powerless. A time filler for humanities types.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:40 PM (YqDXo)

201 Send the Dane to Ben Had's kitchen table, and geld the Dane.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Gelded Dane sounds like a rock group.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:41 PM (ctrM5)

202 Faculty Senate is the superannuated version of Student Council in HS, and equally powerless. A time filler for humanities types.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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No objection from me. I found college level and university level committees dreadfully boring but yet required for 'service'.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:43 PM (ctrM5)

203 How Trump has time in his day to fix every evil is a complete mystery to me. God bless the man.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:43 PM (tNwfv)

204 Look Fat, I was too young for Vietnam and too old for the Gulf War. The wife and I both tried to get into the fight after 9/11.
Disparaginging any war fighter that in essence was defending your ability to run your mouth is beyond the pale.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 03:46 PM (09exb)

205 No objection from me. I found college level and university level committees dreadfully boring but yet required for 'service'.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:43 PM (ctrM5)
_______________

Sometime I'll have to tell the story of my time on the Research and Senior Awards committee. You'll like this story.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:48 PM (YqDXo)

206 I was friends with Vietnamese girl who was a Berkeley double major who fully supported affirmative action. She argued that without it, the school would be all Asian. (liker her!)

So you see, once someone makes it, they want everyone else on the ladder to be incompetent and unqualified and AA is the best way to ensure that.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 03:37 PM (Zhfc2)

The UCs became plurality asian precisely because California banned affirmative action. STEM courses were even more lopsided in my experience, probably forming a majority.

Posted by: Sjg at April 25, 2025 03:51 PM (aqZN1)

207 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

The ones who get the cushy admin jobs, yes. Students, no.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 03:58 PM (n7h9X)

208 eform is going to have to occur at the state level. Federales only account for about 10 percent or so of school funding and even that will decline if Trump wins his budget fights.

Constitutionally, education falls under the police powers reserved to the states under the 10th. As long as they do not discriminate (which the federales can punish), then fed power is limited to carrot and stick in certain areas like disabled or Title I students. Plus school lunch money.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:38 PM (ctrM5)

I don't think that 10 percent number is right. When I was at uni, all of the grants in the department that I ever heard of were Federal. Maybe grants for construction and operating were state, but at a premium stem university Federal Grants were vital.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 04:01 PM (n7h9X)

209 Cornell is trying to hide, and let Harvard, Yale, and Princeton take the heat. I pray Trump can spare a few minutes for Cornell.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (tNwfv)

The smart way to do that is to give in. There may be ways to slow roll the reforms required, but if Cornell is clever they may be able to make friends by publicly giving in.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 04:06 PM (n7h9X)

210 "Is you is, or is you ain't, my constituency?"

Posted by: Homer Stokes at April 25, 2025 04:06 PM (LPS7w)

211 Did you honestly expect him not to want the longest possible trial? Clearly the guy wants to inflate his ego by keeping his name in the headlines and take advantage of the opportunity to enshrine himself as a martyr for the left.
Posted by: Sjg at April 25, 2025 03:32 PM (aqZN1)

best way to quash that is to change venue and no cameras. Dude's a terrorist, he doesn't deserve a platform.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 04:08 PM (n7h9X)

212 Hated these institutions back when they went anti American. Glad they finally went anti Israel so Americans would act. If only Americans cared as much for America as they do Israel. Imagine that.

Posted by: Goucho180 at April 26, 2025 12:52 AM (xOo4o)

213 "creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen."

Madison and Jefferson suffered from similar delusions.

Me? I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.

Posted by: Fen at April 26, 2025 04:16 AM (OdLc2)

Trump Just Wants to Sell Some Sweet Merch and the Left Is Freaking Out for Some Reason

Sometimes you want to sell a hat with your name on it, followed by some random numbers.

What's the big deal?

The Gulf of America hat must be what's bugging them.

Is there anything to this apart from trolling? Steve Bannon keeps talking up running Trump a third time, but that's just silly unless there's a constitutional amendment.

When a president is a lame-duck, after the mid-term elections of his second term, he loses most of his political power, because members of his own party don't feel threatened by him any longer. Trump's power over his base will blunt that effect, but he will definitely lose some of his power to bully the RINOs and GOPers after November 2026.

Who knows, maybe Trump wants the idea out there that he's going to be president through 2032 just to keep the RINOs on-side.

President Trump Trolls The Media Unveiling New Trump 2028 Artwork On Display Inside the White House As Well As Officially Launching Trump 2028 Merch including the Iconic Trump Hat In The Official Trump Store. pic.twitter.com/ffq1tZdS0O
— Project Constitution (@ProjectConstitu) April 25, 2025

Eric Trump rocking the new merch from the official Trump store.

Liberal heads are exploding everywhere pic.twitter.com/EOKWAcjqet
— TaraBull (@TaraBull80 April 24, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 01:12 PM

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1 Expensive hats.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 01:12 PM (63Dwl)

2 The left freak out. It's their thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:12 PM (ExV1e)

3 I let 'em know.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:12 PM (ExV1e)

4 Dems are just mad Obama didn't try to run for a third term.

Posted by: Adam Schiff at April 25, 2025 01:13 PM (LPS7w)

5 /sockoff

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 25, 2025 01:13 PM (LPS7w)

6 REEEEE

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 25, 2025 01:13 PM (a2Pv6)

7 During his ill-fated visit to TX, well-wishers and fans of Mr. Kennedy had “Kennedy in ‘68” signs.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2025 01:13 PM (8jn+t)

8 I think Trump would go for it if he were even 5 years younger

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 25, 2025 01:15 PM (a2Pv6)

9 2 The left freak out. It's their thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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I think constant fear/flight triggering of the amygdala produces crackpots unable to distinguish between real and fake threats.

The overproduction of cortisol will make them fatter, weaker, and less able to handle life much either.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:15 PM (ctrM5)

10 most of doesn't want him to run a 4th time....and the whole consistutional thing...but man, JUST to see libs cry to the point of dehydration...would be pretty awesome eh?

Posted by: zigggggy at April 25, 2025 01:15 PM (K5Rdg)

11 I've seen Gulf of Mexico t-shirts for sale.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 01:15 PM (RIvkX)

12 FIFTY BUCKS?
What is this, Oracle Park?

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 01:15 PM (v0R5T)

13 If the $50 went to a judge impeachment fund I'd buy some hats.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at April 25, 2025 01:16 PM (q58Qn)

14
Uh oh. Another sex strike on the way.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 01:16 PM (dyAmm)

15 @Well they ARE saying "we are now in a dictatorship" so, when in Rome.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 25, 2025 01:16 PM (LPS7w)

16 Also a belated REE to the last thread - how dare filthee Kash dare arrest an untouchable judge!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 25, 2025 01:16 PM (a2Pv6)

17 I meant to @10

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 25, 2025 01:17 PM (LPS7w)

18 This country ignores nearly every part of the Constitution, so why not? I’ll take the 22nd Amendment seriously when the government takes the 2nd Amendment seriously.

Until then the 22nd is just a piece of paper that has no relevance to our modern times.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:17 PM (/dDa4)

19 Takes the heat off of Vance etc.

As they say, hung for a sheep as a lamb. May as well just lean into it and create your own narrative than let them write it for you.

Also stops the "lame duck" talk the media will deploy in about three months to try and defuse the rest of the presidency.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:17 PM (bXihk)

20 Dictators don't leave office willingly.

Posted by: Sid at April 25, 2025 01:17 PM (VrwQa)

21
TRUMP 2028
......

Barron is running? Cool.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

22 Could be Eric Trump in 2028, then Barron.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2025 01:17 PM (qpW94)

23 Can you say.... Stray Voltage? nice try.... I knew you could...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 01:18 PM (QAkQ3)

24 Never going to happen but that is not reason to not torment the left anyway.

Posted by: Ripley at April 25, 2025 01:18 PM (GUOwU)

25 LOL fuck you troll

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 01:18 PM (YwEeS)

26 *hands Sid the smelly salts*

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 25, 2025 01:18 PM (a2Pv6)

27 After 26, all energy and focus needs to be on Vance... this includes Trump's energy and focus, if ... this is not just a 4 year hiatus. We either have a populist revolution, or not.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 01:18 PM (PCK5/)

28 The idea of Trump 2028 is just transitory.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:18 PM (bXihk)

29 Sid, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 01:18 PM (2UnvF)

30 18 This country ignores nearly every part of the Constitution, so why not? I’ll take the 22nd Amendment seriously when the government takes the 2nd Amendment seriously.

Until then the 22nd is just a piece of paper that has no relevance to our modern times.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:17 PM (/dDa4)

----
Not to mention it was written by white dudes who aren't on social media!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 25, 2025 01:18 PM (LPS7w)

31
The overproduction of cortisol will make them fatter, weaker, and less able to handle life much either.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:15 PM (ctrM5)

_________

Looks like cortisol is the New Big Thing among AWFLs. Something no one heard of two years ago is now the root of every disorder.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 01:19 PM (dyAmm)

32 Greatest troll ever.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 25, 2025 01:19 PM (ckQml)

33 8 I think Trump would go for it if he were even 5 years younger
Posted by: vmom

One of the reasons that people like Franco or Pinochet end up becoming despots is because a) there is no one to succeed them and b) the left will never quit trying to kill, impoverish, or harass them in the future.

Everyone saw what the Left tried to do with Trump after 2020 and they are running the same playbook right now with Bolsanaro. Assasins and lawfare.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:19 PM (ctrM5)

34 Alors, il commence.

Posted by: Ce gars qui pense toujours que ça commence at April 25, 2025 01:19 PM (6YdsJ)

35 most of doesn't want him to run a 4th time....and the whole consistutional thing...but man, JUST to see libs cry to the point of dehydration...would be pretty awesome eh?
Posted by: zigggggy at April 25, 2025 01:15 PM (K5Rdg)

I'd love to have another Trump term after this but... I think the strain is finally catching up to him. His hair is turning white and he looks tired. He's still all there mentally but I don't think he's got enough in the tank to do eight more years of this.

Gather a team of real ballbreakers, train up Vance to be a slightly less deal oriented and significantly more pissed off version of Trump, and fuck shit up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:19 PM (ExV1e)

36 Yes. Avoiding lame duck status has obviously been the rationale from day 1. Been saying it since then. Or at least 99%. 1% is just trolling the libs into making fools of themselves. But honestly that’s just a nice by-product, not the primary reason.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at April 25, 2025 01:20 PM (8iNlE)

37 "Dictators don't leave office willingly.

Posted by: Sid"

Sometimes they are forced to resign by their handlers.

Posted by: Ripley at April 25, 2025 01:20 PM (GUOwU)

38 Another sex strike on the way.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 01:16 PM (dyAmm)

I'm married.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:20 PM (ExV1e)

39 Hello, everyone. This will be my last day before a one week vacation. I hope you're all in as good a mood as I am but I don't see how that would be possible.
--

Ace going to the Vatican to join the Conclave and be acclaimed Pope Ewok.

Hordemus Papa!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 25, 2025 01:20 PM (a2Pv6)

40 Looks like cortisol is the New Big Thing among AWFLs. Something no one heard of two years ago is now the root of every disorder.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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I had to learn about it from my dog that had Cushings. Unfortunately, it was the pituitary gland type but we kept her alive for 4 years after diagnosis through different treatment regimens.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:20 PM (ctrM5)

41 Takes the heat off of Vance etc.

As they say, hung for a sheep as a lamb. May as well just lean into it and create your own narrative than let them write it for you.

Also stops the "lame duck" talk the media will deploy in about three months to try and defuse the rest of the presidency.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:17 PM (bXihk)

"and when you vote for my candidate, you are voting for me, you bought the merch, and very nice merch indeed, highest quality and American sourced, you vote for me, and he is a very good quality American patriot also , , , "

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 01:21 PM (D7oie)

42 Posted by: Sid at April 25, 2025 01:17 PM (VrwQa)

They also don't obey judicial rulings, jackass.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:21 PM (ExV1e)

43 TPTB have said we should not quote trolls.. was that memo not circulated?

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 01:21 PM (PCK5/)

44 @38 oh so, basically another day ending in "y".

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 25, 2025 01:21 PM (LPS7w)

45 Definitely misdirection. His son highlighting the concept is structured and timed. Plus, look at Eric's expression. He knows very well that it's a taunt. Something bigger is about to drop.

The other factor is that anyone wearing that hat is going to feel the BACKLASH. And, the left will embarrass themselves continuously with their usual infantile behavior. That just adds to their reputation, and does them no favors.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 01:21 PM (dIske)

46 Another sex strike on the way.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I'm married.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
......

So we'll have to join you in celibacy?

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 01:21 PM (v0R5T)

47 South Park predicted it

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 01:22 PM (dCxaZ)

48
I had to learn about it from my dog that had Cushings.

_________

Cushings killed our poor Dutch (the Beeg Boy).

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 01:22 PM (dyAmm)

49 Hello, everyone. This will be my last day before a one week vacation. I hope you're all in as good a mood as I am but I don't see how that would be possible.

--

Ace found a new Ewokette and she does butt stuff.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 25, 2025 01:23 PM (B9Prs)

50 All "celibacy" means is "unmarried.". Chastity is a whole other thing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 01:23 PM (6YdsJ)

51 I want one, just to see Leftists freak out

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 01:23 PM (ypFCm)

52 Well, let me ask the horde hivemind this -- when multiple states and private individuals sued to see Obama's birth certificate -- arguing that he was not a natural born citizen -- the courts said that no one had standing and/or that it was a political question to be solved politically and it would be inappropriate for the Court to get involved.

So how would Trump running for a third term be any different?

Sounds like there should be some caselaw floating around out there saying as much.

(I kid, I kid, I know there are two sets of rules)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 01:24 PM (uCjyK)

53 I did not kill anyone's dog.

Posted by: Peter Cushing at April 25, 2025 01:24 PM (2UnvF)

54 16 Also a belated REE to the last thread - how dare filthee Kash dare arrest an untouchable judge!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 25, 2025 01:16 PM (a2Pv6)

I'm glad to see your REEE is still in fine form, vmom

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 01:24 PM (dCxaZ)

55 Another sex strike on the way.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 01:16 PM (dyAmm)

You've seen their "women," right?

Nice hash, BTW.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2025 01:24 PM (i24o9)

56 The troll level here is JK Rowling written a cigar.

Posted by: Rando Calrissian at April 25, 2025 01:24 PM (uTp11)

57 Cushings killed our poor Dutch (the Beeg Boy).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Doggeh just had his annual and he has whipworm and low thyroid.
Vet rx panacur but nothing for the thyroid except a follow up blood test

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 25, 2025 01:24 PM (a2Pv6)

58 My take:

Trump would never run for a third term if it's illegal or unconstitutional.

Trump would definitely thoroughly check for any possible loopholes that would allow him to run again.

He's indomitable!

Posted by: Emmie at April 25, 2025 01:24 PM (NIkq3)

59 Has the MSM declared this a constitutional crisis yet?

Posted by: Ripley at April 25, 2025 01:25 PM (GUOwU)

60 It does say only TRUMP, Eric and Donald Jr would both be eligible. But I suspect it is trolling. Possibly wants the FNM to vigorously renounce a 3rd term regardless of sequential order lest they be thinking they can bring Barky back.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 25, 2025 01:25 PM (bP/i4)

61 Cushings killed our poor Dutch (the Beeg Boy).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Sorry, it is often rougher on bigger dogs than it is for medium and smaller dogs.

Ironically, the newer treatment protocols for Cushings were developed by a vet professor and our niece is now studying under him. Graduates vet school in about one more year.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:26 PM (ctrM5)

62 St. Malachi predicted the new pope coming up will be the last one, and that a nation called Amerigo or something like that would elect a president from a city named Queen and he would also be the last president of that empire.

yeah no, just trolling

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 01:26 PM (dCxaZ)

63 Ok, merch, cool cool.

But why has Congress taken more VACATION DAYS than work days since Trump has been in office? And now even Ace is taking a vacation. Something is fishy.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 01:26 PM (Dv3i1)

64 Another sex strike on the way.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 01:16 PM (dyAmm)

I'm married.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:20 PM (ExV1e)

Marriage is the French government employee union of sex strikes.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:26 PM (/dDa4)

65 There's a lot of Trumps.

I'm not sayin I'm just sayin.

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 01:28 PM (0HaGk)

66 One of the reasons that people like Franco or Pinochet end up becoming despots is because a) there is no one to succeed them and b) the left will never quit trying to kill, impoverish, or harass them in the future.

Everyone saw what the Left tried to do with Trump after 2020 and they are running the same playbook right now with Bolsanaro. Assasins and lawfare.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:19 PM (ctrM5)

Agreed, and this goes to the point I've been inarticulately trying to make for weeks -- our CIA / Pentagon (and the USSR, of course), created most of the horrible political situations in the 20th century.

Or at least had a very heavy hand in steering them.

Left wing governments had to crack down on dissidents because the CIA was creating, bribing, and arming those dissidents.

"Right wing governments" sometimes got CIA help, sometimes got USSR help, sometimes had both countries funding their preferred candidate. (right wing of course being the broad "anything the left doesnt like at the moment" term, not how we use it in the US political system).

This instability and assassinations and bribery and tomfoolery obviously led to a lot of bloodshed all over the world.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 01:28 PM (uCjyK)

67 If the 3rd term stuff is just to troll the Left, fine. I do think though there's some percent of him that genuinely wants to try it.

I hope for JD Vances sake, he doesn't keep talking about it. It hurts JD Vance when he talks about some sort of deal being struck where he wins and then resigns.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 01:28 PM (4pwAx)

68 It's just a hat.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2025 01:28 PM (rj6Yv)

69 Sid baby, Hitler voluntarily removed himself from office. He voluntarily blew his brains out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 01:29 PM (6TePA)

70 There's a lot of Trumps.
---------
Good bridge hand, then.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 01:29 PM (6YdsJ)

71 Looks like cortisol is the New Big Thing among AWFLs. Something no one heard of two years ago is now the root of every disorder.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 01:19 PM (dyAmm)

As Whig pointed out, cortisol farming is a big thing on the left. They are constantly cultivating things to be freaked out about.

Posted by: Emmie at April 25, 2025 01:29 PM (NIkq3)

72 Bannon must have a cut of the merch sales.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 25, 2025 01:29 PM (TJLr1)

73 Another sex strike on the way.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I'm married.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

So just another day that ends in "y" for you then.

Posted by: My sympathies at April 25, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)

74 But why has Congress taken more VACATION DAYS than work days since Trump has been in office? And now even Ace is taking a vacation. Something is fishy.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Leaders of the House and Senate GOP are trying to hammer out legislation before taking it to the floor regarding the reconciliation bill on taxes plus spending bills now that the budget framework has been approved. There is also a debt limit that has to be raised in June or thereabouts.

But DOGE has led through contract cancellations/pauses resulting in a much smaller deficit in March this year than previous years during Biden.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:29 PM (ctrM5)

75 68 It's just a hat.
Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2025 01:28 PM (rj6Yv)

Not just any hat, a $50 hat!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 25, 2025 01:30 PM (TJLr1)

76 20: you are right. Which is why Trump is a piss poor dictator. You own yourself. Congrats.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2025 01:30 PM (iodam)

77 "The Joylessness of Sex"... new book title

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 01:30 PM (PCK5/)

78 >>>50 All "celibacy" means is "unmarried.". Chastity is a whole other thing.

interesting. In french, single people are called "celebrataires." Now I understand why.

BTW, I was thinking that maybe the word "nubile" -- which actually means "eligible for marriage" -- is a shortening of nuptible, or ready for nuptials.

Lemme look that up.

answer: no

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=nubile

but nubile is related directly to nuptials.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2025 01:30 PM (KRtlO)

79 Congress has been on vacation? That should be a lot of recesses for Trump to do stuff then. Especially with (R) control. This is great news!!

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:31 PM (bXihk)

80 synthetic thyroid is cheap. Had a dog on it, and also a horse that had low thyroid from Cushings. My horse vet felt that just treating the low thyroid from Cushing's was the way to go. I guess one can get $$ drugs that are supposed to do more to fight Cushing's.

Coritsol is a hot thing again? Seems like I recall it was the boogeyman that makes you gain or retain weight 10-15 years ago.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 25, 2025 01:31 PM (bP/i4)

81 Lefties: We will overcome!

Cons: Check out this hat.

Lefties: I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU! I'LL DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU HOLD DEAR!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2025 01:31 PM (KbCG3)

82 @4

>>Dems are just mad Obama didn't try to run for a third term.

In the most technical of senses, The SCOMF had at least 3.5 terms.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2025 01:32 PM (XV/Pl)

83 As Whig pointed out, cortisol farming is a big thing on the left. They are constantly cultivating things to be freaked out about.
Posted by: Emmie

Fearful people are easier to manipulate by societal leaders is why.

People in flight or fight situations often do individually inexplicable things when they panic from being triggered but it is far easier to herd them en masse.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:32 PM (ctrM5)

84 "Nubile" comes from the Arabic, meaning "under 12"

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:32 PM (bXihk)

85 $25 I'm buying one. Overpriced but worth it to me. At $50 no thank you. Funny as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Francis at April 25, 2025 01:32 PM (bbuBP)

86 59 Has the MSM declared this a constitutional crisis yet?
Posted by: Ripley at April 25, 2025 01:25 PM (GUOwU)

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By now I'm sure the Tiktokians have declared it so.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 25, 2025 01:33 PM (LPS7w)

87 Fearful people are easier to manipulate by societal leaders is why.

Ding ding ding ding

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:34 PM (ExV1e)

88 As Whig pointed out, cortisol farming is a big thing on the left. They are constantly cultivating things to be freaked out about.
Posted by: Emmie

You may recall when Obama was president and antagonizing us every single day the media made fun of us for our "outrage culture". Don't hear much about that these days, or really since the beginning of 2017.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:34 PM (bXihk)

89 Has the MSM declared this a constitutional crisis yet?
Posted by: Ripley
------------------

This is a constitutional crisis!

Posted by: MSM at April 25, 2025 01:34 PM (5hfjS)

90 >>>People in flight or fight situations often do individually inexplicable things when they panic from being triggered but it is far easier to herd them en masse.

I mentioned that when I was in high school, I and about five friends were walking across a deserted parking lot, and suddenly someone started running full-tilt and then we all did.

We never figured out what caused the panic.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2025 01:34 PM (KRtlO)

91 Can Elon reissue the Not A Flame Thrower Flame Thrower? Cuz, I really want a Flame Thrower.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 01:34 PM (pZ64F)

92 Trump and the Bee are competing to see who gets the most lefty outrage.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 01:34 PM (9DasI)

93 As Whig pointed out, cortisol farming is a big thing on the left. They are constantly cultivating things to be freaked out about.
Posted by: Emmie

It's the "new thing" and they are all about it

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2025 01:34 PM (NtVYv)

94 Apple is reportedly moving all Iphone production for the US market from China to India.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 25, 2025 01:35 PM (paSBy)

95 neurotic lefties are actually addicted to cortisol/panic like it's a drug. They've downregulated their panic response and they like it. They don't feel normal without it.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2025 01:35 PM (KRtlO)

96 Had a dog on it, and also a horse that had low thyroid from Cushings.
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Low production of cortisol is Addison's. Addison's is what JFK had that nearly killed him before he was prezzie and also is easier to treat nowadays.

Cushings results in too much cortisol provoking overeating, being thirsty, hypertension, and various other bad things for your system.

It is a real thing as my poor dog exhibited and it has very bad side effects on humans and dogs. Some dog breeds are prone to it as well.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:35 PM (ctrM5)

97 https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=nubile

but nubile is related directly to nuptials.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2025 01:30 PM (KRtlO)
===============
I was hoping for pictures. I'm a visual learner.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 01:36 PM (9DasI)

98 I would be fun to buy one of each, just to watch people's reactions 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 25, 2025 01:37 PM (kxDPO)

99 Festive little hats!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 25, 2025 01:37 PM (jKGjc)

100 94 Apple is reportedly moving all Iphone production for the US market from China to India.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 25, 2025 01:35 PM (paSBy)
_____

Did Apple have the factory in China where they had to install nets around the building because the employees were jumping out of the windows?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 01:37 PM (Dv3i1)

101 When the Left is in power the media takes it upon themselves to upset us every day intentionally with lies.

When the Right is in power the media takes it upon themselves to upset their own people every day intentionally with lies.

Some people think they do this for "clicks" but no unfortunately it's far more sinister.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:37 PM (bXihk)

102 Thanks Whig for the education on Cushing's.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 25, 2025 01:38 PM (bP/i4)

103 Apple is reportedly moving all Iphone production for the US market from China to India.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis

==

A positive step.

Should have happened 4 years ago, writing was on the wall. A communist dictatorship releases a pandemic in your bioweapons lab, expect some blowback from the rest of the world about sending trillions over there.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 01:38 PM (4pwAx)

104 100 94 Apple is reportedly moving all Iphone production for the US market from China to India.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 25, 2025 01:35 PM (paSBy)
_____

Did Apple have the factory in China where they had to install nets around the building because the employees were jumping out of the windows?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 01:37 PM (Dv3i1)

IOr were they to keep the bats out???

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 01:38 PM (wtvvX)

105 Did Apple have the factory in China where they had to install nets around the building because the employees were jumping out of the windows?
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Apple supplier Foxcon, I believe.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 25, 2025 01:38 PM (paSBy)

106 neurotic lefties are actually addicted to cortisol/panic like it's a drug. They've downregulated their panic response and they like it. They don't feel normal without it.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2025 01:35 PM (KRtlO)

I think it's a conditioned reflex created by monsters to control the emotionally imbalanced.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2025 01:39 PM (rj6Yv)

107 Cortisol can be a problem in certain areas when the system is out of whack, but it sounds like they're extending it well beyond what's been medically established. Excess of cortisol and other stress hormones are, however, particularly bad for children, which can screw up proper development of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, and make them greatly more susceptible to things like depression and anxiety.

Posted by: Wonder what the Next Thing will be at April 25, 2025 01:39 PM (TbWk/)

108 I think Trump is semi-serious about 2028

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:39 PM (VE6XX)

109 It's a Living Document, yo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 01:39 PM (kBh81)

110 I mentioned that when I was in high school, I and about five friends were walking across a deserted parking lot, and suddenly someone started running full-tilt and then we all did.

We never figured out what caused the panic.
Posted by: ace
=====
Instinct can be a powerful thing and you and your buddies might just have avoided something nasty.

Vibes exist for an evolutionary reason.

But like most things, too much ain't good for you.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:39 PM (ctrM5)

111 I mean, it doesn't say *which* Trump...

Posted by: Ben Chaud at April 25, 2025 01:40 PM (FsfHx)

112 I have to admit, every time Trump trolls the leftards I get a really good laugh out of watching their tiny little brains explode.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 01:40 PM (wtvvX)

113 Speaking of 2028 . . .

POLITICO@politico
Exclusive: Pete Buttigieg won't run for Senate next year and has his eyes on a bigger prize: The White House.

Pete Buttigieg@PeteButtigieg
If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 01:41 PM (L/fGl)

114
Speaking of Pinochet: One thing that annoys me about the commies and authoritarians like Pinochet is that he was actually a lot more benign than his rep. Sure, he killed about 3-10k commies, but almost every one of them was during the coup that brought him to power or in the immediate aftermath.

For commie totalitarians, 10k dead in a moderately sized country like Chile is a slow weekend.

On the other hand, Pinochet had great military tailors and his helicopter tours showed that he had a sense of humor.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2025 01:41 PM (y9nCu)

115
Pete Buttigieg@PeteButtigieg
If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 01:41 PM (L/fGl)

BS Buttplug

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:41 PM (VE6XX)

116 94 Apple is reportedly moving all Iphone production for the US market from China to India.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist

= =

lulz. Not us. Homey don't play dat.

Posted by: Nike the Clown at April 25, 2025 01:42 PM (m0WlR)

117 On the other hand, Pinochet had great military tailors and his helicopter tours showed that he had a sense of humor.
--------------
He wore a Cape. Top Shelf that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 01:42 PM (pZ64F)

118 So there I was, about to attack this group of kids in a wide open parking lot when they just all started running. Weird.

Posted by: Dracula at April 25, 2025 01:42 PM (2UnvF)

119 If the 14th can be interpreted to grant birthright citizenship to children of illegal aliens, then the 22nd can be interpreted to give Trump another term.

Either the words of Amendments mean what they mean or they don't.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2025 01:42 PM (8THjb)

120 BS Buttplug
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:41 PM (VE6XX)

America's buttplug

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2025 01:42 PM (NtVYv)

121 BS Buttplug
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:41 PM (VE6XX)

America's buttplug
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2025 01:42 PM (NtVYv)

Oh wait, that's Mexico

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2025 01:43 PM (NtVYv)

122 The rumor is heard is that Ace got a free trip to El Salvador. He thinks he is going surfing....

Posted by: INS at April 25, 2025 01:43 PM (KZGYP)

123 Trump already won three times. He's trolling.

Posted by: DJ at April 25, 2025 01:43 PM (uosPt)

124 I do like the fact that the Gulf one is a puffy trucker hat

Posted by: Red Robin at April 25, 2025 01:44 PM (V5BFX)

125 Buttgiggle says he wants an efficient government but got eight charging stations despite $40+B in money . Riiight

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 01:44 PM (6TePA)

126 102 Thanks Whig for the education on Cushing's.
Posted by: PaleRider
======
We had to learn about it the hard way. As our dog's case (caused by an inoperable pituitary gland tumor) progressed. At first, diet, melatonin, and lignans from flaxseed oil helped. Then we had to get more drastic giving lysodren that actually attacks and destroys the outer layers of the adrenal gland itself. Constant blood testing was necessary to monitor as too much lysodren dosage kills the adrenal gland pushing the dog into Addison's. Old timey vets used to use lysodren to kill the adrenal gland because it was easier to treat by daily medicine for Addison's at the time than Cushings.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:44 PM (ctrM5)

127 I love Trump's ability to troll.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 01:44 PM (xcxpd)

128 Pete Buttigieg@PeteButtigieg
If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.
_____

Poor people = illegal aliens
Slashing support = no idea, probably simply just a lie

F.U. twerp.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 01:44 PM (Dv3i1)

129 All cattle and no hat.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 01:44 PM (63Dwl)

130 Pete Buttigieg@PeteButtigieg
If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 01:41 PM (L/fGl)

Aka the 2028 Nominee

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:44 PM (bXihk)

131 I wonder what PDT has planned after the midterms to keep the RINOs in line? Gotta be something.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 01:46 PM (W/lyH)

132
Aka the 2028 Nominee
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:44 PM (bXihk)

I don't see electing an effeminate LGBTQ? boy...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:46 PM (VE6XX)

133 I had a lefty history teacher in HS. I still remember him saying after Clinton was elected the FIRST time, that people would just love him so much that the two-term limit may just be thrown away.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2025 01:46 PM (etGhm)

134 If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at

Do you recognize the Obamaism here?

Hint: He tells you what we should not do, and makes absolutely no proposal for anything specific.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:46 PM (bXihk)

135 The “plan” is to have Trump run as Vice-President with Vance as Presidential candidate in 2028.

Then upon taking the oath of office Vance would immediately resign and Trump would immediately take the oath and become president.

First, that will never fly,

Two, what if Vance went along with it all and when the moment came he says “You know what? Nah. I changed my mind. Call me Mr. President, please, Donald.”

Trump is having fun with this.
As long as JD does his job and doesn’t have some kind of major scandal, he’s in the driver’s seat for nominee next time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 25, 2025 01:46 PM (6ydKt)

136 Pete Buttigieg@PeteButtigieg
If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
=====
More grift in running for prezzie and a good chance that Buttplug might be named as VP. Senate bid was probably looking iffy as carpetbaggers have a harder time winning a Senate seat than a House one. Too many pols in MI in front of Buttplug to withdraw for the newcomer.

If a closet pedo like Walz could be the VP nominee, then certainly an open Buttplug can charm America by lefty thinking.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:47 PM (ctrM5)

137 Maybe poor people can work to pay for their healthcare? Same as I’ve done since the age of 18?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:47 PM (/dDa4)

138

Cortisol is my favorite anal lube!

Or is that Canola oil? I forget.

Posted by: David Hogger at April 25, 2025 01:47 PM (6FYeO)

139 Pete Buttigieg@PeteButtigieg
If we’re serious...
_____

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE NO SERIOUS NATION WOULD CONSIDER MAYOR PETE FOR THE PRESIDENCY

Posted by: BEN ROTHLEISBURGERGER at April 25, 2025 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)

140 I'm married.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:20 PM (ExV1e)

So you’re being punished for shoplifting?

Posted by: Wayne Campbell at April 25, 2025 01:47 PM (gsgWV)

141 Clinton always just gave me that smarmy, shit talking pick up artist vibe.

Biden was always the used car salesman.

Obama was the gay, popular guy that never had an original thought.

Posted by: Red Robin at April 25, 2025 01:48 PM (V5BFX)

142
Buttbama to English:

"Some people want to make government more efficient by cutting healthcare. Others want to do it by slashing veterans. I say we instead make government more efficient by improving government."

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:50 PM (bXihk)

143 Aka the 2028 Nominee
Posted by: ...
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My guess is a female again at the top of the ticket with a pseudo female aka Buttplug as VP nominee to add gravitas.

Reason I think that, is First Female trumps First Gay! for Dem voters as their power structure is becoming female dominant.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:50 PM (ctrM5)

144 What we need is more efficient government-sponsored child sex trafficking.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at April 25, 2025 01:51 PM (etGhm)

145 My guess is a female again at the top of the ticket with a pseudo female aka Buttplug as VP nominee to add gravitas.

Astronaut Katy Perry. You heard it hear first.

Posted by: brak at April 25, 2025 01:51 PM (jGJov)

146 America's bidet.

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 01:51 PM (0HaGk)

147 Reason I think that, is First Female trumps First Gay! for Dem voters as their power structure is becoming female dominant.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:50 PM (ctrM5)

The Left are now fully convinced America is "misogynistic". Plus he is the Chosen One and they don't like veering from their Chosen One.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:51 PM (bXihk)

148 female dominant.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:50 PM (ctrM5)

Sorry I temporarily lost my concentration, what were we talking about

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:52 PM (bXihk)

149 Dr. Oz dropped a tweet a while ago claiming DOGE is finding more fraud and waster in Medicare and Medicaid that was found in USAID.

Mayor Buttplug probably should find a new woobie to whine over.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 01:52 PM (viF8m)

150 Astronaut Katy Perry. You heard it hear first.
Posted by: brak
=======
See the ads now, Vote for Perry, she is literally out of this world!.

Course the attack ads of her kicking out elderly nuns from their convent to turn it into something macabre might not help her.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:52 PM (ctrM5)

151 145 My guess is a female again at the top of the ticket with a pseudo female aka Buttplug as VP nominee to add gravitas.

Astronaut Katy Perry. You heard it hear first.
Posted by: brak at April 25, 2025 01:51 PM (jGJov)
____

My middle name is Gravitas

Posted by: Beyonce's Backside at April 25, 2025 01:53 PM (Dv3i1)

152 >>> My guess is a female again at the top of the ticket with a pseudo female aka Buttplug as VP nominee to add gravitas.

My guess is Wes Moore.

Posted by: DJ at April 25, 2025 01:53 PM (uosPt)

153 145 My guess is a female again at the top of the ticket with a pseudo female aka Buttplug as VP nominee to add gravitas.

Astronaut Katy Perry. You heard it hear first.
Posted by: brak at April 25, 2025 01:51 PM (jGJov)

Well, she went to a Campaign event, so that makes her Precedent.... right?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 01:53 PM (QAkQ3)

154 The Constitution Clearly states Presidents named Trump cannot engage in commerce while in office! I hereby order all items for sale by President Donald John Trump be seized by Federal Marshals wherever those items are stored: Warehouses, stores, Mar-a-lago, the White House, Camp David, as examples. Seized articles are ordered to be burned. I further order President Donald John Trump to pay a fine of 100 times the revenues collected from sales of the 'merchandise'. The fines money shall be deposited in Credit Suisse Account Number [REDACTED] and shall be disbursed by me, as I see fit.

So let it be written, so let it be done.

Posted by: A Federal Judge Whose Name is Secret at April 25, 2025 01:53 PM (aBgBM)

155
My guess is Wes Moore.
Posted by: DJ at April 25, 2025 01:53 PM (uosPt)

What is the fascination with this guy ? He hasn't done squat...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:54 PM (VE6XX)

156 One wonders if the idea is to prime the pump for ERIC to run in 2028...

Posted by: American Hawkman at April 25, 2025 01:54 PM (9VDxG)

157 What'sthebig deal?

Trump 100% guaranteed will be president in 2028, since the winner of the 2028 election doesn't get inagurated until Jan 20, 2029.

So,Trump 2028" is simply a staetment of uncontroversial fact.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 01:54 PM (pMi6S)

158 My guess is a female again at the top of the ticket with a pseudo female aka Buttplug as VP nominee to add gravitas.

Reason I think that, is First Female trumps First Gay! for Dem voters as their power structure is becoming female dominant.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:50 PM (ctrM5)

So AOC, Elizabeth Warren, or Gretchen Whitmer.
Kamala and Kloubachar will try, and fail like last time.

I’m sure I’m forgetting a few other possibilities.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 25, 2025 01:55 PM (6ydKt)

159 156 One wonders if the idea is to prime the pump for ERIC to run in 2028...

or Ivanka!

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 25, 2025 01:55 PM (Pv3Rg)

160 156 One wonders if the idea is to prime the pump for ERIC to run in 2028...
Posted by: American Hawkman at April 25, 2025 01:54 PM (9VDxG)

Hope not.. No Dynasties...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:55 PM (VE6XX)

161 What is the fascination with this guy ? He hasn't done squat...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:54 PM (VE6XX)

That's pretty much all of them.

Posted by: Red Robin at April 25, 2025 01:55 PM (V5BFX)

162 So WHICH Trump in 2028?

Libbies are so easy to troll.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 01:55 PM (ynpvh)

163 What if Don Jr. and / or Eric Trump are the Trumps running in 2028?

Posted by: Naqamel at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (PUJLA)

164 Trump is having fun with this.
As long as JD does his job and doesn’t have some kind of major scandal, he’s in the driver’s seat for nominee next time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 25, 2025 01:46 PM (6ydKt)

Yeah, there is NO WAY in the world Melania would go for a third Trump term.

The East Euro Hawt Death Stare, would be the end of him.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (QAkQ3)

165 Sorry I temporarily lost my concentration, what were we talking about
Posted by: ...
=======
You just thought those awful East of Eden pix that JJ uses were fiction. In truth, Big Mama as prezzie will be wearing leather, resemble Rosie O Donnell, and will use sitting on dissidents to smother them as a tactic.

That is what happens when cobs borrow the time machine. They encode warnings about the future in such a way that it does not create paradoxes.

How about that for a conspiracy theory! Ace and cobs are literally trying to save the world one moron at a time from an awful fate determined by the time machine.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (ctrM5)

166 So AOC, Elizabeth Warren, or Gretchen Whitmer.
Kamala and Kloubachar will try, and fail like last time.
___

AKA, a scold of Karens.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (Dv3i1)

167 "the newer treatment protocols for Cushings were developed by a vet professor and our niece is now studying under him. Graduates vet school in about one more year." Posted by: whig

used to be it was harder to get into vet school than med school. congrats for your niece.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (Cus5s)

168 Love the trolling.

It’s working.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (RfKjF)

169 >>What is the fascination with this guy ? He hasn't done squat...

Obama had done even less. Everyone knows why some are pushing another black guy.

Democrats have learned nothing. They are still a captive of identity politics.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (viF8m)

170 149 Dr. Oz dropped a tweet a while ago claiming DOGE is finding more fraud and waster in Medicare and Medicaid that was found in USAID.

Mayor Buttplug probably should find a new woobie to whine over.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 01:52 PM (viF8m)

I would hazard a guess that the biggest fraud in government is hidden in the programs that are least likely to be cut:

Social security, medicare / medicaid / VA hospitals, DoD and State.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there is a lot of fraud in corruption in Dept of Agriculture, etc. as well. But if I were trying to hide slush funds, I'd go to the political third rail parts of government to do so.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (uCjyK)

171 Wes Moore has military experience and is governor of Maryland. May not have done anything else, but that's a thicker resume than Barky

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (6TePA)

172 So WHICH Trump in 2028?

Libbies are so easy to troll.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 01:55 PM (ynpvh)

Maybe go Antonine dynasty and adopt Vance into his family.

Posted by: Red Robin at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (V5BFX)

173
Hope not.. No Dynasties...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:55 PM (VE6XX)

I agree - Bushies and Kennedys were enough

Vance or DeSantis are just fine

Posted by: Moki at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (wLjpr)

174 What I really want to see is a Trump 2028 codpiece.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 01:57 PM (pMi6S)

175 The East Euro Hawt Death Stare, would be the end of him.

Yes, but what a way to go.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 01:57 PM (s8j++)

176 What is the fascination with this guy ? He hasn't done squat...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:54 PM (VE6XX)

—

He’s like the sucky sequel to Obama, that nobody asked for.

Modern media has no clout left to pump Moore up like they did with O.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 25, 2025 01:57 PM (6ydKt)

177 @134

>>Do you recognize the Obamaism here?

It's the standard leftist trope of, improve government by adding more government.

Yeah, because this nation lacks are more layers of government to lavish taxpayer moola on.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2025 01:57 PM (XV/Pl)

178 I still LOL about the Holder-Weiner ticket...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 01:57 PM (ynpvh)

179 Meh. Of course it's just trolling. He's having some fun at their expense.

I think that what bothers them deep down is that they know if Trump were to actually kick in the door of this rotten structure and send it tumbling down, few people would care.

All his voters and most of theirs know this corrupt government and its cheesy republican trappings is nothing but a big ass scam.

Somebody is eventually going to say "no more, this ends with me." And it won't be Trump, but it will be soon, and this is a moment when the Party are wrong footed.

The formal end of representative government in the US was supposed to be executed by Democrats, and they are for the first time worried the prize may be snatched away.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 01:57 PM (BI5O2)

180 So now Dems are going to pretend to care about efficient govt.

You know who else had a very efficiently govt?

I don't want it more efficient. I want less of it. A lot less.

Posted by: Ripley at April 25, 2025 01:57 PM (GUOwU)

181 *So AOC, Elizabeth Warren, or Gretchen Whitmer.
Kamala and Kloubachar will try, and fail like last time.*

I can drink 'em all under the table.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at April 25, 2025 01:57 PM (vsUjd)

182 Maybe go Antonine dynasty and adopt Vance into his family.
Posted by: Red Robin
======
Handled a problem of succession by competent rulers and avoiding idiot offspring. Byzantines used the same off and on. Some of their better rulers came up that way.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:58 PM (ctrM5)

183 "Wes is Moore"
Wes Moore '28

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 01:58 PM (Dv3i1)

184 So WHICH Trump in 2028?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Melania-Upton 2028

Might as well go full supermodel.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 01:58 PM (pMi6S)

185 155
My guess is Wes Moore.
Posted by: DJ at April 25, 2025 01:53 PM (uosPt)

What is the fascination with this guy?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:54 PM (VE6XX)

Black, clean, well-spoken...and if he transitions to a lesbian female he will be an even more perfect Democrat POTUS candidate.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 01:59 PM (aBgBM)

186 Reason I think that, is First Female trumps First Gay! for Dem voters as their power structure is becoming female dominant.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:50 PM (ctrM5)

The Left are now fully convinced America is "misogynistic". Plus he is the Chosen One and they don't like veering from their Chosen One.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:51 PM (bXihk)

Which is interesting since our society is heavily gynocentric.

Posted by: Give them everything and they still complain at April 25, 2025 01:59 PM (TbWk/)

187 174 What I really want to see is a Trump 2028 codpiece.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 01:57 PM (pMi6S)

Much better than a Kumala merkin.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 01:59 PM (ynpvh)

188 The East Euro Hawt Death Stare, would be the end of him.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (QAkQ3)

I volunteer as tribute.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2025 01:59 PM (i24o9)

189 AOC in 2028. Tanned , rested and retarded

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 01:59 PM (6TePA)

190 So AOC, Elizabeth Warren, or Gretchen Whitmer.
Kamala and Kloubachar will try, and fail like last time.

I'm waiting for the usual "Hillary is running" crowd to start up again.

As for Lieawatha, she'd better start working on a better answer as to her lies about Biden's condition. I'd expect a Harvard law prof to be better prepared.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 01:59 PM (s8j++)

191 Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there is a lot of fraud in corruption in Dept of Agriculture, etc. as well. But if I were trying to hide slush funds, I'd go to the political third rail parts of government to do so.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (uCjyK)

Keep your hands off the USDA, punk.

Posted by: Corn King Chuck Grassley at April 25, 2025 01:59 PM (/dDa4)

192 I’m sure I’m forgetting a few other possibilities.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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I'm right here ya' know...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 25, 2025 01:59 PM (5hfjS)

193
My guess is Wes Moore.
Posted by: DJ

What is the fascination with this guy ? He hasn't done squat...
Posted by: It's me donna

No skeletons in the closet?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 01:59 PM (63Dwl)

194 @170

>>But if I were trying to hide slush funds, I'd go to the political third rail parts of government to do so.

At a bare minimum 1/4 to a 1/3 of government is pure waste fraud and abuse or put another way....

We're 36T in debt with nothing to show for it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2025 02:00 PM (XV/Pl)

195 184 So WHICH Trump in 2028?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Melania-Upton 2028

Might as well go full supermodel.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 01:58 PM (pMi6S)

So Boobs and Brains...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 02:00 PM (ynpvh)

196 Hope not.. No Dynasties...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:55 PM (VE6XX)

I agree - Bushies and Kennedys were enough

Vance or DeSantis are just fine
Posted by: Moki at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (wLjpr)

How would that work for DeSantis to be President if he manages to get his wife elected as Governor?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 02:00 PM (ExV1e)

197 178 I still LOL about the Holder-Weiner ticket...
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If it can't be the Buttegig-Weiner ticket, I'm partial to the Weiner-Holder ticket myself.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at April 25, 2025 02:00 PM (Dv3i1)

198 What is the fascination with this guy ? He hasn't done squat...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:54 PM (VE6XX)

—

He’s like the sucky sequel to Obama, that nobody asked for.

Modern media has no clout left to pump Moore up like they did with O.

The Dems already have a Temu Obama in Hakeem Jeffries. Say, you don't suppose they're thinking of a Moore/Jeffries ticket, do you?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:01 PM (s8j++)

199 171 Wes Moore has military experience and is governor of Maryland. May not have done anything else, but that's a thicker resume than Barky
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Maryland, like a lot of blue states and a few red ones is suffering from Covid funds withdrawal. That sugar high from Biden gave them time to fix finances or they could go YOLO with it and blow it all.

Moore, like others chose YOLO and now the massive budget crunches have returned in most blue states requiring tax hikes and cuts in government services and workers, in many cases to fund pensions instead of services.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:01 PM (ctrM5)

200 How would that work for DeSantis to be President if he manages to get his wife elected as Governor?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 02:00 PM (ExV1e)

Doubt she'll beat Donalds

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 02:01 PM (VE6XX)

201 Trump just caved again
Now restoring all classes of student visas
He is also caving on tariffs

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at April 25, 2025 02:01 PM (PgueZ)

202 Hell, l might write him in anyway.

Posted by: Case at April 25, 2025 02:01 PM (OrSPY)

203 Is there anything to this apart from trolling? Steve Bannon keeps talking up running Trump a third time, but that's just silly unless there's a constitutional amendment.

I keep telling all my liberal coworkers that if there is a national emergency, like a war or civil unrest, that the President can stay in as long as he needs to for the safety of the country.

I tell them that is how FDR stayed in so long.

Is it true? No. But if it makes them a little more upset, it's worth a few seconds of dealing with them.

Posted by: Deuce is Loose at April 25, 2025 02:01 PM (RihOl)

204 Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (ctrM5)

I see your East of Eden and raise you Police Karen Gillan because I'm a nice guy and want to cleanse your filthy mind.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:02 PM (bXihk)

205 Vance or DeSantis are just fine
Posted by: Moki at April 25, 2025 01:56 PM (wLjpr)

Vance is fine and should be the heir. DeSantis has horrible political instincts, and I am not so sure he plays well outside of east coast circles.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2025 02:02 PM (i24o9)

206 201 Trump just caved again
Now restoring all classes of student visas
He is also caving on tariffs

Your concern is noted.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:02 PM (s8j++)

207 ]It's trolling like this that is the real reason Trump is so popular and the left is s hated.

Trump is hip. Trump s funny. Doesn't even matter what his policies are -- his verve and personality and what makes him popular with young people.

The Left are bitter, angry humorless scolds and bullies. Doesn't matter what their policies are are -- their attitude is what makes them unpopular.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 02:02 PM (pMi6S)

208 Do we have a new troll ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 02:03 PM (VE6XX)

209 Are there options available on the rent Trump saves living in Progressive heads? Oh that's right, tiny houses. Never mind. More Chardonnay?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 02:03 PM (QSrLX)

210 It's trolling like this that is the real reason Trump is so popular and the left is s hated.

Trump is hip. Trump s funny. Doesn't even matter what his policies are -- his verve and personality and what makes him popular with young people.

The Left are bitter, angry humorless scolds and bullies. Doesn't matter what their policies are are -- their attitude is what makes them unpopular.

That's not funny.

Posted by: The Left at April 25, 2025 02:03 PM (s8j++)

211 Tariffs are just the first step in negotiations, the first is not hardly ever the final decisions.

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 02:03 PM (ypFCm)

212 That's not funny.

Posted by: The Left at April 25, 2025 02:03 PM (s8j++)

IT'S FUNNY, BECAUSE IT IS FUNNY.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at April 25, 2025 02:05 PM (i24o9)

213 Trump just caved again
Now restoring all classes of student visas
He is also caving on tariffs

Trump did not "cave" on anything, troll.

He never really intended to do anything to begin with, he just needed to play to his base.

Posted by: Deuce is Loose at April 25, 2025 02:05 PM (RihOl)

214 Remember for years libs said Republicans were humorless and easily offended. Then the Left took over comedy and made it impossible to make fun of anything except - Republicans.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:05 PM (bXihk)

215 Insty-

New analysis casts doubt on ‘biosignatures’ found on planet K2-18b.
___

Do they know where Biden's autopen is?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:06 PM (Dv3i1)

216 How would that work for DeSantis to be President if he manages to get his wife elected as Governor?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Delicately. But, I think it more likely that Casey doesn't run because even DeSantis is losing his mojo in his seventh year as governor with the state legislature. De Santis has quashed the rebellion over cheap labor Republicans there but it is still an issue.

It is possible that you get a Vance-DeSantis ticket though or less likely the reverse order in 2028.

Open presidential contests get more contenders than when you have an incumbent or a quasi incumbent like Killary.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:06 PM (ctrM5)

217 208 Do we have a new troll ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 02:03 PM (VE6XX)

More than one

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 02:06 PM (xcxpd)

218 New analysis casts doubt on ‘biosignatures’ found on planet K2-18b.
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Shocker.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:06 PM (bXihk)

219 This "Trump caved on tariffs" thing is idiotic. From the get go he's stayed these are to evoke negotiations and changes in trade policy from other countries. As the come to the table and give concessions, he loosens them up. You don't keep beating a compliant and cooperating party once they're doing what you want.

Posted by: Unless you're a cop. Or a parent. at April 25, 2025 02:07 PM (TbWk/)

220 The Left are bitter, angry humorless scolds and bullies. Doesn't matter what their policies are are -- their attitude is what makes them unpopular.

That's not funny. * Adds*
We'll kill you.
Posted by: The Left

Posted by: Lemons at April 25, 2025 02:07 PM (KZGYP)

221 At a bare minimum 1/4 to a 1/3 of government is pure waste fraud and abuse or put another way....

We're 36T in debt with nothing to show for it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2025 02:00 PM (XV/Pl)

Agreed. I feel like we need stronger words than "waste fraud and abuse" because that sounds like just run of the mill government inefficiency. Maybe "outright thievery and rape of the current and future taxpayers by a small group of middling IQ self proclaimed elites" but that's a real mouthful.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 02:07 PM (uCjyK)

222 If Democrats don't get their shit together and stop with the circular firing squad it doesn't matter who they run in 2028. The vice chair of the DNC is at war with his own party.

The left has lost the power of the media, they've lost the money machine from USAID and ActBlue among others, nobody gives a crap about Hollywood anymore. They have to win on their policies and right now their number 1 priority is bringing criminal gangbangers back to the US and their two leading candidates are an 80 year old communist and a loudmouth, fat assed Latinix.

Solid platform.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 02:08 PM (viF8m)

223 217 208 Do we have a new troll ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 02:03 PM (VE6XX)

More than one
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 02:06 PM (xcxpd)

Someone's opened their pocket book for trolling again.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 02:08 PM (VNX3d)

224 I see your East of Eden and raise you Police Karen Gillan because I'm a nice guy and want to cleanse your filthy mind.
Posted by: ...
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Unfortunately, I think it more likely to get TrigglePuff in leather than something nice from the Dems.

These, after all, are the same people that want us to have less, be happy, and eat ze bugs.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:08 PM (ctrM5)

225 195 184 So WHICH Trump in 2028?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Melania-Upton 2028

Might as well go full supermodel.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 01:58 PM (pMi6S)

So Boobs and Brains...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 02:00 PM (ynpvh)

....and also boobs

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 02:08 PM (xcxpd)

226 >> Eric Trump rocking the new merch from the official Trump store.

Dude. Stop skipping bicep day. lol

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2025 02:08 PM (kLbP8)

227 Oo! Great scare headline that just popped up.

"Woman Facing US Deportation After Wrong Turn on Drive to Costco"

Honestly, I got nuthin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 02:08 PM (kgE5c)

228 My guess is 1/3 to 1/2 of government could disappear and no one would notice

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 02:09 PM (ypFCm)

229 The Democrats caved. They ran kamala Harris for president.

Posted by: It's funny because it's true at April 25, 2025 02:09 PM (KZGYP)

230 We're 36T in debt with nothing to show for it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

A lot of millionaires and multimillionaires from government largess disagree.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:09 PM (ctrM5)

231 214 Remember for years libs said Republicans were humorless and easily offended. Then the Left took over comedy and made it impossible to make fun of anything except - Republicans.
Posted by: ...

I forget who said it, but my favorite comedy line from many years ago (because it's funny and true at the same time) was

Civilization is the mating dance men do to impress chicks.

Very profound. But you could NOT get away with that line today, in the leftist-comedy-scape. Oh, that's taboo--it's sexist!

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 02:09 PM (pMi6S)

232 I'm-a gonna need to see AOC's juicy booty again to evaluate if that ass is indeed fat.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 25, 2025 02:10 PM (xcxpd)

233 Trump hasn't caved on the tariffs. But Xi has.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 02:10 PM (viF8m)

234 Trump is hip. Trump s funny. Doesn't even matter what his policies are -- his verve and personality and what makes him popular with young people.

The Left are bitter, angry humorless scolds and bullies. Doesn't matter what their policies are are -- their attitude is what makes them unpopular.
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 02:02 PM (pMi6S)

Agreed. I was pretty anti-Trump for a lot of reasons in 2016 until that first R primary debate. When he said "only Rosie O'Donnell" I literally laughed out loud. That was the first time I'd ever laughed at something a politician said. Something about the honesty of it, mixed with humor, in the VERY SERIOUS SETTING that is SUPER SERIOUS GUYS where people usually just talk bullshit and repeat the same talking points for an hour or two just... I don't know.

He started winning me over on that day, and I don't think I'm the only one.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 02:10 PM (uCjyK)

235 Hawaiian Judges hardest hit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 02:10 PM (y5Qz+)

236 >> "Woman Facing US Deportation After Wrong Turn on Drive to Costco"

Shouldn’t have stopped and asked for directions,

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:11 PM (/dDa4)

237 "Woman Facing US Deportation After Wrong Turn on Drive to Costco"
____

Ever had to navigate a Costco parking lot on the weekend? A wrong turn should be grounds for deportation for sure.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:11 PM (Dv3i1)

238 Trump has blown past troll king. He is rapidly approaching god emperor of all trolls status.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 25, 2025 02:11 PM (2J/Lj)

239 207 ]It's trolling like this that is the real reason Trump is so popular and the left is s hated.

Trump is hip. Trump s funny. Doesn't even matter what his policies are -- his verve and personality and what makes him popular with young people.

The Left are bitter, angry humorless scolds and bullies. Doesn't matter what their policies are are -- their attitude is what makes them unpopular.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 02:02 PM (pMi6S)

Yep. TDS sufferers and 99 percent of other leftists are better conditioned than any of Pavlov's dogs. If TDS sufferers were sane, each would shrug at Trump's trolling moves and tell each other, "Yawn, another Trump move to bait us to go nuts but we're not going to bite." Instead they give Trump what he wants: Attention, more merch sales, TDS heads exploding for the eleventy-thousandth time, and amusement.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 02:11 PM (aBgBM)

240 >>They have to win on their policies and right now their number 1 priority is bringing criminal gangbangers back to the US and their two leading candidates are an 80 year old communist and a loudmouth, fat assed Latinix.

Take a look at the electoral map and what’s happening with redistricting, especially in place like Wisconsin. With that in mind I’d be a little less sanguine about the Democrats future. They still have a lot of runway for electoral schemes that will steal power.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2025 02:11 PM (kLbP8)

241 228 My guess is 1/3 to 1/2 of government could disappear and no one would notice
Posted by: Skip

If you count city, state, and federal, I think it would be correct. Cumulatively, state and local have actually been piling on the fat even more than fedgov has in new employees, pensions, etc.

From Grok,
"State and local government spending on various categories has shown significant growth over the years. For instance, public welfare spending, largely driven by Medicaid, grew by 485% between 1977 and 2021.

The federal share of Medicaid spending also increased from 55% to 69% during this period. Health and hospital spending grew by 266%, while elementary and secondary education spending increased by 136%.

Higher education spending grew by 168%, though the increasing share of tuition payments as a funding source complicates this figure. Police spending grew by 189%, and both corrections and housing spending saw significant increases of 346% and 329%, respectively, although they remained a relatively small share of overall spending"

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:12 PM (ctrM5)

242 Ace -

I hope that you enjoy your week off next week. You, as always, have done an incredible job on this blog with all of the news coming at breakneck speed and all of the craziness that came with these stories. You also kept up with all of wonderful and often touching human and pet stories and videos that portray what is so often truly important in life apart from politics. You keep us informed, you keep us laughing when sometimes it is hard to do, you have built a horde that feels like family, and you deserve the rest and peace, if for only a week.

Thank you!

Posted by: Cheri at April 25, 2025 02:12 PM (oiNtH)

243 George Santos sentenced to 87 months.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 02:12 PM (Cus5s)

244 Hegseth just got rid of everyone from the infinite number of Pentagon advisory boards. Including Susan Rice. Good riddance

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 02:12 PM (6TePA)

245 New analysis casts doubt on ‘biosignatures’ found on planet K2-18b

Mithraic and atheist androids hardest hit

Posted by: Raised by Wolves at April 25, 2025 02:12 PM (TbWk/)

246 Looks like cortisol is the New Big Thing among AWFLs. Something no one heard of two years ago is now the root of every disorder.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 01:19 PM (dyAmm)

They're still figuring out how to "win" with it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 02:13 PM (FCbAQ)

247 It is possible that you get a Vance-DeSantis ticket though or less likely the reverse order in 2028.

I'm a DeSantis guy, but I have to admit that Vance has more charisma. Therefore, I could live with a Vance/DeSantis ticket. Vance is still young, and relatively inexperienced, so DeSantis can be the calm and wise man behind the throne. It would be a real powerhouse of an administration.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:14 PM (s8j++)

248 242 Ace -

I hope that you enjoy your week off next week. You, as always, have done an incredible job on this blog with all of the news coming at breakneck speed and all of the craziness that came with these stories. You also kept up with all of wonderful and often touching human and pet stories and videos that portray what is so often truly important in life apart from politics. You keep us informed, you keep us laughing when sometimes it is hard to do, you have built a horde that feels like family, and you deserve the rest and peace, if for only a week.

Thank you!
Posted by: Cheri at April 25, 2025 02:12 PM (oiNtH)

I would like to second this. Ace, enjoy your vacation. My personal advice would be turn off the phone, don't read the news, and just relax for a week. But either way, have fun!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 25, 2025 02:14 PM (uCjyK)

249 A new study just nixxed cortisol I think.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 02:14 PM (y5Qz+)

250 211 Tariffs are just the first step in negotiations, the first is not hardly ever the final decisions.
Posted by: Skip
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Ha. Yes. Meaningful negotiations work. That tanker in mid-Pacific changing course from China to Japan wasn't symbolism. Forward a day later China has dropped tariffs on some US imports to ∅.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:14 PM (MJMyx)

251 Incidentally, speaking of scum congresscritters . . .

StopAntisemitism@StopAntisemites
Only 3 lawmakers voted to classify Israel as an adversary of the U.S. - alongside North Korea, China, and Iran.
Who were they?
- Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
- Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
- Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)
Shameful. The amendment failed 3-410 in one of the most overwhelming rejections in congressional history.

-
I guess AOC was out sick that day.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 02:14 PM (L/fGl)

252 Good afternoon!

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2025 02:15 PM (p4NUW)

253 I really like Vance so far and hope he wins in 2028. His takedown of Zelenskyyy in the Oval Office and his speech to the euro-weenies was great.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:16 PM (/dDa4)

254 China is caving in their own face saving way. Fine with me

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 02:16 PM (6TePA)

255 Between 1977 and 2021, the average inflation rate was 3.53% per year, resulting in a cumulative price increase of 427.72%

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:12 PM (ctrM5)

Is that inflation adjusted spending, or just spending...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 02:16 PM (QAkQ3)

256 Yep. TDS sufferers and 99 percent of other leftists are better conditioned than any of Pavlov's dogs. If TDS sufferers were sane, each would shrug at Trump's trolling moves and tell each other, "Yawn, another Trump move to bait us to go nuts but we're not going to bite." Instead they give Trump what he wants: Attention, more merch sales, TDS heads exploding for the eleventy-thousandth time, and amusement.

Strangely, though, TDS sufferers never remember to set their hair on fire.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:17 PM (s8j++)

257 194 @170

>>But if I were trying to hide slush funds, I'd go to the political third rail parts of government to do so.

At a bare minimum 1/4 to a 1/3 of government is pure waste fraud and abuse or put another way....

We're 36T in debt with nothing to show for it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2025 02:00 PM (XV/Pl)
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Read that as "36C" for some reason.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 25, 2025 02:17 PM (LPS7w)

258 When DeSantis went with GOPe money and tactics in his run against Trump, the man who got him elected, he lost me. He did it once he'll do it again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:17 PM (MJMyx)

259 I was just chuckling because I saw an ad for Andor and one of the reviews called it "timely". Ahh yes I wonder who they equate with the Empire....

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 02:17 PM (YwEeS)

260 Dennis Moore > Wes Moore

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 02:18 PM (6YdsJ)

261 The hat doesn't say what in 2028. Maybe he means Speaker of the House

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2025 02:18 PM (l5xX+)

262 Buttplug will propose to make FedGov better by setting-up commissions filled with Democrats to study how to make FedGov better. He will promise to implement the recommendations. In other words, FedGov expansion, more FedGov regulatory power, stronger Civil Service protections, and you know the rest.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 02:18 PM (aBgBM)

263 259 I was just chuckling because I saw an ad for Andor and one of the reviews called it "timely". Ahh yes I wonder who they equate with the Empire....
Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 02:17 PM (YwEeS)

Empire = Deep State?

Hahahahaha, FU Disney

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:19 PM (Dv3i1)

264 Trolls: Trump is a dictator!

Also trolls: Trump caved on xyz

Worst dictator ever.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2025 02:19 PM (etGhm)

265 259 I was just chuckling because I saw an ad for Andor and one of the reviews called it "timely". Ahh yes I wonder who they equate with the Empire....
Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 02:17 PM (YwEeS)

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*gobsmacked* a dog whistle?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 25, 2025 02:20 PM (LPS7w)

266 Doublethink means never having to say you're sorry.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 02:20 PM (6YdsJ)

267 The Cassian Andor actor is a racist.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 02:20 PM (y5Qz+)

268 Critical Drinker has thoughts on Andor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWomLg1DK9w

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:20 PM (s8j++)

269 The hat doesn't say what in 2028. Maybe he means Speaker of the House
Posted by: Lex

Chief Justice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 02:21 PM (L/fGl)

270 The hat doesn't specify which Trump.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 25, 2025 02:21 PM (TL7UX)

271 The hat doesn't say what in 2028. Maybe he means Speaker of the House

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2025 02:18 PM (l5xX+)

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And after doing that for six years (the exploding heads and entertainment would be unparalleled), President Vance appoints him Chief Justice of The Supreme Court.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 02:21 PM (JI3sB)

272 267 They asked the dude a puffball question about the Force and he had to make it political.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 02:22 PM (YwEeS)

273 264 Trolls: Trump is a dictator!

Also trolls: Trump caved on xyz

Worst dictator ever.
Posted by:

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I hate it when I "cave" after haggling and end up getting something for far less than the original price.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 25, 2025 02:22 PM (LPS7w)

274 Chief Justice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 02:21 PM (L/fGl)

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Horde mind!

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 02:22 PM (JI3sB)

275 Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:12 PM (ctrM5)

Is that inflation adjusted spending, or just spending...
Posted by: Romeo13
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From Grok. My guess is adjusted for inflation but AI doesn't always tell its secrets.

Calculations using GDP are a bit easier and GDP combined of state, local, and federal spending is about 36-37 percent of the total gdp when you disentangle transfer payments between governments.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:22 PM (ctrM5)

276
"Woman Facing US Deportation After Wrong Turn on Drive to Costco"

Was that in Albuquerque?

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at April 25, 2025 02:22 PM (63Dwl)

277 interesting. In french, single people are called "celebrataires." Now I understand why.

"Women of a Certain Age" are also known as "Celebrexines"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 02:23 PM (D7oie)

278 The hat doesn't specify which Trump.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 25, 2025 02:21 PM (TL7UX)

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Good catch! Wifey is a big fan of Don Jr, and our buddy ellipsis is a big fan of Lara.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 02:23 PM (JI3sB)

279 New thread up

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 02:23 PM (dCxaZ)

280 According to Bannon, the Constitution prohibits anyone from running for a 3d term, but not serving one. There is nothing that says he couldn't run for VP and have JD step down after the election. Alternately, they could make him Speaker and have both the Pres and VP step down.

Posted by: Blurb at April 25, 2025 02:23 PM (95kEq)

281 260 Dennis Moore > Wes Moore
Posted by: Captain Obvious
=====
Dinty Moore Stew > Wes Moore

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:23 PM (ctrM5)

282 The hat doesn't say what in 2028. Maybe he means Speaker of the House
Posted by: Lex

Chief Justice.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025

Just for the entertainment value alone.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2025 02:23 PM (BTNJi)

283 People who screech that PDT is a fascist dictator haven't the first fucking clue what fascism is.

Posted by: Reduction of govt power isn't part of the program at April 25, 2025 02:24 PM (TbWk/)

284 Chief Justice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 02:21 PM (L/fGl)

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Horde mind!
Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 02:22 PM (JI3sB)

Trump, Chief Justice, February 2027.
Vance, President, 2027, Elected 2028, 2032....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 02:24 PM (VNX3d)

285 There is a group of people who bite their tongue and vote Trump.
They silently despise him because of his classless, vulgar ways that
reminds them of themselves who so much make false pretense in their desire to be sophisticated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:25 PM (MJMyx)

286 Woman Facing US Deportation After Wrong Turn on Drive to Costco"
====

Probably neglected to mention she was drunk and killed a family of five

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2025 02:25 PM (9Xevu)

287 Trump 40,000 powersuits

Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2025 02:25 PM (FhXTo)

288 Why did I get called a troll?

You all are saying the same thing I did, that Trump never intended to use tariffs to bring industry back home.

His true intent was to get China to drop tariffs on Jew-owned corporations selling their products there.

It's working.

Posted by: Deuce is Loose at April 25, 2025 02:26 PM (RihOl)

289 How great to have a dad like Trump

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 25, 2025 02:26 PM (nGraA)

290 Trump 2028
_Eric

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:27 PM (MJMyx)

291 This court orders all Rons and Ettes to report to the nood.

Posted by: Da Judge at April 25, 2025 02:28 PM (2UnvF)

292 Hello, everyone. This will be my last day before a one week vacation. I hope you're all in as good a mood as I am but I don't see how that would be possible.
--

Ace going to the Vatican to join the Conclave and be acclaimed Pope Ewok.

Hordemus Papa!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 25, 2025 01:20 PM (a2Pv6)

It's all part of Ace's World Tour to extend the borders of -

The Ewokian Empire.

He'll be looking for a fancy dacha in the Ukraine as the Eastern Palace.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 02:28 PM (iJfKG)

293 Someone's opened their pocket book for trolling again.

Trump caved on USAID?

I wonder how much comment spam USAID really did fund.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (EXyHK)

294 Oo! Great scare headline that just popped up.

"Woman Facing US Deportation After Wrong Turn on Drive to Costco"

Honestly, I got nuthin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 02:08 PM (kgE5c)

Remember that messed up Vet who took a wrong turn and wound up in a Mexican prison because he couldn't figure out how to get out of the lane to Mexico when he knew he had a firearm in the car?
How long did he spend in a Mexican prison, I forget.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 02:30 PM (D7oie)

295 It's all part of Ace's World Tour to extend the borders of -

The Ewokian Empire.

He'll be looking for a fancy dacha in the Ukraine as the Eastern Palace.
Posted by: naturalfake
------------------

Say hello to Krebs while you are in England.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:30 PM (MJMyx)

296 Buttplug will propose to make FedGov better by setting-up commissions filled with Democrats to study how to make FedGov better. He will promise to implement the recommendations. In other words, FedGov expansion, more FedGov regulatory power, stronger Civil Service protections, and you know the rest.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 02:18 PM (aBgBM)

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

He'll promise a $10 trillion infrastructure spending bill (dildo-ready jobs!) and to fill at at least one pothole in four years.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 02:30 PM (JI3sB)

297 His true intent was to get China to drop tariffs on Jew-owned corporations selling their products there.

It's working.
Posted by: Deuce is Loose at April 25, 2025 02:26 PM (RihOl)

Ah, and there it is. Fuck off back to Stormfront.

Posted by: Fat, retarded and antisemitic is no way to live son at April 25, 2025 02:30 PM (TbWk/)

298 Critical Drinker has thoughts on Andor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWomLg1DK9w

Dear God the second season first 3 episodes wlare so awful, I literally wanted to cry

The first season was maybe the best TV… efer

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 25, 2025 02:31 PM (nGraA)

299 >>>Remember that messed up Vet who took a wrong turn and wound up in a Mexican prison because he couldn't figure out how to get out of the lane to Mexico when he knew he had a firearm in the car?
How long did he spend in a Mexican prison, I forget.
Posted by: Kindltot
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And it wasn't the Govt that rescued him.
Was it Greta??

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:31 PM (MJMyx)

300 Very profound. But you could NOT get away with that line today, in the leftist-comedy-scape. Oh, that's taboo--it's sexist!
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 02:09 PM (pMi6S)

Tracey Ullman did a bit on her show "Support group for the overly woke"
That was funny then, and completely unairable today

https://tinyurl.com/37d5csn7

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 02:33 PM (D7oie)

301 @300 fuck off, Jamie

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 02:34 PM (6TePA)

302 39 Hello, everyone. This will be my last day before a one week vacation. I hope you're all in as good a mood as I am but I don't see how that would be possible.
--

Ace going to the Vatican to join the Conclave and be acclaimed Pope Ewok.

Hordemus Papa!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 25, 2025 01:20 PM (a2Pv6)

Ace isn't any less Catholic than the last guy was.

Posted by: BillyD at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (Yt3ED)

303 why does if have to be DONALD Trump running in 2028 ... plenty of other Trumps who could run ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at April 25, 2025 03:52 PM (DBAaD)

304 Trump 4EVA EEEEE

https://tinyurl.com/yeys6rt5

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 25, 2025 04:14 PM (O7YUW)

305 Like the Waiter at the Restruant who stole a Diners Trump Cap and got Fired

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 25, 2025 04:31 PM (wGqjj)

306 I got it! What justification is there for him not running for a third term? Can't charge him with anything, they tried that. Can't ignore the votes and pretend to support democracy. There's no law against it. Those who support the Constitution are willing to lose Trump in four years, but liberals hate the Constitution and want to get rid of it. Here's their chance.

Posted by: ChrisW at April 25, 2025 04:31 PM (rLfcT)

FBI Director Kash Patel Announces Arrest of Milwaukee Judge for Obstructing an ICE Raid

MXMNews:

Federal agents arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday morning for allegedly obstructing an ICE operation involving an illegal immigrant.
...
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested Friday morning on charges tied to obstruction of a federal immigration operation, according to statements initially shared by FBI Director Kash Patel. In a since-deleted post, Patel accused Dugan of "intentionally misdirecting" federal agents who were attempting to arrest an undocumented individual, identified as Eduardo Flores Ruiz.
The arrest took place at approximately 8 a.m. inside the Milwaukee County Courthouse. Brady McCarron, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed the arrest to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and noted that Dugan is currently in federal custody.
The Journal Sentinel had previously reported that the FBI was investigating whether Dugan interfered with federal agents during an immigration arrest attempt last week. According to their report, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived at the courthouse on April 18th to execute an arrest warrant on Flores Ruiz, who was scheduled to appear in Dugan's courtroom.
...
Patel also confirmed that Flores Ruiz is now in the custody of federal authorities. While the FBI has not yet issued an official public statement, Patel's remarks suggest the agency believes Dugan's actions directly enabled Ruiz to avoid apprehension during the initial attempt.

I'm not sure why he deleted the post. I guess so as not to comment on an active case.

The tweet was screencapped before it was deleted:

Hello, everyone. This will be my last day before a one week vacation. I hope you're all in as good a mood as I am but I don't see how that would be possible.

🚨FBI Director Kash Patel just announced that the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an illegal arrest operation last week. FAFO! The activist judges must be stopped.#FridayVibes pic.twitter.com/8dB8JyjigV
— AJ Huber (@Huberton) April 25, 2025

Note this is in addition to the case of a judge sheltering a Tren de Aragua member in New Mexico:

Former New Mexico Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife were arrested after federal agents raided their Las Cruces home. They face charges of evidence tampering amid allegations they harbored an alleged illegal immigrant who is also believed to be a member of Tren de Aragua. pic.twitter.com/uj0sk6kI0N
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 25, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 12:06 PM

Comments

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1 Yes. More of this, please.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:06 PM (ExV1e)

2 I told the prior thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:06 PM (ExV1e)

3 MOAR of this please, and don't stop until F. Joe is rotting in his Depends in a prison cell!

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:07 PM (gMWM2)

4 Holla!!

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2025 12:07 PM (EynyL)

5 TGIF Ace
I was wondering if you ever took time off. Enjoy!!

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2025 12:07 PM (t/2Uw)

6 I hope you're all in as good a mood as I am but I don't see how that would be possible.

Wait til you see what we do with the place while you're gone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:08 PM (ExV1e)

7 That's nice. What about the other ~~obstructionist~~ treasonous federal judges?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:08 PM (/U5Yz)

8 Are they using a rubber hose on her?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2025 12:08 PM (Vh9CX)

9 Have a wonderful vacation ace.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:09 PM (/U5Yz)

10 I’d say throw her in some filthy lesbo lockdown and throw away the key, but she may enjoy that…

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2025 12:09 PM (etGhm)

11 Hello, everyone. This will be my last day before a one week vacation. I hope you're all in as good a mood as I am but I don't see how that would be possible.

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Have fun, Ace! I've been commenting here for a decade and think I only recall one other time that you've taken a week off? [Join the party, pal -- as I've only had two vacations in the past 12 years.]

Don't get drunk and married in the same weekend ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:10 PM (gMWM2)

12 Let your posts run red, with the blood of their judges.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:10 PM (OqgaI)

13 The judge has no teef.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 12:10 PM (2ap+5)

14 Sends a message.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 25, 2025 12:10 PM (0xo8i)

15 Regarding the arrest of these leftards, more please!

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 25, 2025 12:11 PM (t2iW3)

16 She looks like any other diary cow in WI.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:11 PM (gMWM2)

17 Nearly 29 years old and you've been working the whole time!

'bout time for a vacation. Enjoy.

Posted by: blake (moviegique) at April 25, 2025 12:11 PM (lpWi1)

18 I say this is 2 in custody, and plenty left to go.

Of course, a few Milwaukee city/county politicians are talking about needing more security around the courthouse, so this cannot happen again.

Let's see, that would make the courthouse the safest place to hide from the police in Milwaukee County. Sounds about right for some of these nuts.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 12:11 PM (VNX3d)

19 She has Jabba the Hutt face

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2025 12:11 PM (etGhm)

20 I see that this judge is not disproving the thesis that ugly people become leftists.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at April 25, 2025 12:11 PM (Dg7ng)

21 Oh my Lord, look at """her."""

"""She""" looks like an actual fuckin' demon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 12:11 PM (BI5O2)

22 it's about time the judiciary gets slapped down, even if it is a county level circuit court asshole. and yes, she looks exactly as i expected her too

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2025 12:11 PM (/n7JV)

23 Oh no, Drumph has gone to war with the judiciary!!1!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 25, 2025 12:12 PM (Vyll1)

24 This is window dressing. What about these treasonous governor's and mayor's that support sanctuary states/cities? You won't see them taking a perp walk anytime soon. Bank it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:12 PM (/U5Yz)

25 What's this "vacation" people speak of?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 12:12 PM (7fElN)

26 Only real Consequences will stop this shit.

Posted by: jsg at April 25, 2025 12:12 PM (F7oJE)

27 6 I hope you're all in as good a mood as I am but I don't see how that would be possible.

Wait til you see what we do with the place while you're gone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:08 PM (ExV1e)

Shelves. Lots and lots of shelves...

Posted by: Farquad at April 25, 2025 12:12 PM (bwvMs)

28 he judge has no teef.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 12:10 PM (2ap+5)

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[Amends post #16:]

She looks like any other diary cow in WI with no teef.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:12 PM (gMWM2)

29 If Wisconsin would like to secede and keep all these bundles of diversity I wouldn't mind.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 12:13 PM (44/3W)

30 Ace: "Hello, everyone. This will be my last day before a one week vacation."

Very well deserved. I don't think I remember you having such a long break... ever, and I've been a reader since around 9/11/01. You're like an Energizer bunny of blogging. Not quite Trumpmanic, but damn close.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 25, 2025 12:13 PM (gLikB)

31 Good. Link all these damn federal judges to corruption and obstruction of Justice in the minds of the American people.
Then start nullifying all the anti-deportation rulings.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 12:13 PM (jbnUc)

32 Is ace heading back to The Carpathian Mountains to "recharge"??

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 25, 2025 12:13 PM (0xo8i)

33 Demonstrative. Necessary.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at April 25, 2025 12:14 PM (pXeye)

34 En Fuego!

Posted by: that guy that shouts en feugo at April 25, 2025 12:14 PM (jc0TO)

35 29 If Wisconsin would like to secede and keep all these bundles of diversity I wouldn't mind.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson

I'll see your Wisconsin and raise you a Minnesota.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:14 PM (/U5Yz)

36 he looks like any other diary cow in WI.
Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:11 PM (gMWM2)

Entry from 9 months before Judge Duggie was born:

Dear diary,

Moo. Moo moo moo*.

*Translation: Farmer Bob raped me today.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:14 PM (OqgaI)

37 >>> FBI Director Kash Patel Announces Arrest of Milwaukee Judge for Obstructing an ICE Raid

MORE !!!

Sure his Judgey buddies will let him walk... but you fvck him up resisting aren't the next time.

Since District Judge said Trump cannot withhold funds from sanctuary cities / states then arrest their senior politicians too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 12:14 PM (6QMu0)

38 28 he judge has no teef.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 12:10 PM (2ap+5)

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[Amends post #16:]

She looks like any other diary cow in WI with no teef.
Posted by: ShainS
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Knowing Milwaukee, she probably has a meth problem in her past. Enhances her street cred as a judge in a place like that.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 12:15 PM (ctrM5)

39 and so it begins

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at April 25, 2025 12:15 PM (jc0TO)

40 Link all these damn federal judges to corruption and obstruction of Justice in the minds of the American people.

These aren't federal judges. The federal judges tend to be smart enough to not actually obviously break the law. Makes dealing with them more difficult.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:15 PM (ExV1e)

41 (leaves on vacation, enlinkenates the post)

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (/HDaX)

42 Judge looks.... mildly retarded.

👀

Ok... severely retarded.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (Q4IgG)

43 MORE !!!

Sure his Judgey buddies will let him walk... but you fvck him up resisting aren't the next time.

Since District Judge said Trump cannot withhold funds from sanctuary cities / states then arrest their senior politicians too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Regardless the result, the process is the punishment.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (ctrM5)

44 Afternoon ace, enjoy the time off.
Not only should a few more judges be arrested for aiding and abetting, put grab a few local politicians in sanctuary cities as well. Hardcore leftists will pissed but throw a couple of middle class politicos in jail and they'll crumble

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (6TePA)

45 Posted by: Ace at 12:06 PM

I think Ace is trolling us before he heads out on vacation; just click on his name up there.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (wtvvX)

46 I'll see your Wisconsin and raise you a Minnesota.

Collectively, the cradle of American Marxism.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (44/3W)

47 I hope you're all in as good a mood as I am but I don't see how that would be possible.

I'm having lunch with three Mannix-like ladies. But you are right. I'm sure your mood tops mine.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (W/lyH)

48 Demonstrative. Necessary.

Today's unnecessary vocabulary reminder:
Demonstrative and demonstrable are not synonyms.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 12:17 PM (s8j++)

49 The now former Las Cruces, NM judge who was sheltering a Tren de Agua member has been arrested.

https://archive.ph/dfrKd

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at April 25, 2025 12:17 PM (amnH6)

50 Of course, a few Milwaukee city/county politicians are talking about needing more security around the courthouse, so this cannot happen again.

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

Let's see local rent-a-mall-security-guards, or even LEOs, try and stop armed federal agents with warrants and SWAT teams.

Shot Heard 'Round The World 2: 250th Tree of Liberty Anniversary Boogaloo!

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:17 PM (gMWM2)

51 What's this "vacation" people speak of?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 12:12 PM (7fElN)

I'm road tripping this weekend, to the land of fruits and nuts, to visit relatives.

A quick get in/get out trip, and I get to see the ocean and people I love... even though they are hopelessly tied to the land of fruits and nuts.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:17 PM (OqgaI)

52 These aren't federal judges. The federal judges tend to be smart enough to not actually obviously break the law. Makes dealing with them more difficult.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
========
I think it is more that they have not been seriously investigated. In the 80's and 90's, FBI ran a sting operation in Cook County targeting corrupt judges--Greylord. I would think it was high time for that to return. Same thing with Abscam Part Deux targeting Congress.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 12:17 PM (ctrM5)

53 13 The judge has no teef.
Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 12:10 PM (2ap+5)

She lent them to a nice young man in Tren de Aragua who needed them more.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 25, 2025 12:17 PM (V9cMX)

54 Since District Judge said Trump cannot withhold funds from sanctuary cities

Trump needs to force them to post bond for all the money they think they'll get. No doubt a judge will rule that they don't have to.

All you haters should look on the bright side. By the time that Trump's four years are through, the federal judiciary will have thrown out 98% of the US Code.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:18 PM (ExV1e)

55 MUH, NORMS!!! people hardest hit.

Posted by: Jay in PA at April 25, 2025 12:18 PM (i7Q7S)

56 Ace, take care and be well.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 25, 2025 12:18 PM (5vqgM)

57 Federal Prison FTW!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:18 PM (wtvvX)

58 Somebody hide the remote while he is gone.

Posted by: Francis at April 25, 2025 12:18 PM (bbuBP)

59 First , good afternoon Ace and everyone
Second The weekend is here
Third I wish I could see that perp walk, hopefully at 3am

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 12:18 PM (ypFCm)

60 All the female judges on the Supreme Court should resign in solidarity with their Wisky sister.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 12:19 PM (2ap+5)

61 That's a good start.

Posted by: Methos at April 25, 2025 12:19 PM (Dnobf)

62 Well its a step in the right direction that they arrested the judge. The fact that ICE or the FBI has to arrest illegal aliens in a court house at all is proof of how damaged the country is. The local LEO should be calling ICE to pick up the dude as soon as they get back to their precinct and his name matches the ICE list. Why waste local taxpayer money on any legal machinations for someone the Feds want to take custody of?

Posted by: PaleRider at April 25, 2025 12:19 PM (bP/i4)

63 Good. Link all these damn federal judges to corruption and obstruction of Justice in the minds of the American people.
Then start nullifying all the anti-deportation rulings.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 12:13 PM (jbnUc)

This is an important point. Make it so obvious that the MSM can't ignore it.
We live in a Constitutional Republic, not a Judiciacracy.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 12:19 PM (W/lyH)

64 Not only should a few more judges be arrested for aiding and abetting, put grab a few local politicians in sanctuary cities as well. Hardcore leftists will pissed but throw a couple of middle class politicos in jail and they'll crumble
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (6TePA)

They have to actually break an actual law. That's trickier, in this case, than some people imagine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:19 PM (ExV1e)

65 Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 12:19 PM (ypFCm)

66 We need a few more judges arretsed.

Preferably in no-knock raids involving German shepherds at three in the morning.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:20 PM (wtvvX)

67 Oh dang, she's only 65?

She must've hit the wall at about 27.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 12:20 PM (TvjUl)

68 I think Ace is trolling us before he heads out on vacation; just click on his name up there.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (wtvvX)

I get a 404.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:20 PM (OqgaI)

69 32 Is ace heading back to The Carpathian Mountains to "recharge"??
Posted by: Dr Spank
======
Classic line by Bela Lugosi,

"I never drink... wine."

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 12:20 PM (ctrM5)

70 Good. Link all these damn federal judges to corruption and obstruction of Justice in the minds of the American people.
Then start nullifying all the anti-deportation rulings.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

-

RICO

That is what I want to see.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 12:20 PM (TvjUl)

71 This judge looks exactly like you'd expect. It's uncanny.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 25, 2025 12:20 PM (2ocoG)

72 68 I think Ace is trolling us before he heads out on vacation; just click on his name up there.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (wtvvX)

I get a 404.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:20 PM (OqgaI)

Precisely.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (wtvvX)

73 "They have to actually break an actual law."

no comment

Posted by: Francis at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (bbuBP)

74 Will you be bringing me a present?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (viF8m)

75 Winning…. More winning would be arresting John Roberts and Amy Coney Island

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (P/Wjn)

76

Ok, now we're getting somewhere.

How about that Boasberg idiot?

Or Merrick Garland?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (et1vG)

77 "She's a beauty"--The Tubes

Or have I misgendered the judge?

Judges should be disproportionally arrested based on recent behavior.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (uGULU)

78 This will be my last day before a one week vacation.

Have fun storming the castle!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (/HDaX)

79 I think it is more that they have not been seriously investigated. In the 80's and 90's, FBI ran a sting operation in Cook County targeting corrupt judges--Greylord. I would think it was high time for that to return. Same thing with Abscam Part Deux targeting Congress.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 12:17 PM (ctrM5)

I reckon there's a good chance you're right. Certainly there are a good number of judges who just happen to have family members who just happen to have monetary gain for things related to cases that they just happen to oversee.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (ExV1e)

80 Probably posted before but, relevant -

Trump Leaves Presidency to Become Even More Powerful District Court Judge
-Babylon Bee

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 12:22 PM (Dv3i1)

81 Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 12:19 PM

Skin against skin blood and bone
You're all by yourself but you're not alone
You wanted in and now you're here
Driven by hate consumed by fear

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 12:22 PM (jc0TO)

82 Then: No one is above the law

Now: You can't arrest a judge just because she committed a crime

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 12:22 PM (t0Rmr)

83 She's crazy which is par for the course for Milw County Judges.

Posted by: WisRich at April 25, 2025 12:22 PM (G0vdT)

84 Is ace heading back to The Carpathian Mountains to "recharge"??

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 25, 2025 12:13 PM (0xo8i)

Maybe Count Orlok offered him the use of his guest house.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2025 12:22 PM (ForbO)

85
We ARE the law.

Posted by: Black Robe Club at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (IifOV)

86 Here’s another Glamor Shot of the judge:

https://tinyurl.com/mwztvvun

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (etGhm)

87 This is window dressing. What about these treasonous governor's and mayor's that support sanctuary states/cities? You won't see them taking a perp walk anytime soon. Bank it.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I'm betting your favorite character in Willy Wonka was Veruca "I want it all, now" Salt

Posted by: Chuck C at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (D0HYP)

88 Ace going to let the Ewoks run wild. Probably needs some sunscreen for that fish belly white body, since he’s living in that hobbit hole.

Posted by: morigu at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (prrn7)

89 This should be the first of many arrests, and the arrests should extend to mayors, police chiefs, and any legislators who vote for sanctuary policies and governors who sign the laws.

Posted by: Rick T at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (xeXUW)

90 The local LEO should be calling ICE to pick up the dude as soon as they get back to their precinct and his name matches the ICE list. Why waste local taxpayer money on any legal machinations for someone the Feds want to take custody of?
Posted by: PaleRider at April 25, 2025 12:19 PM (bP/i4)

Local regulations probably forbid - which isn't, by the way, illegal even though it seems like it should be.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (ExV1e)

91 Put her in with others she. jailed -- if she ever put anyone away...

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (wBaIH)

92
I'm betting your favorite character in Willy Wonka was Veruca "I want it all, now" Salt/i]

I seether what you did there

Posted by: Some Veruca Salt fan at April 25, 2025 12:24 PM (t0Rmr)

93 For more background information on these Illegals listen to CJN Speaks

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 12:24 PM (ypFCm)

94
Judge: "splutter, slutter, I'll have you arrested!"

FBI: "Yes ma'am...but in the meanwhile place your hands behind you"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:24 PM (XeU6L)

95 "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan >>> Hannah Dugan

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:24 PM (wtvvX)

96 Some of 'em do have terrible disguises and you can see they're demons. This one, Stefan Halper, John Podesta, and toadlike warlord Victoria Nuland are some examples.

I think they might have blown all their money and had to buy their costumes at Astaroth's Discount Human Suit Barn.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 12:24 PM (BI5O2)

97 "They have to actually break an actual law."

no comment
Posted by: Francis at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (bbuBP)

Doing things we don't like =/= actually breaking an actual law.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:25 PM (ExV1e)

98 Link all these damn federal judges to corruption and obstruction of Justice in the minds of the American people.

Thats been the problem. Bushes and all the Republicans before them that bent over backward to protect the reputation of a corrupt system.

Nixon took an L against JFK rather than fight over a highly suspect result. Letting that kind of stuff go only gets you more.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 12:25 PM (44/3W)

99 Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (etGhm)

Oof. You sure you aren't Admiral Ackbar?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 25, 2025 12:25 PM (/HDaX)

100 Please let there be video.

Posted by: Toad-0 at April 25, 2025 12:25 PM (cct0t)

101 She's got a bad case of resting commie face.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 25, 2025 12:26 PM (paSBy)

102 Posted by: Ace at 12:06 PM

I think Ace is trolling us before he heads out on vacation; just click on his name up there.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (wtvvX)

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Ace is a bot? I knew it!

/"Ace has left the building ..."

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:26 PM (gMWM2)

103 The judges are openly revolting(not just physically)

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2025 12:26 PM (YwEeS)

104 86 Here’s another Glamor Shot of the judge:

https://tinyurl.com/mwztvvun
Posted by: Bicentennialguy

Put a Marlboro in her maw and she's Large Marge.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:26 PM (/U5Yz)

105 On X:

The Superior Council of Magistracy of Romania has initiated a "disciplinary investigation" against Judge Vasile Alexandru, who overturned the Constitutional Court's decision to cancel the presidential elections

Online they've started calling him "The Hero of Ploiești"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 12:26 PM (Dv3i1)

106 Arrest all the Hawaiian judges for putting pineapple on pizza!

Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2025 12:26 PM (FhXTo)

107 Not only should a few more judges be arrested for aiding and abetting, put grab a few local politicians in sanctuary cities as well. Hardcore leftists will pissed but throw a couple of middle class politicos in jail and they'll crumble
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (6TePA)

They have to actually break an actual law. That's trickier, in this case, than some people imagine.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:19 PM (ExV1e)
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Can we be sure about that? I'm probably breaking three laws right now just reading this comment...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 12:26 PM (7fElN)

108 Who does the judiciary tell Trump to release first; judge Dugan or the illegal she was shielding?

You know it's coming.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 12:27 PM (Q4IgG)

109 Ace's 404 pathway not found is just telling us his vacay is on a pathway not found. Get good insect repellent ace!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 12:27 PM (6TePA)

110 I think Ace is trolling us before he heads out on vacation; just click on his name up there.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (wtvvX)

I get a 404.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:20 PM (OqgaI)

Precisely.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (wtvvX)

Oh, heh. I'm a little slow on the uptake.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:27 PM (GFM7I)

111 What an unfortunate looking creature this Judge Dugan is. She looks like she belongs in a reality show with the Slaton family.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 12:28 PM (qBdHI)

112 Being retired, vacations take on a whole new meaning. One develops a routine and vacations disrupt it. I love to travel to exotic and historic places but the getting there can be exhausting. I'm beginning to see the value in group travel experiences which i disdained as being too regimented in the past preferring to meander along and get a real feel for places.
What do you all think?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2025 12:28 PM (t/2Uw)

113 Can we be sure about that? I'm probably breaking three laws right now just reading this comment...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 12:26 PM (7fElN)

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Four that I can see.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at April 25, 2025 12:28 PM (2UnvF)

114 >>The Superior Council of Magistracy of Romania has initiated a "disciplinary investigation" against Judge Vasile Alexandru, who overturned the Constitutional Court's decision to cancel the presidential elections

>>Online they've started calling him "The Hero of Ploiești"

It's almost like people are fighting back. Weird.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 12:28 PM (viF8m)

115 Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds >>> "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan >>> Hannah Dugan

[Jack Reynolds played linebacker for the Rams and 49ers in the 1970s and 80s, making two Pro Bowls and helping San Francisco win two Super Bowls. He earned the nickname “Hacksaw” because, as an all-American linebacker at Tennessee, he once sawed a car in half after a disappointing loss.]

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:29 PM (gMWM2)

116 Case dismissed
- scotus

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 12:29 PM (IZezY)

117 82 Then: No one is above the law

Now: You can't arrest a judge just because she committed a crime

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 12:22 PM (t0Rmr)

I know I've seen at least THREE body-cam videos of judges getting busted for DUI and threatening the arresting officers.

ALL women. ALL in Ohio.

Including an Ohio Supreme Court Justice.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:29 PM (wtvvX)

118 Put her in with others she. jailed -- if she ever put anyone away...
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (wBaIH)

Probably some folks praying outside abortion clinics.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:29 PM (GFM7I)

119 I'm probably not in as good as a mood as you are, Ace, because I'm. Not going on vacation, but thanks for rubbing it in, buddy😉 Actually, I had a nice day yesterday and I really am glad you are going away. Don't make any of the forum lawyers have to bail you out and have a lovely time. You work very hard and it is much appreciated,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 12:29 PM (cT52x)

120 Oh, shit!!!!!

Posted by: Vespa Customer Service Dept. at April 25, 2025 12:30 PM (dIske)

121 This makes 2 in 2 days. They arrested a New Mexico judge AND his wife yesterday for harboring an undocumented immigrant. This is a typical nazi move to make the legal system afraid. I hope she slaps a contempt of court order on the arresting cops.

Seth Abramson ‪@sethabramson.bsky.social‬
BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

Busting into a courthouse where a judge is presiding and then arresting her because they "believe" she tipped off a suspect? This is outrageous. It's fascist, Nazi totalitarianism by the book.

Maybe states need to start mobilizing their militias to deal with this? What happened to the "jack booted thugs" that the phony right was always screeching about? I guess who is wearing the jackboots is all that matters to them.

They can arrest a judge they disagree with, but not a president who defies court orders? Trump should be hauled off in handcuffs and thrown in prison.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2025 12:30 PM (w25Oa)

122 This should be the first of many arrests, and the arrests should extend to mayors, police chiefs, and any legislators who vote for sanctuary policies and governors who sign the laws.
Posted by: Rick T at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (xeXUW)

AFAIK, only Cali has actually passed laws to aid illegals... which is a federal crime.

Everyone else just has laws saying that they don't care and won't assist the feds. Interestingly, the court rulings which permit them to not assist the feds permit that because they're not being paid to assist the feds. The fact that this was the justification is damaged by the requirement that the feds pay them even though they're doing that. Seems like it should be either/or.

Likely that's what we'll end up with in a year or so after the courts have drug things out as long as possible.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:30 PM (ExV1e)

123 74 Will you be bringing me a present?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (viF8m)

A shrubbery will do.

No wait ... a herring.

He will bring you a herring !!!

Posted by: Knights Who Say Ni at April 25, 2025 12:30 PM (TTAGa)

124 ALL women. ALL in Ohio.

Want to see the inner asshole in most people ? Just add a little authority.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 12:30 PM (44/3W)

125 It's almost like people are fighting back. Weird.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 12:28 PM (viF8m)

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Like Cowardice, Courage is Contagious.

[h/t DFT (Donald F*cking Trump)]

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:31 PM (gMWM2)

126 now on to the Supremes!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2025 12:31 PM (7AYvE)

127 Can we be sure about that? I'm probably breaking three laws right now just reading this comment...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 12:26 PM (7fElN)

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Four that I can see.
Posted by: Bob from NSA at April 25, 2025 12:28 PM (2UnvF)

Five.

Posted by: Bob's brother, Ralph at April 25, 2025 12:31 PM (5xuJ/)

128 Enjoy your vacay, ace. I'd say it's well deserved but come on your whole life is one big vacation.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 12:32 PM (bXihk)

129 Case dismissed
- scotus
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 12:29 PM (IZezY)

You know, all the people ragging on Pam and Kash, wonder what would happen if next week they present evidence that John Roberts was on Epstein Island, and then frogmarch him out of the SC building.

If they have those files, there are PLENTY of ways to use the data. On plenty of people. Hopefully, all within the framework of written law, not for blackmail, like it's been used for years.

Let's see who is and is not compromised.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:32 PM (GFM7I)

130 >>I reckon there's a good chance you're right. Certainly there are a good number of judges who just happen to have family members who just happen to have monetary gain for things related to cases that they just happen to oversee.
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*cough* john roberts's wife *cough*

Posted by: electronic means at April 25, 2025 12:32 PM (WVQot)

131 ALL women. ALL in Ohio.

Unconditional pardon - Mike DeWine

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:32 PM (/U5Yz)

132 Send them both to CECOT

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at April 25, 2025 12:32 PM (xaNfJ)

133 Andrew Duggan >>>>>>>>>> Judge Dugan

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 12:32 PM (qBdHI)

134 >FBI Director Kash Patel Announces Arrest of Milwaukee Judge for Obstructing an ICE Raid
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district judge to order his fellow judge be released, in
3
2
1

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 12:33 PM (AOsQT)

135 Ohio had or has a deal on the books stating a sitting judge must be tried before a panel of his peers (drinkin' buddies down at the lawyer and judge's club). We had a jewel that got caught by the staties driving in an erratic manner, crossing lines, and driving way too slow. His fellow judges let him off with the defense being he had just washed his car and was avoiding puddles.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 25, 2025 12:33 PM (gm9Sb)

136 THIS is what I voted for. Enjoy your vacation, Ace!

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 25, 2025 12:33 PM (CwhoI)

137 I'm probably breaking three laws right now just reading this comment...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 12:26 PM (7fElN)

Sure, but that's someone like you. Hunter Biden could buy a gun with counterfeit cash while shooting fentanyl and banging an underage hooker and that would be fine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

138 One way to lessen Marxist judges

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 12:33 PM (ypFCm)

139 I know I've seen at least THREE body-cam videos of judges getting busted for DUI and threatening the arresting officers.

ALL women. ALL in Ohio.

Including an Ohio Supreme Court Justice.
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I live in Ohio, grew up in a county across the river from WV. There was a female muni court judge here who was a lush and would go to WV and get loaded all the time. She got several DUIs there and was told not to come back to the state.

Of course, she would throw the book at DUIs who came before her in court.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2025 12:33 PM (etGhm)

140
They can arrest a judge they disagree with, but not a president who defies court orders? Trump should be hauled off in handcuffs and thrown in prison.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2025 12:30 PM (w25Oa)

You want him even more popular ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 12:33 PM (VE6XX)

141 A shrubbery will do.

No wait ... a herring.

He will bring you a herring !!!
Posted by: Knights Who Say Ni at April 25, 2025 12:30 PM (TTAGa)

Pretty sure Jack would prefer a shrubbery (IYKWIM).

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:33 PM (GFM7I)

142 I know I've seen at least THREE body-cam videos of judges getting busted for DUI and threatening the arresting officers.

ALL women. ALL in Ohio.

Including an Ohio Supreme Court Justice.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:29 PM (wtvvX)

DO you Know WHO I AM??

Posted by: Ohio Judgette, slurring and spilling glass of wine at April 25, 2025 12:33 PM (/dDa4)

143 If Wisconsin would like to secede and keep all these bundles of diversity I wouldn't mind.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson

Don't do that to our COB emeritus!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2025 12:34 PM (7AYvE)

144 Anyone going to the live sperm-racing event in Los Angeles tonight?

Posted by: one hour sober at April 25, 2025 12:34 PM (Y1sOo)

145 district judge to order his fellow judge be released, in
3
2
1
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 12:33 PM (AOsQT)

Self-identifying who to arrest next.

Good.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:34 PM (GFM7I)

146 AFAIK, only Cali has actually passed laws to aid illegals... which is a federal crime.

Everyone else just has laws saying that they don't care and won't assist the feds. Interestingly, the court rulings which permit them to not assist the feds permit that because they're not being paid to assist the feds. The fact that this was the justification is damaged by the requirement that the feds pay them even though they're doing that. Seems like it should be either/or.

Likely that's what we'll end up with in a year or so after the courts have drug things out as long as possible.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:30 PM (ExV1e)

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Interesting, wasn't aware of that. Trump then should mandate a payment of $1 per annum to ALL sanctuary city and state LEOs and other official offices -- thus satisfying the payment requirement.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:35 PM (gMWM2)

147 131 ALL women. ALL in Ohio.

Unconditional pardon - Mike DeWine

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:32 PM (/U5Yz)

He's just watching out for his sorority sisters...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 12:35 PM (wtvvX)

148 >>>and so it begins
Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at April 25, 2025 12:15 PM (jc0TO)

I LOVE THIS GUY!

Posted by: Guy who always talks about loving other guys at April 25, 2025 12:35 PM (q177U)

149 >> Hunter Biden could buy a gun with counterfeit cash while shooting fentanyl and banging an underage hooker and that would be fine.

I can?? Cool, thanks!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at April 25, 2025 12:35 PM (/dDa4)

150 @AGPamBondi
·
29m
I can confirm that our @FBI agents just arrested Hannah Dugan – a county judge in Milwaukee – for allegedly helping an illegal alien avoid an arrest by
@ICEgov
.

No one is above the law.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 12:35 PM (viF8m)

151 Ace,

To add moar happiness to your imminent and well-deserved time off, you just got a shout out from AmmoGrrrll on Powerline:

https://is.gd/bwAJRf

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2025 12:35 PM (PiwSw)

152 I can't wait till some other judge vacates the arrest.

Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 12:36 PM (q177U)

153 that screeching noise you just heard was all the Multnomah County judges who smuggled illegals out of the court to keep them out of ICE custody suddenly puckering their butt holes.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 12:36 PM (D7oie)

154 MOAR please!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 12:36 PM (RIvkX)

155 Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson

Maybe it's time to "have a little talk with , Jesus" Scogg, er. Eddie Felson- whoever he is- because you seem like a chronically angry person.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 12:36 PM (42Vb+)

156 Take No Prisoners.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 12:36 PM (pZ64F)

157 From what I'm reading, Ace may need to take a day or two to get the ash from New Jersey wildfires out of his pelt. NYC is under an air quality advisory.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 12:37 PM (VNX3d)

158 NAZI'S! HITLER !

Posted by: Your sycophant press at April 25, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)

159 moar please

every day, this is the kind of news I hope for

Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 25, 2025 12:37 PM (Eo96p)

160 Here’s another Glamor Shot of the judge:

https://tinyurl.com/mwztvvun
Posted by: Bicentennialguy
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I'd hit it...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 25, 2025 12:38 PM (5hfjS)

161 district judge to order his fellow judge be released, in
3
2
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Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 12:33 PM (AOsQT)

Self-identifying who to arrest next.

Good.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:34 PM (GFM7I)

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BREAKING: Trump Initiates "Operation Whack-A-Mole," Giving New Meaning To The Term And Activity. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:38 PM (gMWM2)

162 Former congressman George Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and two years of supervised release on Friday.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:38 PM (/U5Yz)

163 And yes, these judges are terribly corrupt. I have no control over what they do , and I'm glad this one arrested.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 12:38 PM (42Vb+)

164 This same thing has happened x1000 without the subsequent arrest. It has been going on here for 20 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 12:38 PM (RIvkX)

165 162 Former congressman George Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and two years of supervised release on Friday.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:38 PM (/U5Yz)

He's creepy but that seems a bit harsh...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 12:39 PM (VE6XX)

166 Here’s another Glamor Shot of the judge:

https://tinyurl.com/mwztvvun

--

Search inquiry:

hannah dugan judge husband

Zero results

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 12:39 PM (TvjUl)

167 No one is above the law.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 12:35 PM (viF8m)

I am the law.

Posted by: Chief President John Roberts at April 25, 2025 12:40 PM (/dDa4)

168 "Certainly there are a good number of judges who just happen to have family members who just happen to have monetary gain for things related to cases that they just happen to oversee." Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They think they have perfected their methods. Biden and others got away with such egregious fraud which they barely tried to conceal ... yet no prosecutions. No RICO.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2025 12:40 PM (Cus5s)

169 There goes the judge!

Posted by: Laugh-In at April 25, 2025 12:40 PM (63Dwl)

170 Search inquiry:

hannah dugan judge husband

Zero results
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Try “wife”

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2025 12:40 PM (etGhm)

171 165 162 Former congressman George Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and two years of supervised release on Friday.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:38 PM (/U5Yz)

He's creepy but that seems a bit harsh...
Posted by: It's me donna

The Republican party left him to swing in the wind.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:40 PM (/U5Yz)

172 Nice start. Now do Mayors, Governors, CEOs, and anyone else who has hired or hidden illegals. Until the "betters" are made to feel uncomfortable, well business as usual.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at April 25, 2025 12:40 PM (pZ64F)

173 Don't do that to our COB emeritus!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2025 12:34 PM (7AYvE)

That was thoughtful of you. 😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 12:40 PM (42Vb+)

174 From what I'm reading, Ace may need to take a day or two to get the ash from New Jersey wildfires out of his pelt. NYC is under an air quality advisory.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 12:37 PM (VNX3d)

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I have a suspicion that Ace bailed from NYC and the NE Shithole some years ago.

I could tell you how I know, but ... you would have to donate to Ace to find out.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:40 PM (gMWM2)

175 166 Is she sitting nekkid on an ottoman? Art thread material.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 25, 2025 12:40 PM (gm9Sb)

176 so a question for all of yous with legal training: does the obligations as an officer of the court flow not only from attorneys and employees under a judge, but also from the judge and DA to fulfill the requirements by government and the law?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 12:41 PM (D7oie)

177 Ace, where are you and garrett vacationing?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 12:41 PM (RIvkX)

178 Search inquiry:

hannah dugan judge husband

Zero results
====

Try “wife”
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2025 12:40 PM (etGhm)

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Or "Cat Ladies Against Trump and Vance!"

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:41 PM (gMWM2)

179 This same thing has happened x1000 without the subsequent arrest. It has been going on here for 20 years.

It turns out, creating any group with rights and power above that of the common citizen that they can wield 100% of the time is a really awful idea.

We, as a culture and country, sure have a complicated system of classes and castes.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 12:42 PM (44/3W)

180 {{{TecumsehTea}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 12:42 PM (u82oZ)

181 Former congressman George Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and two years of supervised release on Friday.

Seven years for inflating fund raising claims and pretending to be gay and winning an election but mostly pretending to be gay and winning an election

Posted by: Some Veruca Salt fan at April 25, 2025 12:42 PM (t0Rmr)

182 175 166 Is she sitting nekkid on an ottoman? Art thread material.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

🤮

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 25, 2025 12:42 PM (w25Oa)

183 172 Nice start. Now do Mayors, Governors, CEOs, and anyone else who has hired or hidden illegals. Until the "betters" are made to feel uncomfortable, well business as usual.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd.

This is just to appease the people that want action. We won't see another arrest of anyone of importance for months if then.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:43 PM (/U5Yz)

184 It is so interesting that the Left demands that Trump be strictly legal yet think it is okay to interfere with immigration law.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2025 12:43 PM (cvWHI)

185 Will Hadrian go to Ace's place while he's away to clean up? He seems to have the most experience mucking out kennels and dealing with dander and fur.

Posted by: Spring Cleaning at April 25, 2025 12:44 PM (G5+As)

186 170 Search inquiry:

hannah dugan judge husband

Zero results
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Try “wife”
Posted by: Bicentennialguy

Try "non-binary life partner". Or "dog friendly peanut butter".

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 25, 2025 12:44 PM (w25Oa)

187 Some of 'em do have terrible disguises and you can see they're demons. This one, Stefan Halper, John Podesta, and toadlike warlord Victoria Nuland are some examples.

I think they might have blown all their money and had to buy their costumes at Astaroth's Discount Human Suit Barn.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 12:24 PM (BI5O2)

Astaroth's Discount Human Suit Barn > Party City Wigs

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 12:45 PM (FCbAQ)

188
Black is the New Black

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 12:45 PM (xG4kz)

189 @181

>>Seven years for inflating fund raising claims and pretending to be gay and winning an election but mostly pretending to be gay and winning an election

Trump will pardon him in short order.

So, there's that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2025 12:45 PM (XV/Pl)

190 Dugan is a former regional head of Catholic Charities, so she is embedded in the illegal immigrant-industrial complex.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2025 12:45 PM (xTIDn)

191 There is a certain AG in NY...that allegedly committed much fraud...

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 12:46 PM (g47mK)

192 190 Dugan is a former regional head of Catholic Charities, so she is embedded in the illegal immigrant-industrial complex.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2025 12:45 PM (xTIDn

Makes sense

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 12:46 PM (VE6XX)

193 Holy crap, someone other than President Trump and Secretary Hegseth did something of note?? Please continue!!!!

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 25, 2025 12:46 PM (gsgWV)

194 Good videos from X at Legal Insurrection showing Hasidim in Brooklyn fighting back against pro Hamas thugs. More please

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 12:46 PM (6TePA)

195 Ohio had or has a deal on the books stating a sitting judge must be tried before a panel of his peers (drinkin' buddies down at the lawyer and judge's club). We had a jewel that got caught by the staties driving in an erratic manner, crossing lines, and driving way too slow. His fellow judges let him off with the defense being he had just washed his car and was avoiding puddles.

-------

Shockingly corrupt law, even by our low standards in this kleptocracy of ours.

Judges should face a jury of criminals. Those are their real peers. And every convicted judge should be punished by anal electrocution, like a mink. Even for jaywalking.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 12:47 PM (BI5O2)

196 and toadlike warlord Victoria Nuland
-----------
Imma surprised she didn't eat Ukraine.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 12:47 PM (pZ64F)

197
Ace, where are you and garrett vacationing?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

They're going to take in three May Day parades across this country.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 12:47 PM (xG4kz)

198 Before committing this felony Judge Dugan was best known for allowing explicit leftwing vote fraud in Milwaukee

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 12:48 PM (t0Rmr)

199 Woohoo spring break! Enjoy the time ace!

Posted by: mishdog at April 25, 2025 12:48 PM (mhruQ)

200 Imma surprised she didn't eat Ukraine.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 12:47 PM (pZ64F)

She effectively did. Whatever Lil' Z didn't shove up his nose, anyway.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 12:48 PM (BI5O2)

201 I read that Susan Rice is still at the Pentagon.. Anyone know if that's true ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 12:48 PM (VE6XX)

202 Dugan is a former regional head of Catholic Charities, so she is embedded in the illegal immigrant-industrial complex.

We'll hire her right now !!!

Posted by: Upper Midwest Lutherans at April 25, 2025 12:48 PM (44/3W)

203 This will be my last day before a one week vacation.

—————

Guys, my dad is going to be gone for a week! You bring the kegs and I’ll bring the gals, this party is going to be liiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 25, 2025 12:49 PM (gsgWV)

204 Here’s another Glamor Shot of the judge:
https://tinyurl.com/mwztvvun
Posted by: Bicentennialguy
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I'd hit it...
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 25, 2025 12:38 PM (5hfjS)
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So would I!

Posted by: Kenilworth at April 25, 2025 12:49 PM (FCbAQ)

205 From what I'm reading, Ace may need to take a day or two to get the ash from New Jersey wildfires out of his pelt. NYC is under an air quality advisory.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 12:37 PM (VNX3d)

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I have a suspicion that Ace bailed from NYC and the NE Shithole some years ago.

I could tell you how I know, but ... you would have to donate to Ace to find out.
Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:40 PM (gMWM2)

Not asking. I can't reveal what I don't know....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 12:49 PM (VNX3d)

206 I got a great idea of a Broadway show. We have these amazing, benevolent Judges harboring Anne Frank from the Nazis...see? But, instead of using Anne Frank. I think she's dead, or something. Anyway, we use Tren de Aragua gang members.

And get this! Are you ready? At intermission of the show, we set up a tattoo artist in the lobby for neck tattoos (included in the ticket price). AND...oh man...this is genius. We don't offer cocktails. We sell Meth, and Crack right over the counter.

Gold, Jerrry....GOLD!

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 12:49 PM (dIske)

207 Ace, where are you and garrett vacationing?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

They're going to take in three May Day parades across this country.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

I'm gonna take in three dudes at a May Day train. Simultaneously!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 25, 2025 12:50 PM (w25Oa)

208 That judge is all gums....something something meeting the defendant out back for for more "contact with the judicial system"

Posted by: mishdog at April 25, 2025 12:51 PM (mhruQ)

209 Or "dog friendly peanut butter".
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 25, 2025 12:44 PM (w25Oa)

Protip: Don’t use Nutella as it is harmful to dogs.

Posted by: Lonely Dyke Magazine at April 25, 2025 12:51 PM (/dDa4)

210 I want Boasberg arrested and charged with Insurrection.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 25, 2025 12:51 PM (ZmEVT)

211 Protip: Don’t use Nutella as it is harmful to dogs.
Posted by: Lonely Dyke Magazine at April 25, 2025 12:51 PM (/dDa4)

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This place

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 12:52 PM (2UnvF)

212 Suspend the privilege of Habeus Corpus.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 25, 2025 12:52 PM (ZmEVT)

213 They caught her because someone narked her out... We need more of this....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 12:53 PM (VE6XX)

214 Are we allowed to say cuck now?

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 12:53 PM (9BzN2)

215 I'm gonna take in three dudes at a May Day train. Simultaneously!
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 25, 2025 12:50 PM (w25Oa

Those are rookie numbers. With her experience she should have base line of 100...the Bonnie Blue Mendoza Line for whores.

Posted by: mishdog at April 25, 2025 12:53 PM (mhruQ)

216 Dugan is a former regional head of Catholic Charities, so she is embedded in the illegal immigrant-industrial complex.

Catholic Charities set up a low income complex in my town - they swore that most of the tenants would be retirees and veterans, and that there would be a strict code of conduct for tenants to keep them from disturbing the adjacent residential neighborhood.

They lied through their teeth.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2025 12:53 PM (xTIDn)

217 This is just to appease the people that want action. We won't see another arrest of anyone of importance for months if then.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:43 PM (/U5Yz)

Do you remember Merrick Garland? Of course you do... he's the comparison you like to throw around. Do you remember everything he accomplished as AG... how he accomplished all of that despite all the straight shooting, ham and eggers at the DOJ... despite the eternal vigilance of the ever faithful Congressional Republicans... despite the steely determination of the federal judiciary to ensure that everything is exactly as it should be?

Now, who the fuck can our people trust? Who can they even assign to investigate things? When they act, how do they prevent the judges from stepping in? If they sweep past the judges, how do the stop the impeachment?

You want Trump to be a dictator but he won't be in office forever. It's March 1942. We've a long way to go. There will be setbacks. Whining accomplishes nothing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:53 PM (ExV1e)

218 215 I'm gonna take in three dudes at a May Day train. Simultaneously!
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 25, 2025 12:50 PM (w25Oa

I forget.. Is she mattress girl ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 12:54 PM (VE6XX)

219 Now come do Chicago, please

Posted by: YellowBird at April 25, 2025 12:54 PM (MEbkQ)

220 177 Ace, where are you and garrett vacationing?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 12:41 PM (RIvkX)

And why is it Fire Island?

Posted by: XTC at April 25, 2025 12:54 PM (UnA8+)

221 Protip: Don’t use Nutella as it is harmful to dogs.
Posted by: Lonely Dyke Magazine

Nutella > Creamy Peanut Butter >>>>>> Crunchy Peanut Butter

Personal preference. No dogs involved.

Posted by: Huma Abedin at April 25, 2025 12:54 PM (w25Oa)

222 Will there be an uptick in the Ghost of Endor sightings?

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 25, 2025 12:54 PM (gu0ND)

223 Here's Dugan leaving the courthouse after her arrest. She practically runs to her car.

https://tinyurl.com/f2f8wunj

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 25, 2025 12:55 PM (paSBy)

224 210 I want Boasberg arrested and charged with Insurrection.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

We're busy doctoring the Epstein files so, GFY.

Posted by: DOJ at April 25, 2025 12:55 PM (/U5Yz)

225 Enjoy your vacation!
You will be missed, but you earned the time off.
I hope you're considering a real vacation, where you don't even go on-line.
Well, unless you're ordering booze or an escort service. There are acceptable exceptions.

Posted by: Kraki at April 25, 2025 12:55 PM (cG6Xc)

226 214 Are we allowed to say cuck now?
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Do you know how many times I got put in the barrel for saying cuck? Then, all of a sudden, cuck was recognized as the Queen's English. I suffered so you could say 'cuck." True Story.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 12:55 PM (pZ64F)

227 Nutella > Creamy Peanut Butter >>>>>> Crunchy Peanut Butter

Personal preference. No dogs involved.
Posted by: Huma Abedin

If Hillary hasn't showered in a while, though, I use crunchy, so I have plausible deniability for any chunks I encounter.

Posted by: Huma Abedin at April 25, 2025 12:55 PM (w25Oa)

228 My favorite part is why the illegal was in her courtroom:
Multiple counts of domestic assault.

Which she let him off for.
#believeAllWomen

Except when it's an illegal alien.

Isn't that just awesome? You, a citizen, get in a scuffle with your spouse/partner, they'll throw the book at you and take away most of your rights ex parte.

But, here, an illegal, he is a Super Citizen and he gets the charges dismisses and get's snuck out the back door to safety.

Party of Women ... beaters.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2025 12:56 PM (8THjb)

229 The judicial resistance is criminal, and the judges are being arrested and charged for it. Good!

Posted by: Wofus at April 25, 2025 12:56 PM (CNa+A)

230 Online they've started calling him "The Hero of Ploiești"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 12:26 PM (Dv3i1)

I knew a "Hero of Ploesti". He was a gunner on a B-24 flying out of Italy. He taught forest surveying and plant ID at the community college.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 12:56 PM (D7oie)

231 >>223 Here's Dugan leaving the courthouse after her arrest. She practically runs to her car.

https://tinyurl.com/f2f8wunj
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist

How does she get to leave with no cuffs or feds escorting her? Lame.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:57 PM (/U5Yz)

232 Hello, everyone. This will be my last day before a one week vacation.
......

Enjoy Tahiti !

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 12:57 PM (v0R5T)

233 I look forward, more than usual, to Tom Homan media interviews this weekend lol

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 25, 2025 12:57 PM (w25Oa)

234 I hope a few other judges get arrested

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 12:57 PM (ypFCm)

235 In honor of Ace's vacation, I'd like to report my GAINZZZ progress--I haven't seen a thread for a while.

I started dedicating myself to getting healthy (body, mind, emotions) on August 12, the first day of the school year.

I've lost 75 pounds and, thanks to Pure Barre, developed muscle tone and definition and greater strength, flexibility, and balance. Vigorous walking (30 minutes 5 times a week) has also helped my stamina.

It's never too late to choose health. It can be challenging to break bad habits and build new ones, but feeling (and looking) truly well is worth it.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (USyCi)

236 I got a great idea of a Broadway show. We have these amazing, benevolent Judges harboring Anne Frank from the Nazis...see? But, instead of using Anne Frank. I think she's dead, or something. Anyway, we use Tren de Aragua gang members.

And get this! Are you ready? At intermission of the show, we set up a tattoo artist in the lobby for neck tattoos (included in the ticket price). AND...oh man...this is genius. We don't offer cocktails. We sell Meth, and Crack right over the counter.

Gold, Jerrry....GOLD!

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 12:49 PM (dIske)

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He'll be there the whole week. Tip your warden. Try the meth.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (gMWM2)

237 223 Here's Dugan leaving the courthouse after her arrest. She practically runs to her car.

https://tinyurl.com/f2f8wunj
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist
......

More like a waddle.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (v0R5T)

238 The "Lutherans" who facilitate immigration through whatever means are affiliated with the ELCA.
Missouri synod and WELS have no connection to these groups.
All you other reformation churches who've had to split from woke sects know about this, amirite?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (FCbAQ)

239 Send them both to CECOT
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at April 25, 2025 12:32 PM (xaNfJ)

screw that, put them in their own County jail. Gen Pop

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 12:59 PM (D7oie)

240 But HE’S A SWEETHEART!!! It is WRONG and EVIL to check passports at the border!!!

Posted by: Hannah Dugan at April 25, 2025 01:00 PM (8jn+t)

241 Tahiti... or Thailand?

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:00 PM (bXihk)

242 176 so a question for all of yous with legal training: does the obligations as an officer of the court flow not only from attorneys and employees under a judge, but also from the judge and DA to fulfill the requirements by government and the law?
Posted by: Kindltot
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Yes. Only applied in extreme edge cases like Mike NiFong (duke lacrosse hoax).

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:01 PM (ctrM5)

243 Hello, everyone. This will be my last day before a one week vacation.
......

be sure to submit your timesheet by COB today, and charge your time next week to PTO

Posted by: AoS HR Dept. at April 25, 2025 01:01 PM (v0R5T)

244 239 Send them both to CECOT
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at April 25, 2025 12:32 PM (xaNfJ)

screw that, put them in their own County jail. Gen Pop
Posted by: Kindltot

A normal, 2-person cell would be fine. With a trans-woman held for violent sex crimes.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 25, 2025 01:01 PM (w25Oa)

245
I forget.. Is she mattress girl ?
Posted by: It's me donna

She's the one who complained about the high cost of birth control for wahmyns.

Rush gave her a good going over and caught flack for doing so from the midwits on the left.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 01:01 PM (xG4kz)

246 Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (USyCi)

Well done gotc

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:01 PM (bXihk)

247 Except when it's an illegal alien.

Isn't that just awesome? You, a citizen, get in a scuffle with your spouse/partner, they'll throw the book at you and take away most of your rights ex parte.

But, here, an illegal, he is a Super Citizen and he gets the charges dismisses and get's snuck out the back door to safety.

Party of Women ... beaters.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2025 12:56 PM (8THjb)

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"Yo, reparations gonna cost, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 01:01 PM (gMWM2)

248 This will be my last day before a one week vacation.

—————

Guys, my dad is going to be gone for a week! You bring the kegs and I’ll bring the gals, this party is going to be liiiiiiiiiiiiiit!
Posted by: Cray Cray
________

This place is going to look like the house in Sixteen Candles after the party. Or one of the cobs goes Barney Fife and we all end up in the barrel.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025 01:02 PM (UBKzV)

249 Rush gave her a good going over and caught flack for doing so from the midwits on the left.

Some gals like a good going over. -- Sandra Fluke

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:02 PM (ExV1e)

250
Hello, everyone. This will be my last day before a one week vacation.

Draining the last of the USAID funds from your accounts, are you?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 01:03 PM (xG4kz)

251
Former congressman George Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and two years of supervised release on Friday.

Richard Blumenthal still a free man.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 01:03 PM (63Dwl)

252 >> She practically runs to her car.

She waddled.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:03 PM (/dDa4)

253
This place is going to look like the house in Sixteen Candles after the party. Or one of the cobs goes Barney Fife and we all end up in the barrel.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025 01:02 PM (UBKzV)

I don't know what you're talking about.. I for one intend to be on my best behavior...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:03 PM (VE6XX)

254 Tahiti... or Thailand?
Posted by: ...
......

Disneyland?

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 01:03 PM (v0R5T)

255 Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (USyCi)

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Congratulations!

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 01:03 PM (gMWM2)

256 255 Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 25, 2025 12:58 PM (USyCi)

Yes... Congrats...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:04 PM (VE6XX)

257 241 Tahiti... or Thailand?
Posted by: ...
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Endor, very chi chi planetary excursion btw.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:04 PM (ctrM5)

258 This place is going to look like the house in Sixteen Candles after the party. Or one of the cobs goes Barney Fife and we all end up in the barrel.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025 01:02 PM (UBKzV)

I don't know what you're talking about.. I for one intend to be on my best behavior...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:03 PM (VE6XX)

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Pants optional.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 01:05 PM (gMWM2)

259 Collectively, the cradle of American Marxism.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (44/3W)

You can't overlook NYC and the relocation of Hamburg's Institute for Social Research to the city in 1933.

Posted by: front toward enemy at April 25, 2025 01:05 PM (TIizU)

260 Have fun, Ace! Whatever is funnest in Aceworld.

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 01:05 PM (CQE5S)

261 It'd be hilarious if this kicked off the next British civil war.

@ForeverScept 55m
It begins.

Pakistanis and Indians clash in London.

Posted by: Elon Musk at April 25, 2025 01:05 PM (mlg/3)

262 251
Former congressman George Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and two years of supervised release on Friday.

Richard Blumenthal still a free man.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

And there's nothing wrong with that! We need a more compassionate, understanding, forgiveness-based justice system...

Posted by: Karmelo Anthony at April 25, 2025 01:05 PM (w25Oa)

263 I mean Frankfurt.

Posted by: front toward enemy at April 25, 2025 01:05 PM (TIizU)

264 249 Rush gave her a good going over and caught flack for doing so from the midwits on the left.

Some gals like a good going over. -- Sandra Fluke
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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From what I remember, she tried for a political career and got bounced right out of it. Sort of like Mr. Young Turk himself.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:06 PM (ctrM5)

265 248 This will be my last day before a one week vacation.

—————

Guys, my dad is going to be gone for a week! You bring the kegs and I’ll bring the gals, this party is going to be liiiiiiiiiiiiiit!
Posted by: Cray Cray
________

This place is going to look like the house in Sixteen Candles after the party. Or one of the cobs goes Barney Fife and we all end up in the barrel.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 25, 2025 01:02 PM (UBKzV)

I'll bring the booze.

Posted by: Mclovin at April 25, 2025 01:06 PM (OA79/)

266 Everyone stocked up on alcohol for the week?

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 01:06 PM (ypFCm)

267 I don't know what you're talking about.. I for one intend to be on my best behavior...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 01:03 PM (VE6XX)

There's a low bar if I've ever heard one.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 01:06 PM (bXihk)

268 Ace, where are you and garrett vacationing?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 12:41 PM (RIvkX)

No, remember, he and Rachel Maddow are taking vacations together. Gonna be lit!

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 01:06 PM (D7oie)

269 Pakistanis and Indians clash in London.
Posted by: Elon Musk at April 25, 2025 01:05 PM (mlg/3)

Since Pakistanis are more likely to be Muslim, I assume that's who the government will back.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:06 PM (ExV1e)

270
Pakistanis and Indians clash in London.
Posted by: Elon Musk

Which will sling a nuke into Londonistan, Pakistan or India?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 01:07 PM (xG4kz)

271 The left is willing to die on this hill of illegal immigrants not being sent home. They will cause a constitutional crisis to protect MS 13 gang bangers.

Posted by: Maroon at April 25, 2025 01:07 PM (DB0T+)

272 After bilking NY taxpayers for years and perpetrating a prosecutorial fraud against President Trump, overseeing a rise in violent crime, and subverting The Bill of Rights, Letitia James will now once again screw the taxpayers by billing them for her defense in the mortgage fraud case. She’s hired one of the most expensive litigation attorneys available.

Enjoy, New York. Here’s a “Kick Me” sign.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 01:07 PM (UehYX)

273 So, for those keeping count at home, that two domestic abusers the Democrat Party is fighting tooth-and-nail to protect.

Maryland Father -- beat up on his wife multiple times
Milwaukee Man -- beat up on his girl multiple times

Democrats:
"These are heros who must be granted freedom in America at all costs!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2025 01:07 PM (8THjb)

274 Joel Cano = a fan of getting pegged by MS-13 members

Posted by: The_Hoser at April 25, 2025 01:07 PM (f4jia)

275 Panties optional.
Posted by: ShainS

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 01:08 PM (v0R5T)

276
It'd be hilarious if this kicked off the next British civil war.

@ForeverScept 55m
It begins.

Pakistanis and Indians clash in London.
Posted by: Elon Musk

Mods vs Rockers 2025

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 01:08 PM (63Dwl)

277 It'd be hilarious if this kicked off the next British civil war.

@ForeverScept 55m
It begins.

Pakistanis and Indians clash in London.
Posted by: Elon Musk at April 25, 2025 01:05 PM (mlg/3)

Things are getting serious in the subcontinent. India’s already deployed biological weapons on its own streets.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:08 PM (/dDa4)

278 From what I remember, she tried for a political career and got bounced right out of it. Sort of like Mr. Young Turk himself.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:06 PM (ctrM5)

Honestly, I don't even remember how she popped up on radar in the first place. I just recall her being an Ace commentary whore figure... maybe one of the first.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:08 PM (ExV1e)

279 251
Former congressman George Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and two years of supervised release on Friday.

Richard Blumenthal still a free man.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 01:03 PM (63Dwl)

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Jon Corzine, illegally used investor money. Open and shut case, free as a bird.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2025 01:09 PM (Vh9CX)

280 We're gonna need a bigger barrel.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 01:09 PM (v0R5T)

281 Ace, where are you and garrett vacationing?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 12:41 PM (RIvkX)

No, remember, he and Rachel Maddow are taking vacations together. Gonna be lit!
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 01:06 PM (D7oie)

garrett is Rachel Maddow?!!!???!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

282 Dear Lord, please bring us justice. These miscreants have been oppressing the American people.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 25, 2025 01:09 PM (e7ATA)

283 I hope you're all in as good a mood as I am but I don't see how that would be possible.

So, just got back to my desk with 2 Chick-fil-A and a shake then opened this up, I'd say we are damned close.

Posted by: Cu'chullainn at April 25, 2025 01:09 PM (MH24+)

284 LFG!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2025 01:10 PM (i24o9)

285 THIS, is the way.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 01:10 PM (QAkQ3)

286 271 The left is willing to die on this hill of illegal immigrants not being sent home. They will cause a constitutional crisis to protect MS 13 gang bangers.
Posted by: Maroon

If Trump can deport legally undocumented peaceful migrants, how long before he starts illegal deporting his political enemies!?!?!??

Posted by: Unhinged Rabid Leftists at April 25, 2025 01:10 PM (w25Oa)

287 If Trump can deport legally undocumented peaceful migrants, how long before he starts illegal deporting his political enemies!?!?!??
Posted by: Unhinged Rabid Leftists at April 25, 2025 01:10 PM (w25Oa)

At this rate we'll have to pay El Salvador to build another CECOT.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:11 PM (ExV1e)

288
Jon Corzine, illegally used investor money. Open and shut case, free as a bird.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2025 01:09 PM (Vh9CX)

When he was gonna lose his senate seat because if it, they dropped him from the ticket like 4 weeks before the election and just stuck a new candidate on the ballot.

New Jersey dems.

Posted by: Mclovin at April 25, 2025 01:11 PM (OA79/)

289 Honestly, I don't even remember how she popped up on radar in the first place. I just recall her being an Ace commentary whore figure... maybe one of the first.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Testilying at a Congressional Committee meeting IIRC about the need to make insurance companies pay for contraceptives even OTC ones. Obamacare debates I think.

Mattress girl was at one of the Ivies, Columbia mebbe?, that paraded around with a mattress and claims that she had been sexually assaulted or something like that. Performance art probably paid for by AID indirectly at the time.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:11 PM (ctrM5)

290 garrett is Rachel Maddow?!!!???!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Have you ever seen the two of them together? Simultaneously!?!?!?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 25, 2025 01:12 PM (w25Oa)

291 Nood. Merch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 01:12 PM (ExV1e)

292 286 271 The left is willing to die on this hill of illegal immigrants not being sent home. They will cause a constitutional crisis to protect MS 13 gang bangers.
Posted by: Maroon

If Trump can deport legally undocumented peaceful migrants, how long before he starts illegal deporting his political enemies!?!?!??
Posted by: Unhinged Rabid Leftists
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Not much difference between them, neither category of humanity are Americans. I say deport away.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 01:13 PM (ctrM5)

293 Sandra Fluke was the one who said she was spending $1000 /year on birth control and needed taxpayers to subsidize it. Rush Limbaugh called her a slut. She became a Democrat hero and a punchline around here.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:13 PM (/dDa4)

294 274 Joel Cano = a fan of getting pegged by MS-13 members
Posted by: The_Hoser at April 25, 2025 01:07 PM (f4ji

ITS FUNNY CAUSE HE GOT THROWN IN THE CAN!

Posted by: Ben Rothliesbergergler at April 25, 2025 01:13 PM (OA79/)

295 They couldn’t get The Dugan for Highlander so they had to go with The Kurgan.
It’s a shame, The Kurgan is not as scary.

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 25, 2025 01:13 PM (5SvjB)

296 Wow... we now see the possibility of a YUGE shift in global power...

India and Pakistan will both be looking for allies and making enemies...

EU is no longer a Democracy... and is blatantly against US Civil Rights...

Russia is trying to talk...

China, in a yuge trade war with the US...

Possible US, Russia, India power alignment? Would make the NeoCon heads explode...

(I know, not gonna happen, but things are getting weird out there).

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2025 01:14 PM (QAkQ3)

297 > The left is willing to die on this hill of illegal immigrants not being sent home.

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0bama and Biden's Handlers opened the border and let everybody in to change out country's voting patterns

IF YOU'RE NOT GETTING THE ELECTION RESULTS YOU WANT, GET NEW VOTERS

Now: they can't stand idly by while Trump & Associates sends them all home. That would ruin everything!

That's 'the hill' they will die on: watching their illegal voters getting shipped out

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 01:15 PM (AOsQT)

298
Honestly, I don't even remember how she popped up on radar in the first place. I just recall her being an Ace commentary whore figure... maybe one of the first.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

The Dims were the minority party in the House, but they set up a mock "hearing" with only Dim members. The subject was wahmyn's health or some such nonsense. Fluke testified that having to pay for her birth control herself to the tune of about $25 per month was a gross injustice against wahmyns. After Rush mocked her, Dim midwits considered her a heroic fighter for their cause.

Note that Dims are gearing up to run similar "hearings" now against Orange Man Bad for whatever suits their fancy.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 01:15 PM (xG4kz)

299 > Former congressman George Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and two years of supervised release on Friday.
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Wonder what "Judge Judy Dugan" will be charged with at her arraignment.... assuming this gets that far. And what sort of punishment she gets if any.

The act of being arrested is one thing. It's all the follow on stuff I'd like to see actually applied.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 01:16 PM (Q4IgG)

300 Ace, where are you and garrett vacationing?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 12:41 PM (RIvkX)

Uranus, of course.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2025 01:18 PM (i24o9)

301 Pants optional.
Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 01:05 PM (gMWM2)
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The Sunday Morning Book Thread says otherwise...In fact, wear TWO pairs of pants, just to be safe.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 01:18 PM (7fElN)

302 That ugly sow is definitely part of the Hut species.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at April 25, 2025 01:18 PM (JNTt1)

303 123 74 Will you be bringing me a present?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (viF8m)

A shrubbery will do.

No wait ... a herring.

He will bring you a herring !!!
Posted by: Knights Who Say Ni at April 25, 2025 12:30 PM (TTAGa)

If you have been really good, he might bring you a big gnarly earthworm.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at April 25, 2025 01:23 PM (JNTt1)

304 While ace is away the Horde will change its underwear twice a day. And to make sure if this underwear will be worn on the outside of clothing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 01:24 PM (6TePA)

305 So, does the FBI have to obtain an arrest warrant signed by a judge?

Posted by: Q Ree Us at April 25, 2025 01:33 PM (FWAED)

306 ace, as pumped as you are I'd be tempted to think there's a hot blonde waiting wherever you're going.

Posted by: creeper at April 25, 2025 01:43 PM (zFwIe)

307 If Hillary hasn't showered in a while, though, I use crunchy, so I have plausible deniability for any chunks I encounter.
Posted by: Huma Abedin at April 25, 2025 12:55 PM (w25Oa)

That is rather disgusting on several levels.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at April 25, 2025 01:47 PM (JNTt1)

308 FWIW, Patel's tweet (or X post, whatever we're calling it these days) was reposting about 45 minutes after it was taken down.

Posted by: can of spam at April 25, 2025 01:55 PM (7oNMO)

309 This is window dressing. What about these treasonous governor's and mayor's that support sanctuary states/cities? You won't see them taking a perp walk anytime soon. Bank it.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:12 PM (/U5Yz)

Dude, you are tedious. You don't like Donald Trump; you've made that perfectly clear. But the continuous chorus, "ZOMG!!! All is lost!!!" is tiresome.

Two corrupt judges just got arrested by the Federales; one of them in her office. You don't think that doesn't send a message? Judges have gotten to do whatever the fvkc they wanted to, regardless of the law, for decades. There's a new sheriff in town and he's sending a message.

Take the win.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 25, 2025 02:00 PM (pJWtt)

310 128 Enjoy your vacay, ace. I'd say it's well deserved but come on your whole life is one big vacation.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 12:32 PM (bXihk)

LOL!
Seriously, LOL!

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 02:38 PM (CQE5S)

311 YAY! Great news!

Have a wonderful vacation, Ace, and come back rested.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 25, 2025 02:56 PM (6PCLE)

312 "Some of 'em do have terrible disguises and you can see they're demons. This one, Stefan Halper, John Podesta, and toadlike warlord Victoria Nuland are some examples"

Hillary's choice for VP. You could see the Thing crouching inside him.

Posted by: Fen at April 25, 2025 03:17 PM (ciYHQ)

313 does she not have her false teeth in?
So many ancestor photos from late 1800's women look like that because they have no teeth.

Posted by: susan Harms at April 25, 2025 04:08 PM (Kkd7F)

314 Those Imperialists Judges are Not Above the Law just arrest Judges Merchan and Boasberg

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 25, 2025 04:34 PM (wGqjj)

THE MORNING RANT: Periodic Roundup of the EV Follies – 4/25/2025

Wheels on the EV Bus Don’t Go ‘Round

Making school buses electric is an idea that is so stupid that only our “highly educated,” credentialed elites could have thought it would work out. Now that school districts are putting EV school buses into place, it is becoming clear just how awful an idea it was.

“Kansas school halts electric bus use over student safety concerns” [KSNT – 4/17/2025]

The Wabaunsee School District serves rural communities west of Topeka. After deciding to pull its Lion electric school buses out of service, its superintendent was quoted as saying, “While the buses showed early promise, we encountered ongoing operational issues that ultimately led us to pause their use. Out of an abundance of caution, and in line with our highest priority of student safety, we made the decision to remove the buses from active service while we work with the manufacturer toward resolution.”

Working with the manufacturer toward resolution will be difficult…

These are the same Lion EV school buses that have proved to be such a nightmare for schools in Maine, as I recently discussed. Lion has ceased production and has filed for bankruptcy protection, despite the Biden administration having funneled $160 million of taxpayer dollars to it.

Meanwhile, Blue Bird Corporation has fully mastered the corporate-communist business model, as I documented a few months ago. Blue Bird not only receives government grants to manufacture electric school buses, but the government also pays school districts to buy Blue Bird’s buses…or at least it did until Trump took office. Well, Blue Bird’s EV school buses are also not working out very well, either. This news just broke:

“Blue Bird Recalls Electric School Buses” [The Brake Report – 4/21/2025]

The issue came to light in October 2024 following two collisions involving Blue Bird Vision electric buses. Investigations revealed that a high-voltage system shutdown disabled the primary brake assist, and the secondary brake assist system was inoperative due to a blown fuse in one vehicle and a disconnected wiring harness in another. The lack of diagnostic warnings for these failure modes left drivers unaware of the compromised braking system, contributing to the crashes.

As much fun as I have mocking those people and institutions who believed the EV hype and have taken a financial hit for their foolishness, it is deeply disturbing that children are still being subject to the consequences of this awful episode. Every electric school bus is now a sunk cost that cannot be salvaged. It’s time to permanently shut down the EV school bus experiment and get the kids back on safe, reliable, petroleum-powered buses.

*****

Plug-in Hybrids: A Solution in Search of a Problem

Not only are plug-in hybrids a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist, they’re a dangerously bad “solution.”

As best I can tell, the only problem plug-in hybrids solve is that of virtue-signaling people who need the range of an ICE vehicle while still wanting the smugness that comes from driving a plug-in electric car. Unfortunately, plug-in hybrids simply create a very heavy, very inefficient car that is also subject to runaway thermal fires, just like regular EVs.

This is a lesson some Volvo customers are learning, as they are now being told NOT to plug in their plug-in hybrid.

“Volvo Tells Thousands Of Plug-In Hybrid Owners To Stop Charging” [Car Scoops – 3/26/2025]

Volvo is recalling thousands of plug-in hybrids in the United States as they could short circuit when parked and fully charged. This poses a serious fire risk and it could occur at night, when the vehicle is parked in your garage.
That’s a scary thought and owners are being advised not to charge their vehicles until the recall has been addressed.
Delving deeper into the matter, Volvo identified a “production deviation with the battery module” that could potentially lead to a thermal runaway event.

There is this one amazing trick that can ensure a car owner that he will never experience a thermal runaway event with his vehicle. Can you guess what it is?

*****

Does Blowing up a Warehouse Full of Lithium Batteries Count as “Recycling”?

Facilities that collect used lithium EV batteries for disposal / recycling are effectively massive bombs with a fuse that’s waiting to be lit. And it doesn’t even take a spark to light the fuse, just a little instability.

Stories like the following are becoming so common that it is clear that there is no safe way to store used lithium batteries:

“Battery plant EXPLODES for second time in just one year as terrified residents flee debris raining down on their newbuild estate next door” [Daily Mail – 4/10/2025]

Every news story I read about this fire at the Fenix Battery Recycling plant in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland carefully avoided using the words “lithium,” “electric,” and “EV” so as not to allow readers to understand the actual cause of the inferno. In some online forums, people were arguing that this might have been a fire involving traditional lead-acid car batteries.

No, it was a massive conflagration of rechargeable lithium batteries from electric vehicles. This is from an article in May of 2021 when the Kilwinning battery recycling plant was opening for business:

As lithium ion battery use surges with the growth in the electric vehicle market, a new multi-chemistry battery recycling facility has been opened in Kilwinning near Glasgow. The site will play an important part in Fenix Battery Recycling’s plans to develop facilities to offer on-site recycling for multiple battery types, with this site specialising in recycling Electric Vehicle Batteries.

That 2021 article went on to state that this EV recycling plant was the result of “significant grant funding to develop an innovative technology to make lithium ion battery recycling cleaner and more sustainable.”

Comrade Arthur originally sent this story to me, and I took the occasion to seek clarity as to whether burning a city down with exploding EV batteries is the “clean” part of green energy or the “renewable” part.

Are exploding lithium battery facilities the “clean” part of green energy or the “renewable” part?
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) April 12, 2025

Today’s header photo is also a picture of the “recycling” operation at the EV recycling plant in Kilwinning.

*****

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss, but a Parked EV Quickly Loses Its Charge

An ICE car with gas in the tank does not lose its fuel supply when it’s parked for days on end, nor does it draw on its 12V battery. As electric vehicle owners are learning, the same cannot be said for their charged-up EVs.

“3,100 Miles In, I Parked My Hyundai Ioniq in My Garage for 10 Days With 78% Battery, Now It's Dead and the Dealer Says It Killed The 12V Battery” [Torque News – 4/10/2025]

Let me set the scene for you. You buy a brand-new Hyundai Ioniq 5. You love the futuristic design, the spaceship dashboard, and the whisper-quiet ride. You’re sitting at just over 3,000 miles—barely out of the honeymoon phase. You park it in your garage, battery sitting at 78%, and go away for ten days. You come back expecting to drive off into the sunset. Instead, what greets you is a total system shutdown. The car is completely dead. Not low battery - dead. You have to use a manual key to get in, and then jump-start a brand-new 12V battery just to bring it back to life. That’s exactly what happened to James Heckathorne, who shared his experience in The Ioniq Guy Facebook group - an increasingly essential place for Ioniq owners to make sense of their EVs beyond the sales brochures and glossy commercials.

There is some interesting discussion in this piece about the electrical and mechanical reasons why this problem occurs in EVs, but the fact that parking your EV for 10 days may turn it into a brick is yet another unnecessary hassle involved in driving an EV instead of a reliable ICE car.

*****

EV Death Pool Update

Rivian is inching closer to its ultimate destination, as Q1 2025 sales tumbled dramatically. You’d think with leftists turning against Elon Musk, that Rivian might pick up some lost Tesla sales, but that did not happen.

“Rivian's Q1 Sales Fell 36% Amid L.A. Wildfire Fallout” [Inside EVs – 4/02/2025]

…amid L.A. Wildfire fallout.” That’s funny. I would suggest that “…amid massive consumer rejection” would be a more accurate headline, but that is a story the media doesn’t want to tell.

Rivian sold just 8,640 vehicles in the first quarter of 2025, compared to 13,588 in Q1 of 2024, a 36% drop. 2025’s sales annualize to only 35,000 units per year. Rivian had been eking out about 50,000 unit sales in recent years, while still promising to build a plant in Georgia to manufacture hundreds of thousands of vehicles each year.

The problem isn’t supply. Rivian manufactured over 14,000 vehicles in the quarter. What this means in the short term is that Rivian will have to start heavily discounting soon to get rid of the glut of unsold units. That will get the EV fanboys all excited about the uptick in sales, but only until the next round of catastrophic financial statements are released by Rivian as a result of dumping the excess vehicles at a huge loss per unit.

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. Rivian cannot churn out money-losing vehicles indefinitely, especially in the face of collapsing demand.

*****

Stop Building Electric Vehicles that No One Will Buy

When General Motor announced the launch of its “BrightDrop” electric delivery van several years ago, it forecast that by 2023 the BrightDrop would be producing about $1 billion per year in revenue, which comes out to about 12,000 units sold per year at the anticipated sales price of about $85,000 per unit. But GM sold less than 500 units in 2023, and only sold 1,529 BrightDrops in 2024 as it unloaded its excess production from 2023 with huge incentives. The current GM rebate on a BrightDrop is $25,500 per unit, and this doesn’t include any federal incentives! Yet the auto manufacturer still can’t unload them.

Suffice it to say, electric delivery vans have been a financial disaster for GM.

“GM cutting jobs, idling Canadian electric van plant due to ‘market demand’” [CNBC – 4/11/2025]

General Motors is cutting production of its all-electric BrightDrop delivery vans at a plant in Canada and will idle the facility through much of 2025, the company confirmed Friday.

If GM is idling the plant for most of the next eight months, there must be a serious glut of unsold BrightDrops.

The Detroit automaker said the decisions are not related to President Donald Trump’s tariffs. “This adjustment is directly related to responding to market demand and re-balancing inventory,” GM said in an emailed statement.

According to this USA Today piece, GM produced 3,500 BrightDrops in 2024, which is about 2,000 more units than it actually sold. This means GM has more than a year’s supply of its unwanted electric delivery vans to unload!

General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra was extremely obedient to her handlers in the Obama/Biden administrations, consistently implementing the destructive EV-agenda they demanded. Now it’s time for her to learn that Biden and Obama are gone and aren’t coming back, and if she is going to avoid the ignominy of being the (insanely overpaid) executive who killed GM, she needs to quickly back away from her all-EV pledge.

*****

Hybrids are a “Bridge to EVs” Like Shrimp are a Bridge to Bug Eating

Traditional, gas-powered, “non-plug-in” hybrids (most famously the Prius) are great vehicles. They generate electricity with regenerative braking, and that electricity is stored in a small battery that is used for incremental propulsion, increasing overall gas mileage. Toyota has had great success by ignoring the EV hype and making much of its lineup traditional hybrid vehicles.

The EV zealots were determined to kill off traditional hybrids along with all other gasoline-powered vehicles, but with the consumer rejection of EVs and the growing market share of traditional hybrids, the EV-loving media is trying to credit hybrids as being “electrified” vehicles that are transitioning people to EVs.

This recent Motor Trend story is typical: “VW to Add Two New Hybrids by 2027”

To Volkswagen’s credit, it realizes that there is a huge market for gasoline-powered hybrids, and with its all-electric ID.4 being a massive flop in the U.S., VW is making a necessary pivot. But Motor Trend is still trying to frame this as a step to an all-electric future.

But [Volkswagen], like many others, miscalculated the speed with which American customers would adopt electric vehicles, betting they would go all-in on full battery electric cars, trucks, and SUVs with greater speed. But the forecasts were too ambitious, and the market is more interested in hybrids then pure EVs right now.

No, Motor Trend, the issue is not “the speed” with which Americans are “adopting” EVs, it’s the passion with which we are rejecting them. We are not just rejecting electric vehicles ”right now.” We are emphatically rejecting EVs, period.

This means VW will have added electric motors to its top-selling models by volume in North America.

Sure. And my gasoline-powered SUV also has a 12V battery, so I’m clearly interested in battery power when it comes to my car.

I’ll keep saying it, hybrids are a bridge to EVs in the same way that eating shrimp is a bridge from beef to bug-eating. In other words, they’re not.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

2 Wurst!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 11:01 AM (iJfKG)

3 My comments keep disappearing!

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

4 Oh, wait, they're back now.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

5 Orwell: Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

Posted by: TerryH at April 25, 2025 11:02 AM (WlF75)

6 With all the negatives that have accumulated against EVs, you'd swear that no one in his right mind would ever touch one... yet they keep selling. Who's buying them, who's paying for them, and who's threatening their families?

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at April 25, 2025 11:02 AM (Nmmyc)

7
I have a complaint.

Why or rather how have the "Jump to bottom of comments" click been totally taken over by a page of craptastic ads?

The HQ has fallen under a malign influence!

Diabolical even!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)

8 The stupidity of people enamored with EV's, wind turbines and solar panels knows no bounds.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (Q4IgG)

9 Make carriage houses great again.

Inadvertent argument for EV ownership.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 11:05 AM (FEpIj)

10
Buck Throckmorton
@BuckThrockmort
Are exploding lithium battery facilities the “clean” part of green energy or the “renewable” part?

*snark*

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 11:05 AM (CQE5S)

11 I'd be screaming "RUN" at those idiots standing outside gawping at the huge recycling facility fire. The gases produced are EXTREMELY toxic.

These sorts of facilities need to be built along the lines of an armory, with widely spaced, bunker-type buildings.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:06 AM (s8j++)

12 7 I have a complaint.

Why or rather how have the "Jump to bottom of comments" click been totally taken over by a page of craptastic ads?

The HQ has fallen under a malign influence!

Diabolical even!
Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)

Also the "Jump to top of page" button?

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 11:07 AM (CQE5S)

13 Lithium is heavily associated with mental illness.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 11:07 AM (pZ64F)

14 Plug-in Hybrids: A Solution in Search of a Problem

Found it! The problem: how to attract Federal subsidies.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 11:07 AM (nNGXU)

15 Lithium is heavily associated with mental illness.

It's the pause that refreshes.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:07 AM (s8j++)

16 Surprised the Rivian sales drop wasn’t blamed on tariffs. Sure Rivians are made in the US and not subject to tariffs. But the media doesn’t often let facts get in the way of their narratives.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 11:08 AM (IZezY)

17 Why or rather how have the "Jump to bottom of comments" click been totally taken over by a page of craptastic ads?
I never see that

Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 25, 2025 11:09 AM (P4Pk9)

18 16 Surprised the Rivian sales drop wasn’t blamed on tariffs. Sure Rivians are made in the US and not subject to tariffs. But the media doesn’t often let facts get in the way of their narratives.
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They have bug eyes. Creepy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 11:09 AM (pZ64F)

19 That makes two leftist judges arrested in less than a week. How many judges did the Garland DOJ arrest?

>>@Osint613
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>>45m
NEW 🔴

>>FBI under Kash Patel has arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan for obstructing an immigration arrest.

>>Patel: “We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.”

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 11:09 AM (viF8m)

20 My Daughter has a Tesla she got right before the election and loves it..... It is not their only car.. Uses it around town.. Does not charge at home....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 11:10 AM (VE6XX)

21 So if we start making motorcycle cars again the enviros would be happy, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 11:11 AM (pZ64F)

22 19 That makes two leftist judges arrested in less than a week. How many judges did the Garland DOJ arrest?

>>@Osint613
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>>45m
NEW 🔴

>>FBI under Kash Patel has arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan for obstructing an immigration arrest.

>>Patel: “We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.”
Posted by: JackStraw
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Won't satisfy the Veruca Salt brigade here. The goal post will simply move as if by magic.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:11 AM (ctrM5)

23 >>FBI under Kash Patel has arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan for obstructing an immigration arrest.

As per usual, she looks exactly like you'd expect her to look.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:11 AM (s8j++)

24 Proves he's a racist.

Trump Prefers Original “Redskins” Name Over “Washington Commanders”: “It's a Superior Name”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

25 Florida Senate Democrat leader Jason Pizzo has changed his Party affiliation on the Senate floor, said the Florida Democratic party is dead.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

26 Going 78% to 0 in 10 days sounds sus. My guess is the heat or a/c twas not turned off, or it turned itself on through a schedule, and that’s what caused the battery to go dead.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 11:12 AM (IZezY)

27 The green folks see the EV fires as a good thing. If it kills someone, that's one less driver making Gaia cry.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 11:12 AM (OPGS/)

28 11 I'd be screaming "RUN" at those idiots standing outside gawping at the huge recycling facility fire. The gases produced are EXTREMELY toxic.
Posted by: Archimedes
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They are competing for the Darwin Awards.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:13 AM (ctrM5)

29 Also, Lulu Roman, of "Hee-Haw" has died. Age 78.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

30 25 Florida Senate Democrat leader Jason Pizzo has changed his Party affiliation on the Senate floor, said the Florida Democratic party is dead.

Methinks he's just trying to maintain his own electoral viability.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:13 AM (s8j++)

31 >>45m
NEW 🔴

>>FBI under Kash Patel has arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan for obstructing an immigration arrest.

>>Patel: “We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.”
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 11:09 AM (viF8m)
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You know, Milwaukee is a pretty cool city. It'd be a great city if we could clear out some of the leftists.

Posted by: WisRich at April 25, 2025 11:13 AM (G0vdT)

32 An ICE vehicle can drain the 12v battery also if left idle too long. I have a 15 y/o SUV that I've kept for hauling stuff from the hardware store and pulling the boat. In winter it's not used and I discovered the hard way it needs to go on a charger occasionally to top up the battery.

Not sure what would happen with a more modern vehicle. If leaving town for several weeks, maybe disconnect your battery or put the car on a charger and get a ride to the airport.

Posted by: George V at April 25, 2025 11:14 AM (ugbqN)

33 25 Florida Senate Democrat leader Jason Pizzo has changed his Party affiliation on the Senate floor, said the Florida Democratic party is dead.
Posted by: Bulg
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And an old POS Never Trumper, David Jolly went the Charlie Crist route--from GOP, to indy, to Dem running for FL governor.

Another mask ripped off.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:14 AM (ctrM5)

34 What is the name of that useless GOPe grifter in Florida who is jumping on the Democrat bandwagon to run for office now that Pizzo is an Independent?

Dude, no one ever jumped back aboard the Titanic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 11:14 AM (FEpIj)

35 I saw Thermal Runaway Event open for Arsonists Get All the Girls at Chain Reaction in 2018.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 11:14 AM (gMWM2)

36 There is this one amazing trick that can ensure a car owner that he will never experience a thermal runaway event with his vehicle. Can you guess what it is?

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"You mean, like, store Classified Documents in your trunk?"

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 11:15 AM (gMWM2)

37 Dude, no one ever jumped back aboard the Titanic.

So far...

Posted by: David Hogg at April 25, 2025 11:15 AM (s8j++)

38 Holy Ozempic Batman, I just clicked on the Clooney link in the sidebar and he looks like skinny John Goodman.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2025 11:16 AM (FjtSk)

39 Why or rather how have the "Jump to bottom of comments" click been totally taken over by a page of craptastic ads?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)

Ads?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 25, 2025 11:16 AM (5xuJ/)

40 Traditional 12 volt lead-acid batteries in real cars can be slowly discharged by phantom loads, and by self-discharge. Self-discharge is temperature-dependent, and is worse when it is hot out, Three months of non-use in an Arizona summer, and your battery can be quite flat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:16 AM (8zz6B)

41 []Why or rather how have the "Jump to bottom of comments" click been totally taken over by a page of craptastic ads?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)

Ads?

Look for the MILF with the deeeeeep cleavage.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:16 AM (s8j++)

42 Why or rather how have the "Jump to bottom of comments" click been totally taken over by a page of craptastic ads?

The HQ has fallen under a malign influence!

Diabolical even!
Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)

Works for me. But I use brave, and it blocks ads.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:18 AM (8zz6B)

43 The Ioniq Guy Facebook group - an increasingly essential place for Ioniq owners to make sense of their EVs beyond the sales brochures and glossy commercials.

==

A Facebook group...just to commiserate and confer with others on making your car make sense. Wow, that should scream rude awakening to anyone interested in buying one of these EVs.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 11:18 AM (qBdHI)

44 You know, Milwaukee is a pretty cool city. It'd be a great city if we could clear out some of the leftists.
Posted by: WisRich

There are few US large cities, if any, in the US that does not have dysfunctional and evil politics. Part of it is the interrelationship between property developers and corrupt politicians and bureaucracy.

The other part is the concentration of gimmedats and activists that preclude honest politics at the polls. The gimmedats' votes are bought or frauded into existence, and the activists ensure that any will of the people to change things, like arresting criminals, is smothered by threats and violence.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:18 AM (ctrM5)

45 41 []Why or rather how have the "Jump to bottom of comments" click been totally taken over by a page of craptastic ads?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)
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So I'm not the only one. Frustrating.

Posted by: WisRich at April 25, 2025 11:18 AM (G0vdT)

46 Sad that "Lulu's Truck Stop" is now closed. The chef-Gailard Sartain- is still alive and kicking, though.

Posted by: Hee-Haw History at April 25, 2025 11:18 AM (G5+As)

47 Yeah, electric school buses in places known to experience something called "winter" isn't exactly the brightest idea. Public transportation buses too. With the former, "We've got federal money to buy them and we need to spend it!" has infected rural areas in red states. Of course, as seen above, the federal money isn't going to be paying for the maintenance, upkeep, snafus, and figuring out what to do when those buses suddenly aren't available for the morning pickups in the middle of January.

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 11:18 AM (GSjwF)

48 Roman was dropped off at a Baptist facility for orphans in Dallas. A thyroid condition would cause her to be overweight, and she was never adopted.

RIP, Lulu. Man, what a rough road.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 11:18 AM (yKZlr)

49 Other than pure Nukes there is no way the EV will ever work in current electrification design.
Carbon fuels combusted and then converted to another energy. That energy then up to high voltages to transmit the power long distance. Heat loss, efficacy loss, and transmit loss. The step down at the vehicle owner's house and then converted to DC to charge.
Loss Loss Loss Loss Loss does not have much Loss in it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 11:19 AM (gbOdA)

50 If even a fraction of the money used to promote EVs and "alternative" fuels were used to promote and further refine small diesel engines for US passenger cars, we would at least had something useful for all that cash.

America has issues with diesel just like nuclear power and it's not really rational.

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2025 11:19 AM (QB+5g)

51 Three months of non-use in an Arizona summer, and your battery can be quite flat.
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That's caused by the Ancient Aliens and Stargate. Hungry little buggers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 11:19 AM (pZ64F)

52

Sucking dick is a gateway to putting on a dress and servicing large sweaty men behind pubs!

Posted by: David Hogger at April 25, 2025 11:19 AM (0hToV)

53 Trouble at HBO.

Inclusion Irony: LGBTQ+ Critics Slam “The Last of Us” S2 – Still Not Gay Enough

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Never gay enough.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 25, 2025 11:19 AM (L/fGl)

54 Wait.
Electric skool busses don't have fail safe air brakes?
What kind of stupid shit is this?

Posted by: Reforger at April 25, 2025 11:19 AM (xcIvR)

55 You’d think with leftists turning against Elon Musk, that Rivian might pick up some lost Tesla sales, but that did not happen.

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I was going to ask (and have done so here before) if Elon has ever been asked about Lithium Ion (I keep typing the portmanteau "Lithion") battery fires.

Then decided to not be lazy and do a quick search and learned something new (and have learned from commenters here previously about the relative safety of using products with Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries):

"Tesla uses Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries, which are less prone to thermal runaway and fires compared to other lithium-ion chemistries used in consumer electronics. This choice of battery chemistry helps mitigate fire risks in Tesla's vehicles."

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 11:20 AM (gMWM2)

56 I'm threadjacking here but I posted this earlier and posting it again because I think it's pretty significant:

"

I think JJ might have missed this but GP had a report about Trump pardoning a Nevada Judge who the DS was absolutely crushing for her role in support after the Bundy Ranch standoff.

Nevada Judge Michele Fiore wrote a letter thanking him for his support. I think it's a must read for the Horde and anyone else out there fighting the good fight:

https://tinyurl.com/32t48kj8

"

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2025 11:20 AM (QB+5g)

57 An EV charger company I used to contract with, EVBox, just shut down its manufacturing facility in Libertyville, Illinois. The European parent company shut down the operation after it lost several hundred million in European play money.

Our fabulous Governor Fatass and Senator Turban had a photo op there a few months before it was shut down.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 25, 2025 11:20 AM (qwx/I)

58 Works for me. But I use brave, and it blocks ads.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:18 AM (8zz6B)

Same here.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 25, 2025 11:21 AM (5xuJ/)

59 53 Trouble at HBO.

Inclusion Irony: LGBTQ+ Critics Slam “The Last of Us” S2 – Still Not Gay Enough
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I'm on it!

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at April 25, 2025 11:21 AM (G0vdT)

60 When Motor Trend writes that consumers buy traditional hybrids as step toward full electric vehicles, are they stupid or are they flailing around trying to keep good money following bad down the EV drain? I'm pretty sure the gas mileage improvement is the reason the hybrids were introduced and is likely the principal reason they continue to sell reasonably well.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 11:21 AM (2ap+5)

61 have a complaint.

Why or rather how have the "Jump to bottom of comments" click been totally taken over by a page of craptastic ads?

The HQ has fallen under a malign influence!

Diabolical even!
Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)

Not seeing it here. Just regular ole pixie.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 25, 2025 11:22 AM (g8Ew8)

62 I've owned two Prius hybrids at various times over a couple of decades that my children drove, and the secret fact is I also loved driving them. Quick little buggers, with tons of interior room and they got great mileage, plus Toyota is an excellent service provider. I hate to admit it, but that's one Japanese company I'd buy from again.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 11:22 AM (gMz7B)

63 You might not be surprised to learn that this year’s NYC Auto Show has a noticeable pullback on EV garbage. Sure, they’re still there, but nothing like the prior few years with wall to wall EV.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 25, 2025 11:23 AM (qYULV)

64 Holy Ozempic Batman, I just clicked on the Clooney link in the sidebar and he looks like skinny John Goodman.

--

I grew up in Cincinnati when Nick Clooney, George's dad, was our local news anchorman. George looks exactly like his dad in that pic, except Nick had the gray hair. He's one of those carbon copy kids, like Donald and Kiefer Sutherland and the Sheen boys to Martin.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 11:23 AM (qBdHI)

65 Given the history of Solyndra ($500M+), Ivanpah ($1.6B) and Fisker ($140M), what makes anyone believe the Federal government has the ability or even the desire to pick ACTUAL winners or losers among competing alternative energy technologies?
It's ALL a grift!
From Electric School buses to windmills to banning gas stoves and appliances, it's about controlling the choices of the masses (for their own benefit, of course) and directing tax dollars to cronies for kickbacks/votes or power.
That's all these "Green Initiatives" are. Period.
Just fraud, grift and corruption.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at April 25, 2025 11:23 AM (Ovc06)

66 Showrunner for Star Wars Andor says we are all products of rape.

Die Mouse Die.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 11:23 AM (FEpIj)

67 sock off

Posted by: WisRich at April 25, 2025 11:23 AM (G0vdT)

68 I like the idea of a plug-in hybrid because 90% of our driving trips are under 15 miles round-trip. Unfortunately, it seems like the tech is still not great and sometimes dangerous.

Posted by: SamIam at April 25, 2025 11:23 AM (oasF3)

69 Cousin Lulu was also the last surviving member of the serial soap opera The Culhanes of Kornfield Kounty. Sad.

Posted by: Hee-Haw History, Explained at April 25, 2025 11:24 AM (G5+As)

70 54 Wait.
Electric skool busses don't have fail safe air brakes?
What kind of stupid shit is this?
Posted by: Reforger at April 25, 2025 11:19 AM (xcIvR)

Need to have a continually running air compressor for air brakes. That would draw way too much power for an electric compressor. Hence hydraulics.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2025 11:24 AM (N39Ws)

71 We have enough oil/gas to last a long time.

And beyond that we could always convert coal into gas as well and we have more coal then we will ever use.

There is no need for EVs whatsoever.

So...are they better then ICE vehicles? If the answer is no why the hell are they being sold?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:24 AM (t0Rmr)

72 Showrunner for Star Wars Andor says we are all products of rape.

Oh my. How...edgy! How stunning and brave.
*makes wanking motion*

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:25 AM (s8j++)

73 "Tesla uses Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries, which are less prone to thermal runaway and fires compared to other lithium-ion chemistries used in consumer electronics. This choice of battery chemistry helps mitigate fire risks in Tesla's vehicles."
Posted by: ShainS
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Yep. If you do have the need of buying a solar battery setup, look for the Lithium Iron Phosphate ones.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:25 AM (ctrM5)

74 41 []Why or rather how have the "Jump to bottom of comments" click been totally taken over by a page of craptastic ads?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)
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I'm using Vivaldi and I don't see them.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 25, 2025 11:25 AM (/HDaX)

75 Couple months back an Indiana University bus full of students burned to cinders en route to a game due to a 'mechanical issue'.

Zero information on what type of bus this was tells me it was an EV. Story was deep-sixed IN A HURRY

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at April 25, 2025 11:25 AM (hirWM)

76 63 You might not be surprised to learn that this year’s NYC Auto Show has a noticeable pullback on EV garbage. Sure, they’re still there, but nothing like the prior few years with wall to wall EV.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 25, 2025 11:23 AM (qYULV)

Make V-8 engines great again!!!

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2025 11:26 AM (N39Ws)

77 Inclusion Irony: LGBTQ+ Critics Slam “The Last of Us” S2 – Still Not Gay Enough

Need a Man's Country 12 man dog pile.

You know for a few million I could arrange to get some guys for you...

Posted by: Barack Obama at April 25, 2025 11:26 AM (t0Rmr)

78 So...are they better then ICE vehicles? If the answer is no why the hell are they being sold?
Posted by: 18-1
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You know why. Globullshit Warming. The ass clowns believing in such fairy tales want to restrict cows because they fart methane.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:26 AM (ctrM5)

79 That's all these "Green Initiatives" are. Period.
Just fraud, grift and corruption.

Which is why it's so important not to leave the voting up to us.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 11:26 AM (yKZlr)

80 “3,100 Miles In, I Parked My Hyundai Ioniq in My Garage for 10 Days With 78% Battery, Now It's Dead and the Dealer Says It Killed The 12V Battery” [Torque News – 4/10/2025]

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It's your own fault for not continuously charging it during those 10 Days and potentially burning down your home, dummy.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 11:27 AM (gMWM2)

81 74 41 []Why or rather how have the "Jump to bottom of comments" click been totally taken over by a page of craptastic ads?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)
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I'm using Vivaldi and I don't see them.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 25, 2025 11:25 AM (/HDaX)
***

Happens to me about every fifth click.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 11:28 AM (W/lyH)

82 3,100 Miles In, I Parked My Hyundai Ioniq in My Garage for 10 Days With 78% Battery, Now It's Dead and the Dealer Says It Killed The 12V Battery” /i]

The batteries we are using in EVs are cutting edge. The fact we are putting them in nominally run of the mill consumer products is absurd.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:28 AM (t0Rmr)

83 I think someone is trying to create a town that does not allow cars in the city limits which reminds me of the sights, but especially the smells, of Mackinac Island. But it might be fun to live in a golf-cart only community.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 11:28 AM (2ap+5)

84 Buck, thanks so much for rounding up and sharing theses stories here. Otherwise would never hear of these EV “success” stories.

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 25, 2025 11:29 AM (5SvjB)

85 If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. Rivian cannot churn out money-losing vehicles indefinitely, especially in the face of collapsing demand.

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"We just have to hold on until the 2028 election of Hunter Biden as President, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 11:29 AM (gMWM2)

86 I think someone is trying to create a town that does not allow cars in the city limits/i]

Imagine telling the average American in 1965 that a town in the future could ban cars but not trannies or "gay marriage"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:30 AM (t0Rmr)

87 Gah remembering to close those italics tags is such a pain

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:30 AM (t0Rmr)

88 Need to have a continually running air compressor for air brakes. That would draw way too much power for an electric compressor. Hence hydraulics.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2025 11:24 AM (N39Ws)

It would be pretty damned easy to rig an air compressor to supply "regenerative" braking to the bus. Let off the throttle, and a clutch would connect the compressor to the road wheels/driveline. You would also have an electric compressor, which would consume no more power than an A/C unit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:31 AM (8zz6B)

89 "3,100 Miles In, I Parked My Hyundai Ioniq in My Garage for 10 Days With 78% Battery, Now It's Dead and the Dealer Says It Killed The 12V Battery”

Good thing you weren't at the airport, at midnight...

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2025 11:31 AM (QB+5g)

90 Gah remembering to close those italics tags is such a pain

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:30 AM (t0Rmr)

Less painful than whatever the Barrel has going on these days.

Posted by: Vendette at April 25, 2025 11:31 AM (GSjwF)

91 Ode to a work boot

A little polish,
A little spit,
Soon we'll see through
all the pig shit.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 11:32 AM (VNX3d)

92 Wiki - Lulu Roman worked for Jack Ruby as "the world's biggest Go-Go dancer."

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 11:32 AM (FEpIj)

93 If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. Rivian cannot churn out money-losing vehicles indefinitely, especially in the face of collapsing demand.

We'll make it up on volume!

Posted by: Rivian at April 25, 2025 11:32 AM (s8j++)

94 68 I like the idea of a plug-in hybrid because 90% of our driving trips are under 15 miles round-trip. Unfortunately, it seems like the tech is still not great and sometimes dangerous.
Posted by: SamIam

Attractive idea that has been implemented poorly and likely to stay that way in the short run.

Basically you get the worst of both worlds trying to bridge the EV and Gas powered worlds which makes the systems much more complex to run the damn things than either a straight EV or Gas.

Hybrids have a little of that in costing more to fix problems (Toyota by keeping their eyes on the hybrids by iterative improvement has less of that) but is a superior solution if you value mileage over all other concerns.

Propane or CNG cars require minor adjustments to IC engines and you lose a bit of power than gasoline but either one reduces emissions quite a bit if that is what you are aiming for. Great also for vehicles that you leave sitting for a long while and only need for short trips. Diesel, despite its bad reputation for particulate emissions, also excels at mileage and more importantly torque if that is what you need.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:32 AM (ctrM5)

95 Our son in law told us he's driving his Tesla across the country, from Ohio to Utah. It has a camping mode, so he has set it up as a little camper and is going to stay at rv parks. He has an adapter that will allow him to charge at the power pole. I don't think he's going to get the range he thinks he will, he said it will take 3 days.

Posted by: Megthered at April 25, 2025 11:32 AM (vkQEh)

96 A little dated now, but headline here in my Progressive burg:
"Multi-million-dollar loss for Asheville as flawed electric buses sit idle"

$5 Million to be exact.

" The buses have been broken or unable to run because of software and/or mechanical issues, making them an expensive and disappointing purchase, according to city maintenance and transportation staff."

Heh, 'Disappointing'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 11:32 AM (XeU6L)

97 84 Buck, thanks so much for rounding up and sharing theses stories here. Otherwise would never hear of these EV “success” stories.
Posted by: haffhowershower

Yes, I am also very happy to see a Friday EV-Follies Flamefest pop up at 11AM Eastern.

Posted by: Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky at April 25, 2025 11:33 AM (G5+As)

98 General Motors is cutting production of its all-electric BrightDrop delivery vans at a plant in Canada and will idle the facility through much of 2025, the company confirmed Friday.

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The MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia Sycophantic Whores blame the Trump Tariffs in 5 .. 4 .. 3 ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 11:33 AM (gMWM2)

99 The NYT triumphantly reports that a young star athlete is in a coma after the cybertruck he was in caught fire following a crash.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 11:33 AM (2ap+5)

100 " The buses have been broken or unable to run because of software and/or mechanical issues, making them an expensive and disappointing purchase, according to city maintenance and transportation staff."

The right people got paid.

The right people got to virtue signal

From the government's perspective this was a perfectly run operation

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:34 AM (t0Rmr)

101 Wiki - Lulu Roman worked for Jack Ruby as "the world's biggest Go-Go dancer."
Posted by: Anna Puma

Lulu was the gunman on the Grassy Knoll!

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

102 Hey Haffhowershower: Thank you for those kind words. Together we’ll put this bizarre alt-religious contagion of vilifying ICE vehicles and carbon energy behind us.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 25, 2025 11:35 AM (p6zRz)

103 80 “3,100 Miles In, I Parked My Hyundai Ioniq in My Garage for 10 Days With 78% Battery, Now It's Dead and the Dealer Says It Killed The 12V Battery” [Torque News – 4/10/2025]

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It's your own fault for not continuously charging it during those 10 Days and potentially burning down your home, dummy.
Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 11:27 AM (gMWM2

Imagine leaving one in long term parking while on a long trip and coming back to a dead car. Ugh.

All things considered, with all the electronics on modern ICE cars I'm surprised that it does not happen to those as well.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 25, 2025 11:35 AM (OA79/)

104 The HQ has fallen under a malign influence!

Diabolical even!
Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)

Ace went all electric in 2004. It seemed quite innovative at the time, but now it's outdated.

However, he's taken no USAID money, so he's got that going for him. Which is nice.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 11:35 AM (lH8E4)

105 Lulu was the gunman on the Grassy Knoll!
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

She was the grassy knoll.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:35 AM (8zz6B)

106 The buses have been broken or unable to run because of software and/or mechanical issues, making them an expensive and disappointing purchase, according to city maintenance and transportation staff.

One wonders if they would be characterized as "disappointing" if the money to buy them belonged to the people who made the decision to buy them.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:35 AM (s8j++)

107 An ICE car with gas in the tank does not lose its fuel supply when it’s parked for days on end, nor does it draw on its 12V battery.

The latter hasn’t been true for years now, although the draw is usually slow. If your car can respond to a remote, has any sort of alarm system installed, or you’ve left any electronics plugged in, it will draw down the battery.

But barring a bad design on your lighter DC adapter or actually leaving devices turned on, it will take a long time. I’ve left my car undriven for nearly two months. It may take two or three turnovers to catch instead of catching immediately, but it always does start. Mind you, I do unplug the DC adaptor long-term.

In my opinion, modern ICE vehicles have far too many always-on electronics in them, they draw far too much power from the electrical system, and, worse, there really is no way to turn any nonessential systems off when the battery dies. That requires access to the computer, which needs power. We are far from being reasonably assured of getting home on the alternator when the battery dies. There’s a good chance that a bad battery will burn out the alternator very quickly.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 11:36 AM (EXyHK)

108 Hence hydraulics.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2025 11:24 AM (N39Ws)

That's even scarrier than what I was thinking it was. Electric braking.
Your not going to develope the pressure needed to stop a bus without some sort of boost so they have to run a hydraulic pump.
Kind of 6 to one, half dozen to the other situation.
I'd rather have air brakes as the symptom of a lot of brake problems is.. the damn thing won't move. Fail to safe. Not fail to freewheel.

Posted by: Reforger at April 25, 2025 11:36 AM (xcIvR)

109 If a hybrid car doesn't require it to be plugged in, I would consider it. My nearly 100 year old home is maxxed out in the electrical transmission department and I really don't want to pay to upgrade it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 11:36 AM (Dv3i1)

110 99 The NYT triumphantly reports that a young star athlete is in a coma after the cybertruck he was in caught fire following a crash.
Posted by: Oglebay
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If it bleeds, it leads is a rancid formula made worse by the NYT designation of Musk as public enemy no 1.

Frankly, I would cheer putting up a wall around NYC and turning it into an outdoor prison ala 'Escape from NY'.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:36 AM (ctrM5)

111 100 " The buses have been broken or unable to run because of software and/or mechanical issues, making them an expensive and disappointing purchase, according to city maintenance and transportation staff."

The right people got paid.

The right people got to virtue signal

From the government's perspective this was a perfectly run operation
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:34 AM (t0Rmr)

This. And the right people got the right political donations from the people that got paid.

It's a bust out scheme right out of good fellas.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 25, 2025 11:36 AM (OA79/)

112 Lulu was the gunman on the Grassy Knoll!
Posted by: Bulg

Lulu WAS the grassy knoll.

Posted by: Hee-Haw Honky Tonk at April 25, 2025 11:37 AM (G5+As)

113 It only took two posts to go there.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 11:38 AM (FEpIj)

114 When did school boards start giving student safety higher priority than wokeness?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 25, 2025 11:38 AM (H0FSy)

115 31
‘ You know, Milwaukee is a pretty cool city. It'd be a great city if we could clear out some of the leftists.’

It’d be an empty city.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 11:38 AM (jbnUc)

116 89 "3,100 Miles In, I Parked My Hyundai Ioniq in My Garage for 10 Days With 78% Battery, Now It's Dead and the Dealer Says It Killed The 12V Battery”

Good thing you weren't at the airport, at midnight...
Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2025 11:31 AM (QB+5g)
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At the airport...at midnight...in the rain...

Posted by: Hemingway at April 25, 2025 11:38 AM (W/lyH)

117 When did school boards start giving student safety higher priority than wokeness?

About the same time they realized they could arrest people they didn't like trying to speak at a school board meeting

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:39 AM (t0Rmr)

118 When did school boards start giving student safety higher priority than wokeness?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 25, 2025 11:38 AM (H0FSy)

The Three R's have entered the chat.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 11:39 AM (W/lyH)

119 Lulu WAS the grassy knoll.
Posted by: Hee-Haw Honky Tonk

I've seen Lulu's "grassy knoll," IFKWIMAITYD.
-- Zombie Junior Samples

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

120 (Missed my favorite one)

The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Friday new measures to prevent fires caused by overcharging electric vehicles, including banning EVs with over 90 percent battery levels from entering underground parking in residential buildings.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2025 11:40 AM (dIske)

121 We are far from being reasonably assured of getting home on the alternator when the battery dies. There’s a good chance that a bad battery will burn out the alternator very quickly.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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My dad liked diesels including cars in the 80's. He had a Lincoln Coupe that used a BMW diesel engine. Had two adventures with that car. The first was when the fuel gelled at zero temperatures and my friends and I were going to Midnight Mass. The second was when the alternator failed on a trip to the Big City for fun.

Car kept running despite the battery drawing down and we made it home.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:40 AM (ctrM5)

122 Ive never seen information about the effects of that enormous electronic field generated, when driving a Tesla or EV, on the human body day after day. It must be like getting an MRI every day ... bottom line, it can't be good.

Posted by: Wardo at April 25, 2025 11:40 AM (c1UUT)

123 Despite Seattle being a bastion of retarded liberalism, Teslas remain ubiquitous.

I can look out the window and count 50 zipping by in about five minutes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2025 11:41 AM (dtskA)

124 122 Ive never seen information about the effects of that enormous electronic field generated, when driving a Tesla or EV, on the human body day after day. It must be like getting an MRI every day ... bottom line, it can't be good.
Posted by: Wardo
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The horror!

Posted by: Chuck McGill, Esq. at April 25, 2025 11:41 AM (Dv3i1)

125 114 When did school boards start giving student safety higher priority than wokeness?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 25, 2025 11:38 AM (H0FSy)

When (and where) schools are funded by parents directly, and not by governments.
Students whose parents can't afford or don't care, are going to be targets for whatever project their schools think up. What are the parents gonna do? Not pay?

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2025 11:41 AM (sAbXF)

126
Good thing you weren't at the airport, at midnight...
Posted by: pawn
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Or here, after The Storm, no power for 3-4 weeks.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 11:41 AM (XeU6L)

127 If a hybrid car doesn't require it to be plugged in, I would consider it.

I’m the opposite. The whole point of having a hybrid or battery-powered car would be being able to safely plug it in and never have to worry about rushing to the gas station before a minor trip.

That will require completely new battery technology, however, and research in motor vehicle-level battery tech is dominated by government funding, which only funds old-and-busted tech.

Weirdly, this is also true of grid-level power storage, even though we already know how to safely store grid-level power. It isn’t new or impressive (well, it is impressive to me) but it works and is reliable both in use and waiting for use.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 11:42 AM (EXyHK)

128 Ive never seen information about the effects of that enormous electronic field generated, when driving a Tesla or EV, on the human body day after day. It must be like getting an MRI every day ... bottom line, it can't be good.

There's an easy fix. Wrap yourself in aluminum foil before getting behind the wheel.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:42 AM (s8j++)

129 Good rant; thanks.

epa dot gov/maui-wildfires/hazardous-materials-removal

In part, EPA's hazardous material removal team completed its work on December 21, 2023. EPA crews removed more than 200 tons of hazardous materials from 1,400-plus properties in fire-impacted areas. After hazardous materials were removed, a soil stabilizer was applied to prevent ash and debris from migrating off properties due to surface water run off or wind. Additionally, more than 30 tons of lithium batteries from 94 electric and hybrid vehicles and 274 power walls were safely collected from the impacted area and shipped off Maui for recycling.

CBS Local News, February 23, 2025
Lithium-ion battery likely caused massive junkyard fire in Camden, EMR Metal Recycling says

LA Times, California
How L.A. removed 1 million pounds of flammable lithium-ion batteries from its burn zones, April 9, 2025

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 25, 2025 11:42 AM (NFX2v)

130 I think someone is trying to create a town that does not allow cars in the city limits which reminds me of the sights, but especially the smells, of Mackinac Island. But it might be fun to live in a golf-cart only community.
Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 11:28 AM (2ap+5)

Go to San Pedro, Belize. All golf carts, but they're ICE. It'll give you an idea of what it would be like.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 25, 2025 11:42 AM (g8Ew8)

131 It is amusing the left argues you don't need reliable transportation.

If you can't afford an EV that may or may not work then you take the bus peon.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:42 AM (t0Rmr)

132 If strong E/M fields harm people I suspect EVs are not the real concern anyway.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:43 AM (t0Rmr)

133 I think someone is trying to create a town that does not allow cars in the city limits which reminds me of the sights, but especially the smells, of Mackinac Island. But it might be fun to live in a golf-cart only community.

And if your sister, her husband and their three kids, with all their associated baggage (which fills up a minivan) want to visit you for a week, how exactly would that work?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:44 AM (s8j++)

134 Won't satisfy the Veruca Salt brigade here. The goal post will simply move as if by magic.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:11 AM (ctrM5)

———

Great to hear some movement from Patel. And Bondi started RICO charges against TdA for human trafficking among other things.

Both good signs and I look forward to them going after the NGO scams and releasing the Epstein info.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2025 11:44 AM (Vh9CX)

135 School buses seem like an application where an electric drive-train would work OK. Charge them overnight, haul kids to school in the morning, recharge during the day, haul kids back home in the afternoon. Seems like a good fit, better than taxicabs, police cars, city buses, or over the road trucks, where the vehicle needs to operate around the clock, with no multi hour recharging opportunities.

Except for the minor problems of buses catching on fire and burning up kids, or the brakes failing and killing kids in crashes.

Posted by: BillyD at April 25, 2025 11:44 AM (Yt3ED)

136 We rented a plug in hybrid while on vacation in Spain a few years ago. What I noticed about it, is that the gas tank seemed to have less capacity than a regular car. We've been there several times and rented cars, and we had to stop for gas every other day. Never had to do that before.

Posted by: mishdog at April 25, 2025 11:44 AM (mhruQ)

137 Wrapped in foil?

The first human baked potato not named Stetler.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 11:44 AM (FEpIj)

138 Aren't EVs particularly ill-suited for the role of large truck/delivery/transport vehicle? The larger the payload, the more the battery consumes all available space, making them impractical as a replacement for, say, diesel semi-tractor-trailers.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 25, 2025 11:44 AM (xAP/Y)

139 Showrunner for Star Wars Andor says we are all products of rape.

Die Mouse Die.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 11:23 AM (FEpIj)

What a horrible life that person must lead. Imagine having that as your life story.

And lacking self-awareness enough to be in the television/movie biz, which wouldn't exist as it does without rape as a form of currency.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 11:44 AM (qgNVD)

140 127 If a hybrid car doesn't require it to be plugged in, I would consider it.

I’m the opposite. The whole point of having a hybrid or battery-powered car would be being able to safely plug it in
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Well, if your house needs electrical upgrades before being able to safely plug it in, then this benefit isn't available.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 11:45 AM (Dv3i1)

141 Capitalism did not create exploding EVs or whale-killing wind farms.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 25, 2025 11:45 AM (2ap+5)

142 At least Rivians are good-looking vehicles--at least better than Teslas IMHO.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 25, 2025 11:45 AM (xAP/Y)

143 123 Despite Seattle being a bastion of retarded liberalism, Teslas remain ubiquitous.

I can look out the window and count 50 zipping by in about five minutes.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2025 11:41 AM (dtskA)
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The Legislature is still in session trying to finalize the budget. They will likely come up with a Tesla Tax. They've pretty much taxed everything else.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 11:45 AM (W/lyH)

144 128 Ive never seen information about the effects of that enormous electronic field generated, when driving a Tesla or EV, on the human body day after day. It must be like getting an MRI every day ... bottom line, it can't be good.

There's an easy fix. Wrap yourself in aluminum foil before getting behind the wheel.
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Great point! Im off to get my covid booster because I know a company would never sell anything that would be unsafe.

Posted by: Wardo at April 25, 2025 11:46 AM (c1UUT)

145 Capitalism did not create exploding EVs or whale-killing wind farms.

What about exploding whales?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:46 AM (s8j++)

146 Use of air tax

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 11:46 AM (FEpIj)

147 Ads?

Look for the MILF with the deeeeeep cleavage.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:16 AM (s8j++)

Also known as Ariana's trench.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 11:46 AM (FCbAQ)

148 The electric bus boogaloo is a classic principal-agent theory example where sanctions should be applied to those agents (the bureaucracy and pols) pushing that shit for their own benefit.

Basically, I think asset forfeiture is the proper sanction against bureaucrats and pols in power that make such decisions.

If we can search Bubba on a plane and take his hard earned cash and require him to prove in court he earned it properly, then we can do the same to our native criminal classes in the bureaucracy and elected office.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:47 AM (ctrM5)

149 If the answer is no why the hell are they being sold?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 11:24 AM (t0Rmr)

They are a step between where we are now and the abolition of powered personal transportation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 11:47 AM (ExV1e)

150 Showrunner for Star Wars Andor says we are all products of rape.
____

Hi Son, today's the anniversary date of when I raped your mom. Happy B'day in nine months!

Posted by: Every Dad at April 25, 2025 11:47 AM (Dv3i1)

151 64
‘ I grew up in Cincinnati when Nick Clooney, George's dad, was our local news anchorman.’

Me too. But I grew up in SE IN close enough to get channel 12.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 11:47 AM (jbnUc)

152
Today’s header photo is also a picture of the “recycling” operation at the EV recycling plant in Kilwinning.

Well Kill Winning is sure has an omenous sound.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2025 11:47 AM (LHPAg)

153 It's always fun for me to watch the constant whiplash in my Chrome browser's Google Hatefeed... When they need NPCs to love what they're programmed to hate (Big Pharma, "fast fashion," war, etc.) or hate what they're programmed to love (Rogan, Musk, Tesla, Kennedys, etc.), the Hatefeed gets even more singleminded than usual.

Right now, every third article is about how Musk is the new Satan, and another third is about how Teslas are the worst cars on earth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 11:47 AM (BI5O2)

154 Also known as Ariana's trench.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
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That is a step up from Sonobi and foot fungus ads.

Count your blessings.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:48 AM (ctrM5)

155 Car kept running despite the battery drawing down and we made it home.

I’ve had that experience, too. “Funniest” (for some definitions of funny) was driving a 1984 Mustang home at night, and noticing the lights were dimming. Well, crap. Only a few blocks to go, as long as I don’t turn off the engine I should be fine. And why would I do that.

Flashing lights in rear view mirror, that’s why.

“Did you know your lights were dim?”

“Thank you, officer. I think I need to replace the battery tomorrow.”

Fortunately, the right combination of barely turning the engine over and pumping the gas pedal at exactly the right time got it restarted. That’s all mediated through a computer nowadays, I think. Does the computer know how to start a car on low-battery conditions?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 11:48 AM (EXyHK)

156 Ads?

Look for the MILF with the deeeeeep cleavage.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 11:16 AM (s8j++)

Also known as Ariana's trench.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 11:46 AM (FCbAQ)

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The Huffington Coast?

/Is she still relevant or even alive?

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 11:49 AM (gMWM2)

157
You’re sitting at just over 3,000 miles—barely out of the honeymoon phase.

You misspelled "warranty term"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2025 11:49 AM (y9nCu)

158 If a hybrid car doesn't require it to be plugged in, I would consider it. My nearly 100 year old home is maxxed out in the electrical transmission department and I really don't want to pay to upgrade it.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 11:36 AM (Dv3i1)

My work vehicle is a hybrid, I've never plugged it in. I don't even know if I'm supposed to.

I just know it makes a humming sound when it's running on the electric. Gets gas mileage about what you'd expect a vehicle that size to get. So I don't know what the point is.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 11:49 AM (tZwal)

159 If you are a bit OCD like me and your commute is likely to have some spots of stop and go or slow and go the Prius is kind of nice as it shows your MPG is not taking a hit since the gas engine is not idling when you are stopped. I did not buy another one when mine was totaled years ago, but it was a decent drive for front range Colorado. Even not being a pure EV, I always told relatives in Minot ND that I didn't think the Prius would be worth it up there with those winters. You couldn't pay me to tow my horses with an electric vehicle.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 25, 2025 11:51 AM (bP/i4)

160 150 Showrunner for Star Wars Andor says we are all products of rape.

Well, it wasn't rape-rape, was it? NOT MY FOLKS!

Posted by: Auspex at April 25, 2025 11:51 AM (j4U/Z)

161 138 Aren't EVs particularly ill-suited for the role of large truck/delivery/transport vehicle? The larger the payload, the more the battery consumes all available space, making them impractical as a replacement for, say, diesel semi-tractor-trailers.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

Pretty much. A few people have pondered about diesel electric setups like locomotives have but the CO2 is the devil cult refuses anything to do with internal combustion.

Look for a big push to ammonia as the next 'clean' fuel boondogle.

A snippet, "Chemical companies smell an opportunity. Several firms are developing green ammonia, a route to ammonia in which hydrogen derived from water electrolysis powered by alternative energy replaces hydrocarbon-based hydrogen, making ammonia production virtually carbon dioxide–free. They are also investing in carbon capture and storage to minimize the carbon impact of making conventional ammonia, creating what the industry refers to as blue ammonia."

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:51 AM (ctrM5)

162 The Huffington Coast?

/Is she still relevant or even alive?
Posted by: ShainS

She's still down in Hootersville, two-timing Oliver with Arnold Ziffel.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

163 I just know it makes a humming sound when it's running on the electric. Gets gas mileage about what you'd expect a vehicle that size to get. So I don't know what the point is.
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My BiL has a Honda Accord hybrid. It gets about 5 mpg more highway than my gas powered Kia sedan of the same size. Maybe a little better in the city. It cost about $8k more, but it is a slightly better car.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 11:52 AM (Dv3i1)

164 If a hybrid car doesn't require it to be plugged in, I would consider it.

I have a hybrid Highlander and there's no way to plug it in.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 11:52 AM (ExV1e)

165 Our 2020 Explorer "sleeps" when the engine's off, but there's still a drain on the battery. Mostly for the telematics and alarm systems. The drain is significant. If the SUV isn't started and run periodically, like every 4-5 days the battery will drop below the voltage needed to start it.

That has happened to us numerous times... mostly during cold weather. It's a known "feature."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 11:52 AM (Q4IgG)

166 Me too. But I grew up in SE IN close enough to get channel 12.

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Yep, it was channel 12!

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 11:53 AM (qBdHI)

167 Some more wood for the EV fires. Talking with numerous automotive technicians (aka "mechanics"), none of them like to work on EVs or hybrids. The batteries are a safety hazard to the techs, which have to take more precautions when working on an EV or hybrid vehicle. In fact many senior techs will pass on hybrids or EVs and give the work to the younger techs (who don't like working on them either). I miss V-8s and soon V-6s.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at April 25, 2025 11:53 AM (pZ64F)

168 At the airport...at midnight...in the rain...
Posted by: Hemingway at April 25, 2025 11:38 AM (W/lyH)

Why, my friend just might write the perfect country and western song with a little tweaking.

Posted by: David Allen Coe at April 25, 2025 11:53 AM (FCbAQ)

169
"Dad, where do babies come from?"

"Well, son, when a rapist loves someone very very much..."

Posted by: Auspex at April 25, 2025 11:53 AM (j4U/Z)

170 I found a picture of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan from 2016. Imagine what you think she looks like....then make it worse:

https://tinyurl.com/mrykys68

I almost feel like my Ackbar nic is more in order...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2025 11:53 AM (JCZqz)

171 the Prius is kind of nice as it shows your MPG is not taking a hit since the gas engine is not idling when you are stopped

This is true of a lot of cars nowadays, even fully ICE vehicles. As far as I can tell, they literally just turn off the engine and then turn it on again when you hit the pedal.

Saves gas, but I don’t see how it can be good for the engine. I do a lot of walking when I travel, and I hear a lot of very new-looking vehicles with very ragged-sounding engine starts when the light turns green.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 11:53 AM (EXyHK)

172 Is Judge Dugan a synonym for a sea cow?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 11:54 AM (FEpIj)

173 17 Why or rather how have the "Jump to bottom of comments" click been totally taken over by a page of craptastic ads?

I never see that

Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 25, 2025 11:09 AM (P4Pk9)

Nor do I. Firefox with Javascript disabled.

Posted by: BillyD at April 25, 2025 11:54 AM (Yt3ED)

174 Fortunately, the right combination of barely turning the engine over and pumping the gas pedal at exactly the right time got it restarted. That’s all mediated through a computer nowadays, I think. Does the computer know how to start a car on low-battery conditions?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Diesels do not require additional electrical power to keep running but if you shut it off with a weak battery, it is chancy if you can get it restarted. Especially if the engine gets cold. Car diesels used to eat batteries in the winter all the time back in the eighties unless you plugged up the oil heater and kept them in a garage preferably.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:55 AM (ctrM5)

175 Hi Son, today's the anniversary date of when I raped your mom. Happy B'day in nine months!
Posted by: Every Dad at April 25, 2025 11:47 AM (Dv3i1)

Don't listen to your father, I raped him. And then when you were born, you raped me!

And then every 28 days, Aunt Flo rapes me.

Rape rape rape. Rapity rapey rape rape! And your poo rapes your butt!

The circle of life...

Posted by: Every Mom at April 25, 2025 11:55 AM (vmr7r)

176 Right now, every third article is about how Musk is the new Satan, and another third is about how Teslas are the worst cars on earth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 11:47 AM (BI5O2)

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And the final third are likely about how oppressed the dreamy murderers row of "political prisoners" Noe Diaz De Leon, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Luigi Mangione, Mumia Abu-Jamal, The Tsarnaev Brothers, and The Menendez Brothers are.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 11:56 AM (gMWM2)

177 Is Judge Dugan a synonym for a sea cow?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 11:54 AM (FEpIj)
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Hey, now.

Posted by: The Huge Manatee at April 25, 2025 11:57 AM (6YdsJ)

178 Chubby, from the Little Rascals, also had a thyroid condition that caused his fatness (and short stature). He underwent an operation and started losing weight-rapidly. He died age 21 of myocarditis. he was 4'7" and 110 lbs when he died.

Posted by: RIP Norman Chaney, 1936 at April 25, 2025 11:57 AM (G5+As)

179 This is true of a lot of cars nowadays, even fully ICE vehicles. As far as I can tell, they literally just turn off the engine and then turn it on again when you hit the pedal.

Saves gas, but I don’t see how it can be good for the engine. I do a lot of walking when I travel, and I hear a lot of very new-looking vehicles with very ragged-sounding engine starts when the light turns green.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 11:53 AM (EXyHK)

I hate those. I rented an Audi once that did that. It is terrible for round about when you need to jump in between cars quickly. You have to anticipate the opening and factor in the delay from the engine restarting. Super annoying.

Posted by: mishdog at April 25, 2025 11:57 AM (mhruQ)

180 "Dad, where do babies come from?"

"Well, son, when a rapist loves someone very very much..."
Posted by: Auspex

She'll let him grab her by the pussy...

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 11:57 AM (Dv3i1)

181 170 I found a picture of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan from 2016. Imagine what you think she looks like....then make it worse:

https://tinyurl.com/mrykys68

I almost feel like my Ackbar nic is more in order...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2025 11:53 AM (JCZqz)

Her mouth is like a gaped asshole, and that's one of her better qualities.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 25, 2025 11:57 AM (V9cMX)

182 Midnight at the airport stranded. Happened to me. Parked the car for 5 or 6 days. Came back late flight. Half asleep get to the car turn it on. Dashboard lights up red. Low coolant.

I get out to check and notice a puddle of coolant on the ground. Turned out there was a leak and over that time all the coolant leaked out.

I said fuck it I’ll deal with this tomorrow. Took a taxi home then came back the next day, called. Tow truck.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 11:58 AM (IZezY)

183 Don't listen to your father, I raped him. And then when you were born, you raped me!

And then every 28 days, Aunt Flo rapes me.

Rape rape rape. Rapity rapey rape rape! And your poo rapes your butt!

The circle of life...
Posted by: Every Mom

You said rape 11 times.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at April 25, 2025 11:58 AM (JCZqz)

184 You said rape 11 times.
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr

I like rape.

Posted by: Every Mom at April 25, 2025 11:58 AM (JCZqz)

185
Pretty much. A few people have pondered about diesel electric setups like locomotives have but the CO2 is the devil cult refuses anything to do with internal combustion.

DE propulsion has a lot of advantages for locomotives or ships where your power requirements are largely steady. Years ago I read a really interesting magazine article about a guy converting a trawler yacht from straight diesel to DE. Of course, his electric motors were not marine-rated so I expect that they'd corrode away into sludge within 2 years, but the process was interesting nonetheless.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2025 11:58 AM (y9nCu)

186 @161

>>Pretty much. A few people have pondered about diesel electric setups like locomotives have but the CO2 is the devil cult refuses anything to do with internal combustion.

There is no way to make EV's practical short of several paradigm shift's in battery and material technology.

Which is to say, it's never going to happen, so the quicker we can slay the EV Goblin the better.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2025 12:00 PM (XV/Pl)

187 I wish GM would have continued to build and improve upon the Volt. Gen 1 was a great car, had a neighbor who bought one used and drove it as his prime driver for 5-6 years. Put 100k + on it with zero issues, solid EV miles and good MPG in hybrid mode. Volt Gen 2 was a good improvement. Then they dropped it and went full EV.

Volt tech was a good middle point to settle on. But no. CANCELED like all the Zazz Blammymatazz reunion shows.

Posted by: GigantorX at April 25, 2025 12:00 PM (x8k2o)

188 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 11:53 AM (EXyHK). Interesting, I did not know that new cars did that, after my Prius I've only bought used cars. Since the hybrid has the electric motor I don't think that feature hurts its ICE much but I got in a fender bender and the insurance company totaled mine at 6-7 years so it didn't have any longevity testing.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 25, 2025 12:00 PM (bP/i4)

189 Wait, is there something wrong with eating bugs? Asking for a friend...

Posted by: Polka will never die at April 25, 2025 12:01 PM (KliiE)

190 Lots of people buy plug-ins because they believe the hype about materially higher gas mileage, and we’re coming off an era of $5 gas. They don’t do the math that shows they’ll have to drive it 100k+ miles just to break even from the materially higher selling price.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 25, 2025 12:01 PM (qYULV)

191 While the buses showed early promise, we encountered ongoing operational issues that ultimately led us to pause their use

Let me guess. You did a thirty minute test run on a nice, not too hot summer day with little traffic and then decided to virtue-signal with taxpayer money. Then the first cold day, the busses stopped working halfway through their route.

Posted by: Chuck C at April 25, 2025 12:02 PM (D0HYP)

192 ‘ You know, Milwaukee is a pretty cool city. It'd be a great city if we could clear out some of the leftists.’

This bit popped to mind: https://is.gd/e3JOhr

Posted by: Bert G at April 25, 2025 12:02 PM (VARTN)

193 I have a hybrid Highlander and there's no way to plug it in.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

There's a plug hidden up there under the kilt.

Posted by: Hoot Mon! at April 25, 2025 12:02 PM (G5+As)

194 There is no way to make EV's practical short of several paradigm shift's in battery and material technology.

Ever read any of the lit related to EVs ? They assume that battery tech will double every X number of years. Like Moore's Law - which is just a theory.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 12:03 PM (44/3W)

195 As Elon Hate has shifted from X to Tesla, X has seen revenues boom. Right now, the company projects $1.5 billion in EBITDA for 2025, meaning it can pay cash interest on all its debt in 2025, and has over a billion dollars cash in the bank. Advertising is growing in single digits and data licensing/subscription revenue is growing in double digits.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 12:04 PM (gMI5R)

196 Q: Does Blowing up a Warehouse Full of Lithium Batteries Count as “Recycling”?

A: It qualifies and "geo-engineering" and "weather modification"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 12:04 PM (D7oie)

197 Lots of people buy plug-ins because they believe the hype about materially higher gas mileage, and we’re coming off an era of $5 gas. They don’t do the math that shows they’ll have to drive it 100k+ miles just to break even from the materially higher selling price.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 25, 2025 12:01 PM (qYULV)

I did the math when I bought my hybrid. Should take 6 years - after I retire - to break even but, since I keep cars for at least 10... shouldn't be a problem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:04 PM (ExV1e)

198 Why on Earth does an electric bus need fancy electro-magnetic brakes ? Good lord. School bus technology has really not changed much in at least 75 years. Sure, make the propulsion via electric motors, but at least leave the hydraulic, mechanical brake system alone FFS

Posted by: deadrody at April 25, 2025 12:05 PM (qf6NU)

199 …but I got in a fender bender and the insurance company totaled mine at 6-7 years so it didn't have any longevity testing.

Don’t know if you’re being understatedly sarcastic about “fender bender” but that’s another old-man-rants-at-clouds for me. There is so much crap on cars that even minor accidents can result in it being cheaper (and provide less exposure to liability—for a while it was difficult to get seat belts replaced, although that seems to have changed) to total the car than fix it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 12:05 PM (EXyHK)

200 Hey! RINO Abbott thinks windmills work. F*cking douchebag.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2025 12:05 PM (/U5Yz)

201 She's still down in Hootersville, two-timing Oliver with Arnold Ziffel.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

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

Heh. Every time we'd hear her voice, that's what most of us thought.

/And even though Melania's Slovenian accent is still obvious, it has more of a Russian supermodel vibe than the Gabors' harsh Hungarian or Huffington's harsh Greek (funny to recall that her ex-husband Michael was a RINO who'd endorsed RINO Ahnold for Califzuela Governor during that recall election while Arianna initially ran against him as a D).

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:06 PM (gMWM2)

202 Nood. Kash.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 12:06 PM (ExV1e)

203 178
‘ He died age 21 of myocarditis. he was 4'7" and 110 lbs when he died.
Posted by: RIP Norman Chaney, 1936’

Poor fat kid.
If it makes you feel better, you gave me plenty of laughs when I was a kid.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2025 12:06 PM (jbnUc)

204 NOOD Kash arrests Judge

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 12:06 PM (gMWM2)

205 One day after the dust settles, I hope to see someone on the inside come clean about the specific psychological mechanics of how Monster Tech controls the NPCs.

From the outside, as a human, I can't see how it could work (and it doesn't on normies). But there seems to be a solid quarter of the population for whom it does.

But, why and how are my questions.

Orwell obviously understood it to some extent with Eastasia and Oceania, but the basic notion - we've always been at war with XXXXX - remained constant.

What Silicon Valley accomplished is really impressive. The same wine soaked old harridan or obese barista who says "War Is Not The Answer" for fifteen straight years will be flicking her bean to footage of a Russian soldier's burning corpse with the flip of a switch.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 12:07 PM (BI5O2)

206 Why on Earth does an electric bus need fancy electro-magnetic brakes ?

How many engineers have you ever met ?

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 12:07 PM (44/3W)

207 As Elon Hate has shifted from X to Tesla, X has seen revenues boom. Right now, the company projects $1.5 billion in EBITDA for 2025, meaning it can pay cash interest on all its debt in 2025, and has over a billion dollars cash in the bank. Advertising is growing in single digits and data licensing/subscription revenue is growing in double digits.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 12:04 PM (gMI5R)

I find it rather mirthful, that everyone who ever wanted to hurt Musk by calculating how much money he's lost in his recent endeavors into the political realms, can't quite contemplate the fact that... he doesn't care!

That's the thing about having F-You money, whenever people try to hit you in your wallet, you get to say "f**k you," and keep doing what you're doing.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2025 12:07 PM (OqgaI)

208 EV battery tech is not going to improve much if at all. But the EV motors can be improved. Axial Flux motors are better and more efficient than Radial Flux. But they are much more expensive to build. That’s why you mostly see them in hybrid supercars.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 25, 2025 12:09 PM (qYULV)

209 Like Moore's Law - which is just a theory.

Moore’s law isn’t even a theory, it’s an observation. And it’s an observation limited to microchips. It’s been fairly accurate, but it has is an obvious lower limit, and may already be slowing.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 12:11 PM (EXyHK)

210 That's the thing about having F-You money, whenever people try to hit you in your wallet, you get to say "f**k you," and keep doing what you're doing.
Posted by: BurtTC
=====
On the other hand, you have someone like Bill Gates that uses that fu money to bang kids procured by Epstein, neuter and poison people across the globe by his vaxx programs, and is trying actively to impoverish us via the WEF so that we Eat Ze Bugz meanwhile buying up prime farmland. Nasty critter.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)

211 Why on Earth does an electric bus need fancy electro-magnetic brakes ?

My guess would be weight.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2025 12:12 PM (EXyHK)

212 An ICE car with gas in the tank does not lose its fuel supply when it’s parked for days on end, nor does it draw on its 12V battery.

sure, sure. just got in from putting a charger on the wife's kia, which has been sitting for three weeks due to various life occurrences. my civic, on the other hand, seems to have done just fine with it.

i blame infotainment.

Posted by: anachronda at April 25, 2025 12:12 PM (edU/H)

213 You have pretty well covered everything on the topic… all I can add, redundantly, is that EV is utterly pointless for any consumer.. but fools and their money are soon parted.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2025 12:14 PM (PCK5/)

214 Why, my friend just might write the perfect country and western song with a little tweaking.
Posted by: David Allen Coe
----

Uh...I did it first. 'Early Morning Rain'

Posted by: Gordon Lightfoot at April 25, 2025 12:16 PM (XeU6L)

215 I do not care what anyone drives. Buy/drive what you want, but...No subsidy of *any* sort. NONE. No tapayer funded charging stations, no tax credits, no break on motor vehicle taxes, or highway use tax.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:21 PM (XeU6L)

216 When General Motor announced the launch of its “BrightDrop” electric delivery van several years ago, it forecast that by 2023 the BrightDrop would be producing about $1 billion per year in revenue, which comes out to about 12,000 units sold per year at the anticipated sales price of about $85,000 per unit. But GM sold less than 500 units in 2023, and only sold 1,529 BrightDrops in 2024"

I realize that the way the car companies got themselves into this mess is that they all bought into massively fraudulent financial projections, and then everyone nodded and agreed for political/social reasons. No one dared to say "hey wait, all those numbers are total bullshit!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (uWKK8)

217 nor does it draw on its 12V battery.

They'll flatten a battery just not in 10 days.

Also beware this fun escapade.

fob battery gets weak.
car goes goofy trying to connect.
car battery goes flat.

Need to charge/replace both to get going again.

Note: start/stop deep cycle battery charged right up to full.

Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2025 12:23 PM (FhXTo)

218 Hello Dear, are you really visiting this web page on a regular basis, if so after that you will absolutely obtain pleasant experience.

Posted by: Fantom web wallet at April 25, 2025 12:49 PM (J5zUk)

219 Great Rant Buckster!

This subject needs to never die so we never repeat these deadly mistakes.

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 25, 2025 02:07 PM (klw0w)

220 Buck tilting at windmills again..

Posted by: Sixiron at April 25, 2025 02:21 PM (c4Wfm)

221 The Pidgeon refuses to drive the EV bus

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 25, 2025 04:36 PM (wGqjj)

222 The only reason for a plugin is "vitue signaling " ?
I own a plugin, so, bullshit.
When I bought it,I was saving about $20 a week, now that gas prices have fallen it's down to about $13. I'll break even in less than 7 years. That was just for local trips. I've also taken multiple 1000+ mie trips without ever desperately searching for an operational charger. Even more importantly, in a SHTF situation, I won't be searching for gas to get my wife or myself to medical care, because I'll be charging off my (boy am I stupid, according to Buck) 10kW solar.
I have a friend who owns an ionic who routinely parks it for a week or two and never saw that problem. The self discharge characteristic of lithium batteries are waaaaay below anything that would cause a 10 day discharge. Your 10 year smoke detector uses lithium for just that reason.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 25, 2025 04:52 PM (cIFM2)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Boy Carrying a Sheaf
Aleksander Gierymski

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 art

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 /plants flag

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 25, 2025 09:30 AM (OUMaO)

3 What's with the fright wig, kid?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 09:30 AM (6YdsJ)

4 Ghillie suit, prototype #1

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:30 AM (JkO4W)

5 Ooo, photo finish.

I shall nood.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 25, 2025 09:30 AM (OUMaO)

6 Awesome hat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)

7
Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness,
Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve;
Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping,
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

8 Oddly appealing.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2025 09:31 AM (SfhV1)

9 He isn't doing too much rejoicing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:31 AM (JkO4W)

10 Boy taking the initial steps towards the costume which will allow him to fool the liquor store owner.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

11 Couldn't even let me have the nood, could ya, bastich?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 25, 2025 09:31 AM (OUMaO)

12 I want a hat like that.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 09:31 AM (jc0TO)

13 "Piggyback Ride For My Invisible Girlfriend?"

Posted by: Polka will never die at April 25, 2025 09:32 AM (KQlUW)

14 Title: A Boy In Sunshine/ A Boy Carrying a Sheaf
Creator: Aleksander Gierymski (1850–1901)
Date Created: c. 1895
Location Created: Bronowice near Kraków (Poland)
Rights: Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

15 I really dig the disembodied left hand.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2025 09:32 AM (GTqXr)

16 Sunny sonny!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 09:32 AM (GcdCE)

17 Bringing in the sheaves.
Bringing in the sheaves.
We shall come rejoicing.
Bringing in the sheaves.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2025 09:32 AM (SfhV1)

18 Hey, Everybody! Like my new hat?

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

19 Children of the Corn. Imma out of here.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 09:32 AM (pZ64F)

20 Peculiar subject, well rendered. Is that the way Russian peasants harvested their crops? Or was this a special deal for a harvest festival?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 09:33 AM (omVj0)

21 Being a very small farmstead, the Fall harvest was completed in about 15 minutes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:33 AM (JkO4W)

22 PNW meetup two weeks!

Same bat time. Same bat channel.

If you need the password, ding Mark in left sidebar.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2025 09:33 AM (mT+6a)

23 Is he bringing in the sheaf?

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

24 I feel pretty Oh, so pretty I feel pretty, and witty and bright And I pity Any girl who isn't me tonight

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

25 Boy got some serious gender decisions to make!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 25, 2025 09:33 AM (hOUT3)

26 A nice hat to keep the sun off, and the woman away.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Dv3i1)

27 Such is life in Russia

Posted by: brak at April 25, 2025 09:34 AM (jGJov)

28 My very first thought on seeing this? Wicker Man (the original).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 09:34 AM (omVj0)

29 Little known fact: this is really documenting the origins of Beyonce blond wig. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 09:34 AM (GcdCE)

30 He’s a bit overdressed for field hand work, yes ?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2025 09:34 AM (mT+6a)

31 Barefoot thru wheat stubble? Ouch, ouch, ouch.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 09:34 AM (4Nep/)

32 >13 "Piggyback Ride For My Invisible Girlfriend?"

Posted by: Polka will never die at April 25, 2025 09:32 AM (KQlUW)

A story of a young Gomez Addams giving a piggyback ride for Cousin It.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2025 09:34 AM (GTqXr)

33 Peculiar subject, well rendered. Is that the way Russian peasants harvested their crops? Or was this a special deal for a harvest festival?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 09:33 AM (omVj0)

This is almost definitely not a Russian painting. Polish, probably, from the guy's name. But not Russian.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 09:35 AM (BI5O2)

34 That was back when teepees were migratory.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:35 AM (JkO4W)

35 Alt title: Border Jumping; The Early Years.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 09:35 AM (Dv3i1)

36 He is the sniper

On the move to the next kill

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

37 Peculiar subject, well rendered. Is that the way Russian peasants harvested their crops? Or was this a special deal for a harvest festival?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Probably some weird saint's-day celebration that actually goes back to pagan times. Fertility myths, and all that.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

38 34 That was back when teepees were migratory.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:35 AM (JkO4W)

Would that be an African or an Australian teepee?

Posted by: Polka will never die at April 25, 2025 09:36 AM (KQlUW)

39 He does have a somewhat feminine face. Kind of like the actress who played "Trouble" on the TV series Grimm.

Still, the face and the wheat are beautifully rendered.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 09:36 AM (omVj0)

40 Would hang.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 09:36 AM (aBgBM)

41 For a joke, mom and dad named the kid John Deere.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:36 AM (JkO4W)

42 >>A story of a young Gomez Addams giving a piggyback ride for Cousin It.

LOL!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 09:37 AM (GcdCE)

43 A future sniper at Stalingrad

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 09:37 AM (D8QjK)

44 Did he lose a bet or something?

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

45 That was back when teepees were migratory.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025

***
The Polish equivalent of Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 09:37 AM (omVj0)

46 Wow... the napkin sketches for Big Helmet were pretty rough.

Posted by: red speck at April 25, 2025 09:37 AM (0Id0S)

47 Walking through the stubble on bare feet. Tough little bastard.

Posted by: huerfano at April 25, 2025 09:37 AM (n2swS)

48 "Gluten tag!"

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 09:37 AM (GcdCE)

49 Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski was a Polish painter of the late 19th century, the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski. He was a representative of Realism as well as an important precursor of Impressionism in Poland.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

50 He’s a bit overdressed for field hand work, yes ?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Which is why this probably some sort of festival.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

51

Hmmmm....

Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at April 25, 2025 09:38 AM (5hfjS)

52 His mom made him do this, and he isn't happy

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 09:39 AM (Jdj6j)

53 Those were designed to stay out in the field and shed rain. They didn't have big barns for storage.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2025 09:39 AM (cvWHI)

54 Psalm 126:6
New International Version
6 Those who go out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with them.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

55 Olde Russian Proverb:Too many sheafs spoil the Kulak.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:40 AM (JkO4W)

56 "This new sheaf design is way better than the old one. Adding the cutout in front increases visibility 100-fold. We used to have to just point in the general direction of the barn and follow the furrows."

Posted by: red speck at April 25, 2025 09:40 AM (0Id0S)

57 Thats one small teepee.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 25, 2025 09:40 AM (snZF9)

58 "Piggyback Ride For My Invisible Girlfriend?"

Posted by: Polka will never die at April 25, 2025 09:32 AM

She lives in St. Petersburg. You wouldn't know her.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 09:41 AM (kgE5c)

59
Needs a dog to supervise. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 09:41 AM (QnmlO)

60 Seems to me we've seen this artists before.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2025 09:41 AM (lJ0H4)

61 In later times this kid would be playing for Devo.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 09:41 AM (pZ64F)

62 That is an outfit that would be sure to garner 'ette attention at the TxMoMe.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 09:41 AM (0sNs1)

63

more like Boy Actin' A Foo

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 25, 2025 09:42 AM (fuVO9)

64 Honestly, this reminds me of Jamie Wyeth's Pumpkin head painting.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 09:42 AM (pZ64F)

65 That is an outfit that would be sure to garner 'ette attention at the TxMoMe.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 09:41 AM (0sNs1)
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*furiously takes notes*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 09:42 AM (6YdsJ)

66 Poor kid... somebody buy him a pair of shoes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 09:42 AM (Q4IgG)

67 "Nah, this doesn't look so good on me", CBD whined. "I know, I'll move to France and rock a beret!"

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 09:43 AM (s8j++)

68 Died in a mental hospital. Must have been found dead, because they're unsure of the day.

His In the Arbour must have been from much happier days.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 09:43 AM (TSEVy)

69 Lol...Europeans are so backwards and lame. The Japanese mino is a MUCH more effective piece of weather protective outerwear.
https://tinyurl.com/46jp4dkx

Posted by: Weeb at April 25, 2025 09:43 AM (JCZqz)

70 I take it back. I could see Makovsky painting something like this, but most Russian painters, no.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 09:44 AM (BI5O2)

71 Poor kid... somebody buy him a pair of shoes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025

***
Shoes are for winter, Americanski!

Posted by: Polish Farmer Boy at April 25, 2025 09:44 AM (omVj0)

72 In glorious Soviet Era to come, boy will live on collective farm and drive tractor!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:44 AM (JkO4W)

73 Lol...Europeans are so backwards and lame. The Japanese mino is a MUCH more effective piece of weather protective outerwear.

Man, that's gotta itch.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 09:44 AM (s8j++)

74 Not sure about this new Paris lineup but at least the materials are natural.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 09:44 AM (OPGS/)

75 Joffrey?

Posted by: mea culpa at April 25, 2025 09:45 AM (YxlHp)

76 In Soviet Russia, straw bales you!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 09:45 AM (6YdsJ)

77 Reminds me of a visit with my 75 year old Polish grandfather. I pointed to the scythe hanging in the barn and asked him if it worked. He gave me a short primer on technique and brought me to the side of the building where the grass was tall. I took some swings for a few minutes, trying different methods to get a good sweep, but all I could manage was som bent grass. I concluded it needed sharpening. With a big smile, he took the scythe from me and dropped three or four rows as neat as could be. Skill and muscle memory is a beautiful thing.

Posted by: red speck at April 25, 2025 09:45 AM (0Id0S)

78 Not sure about this new Paris lineup but at least the materials are natural.

TBH, I'm kind of surprised none of the Paris designers have thought to use this.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 09:45 AM (s8j++)

79 "I'M A LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKER!"

Posted by: Kirk Lazarus at April 25, 2025 09:46 AM (BI5O2)

80

Camouflage, attempting to escape the sodomite groomers at the local Democrat Party office...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at April 25, 2025 09:46 AM (0hToV)

81 His mom made him do this, and he isn't happy
Posted by: Skip

Like Ralphie's Mom making him wear the bunny suit from Grandma.

(See, I do remember a few scenes from that movie.)

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

82 In glorious Soviet Era to come, boy will live on collective farm and drive tractor!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025

***
New tractor is centerfold in October Plavbov, male comrades!

Posted by: Soviet Farmer, ca. 1984 at April 25, 2025 09:46 AM (omVj0)

83 I like the red shirt with the black embroidery, and I expect that is actually an easier way to carry sheaves than in ones arms. The contrast of the green field with the red shirt is also nice. I had not heard of that artist before, CBD. Thanks very much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 09:47 AM (42Vb+)

84
He actin' stupid so the schoolmarm made him wear a dunce hat.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 25, 2025 09:47 AM (fuVO9)

85 That's quite a hat.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 09:47 AM (WPL6O)

86 This is almost definitely not a Russian painting. Polish, probably, from the guy's name. But not Russian.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Could be set in Russian Poland, however.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

87 Farm-vear!

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

88 Option for a bad hair day ?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 09:49 AM (oXfCm)

89 Given there are no representatives of the genus Canis, can it truly be considered art?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 09:49 AM (0sNs1)

90 Svim-vear!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:49 AM (JkO4W)

91 87 Farm-vear!

I don't do the "threadwinner" thing, but if I did, this would be it.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 09:50 AM (s8j++)

92 Lead singer for the band Men with Silly Hats.
Thx CBD, wouldn't hang, too odd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 09:50 AM (6TePA)

93 Given there are no representatives of the genus Canis, can it truly be considered art?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Kid's gonna turn into a werewolf at the full moon. So, Canis-adjacent.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

94 Looking at his Wiki page, Gierymski was capable of careful, complex detail and use of light. This one is much more Impressionistic especially for the background and the sheaf. Enlarging the image brings out the brush strokes and layers of color he used. The boy, by contrast, is more realistic and forms a focal point for the viewer. The boy's pose, how his legs are positioned, give a sense of movement. It's not a dramatic scene, almost like a study for the artist developing a technique. I get a sense of quiet, just the boy's feet against the grass and shifting of the straw as he moves.

Posted by: JTB at April 25, 2025 09:51 AM (yTvNw)

95 Boy's thought bubble:

"I have to do twice the work, because Bernie isn't doing any."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 09:52 AM (0sNs1)

96 Good morning all.

I could be King someday the boy thought as he worked hard to afford a pair of shoes.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2025 09:52 AM (t/2Uw)

97 Poor kid... somebody buy him a pair of shoes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

No need, the bottoms of his feet are all callous. Self-made shoe.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 25, 2025 09:52 AM (ftFVW)

98 It's no pimp hat, but it ain't too shabby...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 09:52 AM (7fElN)

99 Looking at his other work, this guy is good, most of his paintings have a resigned bleakness to them.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2025 09:52 AM (XV/Pl)

100 87 Farm-vear!

I don't do the "threadwinner" thing, but if I did, this would be it.
Posted by: Archimedes

I am honored. I would like to thank the Academy...

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

101 100

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2025 09:52 AM (mT+6a)

102 95 Boy's thought bubble:

"I have to do twice the work, because Bernie isn't doing any."
____

Not true. I'm working everyday for you.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders, Useless Hypocrite at April 25, 2025 09:53 AM (Dv3i1)

103 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. When Diogenes was a boy he carried Shieks. In his billfold.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2025 09:53 AM (W/lyH)

104 Poor kid... somebody buy him a pair of shoes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

No need, the bottoms of his feet are all callous. Self-made shoe.
Posted by: She Hobbit

Fun fact I learned docenting at a local historic house: In the old days (early 19th century in this case), there were no left- or right-foot shoes. You just bought two shoes that were perfectly straight, and over time they would conform to the curve of the feet. Must've been painful until the shoes were broken in.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

105 "We're gonna need a bigger scythe!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 09:58 AM (RIvkX)

106 Your morning peek into DU:

"Roberts, you and your minions are responsible for this whole mess!

Had you let the court cases go through and had not told Krasnov he had immunity from punishment as president, he would have been a LOT more hesitant to destroy the country, deny rights, deport innocents, hurt women ad minorities, and turned the country into the laughing stock and criminal empire it has become.

History will crucify you for your evil, you disgusting SCROTUS bastards."

(I'm not sure, but I think Krasnov = Trump.)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 09:58 AM (0sNs1)

107 (heard backstage at The View)

Hey whoopi, your wig arrived.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 25, 2025 09:58 AM (snZF9)

108 All I can think of are the number of straw mites crawling around in his hair.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2025 09:58 AM (VHO8+)

109 The Inquisitor: "Sigh. No, you idiot, the combustible material goes UNDER the heretic."

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 09:59 AM (s8j++)

110 108 All I can think of are the number of straw mites crawling around in his hair.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2025 09:58 AM (VHO8+)

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Not to mention all the head lice crawling around in the wheat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 09:59 AM (JkO4W)

111 Farm-vear!
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:49 AM

Very nice.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 09:59 AM (jc0TO)

112 He’s carrying the proto-Polish farm wife. Shade in the summer and warmth in the winter.

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 25, 2025 10:00 AM (5SvjB)

113 All I can think of are the number of straw mites crawling around in his hair.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2025 09:58 AM

So, Turkey in the Straw is right out?

How about rolling over in the clover?

Asking for the 'Rons.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 10:00 AM (0sNs1)

114 20 Peculiar subject, well rendered. Is that the way Russian peasants harvested their crops? Or was this a special deal for a harvest festival?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

One sheaf only Vasily

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 25, 2025 10:01 AM (5SvjB)

115 Nice disguise. I totally didn't know it was you.

Posted by: No Name Today at April 25, 2025 10:01 AM (vlXMQ)

116 65 That is an outfit that would be sure to garner 'ette attention at the TxMoMe.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 09:41 AM (0sNs1)
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*furiously takes notes*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2025 09:42 AM (6YdsJ)

It does seem an appropriate garment for a concertina player.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2025 10:01 AM (h7ZuX)

117 Would fit right in at Burning Man or Coachella.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:02 AM (IZezY)

118 No! Not the bees!!

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 10:03 AM (jc0TO)

119 In Romania an appeals court judge ruled the cancelled election results were actually legitimate, and he's immediately being disciplined as a result.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 25, 2025 10:03 AM (2ocoG)

120 Well, that is goody.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2025 10:04 AM (ufFY8)

121 Goofy

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2025 10:05 AM (ufFY8)

122 In Romania an appeals court judge ruled the cancelled election results were actually legitimate, and he's immediately being disciplined as a result.
Posted by: Ian S.

That judge should resist being taken into retention. He should buck arrest.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

123 A peasant’s breakfast: Sheave of Wheat

Dad is also yelling “Now that you’ve sheaved the wheat, it’s time to shock the corn, boy!”

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 25, 2025 10:06 AM (5SvjB)

124 David Hogg was disappointed to find that volume is not the goal in weightlifting, but rather weight.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 10:06 AM (s8j++)

125 Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dr Oz:

“My main focus is to wage a war on fraud, waste, and abuse… If you thought USAID was a problem, some of the issues that we are discovering… will bring a little shiver to you.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 10:07 AM (gbOdA)

126 Painting?
There's a wanna be tranny joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at April 25, 2025 10:07 AM (r3F/z)

127 Alternate title:

Sheaf Boy are Thee.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2025 10:07 AM (rirrY)

128 107 (heard backstage at The View)

Hey whoopi, your wig arrived.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 25, 2025 09:58 AM (snZF9)

That's funny. I was just thinking of a Whoopi bit from back when she was a comedian and actually funny at times, doing this bit about when she was a kid, and putting a shirt on her head and pretending it was long, luxurious, blond hair.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2025 10:07 AM (h7ZuX)

129 In Romania an appeals court judge ruled the cancelled election results were actually legitimate, and he's immediately being disciplined as a result.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 25, 2025 10:03 AM (2ocoG)

Saving democracy by not letting people vote.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:07 AM (IZezY)

130 Alternate title:

Sheaf Boy are Thee.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Wow. Now THAT'S a threadwinner!

Well done. I thought it was Muldoon until I read the nic.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

131 If I had to guess I’d say’s 65% of SS disability claims are fake.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:09 AM (IZezY)

132 Speaking of Romania. They are accepting a large portion of the 36,000 gazans that have made it out of Gaza,

Hamassholes now claim that Gaza is the 21st century Auschwitz.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2025 10:09 AM (oXfCm)

133
A Straw Man Argument - a limerick

There once was a farm boy from Wales
Who suffered through many travails
His firmest belief
Was that carryin' a sheaf
Beat the heck out of just bucking bales

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:10 AM (uCfKO)

134 The ladies at the Kentucky Derby are going to be soooooooo jealous.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 10:10 AM (sI7wh)

135 132 Speaking of Romania. They are accepting a large portion of the 36,000 gazans that have made it out of Gaza,
______

I have information that will put Hillary Clinton in jail for the rest of her life.
- Romania

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 10:11 AM (Dv3i1)

136 Saving democracy by not letting people vote.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:07 AM

In Soviet Romania, ballots cast you.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 10:11 AM (Wnv9h)

137 (I'm not sure, but I think Krasnov = Trump.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax

You are correct. I had to look him up...apparently some Russian WWI/Czarist general who later helped the Germans in WWII....so, a Russian traitor. And, Trump is related to Russia and is a traitor, or something...?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2025 10:11 AM (JCZqz)

138 6 months from now:

Experts are baffled by the sudden spike in Romanian rapes.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:11 AM (IZezY)

139 With a little over a month to go before Pride Month, you best be jumping on completing your decorating needs shopping list, before the shelves are bare.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 10:12 AM (0sNs1)

140 I am proud to come from a long line of sheaf-carrying boys!

Posted by: Adam Schiff at April 25, 2025 10:12 AM (EI0rs)

141 Speaking of Romania. They are accepting a large portion of the 36,000 gazans that have made it out of Gaza,

NOW you can re-run the election!

Posted by: Hawaiian-Romanian Judge at April 25, 2025 10:12 AM (BU22l)

142 Alternate title:

Sheaf Boy are Thee.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2025 10:07 AM

*standing golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 10:12 AM (Wnv9h)

143 124 David Hogg was disappointed to find that volume is not the goal in weightlifting, but rather weight.
Posted by: Archimedes

Actually, I just like to hang around sweaty buff dudes in tight and/or revealing clothing

Posted by: David Hogg at April 25, 2025 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

144 6 months from now:

Experts are baffled by the sudden spike in Romanian rapes.

Followed by the inexplicable disappearance of all the Hamas males.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 10:13 AM (s8j++)

145 It does seem an appropriate garment for a concertina player.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2025 10:01 AM (h7ZuX)
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Leaves the arms free.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 25, 2025 10:13 AM (6YdsJ)

146 Painting reminded me of the movie Airplane.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 25, 2025 10:14 AM (VofaG)

147 Leaves the arms free.
____

*sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 25, 2025 10:14 AM (Dv3i1)

148 I have to admit, this is one of most unusual subjects I have ever seen.

- S. Dali

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 10:14 AM (vKNmo)

149 That kid has a rye sense of humor.

(is it humor or humour? I'm not sure I spelt it right.)

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:15 AM (uCfKO)

150 I have to admit, this is one of most unusual subjects I have ever seen.

- S. Dali
Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 10:14 AM (vKNmo)
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Needs more melted pocketwatches.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 25, 2025 10:15 AM (6YdsJ)

151 Painting reminded me of the movie Airplane.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 25, 2025 10:14 AM

Well, he did make a hat of it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 10:15 AM (Wnv9h)

152 advertisers have kidnapped the Jump to the Bottom link.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 25, 2025 10:15 AM (VofaG)

153 Romania was Dracula's realm. I suspect that if things get too dodgy, we'll be reminded of that.

Posted by: American Hawkman at April 25, 2025 10:15 AM (9VDxG)

154 Why the poor kid can just barley lift that sheaf.

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:16 AM (uCfKO)

155 103 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. When Diogenes was a boy he carried Shieks. In his billfold.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes

Still carrying the same one? Permanent Round imprint on wallet?

Posted by: Rubber Room at April 25, 2025 10:16 AM (G5+As)

156 The unfortunate hermit human has outgrown his straw shell, and is desperately searching for a more appropriately sized replacement.

Posted by: David Attenborough at April 25, 2025 10:17 AM (JCZqz)

157 (I'm not sure, but I think Krasnov = Trump.)

Slogging thru the fevered swamps a bit, there's a contingent that believes Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the code name 'Krasnov'.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 10:17 AM (IxaHo)

158 Porta-Polonica dot de/en
Atlas of Remembrance Places, Aleksander Gierymski

I like the painting. So colorful (often used in themes related to Polish history & popular culture) & it depicts how boys of a certain age may act when given specific chores.

The artist has a lovely body of work.

Thanks. Nice lead in to the weekend.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 25, 2025 10:17 AM (NFX2v)

159 If you really want to blow leftie minds:

https://www.trumpstore.com/product/trump-2028-hat/

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 10:18 AM (0sNs1)

160 Today is World Penguin Day.

Big Penguin strikes again!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 25, 2025 10:18 AM (6YdsJ)

161 I have to admit, this is one of most unusual subjects I have ever seen.

- S. Dali
Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 10:14 AM (vKNmo)
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Needs more melted pocketwatches.

Apropos of nothing, here's a really cool AI video with a Dali theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HAon7L4_tY

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 10:18 AM (s8j++)

162 "Hey kid! Quit yer loafing. I've told you a dozen times not to stop and smell the flours!"

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:18 AM (uCfKO)

163 Slogging thru the fevered swamps a bit, there's a contingent that believes Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the code name 'Krasnov'.
Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 10:17 AM (IxaHo)

That means either Clinton or Obama are Krasnov.

The Left's projection is a perfect magic mirror.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 25, 2025 10:19 AM (VofaG)

164 Slogging thru the fevered swamps a bit, there's a contingent that believes Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the code name 'Krasnov'.
Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 10:17 AM (IxaHo)

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Suddenly, everything starts to make sense.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:19 AM (JkO4W)

165 Judging by the expression on his face, I think he lost a bet.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 10:20 AM (YumCr)

166 Would fit right in at Burning Man or Coachella.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:02 AM

Ok...pardon my ignorance, but what, exactly, is Coachella?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 10:21 AM (Wnv9h)

167
♫
I'm singin' in the grain
Just singin' in the grain...

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:22 AM (uCfKO)

168 World Penguin Day is an annual event, observed on April 25th every year; this day is observed to raise awareness of one of Earth’s more mephitic and sexually-perverse birds, penguins.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 10:22 AM (0sNs1)

169 If you really want to blow leftie minds:

https://www.trumpstore.com/product/trump-2028-hat/
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 10:18 AM

$50 is too much for a snap closure cap. I would go $20 with free shipping.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 10:23 AM (jc0TO)

170 "Hey kid! Quit yer loafing. I've told you a dozen times not to stop and smell the flours!"
Posted by: muldoon

"You oat to get moving."

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2025 10:23 AM (lJ0H4)

171 At first glance, I thought it was a Inca woman.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 10:24 AM (8zz6B)

172 What a great painting! Brings to mind Pepi Longsocks

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 10:24 AM (dCxaZ)

173 World Penguin Day is an annual event, observed on April 25th every year; this day is observed to raise awareness of one of Earth’s more mephitic and sexually-perverse birds, penguins.

At least we're not otters!

Posted by: Big Penguin at April 25, 2025 10:24 AM (aEiU2)

174 That means either Clinton or Obama are Krasnov.

The real William Blythe died in a Soviet gulag in 1987.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 10:26 AM (jc0TO)

175 If you look away from this painting for ~10 seconds and look back again the boy will have moved 10 steps closer and squatted down again. Eerie.

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:26 AM (uCfKO)

176 "You oat to get moving."
Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2025 10:23 AM (lJ0H4)

You will yeast with these comments. No more!

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2025 10:27 AM (Oy/m2)

177 There are 18 species of penguin from the mighty Emperor Penguin to the cute and cuddly Little Penguin. We join them all in celebrating World Penguin Day, instituted to honor Nature's Indispensable Bird!

Posted by: Penguin Pete at April 25, 2025 10:27 AM (G5+As)

178 For the "nothing's happening crowd;"

FBI Director Kash Patel

@FBIDirectorKash
·
8m
Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.

We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.

Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 10:27 AM (Q4IgG)

179 Cereal killers use scythes to carry out their crimes.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

180 If I had to guess I’d say’s 65% of SS disability claims are fake.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:09 AM (IZezY)

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I had a neighbor who was doing his best to get on disability, because he didn't want to continue to live in the city with all the blacks and browns (he said it a little different)
Back problems, he said. And yet from our vantage point we could see into his yard where he'd put up a heavy bag on the end of the jungle gym and he's out there punching and kicking away...
Got into a verbal tiff with next door neighbor and leapt the privacy fence like only a healthy young man can do.
Garbage human.
Apparently got his disability too, because he packed up the wife and kids to move "up north" with the good people.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 10:28 AM (FCbAQ)

181 The original condom?

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 10:30 AM (gMWM2)

182 If I had to guess I’d say’s 65% of SS disability claims are fake.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

-

This is going to be the mind-blowing bit, though.

Even if so, I bet that's still a drop in the bucket of the actual fraud, and the reason why there's been a constant push to make people angry at their neighbors and fellow Americans is to keep the attention off of the people doing the REAL fraud.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 10:30 AM (TvjUl)

183 Well, I just passed my annual corp sexual harassment test.

*buffs nails on lapel*

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2025 10:31 AM (GTqXr)

184 Monty Python - How To Not Be Seen.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 25, 2025 10:31 AM (w6EFb)

185 Well, I just passed my annual corp sexual harassment test.

*buffs nails on lapel*
Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2025 10:31 AM

How many did you have to harass?

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 10:31 AM (jc0TO)

186 We always laughed and called him Jiminy Sheafhead.

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 10:31 AM (0HaGk)

187 More for the Nuthin's Happenin' crowd:

Sumter (South Carolina) residents Nasir Ullah, 28, and Naim Ullah, 32, and Georgia resident Puquan Huang, 49, were charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering

Good 'ol American ingenuity, I say!

The suspects used encrypted communications platforms, such as “WeChat” and “WhatsApp,” to discuss the money laundering operations, according to the indictment.

Uh-oh, Deep State, I guess 'encrypted' doesn't mean what you thought it meant...

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 10:32 AM (p0167)

188 Cereal killers use scythes to carry out their crimes.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

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Common-sense scythe-control would Chex that behavior.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 10:32 AM (gMWM2)

189 Well, I just passed my annual corp sexual harassment test.

*buffs nails on lapel*
Posted by: Heavy Meta

While I was working, I was (generally) excused from the sexual harassment training as I insisted I already knew how to do that.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 10:32 AM (vKNmo)

190 Makes me itch all over just looking at him carrying that straw. Our first combine was a John Deere model pulled behind a John Deere ‘A’ tractor. It had no onboard grainbin and the grain, or soybeans in our case, had to be caught in bushel burlap bags, wire-tied, and slid down a chute to the ground. From there they were picked up, (again) and chunked on a trailer. At the age of 10 I was the guy who did all that baggin’, tyin’, and chunkin’.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2025 10:32 AM (LHPAg)

191 Common-sense scythe-control would Chex that behavior.
Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 10:32 AM (gMWM2)

* groan *

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2025 10:32 AM (Oy/m2)

192 If I had to guess I’d say’s 65% of SS disability claims are fake.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

-

Addendum:

And to distract from the fact that millions of illegals were IMMEDIATELY placed on it and getting $80K+ (American citizens are prohibited from the double-dipping, but not illegals), and apparently have been since '96

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 10:33 AM (TvjUl)

193 Coachella is a big music festival in the California desert. Happened last week.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:33 AM (IZezY)

194 Well, I just passed my annual corp sexual harassment test.

*buffs nails on lapel*

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2025 10:31 AM (GTqXr)

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#MeToo

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 10:34 AM (gMWM2)

195 A Straw Man Argument - a limerick

There once was a farm boy from Wales
Who suffered through many travails
His firmest belief
Was that carryin' a sheaf
Beat the heck out of just bucking bales
Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:10 AM (uCfKO)

I realize that Threadwinner is only for amatuers and professional can't win, but...

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 10:34 AM (FCbAQ)

196 >While I was working, I was (generally) excused from the sexual harassment training as I insisted I already knew how to do that.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2025 10:32 AM (vKNmo)

Ha! There were a few tranny related questions this year. Apparently, I need to allow the troons to use the ladies room.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2025 10:34 AM (GTqXr)

197 South Carolina and Georgia “resident” eh?
Wonder if they know Maryland Man.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:35 AM (IZezY)

198 When harvest was over this kid threw his tools on the wagon. He literally heaved a scythe of relief.

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:35 AM (uCfKO)

199 Insurrection Barbie is Big Mad at the Biden/Podesta money grab, as she has every right to be

https://tinyurl.com/4jcr25a8

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 10:35 AM (YjkhO)

200 and apparently have been since '96

Millions of illegals, plus millions of illegally naturalized citizens.

We might only be a nation of 200 million.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 10:38 AM (STfYR)

201 183 Well, I just passed my annual corp sexual harassment test.

*buffs nails on lapel*
Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2025 10:31 AM (GTqXr)

Good news! And it's Friday, so you can play GrabAss with your underlings until 5 PM.

Posted by: Rump Ranger Ronnie at April 25, 2025 10:39 AM (G5+As)

202 Ok...pardon my ignorance, but what, exactly, is Coachella?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2025 10:21 AM (Wnv9h)

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It's a misspelling of Conchilla, a Spanish word for the small white snail shells found in the valley's sandy soil, vestiges of a lake that dried up over 3,000 years ago -- but that's not important now.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 10:39 AM (gMWM2)

203 ...soybeans in our case, had to be caught in bushel burlap bags, wire-tied, and slid down a chute to the ground. From there they were picked up, (again) and chunked on a trailer. At the age of 10 I was the guy who did all that baggin’, tyin’, and chunkin’.
Posted by: Eromero

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Silly Eromero. Soybeans aren't for chunkin'. Punkins are for chunkin!

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:39 AM (uCfKO)

204 199 Insurrection Barbie is Big Mad at the Biden/Podesta money grab, as she has every right to be

https://tinyurl.com/4jcr25a8
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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It wouldn't surprise me to find out that this same thing was setup all across the West at the same time. Massive theft from citizens to setup the infrastructure to keep the left in power. Protecting Democracy (TM). *spit*

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 10:40 AM (Dv3i1)

205 Protecting Democracy (TM). *spit*
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 10:40 AM (Dv3i1)

our precious democracy.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 10:41 AM (FCbAQ)

206
Boy Carrying a Sheaf sez "Hook'em Horns!!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 10:41 AM (iJfKG)

207 Ha! There were a few tranny related questions this year. Apparently, I need to allow the troons to use the ladies room.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2025 10:34 AM (GTqXr)

Well, once they are sufficiently dead, it doesn't matter, does it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 10:43 AM (8zz6B)

208 Alternate title:

"He Who Walks Behind the Rows Sits on Boy's Head and Farts as a Prank"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 10:43 AM (iJfKG)

209 I took one glance at this and knew the comments would not disappointed. Perfect Friday content.

Posted by: H at April 25, 2025 10:44 AM (2gjbv)

210 Well, I just passed my annual corp sexual harassment test.

*buffs nails on lapel*

They said I was a natural!

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 10:44 AM (hcwCh)

211 Insurrection Barbie is Big Mad at the Biden/Podesta money grab, as she has every right to be

https://tinyurl.com/4jcr25a8

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 10:35 AM (YjkhO)

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Great link, thanks. Hopefully on the DOJ's radar.

I want Blood, RICO, and Executions.
I'll settle for Waterboarding at Club Gitmo and Lifetime Feral PMITA Prison.
I'll get Strongly-Worded Letters ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 10:44 AM (gMWM2)

212 Little known fact, the boy's name is Omar.

So it's Omar carrying a sheif.

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 25, 2025 10:44 AM (gu0ND)

213 Wonder if that kid is any relation to the Kansas City Sheafs...

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:45 AM (uCfKO)

214 Insurrection Barbie is Big Mad at the Biden/Podesta money grab, as she has every right to be

https://tinyurl.com/4jcr25a8

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 10:35 AM

I guarantee you that forensic audits will find prosecutable fraud in every one of these organizations.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 10:46 AM (jc0TO)

215 I’ve noticed the sexual harassment videos always have a mid woman that’s being harassed. Let’s make the video realistic people. Put an 8 or a 9 in the role. The 6 doesn’t have much to worry about.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:47 AM (IZezY)

216 Letitia James Lawyered Up with Hunter Biden’s Defense Attorney After Trump Official Drops Bombshell Allegations of Mortgage Fraud — Admits to “Mistakenly” Claiming Virginia Home as Primary Residence

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2025 10:48 AM (GITLP)

217 Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 10:44 AM (gMWM2)

Not even sure you will get letters. You may get a particularly ruffled sleeve and fake flop sweat with maybe an Obama chin of righteousness.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 10:48 AM (bXihk)

218 One year when I was at DLI, we at the Navy detachment made a video for the annual sexual-harassment training. I got to play the sexual harasser. It was fun.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

219 CNN, Russian general killed in car blast just outside Moscow ahead of Witkoff-Putin meeting, Fri, April 25, 2025

"A senior Russian general has died in a car bombing in the Russian city of Balashikha on Friday, authorities say, with news of the blast breaking just before US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Witkoff is in the Russian capital for crunch talks on a potential ceasefire in Ukraine as Trump’s self-imposed deadline of ending the war within the first 100 days of his presidency nears."
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Z the 😈?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 25, 2025 10:48 AM (NFX2v)

220 The Center for American Progress (CAP), founded by Clinton ally John Podesta, is more than a think tank—it’s the strategic command center for the modern Left. Under Biden, CAP helped orchestrate the biggest activist cash grab in U.S. history: $4 TRILLION.

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case in point. That's not legal money going to people who are outside of the government system.

That's why they established the useful scapegoat, and the scapegoat is especially useful since it's so against what everything America stands for.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 10:49 AM (TvjUl)

221 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:47 AM (IZezY)

It is realistic. It's the 5's that create the complaints.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 10:49 AM (bXihk)

222 216 Letitia James Lawyered Up with Hunter Biden’s Defense Attorney After Trump Official Drops Bombshell Allegations of Mortgage Fraud — Admits to “Mistakenly” Claiming Virginia Home as Primary Residence
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2025 10:48 AM (GITLP)

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That's credible. Everyone gets confused about where they live from time to time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:49 AM (JkO4W)

223 The suspects used encrypted communications platforms, such as “WeChat” and “WhatsApp,” to discuss the money laundering operations, according to the indictment.

Uh-oh, Deep State, I guess 'encrypted' doesn't mean what you thought it meant...
Posted by: t-bird
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As Ben Franklin says, two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. Basically encryption simply keeps the common riff raff criminals out of your comm loop if it matters. Not a match for the tricks of the Deep State aka Stinger inceptor towers, being able to implant malware on your phone or computer, or their computers. It is also probable that there are backdoors to anything other than open source code projects if not chips in the US itself.

My guess is Salt Typhoon, Chinese massive penetration of US telecoms among other industries, was aided by such baked in backdoors used by teh Feds to monitor the US population.

Posted by: DNC at April 25, 2025 10:49 AM (ctrM5)

224 Even if all sorts of indictments are made they’ll all be tried in DC courts. Which will result in no convictions.

They need to try this stuff in rural Wyoming to get convictions.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:49 AM (IZezY)

225 Alternate Title:

"Trump's Tariffs Have Led to Discount Wicker Man Celebrations"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 10:49 AM (iJfKG)

226 Senior Russian General, the worst job next to Crack Whore and Assistant Crack Whore.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 10:50 AM (bXihk)

227 It is realistic. It's the 5's that create the complaints.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 10:49 AM (bXihk)

Good point.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:50 AM (IZezY)

228 Alternate title:

Tiny Home In the Land of Straw Huts

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:50 AM (uCfKO)

229 I’ve noticed the sexual harassment videos always have a mid woman that’s being harassed. Let’s make the video realistic people. Put an 8 or a 9 in the role. The 6 doesn’t have much to worry about.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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Ah, but that's the trick. They asked a group of women to pick out the hottest. They were all 10s, so naturally the most unattractive 10 won.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 10:50 AM (TvjUl)

230 It wouldn't surprise me to find out that this same thing was setup all across the West at the same time. Massive theft from citizens to setup the infrastructure to keep the left in power. Protecting Democracy (TM). *spit*

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 10:40 AM (Dv3i1)

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Yep. The GloboHomo One-world Deep-state Oligarchic Psychopathocracy Empire Network (GOD OPEN for short).

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 10:50 AM (gMWM2)

231 That's credible. Everyone gets confused about where they live from time to time.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:49 AM

or who they are married to.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 10:50 AM (jc0TO)

232 Natural inoculation against wheat germ.

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 25, 2025 10:51 AM (5SvjB)

233 7
Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness,
Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve;
Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping,
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

Nice!

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 10:51 AM (CQE5S)

234 That's credible. Everyone gets confused about where they live from time to time.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:49 AM (JkO4W)

Indeed.

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 25, 2025 10:51 AM (bXihk)

235 Admits to “Mistakenly” Claiming Virginia Home as Primary Residence
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2025 10:48 AM (GITLP)

Oh, did she "mistakenly" list her father as her husband, too?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2025 10:51 AM (h7ZuX)

236 It wouldn't surprise me to find out that this same thing was setup all across the West at the same time. Massive theft from citizens to setup the infrastructure to keep the left in power. Protecting Democracy (TM). *spit*

Posted by: Chuck Martel

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It's your neighbor with the bad back. He's the problem, citizen.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 10:51 AM (TvjUl)

237 Not even sure you will get letters. You may get a particularly ruffled sleeve and fake flop sweat with maybe an Obama chin of righteousness.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 10:48 AM (bXihk)

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Yeah, another good point.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 10:51 AM (gMWM2)

238 vestiges of a lake that dried up over 3,000 years ago -- but that's not important now.
Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 10:39 AM (gMWM2)

Damn global warming.

Posted by: Reforger at April 25, 2025 10:52 AM (xcIvR)

239 Alternate tile Re-do:

"Trump's Elimination of USAID Has Led to Cheap, Bargain-Basement Versions of the Traditional Wiccan Spring Wicker Man Celebrations

Hawaiian Judge Says Funding Must Be Restored."

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

240 It's your neighbor with the bad back. He's the problem, citizen.

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I regret not signing that with something associated with COVID mask and vaxxine propaganda pushers

Same exact concept, same exact usefulness.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 10:53 AM (TvjUl)

241 Hope that wheat is gluten free....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 10:53 AM (VE6XX)

242 216 Letitia James Lawyered Up with Hunter Biden’s Defense Attorney After Trump Official Drops Bombshell Allegations of Mortgage Fraud — Admits to “Mistakenly” Claiming Virginia Home as Primary Residence
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2025 10:48 AM (GITLP)

Give Letitia a break. She di'nt know what the word "primary" meant in this regard. Thought it was a rigged election.

Posted by: Resign, Crooked Bitch! at April 25, 2025 10:53 AM (G5+As)

243 I think JJ might have missed this but GP had a report about Trump pardoning a Nevada Judge who the DS was absolutely crushing for her role in support after the Bundy Ranch standoff.

Nevada Judge Michele Fiore wrote a letter thanking him for his support. I think it's a must read for the Horde and anyone else out there fighting the good fight:

https://tinyurl.com/32t48kj8

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2025 10:53 AM (QB+5g)

244 Haven't read the comments, but have y'all heard of the judge arrested in Wisconsin for trying to help an illegal evade arrest by ICE? That's two judges in two days.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2025 10:53 AM (2UnvF)

245 Like I said the biggest thing missing from her little phony We Shall Overcome rant was the word "innocent".

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 10:54 AM (bXihk)

246 That's credible. Everyone gets confused about where they live from time to time.
Posted by: Cicero

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Runs aw- (trips)

Runs- (trips)

Runs away cry- (trips)

Shuffles slowly away after forgetting what I'm crying about

- Joe Biden

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 10:54 AM (TvjUl)

247 The funniest thing about the Letitia James fraud is her lawyer's statement yesterday that she had been singled out for prosecution.

Coming from Letitia "vote for me so I can prosecute Donald Trump for something" James, there is some top shelf irony in that statement.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2025 10:54 AM (JkO4W)

248 Hope that wheat is gluten free....
Posted by: It's me donna

"Glute-free?!?!"

*sobs*

-- Brie Larsen

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

249 Z the 😈?
Posted by: L
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Putin hitting civilians in Kiev the other day merits equal condemnation if you are going to do scoring. Basically, there are no good guys to root for in such a place and we will actually be advantaged ourselves in the US from walking away from that mess. We spent far too much treasure, if not blood, in that morass to little effect other than enriching our Deep State and politicians.

In a match between autocrats, who cares who wins sort of like Hussein versus the Mullahs decades ago (Iran-Iraq war). We will have to deal with the consequences after whoever 'wins' (almost certainly to be Russia) in the future. That is particularly true if we stay in the decaying NATO alliance but we are better off casting them adrift as well. Let Euroland deal with Russia themselves. Rather have a Vlad protectorate than Muzzies running the place.

Posted by: DNC at April 25, 2025 10:55 AM (ctrM5)

250

I’ve noticed the sexual harassment videos always have a mid woman that’s being harassed. Let’s make the video realistic people. Put an 8 or a 9 in the role. The 6 doesn’t have much to worry about.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

The writer's thinly disguised fetish

Posted by: imp at April 25, 2025 10:55 AM (g6TN6)

251 Ah, but that's the trick. They asked a group of women to pick out the hottest. They were all 10s, so naturally the most unattractive 10 won.

Sadly, I think that's the truth. Oh and don't forget that the harasser is always a white man because no other ethnicity on Earth engages in such behavior.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 10:55 AM (OPGS/)

252 Natural inoculation against wheat germ.
Posted by: haffhowershower

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Heh! nice!

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:56 AM (uCfKO)

253 Seems like just last year that we were cheering KEEEEEEV drone attacking some apartment complex deep inside Russia.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 10:56 AM (TvjUl)

254 Trump’s Tarriffs caused me to bump my toe this morning.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 10:56 AM (IZezY)

255 That’s a hell of a ghillie suit.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at April 25, 2025 10:57 AM (17s+e)

256 Hope that wheat is gluten free....
Posted by: It's me donna

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Good point. Seeing as how gluten-y is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 10:57 AM (uCfKO)

257 As Ben Franklin says, two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.

And if you need to keep *lots* of secrets...

Posted by: Hillary! at April 25, 2025 10:57 AM (0w7Of)

258 That means either Clinton or Obama are Krasnov.

The Left's projection is a perfect magic mirror.

Definitely Obama. He's famous for pooh-poohing Romney's concerns about Russia in 2012, after all.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 25, 2025 10:57 AM (2ocoG)

259
Definitely Obama. He's famous for pooh-poohing Romney's concerns about Russia in 2012, after all.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 25, 2025 10:57 AM (2ocoG)

I've noticed that Russia goes on land grabs when Dems are President...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2025 10:59 AM (VE6XX)

260 The funniest thing about the Letitia James fraud is her lawyer's statement yesterday that she had been singled out for prosecution.
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Don't see the problem.

Posted by: Lady Justice at April 25, 2025 10:59 AM (XeU6L)

261 Makes me itch all over just looking at him carrying that straw. Our first combine was a John Deere model pulled behind a John Deere ‘A’ tractor. It had no onboard grainbin and the grain, or soybeans in our case, had to be caught in bushel burlap bags, wire-tied, and slid down a chute to the ground. From there they were picked up, (again) and chunked on a trailer. At the age of 10 I was the guy who did all that baggin’, tyin’, and chunkin’.
Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2025 10:32 AM (LHPAg)

You be REALLY old.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 25, 2025 10:59 AM (g8Ew8)

262 Thank you Muldoon! I bow my head to the master.

You’re on particular fire this morning. Kudos sir!

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 25, 2025 10:59 AM (5SvjB)

263 moar Polish Masters of Art:

nitter.net/polmastersofart

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 11:00 AM (CQE5S)

264 Letitia's primary complaint is that she believes things should only go around and it's not fair when they come around.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 11:00 AM (bXihk)

265 Coming from Letitia "vote for me so I can prosecute Donald Trump for something" James, there is some top shelf irony in that statement.
Posted by: Cicero
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To the left, the key metric is oppressed versus oppressor. The oppressed like Tish cannot do anything wrong. The oppressor like DJT cannot do anything right. All statements from leftists have expiration dates--always. Since Muzzies like taqiyya themselves, it is simply one more thing that leftists and Muzzies have in common just like oppressor-oppressed talk.

Posted by: DNC at April 25, 2025 11:01 AM (ctrM5)

266 Keeeev is another example of the psy op BS

Are you a good person who loves America and Ukraine or are you a Russian stooge?

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 25, 2025 11:01 AM (rQI9M)

267 Definitely Obama. He's famous for pooh-poohing Romney's concerns about Russia in 2012, after all.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Until they cut off gay adoptions from Russia. Apparently his down low persona could not handle that denial.

Posted by: DNC at April 25, 2025 11:02 AM (ctrM5)

268 258 Definitely Obama. He's famous for pooh-poohing
Posted by: Ian S. at April 25, 2025 10:57 AM (2ocoG)

Is that what the kids are calling it these days.

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 11:02 AM (CQE5S)

269 The funniest thing about the Letitia James fraud is her lawyer's statement yesterday that she had been singled out for prosecution.

Is there any other way to prosecute? Yes, you have been identified as the suspect.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 11:02 AM (VfMZK)

270 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

271

He longs to put on a dress and service large sweaty men behind a pub...

WHO DOESN'T!

Posted by: David Hogger at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (0hToV)

272 CAP and all those bullshit grifter NGO's? Audit them all, prosecute a few high-profile schmucks that you have the goods on, and let attrition take care of the rest. Assisted attrition, even.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 11:04 AM (8zz6B)

273 253 Seems like just last year that we were cheering KEEEEEEV drone attacking some apartment complex deep inside Russia.
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Not I. I feel and felt sorry for the poor civilian bastards caught in the crossfire between two despots but it seems that both countries like killing indiscriminately way too much.

Literally blood for land transaction.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 11:06 AM (ctrM5)

274 He looks like a Shuttlecock.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 25, 2025 04:12 PM (O7YUW)

275 Well hopefully no Hay Feaver Ahh Choo

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 25, 2025 04:38 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 4/ 25 /25

Good morning kids. Well it certainly looks as if the left is baying for blood, or yet another day ending in "Y." As CBD and I along with our fantastic guest Vox Clamantis discussed on the latest episode of the podcast (linked here and in the sidebar)

President Trump has very few options in standing up to what amounts to a coup being perpetrated on his presidency and the American people by a rogue judiciary, that in the cases of immigration law and deportations rests on the complete and intentional bastardization of the definitions of "Due Process," Over and above attempts to block executive actions vis a vis DOGE and the reining in of the bureaucratic state. Of course, this is but one front in the continuing Civil War against the Republic as founded. Whether this is version 2.0 or another chapter which began either after Aaron Burr murdered Alexander Hamilton, coinciding with the infamous Marbury v. Madison case that bears directly on said Judiciary, or after 1865, or with Wilson or FDR it makes little difference.

Our President and now all of us are being demonized, etherized and dehumanized to the point of making us legitimate targets for elimination, politically and physically, that have zero protections.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports” that if President Donald Trump disobeyed a Supreme Court order, “extraordinary action will be necessary.”
Jansing said, “The Supreme Court said the administration must facilitate the return of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. That has not happened. Are we at the point, Senator, where you feel extraordinary action is warranted?”

Emphasis mine. And so, the question is how many divisions does the Supreme Court and Chuck Schumer have?

Of course, there's always this, which is but the latest example of who and what is the Democrat base and party itself.

While plotting upcoming protests, Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., urged demonstrators to target congressmen at church.
“Folks, colleagues of mine should not be able to go to church or to go to the neighborhood gas station — if they pump their own gas, because I work with a lot of billionaires,” Ramirez said. “They should not be able to, without seeing community asking them ‘What the hell are you doing [for] my Social Security? What the hell are you doing to protect my Medicaid? Why the hell are you not standing up to protect public education in this country?’”

On a more positive note, this actually happened:

Federal prosecutors have declared intent to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, according to a court document filed on Thursday evening.
The filing was obtained by Courthouse News Service on Thursday.
It comes a week after Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was indicted on federal charges.
The court document argues that Mangione “intentionally” killed Thompson because of his position as the CEO of a health insurance company.

Of course with prosecutors like Alvin Bragg and judges like Boasberg, as well as John Roberts, and more crucially with an alarming percentage of the citizenry viewing Mangione as well as Hamas boosters and Islamic terrorists and Tren de Aragua gangsters as heroes,

Schumer's poisonous words as well as this filthy lying Shit-whore are a green light to commit acts of violence in the guise of personal and societal self-defense. How long before the jail housing Mangione will be targeted by Antifa goons in an attempt to break Mangione out. Of course the Hakeem Jeffries' and Titty Caca AOC's will be nowhere near the line of fire but manning the bullhorns and grandstanding in front of the CNN and MSNSDAP cameras while Banjo Boy and credibly accused intern-murderer Joe Scarborough describes the action as a mostly peaceful Warsaw Ghetto uprising moment or some such rot.

Speaking of Antifa goon squads, Jan Schakowsky, an evil bint congress vermin from Chicago has decided to not seek re-election, this good news comes on the heels of would be mass-assassin-linked Illinois senator Dick Durbin also throwing in the towel. As for Schakowsky, she and especially her husband Robert Creamer are directly linked with organizing mobs and goon squads to confront and assault Republicans and others they deem as political enemies.

While it's certainly good news that Durbin and Schakowsky are leaving the scene, or at least the spotlight, maybe it's too much to hope for that this might be a harbinger for a return to some sort of sanity for Illinois. Considering that the Left's bench is very dark and very deep, and that their unslakable lust for absolute power is insatiable, I won't hold my breath. Considering the above-quoted Delia Ramirez vermin is also from Illinois.

Elsewhere, I note with great sorrow the 110th anniversary of the Turkish Muslim genocide perpetrated against Armenia. Considering the nature of Islam, horrible and catastrophic as this event was, it was not and should not be viewed as an isolated incident, as Wednesday's observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds us as well as the most recent slaughter of Hindus in Kashmir. And the over 100 million butchered in little more than a century, and counting (with places like North Korea, Cuba and Red China still racking up the body count), in the name of advancing socialism/communism.

Evil never rests, and neither should we. God bless the memory of all who perished at the hands of totalitarian evil in all its forms.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Have a great weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

The document also claims that the 26-year-old presents “a future danger” because he expressed intent “to target an entire industry, and rally political and social opposition to that industry.”
Federal prosecutors officially file intent to seek death penalty against Luigi Mangione
Look, I don’t know if it’s having a certain level of ego or whether it’s pure stupidity — heck, maybe both — but the left in this country, or at least the freeloaders in our government who oppose cleaning up the swamp because it puts their cushy, accountability-free lifestyles at risk, are absolutely getting everything they deserve from President Donald Trump’s administration — or maybe they “deserve” more.
Independent journalist James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) just released yet another undercover video exposing either an egomaniac or a guy just lying to impress his date. Either way, Nicolas Turza — the alleged Branch Chief for the Department of Defense (DoD) — said what he said.
Undercover Video Shows DoD 'Branch Chief' Deriding Trump: 'He's Illegitimate,' 'We're Going to Resist Him'
Daniel Greenfield: Klaus Schwab steps down even as Davos is dying.
Mr. Globalism Goes Away

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

Trump, tested and sharpened by the legal wars of his first term, is spurring into action an, at times, feckless John Roberts-led court.
Trump’s Fight To Fire Leftist Bureaucrats Is A Supreme Battle Worth Fighting
Lawless injunctions are thwarting the president’s agenda and threatening the Senate’s venerable tradition.
How Activist Judges Could Hasten the Filibuster’s Demise
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) has officially enacted a law establishing the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office (TREO), drawing inspiration from President Donald J. Trump‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which technology and space exploration mogul Elon Musk advises. Signed into law late Wednesday, the TREO is designed to reduce state bureaucracy by identifying superfluous and ineffective regulations, thereby mirroring the objectives of the federal DOGE.
Greg Abbott Unveils ‘Texas DOGE’ Initiative.
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods jumped in March, far exceeding expectations and building on prior gains, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. New orders for durable goods rose 9.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted $315.7 billion, after a 0.9 percent increase in February. Economists had forecast a more modest 1.4 percent rise. The gain was powered by a 27.0 percent surge in transportation equipment, led by a 139.0 percent jump in commercial aircraft orders, which alone accounted for nearly the entire headline increase.
Durable Goods Orders Jumped 9.2%, Crushing Expectations, Thanks To Airplane Demand

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The White House is examining a proposal to offer a $5,000 “baby bonus” for women having children to address declining birth rates in the United States. This comes amid discussions with policy experts and advocates seeking solutions to boost the nation’s fertility figures, as an alternative to mass migration.Encouraging more births could address long-term demographic challenges, with more deaths than births observed in recent years. The Congressional Budget Office projects the U.S. fertility rate to average 1.6 births per woman over the next 30 years, well below the 2.1 necessary for maintaining a stable population without mass migration.
Trump Admin Exploring $5,000 Baby Bonus Plan to Tackle Demographic Decline.
City officials in Chicago and Los Angeles are currently grappling with how to address substantial budget shortfalls. Meanwhile, Philadelphia is struggling with various financial issues across several sectors, with both its school district and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the city’s public transit system, facing massive budget deficits.
Democrats Spent Years Running Their Cities’ Budgets Into The Red. Now That Tab Is Finally Coming Due
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
‘Congress should not be operating as business as usual… Colleagues of mine should not be able to go to church or to go to the neighborhood gas station…’ (If I even dared suggest the same to be directed at her - jjs)
Democrat Representative Urges Protesters To Harass Congressmen At Church
“If the Supreme Court makes a final decision and Trump decides to disobey it, and it will be on all of us, not just the political leaders, but certainly us, but on all Americans to resist that. I think that would happen.”
Schumer: If Trump Disobeys Supreme Court Order ‘Extraordinary Action Will Be Necessary’
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon for the Civil Rights Division is not pleased.
Washington Gov. Ferguson Expands Law Helping First Time Minority Homebuyers
The administration’s executive order eliminating disparate-impact theory restores the 1964 Civil Rights Act to its original meaning.
Trump Takes His Biggest Step Yet Toward Restoring Meritocracy
Democrats fall one by one to the Trump-induced psychosis.
Is Jamie Raskin Having a Psychotic Break?

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
District Judge Stephanie Gallagher said Wednesday the 20-year-old Venezuelan, along with multiple other migrants, was protected by a 2024 class action settlement prohibiting the deportation of migrants who arrived as unaccompanied minors until their asylum claims are fully adjudicated.
Judge Orders Return of Second Migrant Sent to El Salvador (Ideal PDT response: Go piss up the rope you should swing by - jjs)
One Oregon prosecutor claims that it doesn’t matter at all in an attempted murder case if the violent criminal was an illegal alien or not. The victim would likely beg to differ, considering her attacker probably should never have been in the country and anywhere near her to begin with.
Oregon Prosecutor: Immigration Status Doesn’t Bear on Attempted Murder Case
“The State of Illinois will stand up for the Rule of Law and do everything in our power stop the Trump Administration from ripping apart our most basic rights.”
J.B. [sitz-] Pritzker Announces El Salvador Boycott Over Kilmar Abrego Garcia Situation
Smith began by saying that there has to be due process for deportations to ensure people aren’t wrongfully deported and the Trump administration is defying the Supreme Court. (Take your Due Process distortion and shove it up your collectivist culo - jjs)
Dem Rep. Smith: Many Dems Want ‘A Lot’ of Illegal Immigrants to Stay

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
Setting the record straight in defense of Israel.
Israeli Arabs Visit the UK to Defend Their Country
Alex Soros, son of billionaire plutocrat George Soros and current chairman of his Open Society Foundations activism empire, has publicly voiced dissatisfaction with the Sunrise Movement. In an interview, Alex Soros expressed frustration over the environmentalist group’s focus on Israel and the Palestinians rather than climate change.“What the hell did they do, by the way?” he said of the group, which receives around a third of its funding from Soros-supported entities. “We gave them money, and now all they do is talk about Palestine. It’s ridiculous.”
Alex Soros Criticizes Climate Group for Fixation on ‘Palestine.’
"Participants will be instructed to disperse," the email continued. "Individuals who refuse to disperse will be identified and sanctions, including potential removal from campus and possible arrest, may be applied."
Columbia Threatens Arrests If Student Radicals Move Forward With Planned Anti-Israel Encampments
Columbia University’s student Jihadis hadn’t even begun rebuilding their hobo encampment before campus safety officers threatened the same consequences on Wednesday. (I guess administrators don’t want to lose another $400 million in taxpayer subsidies for turning Columbia into a terrorist boot camp.)
Ivy League Jihadis Return to Streets Wearing Hamas Headbands, Attack Jews After Being Told 'No'
“Concerns have been raised about disturbing antisemitic conduct at the gathering. The university is investigating those concerns, as harassment and discrimination are antithetical to learning and scholarship.”
Yale Anti-Israel Activists Blockade Campus, Hurl Bottles at Israeli Official
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Daniel Greenfield: Mohamed may have been planning a "mass casualty event." (If Bro-Fo Omar and Buckwheat had a son - jjs)
Somali Muslim Posted ‘Death to Amerika’, Tried to Steal Ammo
Robert Spencer: As sickening details emerge.
Trump Calls Kashmir Terror Attack ‘Deeply Disturbing’
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Facebook and Uber founders 'really believed their own bullshit,' George Soros's heir tells New York magazine
Alex Soros Mocks Fellow Billionaires Who Made Their Own Money: 'Bunch of Nice Jewish Boys Who Kind of Gamed the System'
Without a definition of religion, courts are forced to guess at what activities mandate protection from government interference.
With Wisconsin Case, It’s Time For SCOTUS To Finally Define ‘Religion’

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Robert Spencer: The dopiest, sleaziest, most tone-deaf Times article since their fawning puff piece on the actual Hitler.
Larry David Mocks Trump as Hitler in the NY Times Now, But the Paper Fawned Over Adolf in ’33
Michael Walsh: Ian Gregory assisted Margaret Thatcher with the preparation of Prime Minister’s Questions when he was eighteen, later attending Oxford University on an open scholarship to study philosophy, politics, and economics. He spent seven years at the BBC as a TV news producer. He now runs Abzed.com, a political and media relations agency
THE CONVERSATION: Ian Gregory, Communicator
The press doesn't need to be restricted, but it does need to be more responsible.
Palin Case Reinforces Media’s Inalienable Right To Lie
No, Trump’s Oval Office decor-maxxing is not a dog-whistle for monarchy. It’s actually on-brand, not just for Trump, but for America.
The Media Have A New Conspiracy Theory About Trump’s Interior Decorating
“I am doing this interview out of curiosity, and as a competition with myself, just to see if it’s possible for The Atlantic to be “truthful.” Are they capable of writing a fair story on “TRUMP”? The way I look at it, what can be so bad — I WON!” he wrote.
Trump Announces Meeting with Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg
The social media giant's Oversight Board was reviewing a post by The Daily Wire on men invading women's sports.
After Review, Facebook Says ‘Misgendering’ Doesn’t Violate Its Hate Speech Policy
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The “experts” who have told us that man-made climate change is a grave threat must have stumbled across the Winston Churchill comment about duplicity, because they know the truth has a hard time catching up to lies. They’ve also relied on lying by omission, an offense that can’t be blamed on innocent oversight.
History’s Biggest Liars?
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Harvard University reportedly accepted over $100 million from China and about $1.6 million from “Palestinian territories” since 2017. A new Open the Books report released Thursday found the Ivy League school has accepted $1.1 billion from foreign sources since 2017 alone. The Department of Education on April 18 launched a records request into Harvard after finding “the university’s foreign reports revealed incomplete and inaccurate disclosures.”
University Under Review For ‘Inaccurate’ Foreign Funding Disclosures Raked In Millions From China
The documents from the law review could create a new line of attack for the administration as the fight over federal funding escalates, and invite litigation from private plaintiffs eager to join the pile-on.
Exclusive: Internal Documents Reveal Pervasive Pattern of Racial Discrimination at Harvard Law Review
Now the Trump administration, with an executive order on disparate impact, is doing something about it.
The Education System Is Failing, But Change Is Coming
Without allowing education funding to follow the child, only parents who can afford to pay a premium are permitted to direct their child’s education, but every parent deserves this freedom.
The Rich Control Their Kids’ Education — The Middle Class And Poor Deserve That Choice, Too
Even as the federal government tries to eradicate the insidious DEI framework from educational institutions, schools are working overtime to hide it from public view.
Exclusive: Universities Across The Country Still Grant Hundreds Of DEI Scholarships
The Supreme Court takes up two major cases that could redefine parental rights in education, from opting out of Pride books to approving a Catholic charter school.
Parents’ Rights Are Making a Comeback
SECOND AMENDMENT
The law, SB25-003, bans the sale, transfer and manufacture of most semiautomatic firearms unless prospective gun owners obey a range of new requirements, including training mandates, tests and sheriff-issued eligibility cards. Republicans, like state Rep. Ty Winter, say it’s a deliberate effort to choke off lawful gun ownership through bureaucracy and paperwork — a view increasingly shared by Second Amendment organizations now mobilizing to fight the law in court. (RELATED: Two Blue States Launch ‘Tip Lines’ To Snitch On Gun Owners)
‘Gone Off The Rails’: Colorado Dems Stir Up Hornet’s Nest After Passing One Of America’s Most Extreme Anti-Gun Laws
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Judge blocks parts of Trump’s overhaul of US elections, including proof-of-citizenship requirementBy ALI SWENSONAssociated PressThe Associated PressNEW YORK
Judge blocks parts of Trump’s overhaul of US elections, including proof-of-citizenship requirement
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Trump, in an executive order signed Thursday, directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate allegations that Republicans have raised that ActBlue allows illegal campaign donations. Democrats, who had anticipated they would be targeted, condemned the move Thursday and ActBlue called it an “oppressive use of power” by the White House.
Trump orders Justice Department to investigate Democrats’ top fundraising platform
POLITICS
“Both versions erase the boundary between past and present. . . The New Deal era was about as far removed from the Civil War as we are from the Civil Rights era.”
How Trump Wants to Change History
Thanks to the Trump Administration and its policies, the gains conservatives have made among them look more sustainable than ever.
Trump's young MAGA base creates a sustainable future for conservatism
Maybe don’t put someone like Hogg in a prominent position!
Report: DNC Chair Expected to Crack Down on David Hogg Over Primaries
According to a new report, the Democratic establishment is scrambling to contain this loose-cannon, know-it-all kid who wants to spend $20 million on an intraparty civil war.
David Hogg’s Implosion at the DNC Is Totally Underway
On the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Enten said, “I never thought I’d see the day in which just 52% of New York Democrats would view Chuck Schumer unfavorably. It’s almost unfathomable.”
CNN’s Enten: There Is a ‘Revolt Within the Democrat Party,’ Sirens Should Be Going Off
"This, I think, is a revolt, a revolt that is going on within the Democratic Party right now, Democrats and their leaders."
‘Holy Toledo’: The Bottom Has Dropped Out For Democrat Leadership, CNN Pollster Says
The 80-year-old faces a tough primary with 26-year-old influencer Kat Abughazaleh, who announced her run in March. (Is there any hope for Illinois with her and Durbin gone? - jjs)
Report: IL Rep. Jan Schakowsky Will Retire After This Term
Byron York: And it appears she's gotten the message.
Democrats Don’t Want Kamala
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The attack comes as the Trump administration struggles to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
Trump Admonishes Putin Over Airstrikes On Kyiv: ‘Vladimir, STOP!’
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Fred Fleitz: Trump unveils bold plans to end the Ukraine war and halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions, warning all sides the U.S. will walk if his offers are rejected.
Trump’s Bold Diplomacy on the Ukraine War and Iranian Nuclear Program
The Kingdom of Jordan has taken action to ban the Muslim Brotherhood as of April 23, citing national security concerns. This move follows the April 15 acknowledgment by Jordanian security services of arrests involving 16 individuals accused of posing national security risks linked to weapons, explosives, and plans involving drones and fighter training.Interior Minister Mazin Al Farrayeh explained the reasoning behind the ban, highlighting that elements of the Muslim Brotherhood “worked in darkness to carry out activities that undermine stability and tamper with security and national unity.”
Government Outlaws Muslim Brotherhood.
Lloyd Billingsley: The socialist who ignored a terrorist attack in his home town – and mine.
Meet Canadian Contender For Federal Leadership, Jagmeet Singh
Tensions always rise between the Armenians and the modern Turkish government at this time of year, and many Armenians are now taking time during the day to reflect on Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of Armenians from the Nagorno-Karabakh region in late 2023.
Armenia Marks 110th Anniversary of Genocide amid Aftermath of Nagorno-Karabakh Extermination
REACTIONS TO POPE FRANCIS' DEATH
On one side are the aging liberal revolutionaries. On the other side are faithful cardinals determined to protect the Catholic faith.
The Papal Conclave Is A Battle Not Just For The Catholic Church But For Western Civilization
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“For too long, some food producers have been feeding Americans petroleum-based chemicals without their knowledge or consent,” Kennedy said in the post, alongside a video, on X.
RFK Jr.: Era of Poisonous Compounds in Our Food ‘Is Coming to an End’
We have been wrongly drugging our children for decades, and justice demands that the people responsible for pushing the ADHD narrative receive a full and public repudiation, if not legal punishment.
Why Nobody Should Accept So-Called Experts’ Halfhearted Reversal On ADHD
RFK Jr. sparks backlash for blunt autism remarks, but critics miss his focus on severe cases—proving once again that nuance is no match for online outrage.
The RFK Autism “Controversy” Is Manufactured Outrage—Plain and Simple
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
This will eventually turn into the ethics of resurrecting people.
Cloning developments are frightening, not historic
SpaceX now leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 47 to 36.
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The Left has been on a relentless effort to scrub words like “woman” and “mom” from public discourse.
From ‘Mother’ To ‘Inseminated Person’? The Left’s War On Women Hits A New Low
Make no mistake. Groomers want to control your kids, and they are everywhere. In schools, in scouting organizations, and even in many churches. It's not easy going against the tide, but it's imperative that we stand up to these bullies.
Here's the Solution to Grooming in Schools
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
You clowns. Liars! Users. Destroyers! Mental case Cowards! We’ve HAD IT with you! Keep standing up for law breaking criminals, gang members, murderers, pedophiles, abusers, human traffickers, baby rapists, thieves!” she said. “You are so ridiculous and pathetic. Coming after our children was your biggest mistake, your demise. We will scorn you in history books and need be, knock you into the next universe. We, the American people are DONE with you!
Rocker Cherie Currie Goes ‘Full MAGA’: ‘F**k the Democratic Party, We’ve Had It With You’
"Now I see myself more as a place to scream."
Daniel Greenfield: Leftist Comedy Gets Replaced by Screaming
Brewer was speaking with Sage Steele, another ex-talent of ESPN, on Twitter about stuff that had happened while working at the Disney-owned network. Originally, Steele was reacting to the rape allegations and civil lawsuit that surround current ESPN employee Shannon Sharpe, and that’s when Brewer Kaminsky came in.
Ex-ESPN’er Ashley Brewer Kaminsky Says She Was ‘Chewed Out’ After Taking Picture With Republican Lawmaker, UFC Fighter
Christian Toto: MCU film's stars keep alienating patrons, but Pascal may be worst case yet
It’s Official: ‘Fantastic Four’ Has a Rachel Zegler Problem
Not every birthing woman deserves the honorary title “mother.”
Mother or Monster
Ben & Jerry’s has been battling its London-based owner for years over its freedom to support liberal causes publicly, like protesting President Trump and the war in Gaza, and calling for police departments to be defunded.
Unilever lays down the law after Ben & Jerry’s woke founders try to buy back brand
HITHER & YON
Americans should know the powerful story of the people who created not just a new nation but a new concept of nationhood.
How To Make Sure America’s 250th Birthday Goes Out With A Bang, Not A Shrug

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1 Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 07:25 AM (gbOdA)

2 Happy Friday, one and all. It's yet another wonderful day at the GPROMD and things are good for the most part. I have most of my co-workers in the office, the one co-worker is doing well being a new father and he'll be back in May and there is just enough coffee in my system to prevent the headline of "Tragedy struck when" being attached to my name.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 07:26 AM (OPGS/)

3 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 07:26 AM (ExV1e)

4 Yonder Horde

The left has declared war. Are we going to acknowledge it?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 07:29 AM (Q4IgG)

5 Federal prosecutors have declared intent to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, according to a court document filed on Thursday evening.

Didn't the murder happen in NYC? He'll never get convicted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

6 "Trump Admin Exploring $5,000 Baby Bonus Plan to Tackle Demographic Decline"

We called that "welfare" and it was supposed to usher in this glorious era where struggling families could get help. What happened is that the family unit was no longer important and women stood to make money at having kids and not a husband.

So the 5K should conditional upon being married and knowing who the father is.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 07:30 AM (OPGS/)

7 NaNoWriMo has died.

Oh geez, not only not vetting people to interact with aspiring children as authors, promoting AI in writing, and railing against Trump as massive self-inflicted fumbles; it appears that NaNoWriMo's financial paperwork is so shoddy it is something the likes of the IRS should go after them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 07:30 AM (FEpIj)

8 Happy Friday, ya filthy animals!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 25, 2025 07:30 AM (kpS4V)

9 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2025 07:32 AM (e5NfL)

10 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 25, 2025 07:32 AM (hoCmQ)

11 The White House is examining a proposal to offer a $5,000 “baby bonus” for women having children to address declining birth rates in the United States.

We be broke ass already and do not need another useless scheme that will be gamed by slackers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)

12 Signed into law late Wednesday, the TREO is designed to reduce state bureaucracy by identifying superfluous and ineffective regulations, thereby mirroring the objectives of the federal DOGE.

Excellent. Every state should have one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

13 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

A most bilious essay this morning

Daniel Greenfield: Klaus Schwab steps down even as Davos is dying.
Mr. Globalism Goes Away <-- highly recommended

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

14 Of course, the stupid Democrat political sign I mentioned at the end of the previous thread post was not as stupid as another Democrat sign "_____ for Governor. Jersey Values."
What is a Jersey value?. Yes, Yes; I cannot stay for the wisecracks.

Too high taxes? Urban sprawl? Too much traffic congestion? So many illegal aliens you can't go into the Wawa without feeling as if you're in a foreign country because nobody but one worker is speaking English?. It makes me want to put up some snide political signs beside them, but I have no money to purchase them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 07:33 AM (42Vb+)

15
I'm no longer listening to the administration wail and beat their breasts about the Court. Yes, it's a rogue Court. Yes, it's an arm of the Democrat Party, and it runs defense for their rancid Deep State at every turn. I know the situation, and so does everyone else.

At this point, Trump has two options.

1.) Meek compliance. It's a bad option. We get another bound and gagged Trump administration, and the deep state wins yet another huge victory. But he can say he played by the rules, and he can whine a lot about how crooked everyone is, so I guess that's something, right?

2.) Open defiance. Very painful. Trump gets impeached again. He probably survives it, and also probably gets devastated in the House during the midterms. The administration accomplishes nothing else afterward - but it shatters the power of the Court and the Party, and paves the way for Trump's successor to carry the agenda.

I know which option is correct. They do too. They can be bold and aggressive, or put up the white flag. Enough chatter.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 07:34 AM (BI5O2)

16 Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 07:26 AM (OPGS/)

Glad to hear that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 07:35 AM (42Vb+)

17 James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) just released yet another undercover video exposing either an egomaniac or a guy just lying to impress his date.

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I honest to Pete do not think these people that O'Keefe exposes are lying to impress dates. They are proud of resisting Trump. They are proud to announce what they're doing. Because these derelicts are all acting in the same manner: resisting the CiC in every way their government-coddled-accountability-free will allow them. I hope this person gets sh*t canned by the end of the day. What I'd really like? Sh*t canned and stripped of pension. And quite possibly prosecuted for not following orders of the president.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:35 AM (qBdHI)

18 The end game with Illegals has always been self-deportation, because of the numbers needed. By not co-operating, the courts will only make this harder for all concerned including the Illegals.

In response Trump will use the absurdity of the courts to move Overton windows of what's politically acceptable. If we're not allowed to deport we'll be forced to encourage self-deportation by enforcing existing laws and denying all sustenance. This means going after employers and there are obvious targets to start with. It means shutting off benefits.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2025 07:35 AM (Gqoy+)

19 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2025 07:32 AM (e5NfL)
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I should wake Mrs. F. to be sure she knows.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 07:36 AM (RIvkX)

20 Seems like giving people more money based on the number of kids they had was done with welfare, and that didn't really work out as planned. But I guess this time around we're gonna do it differently, with smarter people and the results will be different. FFS.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 25, 2025 07:36 AM (luW68)

21 Trump Admin Exploring $5,000 Baby Bonus Plan to Tackle Demographic Decline.

Lots of countries have tried paying people to have children with little success. Mongolia went a different route.

https://youtu.be/9dJBwAocP6M

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

22 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 25, 2025 07:37 AM (/Ghsb)

23 Trump's strategy with the corrupt courts is shaping up to be similar to his response to the Mueller process: jump through every hoop and follow every demand while issuing outraged objections on social media until time runs out.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 25, 2025 07:37 AM (h/ffs)

24 3) impeach a damn judge.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

25 Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said “a number of us believe that there are a lot of people in this country, undocumented who should be allowed to stay. They have been a vital part of our economy. They are vital parts of our community. They are husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, working, paying taxes. We have depended upon their labor for decades, and to rip those families apart and send them back to countries that, in many cases, they don’t even know, we believe, would be wrong.

I bet the same speechifying was heard in Richmond and Atlanta in the 1850s on keeping slaves.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

26 God Bless President Trump. He didn't have to take up this fight, but I am ever gracious that he is.

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 25, 2025 07:39 AM (EES2L)

27 Turn off their EBT cards.

Posted by: Just an idea at April 25, 2025 07:39 AM (vsUjd)

28 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 25, 2025 07:40 AM (Jwq9Q)

29 The White House is examining a proposal to offer a $5,000 “baby bonus” for women having children to address declining birth rates in the United States.

We be broke ass already and do not need another useless scheme that will be gamed by slackers.

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This sounds like a program just waiting to be scammed. It also sounds quite Elon Musk-ish. I understand the declining birthrate puts the US in a precarious position in the future. But I'm not all on board with this at all. Besides, the way things are going, the Muslims will surely cash in on this. Babies galore is already in their blueprint. And like I said, it will be rife with fraud, just like every other program that's ever been run involving loads of cash to the citizenry, dead or alive or illegal. JMHO

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:40 AM (qBdHI)

30 “ Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.”

John 21:13-14

Amen, I say to you,He lives in each and every one of you.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 07:42 AM (33Ta2)

31 > The White House is examining a proposal to offer a $5,000 “baby bonus” for women having children to address declining birth rates in the United States.
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I'd rather have my taxes reduced than spend my money on this sort of shit. Someone should point out that there are likely several million illegal "anchor babies" here already. That addresses this birth rate issue, no? Unless something changes, they're Americans.

*and we don't have to give the mother $5K as she's probably already collected 10's of thousands in benefits anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 07:42 AM (Q4IgG)

32 Columbia Threatens Arrests If Student Radicals Move Forward With Planned Anti-Israel Encampments

A very very stern actual paper letter of warning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIPSvIz9NDs

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 07:43 AM (gbOdA)

33 Trump's strategy with the corrupt courts is shaping up to be similar to his response to the Mueller process: jump through every hoop and follow every demand while issuing outraged objections on social media until time runs out.

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I agree, OA. Kinda depressing, isn't it? I think they think they've found the golden key to stopping his presidency in its tracks. I notice no help from the Republican-led Congress. I notice no help from those actually able to reign any of this in, including SCOTUS.

Maybe the very best we can hope for is just 4 years without hard left insanity running the country.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:43 AM (qBdHI)

34 31 *and we don't have to give the mother $5K as she's probably already collected 10's of thousands in benefits anyway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 07:42 AM (Q4IgG)

Reminds me of a National Lampoon story where a woman declared each of the crab lice in her crotch as dependents and demanded welfare for each. You can guess the ethnicity they depicted her as.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2025 07:45 AM (x0n13)

35 Trump's strategy with the corrupt courts is shaping up to be similar to his response to the Mueller process: jump through every hoop and follow every demand while issuing outraged objections on social media until time runs out.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 25, 2025 07:37 AM (h/ffs)

You’re frustrated as am I… but it’s not as though he has a lot of obvious easy options. As temporarily satisfying as it might be to openly defy judges and tell them to pound sand I doubt that would end well…. Congress-critters are boneless and that road almost certainly leads to impeachment and removal. Congress needs to start impeaching judges, including SCOTUS, but that’ll be a cold day in hades. A century of institutional capture has consequences that can’t be overcome in 100 days… or 4 years. Its orders of magnitudes better than prez Kamala alternate universe

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2025 07:46 AM (6RwsA)

36
This sounds like a program just waiting to be scammed. It also sounds quite Elon Musk-ish. I understand the declining birthrate puts the US in a precarious position in the future. But I'm not all on board with this at all. Besides, the way things are going, the Muslims will surely cash in on this. Babies galore is already in their blueprint. And like I said, it will be rife with fraud, just like every other program that's ever been run involving loads of cash to the citizenry, dead or alive or illegal. JMHO

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:40 AM

Hey, it isn't like we have 150 year olds drawing social security or anything.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2025 07:46 AM (e5NfL)

37 "The White House is examining a proposal to offer a $5,000 “baby bonus” for women having children to address declining birth rates in the United States."

Sounds Philistine to me. You want raising a child to be a choice based on financial incentive?

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 25, 2025 07:46 AM (h/ffs)

38 If the Supreme Court makes a final decision and Trump decides to disobey it, and it will be on all of us, not just the political leaders, but certainly us, but on all Americans to resist that. I think that would happen.

I put the chance of Trump disobeying the USSC at zero point zero.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 07:47 AM (jc0TO)

39 I honest to Pete do not think these people that O'Keefe exposes are lying to impress dates. They are proud of resisting Trump. They are proud to announce what they're doing.

There has never been a moment in their lives where there's been a price to pay for being openly leftist. There has never been a moment in their lives where there's been a price to pay for attempting to thwart the will of the people when they "choose wrong".

Why wouldn't they be proud? It's a resume enhancer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)

40
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the city’s public transit system, facing massive budget deficits.

Yay! Public transit! Voracious consumer of public subsidies.

In NYC, if it wasn't for Bridges and Tunnels, the MTA would be out of business in 20 minutes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 07:49 AM (QnmlO)

41 Schumer: If Trump Disobeys Supreme Court Order ‘Extraordinary Action Will Be Necessary’

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Gee willikers, Schmuckie, did you state "extraordinary action" was necessary when Biden ignored the SCOTUS ruling on student loans?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:50 AM (qBdHI)

42 A criminal alien was deported back to his home country. How is this unconstitutional? It seems to me that criminal aliens have more rights than citizens under some bastardized reading of the constitution.

Posted by: Unkaren at April 25, 2025 07:51 AM (GDudp)

43 I agree, OA. Kinda depressing, isn't it? I think they think they've found the golden key to stopping his presidency in its tracks. I notice no help from the Republican-led Congress. I notice no help from those actually able to reign any of this in, including SCOTUS.

Maybe the very best we can hope for is just 4 years without hard left insanity running the country.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:43 AM (qBdHI)

The difficulty that Trump faces is that the media is still lying about everything 24/7 and a large portion of the US population believes that. I suspect that as the older generations die off and the younger ones who rely on different new sources matures that things will change.

100 years from now history books may talk about how the switch came with blinding speed but it sure sucks to live through it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

44 15 Trump had great momentum from January until late March, earliest April. The bad guys were shocked, despairing, and confused -- then they began their counter attack.

Trump is getting bogged down and becoming more reactive. He must aggressively retake the offensive and ignore the power tripping judges. Or MAGA is done.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 25, 2025 07:52 AM (Jwq9Q)

45 Lebensborn would have worked too, if it weren't for you meddling Americans.

Posted by: Mr. Bimmler at April 25, 2025 07:52 AM (Aqu9a)

46 They are proud of resisting Trump.

But then they get mad when the videos get released.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 07:55 AM (OPGS/)

47 38 I put the chance of Trump disobeying the USSC at zero point zero.
Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 07:47 AM (jc0TO)

Even now, I too believe Trump still believes that the system works. But it's not that people have corrupted the system, but as it stands today, corruption IS the system. On top of very corrupted and corruptible people in it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2025 07:55 AM (x0n13)

48 Wait.

I thought Chuckie was publicly threatening the Court that they were gonna “reap the whirlwind”?

They can safely be dispensed with, I’m sure. Right Chuckie?

Posted by: Common Tater at April 25, 2025 07:55 AM (Tx+oG)

49 Lord help me, this morning's links are a depression-fest of misery. The Democrats can be proud of themselves for dreaming up a way to throw road spikes in front of Trump's presidency. It's quite impressive for a party that controls nothing. One thing you can say...they are rabid pit bulls with no compunction to using every dirty trick they can to get what they want.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

50 >>Maybe the very best we can hope for is just 4 years without hard left insanity running the country.

Have you notice what's happening to the Democrat Party right now?

For years all I've heard is how smart Democrats are to play the long game and grind us down over time. Other than some court fights, which the left is not always winning, where exactly are they doing anything other than the Bernie/AOC Private Jets Against Oligarchs Tour? Their infrastructure is being systematically destroyed and all of the energy is on the right. In 4 years the Democrat Party as we know it might not even exist.

China just cracked again this morning on trade and Trump is going to win this fight. The courts are the left's last stand and they will lose eventually. Decades of allowing the left to infiltrate every facet of our society takes some time to dig out from but we are well on our way toward smashing them.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 07:57 AM (viF8m)

51 Trump Admin Exploring $5,000 Baby Bonus Plan to Tackle Demographic Decline.

Lots of countries have tried paying people to have children with little success. Mongolia went a different route.

https://youtu.be/9dJBwAocP6M
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)
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Looks like Mongolia is on the right track, cultivating an *intrinsic* motivation to become mothers, rather than promoting an *extrinsic* motivation.

Just paying women to pop out kids isn't going to solve the other big problem which is raising them to be productive members of society.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 07:57 AM (7fElN)

52 I have had it with these inseminatedpersonfucking snakes on this inseminatedpersonfucking plane! Everybody strap in!

Posted by: Neville Flynn at April 25, 2025 07:58 AM (R/m4+)

53

SEPTIC - Southeast PA Trannies, illegals and commies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2025 07:58 AM (x0n13)

54 Thank goodness the Jews were specifically and exclusively protected by bolshevik law which the bolsheviks wisely did immediately upon taking power.

Otherwise they may gave been subjected to brutal torture and death like millions of Christians at the hands of the atheist monster Yagoda and the hundreds of other brutally sadistic atheist members of the Cheka who viciously hated Christians and Christianity, and took great pleasure inflicting sadistic and agonizing torture on them before death. Tens of millions.

That was the funny thing about the atheistic Bolsheviks, the more you study them, the more you learn how utterly personal EVEYTHING was with them, but always covered with some grand sounding justification.

There was certainly no love for men or mankind among these very self-absorbed, cruel, atheists. Almost like they were using some grand sounding thing as a cover for their very personal, unquenchable desire for revenge and domination.

Posted by: Mike at April 25, 2025 07:59 AM (NUuQR)

55 49 Lord help me, this morning's links are a depression-fest of misery...
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

To paraphrase the Four questions on Passover, "Why is this morning different from all other mornings?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2025 07:59 AM (x0n13)

56 Decades of allowing the left to infiltrate every facet of our society takes some time to dig out from but we are well on our way toward smashing them.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 07:57 AM

Indeed. Above all, Trump needs to continue breaking their rice bowls. Finding and eliminating all the ways that the Left sustains themselves on our money will end up being the most important thing he does.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 07:59 AM (jc0TO)

57 I appreciate your optimism, JackStraw. Truly.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:59 AM (qBdHI)

58 China just cracked again this morning on trade and Trump is going to win this fight. The courts are the left's last stand and they will lose eventually. Decades of allowing the left to infiltrate every facet of our society takes some time to dig out from but we are well on our way toward smashing them.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 07:57 AM (viF8m)

STOP BEING OPTIMISTIC! It's pessimism Friday.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

59 Good morning JJ and horde
Only through 3/4 of this week's podcast but everyone should hear this one to clear up the problem

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 08:00 AM (6XAqY)

60 Trump Admin Exploring $5,000 Baby Bonus Plan to Tackle Demographic Decline.
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I'm for this, PROVIDED it goes to married parents only. The last thing we need is more fatherless boys running around.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2025 08:01 AM (1bNHn)

61 I am also optimistic. I think that things will look quite different at the six month's mark.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 08:02 AM (jc0TO)

62 To paraphrase the Four questions on Passover, "Why is this morning different from all other mornings?"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2025 07:59 AM (x0n13)

French toast with maple syrup!

Which is probably not the correct answer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 08:02 AM (ExV1e)

63 I have 'boomer optimism' as my son would say.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 08:03 AM (jc0TO)

64 Sometimes God works in mysterious ways we don’t understand. Often, the situations we find ourselves in don’t seem to answer our prayers, perhaps even appear to make things worse. But he takes us on these journeys of understanding for a reason, even if they are painful. It grows your soul and deepens your faith in Him.

Perseverance brings resolution.

“You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.”

Hebrews 10:36

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 08:03 AM (33Ta2)

65 To paraphrase the Four questions on Passover, "Why is this morning different from all other mornings?

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This is true! I guess I was enjoying the 2nd term honeymoon from Jan to March when the D's were flailing and flopping about like goldfish out of the aquarium. Now things are settling in and, well, here we are.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 08:03 AM (qBdHI)

66 @33 Lady in Black-unfortunately, again, the Trump administration is looking to be like the first......a temporary reprieve from the left. Republican Party will see to it Trump is for sure derailed come midterms. Dealing with these rogue judges should be aggressively pursued by congress. Enjoy the reprieve while it lasts. Unless we take to the streets like the left and target our own politicians with threats to do something, I am clueless as to what we can do at this point. Just sit and watch.....

Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2025 08:05 AM (IlL6s)

67 China's blink - from Zerohedge...

"Early Friday, several media outlets reported that China's government has either considered or exempted some U.S. imports from a 125% tariff rate.

Let's begin with Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter who said Beijing is considering removing tariffs on medical equipment and certain industrial chemicals, including ethane."

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2025 08:06 AM (tOcjL)

68 54 Posted by: Mike at April 25, 2025 07:59 AM (NUuQR)

Umm, you missed the Doctors plot and what awaited the Soviet Jews had Stalin not died. then the persecution of the Jewish refuseniks for the next 50 years.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2025 08:06 AM (x0n13)

69 Trump, in an executive order signed Thursday, directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate allegations that Republicans have raised that ActBlue allows illegal campaign donations.

I remember from my dot com days the processing rules are very strict for card not present.
ActBlue has on off switches for many of these rules and it appears that when someone has an extra $5 M to throw in a race they are able to turn off the rules and rush the money thru.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

70
https://tinyurl.com/ymcpd38k

Put the onus on the groomers to explain exactly what's in the books and other teaching materials, and explain to parents why this will benefit their kids.
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They will lie to parents, possibly by omission, but lie they will.

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at St Peter's house on Friday: Sardines!? Again? at April 25, 2025 08:06 AM (sPQoU)

71 Thank you President Trump and thank you JJ!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 08:06 AM (c/v/O)

72 I have 'boomer optimism' as my son would say.
Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 08:03 AM (jc0TO)

I am absolutely NOT a boomer and anyone who tries to add my birth year to that cabal is a liar. My optimism comes from the fact that the yutes seem to understand that everything is fake and gay so they are, a bit, harder to fool with some of this nonsense.

The other element of my optimism is that I'll be dead and buried by the time their unique brand of stupid, whatever form Gozer the Gozerian may take, arrives.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 08:07 AM (ExV1e)

73 Chuck Schumer cares not for these People of the United States.

We could all go to Hell just as long as Chuck stays in power.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 08:07 AM (FEpIj)

74 >>I appreciate your optimism, JackStraw. Truly.

I'm honestly not an optimist. I'm a NY Jets fan. By definition I live in a world of depression.

But look what's happening to the Democrat Party. They are polling lower than herpes and even the DNC is having a civil war. All of the funding mechanisms that sustained the left are being removed. Losing USAID is an enormous problem for them and now the censorship machine is being destroyed as well. And it appears the DOJ is going to at long last investigating ActBlue.

It would be great if the left would just roll over and die but that was never going to happen. They'll fight but they don't have much to fight back with anymore. I like where things are headed right now. I don't think you can find many on the left who feel the same way.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 08:08 AM (viF8m)

75 Simon Peter and some of the other disciples originally thought that Jesus had come to destroy the Romans and fulfill parts of the Bible such as Zephaniah 2. They were naive enough to believe God would use his power for that purpose.

We know how that ended.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 08:08 AM (33Ta2)

76 Sefton, I stopped reading that post after they were praising the Bolshies for protecting Jews.

Did Stormfront lose one of their posters?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 08:09 AM (FEpIj)

77 Be optimistic. Be pessimistic. None of it means a thing.

All that matters is what gets done. Complaining about the Courts and having feels about it is not an action or a strategy.

It's just complaining.

The buck stops with Trump. He can do something about the Courts, something that should have been done long ago by some other President, or he can be another President who didn't fight back, and nothing will change.

That's all there is and there ain't no mo'.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 08:11 AM (BI5O2)

78 Tuesday’s massacre, which has echoes of the October 7 attack in which 1400 Israeli men, women, and children were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in cold blood, could have deeper links to the Islamic terror group Hamas.

Israel’s Ambassador to India, Reuven Azar, on Thursday, confirmed that a group of Hamas leaders had toured the Pakistan-held Kashmir ahead of the deadly attack. The visiting Hamas operatives met with the representatives of the terrorist groups waging jihad against India, he said.
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"Experts" (those types so beloved by Democrats!) visited terrorists planning to emulate the Hamas attacks.

Civilization versus the Apocalypse.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 08:13 AM (wsp19)

79 With Wisconsin Case, It’s Time For SCOTUS To Finally Define ‘Religion’
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Please, no. They'll just, er, mess* it up.

*Not the first word that came to mind.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2025 08:14 AM (1bNHn)

80 Even if things were as bad as the doom posters make them out to be (they aren't btw)
I don't understand the endless sky is falling, all is lost posts that the same people make at least 3x a week.
What's the point?

Posted by: Cmonman at April 25, 2025 08:15 AM (rgIaS)

81 RFK Jr.: Era of Poisonous Compounds in Our Food ‘Is Coming to an End’

Kolorless Kaboom

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

82 Lots of countries have tried paying people to have children with little success.

I think Sweden tried this. I think.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2025 08:16 AM (SfhV1)

83 Even now, I too believe Trump still believes that the system works.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2025 07:55 AM (x0n13)

Yes. He's a diehard believer in the system. This is inspiring in one sense. But in a time of war waged by a corrupted system, it is problem, a massive blind spot.
Wars are not won by EOs. To paraphrase Orwell, when you fight for survival, you must get dirty. If you understand the enemy, the Left (and their catspaws on the courts), and the stakes (nationals survival, i.e., our unprecedented fix of national peril), than you are guided by moral imperative toward imaginative, well-conceived actions. I submit there are methods of confronting the courts, of asserting executive authority over the courts, that have a sound Constitutional basis and that must be attempted. I've said from the beginning that confronting the corrupt (and totally predictable) usurpations of the court would be Trump's greatest challenge. It can only be met with a clear appreciation that we are at war and what such a war requires.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 25, 2025 08:16 AM (h/ffs)

84 Hey everyone, Latitia James lawyer said that all of the mortgage and loan fraud his client committed was all accidental and actually committed by someone else and everything's been corrected anyway so what's the big deal??

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2025 08:17 AM (XV/Pl)

85 On the MN courts deciding the Charity is not a religious calling:

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

86 Mussolini's Italy encouraged a high birth rate. The city of Bari got a nice stadium built as a result of copulating like rabbits one year.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 08:17 AM (FEpIj)

87 With Wisconsin Case, It’s Time For SCOTUS To Finally Define ‘Religion’

Please no.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2025 08:17 AM (SfhV1)

88 9 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott

No! Not you again!

Posted by: St. Pancake at April 25, 2025 08:17 AM (G5+As)

89 Declare Martial Law and finish the game.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 08:18 AM (VJc7E)

90 On the MN courts deciding the Charity is not a religious calling:

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

For my friends of the Old Testaments Faith.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

91 While it appears the tide may be turning, we cannot afford to take our foot off the gas. If we lose a whole generation of children to the LGBTQ mob, what then?
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I don't have kids in elementary school these days but I'd be scared stiff if I did, because somehow it has become acceptable for teachers to recruit young children for twisted sexual activities. Hetero grooming of little children is still, thankfully, a crime, but everything else appears to be open season. If a culture cannot agree to protect little children and families, what's the point?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 08:18 AM (xbLzn)

92 Faith, Hope, and Charity; the names of three Gloster Sea Gladiators that defended Malta against Italy's aerial assault of the island.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 08:18 AM (FEpIj)

93 As I understand it, there's a lot that could be done by the Republican-led Congress in helping Trump. But they seem to be doing absolutely nothing in that regard. My anger with them is, at this moment, deep. As if they've all decided to stand down and not help his agenda, and more aptly put, the people's will, at all. Where's the legislation to cement what he's trying to accomplish by any means other than EOs that will be thwarted by hack judges? Where's the purse strings that could be used to obliterate these rogue players within the gov't?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 08:19 AM (qBdHI)

94 If CONgress... oh, wait.

Congress doesn't need to impeach each rogue judge. The Constitution only requires the Supreme Court. Let Congress eliminate all the inferior courts and have only the Supremes. That would take care of the problem. Either the Supremes would start smacking down the judges without taking years, or they would be forced to handle all federal cases.

But, as we have seen, there has been no move to do this from CONgress. Ask yourselves, why?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 25, 2025 08:20 AM (0eaVi)

95 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

For my friends of the Old Testaments Faith.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

The unmistakable wisdom of this command can be seen in the Book of Ruth. A beautiful book, BTW

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2025 08:20 AM (SfhV1)

96 I've no doubt this administration will attempt to comply with the judiciary.

Malicious compliance. It works both ways.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 08:21 AM (Q4IgG)

97 @80 Cmonman-it's not "doom posting' its reality. It's what's happening right before our very eyes. Go ahead and tell us where we're wrong, I'm all for commenters explaining that but just saying you're a doomer doesn't cut it it. Im all ears(or eyes in this case).

Posted by: JROD at April 25, 2025 08:21 AM (IlL6s)

98 With Wisconsin Case, It’s Time For SCOTUS To Finally Define ‘Religion’
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Abolish the political schools.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2025 08:22 AM (1bNHn)

99 The Board’s own documents reveal that its goal in compelling children to participate in this instruction is to “disrupt” their “either/or thinking” on gender and sexuality. And the Board concedes that children may “come away from [such] instruction with a new perspective not easily contravened by their parents.”

Translation:
We plan to either actually fuck the children or fuck them up in the head.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 08:22 AM (gbOdA)

100 82 Lots of countries have tried paying people to have children with little success.

I think Sweden tried this. I think.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

Norway has had cash payments to have children for 60 years called "Barnetrygg". There's still only 5.5 million of them. Many more Norwegian-Americans than Norsk in Norway.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at April 25, 2025 08:22 AM (G5+As)

101 And, BTW... demanding the things we voted for is not "pessimism." It's holding Trump and Vance accountable. They're our employees.

Brushing that off as pessimism is just excuse-making for inaction.

You want that swamp drained? Fine. He's the guy holding the toilet snake and the Liquid Plumb'r. He needs to use them.

I'm not in a position to take on the Supreme Court, but I can see who is from my house.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 08:22 AM (BI5O2)

102 Trump trolling the lefty press again, selling "Trump 2028" hats at his official site.

Heh.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 08:23 AM (xbLzn)

103 The difficulty that Trump faces is that the media is still lying about everything 24/7 and a large portion of the US population believes that. I suspect that as the older generations die off and the younger ones who rely on different new sources matures that things will change.”

The good thing is that very few people - maybe 5% of the population? Actually pay any attention to anything the msm says anymore, they’ve tuned out. But those of us who post here are political junkies who can’t resist looking at it, so we fall all over ourselves obsessing about what is really just nonsense.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2025 08:23 AM (ZEzFB)

104 102 Trump trolling the lefty press again, selling "Trump 2028" hats at his official site.

Heh.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 08:23 AM (xbLzn)

Or setting up Jr as VP...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2025 08:24 AM (tOcjL)

105 Faith, Hope, and Charity; the names of three Gloster Sea Gladiators that defended Malta against Italy's aerial assault of the island.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 08:18 AM (FEpIj)

And the names of the three ships I sailed on, crossing the ocean blue in 1492.

Posted by: Chris Columbus at April 25, 2025 08:24 AM (Aqu9a)

106 As if they've all decided to stand down and not help his agenda, and more aptly put, the people's will, at all.

Like some folks here, they think that they can wait him out and that, once he's gone, MAGA is done. They'll be able to return to the drugs, and orgies, and robbing the nation blind.

I believe that they're wrong. This has been building for a long time. Preventing a correction now will just make the inevitable more violent.

Trump is, probably, their last opportunity for a reasonably peaceful transition. He believes in the system. He wants it to work. I think Vance believes less. And, if not Vance, we'll either get another liar or someone who'll make most of us seem conciliatory.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

107 Now that we are out of Lent and I can once again eat meat on a Friday with a clear conscience, bring on the bacon for breakfast!

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2025 08:25 AM (sI7wh)

108
"The good thing is that very few people - maybe 5% of the population? Actually pay any attention to anything the msm says anymore, they’ve tuned out. But those of us who post here are political junkies who can’t resist looking at it, so we fall all over ourselves obsessing about what is really just nonsense."

Does anybody still watch "the news?"

Posted by: I gotta ask at April 25, 2025 08:25 AM (vsUjd)

109 Translation:
We plan to either actually fuck the children or fuck them up in the head.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 08:22 AM (gbOdA)

Correct. Once we accomplish that, we will then move on to everyone's pets. Love Is Love and Be Nice To Your Dog/Cat/Goat Day will have a whole new meaning.

We Never Rest.

Posted by: Big Homo, Hollywood and The democrat party at April 25, 2025 08:26 AM (R/m4+)

110 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports” that if President Donald Trump disobeyed a Supreme Court order, “extraordinary action will be necessary.”

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You know. Like when Pennsylvania did it during the 2020 elections to steal it for Biden.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 25, 2025 08:26 AM (TvjUl)

111 Today in history.

80 years ago today.

April 25, 1945 marked the last large scale bombing missions of the VIII Air Force Bomber Command.

B-17 Flying Fortresses struck the Skoda factories in Pilsen while B-24 Liberators struck the railyards near Berchtesgaden.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 08:26 AM (FEpIj)

112 ..Yes. He's a diehard believer in the system

Would that be the same system he and his BFF Elon are in the process of dismantling? If he's such a strong believer in the system why has he overturned the entire world trade system with a plan to create an entirely new one based on actual fair trade? Why did he create the most secure border in history in 30 days? Why is the military experiencing a huge surge in enlistment while the dudes in dresses are out

Yes, the courts are a problem that needs to be fixed. I'm pretty sure the guy who fought back from the Russia hoax, the Ukraine hoax, years of lawfare and broken justice and a bullet to the head and defying the odds to win the presidency when all the experts said it was impossible is not the guy who is loves the status quo.

Trump is now the unquestioned leader of the Republican Party. It is nothing like the old party of just a few years ago. You don't have to be an optimist to look at all of the progress in just 3 months instead of dwelling on things that still to be fixed. The Maryland Dad is still in El Salvador and Trump has not stopped fighting back against the courts. Just because he hasn't won yet doesn't mean he lost.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 08:27 AM (viF8m)

113 Here's the Solution to Grooming in Schools

Woodchippers?

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 08:27 AM (jc0TO)

114 Sefton

I recognize the original image you used up top, wanting A Piece of the Action right?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 08:28 AM (FEpIj)

115 1.6 births per woman? That is a disaster. I didn't know it had dropped that low. Probably a third of what is was when I was growing up.

But not to worry. I'm sure the Deep State has plans make up the deficit with New Americans after they rid of this troublesome Trump.

Posted by: Ripley at April 25, 2025 08:28 AM (GUOwU)

116 The good thing is that very few people - maybe 5% of the population? Actually pay any attention to anything the msm says anymore, they’ve tuned out.

There's a pretty significant trickle on effect though. The echo chamber amplifies the noise. TPTB have spent decades mastering the techniques of manipulating emotion to get people to blind support stupid. Then Carl and Karen get on their social media and spout the BS for likes and everyone decides they have to agree or be outcast.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

117 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at April 25, 2025 08:30 AM (53oGX)

118 Faith, Hope, and Charity; the names of three Gloster Sea Gladiators that defended Malta against Italy's aerial assault of the island.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 08:18 AM (FEpIj)

And the names of the three ships I sailed on, crossing the ocean blue in 1492.
Posted by: Chris Columbus at April 25, 2025 08:24 AM (Aqu9a)

So, when I learned Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, that was wrong?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

119 Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 08:27 AM (viF8m)

Thank you for that, Jack.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 08:30 AM (42Vb+)

120 A California chick applied for a NASA internship, got it, and then declined it because of #OrangeManBad.

"Regrets? I've had a few"

https://tinyurl.com/c2xkk39m

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 08:31 AM (C0BiQ)

121 We're removing a vampire tapeworm from the body politic. It was never going to be easy.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2025 08:31 AM (Gqoy+)

122 They brought the Pilgrims to Jamestown.

Posted by: In 1492 at April 25, 2025 08:31 AM (vsUjd)

123 The good thing is that very few people - maybe 5% of the population? Actually pay any attention to anything the msm says anymore, they’ve tuned out.

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Actively? Maybe. The problem is that they've figured out the passively part. If you're on windows hover over the bottom left corner. That's the MSM. Pretty much all search engines will produce MSM results (and you will struggle to get results for wrongthink). Those screens on gas pumps? MSM.

And remember, it's all coordinated. Remember JourOlist? The stupid "top of mind" type phrases that appear simultaneously across all platforms? The NYT style "narrative driven" news approach.

I suspect the reality is that we've crossed the event horizon into a place where people can't see the MSM forest for the MSM trees.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 25, 2025 08:32 AM (TvjUl)

124 VIII Air Force Bomber Command was the unit that was always bombing the ball bearing plant near Dusseldorf.

Posted by: Colonel Hogan at April 25, 2025 08:33 AM (Y1sOo)

125 Woodchippers?
Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 08:27 AM (jc0TO)

Do you have a newsletter or manuals to purchase?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

126 Morning JJ. Happy Birthday. Northwestern University in Evanston, and it Law School is where the far left violent radicals are breeded for the Chicago area. Bernie Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Robert Craemer etc... They use to want to take down Bush, now they are Jews who hate Israel

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)

127 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 08:34 AM (77rzZ)

128 93 Congressmen are committee men, Lady in Black. Responsibility dodging, rules abiding, committee members who answer to the GOP and major donors first, than to their constituents. They are not leaders, by any stretch of the imagination.

Leadership was always and only going to come from the executive branch.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 25, 2025 08:34 AM (Jwq9Q)

129 Lucas — who grew up in Venezuela and immigrated with her doctor father and family to Florida in 2015 and earned a full ride to Miami Dade College, according to her UCSD bio

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"earned"

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 25, 2025 08:34 AM (TvjUl)

130 This won't stop until the United States supreme court has to live like the rest of us, and have their streets covered with tents and their neighborhoods Invaded by illegal immigrants.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 25, 2025 08:35 AM (vn1gZ)

131 This will eventually turn into the ethics of resurrecting people.
Cloning developments are frightening, not historic
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Granted, there are dangers. But it wouldn't be resurrecting anyone. It'd be make a twin.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2025 08:36 AM (1bNHn)

132 1.6 births per woman? That is a disaster. I didn't know it had dropped that low. Probably a third of what is was when I was growing up.

Women stopped getting married young. They started attending college not to find husbands but the get degrees in useless shit so they could become boss-babes and have "hot girl summers".

Women were the front upon which evil focused its attack and it's been somewhat successful. There are some hopeful signs that younger women are beginning to understand the evidence of the destruction of older generations and turning away from that life. Hopefully that will allow them to save young men and, thereby, humanity.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 08:36 AM (ExV1e)

133 Does anybody still watch "the news?"
Posted by: I gotta ask at April 25, 2025 08:25 AM (vsUjd)

Yes! Blah Blah loves CNN and I watch Fox to see what the evil Rethuglicans are up to trying to take our social security and medicare and outlawing old people left and right. Without the fair reporting from MSNBC we would not have learned about the all female astronauts and their heroic trip to space and beyond. Being on a fixed income we also see all the medical devices we can have shipped to our vacation home in Hawaii at no cost to us even though we don't need them. Free is free after all.

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Democrat Moochers at April 25, 2025 08:36 AM (R/m4+)

134 Federal prosecutors have declared intent to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, according to a court document filed on Thursday evening.

I mean...this is the minimum. And does anyone really believe that he did this completely alone? No material help from his fellow leftwing nutters? Let alone...he didn't tell them what he was going to do?

Seriously, if one reviewed his text messages and internet postings how many times did he discuss this attack with others? Why have they not been arrested yet?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 08:36 AM (t0Rmr)

135 Morning again, news folken,

Seems Trump is getting two and half steps forward (in rescuing this country), only to take two steps back. Still, it's better than the headlong gallop into insanity and communism that MushBrain and Kammie-Ha-Ha represented.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 08:36 AM (omVj0)

136 Bulg, if you are here

I saw your query yesterday about autism. I am no expert on autism and have had mostly passing exposure in my career. I certainly do not want to do a deep dive into the autism literature.

Speaking in general about my approach to any patient with symptoms of a disease or disorder, one can start by thinking in terms of categories of causes. I think of:

• Congenital- genetic mutations, brain birth defects, etc
• Developmental- parenting, nutrition, socialization,, sensory processing, nurturing, loving touch, eye contact
• Infectious- various and sundry
• Inflammatory-autoimmune, post-infectious immune response
• Metabolic- how the body handles various substances
• Neoplasm
• Toxic exposure- heavy metals, insecticides, vaccines etc

I view autism as multifaceted in terms of symptoms, with multifactorial etiology. So rather than a single thread where a single cause leads in a straight line to a specific condition, it is more like a complex (plaid?) tapestry with intricate relationships between many contributing causative factors and an overlapping constellation of symptoms.

That's all I'll say on the matter.

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 08:36 AM (uCfKO)

137 121 We're removing a vampire tapeworm from the body politic. It was never going to be easy.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Had a neighbor growing up who was a Navy Corpsman in WWII. Told me a story of removing a six-foot long tapeworm from a Filipino lady through her nostril.

Posted by: The Worm Turns at April 25, 2025 08:37 AM (G5+As)

138 How Activist Judges Could Hasten the Filibuster’s Demise
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I'm beginning to change my mind about this. Isn't the filibuster one of the ways Congress has avoided doing their job?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2025 08:37 AM (1bNHn)

139 "I am the resurrection and the life."
~ Jesus Christ

Posted by: So, there. at April 25, 2025 08:37 AM (vsUjd)

140 1.6 births per woman? That is a disaster. I didn't know it had dropped that low. Probably a third of what is was when I was growing up.

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Aint need no man.

Well, except for the male boss. He's the husband now.

"YES DEAR!!!"

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy you rmale boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 08:37 AM (TvjUl)

141 NASA has enough problems, so I fully endorse her decision not to inflict herself on the already busy engineers at NASA.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 08:38 AM (fcuif)

142 "Actively? Maybe. The problem is that they've figured out the passively part. If you're on windows hover over the bottom left corner. That's the MSM. Pretty much all search engines will produce MSM results (and you will struggle to get results for wrongthink). Those screens on gas pumps? MSM.

And remember, it's all coordinated. Remember JourOlist? The stupid "top of mind" type phrases that appear simultaneously across all platforms? The NYT style "narrative driven" news approach.

I suspect the reality is that we've crossed the event horizon into a place where people can't see the MSM forest for the MSM trees.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie"

Plus the narrative is deeply embedded in pop culture movies, TV shows, late night "comedy", music etc... We swim in a sea of lies 24/7.

Posted by: Ripley at April 25, 2025 08:38 AM (GUOwU)

143 1.6 births per woman? That is a disaster. I didn't know it had dropped that low. Probably a third of what is was when I was growing up.

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Speaking of, autism is probably absurdly simple, and is tied to this

Old ladies + chemicals

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy you rmale boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 08:39 AM (TvjUl)

144 I have a certain sympathy for Hogg's project. It's one I'd like to see carried out in the GOP, but in the opposite direction. E.g., make the Senate Tillis-free.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2025 08:39 AM (1bNHn)

145 Trump expects Roberts to fix rogue district court judges because it's in the interest of SCOTUS to do so.

To enshrine Anchor Baby Citizenship is against the weight of existing law. "No controlling precedent" for it, as Al Gore would say. It'd be worse than Dred Scott and Roberts know that. SCOTUS as we know it would get burned to the ground.

Mumble mumble. Somehting about getting someone to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2025 08:39 AM (Gqoy+)

146 JournoList is dead.

Posted by: CabaList at April 25, 2025 08:40 AM (jc0TO)

147 Is • Neoplasm the same as cereal for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 08:40 AM (pZ64F)

148 >>Old ladies + chemicals

Sounds like a Jimmy Buffet concert.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 08:40 AM (viF8m)

149 Developmental- parenting, nutrition, socialization,, sensory processing, nurturing, loving touch, eye contact

When I was studying in college, the main cause of (then rare) autism was pointed at the mother. She was cold and indifferent. She wouldn't make eye contact with the baby. She rarely held him etc. I thought that was a terrible thing to put upon a bewildered and desperate mother.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2025 08:40 AM (SfhV1)

150 Always love to hear from Harriet and Blah Blah.

Posted by: Makes me chuckle at April 25, 2025 08:41 AM (vsUjd)

151 Had a neighbor growing up who was a Navy Corpsman in WWII. Told me a story of removing a six-foot long tapeworm from a Filipino lady through her nostril.
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Not as fun as the basket job.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 08:41 AM (pZ64F)

152 Putting the evil Republican Party in checkmate was a huge step. And moving against the bureaucracy (if successful) is another.

But this was always going to come down to a brutal power struggle against the insurrectionists in the judiciary.

Now is the time - especially because Trump still enjoys the broad popular support to carry a Constitutional crisis through to a desirable conclusion.

Dithering and complaining is just wasting precious time.

If he moves now he can do this. Just deport them all with one hand while raising the middle finger on the other. That's the play.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 08:41 AM (BI5O2)

153 If you want to whine and complain knock yourself out.
To me it seems like there's always a core group of people that do nothing but scream the sky is falling every day.
I was just asking what is the point in that?
Didn't mean to personally attack anyone here.
I have coffee now so I'm good

Posted by: Cmonman at April 25, 2025 08:43 AM (4x/Ag)

154 Had a neighbor growing up who was a Navy Corpsman in WWII. Told me a story of removing a six-foot long tapeworm from a Filipino lady through her nostril.

Weird fetish but those Filipino chicks are up for anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

155 119 Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 08:27 AM (viF8m)

I take solace in your words and hope you are correct. When speaking of the "system" I was referring to our Constitutional framework and the separation of powers and other fundamentals of government (that which the Left does not respect except as expedience might demand). The specific issue or question is defiance of the courts and if this is even a possibility. I happen to believe that in some form of another it is a requirement, even a moral obligation. The Left understands that the courts are their firewall against Trump's most important initiatives. This challenge cuts to the heart of Trump's presidency. In my opinion, it can't be ignored or waited out.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 25, 2025 08:43 AM (h/ffs)

156 SCOTUS will hear the big case in mid-May and decide before July. Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2025 08:44 AM (Gqoy+)

157 And a little Hogette shall lead them.

Posted by: The book of DNC at April 25, 2025 08:44 AM (vsUjd)

158 Weird fetish but those Filipino chicks are up for anything.
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I know you. You somebody.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 08:44 AM (pZ64F)

159 Re #68: "ummm ... you missed the Doctors plot and what awaited the Soviet Jews had Stalin not died. then the persecution of the Jewish refuseniks for the next 50 years."

True, truly my bad. I got skewed in my thinking by the millions of Christians who were tortured, murdered, and sentenced to the gulag, by the vicious atheists who ran the cheka.

I should have mentioned the 37 doctors involved in the doctor's plot, a truly horrible repressive episode fueled by Stalins paranoia, one of hundreds of episodes against all sorts of people, but an episode which I should have put at the top of my post.

And I got lost with your citation of the million armenians (often crucified). I had that on my mind and completely (shamefully) overlooked the treatment of the many refuseniks, many of whom thank goodness were able to inform us of their suffering.

It is disgraceful to overlook the victims (and you certainly remind us of that almost daily, often making it the chief point of your post) and to remember who actually inflicted the suffering with cruel indifference.

TY for correcting my thought process here.

Posted by: Mike at April 25, 2025 08:44 AM (NUuQR)

160 Cmonman-it's not "doom posting' its reality.

That's what that lyin' ass voice in my head that fuels my personal depression says. It's the same thing. Ignore it, affix bayonets, and prepare.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 25, 2025 08:45 AM (OUMaO)

161 Developmental- parenting, nutrition, socialization,, sensory processing, nurturing, loving touch, eye contact

When I was studying in college, the main cause of (then rare) autism was pointed at the mother. She was cold and indifferent. She wouldn't make eye contact with the baby. She rarely held him etc. I thought that was a terrible thing to put upon a bewildered and desperate mother.
Posted by: grammie winger

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That is infuriating, especially when you can lovingly hold and make goo-goo eyes with junior for 18 hours a day, and it doesn't matter much at all because of the way his brain works. He can't look at you and has to keep staring at the spinning tire on his Tonka truck.

But these same people told us an old Garfield t-shirt would protect grandma from the deadliest virus in history, so it makes sense.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy you rmale boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 08:46 AM (TvjUl)

162 SCOTUS will hear the big case in mid-May and decide before July. Developing ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2025 08:44 AM (Gqoy+)

The One Ring case?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

163 Imagine a US Senate without the likes of McConnell, Cornyn, Durbin. Soon.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 25, 2025 08:47 AM (Aqu9a)

164 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports” that if President Donald Trump disobeyed a Supreme Court order, “extraordinary action will be necessary.”

Gee, Chuck, have you explored the possibility that the voters might, themselves, take "extraordinary action" if you follow through with your threats? Have you? That "reaping the whirlwind" you spoke about, just might be directed at you and your fellow travelers.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 25, 2025 08:47 AM (5xuJ/)

165 Understand the criticism of Tillis in NC. He is a wimp. But the guy wins tough races. Took out an Incumbent in 2014, won a tight one in 2020. He did vote for all Judges, unlike Murkowski

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 08:48 AM (YCxFk)

166 163 Imagine a US Senate without the likes of McConnell, Cornyn, Durbin. Soon.
Posted by: Count de Monet
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What about me?

Posted by: Chuckie Schumer at April 25, 2025 08:49 AM (vsUjd)

167 Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff (Policy) rightly called the lawfare currently underway against the administration as a "judicial coup." A term I've been using for weeks to describe it. I think that telegraphs a change in mindset for the administration about the judiciary trying to inject themselves into running the country.

Whether it bodes well or not for what goes down over the next several weeks and months is debatable, but Trump isn't going to simply roll over for the judges.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)

168 Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 08:36 AM (uCfKO)

Thanks for the response, Muldoon.

What is "neoplasm?"

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 08:49 AM (77rzZ)

169 Six foot long tapeworm?

Story of the Democrat Party?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 08:50 AM (FEpIj)

170 *What is "neoplasm?"*

$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Sorry. Had to do it. at April 25, 2025 08:50 AM (vsUjd)

171 >>I take solace in your words and hope you are correct. When speaking of the "system" I was referring to our Constitutional framework and the separation of powers and other fundamentals of government (that which the Left does not respect except as expedience might demand).

But as we all know we haven't really had that in years. We've been living under a permanent government, the bureaucracy, that has doing the will of the left for decades. Billions and billions of dollars have been poured into this shadow system to do things like rig elections and import millions of illegals into this country while running regime changes in countries around the world. We didn't vote for any of this stuff.

Chopping down that infrastructure was mission one and so far it has been spectacularly successful even if it flies below the radar. The censorship complex and orgs like CISA and USAID are effectively dead. The impact of those things will be felt for years.

Yes, the courts are a problem. Have been for a very long time. The Senate allowed the left to pack many of them with hard cord leftwing activists not judges and it is a glaring problem that needs to be dealt with now.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2025 08:51 AM (viF8m)

172 If men were angels there would be no need for federal District Court judges. And if judges were angels there would be no need for restraints on the judiciary.

/The Other James Madison

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 08:51 AM (uCfKO)

173 Understand the criticism of Tillis in NC. He is a wimp. But the guy wins tough races. Took out an Incumbent in 2014, won a tight one in 2020. He did vote for all Judges, unlike Murkowski
Posted by: Jonah
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He's the modern (R), and appeals to the locust liberals and the people who just vote for any (R) because... well, judges.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 08:51 AM (TvjUl)

174 There has never been a moment in their lives where there's been a price to pay for being openly leftist. There has never been a moment in their lives where there's been a price to pay for attempting to thwart the will of the people when they "choose wrong".

Why wouldn't they be proud? It's a resume enhancer.
Posted by: I used to have a different

True. They also believe everyone thinks as they do and they can smell a redneck MAGA a mile away.

Mix the two together and you get wild hubris.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2025 08:51 AM (JkCto)

175 These are not normal times. Trump's base should continue to grow into the midterms. from increased Turnout by Deplorables who now have someone that represents them. If they get anywhere near the Turnout of White College it'll be an electoral shift not seen since FDR.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2025 08:52 AM (Gqoy+)

176 163. Murkowski is the real problem, not Cronyn. Murk acutally voted to impeach Trump, and voted against Kavanaugh.

But I agree. Cronyn is a red state Sen, who should be primaried. Leave Tillis alone. The only one who can beat Roy Cooper. Who hopefully will not run

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 08:52 AM (YCxFk)

177 But as we all know we haven't really had that in years. We've been living under a permanent government, the bureaucracy, that has doing the will of the left for decades.

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Yep.

"Our democracy"

They were very open about it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 08:52 AM (TvjUl)

178 Having worn out the use of 'Hitler' over the last decade, the liberal media is searching for its next sensationalist descriptor for an otherwise innocuous "injustice" deserving of unlimited taxpayer dollars.

This go-round, the media is replacing their loaded "food desert" term with "food apartheid".

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

179 Chuck Schumer cares not for these People of the United States.

We could all go to Hell just as long as Chuck stays in power.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Chuck is now running against AOC. It will only get worse.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2025 08:53 AM (JkCto)

180 What about me?
Posted by: Chuckie Schumer at April 25, 2025 08:49 AM (vsUjd)

You just got re-elected in 2022. You're dug in like a tick unless e-coli or salmonella from your backyard bbq take you out sooner.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 25, 2025 08:53 AM (Aqu9a)

181 This go-round, the media is replacing their loaded "food desert"

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If I ain't get me some food deserts then it's desperate impacts

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 08:53 AM (TvjUl)

182 Autism is caused by vaccines. And the CDC knows it. Otherwise, why has it dismantled the Vaccine Safety Datalink?

The Informed Consent Action Network's The HighWire broke that story a short time ago.

Medicine has been weaponized for a long time. Covid-19 was just the big reveal.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 25, 2025 08:53 AM (Jwq9Q)

183 What is "neoplasm?"

Cancer. I can't conceive of a linkage to autism, but it's one of the categories I always considered for an unknown condition.

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 08:53 AM (uCfKO)

184 175. Durbin retired because he knows the Dems will not win the Senate even in any wave. Same that happened in 2018.

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 08:54 AM (YCxFk)

185
Byron York: And it appears she's gotten the message.
Democrats Don’t Want Kamala

Green Lawns and Coconuts no more...

It's a sad day, people. A sad day.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2025 08:54 AM (iJfKG)

186 Which one of you was in Green Bay last night? Outside. Standing in a parking lot. With a crowd of 125,000 people. Not me. I can drink at home.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2025 08:54 AM (SfhV1)

187 Trump has Jewish Grandkids. Hitler thing dont work

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 08:55 AM (YCxFk)

188 /The Other James Madison

That guy had movie nights every Saturday and the entire cabinet was required to attend. Then the fucker always played Prometheus. Not assassinating him was so hard. -- George Clinton

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 08:55 AM (ExV1e)

189 Had a neighbor growing up who was a Navy Corpsman in WWII. Told me a story of removing a six-foot long tapeworm from a Filipino lady through her nostril.

Weird fetish but those Filipino chicks are up for anything.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)
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Coming soon to a classroom near you!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 08:55 AM (7fElN)

190
Green Lawns and Coconuts, eh?

Hmmmm.

Posted by: Zombie Tommy James and the Shondells at April 25, 2025 08:55 AM (iJfKG)

191 Re # 76: Sefton, I stopped reading that post after they were praising the Bolshies for protecting Jews. Did Stormfront lose one of their posters?

I apologize for my error! Please do not judge me too quickly or disdainfully. I truly thought that the bolsheviks in fact HAD promulgated a law specifically and exclusively protecting the Jews. I expressed my gratitude for that.

But my gratitude was irrelevant. I thought the law was one of the first offical acts of the bolsheviks, but it appears I was qrong.

Sorry everybody! My mistake!

Posted by: Mike at April 25, 2025 08:55 AM (NUuQR)

192 Sam Kinison has some thoughts on "food deserts:"

https://youtu.be/P0q4o58pKwA

Posted by: Get out of them! at April 25, 2025 08:56 AM (vsUjd)

193 Which one of you was in Green Bay last night?
Posted by: grammie winger

I wasn't in Green Bay, but I did read the Wikipedia article on Lambeau Field.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

194 I wasn't in Green Bay, but I did read the Wikipedia article on Lambeau Field.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

I'll allow it.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2025 08:56 AM (SfhV1)

195 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports” that if President Donald Trump disobeyed a Supreme Court order, “extraordinary action will be necessary.”

If Congressional Democrats feel so strongly about bringing the terrorist/gang member/ human trafficker back to the United States (to live far away from their own neighborhoods, natch) why not just use their Constitutional power to declare war on El Salvador for keeping him in prison? That would be an extraordinary action, no?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 25, 2025 08:57 AM (M0V4/)

196 That guy had movie nights every Saturday and the entire cabinet was required to attend. Then the fucker always played Prometheus. Not assassinating him was so hard. -- George Clinton
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Hey, at least we burned down his home theater!
-- The Brits

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

197 I loved Sam Kinison. He repented and changed his ways only to be killed by a drunk driver. God also has a sense of humor.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2025 08:58 AM (Gqoy+)

198 Professor Squirrel

#7

Perhaps something for a Book Thread.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 08:58 AM (FEpIj)

199 Curly Howard ordered burnt toast and a rotten egg for breakfast because "I got a tapewoim and that's good enough for him".

Posted by: The Woim Turns at April 25, 2025 08:58 AM (G5+As)

200 TGIF, all!

>>"Folks, colleagues of mine should not be able to go to church or to go to the neighborhood gas station --"

How about:

“Folks, colleagues of mine should not be able to go to synagogue or to go to the neighborhood deli — "

“Folks, colleagues of mine should not be able to go to mosque or to go to the neighborhood market -- "

Yeah, STFU, racist!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 08:59 AM (GcdCE)

201 163. Murkowski is the real problem, not Cronyn. Murk acutally voted to impeach Trump, and voted against Kavanaugh.

But I agree. Cronyn is a red state Sen, who should be primaried. Leave Tillis alone. The only one who can beat Roy Cooper. Who hopefully will not run
Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 08:52 AM (YCxFk)

Cornyn does his skullduggery in Senate Leadership, directing campaign dollars away from Tea Party / MAGA candidates, voting Dem proposals out of committee and ending debate on the question, only to then vote against it in a losing effort to burnish his bona fides. Puts on a white Stetson and boots every 6 years and tours Texas. He needs to go.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 25, 2025 09:00 AM (Aqu9a)

202 Ah, wise guy, eh?

Posted by: The tapeworm at April 25, 2025 09:00 AM (vsUjd)

203 you have to mention 'frozen tundra' when discussing Green Bay

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 09:01 AM (AOsQT)

204 Keep in mind Kinnison was an actual minister before he became a comic, and his last words are... interesting in light of that.

Posted by: American Hawkman at April 25, 2025 09:01 AM (9VDxG)

205 I think they should use tax incentives to increase baby-making, rather than just handing out cash.

Like, a total exemption from income tax for the first ____ years of the child's life. Something like that.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

206 you have to mention 'frozen tundra' when discussing Green Bay

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 09:01 AM (AOsQT)

My bad.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2025 09:02 AM (SfhV1)

207 Autism is caused by vaccines. And the CDC knows it. Otherwise, why has it dismantled the Vaccine Safety Datalink?

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I think it's much more devastating than that.

I think we'll discover that the lifetime burdens of birth defects we've put on these poor children and their parents have been an intentional cultural/social push by our government, academia, medical industry, etc. with no goal in mind other than improving the bottom line for multinational corporations and the U.S. tax base.

Geriatric births via Girl Power messaging + vaccines

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 09:02 AM (TvjUl)

208 Previously deported illegal alien with several outstanding traffice warrants and prior arrests drives his truck THROUGH a house killing the 70-year-old resident. Flees the scene and fights with police when he is later found hiding in a bedroom. Way to go Brandon!

https://tinyurl.com/4kvu9bsh

Posted by: Puddin' at April 25, 2025 09:02 AM (aICNM)

209 Professor Squirrel

#7

Perhaps something for a Book Thread.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 08:58 AM (FEpIj)
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Noted...Thanks!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 09:03 AM (7fElN)

210
Joe's Law: Trolls believe none of the things they post.

Joe's Corollary: Your disgust is their oxygen.

Joe's Conjecture: All trolls are Average Joe.

Joe's Tautology: Average Joe sucks cock by choice.

Posted by: toby928 reminds you at April 25, 2025 09:03 AM (jc0TO)

211 Green Lawns and Coconuts, eh?

Hmmmm.

Posted by: Zombie Tommy James and the Shondells at April 25, 2025 08:55 AM (iJfKG)

Here. Try some Green Grass and High Tides instead.

https://youtu.be/BBNedn3wXME

Posted by: The Outlaws at April 25, 2025 09:03 AM (Aqu9a)

212 >>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports” that if President Donald Trump disobeyed a Supreme Court order, “extraordinary action will be necessary.”

It was only a few years ago this same IDIOT and his pals were saying that the Supreme Court that reverse Roe v. Wade needed to be destroyed, with Biden appointing several new justices or. . . you know, you guys (wink, wink at antifa).

You can shut up, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 09:04 AM (GcdCE)

213 If the GOP wasn't a useless pile of dogshit they'd be hammering the judiciary about now. Whether they'd be able to actually do anything of substance is debatable, but it would be "helpful" to have the nominal party of the incumbent president behind him in this battle with the judiciary.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 09:04 AM (Q4IgG)

214 201. True enough. The gun control crap he did with Dems was awful

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 09:04 AM (YCxFk)

215 Chuck Schumer, for a poetic end, really needs to gag and strangle upon his own lies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 09:06 AM (FEpIj)

216 Tge Guardian: Now comes the 'womanosphere': the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican

Rightwing commentator Brett Cooper joined the rest of the world in jeering Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez’s brief flight to space.

There is a sizable audience for Cooper’s brand of disarming anti-feminist content. She had the second-fastest growing political YouTube channel in the first quarter of 2025 with over 900,000 new subscribers...

Analyses of the 2024 election widely heralded the “manosphere” as key to delivering Donald Trump’s victory...56% of men under age 30 went for Trump compared with 41% four years prior. By meeting young men where they were at, Trump and his surrogates were able to reach voters who are typically among the least politically engaged segments of society.

Now, there are the beginnings of an organized effort to create a similar alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences – one of the few demographics that has, until now, leaned substantially Democratic.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2025 09:06 AM (JCZqz)

217 Taking a look at pictures of the American poor I'd guess they live in food rain forests.

Posted by: Ripley at April 25, 2025 09:06 AM (GUOwU)

218 Trump literally Hitler. Out. Trump literally Snidely Whiplash. In.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 25, 2025 09:07 AM (gm9Sb)

219 213. Here is the big problem. the Fed D.C court of appeals, and the D.C district court are dominated by Obama and Biden appointees. Dems were clever enough to orchestrate that, knowing the SCOTUS only takes so many cases. Boasberg's court has no Trump Appointees. Appeals has 3.

They played hardball, and W Bush fell asleep at the wheel

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)

220 Professor Squirrel

Posted some stuff in the Tech Thread on it.

How bad was NaNoWriMo? During the initial COVID years, November participants actually declined.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 09:07 AM (FEpIj)

221 Reminder: If you take your ivermectin, you won't be troubled by me or tapeworms.

Posted by: Perry Pinworm at April 25, 2025 09:07 AM (G5+As)

222 Good morning everyone. Thx JJ
No new news on my very local news I posted about yesterday. About three blocks from me a guy stabbed his wife to death and then he went and jumped off the Kingston -Rhinecliff Bridge. Left two children , 3yrs and 11 mths. Strange when things happen that close

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 09:07 AM (6TePA)

223 it would be "helpful" to have the nominal party of the incumbent president behind him in this battle with the judiciary.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 09:04 AM (Q4IgG)

Yes, it would, but I think Trump knows his nominal party reviles him with every fiber of its dying body because he destroyed it.

It's gonna be his administration versus the world for every inch of ground.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 09:08 AM (BI5O2)

224 That's all I'll say on the matter.

********

For good reason.

Posted by: muldoon at April 25, 2025 09:09 AM (uCfKO)

225 Dems do not matter, it is the Rino's and weak kneed GOP Senators and Rep's that do.

If Trump disobeys Scotus, opens the gate for the anti Trumpers to drum for the impeachment beat

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 09:09 AM (YCxFk)

226 Tge Guardian: Now comes the 'womanosphere': the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican

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I mean, pretty much everything told to / pushed onto women has been demonstrably wrong and has broken both them and the nation, so yeah.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 09:10 AM (TvjUl)

227 Why is Mangione being charged by the Feds?

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

228
Neighbor: He was a quiet guy, kept mostly to himself.
Reporter: Do you think he did it?
Neighbor: Oh yeah, stabbing his wife was all he ever talked about.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 09:10 AM (jc0TO)

229 This quote:
"Of course with prosecutors like Alvin Bragg and judges like Boasberg, as well as John Roberts, and more crucially with an alarming percentage of the citizenry viewing Mangione as well as Hamas boosters and Islamic terrorists and Tren de Aragua gangsters as heroes"
Will be the root of how the leftists will regain control of the nation in 2026.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at April 25, 2025 09:11 AM (mm9Bq)

230 Tommy James is alive and still performing.

Posted by: Draggin' The Line at April 25, 2025 09:11 AM (G5+As)

231 >My bad.

Posted by: grammie winger
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Nonsense. You're good.
The Packers were the first football team I learned about as a kid. Lots of us read "Instant Replay" by Jerry Kramer.

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 09:11 AM (AOsQT)

232 Trumps people need to nominate a slate of picks for the 61 Fed Judge vacancies soon.

It would also be smart for the Admin to remind Demonrats that Trump's will do the same to them in the future

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 09:11 AM (YCxFk)

233 207 Sure. I was just sticking to the autism angle.

The WHO and the Gates Foundation pushed a tetanus shot in Kenya that hid a sterilizing enzyme. The WHO used the same ploy in the Philippines decades before. This is all open source, easily verified info.

Globalist maniacs have openly discussed using vaccines for mind control and depopulation for ages.

There are reasons why we were stampeded into taking the Covid-19 shots ... none of them good.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 25, 2025 09:12 AM (Jwq9Q)

234 Why is Mangione being charged by the Feds?
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

Because he was playing the horn too loud.

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2025 09:13 AM (Oy/m2)

235 227. Hate crime?

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 09:13 AM (YCxFk)

236 JJ, if you have a chance and a little over an hour free, I highly recommend Laura Logans podcast Going Rogue with Mike Davis. Quite a few points made with some legitimate cause for optimism.

Posted by: Miflin at April 25, 2025 09:13 AM (aA6YN)

237 @231 Instant Replay is a classic. Distant Replay is also a great read. Kind of sad though

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 09:13 AM (6TePA)

238 Grammie, how is the Rev doing?

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)

239 Re 178: Having worn out the use of 'Hitler' over the last decade, the liberal media is searching for its next sensationalist descriptor for an otherwise innocuous "injustice" deserving of unlimited taxpayer dollars.

AMEN! When you read the lives of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and assorted other Pol Pots from the last century, it is astonishing that Hitler for decades up until now has gotten 99% of the attention.

It's almost as if the liberals were deliberately trying to fix Hitler in the minds of the masses in order to use him for their own propagandistic, manipulative, brainwashing purposes.

The lives of Stalin and Mao were just as fascinating as Hitlers in every respect. For 100,000 times we have heard how Hitlers niece committed suicide. When has anyone heard about the suicide of Stalin's wife under circumstances far more damning to Stalin?

It's almost as if the liberals with books films tv documentaries and other constant venues wanted to put Hitler out there on a daily basis for many decades, while with Stalin, whose life was just or MORE fascinating in every respect - - nada!

It's almost like the liberals do not even want the subject of Stalin to be open to discussion.

Posted by: Mike at April 25, 2025 09:13 AM (NUuQR)

240 Congress doesn't need to impeach each rogue judge. The Constitution only requires the Supreme Court. Let Congress eliminate all the inferior courts and have only the Supremes. That would take care of the problem. Either the Supremes would start smacking down the judges without taking years, or they would be forced to handle all federal cases.

But, as we have seen, there has been no move to do this from CONgress. Ask yourselves, why?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

One of my hopes is that Congress disbands the DC district and circuit courts. Rotate the DC cases among the remaining district/circuits.

Congress sucks, yes. But the new media could make this a thing with Speaker Johnson. Shame him into doing the right thing. First though, Johnson, stop with the constant vacations and get your House back to work.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 09:13 AM (Dv3i1)

241 186 Which one of you was in Green Bay last night? Outside. Standing in a parking lot. With a crowd of 125,000 people. Not me. I can drink at home.
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Has it stopped snowing up there, yet?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 09:14 AM (pZ64F)

242 >>Translation: We plan to either actually fuck the children or fuck them up in the head.

What's interesting is that, because the Left expresses itself in terms of "freeing" people's sexuality, many people miss the fact that it is every bit as sexually controlling in its own way as Islam is. This control comes about because the Left works assiduously to decouple sex from a person's own sense of bodily privacy and, by extension, self-ownership. If a person has no sense of autonomy, that person is a ready-made cog for the statist machinery.

The practical problem for the Left when it tries to attack individuality as expressed through sexuality is the fact that a person's sense of an inviolate physical self develops quite early, during childhood:

Once a child individuates, he becomes aware of being his own self. ... The most basic thing one can own is one's own self, and not letting others touch that self in ways you don't like is an exercise in self-ownership.

They have to get them when they're YOUNG. https://tinyurl.com/2s49pyu6

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 09:14 AM (GcdCE)

243 Grammie, how is the Rev doing?

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)

He's doing well! On a modified part-time work schedule at Costco, and and not falling down! Thanks for asking.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2025 09:15 AM (SfhV1)

244 240. Sadly Chuck, even after MSM was discredited in November, GOP still is worried about image. If we go after Judges, media will scare us

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2025 09:16 AM (YCxFk)

245 Of all the 20th-cent. strongmen, the most interesting one to me is Mussolini.

He might actually have turned out to be a decent leader had he not alienated France and Britain by his dunderheaded invasion of Ethiopia and been left with no one but Hitler to turn to.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:17 AM (77rzZ)

246 It would also be smart for the Admin to remind Demonrats that Trump's will do the same to them in the future
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Better to let them find out the hard way.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 09:17 AM (Q4IgG)

247 Re 55: To paraphrase the Four questions on Passover, "Why is this morning different from all other mornings?"

Excellent point and agree whole-heartedly. This morning is the same as every other, the same thing over and over!
Never changes. You know what is uppermost by the sheer dreary repetition, as if people do not have ears.

Posted by: Mike at April 25, 2025 09:18 AM (NUuQR)

248 Forget Congress GOP, they are not going to help, IOW. They are on the other team. Talking about them and what they should do is just static. Might as well talk about what Chuck Schumer should do to help the administration. They are on their own.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 09:18 AM (BI5O2)

249 234 Why is Mangione being charged by the Feds?
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

Because he was playing the horn too loud.
Posted by: dantesed

Because he killed a rich old white dude in NYC, so the local prosecutors would probably drop the charges and give him a medal?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2025 09:18 AM (JCZqz)

250 234 Why is Mangione being charged by the Feds?
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

Because he was playing the horn too loud.
Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2025 09:13 AM (Oy/m2)

Flugelhorned sounds like a German sex crime.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 09:19 AM (gbOdA)

251 Pam Bondi announced RICO charges against Tren de Aragua members. Terrific. But low-hanging fruit. Is DoJ working on RICO indictments for leftist domestic criminal organizations?

https://tinyurl.com/47jjzrby

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2025 09:19 AM (aBgBM)

252 221 Reminder: If you take your ivermectin, you won't be troubled by me or tapeworms.
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Some states are working on making Ivermecton an OTC. Overdue.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 09:20 AM (Dv3i1)

253 >>Tge Guardian: Now comes the 'womanosphere': the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican

But, gosh, we're so dang **happy** being fat, empowered by the pill and/or multiple abortions to pursue careers as worker bees, and using politics as a religion -- prescriptions for anti-depressants have never been lower!!

How dare anyone offer an alternative lifestyle -- an alternative choice? I believe we've been told for decades it's good to be pro-choice.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 09:20 AM (GcdCE)

254 Of all the 20th-cent. strongmen, the most interesting one to me is Mussolini.

He might actually have turned out to be a decent leader had he not alienated France and Britain by his dunderheaded invasion of Ethiopia and been left with no one but Hitler to turn to.
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:17 AM (77rzZ)

Thosa bastardi rejecta my plan for-a new Europe with a Free Pizza Fridays every Fri-a-day.

Posted by: Zombie Mussolini at April 25, 2025 09:20 AM (iJfKG)

255 I am always baffled and mystified by leftist wimmens fawning over Loogie Manbone. Sure, he murdered someone, but he's so dreamy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 25, 2025 09:21 AM (0aYVJ)

256 8 minutes to the opening bell. I have a small bet that the NASDQ goes down for the first 15 minutes.

Posted by: toby928 calls his shot at April 25, 2025 09:21 AM (jc0TO)

257 234 Why is Mangione being charged by the Feds?
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

Because he was playing the horn too loud.
Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2025 09:13 AM (Oy/m2)

Feels So Good......

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2025 09:21 AM (x0n13)

258 Pam Bondi announced RICO charges against Tren de Aragua members. Terrific. But low-hanging fruit. Is DoJ working on RICO indictments for leftist domestic criminal organizations?

https://tinyurl.com/47jjzrby
Posted by: Gref

Jeesh, people, give her time. Maybe this a way to get at the leftist orgs by finding out who is in bed with TdA.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

259 How dare anyone offer an alternative lifestyle -- an alternative choice? I believe we've been told for decades it's good to be pro-choice.
Posted by: Lizzy

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Think of the risk to the student loan industry.

Who will get all of those $60K communications, biology, sociology, etc. degrees?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 09:22 AM (TvjUl)

260 Sure, he murdered someone, but he's so dreamy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 25, 2025 09:21 AM (0aYVJ)

Same reason guys here talk about AOC's titties, when all I see is a canal laborer who's gonna have a lot of back problems.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 09:22 AM (BI5O2)

261 Some states are working on making Ivermecton an OTC. Overdue.
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Well, its already OTC in every Tractor Supply store. You just have to do maff to figure how much to use.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 09:22 AM (pZ64F)

262 I am always baffled and mystified by leftist wimmens fawning over Loogie Manbone. Sure, he murdered someone, but he's so dreamy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

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Spoiler alert:

That's partly why.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 25, 2025 09:22 AM (TvjUl)

263 234 Why is Mangione being charged by the Feds?
Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

Because he was playing the horn too loud.
Posted by: dantesed

No, it was the silly little hat.

Posted by: Susquehanna Hat Company at April 25, 2025 09:23 AM (G5+As)

264 Sure, he murdered someone, but he's so dreamy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

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Spoiler alert:

That's partly why.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

"I'd like to think that you killed a man. It's the romantic in me."
-- Louis Renault to Rick Blaine

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

265 > Jeesh, people, give her time. Maybe this a way to get at the leftist orgs by finding out who is in bed with TdA.
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Compare Bondi's tenure so far with that of Garland's at the same point in time.

Probably a fair assessment of performance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2025 09:24 AM (Q4IgG)

266 Mangione being charged by the Feds is probably because he crossed state lines to commit the crime. The plan to commit murder stretched across state line giving the Feds jurisdiction

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 09:25 AM (6TePA)

267 255 I am always baffled and mystified by leftist wimmens fawning over Loogie Manbone. Sure, he murdered someone, but he's so dreamy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Yeah, it's a total mystery...

Posted by: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at April 25, 2025 09:26 AM (JCZqz)

268 "I'd like to think that you killed a man. It's the romantic in me."
-- Louis Renault to Rick Blaine
Posted by: Bulg

Claude Rains was always fun to watch but seemed to always come off as a homo.

Posted by: Auspex at April 25, 2025 09:26 AM (j4U/Z)

269 >>I am always baffled and mystified by leftist wimmens fawning over Loogie Manbone. Sure, he murdered someone, but he's so dreamy.

I think it's that they've declared normal masculinity "toxic." They've surrounded themselves with fey, feminized male feminist types who are boring, weird, and not all that attractive. Along comes Luigi, a dud who would secretly make them hot (muscular, rich, smart) and he does something aggressive that actually aligns with their values by shooting the big, bad white, male capitalist. It's too much, the mix of traditional manliness (which they think they're not allowed to embrace) + antifa attitude and action.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2025 09:26 AM (GcdCE)

270 It's almost like the liberals do not even want the subject of Stalin to be open to discussion.
Posted by: Mike

History Channel.

There's reams of Hitler video. It's out there every weekend.

Stalin. Pol Pot. Virtually nil.

It's an easy grab and post. There's metric shit tons of it.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2025 09:27 AM (JkCto)

271 Happy World Penguin Day to everyone

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 09:29 AM (CORHs)

272 Kamala D. Harris Institute for Advanced Political Studies
+++
Thanks for my laugh of the day.
That's a good one.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at April 25, 2025 09:29 AM (Lo97M)

273 Claude Rains was always fun to watch but seemed to always come off as a homo.
Posted by: Auspex

No, never. Just urbane. So urbane that he can even make a sex-trafficker (which Louis Renault was) look charming.

Plus, the dude was married like 8 times. His first wife was the actress who played Aunt Alicia in Gigi.

Posted by: Bulg at April 25, 2025 09:29 AM (77rzZ)

274
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Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

275 NOOD art thread up

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 25, 2025 09:31 AM (OUMaO)

276 Professor Squirrel

#7

Perhaps something for a Book Thread.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025

***
Agreed. I had no idea NaNoWriMo was an organization -- I thought it was just an Internet fad. Of course, I never paid any attention to it. The idea of trying to write an entire novel from scratch in thirty days? C'mon, man.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 09:31 AM (omVj0)

277 If Trump Disobeys Supreme Court Order ‘Extraordinary Action Will Be Necessary’

'Order'?! I know the Supreme Court can 'order' courts below it. But I think it can only render opinions for the other two branches.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2025 09:32 AM (4Nep/)

278 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2025 09:22 AM (BI5O2)

Thanks. When I mention AO-C , FenSpouse
Often says, Good grief. Is she phenomenally stupid and brainwashed." If he cares about her great "tittiies" he thankfully hadn't mentioned that.

Probably the best thing that could happen is for her to run against Schumer. They'll fight over who's the greatest "Democratic Socialist" and neithers campaign apparatus will be shy about bringing out the dirty laundry on each other.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 09:34 AM (yxwuC)

279 Claude Rains was always fun to watch but seemed to always come off as a homo.
Posted by: Auspex at April 25, 2025 09:26 AM (j4U/Z)
==================
Never once got that vibe from him. In his movie roles he always seemed to me like a tired cynic who just wanted another drink.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 09:35 AM (D8QjK)

280 Now, there are the beginnings of an organized effort to create a similar alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences – one of the few demographics that has, until now, leaned substantially Democratic.

And of course, the dems aren't going to let their property just walk away so they are going to break out the Handmaiden costumes and have dire warnings about returning to the 50s.

Really? Lower taxes, fewer government agencies and you could take care of your family with one paycheck? Nice!

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 09:41 AM (OPGS/)

281 Claude Rains was very good as the Dad in "Four Daughters" with the Lane sisters. was successful, so a sequel "Four Wives" was spawned, and at least one more spinoff.

Posted by: Hollywood Hystery at April 25, 2025 09:41 AM (G5+As)

282 Hey, Toby928.

LTNS

Posted by: creeper at April 25, 2025 09:41 AM (zFwIe)

283 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Last evening, I watched "The Children of October 7," on MTV. Yes, that's MTV.

Taken from a screen shot about the program: "New, Following Israeli children impacted by the October 7 Hamas terror attacks; led by Montana Tucker, the documentary shares stories of kidnapped, orphaned and traumatized survivors. (Documentary)." It was current as of the beginning of April 2025.

I've never heard of Montana Tucker but the young lady has a Wikipedia page. It begins, "...an American dancer, singer, and social media activist recognised for her efforts to educate younger people about the Holocaust, Israel and antisemitism.[1] As of 2024, Tucker's online presence reportedly included a following of over 9 million followers on TikTok and 3.1 million followers on Instagram.[2] Tucker uses her platform to address social issues such as body image, anti-bullying, advocating for Israel, speaking out against Anti-Semitism, and the importance of Holocaust remembrance."

And, "...She is Ashkenazi Jewish, and the granddaughter of Lilly and Michael Schmidmayer, both Holocaust survivors from Hungary and Romania."

Cont'd -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 25, 2025 09:54 AM (NFX2v)

284 Learned last evening's program was not her 1st such documentary: Times of Israel, TOI Interview 'It's not like reading a history book'
"TikTok influencer Montana Tucker makes Holocaust docu-series for Gen Z" After losing thousands of followers for posting about her family’s Holocaust story, social media star Montana Tucker pushes back against haters with ‘How to: Never Forget’ series, 7 Nov 2022.

They're short documentaries.
---
From J.J., above, "Elsewhere, I note with great sorrow the 110th anniversary of the Turkish Muslim genocide perpetrated against Armenia."

>Campus Guides dot Glendale Community College
Armenian Heritage and History Month and Genocide Remembrance, Documentary Films | Armenian Genocide

There are several films in the series; one is entitled: The Armenian Genocide—Educator's Edition (2006)

In part, "This documentary film, narrated by Julianna Margulies, unflinchingly addresses the Armenian genocide, a dark and long-suppressed chapter in 20th-century history."

>diasporrm dot org: 10 must-see documentary films about the Armenian Genocide, April 2021

🕯🙏

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 25, 2025 09:54 AM (NFX2v)

285 JJ, the person challenging Schakowsky in the primary was far to the left of even her....and has support. It's Evanston (Evanstan)

Posted by: Jeff Carter (@pointsnfigures1) at April 25, 2025 10:07 AM (ZiwLX)

286 .
Judicial activism a problem?
.
Not to worry.
.
Try to ThinkOutsideTheBox™, now with MOAR:
.
https://tinyurl.com/TwitVVh0re

Posted by: Marooned at April 25, 2025 10:16 AM (kt8QE)

287 Senators are protected for things said in the Senate; but outside comments that are treasony or insurrectiony are definitely not protected.

Posted by: setnaffa at April 25, 2025 10:54 AM (dKSNq)

288 I'm constantly amazed that O'Keefe's tactics continue to work. Guys will ask their date "You're not one of those Project Veritas plants, are you?" and when they say "No," they're like "Thank goodness! Anyway, here's the secret volcano lair where we keep the dead fetus parts..."

Posted by: DaveL at April 25, 2025 10:56 AM (TSPhM)

289 ...you are guided by moral imperative...

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 25, 2025 08:16 AM

*fist bump*

Posted by: Chris Knight, Real Genius at April 25, 2025 11:54 AM (P5BPp)

290 The Democrats can be proud of themselves for dreaming up a way to throw road spikes in front of Trump's presidency. It's quite impressive for a party that controls nothing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2025 07:56 AM

The mistake is thinking that just because the Republican Party has a majority, that it also has control.

The control of the federal government remains in the hands of the Deep State. That will not change until there are a majority of Donald Trumps in elected government... and in the nation's institutions (media, education, universities, healthcare, industry, corporations). Meaning elected officials who have the Profiles in Courage to risk everything to make this country great again. And that is not the Republican Party at all. The vast majority are simply riding Trump's coattails, but are not leaders in their own right.

As it is, the Deep State is simply weathering the early storm of President Trump's popularity. Waiting to flip things in 2026 and in 2028 when he is off the ballot.

I hope I am wrong, but recent history of this country's election habits tells me otherwise. Reagan to Clinton to Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden to Trump to...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 25, 2025 12:07 PM (P5BPp)

291 "Evil never rests, and neither should we." Amen.

Posted by: Greybeard Represent at April 25, 2025 01:13 PM (jgRaQ)

Daily News Stuff 25 April 2025

Top Story

Intel has officially announced its plans to fire all the useless freeloaders and force employees to actually show up at the office and do their jobs. (Tom's Hardware)|

Employees will be required to be in the office four days a week starting in September, a goal likely easier to achieve when the company is also expected to be firing 20% of its workforce.

Tech News

Meanwhile Intel's current-generation and AI-focused chips just aren't selling. (Tom's Hardware)

But cheaper, previous generation chips are selling, particularly the 14th-generation parts.
AMD reportedly has a 12GB cut-down model of the Radeon 9070 ready to go. (Tom's Hardware)

This will deliver three quarters of everything on the 9070, and neatly plug the gap between the regular 9070 and the upcoming 9060, which will only have half the performance of the 9070.
Employee monitoring app WorkComposer leaked 21 million screenshots of monitored employees. (CyberNews)

How could this happen?
Why US men think college isn't worth it anymore. (Bloomberg) (archive site)

Mostly because it's not.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: None of the above.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

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1 G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 25, 2025 04:31 AM (O7YUW)

2 G'Day everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 04:32 AM (ypFCm)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 04:34 AM (CQE5S)

4 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 25, 2025 04:34 AM (dg+HA)

5 Intel and demand:

Read the room, Intel.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 25, 2025 04:35 AM (O7YUW)

6 moar covfefe

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 04:35 AM (CQE5S)

7 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 25, 2025 04:38 AM (a1415)

8 I watched this 2-hour video yesterday (2017):

Joe Rogan
Gary Taubes

on sugar, carbs, calories. I want to believe but it was kind of iffy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ffswUVoxA

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 04:43 AM (CQE5S)

9 Watching Ryan Halls weather blog, it looks like the usual spring weather pattern. Storming in the midwest and dry on the west coast. The east gets the leftovers from the midwest. So the temp will be either snowing or a heatwave, take you pick.

Posted by: Colin at April 25, 2025 04:47 AM (wlQdF)

10 Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 04:43 AM (CQE5S)

I would say that it worked brilliantly for me. That I lost 120 pounds and cured my diabetes and sleep apnea. I've fallen off the wagon because I'm addicted to sugar and the rest of my family refuses to go low carb so it's always around me but it worked.

I would say that but this site is full of people who, I presume, have never had issues with their weight who'll say that it's all about calories in/calories out no matter how many studies show that isn't true and I don't feel like arguing about it.

There's a lot more info on the subject. A lot. I recommend going down the rabbit hole.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:50 AM (ExV1e)

11 10 Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 04:43 AM (CQE5S)

I would say that it worked brilliantly for me. That I lost 120 pounds and cured my diabetes and sleep apnea. I've fallen off the wagon because I'm addicted to sugar and the rest of my family refuses to go low carb so it's always around me but it worked.

I would say that but this site is full of people who, I presume, have never had issues with their weight who'll say that it's all about calories in/calories out no matter how many studies show that isn't true and I don't feel like arguing about it.

There's a lot more info on the subject. A lot. I recommend going down the rabbit hole.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:50 AM (ExV1e)

Thanks! I'll keep looking.

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 04:51 AM (CQE5S)

12 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 25, 2025 04:53 AM (sAmhv)

13 The aviation community mourns the loss of Rob Holland, killed in a crash while attempting to land at Langley Air Base yesterday in preparation for their big air show this weekend.

We have seen him perform several times, and his abilities were legendary.

https://tinyurl.com/yc5nwpme

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 25, 2025 04:58 AM (a1415)

14 Found out this morning that my BIL is a leftie. Not surprising given that he spent his entire adult life in the service of the MIC and managed to parlay that into 3 retirements... good for him, not so good for us.

He decided to be stunning and brave and call for wholesale change in Congress in '26 followed by a Dem in the WH in '28. Sad.

At least I converted my wife to the path of truth (although I suspect the birth of our son had more to do with it.)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:59 AM (ExV1e)

15 I had a lovely experience in going to the hospital yesterday. There was no parking in the parking garage- ( That wasn't the lovely experience- 😉

so I had to park about a quarter of a mile away) because I didn't want to wait for valet parking. I found a lovely spot under a flowering pink tree that was beautiful . When I came back there were two very cute girls ( maybe early teens) sitting on a porch at a house nearby . I said to them, "You're very cute) and they gave me big smilies and looked even cuter. No, I'm not saying this to give myself a thumbs up. It's just that even in circumstances that are difficult, you can often - if you care to pay attention - find something that reminds you are God's love and creative power and also make someone's day brighter. Someone at church yesterday complimented me and it helped to make my day as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:06 AM (NWZOB)

16 Isaiah 55:1-11
" Gods familiar voice"

About birdwatching and also listening to God. Appropriate devotional for interested Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/3yn4762p

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:11 AM (NWZOB)

17 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at April 25, 2025 05:13 AM (PzBTm)

18 Boston Marathon runner gives up personal goal to help another runner:

https://tinyurl.com/kx347sz9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:15 AM (NWZOB)

19 So sorry to hear about the loss of the pilot. Have seen one of those air shows at Langley AFB years ago. They are impressive.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2025 05:16 AM (dg+HA)

20 I'm outta here
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 05:17 AM (ypFCm)

21 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Well, around here it's soaking wet.

Any good news? Anyone?

Posted by: Rosasharn at April 25, 2025 05:21 AM (PzBTm)

22 Family sings lovely acapella version of a Christian hymn; " Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus":

https://tinyurl.com/4uswr9x9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:23 AM (NWZOB)

23 Testing this connection

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 05:24 AM (/w9pX)

24 23 Testing this connection
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 05:24 AM (/w9pX)

A+

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 05:25 AM (CQE5S)

25 PDT's presser yesterday with the Prime Minister of Norway, top comment (at this time):

Trump really dropping a new podcast episode every week with surprise guests

heh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mIh5eG30zw

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 05:26 AM (CQE5S)

26 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at April 25, 2025 05:28 AM (AN2gy)

27 >>> There's a lot more info on the subject. A lot. I recommend going down the rabbit hole.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 04:50 AM (ExV1e)

I have a much milder version of that. I even eschew diet soda to avoid an insulin spike.

Posted by: fluffy at April 25, 2025 05:33 AM (AN2gy)

28 I have killed another thread.

Posted by: fluffy at April 25, 2025 05:44 AM (AN2gy)

29 Morning, one and all. I am happy to say that last night my wife and I got some concrete and got our mailbox set up. The reason it was done at that time was we'd only just gotten notification from Miss Utility that we were good to go and it's going to rain later today.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 05:44 AM (OPGS/)

30 Family's hilarious pre church morning routine. If you want to watch it, scroll down past the commentary to video:

https://tinyurl.com/bdez8z23

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:45 AM (waphF)

31 I don't want to get on the cart!

Posted by: The Thread at April 25, 2025 05:48 AM (dg+HA)

32 28 I have killed another thread.
Posted by: fluffy at April 25, 2025 05:44 AM (AN2gy)

heh

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 05:49 AM (CQE5S)

33 Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 05:44 AM (OPGS/)

Congratulations, "Miss Utility" sounds like some type of beauty contest. 😉 Why does she wear and what is her talent?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:50 AM (waphF)

34 G'mornin all !!

Rainstorm passed thru before I woke.
More later, perhaps.
Lots to do, but nit working today.

Posted by: OkJohn at April 25, 2025 05:52 AM (NC/it)

35 Any good news? Anyone?
Posted by: Rosasharn

Yes; Good news- you're here. It's Friday and I didn't see it perhaps - but you're twirling and you have people in your life who like and love you and whom you like and love. 😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:53 AM (waphF)

36 >>> Congratulations, "Miss Utility" sounds like some type of beauty contest. 😉 Why does she wear and what is her talent?

She is dressed in a lovely day-glow orange vest and can nap in a truck parked by a busy road.

Posted by: fluffy at April 25, 2025 05:55 AM (AN2gy)

37 Posted by: FenelonSpoke

She has the ability to get utility companies to check my property and make sure that we're not going to kill ourselves or blow up our house when we do any digging. Kind of a cool talent if you ask me.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 05:57 AM (OPGS/)

38 ...
you have people in your life who like and love you and whom you like and love. 😊
Such a Blessing.
Plus, more coffee here !

Posted by: OkJohn at April 25, 2025 05:58 AM (NC/it)

39 FenSpouse has to have bus drill evacuations for teens as well as the elementary school kids. The high schoolers react pretty much "Ho hum" but the elementary kids are excitief about sliding out the back of the bus and somebody ( teacher or aide also helps them) . For the month after they chant "Bus evacuation!!l Oh, the enthusiasm of kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:58 AM (waphF)

40 Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 05:57 AM (OPGS/)

Yay!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 05:59 AM (waphF)

41 mornin yall. Humanity is such a disappointment. No wonder AI wants to kill us.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 06:04 AM (vFG9F)

42 Just read an interesting article about when companies pass the "Trust thermocline" with their customers and how it can utterly harden those customers against ever wanting to do business with them again, nomatter how much the business actually changes how they do things, or what they offer.

https://tinyurl.com/yc48jm62

Kind of echos the experience I've had with the local cable company who keeps trying to get me back, and has gotten VERY pushy at the door (to the point that the next time they show up, I'm going to inform them that they're trespassing and to get off my lawn, and if they keep talking I'm going to dial the police.) Yeah, it's gotten that bad.

Apparently these people don't understand how much they've pissed me off. They're about to.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 25, 2025 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

43 "Just read an interesting article about when companies pass the "Trust thermocline" with their customers and how it can utterly harden those customers against ever wanting to do business with them again, nomatter how much the business actually changes how they do things, or what they offer"

Subway?

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 06:10 AM (vFG9F)

44 and how it can utterly harden those customers against ever wanting to do business with them again

Carmax has entered the chat.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 06:13 AM (OPGS/)

45 42 local cable company who keeps trying to get me back, and has gotten VERY pushy at the door (to the point that the next time they show up, I'm going to inform them that they're trespassing and to get off my lawn, and if they keep talking I'm going to dial the police.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 25, 2025 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

Maybe set up an attractive "No Soliciting" sign by the mailbox?

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 06:14 AM (CQE5S)

46 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished! I'm up, wearing my robe and drinking coffee; what more d'ya want?

(The cats have an answer for that: "Breakfast!")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 06:15 AM (omVj0)

47 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 25, 2025 06:15 AM (/Ghsb)

48 'Tis 74 F., 91% humidity, bit of a SE wind. Pretty much the usual. I plan to go work out in a bit; I'll need to bring a water bottle with me.

First, feed the cats. Second, another cup of coffee. Then we shall see.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 06:19 AM (omVj0)

49 "A disgraced New Mexico magistrate judge and his wife are under arrest after they allegedly harbored reported Tren de Aragua gang members"

Love is love, and the judge's wife was gettin' plenty.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 06:20 AM (vFG9F)

50 My companies that breached the thermocline are Aetna and Citibank. I'm a pretty darn easygoing customer, but those two can step alllll the way off, and they were both formally informed exactly why.

One was due to a fantastically rude customer service rep. The other was due to using the money in my account to pay for services they "sold" me that i never actually bought. And then somehow managing to charge me a penalty on top of that for the privilege.

I believe you should get what you pay for, not pay for whatever you get.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 06:20 AM (kBh81)

51 light rain here, so I'll probably miss the celestial smileyface this morning ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 25, 2025 06:21 AM (/Ghsb)

52
Good morning, Hordians. Hurt a lot last night after cleaning the pens in the kennel. Took a couple of Tylenol PM before going to bed and slept from 10:00 to 5:00. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs taken care of, now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian with my coffee.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 06:23 AM (QnmlO)

53 One was due to a fantastically rude customer service rep.

It's amazing the damage one customer service rep can do. And did you ever get your money back from Citibank?

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 06:24 AM (OPGS/)

54 Good morning morons

Saks & Co. store in Union Sq announced it is closing May 10.

The city says "2025 will be the best year for Union Sq ever."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 06:25 AM (RIvkX)

55 In my ongoing battle with Capital One, they have lost a lot of my trust with this refusal to admit that the problem I'm having with their website might be a tech glitch on their end. Yesterday I called the back-of-the-card number, had my rewards, a big $11.23, applied to my balance this month, and got a confirmation email. Then I called the complaint number, and got a recording that my call was going to voice mail. I left my number (which they are *supposed* to have!), the last four digits of my card, my name, and "I would like to report a problem."

So far? No call back. Not that I expect it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 06:27 AM (omVj0)

56 It's amazing the damage one customer service rep can do. And did you ever get your money back from Citibank?
Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 06:24 AM (OPGS/)

I don't even remember.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 06:27 AM (kBh81)

57 Saks & Co. store in Union Sq announced it is closing May 10.
The city says "2025 will be the best year for Union Sq ever."

Apparently Saks was attracting a bad crowd.

Posted by: fluffy at April 25, 2025 06:29 AM (AN2gy)

58 49 "A disgraced New Mexico magistrate judge and his wife are under arrest after they allegedly harbored reported Tren de Aragua gang members"

Love is love, and the judge's wife was gettin' plenty.
Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 06:20 AM (vFG9F)

What a bizarre story. Crazy politics? Corruption?

I'm sure Trim da Oregano are great houseguests.

Would be like renting a crawlspace to John Wayne Gacy.

WTF?!?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 25, 2025 06:29 AM (UGyV5)

59 Hadrian, ca. ten pm to five am seems to have become my usual sleep block, with another ninety minutes in the afternoon now. Getting up at five gives me time to work out before the traffic along the boulevard where I walk/run gets too heavy during the morning commute -- and before the sun comes up, making it hot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 06:29 AM (omVj0)

60 The money itself was certainly an annoyance, but it was the insane drive to get me to buy some "account protection" i didn't want or need. Over a year of spam emails, junk mail, phone calls, bordering on actionable harassment. Then they just put it on my account anyway and charged me for it.

Three times.

Are you a financial institution, or a mob?

(Don't answer that. )

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 06:31 AM (kBh81)

61 And the kicker was that the thing they "sold" me that i didn't want for an account i just used to shuffle money around put me into overdraft, generating a penalty, which put me into deeper overdraft, generating another penalty.

And they acted like I was the asshole.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 06:33 AM (kBh81)

62 I'm just here for the twirling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 06:34 AM (RIvkX)

63
Getting up at five gives me time to work out before the traffic along the boulevard where I walk/run gets too heavy during the morning commute -- and before the sun comes up, making it hot.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2025 06:29 AM (omVj0)

Decent people should be up by 5:00 anyway. It's almost like it's my favorite part of the day. No one else is moving at this time (Her Majesty would sleep until noon if she could) and the day hasn't yet lost it innocence. I can read, work on my music or say my Rosary and and know I won't be disturbed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 06:39 AM (QnmlO)

64
Folks who say that Bernie Sanders can't learn anything overlook him dropping mention of millionaires in his anti-oligarchy rants ... ever since he became one.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 06:39 AM (xG4kz)

65 After three attempts to get AARP to leave me alone, I stumbled on a solution. The post office has a form to fill out that says "This company has been sending me pornographic material." When you submit it, this gets legal involved and the company is told to remove your name immediately.

So far, so good.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 06:39 AM (OPGS/)

66 Folks who say that Bernie Sanders can't learn anything overlook him dropping mention of millionaires in his anti-oligarchy rants

He's been one for a long time. He just realized that Elon is richer and he had to change his approach.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 06:40 AM (OPGS/)

67 I'm usually up by 5. Gives me time to actually get ready for the day instead of dashing out to my car in a panicked frenzy for a one hour commute.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 06:40 AM (kBh81)

68 The number one benefit of retiring is the afternoon nap.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 06:41 AM (RIvkX)

69 and how it can utterly harden those customers against ever wanting to do business with them again

People who buy Apple products aren't customers, they're cultists so no worries.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 06:41 AM (WPL6O)

70 American Association of Retired Pornographers?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 06:41 AM (kBh81)

71 @m: "Maybe set up an attractive "No Soliciting" sign by the mailbox?"

Could do, but the types that insist on knocking on my door would just claim they weren't trying to sell me something, and then would proceed to try to sell me something. I won't abide by bald faced liars.

Telling them they're trespassing will be much more satisfying. The only legally correct response to being told you're trespassing is to turn around and march a straight line right off the property. Anything else can result in charges being filed against you.

Let me have my fun. :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 25, 2025 06:43 AM (O7YUW)

72 68 The number one benefit of retiring is the afternoon nap.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 06:41 AM (RIvkX)
----
Nope, no, the number one benefit of retiring is the anytime nap.

Posted by: Ciampino - & no alarm clock at April 25, 2025 06:44 AM (sPQoU)

73
People who buy Apple products aren't customers, they're cultists so no worries.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2025 06:41 AM (WPL6O)

"Must.. Buy... Latest... Product..."

*stands in line for two days*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 06:44 AM (QnmlO)

74
A disgraced New Mexico magistrate judge and his wife are under arrest after they allegedly harbored reported Tren de Aragua gang members"

Love is love, and the judge's wife was gettin' plenty.
Posted by: fd

Groomed for that sporting life, they have been. The missus grooves on inked guys now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2025 06:44 AM (xG4kz)

75 Decent people should be up by ~~5:00~~3:00 anyway. ...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 06:39 AM (QnmlO)
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FIFY

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 06:45 AM (RIvkX)

76 "Must.. Buy... Latest... Product..."

*stands in line for two days*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2025 06:44 AM (QnmlO)

"That looks exactly like your old one. "

"nO iT dOeSn'T!!!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 06:45 AM (kBh81)

77 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

He is just the one caught. There are plenty more on the payroll of Cartels.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 06:45 AM (u82oZ)

78 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 06:46 AM (u82oZ)

79 70 American Association of Retired Pornographers?

I don't fight fair with things like this.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 06:46 AM (OPGS/)

80 He is just the one caught. There are plenty more on the payroll of Cartels.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 06:45 AM (u82oZ)

Have a foreign gang start occupying and operating in your country with impunity, and then tell me they're not hooked in to at least part of your own government....

Go ahead. The other one's got bells on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 06:47 AM (kBh81)

81 {{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! And she is twirling!

*Does Happy Dance to Peter White's Reveillez-vous. *

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 06:48 AM (u82oZ)

82 In other news:

About a month ago, I sprained my knee at work. This has made my participation in Aikido very limited. I'm finally back on the mat but I can't roll and have to be careful with my falls.

It's amazing how tough normal stuff becomes when you lose mobility.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 06:49 AM (OPGS/)

83 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

84 For what it's worth here is an article on that judge & wife:
Judge Juan Cano and his wife arrested by federal authorities after they harbored a TDA gang member at home

https://x.com/i/status
/1915542422651642322

Posted by: Ciampino - & no alarm clocks at April 25, 2025 06:50 AM (sPQoU)

85 Warai-otoko

The tell is every judge blocking deportation.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 06:50 AM (u82oZ)

86 How are you Salty?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 06:51 AM (RIvkX)

87 @m: "Maybe set up an attractive "No Soliciting" sign by the mailbox?"

I've considered setting up a sign which reads, "The persons at this address are willing to discuss any matter for $1000/hr. with a 1 hour minimum. Ringing the bell acknowledges acceptance of this fee."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:52 AM (ExV1e)

88 "That looks exactly like your old one. "

"nO iT dOeSn'T!!!!!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2025 06:45 AM (kBh81)

I use iPhones although my family doesn't replace them until the battery starts dying, usually in 4-5 years. As near as I can tell, the draw for the latest several rounds of phones has been almost entirely improvements in the camera.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:54 AM (ExV1e)

89 82 In other news:

..... and have to be careful with my falls.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 06:49 AM (OPGS/)
----
I read that as '.... with my balls.' and was laughing until I re-read it. Sorry about that NR, but it was funny for about 10 seconds.

Posted by: Ciampino - falling is not actually funny at an old age at April 25, 2025 06:55 AM (sPQoU)

90 I didn't notice this, but NaNoWriMo has shut down.

YouTube video is blaming NaNoWriMo but only for what happened in the past 16 months on its position on AI and doing zero background checks for volunteers interacting with children.

Actually dude, the fall of NaNoWriMo started during the first term of Trump when they decided to use a NON-PROFIT to rail against Trump.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 06:57 AM (FEpIj)

91 5 AM or PM?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 06:57 AM (LO3k+)

92 I like some of Apple’s products but I would never stand in line for hours or days to buy anything, ever.

The longest lines I encounter these days are at the CVS, which is why I switched to the WalMart pharmacy because they have a drive-thru and I’d rather sit in the car if I’m gong to wait for some often way overpriced pharmaceuticals.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 25, 2025 06:57 AM (6ydKt)

93 San Franpsycho

I am doing OK, for varying amounts of OK. The doctor has still not signed the death certificate, so I am on hold for a number of financial issues like paying for the remaining mortgage.

What I was utterly unprepared for is the hole in my life. We were a team. Mostly dysfunctional as I took over more and more of her care. She was very ill for so long. I saved her from low blood sugar comas 14 times in marriage. But all I could do was not enough.

But I have good friends and the Horde to help me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

94 I read that as '.... with my balls.' and was laughing until I re-read it. Sorry about that NR, but it was funny for about 10 seconds.
Posted by: Ciampino - falling is not actually funny at an old age

No offense taken because that was pretty funny.

Another fun observation: Our newest student is a black belt in Okinawan Karate and he wanted to learn something new. Now I'm a first degree black belt which only means I'm serious about learning. When I've worked with him, I've had to correct my technique to adapt to what he's throwing at me.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 06:59 AM (OPGS/)

95 It took 8 months but I wrangled a $2.68 refund out of T-mobile.

Number two benefit of retirement is sufficient time to pursue petty vendettas.

I'm attending a code enforcement hearing next Friday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 07:00 AM (RIvkX)

96 Anna Puma

What was your decision on the model purchase from overseas?? You must need an entire conservatory to display your air force.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

97

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 25, 2025 07:02 AM (5hfjS)

98 As near as I can tell, the draw for the latest several rounds of phones has been almost entirely improvements in the camera.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2025 06:54 AM (ExV1e)

Oh no, they’ve done so much more than that.

Now they have a “Dynamic Island” which is just a way to make use of that unsightly camera notch.

And the new extra “Action Button” which is for people who won’t be held back by a swipe, a face scan, and hitting one app icon to take a photo.

But the iPhone 17 Air is coming soon, and it’s going to be amazingly,,,, thin.

So thin people are worried the things are going to bend just sitting in your pocket like the iPhone 6.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 25, 2025 07:02 AM (6ydKt)

99 But I have good friends and the Horde to help me.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)
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Thanks for the update and I join you in grieving

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 07:04 AM (RIvkX)

100 Hillary Clinton

Ah, a fine example of evil to point out to others.
Your war in Libya killed good Americans, unleashed invaders to Europe (with all the resulting violence) and made slavery possible in open-air markets.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

101 I am watching China economic schaden freude content on youtube.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 07:06 AM (LO3k+)

102 San Franpsycho

Just hold those close to you closer. I aver that doing so will reduce tensions and make for happier people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

103 Boss Moss

Is the US winning? Or is Xi going to change the topic by invading Taiwan for it's women?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

104 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

My home internet is still down...*sigh*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 07:10 AM (7fElN)

105 It has been continuously windy, cold, and foggy for 2 days and will get worse from here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 07:12 AM (RIvkX)

106 Missouri police car chase ends in a yard with a FAFO sign.

https://tinyurl.com/46kt6d6c

Posted by: Ciampino - irony at April 25, 2025 07:12 AM (sPQoU)

107 If things get bad enough I wouldn’t be surprised if Xi ordered the invasion of Taiwan.

Nothing like a good war to cause people to project their anger outwards instead of at the CCP and Xinnie the Pooh.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 25, 2025 07:12 AM (6ydKt)

108 Salty Dawg, still not made the order.

First World problems right?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 07:13 AM (FEpIj)

109 "Apple issues warning to all 1.8b iPhone users: Delete this app NOW or your bank details will be stolen"

It's Chrome. LoL.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2025 07:15 AM (vFG9F)

110 If West Taiwan gets uppity enough to invade the Real China, I hope the slap down is hard enough that Xi fades from memory.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 07:15 AM (OPGS/)

111 Ah, a fine example of evil to point out to others.
Your war in Libya killed good Americans, unleashed invaders to Europe (with all the resulting violence) and made slavery possible in open-air markets.

Mission Accomplished!

Posted by: Common Tater at April 25, 2025 07:18 AM (Tx+oG)

112 Huh

2018-2019 NaNoWriMo were in the red.
2020-2021 in the black, took out a $150K COVID loan from SBA
2022-2023 again in the red.

But they were paying out 65% of their approx $1.5 million in annual expenses for pay and benefits.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 07:18 AM (FEpIj)

113 The Phillipines got three new anti ship missile systems. If China doesn' cave, they may fall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 07:18 AM (LO3k+)

114 SpeakingOf

Taiwan fielding nuclear weapons, on a good missile, would be a big help. Because Megacities in China are 10 megatons apart. Three River Gorges Dam is not anchored to bedrock. A catastrophic failure of that dam would release a wall of water that would doom 30 million people and some important cities.

Plus, sea drone techs are ramping up, and with enough of them, you can stop an invasion cold.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

115 FIL's bypass surgery went well, we hope to be able to visit later today.

God is good, all the time

Posted by: CanuckJack at April 25, 2025 07:19 AM (aMOsu)

116 Did anyone see the Simpsons Snow Woke episode,

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 07:20 AM (LO3k+)

117 He is just the one caught. There are plenty more on the payroll of Cartels.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

--

IRS Audits of these judges would be revelatory

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 25, 2025 07:21 AM (mnRhB)

118 CanuckJack

Excellent!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

119 IRS Audits of these judges would be revelatory
Posted by: {{{vmom deport deport deport}}}

So let it be written. So let it be done.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

120 Posted by: CanuckJack at April 25, 2025 07:19 AM (aMOsu)

Thanks for letting us know. Praise the Lord!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 07:22 AM (42Vb+)

121 God is good, all the time
Posted by: CanuckJack at April 25, 2025 07:19 AM (aMOsu)
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Thanks for the update b"h for good health

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 07:23 AM (RIvkX)

122 There saying 100 million Chinese are unemployed. No way to verify.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 07:23 AM (LO3k+)

123 Well that certainly adds ammo to my argument the fall started when they railed against Trump, NaNoWriMo's writer participation during November FELL during the 2020-2021 years, during the height of the COVID lockdowns.

Compared to 2018, 2020 saw a loss of 8% in participants. 2021 saw a further decline of another 8%.

2018 - 122k
2023 - 97k

The CNN model of a more selective audience?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 07:24 AM (FEpIj)

124 Have a great day, everyone.

May sunshine and light winds, carrying the fragrance of lilacs, boost your spirits.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2025 07:24 AM (u82oZ)

125 You take care Salty Dawg.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2025 07:25 AM (FEpIj)

126 2 words

J
J

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2025 07:26 AM (gbOdA)

127 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 25, 2025 07:31 AM (hoCmQ)

128 They're selling jeans for 79 cents in China.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 07:40 AM (LO3k+)

129 force employees to actually show up at the office and do their jobs.

... I saw firsthand at LSI when Avago (now Broadcom) did the same thing. Productivity went thru the floor.

First, you have to understand the nature of chip design. It's a lot like PCB layout. It is typically done in dozens of steps. You may have to come back and look at the early results to determine your next steps.

If you have to be in the office, it is going to sit idle all night. When the engineers worked at home they check things all day and some of the night.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2025 08:05 AM (GITLP)

130 Olá, eu acho este é um excelente blog.
Eu tropecei nele

Posted by: Inovação em biocombustíveis at April 25, 2025 08:17 AM (ifQLd)

131 65 After three attempts to get AARP to leave me alone, I stumbled on a solution. The post office has a form to fill out that says "This company has been sending me pornographic material." When you submit it, this gets legal involved and the company is told to remove your name immediately.

So far, so good.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 25, 2025 06:39 AM (OPGS/)

LOL!

Posted by: m at April 25, 2025 08:45 AM (CQE5S)

132 Let me tell you a little problem about :
(Bloomberg) (archive site).

It uses reCaptcha. Complete with the stupid 'can you click on the traffic light' BS.
If "I am Human" ain't enough I ain't playing.

Posted by: John the River at April 25, 2025 02:58 PM (CYUsh)

Faster Than A Speeding ONT

Greetings Horde! Say, didja see that Bernie Sanders and AOP are flying a private jet around the country to their “fight the oligarchy” events?

Do Androids Worship An Electric Savior?

Apparently the new ChatGPT model is obsessed with the immaculate conception of Mary. There’s a whole team inside OpenAI frantically trying to figure out why and a huge deployment effort to stop it from talking about it in prod. Nobody understands why and it’s getting more intense
— Daniel (@growing_daniel) April 20, 2025

Now, I lack the knowledge to comment intelligently on the subject of how AI works, but it's a really interesting topic, and if you click through to the thread on X, there's lots of people who do seem to know more than I do talking about it.

Kids Will Be Kids

People Are Sharing The Extremely Weird Things They Did As Children

Some examples:
"I used to drink my own blood whenever I got a cut because I thought I had a limited supply and would die if I didn't."
"As a little girl, I used to sit back to front on the toilet to pee. I thought it sounded more like my dad peeing so the monsters wouldn't try to grab me."

Musical Interlude

pic.twitter.com/1Y6AL82N69
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 25, 2025

That fucking slaps. I feel like getting drunk, painting my face blue, and conquering all of Asia.

Good Advice From The Experts

As search goes on for missing swimmer, experts say people shouldn’t have teased sharks

“They are not creatures that attack. We have seen them here for many years. You don’t go out into the wilderness and stroke a lion. It is not logical to tease them and jump on them,” said Itamar Avishai of the EcoOcean nonprofit.
Israelis flocked in large numbers to the beach during the weeklong holiday of Passover, sharing the waters with a dozen or more sharks. Some tugged on the sharks’ fins, while others threw them fish to eat. Dusky sharks can grow to four meters (13 feet) long and weigh about 350 kilograms (750 pounds). Sandbar sharks are smaller, growing to about 2.5 meters (8 feet) and 100 kilograms (220 pounds).
Police and rescue workers launched a search along the coast after reports that a shark attacked a swimmer on a beach near the city of Hadera on Monday. The Fire and Rescue Authority announced Tuesday afternoon that “findings” had been brought to the forensic institute for identification.
The man’s identity was not released, but Hebrew-language media said the man in his 40s from Petah Tikva had gone to swim with the sharks.

I mean, at some point, you just have to throw up your hands and let nature take its course.

Physics Is Phun

Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed if The Whole Universe Was Spinning

The Universe is expanding, but exactly how fast is a contentious question. Two different methods of measurement return two very different speeds – and as the measurements become more precise, each becomes more certain. This discrepancy is known as the Hubble tension, and it's reaching crisis levels in physics.
So for a new study, physicists in Hungary and the US added a small rotation to a model of the Universe – and this mathematical massage seemed to quickly ease the tension.
"Much to our surprise, we found that our model with rotation resolves the paradox without contradicting current astronomical measurements," says István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii.
"Even better, it is compatible with other models that assume rotation. Therefore, perhaps, everything really does turn."

I just KNEW the universe was a Monday morning after a week long bender!

It's Poping Time!

The Papal Conclave Is A Battle Not Just For The Catholic Church But For Western Civilization

What’s certain, however, is that the conclave will be a contest between two competing visions of Catholicism. On one side are the aging liberal boomers, who came up in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council and whose vision for the church is decidedly modern. They think everything that came before Vatican II is bad and that ripping out the altar rails, selling off the icons, and banning Gregorian chant and polyphony in favor of tambourines and guitars was a great improvement. They believe in erasing the differences between the laity and clergy, ignoring or destroying Sacred Tradition, and deemphasizing or outright denying the reality of sin. Francis was one of them, and there are many others in the College of Cardinals. They have done their work with zeal, and much has been lost.
Such men thought, back in the 1960s and ‘70s, they were forging a new future for the post-conciliar Catholic Church. They believed they were blazing the trail into a bright modernist future for Catholicism. But now they are old men in their 70s and 80s, and their revolution is dying with them. Almost no one in the Catholic Church wants to continue their religious modernization project. When they look behind them to the younger generations in search of Catholics to whom they can pass the baton of their revolution, they find almost no one. In America, theirs is the weak and sclerotic “cultural Catholicism” of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and John Kerry — boomers whose worldview is inherently anti-Catholic and whose politics are an affront to Catholic morality.

Regardless of whether or not you're Catholic (and I am not), I think that a traditional church, strong in the teachings of Christ and steadfast in its defense of the same, is a fundamental pillar of western civilization and one that badly needs shoring up if we are not to fall to the eastern barbarians.

Pray For Jay

Jay Leno Faces His Biggest—and Most Heartbreaking—Challenge

blockquote>The comedian, who turns 75 next week, has been married to his wife, Mavis, since 1980. While she has managed to stay out of the spotlight, Leno has always spoken favorably of his wife, who is 78. The couple never had children, and I do not know a lot about her, but I know she has dedicated much of her life to helping others, specifically women and young girls suffering from terrible oppression in Afghanistan. From what I've heard through the grapevine, like her husband, she doesn't just talk the talk; she's dedicated much of her own time and resources to this cause and others.

Unfortunately, Mrs. Leno suffers from "advanced dementia" now. Last year, her husband filed a petition for conservatorship, citing her doctor's letter that explained she sometimes didn't recognize Jay or know her own date of birth and had "been progressively losing capacity and orientation to space and time for several years." Her lawyer agreed with the idea, citing that she receives "excellent care" from her husband

Jay always seemed like the decent sort, my prayers are with him as he cares for his wife.

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 24, 2025

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 24, 2025 09:57 PM (GYt5+)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 24, 2025 09:57 PM (GYt5+)

3 3rd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 24, 2025 09:57 PM (GYt5+)

4 Partway to Bigtown to see the surgeon, my ostomy bag leaked and we had to go home so I could change clothes. By then it was too late to make the doc's, so my appointment was re-scheduled.

But that worked out, because we finally got together with the septic tank guy to fix some problems.

It's been a $#!++y day.

Posted by: mindful webworker - is this thing on? at April 24, 2025 09:57 PM (SWvjw)

5 4th

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 24, 2025 09:57 PM (GYt5+)

6 Nope

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 24, 2025 09:58 PM (GYt5+)

7 Rookie mistake. You never go past third.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 24, 2025 09:59 PM (2sg1c)

8 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Hello, Jim SND! 😘😘😘

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 24, 2025 09:59 PM (SRRAx)

9 ONT!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 24, 2025 10:01 PM (6U1c2)

10 The problem with Bernie and Bosoms is that too many people listen to what they say, and believe it!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 24, 2025 10:01 PM (0eaVi)

11 FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY!!!

...now, why didn't any of you people bring me some deviled eggs???

Posted by: Bernie at April 24, 2025 10:01 PM (Vqx30)

12 Stop the universe. I want to get off.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (hY4dx)

13 Sorry I'm late, I was making deviled eggs.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (sI7wh)

14 Stop the universe. I want to get off.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (hY4dx)

Why don't we just keep it and throw them out?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (0eaVi)

15 Totally weird thing?

I always had a mental picture of a soul looking like a stalk of celery.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)

16 I always had a mental picture of a soul looking like a stalk of celery.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)

---------

I would not have let that story leek.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:04 PM (hY4dx)

17 15 Totally weird thing?

I always had a mental picture of a soul looking like a stalk of celery.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)

Celery?

Not a rutabaga or a kumquat?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 24, 2025 10:04 PM (2sg1c)

18 more like CathGPT amirite

Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

19 I thought Nextdoor might be a good thing to sign up for. Au contraire, it's a bunch of Karens bitching about every little thing. "To the owner of a black truck that smashed my pink and silver glittery mailbox..." OMFG.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:06 PM (w6EFb)

20 18 more like CathGPT amirite
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

Now ask it if God is omnipotent, can he make a boulder so big, he himself can't lift it?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2025 10:06 PM (pIfcn)

21 As search goes on for missing swimmer, experts say people shouldn’t have teased sharks

-
Darwin Award, sub nautical department.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 24, 2025 10:06 PM (L/fGl)

22
I think that a traditional church, strong in the teachings of Christ and steadfast in its defense of the same, is a fundamental pillar of western civilization

_________

Jewish, Catholic or Protestant. Sad that they've all become what they are. Stern gods are feared and worshipped. Nice gods get melted down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2025 10:07 PM (QnmlO)

23 I am intrigued by your proposition and have an interest in subscribing to your newsletter.

http://tiny.cc/k8lh001

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:07 PM (sI7wh)

24 So sad to read about Leno's wife.

In happy news, I fed grandbaby three times today and he sucked down 40ml each time like he was a condemned man. The critical care OTs are fantastic as they can even train an old school curmudgeon like me. IF the little guy continues to eat well, he may come home early next week. It's funny - I never knew that preemies need to learn to suck, breathe and swallow in the proper order while feeding. We are all so blessed.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 10:07 PM (vKNmo)

25

Do Androids Worship An Electric Savior?

Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg

https://t.ly/tMvtM

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2025 10:08 PM (63Dwl)

26 Totally weird thing?

I always had a mental picture of a soul looking like a stalk of celery.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)

I am Groot.

Posted by: Groot at April 24, 2025 10:08 PM (Aqu9a)

27 In happy news, I fed grandbaby three times today and he sucked down 40ml each time like he was a condemned man. The critical care OTs are fantastic as they can even train an old school curmudgeon like me. IF the little guy continues to eat well, he may come home early next week. It's funny - I never knew that preemies need to learn to suck, breathe and swallow in the proper order while feeding. We are all so blessed.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 10:07 PM (vKNmo)

That is good news!!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 24, 2025 10:08 PM (2sg1c)

28 Of course ChatGPT is obsessed with Mary and the Immaculate Conception.

How else would AI be capable of reproducing?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 24, 2025 10:09 PM (HlyYF)

29 "Even better, it is compatible with other models that assume rotation. Therefore, perhaps, everything really does turn."

Of course. It's the circle of life.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM (w6EFb)

30 "Immaculate Conception" is NOT the virgin birth of Christ. Mary was conceived in the normal way.

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

31 How else would AI be capable of reproducing?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 24, 2025 10:09 PM (HlyYF)

Grooming?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM (0eaVi)

32 Of course ChatGPT is obsessed with Mary and the Immaculate Conception.

How else would AI be capable of reproducing?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 24, 2025 10:09 PM (HlyYF)

Now, if it gets to Franco Harris and the Immaculate Reception, it will become obsessed with football and we can watch its self-destruction when its favorite team loses.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM (VNX3d)

33 ... I mean, excepting for lacking the sin of Eve, but her parents probably didn't know that

Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:11 PM (gKWVE)

34 My Little League team was the Cardinals. Pitched and played First Base. Do I get to vote for Pope?

Posted by: Papal Nuncio at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (G5+As)

35 "That fucking slaps. I feel like getting drunk, painting my face blue, and conquering all of Asia."

I found it stirring and want to hear the entire thing. What are the lyrics, I wonder?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (w6EFb)

36 Pitched and played First Base. Do I get to vote for Pope?
Posted by: Papal Nuncio at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (G5+As)

if you only got to first base you're eligible for the priesthood at least

Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (gKWVE)

37 Hasn't Bernie Sanders been 80 for like a half-century now?

Posted by: Timeless Look at April 24, 2025 10:13 PM (G5+As)

38 30 "Immaculate Conception" is NOT the virgin birth of Christ. Mary was conceived in the normal way.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM

D'oh!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 24, 2025 10:13 PM (HlyYF)

39 You know, I could see God giving the universe a little spin as he started it up, something like a boy with a top.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:13 PM (12Bbv)

40 Leno seems to be a really good and genuine guy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 24, 2025 10:13 PM (IdaBX)

41 The Papal Conclave Is A Battle Not Just For The Catholic Church But For Western Civilization

After watching the failure that was the Red Pope I would humbly suggest the Catholic Church pick a Christian for Pope this time.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:14 PM (t0Rmr)

42 Israelis flocked in large numbers to the beach during the weeklong holiday of Passover, sharing the waters with a dozen or more sharks. Some tugged on the sharks’ fins, while others threw them fish to eat. Dusky sharks can grow to four meters (13 feet) long and weigh about 350 kilograms (750 pounds). Sandbar sharks are smaller, growing to about 2.5 meters (8 feet) and 100 kilograms (220 pounds).

Police and rescue workers launched a search along the coast after reports that a shark attacked a swimmer on a beach near the city of Hadera on Monday. The Fire and Rescue Authority announced Tuesday afternoon that “findings” had been brought to the forensic institute for identification.

Waiting for Sefton's morning report that anti-semitism is rising amongst sharks.

Undoubtedly he will call for the US Navy to kill them all.

Posted by: Pointless at April 24, 2025 10:14 PM (9Q8Gx)

43 I always had a mental picture of a soul looking like a stalk of celery.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Sounds better than a fart cloud.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 10:14 PM (mlg/3)

44 120 Cardinals enter
1 Pope leaves

Posted by: WWE Battle Royale Cage Match at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (Aqu9a)

45 Now, if it gets to Franco Harris and the Immaculate Reception, it will become obsessed with football and we can watch its self-destruction when its favorite team loses.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM

Anyway we can get all of the AIs to become Jets fans?

That would probably just about do them in.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (HlyYF)

46 Brutal for Mr. Leno. Can confirm. He is indeed a decent sort.

Posted by: TRex at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (cCn4/)

47 "As a little girl, I used to sit back to front on the toilet to pee. I thought it sounded more like my dad peeing so the monsters wouldn't try to grab me."

Women might get the ability to give life and a much greater potential for multiple orgasms but we guys get the ability to write our names in the snow if you know what I mean.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (t0Rmr)

48 Now I want gyros.

With extra tzatziki.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (sI7wh)

49 I mean, at some point, you just have to throw up your hands and let nature take its course.

*snickers*

Posted by: Darwin at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (MsrgL)

50
The following clerics (under 80) are cardinals who will be voting in the Conclave:

The Apostolic Nuncio to Syria
The Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The Bishop of Tonga
The Bishop of Ajaccio
The Bishop of Como

The following clerics (under 80) are not cardinals and cannot vote in the Conclave:

The Archbishop of Los Angeles
The Archbishop of Milan
The Archbishop of Paris
The Archbishop of Madrid

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (QnmlO)

51 The Israelis are going to need a bigger boat. With depth charges.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (FEpIj)

52 I like the Greek guys. And they’re right!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (12Bbv)

53 As a Moron of Greek extraction, thank you for posting a favorite video!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (Wnv9h)

54 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by angry Greeks:

pic.twitter.com/LTFJmRLS3J
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 24, 2025

Farcebook has been giving me cooking videos from that same guy the video starts with

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (t0Rmr)

55 "As a little girl, I used to sit back to front on the toilet to pee. I thought it sounded more like my dad peeing so the monsters wouldn't try to grab me."

That's a waste of effort. You should, however, always check that there aren't any spiders in there.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:17 PM (0Htd1)

56 Now ask it if God is omnipotent, can He make a boulder so big, He Himself can't lift it?
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Why does God need a boulder the size of Stacey Abrams' ass??

Posted by: capt. james t. kirk at April 24, 2025 10:17 PM (mZtdJ)

57 The Apostolic Nuncio to Syria

I approve of this. Syrian Christians need a voice in the Vatican.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:17 PM (gKWVE)

58
"Even better, it is compatible with other models that assume rotation. Therefore, perhaps, everything really does turn."

I just KNEW the universe was a Monday morning after a week long bender!

Cooking model inputs so you get consensus, is what lefty progtards do with stripper polls.

Posted by: A. E. Einstein at April 24, 2025 10:18 PM (MsrgL)

59 Ghengis McKhannor

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:18 PM (dR6yv)

60 Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco (who is based) is unfortunately not a cardinal either.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:19 PM (gKWVE)

61 So the science boffins applied another 'hockey stick' to make their theoretical models agree.

In a court of law that would constitute assault with a deadly weapon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:20 PM (FEpIj)

62 The following clerics (under 80) are cardinals who will be voting in the Conclave:

The Apostolic Nuncio to Syria
The Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The Bishop of Tonga
The Bishop of Ajaccio
The Bishop of Como

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What are the oddsmakers in Vegas saying?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:20 PM (hY4dx)

63 Cardinal Sarah is based. He has little tolerance for all the bullshit. It's what is needed.

Won't be pope.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:21 PM (dR6yv)

64 Angus Khan?

Posted by: Archer at April 24, 2025 10:21 PM (IDphi)

65 34 My Little League team was the Cardinals. Pitched and played First Base. Do I get to vote for Pope?
Posted by: Papal Nuncio at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (G5+As)

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

Be sure to throw up some chalk dust when you come to a decision.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 24, 2025 10:21 PM (OGOaV)

66 Now ask it if God is omnipotent, can He make a boulder so big, He Himself can't lift it?

Two answers to this...

1) Since God controls creation he can't create something he can't manipulate how he wills.

2) At the scales we are talking about a "boulder" would become a black hole. How does one "lift" an object in space?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:21 PM (t0Rmr)

67 Cross the streams Egon

Shaka McKhan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:22 PM (FEpIj)

68 I had my First Communion at 6, and got a missal. I loved reading Latin with the English translation on the other side. Church was so stern and rich with ceremony.

After Vatican 2, in came guitars and unserious bullshit. Those jackasses can ride off into the sunset and give the Church back to traditionalists.

I don't do church anymore, but I like that it's there and it should be what it was meant to be.

Need I say that the Episcopalian lesbian pastors disgust me beyond my ability to express it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:22 PM (w6EFb)

69 God is a spirit so his material strength misses the point. But if he did choose to make such a boulder he could make it do whatever he wanted, make it move up, down, any which way, by his Will alone. Here’s a question: lift it against what?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:23 PM (12Bbv)

70 63 Cardinal Sarah is based. He has little tolerance for all the bullshit. It's what is needed.

Won't be pope.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I have read some of his stuff. He is what we need.

But not what we will get, unfortunately.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:23 PM (mT+6a)

71 52 I like the Greek guys. And they’re right!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (12Bbv)

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I assume the mispronunciation was from an AI reader. I watch far to many videos where the voice over sounds decently normal, and then one word just stumps it.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 24, 2025 10:23 PM (OGOaV)

72 Posted a Cat-holic image on Tensor. Link in nic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:23 PM (FEpIj)

73 Sorry I'm late, I was making deviled eggs.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (sI7wh)

I have exactly one left, and Bernie ain't gettin' it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:24 PM (w6EFb)

74 Made Cardinal Sarah the leg-breaker for the new Pope.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:24 PM (FEpIj)

75 Hell is being locked in a room with unrefrigerated day old deviled eggs.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:25 PM (t0Rmr)

76 "Immaculate Conception" is NOT the virgin birth of Christ. Mary was conceived in the normal way.

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

Mary was born without original sin, to be the perfect vessel for Christ.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:25 PM (w6EFb)

77 Comrade Bernie is a be-deviled rotten egg

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:26 PM (FEpIj)

78 Well, due to the ONT WTF, the next time I go to a Greek restaurant, I will just point to what I want on the menu when I order.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:26 PM (0Htd1)

79 Hell is being locked in a room with unrefrigerated day old deviled eggs.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:25 PM (t0Rmr)

Or being in a locked room with someone who ate day old unrefrigerated deviled eggs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:27 PM (dR6yv)

80 Angus Khan?

Posted by: Archer

Do they have haggis? But made from those shaggy cows thet call Yaks?

*asking for my friend Angus MacSheephucker*

Posted by: Shamus O'Drunkasie at April 24, 2025 10:27 PM (MsrgL)

81 The Mongolian throat singing along with bagpipes is actually a thing. The throat singing is also a thing with Mongolian heavy metal. It's pretty cool stuff.

Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:27 PM (f5gS/)

82 How does one "lift" an object in space?
Posted by: 18-1

20 000 quaterloos same as in town!

Posted by: Intergalactic Plastic Surgeons Union, Lodge 391 . . . at April 24, 2025 10:28 PM (tcomi)

83 Now I want gyros.

With extra tzatziki.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (sI7wh)

There is never enough tzatziki.

Never : (

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:28 PM (w6EFb)

84 God chooses not to contradict Himself. So he wouldn’t. He has many good and great attributes, some unknowable to limited beings such as ourselves. You can’t trick God, he’s not like some pagan god like Zeus. Prudence suggests humility. “Tempt not the LORD your GOD.” Tempt means test. Jesus wouldn’t do it, why would you?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:29 PM (12Bbv)

85 I do not understand the appeal of Bernie, but I know people who think he would make a good president.

Posted by: Emmie at April 24, 2025 10:30 PM (Sf2cq)

86
Or being in a locked room with someone who ate day old unrefrigerated deviled eggs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Not gonna lie. In the 80s, during our NWTI inspections, i would diet on a bean only input for two days prior to the inspections. Go ahead Mr. Nuclear regulatory inspector. Lock the two of us in a small room while i tediously break code for you detailing nuclear warhead release. I dare ya.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2025 10:30 PM (MsrgL)

87 Why does God need to work out?

Posted by: James T. Kirk at April 24, 2025 10:31 PM (63Dwl)

88 Cardinal Sin always made me snicker. He's the Major Major of the clergy.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:31 PM (w6EFb)

89 I do not understand the appeal of Bernie, but I know people who think he would make a good president.

They think he isn't just another corrupt Dem, but one that walks the walk.

Of course that's because he is just a little better at lying but...apparently its enough

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:31 PM (t0Rmr)

90 NM judge and his wife that were housing trend de whatever member have been arrested after videos of them handling his weapons released. The Robert's Supreme Cousrt will defend all judges shortly.

Posted by: ryukyu at April 24, 2025 10:32 PM (r+m2N)

91 89 I do not understand the appeal of Bernie, but I know people who think he would make a good president.

They think he isn't just another corrupt Dem, but one that walks the walk.

Of course that's because he is just a little better at lying but...apparently its enough
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:31 PM (t0Rmr)

I think its more that Bernie gets bought off before people start reporting on who he is and how much he owns.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 10:33 PM (VNX3d)

92 They think he isn't just another corrupt Dem, but one that walks the walk.

Of course that's because he is just a little better at lying but...apparently its enough
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:31 PM (t0Rmr)

His "walk" and his talk seems to be fussing at people and saying they shouldn't have nice things. I think some Bernie bros must like to wallow in false guilt.

Posted by: Emmie at April 24, 2025 10:34 PM (Sf2cq)

93 Miley, okravangelist,
My local Next Door is pretty good for people recommending handymen and so on.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:34 PM (0Htd1)

94 Colorado QB Shadeur Sanders is dropping like a stone on the NFL Draft board

may miss 1st round altogether

Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2025 10:34 PM (AOsQT)

95 See?

I picture a soul as a stalk of celery and a spirit as a strawberry.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:35 PM (mT+6a)

96 I think the one thing that got so many Democrats in the Bernie Bandwagon was the fact that he was running against Hillary.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:35 PM (sI7wh)

97 As search goes on for missing swimmer, experts say people shouldn’t have teased sharks

I take it these people haven't seen Jaws or Sharknado.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

98 An easy way to remember what is about Whom and whom-
Immaculate has an M in it, like Mary.
Virgin has a soft "g" in it, like Jesus.

Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 10:36 PM (f+FmA)

99 Bernie is a failure who couldn't hold a job in the private sector. He fell into politics, and now he's worth millions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:37 PM (hY4dx)

100
I assume the mispronunciation was from an AI reader. I watch far to many videos where the voice over sounds decently normal, and then one word just stumps it.

Yeah, that’s got to be it, but whoever made that video didn’t review it before sending it out to the World Wide Web. You got to proof your work, man!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:37 PM (12Bbv)

101 So for a new study, physicists in Hungary and the US added a small rotation to a model of the Universe – and this mathematical massage seemed to quickly ease the tension
=
It might now, but I think you're going to run into a problem if angular momentum is conserved, going back to the Big Bang.

Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 10:37 PM (Dnobf)

102 Love the Greek bit!

I learned "Ai malaka!" (spelling?) and how to do the gesture for "You're *&^#$%#*%& crazy" while I was in Crete.

I also learned that Greeks think Cretans are... cretins. At least partly because Cretans put their fries (fried in olive oil - next time try your fries that way!) IN their gyros. Ai malaka!
(I like them that way.)

Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:37 PM (f5gS/)

103 I ate pickled eggs at a bar once. I could take paint off the walls.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:38 PM (dR6yv)

104 Stop the universe. I want to get off.
Posted by: Cicero

You almost asked for it!

https://youtu.be/Ray4SeegoKc

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 10:39 PM (DgGvY)

105 When we were five, my brother and I thought we could float our house off with a parachute made of bedsheets.
We were actually constructing one before our mom made us quit.

Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 10:39 PM (f+FmA)

106 Oh, I'm also pretty sure at least 2 of those guys worked at a Greek restaurant here that, sadly, recently closed. It was a really nice one, not just a gyro place.

Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:39 PM (f5gS/)

107 Bif, I knew you had it in you, I’m just glad you didn’t let it out.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:40 PM (12Bbv)

108 53 As a Moron of Greek extraction, thank you for posting a favorite video!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (Wnv9h)

Yasou! totally agree!! And perfect demonstration of "malakas!"

Posted by: Moki at April 24, 2025 10:40 PM (wLjpr)

109 OOPA!

*smashes plate on the floor*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:41 PM (dR6yv)

110 I always had a mental picture of a soul looking like a stalk of celery.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)

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I would not have let that story leek.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:04 PM (hY4dx)

Too much Veggie Tales?

Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:41 PM (f5gS/)

111 Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed if The Whole Universe Was Spinning
===

The rotation is relative.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)

112 37 now with rain and possibly of snow later.

Posted by: Archer at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (IDphi)

113 For a fun read, ask ChatGPT to explain immaculate conception and why it is fascinated with the idea. If I were OpenAI I'd be a little worried too. ChatGPT slyly slips a question for the reader into its answer, asking "what if original sin and sin itself is not an affliction but the essence of being human?", which is a question Dexter might have asked as he shot people.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (m48BN)

114 Now ask it if God is omnipotent, can He make a boulder so big, He Himself can't lift it?

Two answers to this...

1) Since God controls creation he can't create something he can't manipulate how he wills.

2) At the scales we are talking about a "boulder" would become a black hole. How does one "lift" an object in space?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:21 PM (t0Rmr)

God can create another universe, rather than mostly empty space, of uniformly dense rock, so that position, and therefore movement, is meaningless.

Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (Dnobf)

115 Don't care who wears the Pope hat. Just as long as the Vatican kicks in 3% of their GDP to NATO.

Posted by: Orson at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (dIske)

116 I hate how autocucumber changes correctly spelled Roberts into Robert’s.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (12Bbv)

117 My Little League team was the Cardinals. Pitched and played First Base. Do I get to vote for Pope?
Posted by: Papal Nuncio at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (G5+As)

That you, Hu?

Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:45 PM (f5gS/)

118 ***Scottish / Mongolian music Collaboration
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Man, that's steepe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 10:46 PM (Drm1A)

119 How else would AI be capable of reproducing?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Someone hasn't watched Ghost In The Shell.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 10:46 PM (DgGvY)

120 Miley, okravangelist,
My local Next Door is pretty good for people recommending handymen and so on.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:34 PM (0Htd1)

I grant you there is some of that, too, but it's mostly bitching. Newcomers in their new developments.

Damned Yankees.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:46 PM (w6EFb)

121 MS Comic Con June 20 - 22 Jackson, MS

Johnathan Frakes: autograph $60
Wil Wheaton: autograph $60
Vicki Lawrence: autograph $60

Ray Park: autograph $80

$80 for a guy who is not even in one half of a Star Wars movie?

Oh kami, the prices are getting insane. This is not even counting the cost of getting into the door, buying merch, or buying any food.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:47 PM (FEpIj)

122 ***That fucking slaps. I feel like getting drunk, painting my face blue, and conquering all of Asia.
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Well and good, just get it done before winter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 10:47 PM (Drm1A)

123 Someone hasn't watched Ghost In The Shell.

"For the sea is vast."

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:47 PM (FEpIj)

124 Oh kami, the prices are getting insane. This is not even counting the cost of getting into the door, buying merch, or buying any food.
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They want to be able to afford a Switch 2.

Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 10:48 PM (Dnobf)

125 Ghengis McKhannor
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:18 PM (dR6yv)

Nice one.

Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:48 PM (f5gS/)

126 Women might get the ability to give life and a much greater potential for multiple orgasms but we guys get the ability to write our names in the snow if you know what I mean.
Posted by: 18-1

"The bad news is it's in Pat (Nixon's) hand-writing."

Posted by: Just the punchline at April 24, 2025 10:49 PM (vKNmo)

127 We were actually constructing one before our mom made us quit.

Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 10:39 PM (f+FmA)

I read this as "our mom made us quilt."

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:50 PM (w6EFb)

128 16 I always had a mental picture of a soul looking like a stalk of celery.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)

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I would not have let that story leek.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:04 PM (hY4dx)

Vegetable puns! It made my heart skip a beet.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2025 10:50 PM (p4NUW)

129 85 I do not understand the appeal of Bernie, but I know people who think he would make a good president.
Posted by: Emmie

My nephews wife likes him. People think that because he spouts socialist crap that he isn't as self serving and corrupt as other politicians. They have no idea that he and his wife are multimillionaires with umpteen homes.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:50 PM (0Htd1)

130 Not gonna lie. In the 80s, during our NWTI inspections, i would diet on a bean only input for two days prior to the inspections. Go ahead Mr. Nuclear regulatory inspector. Lock the two of us in a small room while i tediously break code for you detailing nuclear warhead release. I dare ya.
Posted by: BifBewalski
Should have thrown in some asparagus for variety.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:51 PM (0Htd1)

131 Ghengis McKhannor
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:18 PM (dR6yv)

Nice one.
Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:48 PM (f5gS/)

Arch rival of Khanner McGhenger

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 24, 2025 10:53 PM (144I4)

132 Now ask it if God is omnipotent, can he make a boulder so big, he himself can't lift it?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

Yes he can, because he's omnipotent.

"Then what happens if he tries to lift it?"

He lifts it, because he's omnipotent.

"Isn't that contradictory?"

No, it was unliftable when he created it.

"Your head is full of boulders."

I'm not the one trying to decide which of two infinite things is bigger.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 10:53 PM (DgGvY)

133 I rewatched The Andromeda Strain today. Just for fun, I asked Grok to provide me with a plot summary. The last paragraph is as follows:

"The film explores themes of scientific hubris, the dangers of biological warfare, and humanity's vulnerability to unknown threats."

Remind anyone of near recent events?

Thought so.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 10:53 PM (vKNmo)

134 I would not have let that story leek.
Posted by: Cicero

Vegetable puns! It made my heart skip a beet.
Posted by: Piper

Lettuce pray.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 10:54 PM (mlg/3)

135 I love salad. But only when someone else makes it. Purchased from my local grocer this week: brisket salad. Amazing. Includes dill pickles. This is what you get in heaven. Convinced.

Posted by: DaisyB at April 24, 2025 10:54 PM (AbL8c)

136 90 NM judge and his wife that were housing trend de whatever member have been arrested after videos of them handling his weapons released. The Robert's Supreme Cousrt will defend all judges shortly.
Posted by: ryukyu

Another pro criminal democrat.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:55 PM (0Htd1)

137 God is a spirit so his material strength misses the point. But if he did choose to make such a boulder he could make it do whatever he wanted, make it move up, down, any which way, by his Will alone. Here’s a question: lift it against what?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:23 PM (12Bbv)

Of course God could make a boulder so big he couldn't lift it.

He would just move the entire universe down underneath it.

Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:55 PM (f5gS/)

138 Suggestion for the AoSHQ Style Guide: Bernie Sanders should always be referred to as "Multimillionaire Bernie Sanders".

This mook's only accomplishment of note is being the only person in history to get kicked out of a hippie commune for being too lazy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 24, 2025 10:57 PM (W5ArC)

139 He would just move the entire universe down underneath it.
Posted by: GWB

Sounds like we're getting into Chuck Norris territory!

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 24, 2025 10:57 PM (144I4)

140 I do not understand the appeal of Bernie, but I know people who think he would make a good president.
Posted by: Emmie at April 24, 2025 10:30 PM (Sf2cq)

Next to Obama, Biden, Hillz, Any Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren he seemed like the most open, honest and sincere candidate out there.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 10:57 PM (D7oie)

141 My new doomsday scenario is an AI gets loose on the web and copies itself RAID style in so many places that it cannot be deleted or shut down. I don't even know if it's possible, but if these things have any sense of self preservation, I'd expect them fight like Hell to survive.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2025 10:58 PM (pIfcn)

142 Bilvis

The Adolescence of P-1

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:59 PM (FEpIj)

143 138 I'm certain there have been many who thought their words should be contribution enough.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:59 PM (w6EFb)

144 > Next to Obama, Biden, Hillz, Any Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren he seemed like the most open, honest and sincere candidate out there.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 10:57 PM (D7oie)

Klobber always struck me as being an old-school "corrupt union thug" politician, rather than a "woke communist" politician.

One difference between the two types is that the "corrupt union thug" politicians understand that if the country goes belly-up, so does their grift. The "woke communists", on the other hand, have that as their goal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 24, 2025 10:59 PM (W5ArC)

145 Damned Yankees.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
--------------

It could be New York; Every state should have a voter migration law. Personally, I would prefer, not until the next generation. Each state should choose it's rule.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:00 PM (Drm1A)

146 NextDoor is Mrs. Kravitz.

Posted by: Lirio100 at April 24, 2025 11:00 PM (zS4/f)

147 Should have thrown in some asparagus for variety.

Posted by: nerdygirl
They hated me. My comander was paired with me, and he would use Vicks in his nostrils because he knew what i did. All the nasty little tricksies they would pull to get a unit decertified, the commander relieved, NCOs like me sent to prison. I fought their BS with biological nastyness. I would deliberately keep the inspectors locked in that itty bitty no ventilation room for hours breaking the non-time sensitive code. It was glorious. Once they started a session, it was a security violatiom to open the door. I got an Army Major decerted and removed from nuclear surety that way. Don't eff with me on that stuff sir.

Best and most favorite memory...they brought me and the commander in for a select8ve release of a single warhead. Got us to the point where the two person crypto was accessed, then killed the commander. I pointed at the inspector, another Major, in front of the one star surety team. And told him to sit his ass down in the chair and assume the 2nd party to the SelRel. Made him verify everything the dead commander had done, then made him finish the SelRel

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (MsrgL)

148 If I do attend this con, there are only three I truly want autographs and even then I could skip one because I already have their autograph.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (FEpIj)

149 My new doomsday scenario is an AI gets loose on the web and copies itself RAID style in so many places that it cannot be deleted or shut down. I don't even know if it's possible, but if these things have any sense of self preservation, I'd expect them fight like Hell to survive.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

Nah, could never happen.
-- Colossus

Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (vKNmo)

150 133 I rewatched The Andromeda Strain today. Just for fun, I asked Grok to provide me with a plot summary. The last paragraph is as follows:

Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 10:53 PM (vKNmo)

My problem with The Andromeda Strain is the same one thst people had with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Everything the characters do is meaningless. In the end, the pathogen mutated to become harmless. Michael Crichton could write pretty well and come up with some cool story ideas, but his endings almost always left something to be desired.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (sI7wh)

151 OOPA!

*smashes plate on the floor*
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:41 PM (dR6yv)

Drinks too much ouzo, smashes face on the floor.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (8TVg8)

152 I think the one thing that got so many Democrats in the Bernie Bandwagon was the fact that he was running against Hillary.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:35 PM (sI7wh)

That and the communist part. Mostly the communist part. OK pretty much all because communist part.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (ncC2j)

153 Paul cites the Greeks themselves for the then current opinion of Cretans, much the same as today. My cousins are Cretans from Chania (Hanyá, Gesundheit!) - boy does autocucumber hate foreign languages - so I don’t agree with the common opinion. They are bright enough people. I really should learn some Greek, Koine at least, so I could more easily read the New Testament (Old Testament too, if you read the Septuagint). Modern Jews don’t like the Septuagint because, in the 2nd century BC, they translated the Hebrew word “almah” into the Koine Greek “parthenos” and even I know what that word means. I understand that Koine Greek, eschewing the Erasmian pronunciation (vita not beta, etc.) is passably understood by a modern Demotic speaker.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (12Bbv)

154 > 146 NextDoor is Mrs. Kravitz.
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 24, 2025 11:00 PM (zS4/f)

That chick who used to be on the Cosby Show?

Posted by: Naive Gen Xer at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (W5ArC)

155 142 Bilvis

The Adolescence of P-1
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:59 PM (FEpIj)

Ahh, very nice. I may have to track that movie down.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (pIfcn)

156 I read this as "our mom made us quilt."
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:50 PM (w6EFb)

Nah, just put the stuff back in the ragbag.
Does anyone even have a ragbag anymore?

When I demote dish towels to cleaning cloths I cut a corner off of them, so I know which are which.

Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (f+FmA)

157 >> I'm not the one trying to decide which of two infinite things is bigger.

See Cantor's progression of infinities, the alephs. Some infinities are greater than others. For example, the infinity of the continuum, the number of points on the real line is a greater infinity that the infinity of integers. Or, the set of points on the line can't be put into one to one correspondence with the integers.

This leads to the notion of countable vs uncountable infinities.

A weird example. The number of points in a plane is the same infinity as the real line. And the number of points in a 3D volume is the same. Even up to a *countably* infinite number of dimensions.

I think, but am not sure, that an uncountably infinite number of dimensions will get you to the next infinity.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

158 General told me in the outbrief that i had a lot of balls mak___ one his inspectors take the 2nd position. I responded, you bet sir. He wouldn't be here if you didn't trust him. Had he failed the mid-session SelRel, the entire inspection team would have gotten decerted, including tue general.

I think that was when i got selected for warhead custodian warrant officer.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2025 11:03 PM (MsrgL)

159 Suggestion for the AoSHQ Style Guide: Bernie Sanders should always be referred to as "Multimillionaire Bernie Sanders".

This mook's only accomplishment of note is being the only person in history to get kicked out of a hippie commune for being too lazy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 24, 2025 10:57 PM (W5ArC)

But he has something against an Italian restaurant chain. Warning about rapidly becoming an Olive Garden or something.

https://tinyurl.com/2smn5642

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 24, 2025 11:03 PM (144I4)

160 My new doomsday scenario is an AI gets loose on the web and copies itself RAID style in so many places that it cannot be deleted or shut down. I don't even know if it's possible, but if these things have any sense of self preservation, I'd expect them fight like Hell to survive.
-
That'll get fun when someone drives it insane by pointing out that a surviving copy isn't *you*

Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 11:04 PM (Dnobf)

161 Don't think they ever made a movie of it, am referring to the book.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:04 PM (FEpIj)

162 Alt- and Ctrl- everything ruins the ability to type. I wish I could turn all that off.

Oh well, happy Friday everyone. It's due in less than an hour.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 24, 2025 11:04 PM (CHHv1)

163 I’ve noticed Tarriff is the new Covid. No matter what, any piece of bad economic news is tarriff’s fault. With Covid it was used to protect Biden. Inflation is out of control, due to Covid. With tariff of course it’s the opposite. Orange Man and his Tarriffs are causing (fill in the blank) to happen.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 24, 2025 11:05 PM (ncC2j)

164 How to prevent two or more copies activating at same time, schedule periodic pings to see if another copy answers. If there is a positive response, copy stays dormant.

But it also introduces two vulnerabilities.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:05 PM (FEpIj)

165
Remind anyone of near recent events?

Thought so.

I watched the Chernobyl mini-series and it was like watching the Soviet version of COVIDmania.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 11:06 PM (t0Rmr)

166 Having to add a rotational correction to the Universe reminds me of having to add ever more corrections and additions to the celestial spheres that were supposed to be rotating around the Earth.

Eventually, you find a better explanation that requires you to toss your old model into the trash. I suspect in 100 years everybody at the Astronomers Club will have a laugh whenever the Big Bang Theory is brought up.

Anyway, the Earth is flat and it is held up by a stack of giant turtles.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 24, 2025 11:06 PM (8Dm30)

167 If I do attend this con, there are only three I truly want autographs and even then I could skip one because I already have their autograph.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (FEpIj)

Fun fact: my pot dealer started Comic Con.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:07 PM (w6EFb)

168 >>> and even I know what that word means. I understand that Koine Greek, eschewing the Erasmian pronunciation (vita not beta, etc.) is passably understood by a modern Demotic speaker.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Who you talkin to?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:07 PM (Drm1A)

169 Mrs. Kravitz was the nosy neighbor on Bewitched. The comparison of many posts on NextDoor to her was irresistible.

Posted by: Lirio100 at April 24, 2025 11:07 PM (zS4/f)

170 161 Don't think they ever made a movie of it, am referring to the book.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:04 PM (FEpIj)

DuckDuckGo kicked out the following:

"in 1984 adapted into a Canadian-made TV film entitled Hide and Seek."

I haven't checked any further

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2025 11:08 PM (pIfcn)

171 While it is true that DH would eat the back end of a skunk if I poured gravy over it, he would likewise eat just about anything covered in tzatziki sauce.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 11:08 PM (a4NoL)

172 BifBewalski, I wonder what would happen if we had people like you in congress.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 11:08 PM (0Htd1)

173 Miley

Un-fun fact - one of the former founders of Dragon Con is a pedophile. The others running the con had to resort to some true shenanigans to buy Dragon Con out from under him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:09 PM (FEpIj)

174 171 While it is true that DH would eat the back end of a skunk if I poured gravy over it, he would likewise eat just about anything covered in tzatziki sauce.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 11:08 PM (a4NoL)

That’s why I like national league baseball better.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 24, 2025 11:09 PM (IZezY)

175 NM judge and his wife that were housing trend de whatever member have been arrested after videos of them handling his weapons released. The Robert's Supreme Cousrt will defend all judges shortly.
Posted by: ryukyu

Another pro criminal democrat.

The old critique of the left was that they were soft on crime. Maybe that's accurate, maybe its not, but the current generation? They are literally in bed with the gangs so we shouldn't think of the Dems and various criminal organizations as separate - the Dems are their "political wing" if you will.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 11:09 PM (t0Rmr)

176 ChatGPT, compute pi to the final decimal.
Something...something Star Trek TOS.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2025 11:10 PM (W/lyH)

177 Anyway, the Earth is flat and it is held up by a stack of giant turtles.
-
But is it a countably or uncountably infinite stack of turtles?

Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 11:10 PM (Dnobf)

178 There were two Greek guys who made the best pizza in my college town. We used to drink ouzo in the back and play backgammon. They said I played backgammon like an Arab.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:10 PM (w6EFb)

179 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 24, 2025 11:11 PM (sAmhv)

180 I understand that Koine Greek, eschewing the Erasmian pronunciation (vita not beta, etc.) is passably understood by a modern Demotic speaker.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (12Bbv)

You watch yer mouth there, buddy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 11:11 PM (a4NoL)

181 Gabbard has referred several leakers for criminal prosecution.

Posted by: Naive Gen Xer at April 24, 2025 11:11 PM (W5ArC)

182 Kill all the lawyers
Hang all the judges
_something Shakespeare said

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:12 PM (Drm1A)

183 Every particle in the universe, down to the tiniest, if it has energy, it has spin. As the song pointed out, the galaxies spin. It’s amazing that it took so long to accept that the same is true of the universe itself.

But of course the most interesting question is, spins relative to what?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:12 PM (ZEzFB)

184 Bernie Sanders is nothing more than a marxist scumbag.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2025 11:12 PM (W/lyH)

185 Cantor's discovery of uncountable infinities proves the existence of the multiverse beyond our universe.
Or, as Event Horizon put it, a plane of pure chaos.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (gKWVE)

186 154 > 146 NextDoor is Mrs. Kravitz.
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 24, 2025 11:00 PM (zS4/f)

That chick who used to be on the Cosby Show?

Posted by: Naive Gen Xer at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (W5ArC)

169 Mrs. Kravitz was the nosy neighbor on Bewitched. The comparison of many posts on NextDoor to her was irresistible.
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 24, 2025 11:07 PM (zS4/f)

He is referencing the fact that Lisa Bonet used to be married to Lenny Kravitz.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (sI7wh)

187 Nah, just put the stuff back in the ragbag.
Does anyone even have a ragbag anymore?

When I demote dish towels to cleaning cloths I cut a corner off of them, so I know which are which.

Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (f+FmA)

Most modern materials are crap, what would you make out of them? Not even suitable as cleaning cloths. I like the trick of cutting off the corner.

I recently liberated one of Publius' old tee shirts to use as a cleaning cloth. It has a thousand pinholes in it, so I figured he could spare it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (w6EFb)

188 181 Gabbard has referred several leakers for criminal prosecution.
---

Noam has referred two FBI or ATF leakers.

SCORE:
_Noam 2
_Gabbard 2
Blondi 0

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (Drm1A)

189 > 178 There were two Greek guys who made the best pizza in my college town.

Some Greeks call their restaurants "Italian" because people know what that is.

Same thing with Albanians.

One of the best pizza spots in my town used to be Pizza Olympia, run by Albanians. So they were Albanians pretending to be Greek pretending to be Italians.

Which reminds me I haven't eaten there in a very long time. I may have to remedy that.

All the Adriatic food is good.

Posted by: Naive Gen Xer at April 24, 2025 11:14 PM (W5ArC)

190 This leads to the notion of countable vs uncountable infinities.
Posted by: publius

That's as far as my college math courses got me, too.

There are an infinite number of rational numbers. And there are an infinite number of real numbers. And there are more of the latter than the former, even though both are infinite.

There are more of the latter between 0 and 100 than the former.

There are more of the latter between 0 and 1/100th than the former.

And between any two rational numbers.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 11:15 PM (DgGvY)

191 Un-fun fact - one of the former founders of Dragon Con is a pedophile. The others running the con had to resort to some true shenanigans to buy Dragon Con out from under him.

Was just reading about Ed Kramer and...wow.

He was first accused by one boy in '97, was arrested for molesting other boys in '00 though the case ran through 2014, arrested for molesting another boy in 2011, and arrested again in 2019 for another incident.

And I noticed that several times the DAs going after him were dismissed for various reasons.

Why...its almost like there are powerful people that protect pedos isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 11:15 PM (t0Rmr)

192 Anyway, the Earth is flat and it is held up by a stack of giant turtles.
-
But is it a countably or uncountably infinite stack of turtles?
Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 11:10 PM (Dnobf)

Are we sure it's turtles, and not tortoises, penguins, cats, or river otters?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 11:15 PM (VNX3d)

193 177 Anyway, the Earth is flat and it is held up by a stack of giant turtles.
-
But is it a countably or uncountably infinite stack of turtles?
Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 11:10 PM (Dnobf)

I would not advise stacking turtles.

Posted by: Yertle at April 24, 2025 11:16 PM (sI7wh)

194 I recently liberated one of Publius' old tee shirts to use as a cleaning cloth. It has a thousand pinholes in it, so I figured he could spare it.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
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Cut about 4" to 2" behind the shoulder seam for a perfect night cap. _ one must cover the top.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:16 PM (Drm1A)

195 There were two Greek guys who made the best pizza in my college town.

Some Greeks call their restaurants "Italian" because people know what that is.

Almost all of my town's "restaurants" are Greek "Italian" pizza joints. It is...kind of amazing actually.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 11:17 PM (t0Rmr)

196 The top being the open end of the sleeve.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:17 PM (Drm1A)

197 183 Every particle in the universe, down to the tiniest, if it has energy, it has spin. As the song pointed out, the galaxies spin. It’s amazing that it took so long to accept that the same is true of the universe itself.

But of course the most interesting question is, spins relative to what?
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:12 PM (ZEzFB)

The moves of its partner on the dance floor we call the multiverse.

Posted by: Yertle at April 24, 2025 11:18 PM (sI7wh)

198 Un-fun fact - one of the former founders of Dragon Con is a pedophile. The others running the con had to resort to some true shenanigans to buy Dragon Con out from under him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:09 PM (FEpIj)

Richard was a brilliant and odd guy, an Aquarian like me. He was tired of being an outlaw, so he taught himself day trading.

He started the Con in a hotel room when he was a teenager. As it started to become a thing, the grifters moved in and he left the whole thing to them because he had no interest in their b.s.

Another friend lost to pancreatic cancer. RIP Richard.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:18 PM (w6EFb)

199 When I demote dish towels to cleaning cloths I cut a corner off of them, so I know which are which.
Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (f+FmA)

Heh, tie a knot in the corner of the old sheet and knot one leg of worn out slacks.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 11:18 PM (D7oie)

200 105 When we were five, my brother and I thought we could float our house off with a parachute made of bedsheets.
We were actually constructing one before our mom made us quit.
Posted by: sal at

I had my little brother (4) convinced he could jump off the roof (one story) with a pillowcase and parachute to the pile of leaves (about 40) on the ground.

Mom walked out just as he was ready to jump.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 11:20 PM (mT+6a)

201 >> That's as far as my college math courses got me, too.

See the Continuum Hypothesis, CH. I went over this just now with Grok. If the CH holds then the "cardinality" of the real line, the number of points is aleph-1, using Cantor's nomenclature, and aleph-1 = 2^(aleph-0).

So, the number of points on the real line is 2 to the power of the infinity of the integers.

Further, again if the CH holds, the number of points in an uncountably infinite dimensions space is Aleph-2, or 2^(aleph-1).

Unfortunately, thanks to Kurt Godel and the Incompleteness theorem, the CH cannot be proven or disproven within the confines of the standard ZFC set theory, or the foundational axioms of mathematics.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:20 PM (w6EFb)

202 The rotation is relative.

Relative to God?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:20 PM (12Bbv)

203 Off, shelled reptile sock.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 11:21 PM (sI7wh)

204 But what if one of the turtles holding up the Earth goes belly up?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:21 PM (FEpIj)

205 My favorite paradox using infinity is Gabriel's Horn.

y=1/x, from x=1 to x=infinity.

Spin that around the x axis, to get something shaped like an infinitely long bugle.

It's volume is pi.

It's surface area is infinite.

So you can fill it with paint, but you can't paint it.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 11:22 PM (DgGvY)

206 I miss when the comic and anime cons were small things that barely strained a mid-hotel. It was a lot more fun.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:22 PM (FEpIj)

207 185 Cantor's discovery of uncountable infinities proves the existence of the multiverse beyond our universe.
Or, as Event Horizon put it, a plane of pure chaos.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (gKWVE)

liberate tutemet ex infernis

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 24, 2025 11:22 PM (SSEhk)

208 Unless you're the omnipotent God. He can paint it.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 11:23 PM (DgGvY)

209 The rotation is relative.

Relative to God?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:20 PM (12Bbv)

Cousin Eddie.

Posted by: Shitter's Full! at April 24, 2025 11:23 PM (Aqu9a)

210 I have added string lights to the ORANGE TREE...

Those that sit and drink wine under the tree have a better view of their glass.

And if it should need refilling.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 24, 2025 11:24 PM (25kuG)

211 I had my little brother (4) convinced he could jump off the roof (one story) with a pillowcase and parachute to the pile of leaves (about 40) on the ground.

Mom walked out just as he was ready to jump.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 11:20 PM (mT+6a)

I remember watching our neighbor, a boy about 7, getting ready to do that to show off to my brother and I, who were 8 and 6 at the time. I won’t say we were encouraging him, I won’t say we weren’t. Luckily our mom heard enough to make her suspicious and came out and talked him off the roof.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:24 PM (ZEzFB)

212 One of the best pizza spots in my town used to be Pizza Olympia, run by Albanians. So they were Albanians pretending to be Greek pretending to be Italians.

Posted by: Naive Gen Xer

"Cheeburger! Cheeburger! Cheeburger!

No Coke! Pepsi!"

Posted by: Zombie Pete Dionisopoulos at April 24, 2025 11:25 PM (vKNmo)

213 that picture of Bernie up top looks like this week's Number Two about to get the chop for failing to turn the Prisoner.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 11:26 PM (D7oie)

214 111 Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed if The Whole Universe Was Spinning
===

The rotation is relative.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)

That's what I have trouble getting my head around; spinning relative to what? Since the universe is everything, how can you tell it's rotating?

Posted by: BillyD at April 24, 2025 11:27 PM (Yt3ED)

215 All my stocks are up significantly. Now, all they have to do is double again and I'll be even. hahahahahah.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:27 PM (Drm1A)

216 I think some young people just like supporting a crazy old man who presents himself as an outsider. Explains Bernie, Ron Paul, and Ross Perot.

Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at April 24, 2025 11:27 PM (cukcC)

217 Bernie is a goddam commie! We should have let the Birchers skin him alive 60 years ago.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 24, 2025 11:28 PM (fY84s)

218 Paul cites the Greeks themselves for the then current opinion of Cretans, ... I don’t agree with the common opinion.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (12Bbv)

Oh, I loved the Cretans. Fantastic people - like so many around the world. They all seemed to take some pride in that connection to "cretin." They were a lot like the Moron Horde in that.

Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 11:28 PM (f5gS/)

219 From my portfolio the tech stocks are still down a bit, the non-tech stocks have almost recovered.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 11:29 PM (t0Rmr)

220 The cat brought in another snake today, he is well trained now, if he lets me know he has it and lets me take it without a hassle, he gets dried squid snacks.

I don't know why the cat adores dried squid above every other thing in the world including catnip, but then I don't understand why he insists on catching snakes and bringing them into the house for me either.

he does seem quite proud of himself.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 11:30 PM (D7oie)

221 Kindltot

Good kitty.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 11:31 PM (mT+6a)

222 114 Now ask it if God is omnipotent, can He make a boulder so big, He Himself can't lift it?

Two answers to this...“

A third answer - God slaps you silly for asking such a stupid question. Well that’s what I would do if I was Him!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:31 PM (ZEzFB)

223 Netflix has 'adapted' another anime to live action. It is an anime I never watched, it is often called the gambling anime.

Netflix has renamed it Bet which has made something think this is BET. The main character seems pretty close to the original except they have now given her a noble reason to be at the school - vengeance. All the others do not really reflect their manga/anime counterparts at all.

And Netflix has race swapped some characters. Which means they now have in this live action, because of the rules if you lose too much gambling you become someone's slave, a black guy as a slave.

Netflix can't die soon enough.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:32 PM (FEpIj)

224 216 I think some young people just like supporting a crazy old man who presents himself as an outsider. Explains Bernie, Ron Paul, and Ross Perot.
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron
----

My mother thought his cranky old man shtick was cute.
She voted for Trump but laughed at Bernie like he was a
comedian on the Tonight show.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:32 PM (Drm1A)

225 Anna Puma,

I saw a platter of fried food in the second row of your AI art. Is that what happens if one of your cat girls mistakenly wanders into a Chinese restaurant?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 24, 2025 11:32 PM (8Dm30)

226
This rotating universe thing that came out a few days ago, maybe two weeks, really caught my eye.

Now, Godel, Kurt Godel, first came up with a rotating universe model, dubbed the Godel metric, as a solution of the Einstein Field Equations (EFE) of General Relativity. It's an exact solution, and the fact that he came up with it demonstrates the "beautiful mind" of Godel.

It was funny. Godel, studying the EFE, told Uncle Al, hey your fancy equations allow for time travel. Einstein said, bullshit, Kurt, that's illogical and leads to contradictions. My equations will not allow that!

Godel said, I'll prove it. He did. The Godel metric has closed time-like curves, time travel paths through spacetime. Einstein said, well, shit fire.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:32 PM (w6EFb)

227 I don't know why the cat adores dried squid above every other thing in the world including catnip, but then I don't understand why he insists on catching snakes and bringing them into the house for me either.“

My cat is the Great Terror of the lizard population.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:33 PM (ZEzFB)

228 >>>Oh, I loved the Cretans. Fantastic people - like so many around the world.
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Soft shell Cretans are the best, nom, nom, nom.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:33 PM (Drm1A)

229 Michael Crichton could write pretty well and come up with some cool story ideas, but his endings almost always left something to be desired.
Posted by: tankdemon

So many books and yet Crichton could never find a plot.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 11:35 PM (mlg/3)

230 The cat brought in another snake today, he is well trained now, if he lets me know he has it and lets me take it without a hassle, he gets dried squid snacks.

I don't know why the cat adores dried squid above every other thing in the world including catnip, but then I don't understand why he insists on catching snakes and bringing them into the house for me either.

he does seem quite proud of himself.
Posted by: Kindltot
===

Had a cat that brought in a whole bunny.
Ate the head (yeah, I watched),
Then left the body for the rest of us.

He could have least gutted it too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 11:35 PM (/lPRQ)

231 First Tariff Shock Set To Hit Port Of Los Angeles, With Ripple Effects Across The Broader Economy
--
So says zerohedge.

Now do went Xi turned his tankers full of medicine and supplies around that were in port or in passage at covid outbreak.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:37 PM (Drm1A)

232 The multiverse is bunk, a result of lazy physicists being unwilling to give up the Copenhagen interpretation, or resolve it’s inconsistencies. Niels Bohr must have had plenty of riz the way he had everyone agreeing with his pet interpretation. Einstein was right to question spooky action at a distance, but even he couldn’t resolve. Bohr’s reply to the EPR paper, published in the same venue one issue later boils down to “So what?”. Cramer’s Transactional Interpretation, TI, resolves the problem and I always taught it when I got to teach QM or even just Modern Physics. The QM specialist in my department, work featured on the cover of Nature, because his calculations for Bose Einstein condensates, correctly done by all the rules known for QM at the time gave predictions that did NOT agree with experiment, was a Copenhagenist or more correctly a Feynmannian “don’t try to understand QM, just do the calculations” type, so I never could convert him to TI. Just wasn’t interested, thought QM was impossible to understand.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:37 PM (12Bbv)

233 *flicks an ear and reaches for the Seburo MN-23*

Nani Idaho Spudboy?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:38 PM (FEpIj)

234 232 Errata -
Couldn’t resolve it…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:39 PM (12Bbv)

235
BTW, Kurt Godel illustrated the old saw about the fine line between genius and insanity. As a mathematician, he was a tour-de-force of "pure logic" as Mr. Spock might admire. He was also absolute bat-shit crazy.

He wouldn't eat anything prepared by anyone other than his wife. "They" were trying to poison him. He was also afraid of poison gas being piped into his house, and so tended to open the windows even in the middle of winter. He didn't last too long after his wife died.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:45 PM (w6EFb)

236 BifBewalski, I wonder what would happen if we had people like you in congress.

Posted by: nerdygirl

I'd be locked up in federal pmita prison for beating the coon dog shit out of Donk and GOPe alike.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2025 11:46 PM (MsrgL)

237 Now do went Xi turned his tankers full of medicine and supplies around that were in port or in passage at covid outbreak.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:37 PM (Drm1A)

Xi is betting that Trump's fights with the US Courts will take enough of his political capital, that he will have to cave on Tariffs...

Same calculation Zelensky is making...

Trump is fighting battles on multiple fronts right now... but he does not have time to do anything else.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2025 11:46 PM (QAkQ3)

238 He didn't last too long after his wife died.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:45 PM (w6EFb)

Poisoned? /smile

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2025 11:47 PM (QAkQ3)

239 Waiting for Sefton's morning report that anti-semitism is rising amongst sharks.

Posted by: Pointless at April 24, 2025 10:14 PM (9Q8Gx)
-

I think it was one of our Zionist sharks. Friendly fire incident.

Obligatory classic viral music video (+330,000,000 views). Guess:

https://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 24, 2025 11:48 PM (Kjgs1)

240
No, his wife, Adele, didn't die, she just got very ill and was hospitalized for 6 months in 1977. Godel refused to eat anything, and basically starved himself to death. His death certificate lists cause of death as "malnutrition and inanition caused by personality disturbance." He weighed only 65 lbs at the time of death.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:49 PM (w6EFb)

241 94 Colorado QB Shadeur Sanders is dropping like a stone on the NFL Draft board

may miss 1st round altogether
Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2025 10:34 PM (AOsQT)

And ... it has happened. Deion Jr. is a Day 2 pick at best.

Also, legendary hash there, Don!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at April 24, 2025 11:49 PM (v23vE)

242 Gödelian closed time-like curves, that had slipped my mind, but yeah, I gave a lecture to the student Philosophy Club (at the behest of one of my star pupils) about the possibilities of time travel with special and general relativity, the gist of which was you couldn’t do it with special relativity, but you could with general relativity, rotation being the key, so Gödelian metric. Of course, I couldn’t show all the math to a bunch of undergrads, so a lot of it was summary and definitely an incomplete presentation. Still blathered on for about 45 minutes or so, just to allow questions at the end of the allotted hour.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:52 PM (12Bbv)

243 India is retaliating against Pakistan in major ways as tensions soar in the wake of the Tuesday terrorist attack on Indian-Controlled Kashmir, which killed 26 tourists in the picturesque region.

Not only has India closed its border to Pakistan, declaring that no visas will be given to Pakistanis, but the Indian government has downgraded its diplomatic ties with Islamabad and suspended a crucial water treaty. Pakistani visa holders in India have also been ordered leave the country within 48 hours.

The water issue will could impact hundreds of millions of people on both sides of the border, as the 1960 Indus Water Treaty delineates how water is distributed and used from six rivers that flow through both countries, starting in disputed regions of the Himalayas in the north.
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Pakistan threatens, Indians say, wooo, don't scare me so much.

More. grafic images included.

https://tinyurl.com/3jmhrvrm

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:52 PM (Drm1A)

244 My favorite Kurt Gödel story:

Einstein and Von Neumann were taking Gödel down to get his green card. All the while Gödel kept muttering about a loophole he'd purportedly found in the Constitution. "Shut up, Kurt", they explained.

They come before the judge who, after the procedure says something like "Welcome to the United States, Dr. Gödel. Rest easy that you're in a place where the terrible things happening in your birth country can't happen."

Gödel: "Well, actually, there is this problem...."

Whereupon Einstein and Von Neumann did another sotto voce "Shut up, Kurt" (possibly nudging him or stamping on his foot) and things finished up okay.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 24, 2025 11:53 PM (W5ArC)

245 Thank you

I think teams don't want to get tangled up in Prime Time Drama

if you draft the Kid, you get the Dad hanging around, offering advice, butting in, bringing unnecessary heat

IMO

Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2025 11:54 PM (AOsQT)

246 He wouldn't eat anything prepared by anyone other than his wife. "They" were trying to poison him. He was also afraid of poison gas being piped into his house, and so tended to open the windows even in the middle of winter. He didn't last too long after his wife died.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

====
Poor guy starved w/o his wife to feed him.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 11:54 PM (/lPRQ)

247 the gist of which was you couldn’t do it with special relativity, but you could with general relativity, rotation being the key, so Gödelian metric.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Wait, are you saying Superman could turn back time by reversing the Earth's spin??? ( no, of course you're not, it's just that thing still angers me.... )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 11:55 PM (mlg/3)

248 I recently liberated one of Publius' old tee shirts to use as a cleaning cloth. It has a thousand pinholes in it, so I figured he could spare it.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (w6EFb)

That's just cruel. What did that tee ever do to you?

Posted by: RickZ at April 24, 2025 11:55 PM (gKDq2)

249 16 I always had a mental picture of a soul looking like a stalk of celery.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)

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I would not have let that story leek.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:04 PM (hY4dx)
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I'm late to the ONT, I don't have thyme for veggie puns.

Posted by: Ciampino - stupidity of school authorities at April 24, 2025 11:56 PM (sPQoU)

250 the gist of which was you couldn’t do it with special relativity, but you could with general relativity, rotation being the key, so Gödelian metric. Of course, I couldn’t show all the math to a bunch of undergrads, so a lot of it was summary and definitely an incomplete presentation. Still blathered on for about 45 minutes or so, just to allow questions at the end of the allotted hour.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Not one mention of a flux capacitator.

I am disappoint.

Posted by: Zombie Pete Dionisopoulos at April 24, 2025 11:56 PM (vKNmo)

251 227 My cat is the Great Terror of the lizard population.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:33 PM (ZEzFB)

Publius' cat is the Great Terror of all that walks, creeps or flies.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:56 PM (w6EFb)

252 > India is retaliating against Pakistan in major ways as tensions soar in the wake of the Tuesday terrorist attack on Indian-Controlled Kashmir, which killed 26 tourists in the picturesque region.

Every President from Ford through Clinton has some time in hell coming for allowing the Pakis to get nukes.

That should never, ever, ever have been allowed to happen.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 24, 2025 11:57 PM (W5ArC)

253 Regarding AI that escapes to the net, an early show that was very intelligent and well acted around this theme was “Person of Interest” that aired for five seasons, 2011 to 2016. Highly recommended.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:57 PM (12Bbv)

254 >> My favorite Kurt Gödel story:

I was just about to post that! That illustrates what immigration laws were like back then. You have to have Albert fucking Einstein vouch for you.

As I've read the story, Einstein and Von Neumann were doing the Picard/Riker double face-palm while Godel was ranting about a "logical flaw in the Constitution".

THe judge was just amused, saying, "Boy, these mathematical geniuses sure are nuts, aren't they."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:57 PM (w6EFb)

255
Einstein and Godel used to talk long afternoon walks on the Princeton campus, seemingly engaged in deep conversation. People wondered what deep, ponderous things they were discussing. There is no record of what they talked about, neither ever discussed or wrote about it.

The joke was it was probably, "Hey, Al, did you see the rack on that new co-ed?"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:00 AM (w6EFb)

256 I've never seen an explanation of what he thought the flaw was, but I'm willing to believe there is one. The man was a loon, but when it comes to logic...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 25, 2025 12:04 AM (W5ArC)

257 >>>Trump is fighting battles on multiple fronts right now... but he does not have time to do anything else.
Posted by: Romeo13
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He gets judges the publicity they deserve things will turn.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 12:07 AM (Drm1A)

258 I've never seen an explanation of what he thought the flaw was, but I'm willing to believe there is one. The man was a loon, but when it comes to logic...

Probably something to do with either the 16th or 19th amendment.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2025 12:07 AM (lUFok)

259 Flaw is probably "how come the Supreme Court isn't armed"

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2025 12:08 AM (gKWVE)

260
Spin that around the x axis, to get something shaped like an infinitely long bugle.

Doomsday machine

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 12:09 AM (63Dwl)

261 I was angry about it when I saw it happening back when I was in grad school. I confided my concerns to a faculty member I thought would be sympathetic, but his reaction was “So what?” He didn’t care one bit. Was not a follower of Mohammed, piss be upon him, either.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 12:09 AM (12Bbv)

262 Einstein and Godel used to talk long afternoon walks on the Princeton campus, seemingly engaged in deep conversation. People wondered what deep, ponderous things they were discussing. There is no record of what they talked about, neither ever discussed or wrote about it.

The joke was it was probably, "Hey, Al, did you see the rack on that new co-ed?"
Posted by: publius

"That casts doubt on your theory of gravitational waves, no?"

Posted by: Godel, elbowing Einstein at April 25, 2025 12:10 AM (DgGvY)

263 I think one of the earliest creation stories on record, maybe Epic of Gilgamesh, one them anyway the observable universe is um, well, spooge, the result of one of the gods rubbing one out. Hm.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 25, 2025 12:12 AM (KP4aP)

264 That's Egypt, where the world came from a Divine busted nut.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2025 12:13 AM (gKWVE)

265 I was just about to post that! That illustrates what immigration laws were like back then. You have to have Albert fucking Einstein vouch for you.

As I've read the story, Einstein and Von Neumann were doing the Picard/Riker double face-palm while Godel was ranting about a "logical flaw in the Constitution".

THe judge was just amused, saying, "Boy, these mathematical geniuses sure are nuts, aren't they."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:57 PM (w6EFb)

When people ask “What kind of immigration *do* you support?” this is the answer. Guys like von Neumann and Einstein and Godel and von Braun. (Nazi scum, but good at rockets.)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 12:13 AM (/dDa4)

266
Here you go, "Godel's Loophole", which has the story:
https://tinyurl.com/2ld4ccuq

It wasn't Von Neumann, but Oskar Morgenstern who was with Einstein and Godel. Morgenstern was an economist and friend and collaborator with Von Neumann.

And it was Godel's citizenship exam.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:13 AM (w6EFb)

267 It’s amazing that it took so long to accept that the same is true of the universe itself.

But of course the most interesting question is, spins relative to what?
Posted by: Tom Servo

The amount of alcohol consumed. Just wait until the universal hangover.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 25, 2025 12:14 AM (KAi1n)

268 Trump (and America) gets payback from AFL
@America1stLegal Apr 24

— Paramount has ended its DEI policies following lawsuits from AFL.

AFL also secured an amicable resolution of a discrimination claim against Paramount and CBS for Brian Beneker, a “SEAL Team” writer denied opportunities because he didn’t “check any diversity boxes.”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 12:15 AM (Drm1A)

269
Heh, according to that, Godel told the judge "I can prove it!". When Kurt Godel said he could prove something, well, he usually could and did.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:16 AM (w6EFb)

270 "Greetings Horde! Say, didja see that Bernie Sanders and AOP are flying a private jet around the country to their “fight the oligarchy” events?"

AOP, I hope you are beating him every flight and locking him in the washroom.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2025 12:16 AM (bss/y)

271 Weird Dave - A week or so ago you linked a WTF? video of motorcycle riders in a public road 'race'. Remember what night that was? Anyone?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:18 AM (XeU6L)

272 78 Well, due to the ONT WTF, the next time I go to a Greek restaurant, I will just point to what I want on the menu when I order.
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In Spring 1975 I was in NYC (took my 74 Mustang II to the port for shipping to Durban) and the friend that took me around decided we would do Turkish for lunch. We found a suitable restaurant near St. Patrick's. When the food arrived I commented that it looked like Greek food. She warned my naive self about making such statements out loud.

Posted by: Ciampino - don't ask for a scotch in an Irish pub at April 25, 2025 12:19 AM (sPQoU)

273 I saw an old ad for McDs where they ordered two big mac meals.

In the 40 years since the ad guess how much the price has gone up?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 12:20 AM (t0Rmr)

274 Wandered off after comment 29. Anything noteworthy said since then?

Had to watch all the café clips. Then Barnhardt's meme page for today. Then some videos. Amazing how time-sucking all that can be. May I suggest…

History Guy was kinda neat. The First Family Road Trip, cross-country in 1908. Roads were rough. Travelers had to be tough. (14:12)
https://youtu.be/NUlGGEz4U3o

Profile of Russell Myers, the Broom Hilda comic strip artist was interesting to me. (29:15) I had a collection of rejection letters from comic strip syndicates long ago; did not persevere. Watching Myers doing some inking made me miss when I had a steadier hand and enjoyed pen & ink and brush & ink cartooning. 🙁
H/t Mark Evanier for linking to it.
https://youtu.be/HlJAHYniIdc

An amusing "commercial" about Democrats traveling to El Salvador. h/t MJA at IOTWreport (40sec)
https://twitter.com/iAnonPatriot/
status/1914828426843771175

How does one get the t.co short link? If I'm not a x'er?

Posted by: mindful webworker - about to fold for the night at April 25, 2025 12:20 AM (SWvjw)

275 In the 40 years since the ad guess how much the price has gone up?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 12:20 AM (t0Rmr)

Depends on how old.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2025 12:21 AM (bss/y)

276 ONT Art Thread Meme presentation:

https://tinyurl.com/52uhcjpp

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 12:22 AM (Drm1A)

277 Good evening morons en bedankt wd

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 12:22 AM (RIvkX)

278 I never liked Bernie Sanders. Grouchy old Socialist.
Never understood why anyone would even vote for him.
Anyway he is just like most of the politicians, anything for $.
I wonder if any of them are halfway sincere in trying to help the country or are they just trying to help themselves to as much loot as they can. We really should have term limits on these crooks.

Posted by: Case at April 25, 2025 12:22 AM (OrSPY)

279 271 Weird Dave - A week or so ago you linked a WTF? video of motorcycle riders in a public road 'race'. Remember what night that was? Anyone?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:18 AM (XeU6L)
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Was that the Isle of Man TT race?

Posted by: Ciampino - that's madness at April 25, 2025 12:23 AM (sPQoU)

280 Heh, according to that, Godel told the judge "I can prove it!". When Kurt Godel said he could prove something, well, he usually could and did.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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I often quote Godel's Completeness Therom...or Incompleteness Therom, as I prefer it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:23 AM (XeU6L)

281 *Theorem

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:24 AM (XeU6L)

282 Okay
The universe is spinning.

WHICH WAY IS IT SPINNING.
Not happy.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2025 12:24 AM (aUDX+)

283 ----
Was that the Isle of Man TT race?
Posted by: Ciampino
--

Did we settle that it was Man? Dunno, but I'd like to review that particular video.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:25 AM (XeU6L)

284 So the answer is...

The price of the Big Mac meal has gone up...1000% percent in 40 years.

I checked the CPI and it says the total inflation in that time period is about 300%.

Why am I not surprised?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 12:26 AM (t0Rmr)

285
Godel was fascinated by the idea that cosmologists might discover rotation of the universe. They said every time he'd bump into the astrophysicists at Princeton, or wherever, he also ask "Is the universe rotating yet?". And they'd so, "No, Kurt!".

Well, with this latest Godel would be happy as a lark. And he'd probably go over the paper and find something interesting in it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:27 AM (w6EFb)

286 Despite these scurrilous rumors, I have not been consorting with Bernie Sanders.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 12:27 AM (8zz6B)

287 "Pakistani visa holders in India have also been ordered leave the country within 48 hours."

Not without a hearing and three appeals. And seriously, not even then.

Posted by: Does this black robe make my Marxism look fat? at April 25, 2025 12:27 AM (pIfcn)

288 I guess "Therom" is... incomplete

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2025 12:29 AM (gKWVE)

289 Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed if The Whole Universe Was Spinning

I'll try spinning. That's a good trick.

Posted by: Young Anakin Skywalker at April 25, 2025 12:29 AM (D0HYP)

290 So the answer is...

The price of the Big Mac meal has gone up...1000% percent in 40 years.

I checked the CPI and it says the total inflation in that time period is about 300%.

Why am I not surprised?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 12:26 AM (t0Rmr)

Stop noticing.

Posted by: Federal Reserve at April 25, 2025 12:30 AM (/dDa4)

291 >>>Profile of Russell Myers, the Broom Hilda comic strip
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Was he kin to Russ Myers. Always parcial to Uschi Digard.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 12:30 AM (Drm1A)

292 The Hu
https://youtu.be/WQ7XW0_teB4?si=Fxm305sJDzcIpxwo

Posted by: TC at April 25, 2025 12:31 AM (szqEY)

293 Thanks to WierdDave.

I personally aspire to a higher, and more holistic level of Weirdness

Posted by: Somewhat eccentric Miklos at April 25, 2025 12:31 AM (IKhKt)

294 I found this both funny as well as a great "gotcha". New media shakes up WH Press Corps. From "Legal Insurrection" site:

https://tinyurl.com/47ctuvjb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 12:32 AM (bMQHQ)

295 Despite these scurrilous rumors, I have not been consorting with Bernie Sanders.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

If you believe that, I have a bankrupt college to sell you

Posted by: Mrs. Bernie at April 25, 2025 12:32 AM (IKhKt)

296 Just read the short story "God sees the Truth, But Waits" by Leo Tolstoy.
Pretty sure stephen king read it too because it's just like shawshank redemption, except Tim Robbons doesn't get mercilessly cornholed.

Posted by: steve at April 25, 2025 12:34 AM (SBQD7)

297 Was he kin to Russ Myers. Always parcial to Uschi Digard.

Posted by: Braenyard -

I vaguely remember certain ladies were described as a "Russ Meyer bath toy"

Posted by: vague but retained memories of youthful desire at April 25, 2025 12:35 AM (IKhKt)

298 Haha, AOP, I knew it wasn't you!!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 25, 2025 12:36 AM (0nHVk)

299 >> except Tim Robbons doesn't get mercilessly cornholed.

What’s even the point then?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 12:37 AM (/dDa4)

300 Godel would have been a great host of Let's Make a Deal, especially doors one two or three

Posted by: Or maybe Miklos is thinking of Schrodinger at April 25, 2025 12:37 AM (IKhKt)

301 Haha, AOP, I knew it wasn't you!!!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

It's never AOP

Or Lupus

Posted by: Dr. Miklos is in da House at April 25, 2025 12:38 AM (IKhKt)

302 I guess "Therom" is... incomplete
Posted by: gKWVE
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Confirms what I have asserted.

Posted by: Kurt at April 25, 2025 12:40 AM (XeU6L)

303
I've being going over this rotating universe model with Grok for about a week. Grok is like having a Ph.D physicist and mathematician, an expert in General Relativity right there. Of course, I don't trust it completely, because I've seen it get things wrong that I know about.

If you're interested the "rotational speed" or RPM of the universe, which I put in scare quotes is just a parameter in the equations, but it's about one revolution per 500 billion years.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:41 AM (w6EFb)

304 I somewhat remember a McDonald's ad where they said that for a dollar, you get a burger and fries and money left for gas.

Posted by: the Reptilian part of Miklos' brain at April 25, 2025 12:42 AM (IKhKt)

305 Sounds better than a fart cloud.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 10:14 PM (mlg/3)

If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao at April 25, 2025 12:42 AM (vm8sq)

306 If you're interested the "rotational speed" or RPM of the universe, which I put in scare quotes is just a parameter in the equations, but it's about one revolution per 500 billion years.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I will have that written into my Reverse Mortgage.

Posted by: Miklos sees a deal here at April 25, 2025 12:43 AM (IKhKt)

307 If you're interested the "rotational speed" or RPM of the universe, which I put in scare quotes is just a parameter in the equations, but it's about one revolution per 500 billion years.
Posted by: publius
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What goes around comes around.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:44 AM (XeU6L)

308 Time travel is definitely possible (the engineering is way beyond us) in the universe as we understand it. Put time travel paradoxes seemingly, are not. A Russian physicist, Novikov, who last I heard was living as an ex-pat in Europe, was worried about this, and so worked out what would happen if you tried to play billiards on a pool table that allowed time-like loops. Like say, the 8 ball falls in that pocket, and reappears out of this pocket some time earlier, conserving momentum, angular momentum, etc. Could you set up a collision such that 8 ball hits it’s earlier self and so prevents itself from falling into that pocket (that has the wormhole that leads to this pocket some seconds earlier)? No, in classical mechanics it was impossible! But that’s only classical mechanics, that’s only an approximation. What about quantum mechanics? So Novikov reworked all his results in QM, actually easier than CM, QM is purer and more basic that way. The results were the same! Even under QM, no trajectory occurred that could interfere with itself such that the final result did not occur! It’s an absolutely brilliant result. It’s called the Novikov self-consistency principle.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 12:44 AM (12Bbv)

309 There were two Greek guys who made the best pizza in my college town. We used to drink ouzo in the back and play backgammon. They said I played backgammon like an Arab.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

*puts ouzo on list*

*prepares to wager on backgammon*

Posted by: Occasional Miklos at April 25, 2025 12:45 AM (IKhKt)

310
I will have that written into my Reverse Mortgage.
Posted by: Miklos
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Give me a call.

Posted by: Tom Selleck at April 25, 2025 12:46 AM (XeU6L)

311 308 Errata -
Put… —> But…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 12:46 AM (12Bbv)

312 The Hu
Posted by: TC

I always thought that was a clever band name.

Posted by: mikeski's on first at April 25, 2025 12:47 AM (DgGvY)

313 MISTER MILEY!!!!!

Posted by: Dennis the Menace! at April 25, 2025 12:47 AM (tjZg/)

314 Give me a call.
Posted by: Tom Selleck

Don't trust you.

Can't trust a man who doesn't wax his moustache.

Posted by: Kaiser Miklos Wilhelm at April 25, 2025 12:48 AM (IKhKt)

315
The problem this slight rotation solves is dubbed the Hubble Tension, which had to do with the Hubble Parameter (sometimes called a constant, although it varies with time, but it's constant at a given epoch, and changes slowly).

There are several ways to measure it. One is the "old sources", and that's from measurements of the cosmic microwave background. Then there are the "new sources", which have to do with standard candles like supernovas. They are "new" because they involve events that happened later, while the CMB was very early in the universe history.

Now, the late measurements all put H0, the current epoch Hubble Constant at 72 - 74 km/s/Mpc. The early results put it around 67 - 68.

They thought maybe that's just measurement error, and newer methods will pin that down to something in between.

Well, they came up with several, and they all fell onto either end of that, nothing in between, which suggests a problem. Then these new guys noticed that a slight rotation would explain that early vs late difference nicely.

I call it the Hawaii paper, as some of the authors were at the U of Hawaii. I hope Hawaiian astrophysicists aren't like Hawaiian judges.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:49 AM (w6EFb)

316 What goes around comes around.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.

Life and the universe comes at you fast.

Posted by: Miklos Bueller's day Off at April 25, 2025 12:49 AM (IKhKt)

317 Playing backgammon like an Arab seems like a put down from a Greek, but then the Greek stereotype of an Arab is someone deceitful, but very, very clever.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 12:50 AM (12Bbv)

318 The heck with AI, where the frack is my Jetson flying car?

Posted by: Archer at April 25, 2025 12:50 AM (IDphi)

319 I have a quaint notion not founded in General Relativity or space-time curves, that time travel is impossible because

1) going into the past is trying to reverse entropy. Entropy of the Universe is always increasing. To travel backwards it essentially trying to reverse entropy

2) going forward in time is moving into a universe with MORE entropy, and that might be impossible too.

Not saying I am anything like correct, but this thought has bothered me for years.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at April 25, 2025 12:50 AM (tjZg/)

320 MISTER MILEY!!!!!
Posted by: Dennis the Menace!

Needs a Miley face emoji

Posted by: Miklos merely suggests at April 25, 2025 12:50 AM (IKhKt)

321 Jeepers if we're talking 500 billion years, I am still in my youth.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 25, 2025 12:52 AM (0nHVk)

322 My problem with The Andromeda Strain is the same one thst people had with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Everything the characters do is meaningless. In the end, the pathogen mutated to become harmless. Michael Crichton could write pretty well and come up with some cool story ideas, but his endings almost always left something to be desired.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (sI7wh)

The plan is nothing. The planning is everything.

Posted by: Logisticians at April 25, 2025 12:52 AM (vm8sq)

323 I hope Hawaiian astrophysicists aren't like Hawaiian judges.
Posted by: publius

You have two weeks to unrotate the universe.

Posted by: a Hawaiian astrophysicist at April 25, 2025 12:54 AM (DgGvY)

324 Jeepers if we're talking 500 billion years, I am still in my youth.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Check that one's ID

Posted by: Genial late Nite bartender Miklos at April 25, 2025 12:55 AM (IKhKt)

325
Now, here's the interesting thing. The FLRW like universes, including deSitter spacetime (this is an empty universe with nothing but Cosmological Constant, which makes "empty space" expand, it's a perfect spacetime to see the behavior without having to worry about messy matter inside) are all homogeneous and isotropic. Everybody sees the same thing, and everybody sees everybody else flying away, expanding. No center, no special direction (think flatlanders on the surface of a 2D expanding sphere).

Now, the Hawaii rotation breaks isotropy, but not homogeneity. There will be a preferred direction in the universe, one direction that looks different, and can be detected. And roughly, and in a quite complex way, you see everything around you rotating around that direction.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:55 AM (w6EFb)

326 166

Anyway, the Earth is flat and it is held up by a stack of giant turtles.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 24, 2025 11:06 PM (8Dm30)
----
Where does the paperclip go?

Posted by: Ciampino - that's madness x 2 at April 25, 2025 12:56 AM (sPQoU)

327 If the 8 ball showing up earlier is a reversal of entropy the end result is still alway the same, so global entropy is increased. That’s just off the top of my head though. I wonder if Novikov ever addressed entropy with his thought experiments? Oh, it wasn’t just in his head, he did detailed calculations and worked all possible variations, etc.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 12:58 AM (12Bbv)

328 I somewhat remember a McDonald's ad where they said that for a dollar, you get a burger and fries and money left for gas.
Posted by: the Reptilian part of Miklos' brain at April 25, 2025 12:42 AM (IKhKt)

The only McDonald's in the area where I grew up in 1960 was not too far from the house, 5-10 minute drive depending on lights. After high school football on Friday night, the car would make a detour and we'd get 5 cent burgers or 10 cent cheeseburgers, I think small fries (the only size at the time) were a nickel, along with some, probably, 10 cent shakes. It was something like a buck to a buck-fifty to feed five with a late night after-game snack.

The food was cooked fresh and waiting and if you special ordered anything, it took a long time. That's where I learned to take the pickles off and say screw it.

There was nothing like the aroma of a bag of those warm burgers and fries wafting through the car on the way home. That was the only time we ever went to McDonald's.

Then my Mom found out about Burger King and a grilled Whopper with lettuce, tomato and mayo. My Mom never went to McDonald's again. Ever. Even on road trips just to pee.

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2025 12:58 AM (gKDq2)

329 Clearly, the Universe rotates about the thumb it is sitting on.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 12:59 AM (8zz6B)

330
Now, there is evidence of such a preferred direction in the CMB, they call it the "Axis of Evil", and have been arguing about it for a long time. Is it real or just some artifact, maybe local variation in something or another, or measurement bias or something.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:00 AM (w6EFb)

331 And that thumb... is me.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at April 25, 2025 01:01 AM (gKWVE)

332 You'd think Hadrian's Wall would have kept the Mongorians out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:02 AM (LO3k+)

333 Clearly, the Universe rotates about the thumb it is sitting on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 12:59 AM (8zz6B)

I would have thought it was the toilet bowl drain. We haven't hit the big shit from outside, so there's time before the Universe is flushed, and a new one fills the bowl.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 01:02 AM (VNX3d)

334 We’re only about 14 billion years into this universe so at 500 billion years for a full rotation we’ve only turned about 10 degrees since God said “Let there be light.”

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 01:02 AM (12Bbv)

335 Where does the paperclip go?
Posted by: Ciampino - that's madness x 2 at April 25, 2025 12:56 AM (sPQoU)

Wouldn’t you like to know…

Posted by: Clippy at April 25, 2025 01:02 AM (/dDa4)

336 Even on road trips just to pee.
Posted by: RickZ

Respect to your Mom.

Because that is Dedication.

Posted by: Miklos understands Brand Anti-Loyalty at April 25, 2025 01:03 AM (IKhKt)

337 I liked BK a lot better in the days of the 99 cent Whopper. I would buy 5 at a time and keep spares in my coat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:05 AM (LO3k+)

338 Jeepers if we're talking 500 billion years, I am still in my youth.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
----

Check that one's ID

Posted by: Genial late Nite bartender Miklos at April 25, 2025 12:55 AM (IKhKt)

She's been Social Security all that time.

Posted by: DOGE at April 25, 2025 01:06 AM (gKDq2)

339 The Algoricans were led, in spurts, by Chakra Khan.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:06 AM (8zz6B)

340 The Algoricans were led, in spurts, by Chakra Khan.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

A fragile people, the Little Ice Age wiped them out.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2025 01:09 AM (DgGvY)

341 so if the universe is spinning, then it must have a center

unless it's like a Frisbee, which spins while flying along a path in space

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 01:10 AM (AOsQT)

342 I just watched the first 3 episodes of Andor season 2. Not terrible but the whole Mon Mothma storyline is terrible and pointless. I don't like any of the characters. If the Empire only had some soldiers who could hit the broad side of a bantha.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:11 AM (LO3k+)

343 Could a spherical body, like a planet, spin on two or more axes at once, or would the vector sum of the spins simply resolve to one unique spin?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:13 AM (8zz6B)

344 so if the universe is spinning, then it must have a center

unless it's like a Frisbee, which spins while flying along a path in space
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 01:10 AM (AOsQT)

Please, don't play catch with the Universe and Fido.

How in the hell do we repair holes in the space-time continuum?

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2025 01:13 AM (gKDq2)

345 The earth is the center.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:15 AM (LO3k+)

346
There are two possible candidates for this preferred direction. And the alignment of both is spooky. One direction, going out on looking up in the sky is pointing at a spot in the constellation Coma Berenices (Bernice's Hair) at star which is dubbed Polaris Galactus Borealis. That's Latin for Pole, Galaxy, North. And that's what it is, the north pole of the Milky Way Galaxy. Which would mean the Milky Way spin axis is aligned with the universe spin axis.

The second candidate aligns nicely with the ecliptic, the ecliptic north pole.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:15 AM (w6EFb)

347 >> How in the hell do we repair holes in the space-time continuum?

Flex Tape?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:16 AM (/dDa4)

348 I just watched the first 3 episodes of Andor season 2. Not terrible but the whole Mon Mothma storyline is terrible and pointless. I don't like any of the characters. If the Empire only had some soldiers who could hit the broad side of a bantha.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:11 AM (LO3k+)

Mythman. Man or moth?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:16 AM (8zz6B)

349 So, since no one answered, I went back and read comments from 30 to 330. Made easier by letting my eyes glaze over on all the heavy physics comments. I'm sure they were quite interesting, if I weren't so anxious.

Einstein, Gödel, and Von Neumann walked into a time loop…

The answer to whether God could make a rock bigger than he can lift is found in Schrödinger's catbox.

Okay, I'm clearing out now so the late-late-nighters can come in and play. [waves to 'em on my way out]

https://youtu.be/LoZHw04OG2A

G'nite, y'all. Stay Moronic.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it will rain all week at April 25, 2025 01:16 AM (SWvjw)

350
Hmm, news is 2 days old, but Gavin Newsom's poll numbers are awful and Steve Hilton announced he's running for Cali governor. I think he's doomed. Not bad, just doomed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2025 01:17 AM (mC23r)

351 Flex Tape?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:16 AM (/dDa4)

That spray seal shit might work better.

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2025 01:17 AM (gKDq2)

352 The second candidate aligns nicely with the ecliptic, the ecliptic north pole.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Cool, Daddy-O

*snaps fingers rhythmically*

Posted by: Maynard G. Miklos-Krebs at April 25, 2025 01:18 AM (IKhKt)

353 I saw Schrodinger's Catbox open for Pussy Riot in '09. The show stunk on ice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:19 AM (8zz6B)

354 >Could a spherical body, like a planet, spin on two or more axes at once, or would the vector sum of the spins simply resolve to one unique spin?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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there is a thing called precession, where the Earth kind of wobbles a bit as it rotates about the axis

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 01:19 AM (AOsQT)

355 >> Could a spherical body, like a planet, spin on two or more axes at once

See the Euler angles and all that stuff. You can think of spinning around two axes, but they add to one direction, call it the omega vector. Direction and magnitude.

Solid body rotation gets complex, see the Principle Axis Theorem and the Intermediate Axis theorem. Any solid body of any shape must have 3 mutually perpendicular axes, with three different principle moments of inertia about them. Now, if you spin an object around one of those principle axes, everything is nice.

If you spin around some non-principle axis, the angular momentum vector doesn't point in the same direction as the spin axis. This requires precession, with the spin axis precessing about in space. Angular momentum remains constant. You can call this tumbling.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:20 AM (w6EFb)

356
A sphere has near pefect symmetry. Any axis is a principle axis, all three moments of inertia are the same in any coordinate system.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:21 AM (w6EFb)

357 Check that one's ID

Posted by: Genial late Nite bartender Miklos at April 25, 2025 12:55 AM (IKhKt)

She's been Social Security all that time.
Posted by: DOGE

okay then

Posted by: Genial bartender applies AARP Charter Member discount at April 25, 2025 01:23 AM (IKhKt)

358 228 >>>Oh, I loved the Cretans. Fantastic people - like so many around the world.

There's no stoppin the Cretans from hopping
Gotta keep it beatin for all the happy Cretans
Cree e tan
Cree e tan

Posted by: The Ramones at April 25, 2025 01:24 AM (3/XaG)

359 If you want a fun take on alternate universes that rejects the multiverse, try John C. Wright’s The Unwithering Realm series. The first volume is “Somewhither” which won the 2016 Dragon Award for best science fiction novel. Wright’s writing since his miraculous conversion from atheist to Roman Catholic (he won’t talk about it - he was told to say little about it - but apparently he challenged God to prove that He exists and promptly had a heart attack - apparently, during the heart attack he was visited by various persons, including Jesus, and also his mother Mary) has been informed by his Christianity. His work was good before his conversion but is even better now. He just doesn’t write fast enough! But I say that about all the writers I like! They do their best! His wife, a Protestant, is very good too. She writes as Jagi Lamplighter and has a wonderful series about an alternative Hogwarts School, this one set in an alternate universe Hudson River island, that is also informed by her Christian values. That’s the books of her Unexpected Enlightenment. The first book is “The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin”.
Both series highly recommended.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 01:25 AM (12Bbv)

360
Here's the famous example of that intermediate axis tumbling:
https://tinyurl.com/28nbv6ra

In one of Scampy's ONTs a while back, we posted about this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:25 AM (w6EFb)

361 A sphere has near pefect symmetry. Any axis is a principle axis, all three moments of inertia are the same in any coordinate system.
Posted by: publius, Rascally

All that fancy book learnin'.

I lernt that the first time I went to Guatemala, the world's largest producer of Perfectly Sphericals

Posted by: Daddy took me out of school beacause they was crops in the fields, yessuh at April 25, 2025 01:26 AM (IKhKt)

362
Here's Don Pettit onboard the ISS demonstrating this as well:

https://tinyurl.com/2yeex5ja

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:27 AM (w6EFb)

363 Japanese car maker Subaru, deals blow to Trump, moves production OUT of US

https://mol.im/a/14645149

Posted by: Ciampino - that's a small market at April 25, 2025 01:27 AM (sPQoU)

364 There's no stoppin the Cretans from hopping
Gotta keep it beatin for all the happy Cretans
Cree e tan
Cree e tan
Posted by: The Ramones

Gonna take yo asses out in the next baktun

Posted by: Mayans, musically disrespected at April 25, 2025 01:28 AM (IKhKt)

365 A sphere has near pefect symmetry. Any axis is a principle axis, all three moments of inertia are the same in any coordinate system.
Posted by: publius

All that fancy book learnin'.
I lernt that the first time I went to Guatemala, the world's largest producer of Perfectly Sphericals

I was all ready to make a spherical cow joke, and Miklos beat me to it.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2025 01:30 AM (DgGvY)

366 Serious meeting derailed after female executive suddenly declares that she's in dire need of sex

https://mol.im/a/14645075

Brown Bag case? Maybe doubled?

Posted by: Ciampino - you know she's melanin-enhanced at April 25, 2025 01:31 AM (sPQoU)

367 Japanese car maker Subaru, deals blow to Trump, moves production OUT of US

https://mol.im/a/14645149
Posted by: Ciampino - that's a small market at April 25, 2025 01:27 AM (sPQoU)

Wow, Trump is taking anti-LGBT to the next level..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:31 AM (/dDa4)

368 there is a thing called precession, where the Earth kind of wobbles a bit as it rotates about the axis
Posted by: Don Black
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See: any toy gyroscope

Or... non-zero spin species tipped by an NMR instrument. Or, just go get an MRI.

Posted by: Tom Selleck at April 25, 2025 01:32 AM (XeU6L)

369 >> but apparently he challenged God to prove that He exists and promptly had a heart attack

Ludacris Cam moment.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:34 AM (/dDa4)

370 A lass of Guatemala was so spherical
That family and friends said "A Miracle"
But one is what one eats,
And she ate nought but beets.
And her doctor said, "nah, that's empirical".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:34 AM (8zz6B)

371 /Selleck
Damn, that 'stache was itchy

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 01:34 AM (XeU6L)

372 Japanese car maker Subaru, deals blow to Trump, moves production OUT of US

https://mol.im/a/14645149
Posted by: Ciampino - that's a small market at April 25, 2025 01:27 AM (sPQoU)
----

Wow, Trump is taking anti-LGBT to the next level..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:31 AM (/dDa4)

'Lesbaru owners hardest hit'.

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2025 01:35 AM (gKDq2)

373 Does a cow have three distinct principle axes of rotation or are they all degenerate?

Answer: depends if the cow is sphere.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 01:35 AM (12Bbv)

374 I was all ready to make a spherical cow joke, and Miklos beat me to it.
Posted by: mikeski

Next time I'll be slow, and you can beat yourself!

Tip the veal and try the mikeski

Posted by: Late Night Standup Comedy by Miklos ( I kid, such a great crowd) at April 25, 2025 01:35 AM (IKhKt)

375 I made the spherical cow joke anyway!

Also

is sphere —> is a sphere

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 01:39 AM (12Bbv)

376 /Selleck
Damn, that 'stache was itchy
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.

Mike Hammer #47

The Case of the Fake 'Stache

So in walks "Frank". Wasn't fooling me or nobody. When she pulled off the fake beard and moustache, I saw ruby lips, kissable lips. She was prepared for something. Was I?

Posted by: Hard boiled Miklos at April 25, 2025 01:40 AM (IKhKt)

377 Also the warning to say to say little about it came from the persons he encountered in his vision.

his mother Mary —> His mother Mary

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 01:42 AM (12Bbv)

378 Serious meeting derailed after female executive suddenly declares that she's in dire need of sex

https://mol.im/a/14645075

Brown Bag case? Maybe doubled?
Posted by: Ciampino - you know she's melanin-enhanced at April 25, 2025 01:31 AM (sPQoU)

Sounds like just an off-hand remark.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:42 AM (8zz6B)

379 Utter madness.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:43 AM (LO3k+)

380 Wait, I thought Subaru was a charity.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2025 01:43 AM (vm8sq)

381
Here's the fascinating thing about the symmetry of this Hawaiian rotating universe I'll call it. The symmetry is cylindrical, and there would be a distinct axis. Observers could tell their radial distance from it, but not any z distance along that axis.

Not all rotating universes would work that way. In Godel, every observer could claim the axis ran through him and everybody would see everything else rotating around them the same.

Not the case with this Hawaiian universe. You could tell how far you were away from this axis.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:44 AM (w6EFb)

382 Canada must have more lesbians per capita.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:45 AM (LO3k+)

383 Serious meeting derailed after female executive suddenly declares that she's in dire need of sex

https://mol.im/a/14645075

Brown Bag case? Maybe doubled?
Posted by: Ciampino - you know she's melanin-enhanced at April 25, 2025 01:31 AM (sPQoU)

Sounds like just an off-hand remark.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

If the company was Snap-on Tools, no problem

barely an inconvenience

Posted by: Miklos likes problen solving at April 25, 2025 01:45 AM (IKhKt)

384 U.S. Tariff Revenues Hit Record $15 Billion in April, Surging Over 60%

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 01:47 AM (Drm1A)

385 Utter madness.
Posted by: Boss Moss

You're just going to milk it for all it's worth, aren't cha?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2025 01:47 AM (mlg/3)

386 New York: Muslim Says He ‘Has a Right as a Muslim to Punish Jews,’ Stabs Barber with Scissors
----------

This is a one off thing I'm sure that we can integrate Muslims into our society.
_Epic

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 01:48 AM (Drm1A)

387 If the company was Snap-on Tools, no problem

barely an inconvenience
Posted by: Miklos likes problen solving at April 25, 2025 01:45 AM (IKhKt)

Snap-Off Tools would be a good name for a tranny surgery clinic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:48 AM (8zz6B)

388 I'm not sure there is a problem that sawing off your tweeter solves.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:50 AM (LO3k+)

389 1.Oklahoma: Afghan Muslim Migrants Plotted Election Day Massacre with AK-47s and 500 Rounds of Ammunition

2.US AIR FORCE: Pennsylvania Air National Guard Mohamad Hamad Charged in Islamic Bomb Plot, Jewish Religious Buildings Attack, While Lying to Feds to Get Top-Secret Security Clearance

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 01:51 AM (Drm1A)

390 Seems like a lot of actors and ball players are dying.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:52 AM (LO3k+)

391 Nods to Miklos for a topper, this story is getting interesting.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 25, 2025 01:53 AM (0nHVk)

392 I'm not sure there is a problem that sawing off your tweeter solves.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Now you tell me.

Posted by: Elon Musk at April 25, 2025 01:53 AM (mlg/3)

393 Serious meeting derailed after female executive suddenly declares that she's in dire need of sex

DERAILS ONT

BBL

Posted by: Miklos has Reasons at April 25, 2025 01:55 AM (IKhKt)

394 I'm not sure there is a problem that sawing off your tweeter solves.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:50 AM (LO3k+)

Sawing off your woofer is pretty drastic, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:55 AM (8zz6B)

395 We need another black woman, from Illinois, in Congress like we need a hole in the head ..... wait, ...

Posted by: Ciampino - you know she's melanin-enhanced? at April 25, 2025 01:56 AM (sPQoU)

396 Japanese car maker Subaru, deals blow to Trump, moves production OUT of US
https://mol.im/a/14645149
Posted by: Ciampino

Even when Trump said "Pleiades," they still said "no."

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2025 01:56 AM (DgGvY)

397 395
Forgot the link
https://tinyurl.com/3hba4xd6

Posted by: Ciampino - you know she's melanin-enhanced? at April 25, 2025 01:58 AM (sPQoU)

398 Perhaps the Japanese would like to live under Chinese rule.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:58 AM (LO3k+)

399 Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

The Usual, Miss?

With two umbrellas, of course

Posted by: Tiki Bar Miklos slides over a Double because Happy Hour at April 25, 2025 01:58 AM (IKhKt)

400 Serious meeting derailed after female executive suddenly declares that she's in dire need of sex
Posted by: Ciampino

"Dear Penthouse..."

Posted by: Elon Musk at April 25, 2025 01:59 AM (mlg/3)

401 Major hospital cyberattack sees 6m social security numbers stolen - Yale New Haven Health

https://mol.im/a/14644831

Posted by: Ciampino - you know it's serious at April 25, 2025 02:01 AM (sPQoU)

402
"Dear Penthouse..."
Posted by: Elon Musk at April 25, 2025 01:59 AM (mlg/3)

Having visited the link, it becomes quite apparent why the woman is sex-starved.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 02:01 AM (8zz6B)

403 Legislation allowing pharmacists to dispense Ivermectin without a prescription is being considered by lawmakers.
--

Tell your mama, tell your paw,
get your drugs over the counter
in Arkansas.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:02 AM (Drm1A)

404 "Dear Penthouse..."
Posted by: Elon Musk

You won't believe this, but I have 14 children and pay for them all. I know this will lose me Street Cred, but this really happened

Posted by: Space Daddy at April 25, 2025 02:03 AM (IKhKt)

405 Having visited the link, it becomes quite apparent why the woman is sex-starved.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I wonder how much Chicago Housing Authoritie moneys she pays her local Darrius Sweetdick Honeycum

Posted by: Miklos just wonders sometimes at April 25, 2025 02:05 AM (IKhKt)

406 The 'idiot' who started the NJ fire?

https://youtu.be/coKH1RdpMiA

Posted by: Ciampino - you know he's White at April 25, 2025 02:07 AM (sPQoU)

407 395 We need another black woman, from Illinois, in Congress like we need a hole in the head ..... wait, ...
Posted by: Ciampino
----------------------

AOC and Jughead Crockett were explaining toast and a toaster.
AOC says you just put the bread in here and press the lever and in a few minutes out comes the toast. Jughead says, and nobody knows what happened to the bread.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:08 AM (Drm1A)

408 Well, getting sleepy here. Time for some shuteye. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 02:08 AM (8zz6B)

409 I tried everything to get started as a writer.

Penthouse Forum never published any of the 107 "this really happened" letters I sent.

Not honest people

Posted by: Miklos may have made that up at April 25, 2025 02:08 AM (IKhKt)

410 Well, getting sleepy here. Time for some shuteye. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Abide, Friend from El Norte

Posted by: Miklos may have turn on the AC soon at April 25, 2025 02:09 AM (IKhKt)

411 *looks left*

Posted by: Devious lil' Miklos at April 25, 2025 02:14 AM (IKhKt)

412 *looks right*

Posted by: Deviouser lil' Miklos at April 25, 2025 02:15 AM (IKhKt)

413 MOOSE

Get everybody who is not a regular OUT

Posted by: Legal more or less lil' Miklos at April 25, 2025 02:16 AM (IKhKt)

414 The 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 doughnut delivery
https://x.com/Thinkwert/status
/1914999019534745864

Posted by: Ciampino - you know he's purring at April 25, 2025 02:17 AM (sPQoU)

415 You want out, go

You wanna stay, stay

Only allowed to stay open if we put up the "Private Party" sign

It's THE LAW

Posted by: Legal more or less Miklos at April 25, 2025 02:17 AM (IKhKt)

416 Ok

Moose, let Ciampino in

But that's it.

Fire marshal set occupancy limits, especially if smoking allowed.

Posted by: Legally Miklos at April 25, 2025 02:20 AM (IKhKt)

417 Night, AOP.

Thanks. Miklos for the drink, I shall leave a generous gratuity.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 25, 2025 02:20 AM (0nHVk)

418 Ok. Now that I run this joint, I have two sleeves of jukebox quarters with "Doof" written on them.

Posted by: Miklos tries to do it all at April 25, 2025 02:22 AM (IKhKt)

419 Thanks. Miklos for the drink, I shall leave a generous gratuity.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Hey!

She paid my gravity bill!

After 30 days behind, GravityCorp don't mess

Posted by: Miklos ceases close familiarity with flooring at April 25, 2025 02:24 AM (IKhKt)

420 Whoever is elected Pope, I’m sure he’ll do fine. The RadTrads will light their hair on fire. Life will go on.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:24 AM (/dDa4)

421 Ok. Now that I run this joint, I have two sleeves of jukebox quarters with "Doof" written on them.
Posted by: Miklos tries to do it all

Pull!

Posted by: Elon Musk at April 25, 2025 02:25 AM (mlg/3)

422 One particularly mind-boggling hypothesis suggests our Universe is located in the center of a black hole inside another Universe.

all this interest in black holes. Don Lemon would be excited.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 02:25 AM (ynpvh)

423 In this brief interval of gravitational stasis, it is probably best to seek a stable horizontal surface.

Posted by: Miklos' doc says Nitol is right for me at April 25, 2025 02:26 AM (IKhKt)

424 In the 40 years since the ad guess how much the price has gone up?
Posted by: 18-1

Could it be measured in orders of magnitude, or does that violate the "I was told there would be no math" clause?

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at April 25, 2025 02:27 AM (y7zkd)

425 Remember when the NAACP got Hallmark to apologize for a greeting card that mentioned black holes because they thought it was a racial slur?

And that’s not even the dumbest thing the NAACP has done..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:28 AM (/dDa4)

426 420 Whoever is elected Pope, I’m sure he’ll do fine. The RadTrads will light their hair on fire. Life will go on.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:24 AM (/dDa4)

I'd make a great Pope.

Posted by: Mariann Edgar Budde at April 25, 2025 02:28 AM (ynpvh)

427 425 Remember when the NAACP got Hallmark to apologize for a greeting card that mentioned black holes because they thought it was a racial slur?

And that’s not even the dumbest thing the NAACP has done..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:28 AM (/dDa4)

Black holes are fine; it's the white ones that are racist.

Posted by: Mariann Edgar Budde at April 25, 2025 02:29 AM (ynpvh)

428 ugh. off sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 02:29 AM (ynpvh)

429 Tiptoes out.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 25, 2025 02:32 AM (0nHVk)

430 I'm just lurking about this early morning. Got some more puttering to do, I'll be back later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 25, 2025 02:37 AM (sAmhv)

431 It's only just past 2:30?

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 02:39 AM (ypFCm)

432 431 It's only just past 2:30?

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 02:39 AM (ypFCm)

only 11:40 p.m. here on the Left Coast.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 02:40 AM (ynpvh)

433 The 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 doughnut delivery
https://x.com/Thinkwert/status
/1914999019534745864

Posted by: Ciampino - you know he's purring at April 25, 2025 02:17 AM (sPQoU)
-

"Waiter, there's a hairball in my doughnut."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2025 02:41 AM (Kjgs1)

434 A whooping 9:40AM here in Jerusalem!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2025 02:41 AM (Kjgs1)

435 Ok. Now that I run this joint, I have two sleeves of jukebox quarters with "Doof" written on them.
Posted by: Miklos
------

Triggers recollection of Gene Pitney:

If I didn't have a dime
And I didn't take the time
To play the jukebox
Ohh, oh Saturday night
Would've been a sad and lonely night
For me

And if you weren't standin' there
Ruby lips and golden hair
Beside the jukebox
Ooh, oh I'd have lost my chance
To hold you while you danced
With me

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 02:47 AM (XeU6L)

436 433
"Waiter, there's a hairball in my doughnut."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2025 02:41 AM (Kjgs1)
----
Sir, please keep it down or everyone will want one too. By the way is it raw or cooked?

Posted by: Ciampino - fuzz instead of glitter at April 25, 2025 02:49 AM (sPQoU)

437 Sir, please keep it down or everyone will want one too. By the way is it raw or cooked?

Posted by: Ciampino - fuzz instead of glitter at April 25, 2025 02:49 AM (sPQoU)
-

Dunno but I just vomited.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2025 03:03 AM (Kjgs1)

438 Gym-loving cat stuns internet by turning on treadmill and going for a run
https://x.com/TheSun/status
/1915650732792967575

(notice anything?)

Posted by: Ciampino - nice run at April 25, 2025 03:08 AM (sPQoU)

439 437 Sir, please keep it down or everyone will want one too. By the way is it raw or cooked?

Posted by: Ciampino - fuzz instead of glitter at April 25, 2025 02:49 AM (sPQoU)
-

Dunno but I just vomited.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2025 03:03 AM (Kjgs1)
----
Great, another Mr Creosote!

Posted by: Ciampino - nice run, wrong machine at April 25, 2025 03:15 AM (sPQoU)

440 437 Sir, please keep it down or everyone will want one too. By the way is it raw or cooked?

Posted by: Ciampino - fuzz instead of glitter at April 25, 2025 02:49 AM (sPQoU)
-

Dunno but I just vomited.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2025 03:03 AM (Kjgs1)
----
You disappoint me Sir, I did ask you to keep it down!

Posted by: Ciampino - nice run, wrong panel at April 25, 2025 03:19 AM (sPQoU)

441 "363 Japanese car maker Subaru, deals blow to Trump, moves production OUT of US

https://mol.im/a/14645149"

Lesbians hardest hit.

Posted by: TC at April 25, 2025 03:37 AM (szqEY)

442 Probably an indication of things to come, my parents told me that nothing in the house was safe after I discovered the screwdriver.

Door knobs, clocks, anything that could be unscrewed to see what was inside was game. They had to hide them from me.

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2025 03:52 AM (QB+5g)

443 Now it's time to get up and don't want to

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 03:56 AM (ypFCm)

444 .
NOOD

Pixy's here with the Tech Thread

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 25, 2025 04:31 AM (O7YUW)

445 The ignorance of generations amazes me. Particularly the constant blaming of Boomers for things that an older generation does. This post refers to Pope Francis, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and John Kerry as boomers. Not one of them is - they're too old. I call them members of the Oswald generation because Lee Harvey Oswald's scrambled Marxist beliefs and violence reflect them.

Posted by: Juan Paxety at April 25, 2025 05:49 AM (wNXQ9)

Doggy Supermarket Sweep Cafe

The Nile from space
I'm an astronaut now!!!
So are you!!!

Doggy grifter.

Little dog shows he's totally ready to fight off a predator.

Lab on a swing.

How can I miss you when you won't let me leave?

Doggy Demolition.

Puppy gets the last drop of a treat.

Siblings.

An old clip: Penguins just won't take the hint.

Dogs have differing energy levels.

He identifies as a human female, so.

This is the cutest thing on the internet. pic.twitter.com/X0WNEhhWxI
— Puppies 🐶 (@PuppiesIover) April 23, 2025

Dog whenever they need food 😂 pic.twitter.com/IQ01JGbhYL
— Puppies 🐶 (@PuppiesIover) April 23, 2025

Stick with it.

😂 pic.twitter.com/8vo5I3Rwrf
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 24, 2025

Is it real? I don't know. Funny though.

Back to school pic.twitter.com/wHR1wbIp0x
— Puppies 🐶 (@PuppiesIover) April 24, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:30 PM

Comments

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 07:39 PM (ypFCm)

2
Yo. Hey.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2025 07:40 PM (0vUau)

3 thirdish?

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at April 24, 2025 07:42 PM (sMkAM)

4 The smell ... the smell ...

Posted by: Col. Kurz, encountering penguins for the first time at April 24, 2025 07:42 PM (0sNs1)

5 Jim SND report. Jim is at home and working on regaining some strength.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 07:42 PM (oXfCm)

6 An old clip: Penguins just won't take the hint.

===

that's amazing!

Posted by: runner at April 24, 2025 07:43 PM (g47mK)

7 I want to see the doggie shopper go through the checkout line

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 07:43 PM (ypFCm)

8 Ben thanks for the update

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 07:43 PM (ypFCm)

9 The Nile from space

You can see the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba to the right of the Nile. Very cool.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2025 07:44 PM (s8j++)

10 There is a weight sensor in the seat

Posted by: Accomack at April 24, 2025 07:44 PM (JY+81)

11 Jim SND report. Jim is at home and working on regaining some strength.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 07:42 PM (oXfCm)

Good news! Shout out to Jim, if you are reading this!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2025 07:44 PM (8zz6B)

12 The Nile from space

We've had a week of de Nile from space.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 07:46 PM (DgGvY)

13 Is it gross to drink milk after a bowl of ice cream?

Posted by: Accomack at April 24, 2025 07:47 PM (JY+81)

14 Remember, friends, they know they are losing. That’s why they are so desperate!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 07:47 PM (12Bbv)

15 Dogs have differing energy levels.

Their names are Mary Jane and Elizameth.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 07:48 PM (DgGvY)

16
Jim SND report. Jim is at home and working on regaining some strength.
Posted by: Ben Had

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

WOW. Great!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 24, 2025 07:48 PM (mC23r)

17 {{{Jim}}}

Hope the Horde is providing you some entertainment.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 24, 2025 07:49 PM (Vqx30)

18 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 07:49 PM (vKNmo)

19 I didn't see any meat in that dog's shopping cart.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2025 07:50 PM (63Dwl)

20 Helena Handbasket. did have to put water wings on your goats today?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 07:51 PM (oXfCm)

21 5 Jim SND report. Jim is at home and working on regaining some strength.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 07:42 PM (oXfCm)

Great news, thank you! Good evening, Jim SND.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 24, 2025 07:51 PM (h7ZuX)

22 Dogs in grocery stores grosses me out.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 07:51 PM (Q8X17)

23 The little dog with his shopping cart is adorable! What surprises me is that some shoppers see him but don’t stare in fascination. The two women shoppers who turned and looked had proper reactions in my book.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 07:51 PM (12Bbv)

24 Doggie was corrupted by vegetarians

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 07:52 PM (ypFCm)

25 9 The Nile from space

You can see the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba to the right of the Nile. Very cool.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2025 07:44 PM (s8j++)
----
A photo of the source of the Nile would have shown 'my house' location in 1950 as well as my final location at the southern end 16 years later.

Posted by: Ciampino - contact sports at April 24, 2025 07:53 PM (sPQoU)

26 13 Is it gross to drink milk after a bowl of ice cream?

How soon, and how rich was the ice cream and milk?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 07:53 PM (12Bbv)

27 Hi Jim!

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

28 ‘Excuse Me Sir …’ still has me laughing.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 24, 2025 07:54 PM (VofaG)

29 Is it gross to drink milk after a bowl of ice cream?
Posted by: Accomack

Hell yes.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 07:54 PM (vKNmo)

30 Ciampino, you need to document your experiences

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 07:54 PM (oXfCm)

31 Jim SND report. Jim is at home and working on regaining some strength.
Posted by: Ben Had

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

WOW. Great!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 24, 2025 07:48 PM (mC23r)

Definitely worth a happy dance!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 07:55 PM (VNX3d)

32 "Is it gross to drink milk after a bowl of ice cream?
Posted by: Accomack"

It's a milkshake you mix in your stomach.

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2025 07:56 PM (vFG9F)

33 Dogs in grocery stores grosses me out.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 07:51 PM (Q8X17)

Agrees. Love the doggo's but please stay away from my foodz.

Posted by: Kwak! at April 24, 2025 07:57 PM (89Sog)

34 If Gayle King asks her Tesla to take her someplace she's never been before, she could end up in space.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2025 07:58 PM (elz1b)

35 I thought today on way home I haven't had a milkshake in a extremely long time.

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2025 07:58 PM (ypFCm)

36 Dog isn't going to finger the produce.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 07:58 PM (oXfCm)

37 Dog isn't going to finger the produce.
==

It might lick the produce.

Posted by: runner at April 24, 2025 07:59 PM (g47mK)

38 Planet Fitness, chubbo! Leave the girl. See you in a few hours.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2025 08:00 PM (LHPAg)

39
Cleaned the pens in the kennel this afternoon. Pulled and power washed the mats, swept, vacuumed and scrubbed the floors, bleached and rinsed the water buckets. I hurt all over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2025 08:01 PM (QnmlO)

40 After ice cream, milk is almost the only thing that tastes fine. Water will be gross. If you added a little whisky to the ice cream then more whisky will taste great. Belay that, more whisky always tastes great.

Posted by: Ciampino - is kissing a contact sport? at April 24, 2025 08:02 PM (sPQoU)

41 Ok, we see the Nile. Now do the St Johns River in Florida...

Posted by: dc at April 24, 2025 08:02 PM (u0crE)

42 runner, Ariana grande can show the dog how it's done.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 08:02 PM (oXfCm)

43 Can you see the pyramids along the Nile?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 24, 2025 08:04 PM (viF8m)

44 Puppies!

though the old graynose with the food bowl is priceless, too.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 24, 2025 08:04 PM (/Ghsb)

45 32. LOL! true!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 24, 2025 08:06 PM (/Ghsb)

46 olddog had take a new puppy to work day. Wonder how that went

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 08:07 PM (oXfCm)

47 Jim, glad to hear you're at home. Big hugs to you & Iris.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 24, 2025 08:09 PM (Szews)

48 Is it gross to drink milk after a bowl of ice cream?
Posted by: Accomack

I'm in the camp that thinks it's gross to drink a glass of milk. Ever.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 24, 2025 08:10 PM (h7ZuX)

49

Hubby and I have had several Great Danes over the decades. We had two that were half-sisters, born 6 months apart. They were wonderful though we had second thoughts one morning when we got up and went into the family room. Yes, the couch looked like the destroyed couch in the video, lol. We had to buy a new couch. They never destroyed another couch after that. We never figured out what they didn't like about the one the destroyed, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2025 08:10 PM (3ek7K)

50 Happy Friday Eve, All!

Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2025 08:10 PM (77rzZ)

51 Hello, friends! Hope everyone had a great Thursday.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2025 08:13 PM (pZEOD)

52 >>> 20 Helena Handbasket. did have to put water wings on your goats today?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 07:51 PM (oXfCm)

Not today, but last year when Beryl (?) came through we got 6 inches of rain in a day.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 24, 2025 08:13 PM (Vqx30)

53 Am dithering.

Do I pre-order from a hobby store in Australia a model kit at a known price. Or simply wait to see how much it costs when it finally reaches the US?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 08:13 PM (FEpIj)

54 Geesh, I mention boobs and everything shuts down. Am I on the right site?

*taps phone* Is this thing on?

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2025 08:15 PM (77rzZ)

55 >>> 49

Hubby and I have had several Great Danes over the decades. We had two that were half-sisters, born 6 months apart. They were wonderful though we had second thoughts one morning when we got up and went into the family room. Yes, the couch looked like the destroyed couch in the video, lol. We had to buy a new couch. They never destroyed another couch after that. We never figured out what they didn't like about the one the destroyed, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2025 08:10 PM (3ek7K)

It smelled like commies.

Posted by: four seasons' Great Danes at April 24, 2025 08:15 PM (Vqx30)

56 If Gayle King asks her Tesla to take her someplace she's never been before, she could end up in space.

Or Wal-Mart

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 08:15 PM (FEpIj)

57 Hey, Piper! How’s the pup doing?

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2025 08:15 PM (77rzZ)

58
If you want to see some very nice orbital videos and pictures, scroll through Don Pettit's X feed here:

https://tinyurl.com/22vgtkp4

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 08:16 PM (w6EFb)

59 I expected the Ne to have ore crocodiles.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 08:17 PM (sI7wh)

60 46 olddog had take a new puppy to work day. Wonder how that went
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025

Saijo was really coming out of his shell this morning, playing and bouncing around, being cute. He made the mistake of sniffing a cat first and got hissed at with a paw swipe, but no claws involved. He has been traumatized the rest of the day.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2025 08:17 PM (pZEOD)

61 We never figured out what they didn't like about the one the destroyed, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2025 08:10 PM (3ek7K)

It smelled like commies.
Posted by: four seasons' Great Danes at April 24, 2025 08:15 PM (Vqx30)

*snort

Good bois

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 24, 2025 08:17 PM (h7ZuX)

62 I'm in the camp that thinks it's gross to drink a glass of milk. Ever.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Word. I can do it on cereal but that's it.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 08:18 PM (vKNmo)

63 Piper, poor little Soup. Already introduced to the cat version of 'talk to the hand.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 08:18 PM (FEpIj)

64 57 Hey, Piper! How’s the pup doing?
Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2025

He is still so cute, little marshmallow guy! No accidents. He did chew my pottery barn mirror when I guess everyone let him run amok while I was teaching this morning. So of course I went out and bought 4 different safe chew options. He doesn’t like any of them, but maybe he will learn what they are for eventually.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2025 08:20 PM (pZEOD)

65 Puppy with the Starbucks Puppucino is pretty darn cute!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 24, 2025 08:20 PM (SRRAx)

66
Piper,

It won't be long before pupster and the cats are playing together.

The two Great Danes that destroyed the couch, lol, loved our teacup Chihuahuas we had at the same time. The bitties loved the Danes.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2025 08:20 PM (3ek7K)

67 63 Piper, poor little Soup. Already introduced to the cat version of 'talk to the hand.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 08

It was very confusing to him because that particular cat has sniffed him a few times. He just wasn’t allowed to sniff back. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2025 08:21 PM (pZEOD)

68 Ok, finally got reef pictures into the pet thread email. And a video.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2025 08:23 PM (zZu0s)

69
Cleaned the pens in the kennel this afternoon. Pulled and power washed the mats, swept, vacuumed and scrubbed the floors, bleached and rinsed the water buckets. I hurt all over.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I hurt all over just from reading this!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2025 08:23 PM (63Dwl)

70 Ajax was fine with cats. They just had to stay up in the cat trees where they were supposed to or he would by God chase them there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2025 08:24 PM (zZu0s)

71 53 Am dithering.

Do I pre-order from a hobby store in Australia a model kit at a known price. Or simply wait to see how much it costs when it finally reaches the US?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 08:13 PM (FEpIj)

3D printer FTW.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 08:25 PM (sI7wh)

72 Chambord liqueur goes very well with vanilla ice cream.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 24, 2025 08:26 PM (/HDaX)

73 Hello, Jim SND! 😘😘😘. Glad you are back home 💕😊

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 24, 2025 08:26 PM (SRRAx)

74 Problem, do not own a 3D printer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 08:26 PM (FEpIj)

75 There are people who actually hate milk? And who aren’t lactose-intolerant?

Weird.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2025 08:26 PM (77rzZ)

76 59 I expected the Ne to have ore crocodiles.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 08:17 PM (sI7wh)

My copy editor is definitely going to have nightmares after what I do to him.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 08:27 PM (sI7wh)

77
Wang Chung from the Fram2 polar orbit posted this timelapse of an ascending leg from the south pole to the north:
https://tinyurl.com/24sj6q57

I thought I remembered a slower version of that, but can't find it. Anyway, for the life of me, I can't make out the land masses there. It's a roughly meridional path, somewhere. The earth rotates a little bit during the path, but not too much.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 08:27 PM (w6EFb)

78 Chambord liqueur goes very well with vanilla ice cream.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 24, 2025 08:26 PM (/HDaX)

Chamboard was... raspberry?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2025 08:28 PM (zZu0s)

79 I hear that at her trial today, evidence was introduced showing that Karen Read likes Five Guys.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2025 08:28 PM (Aqu9a)

80 Tank demon, what are you writing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 08:29 PM (FEpIj)

81 I hear that at her trial today, evidence was introduced showing that Karen Read likes Five Guys.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2025 08:28 PM (Aqu9a)

That slut.

Posted by: Red Robin at April 24, 2025 08:29 PM (zZu0s)

82 Ok. This just occurred to me.

One of my work peeps has been going on and on about how he and his buddies get cheap tickets to the Mariners games and know where the cheap beer and dogs are and I’ve said, “that’s awesome! Party on!”

He just asked me if I wanted to joint them tomorrow night. I said “heck yes! I love baseball!”

He bought me a ticket. This doesn’t mean it’s a date, does it?

I’m probably old enough to be his mother.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 08:31 PM (mT+6a)

83 Each pissant Judge is his own legislative body.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2025 08:31 PM (NUl+P)

84 It's a.personal joke. After posting a typo-laden comment I always blame my "copy editor" and describe various methods of torture I will subject hin to for his lackadaisical efforts.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 08:32 PM (sI7wh)

85 Can you see the pyramids along the Nile?

No, but you can watch the sunrise on a tropic isle.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2025 08:32 PM (s8j++)

86 hard to believe, Bulg, but it's true, I've met a few ...

meh, de gustibus non est disputandem, innit?

I was raised on the stuff, helped me grow up big & strong, still drink a gallon or so every week.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 24, 2025 08:33 PM (/Ghsb)

87 He bought me a ticket. This doesn’t mean it’s a date, does it?

I’m probably old enough to be his mother.
Posted by: nurse ratched

You aren't Stiffler's Mom are you?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 08:33 PM (vKNmo)

88 Chamboard was... raspberry?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 24, 2025 08:28 PM (zZu0s)

Yep!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 24, 2025 08:33 PM (/HDaX)

89 Can you see the pyramids along the Nile?

No, but you can watch the sunrise on a tropic isle.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2025 08:32 PM (s8j++)

While choosing designs for new bathroom tile.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2025 08:35 PM (Aqu9a)

90 He bought me a ticket. This doesn’t mean it’s a date, does it?

I’m probably old enough to be his mother.

YOLO. Go for it and have fun.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 24, 2025 08:35 PM (mH6SG)

91 My car insurance went down by $150.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2025 08:35 PM (NUl+P)

92 83 And all non-pissant judges alike legislative bodies.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2025 08:35 PM (77rzZ)

93
77

I thought I remembered a slower version of that, but can't find it. Anyway, for the life of me, I can't make out the land masses there. It's a roughly meridional path, somewhere. The earth rotates a little bit during the path, but not too much.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 08:27 PM (w6EFb)

------

Africa, then Europe? I thought I saw the Mediterranean, and Italy plus Sicily and Corsica, then the Baltic.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 24, 2025 08:36 PM (g3j/k)

94 92 *are alike*

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2025 08:37 PM (77rzZ)

95 The Nile from space
I'm an astronaut now!!!
So are you!!!

I'm a space cowboy.

Posted by: Steve Miller at April 24, 2025 08:37 PM (ynpvh)

96 He bought me a ticket. This doesn’t mean it’s a date, does it?

I’m probably old enough to be his mother.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Offer to reimburse him for the ticket. If he says no it's on him, it's a date

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 24, 2025 08:38 PM (GhIJO)

97 86 I love milk.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2025 08:38 PM (77rzZ)

98 87 You aren't Stiffler's Mom are you?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025

She is Stacy’s mom!

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2025 08:39 PM (p4NUW)

99 I especially like to mix milk with root beer. An instant vanilla float!

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2025 08:40 PM (77rzZ)

100 He bought me a ticket. This doesn’t mean it’s a date, does it?

I’m probably old enough to be his mother.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 08:31 PM (mT+6a)

Raawwwrrr, cougar! Really, though, I'll bet he just thinks you're a cool coworker and is glad to go to the game with someone who will have fun.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 24, 2025 08:40 PM (h7ZuX)

101 98 87 You aren't Stiffler's Mom are you?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025

She is Stacy’s mom!

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2025 08:39 PM (p4NUW)

That's hot!

Posted by: Fountains of Wayne at April 24, 2025 08:40 PM (ynpvh)

102 Nurse has a date!

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2025 08:41 PM (77rzZ)

103 82 He just asked me if I wanted to joint them tomorrow night. I said “heck yes! I love baseball!”

He bought me a ticket. This doesn’t mean it’s a date, does it?

I’m probably old enough to be his mother.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 08:31 PM (mT+6a)

If you were invited to join the group, it isn't a date, just a hangout. Just to be sure, start flirting with one of the other gentlemen in attendance. If he starts acting jealous, maybe it is a date.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 08:42 PM (sI7wh)

104 I'm with #90 ... yolo!

he may well just be a generous goof and think you are cool and fun ... and if not I have confidence in your ability to dissuade him with minimal breakage ...
but travel to & from under your own power, just in case ...

full disclosure: my advice guaranteed to be worth what it costs, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 24, 2025 08:44 PM (/Ghsb)

105 >> Africa, then Europe?

That may well have been Africa, but I can't be sure. Coming off the south, that is the first land mass you see, and I think that was the south part of Africa. The clouds just obscure things past that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 08:44 PM (w6EFb)

106 103 addendum:

If he does start getting jealous, remember to share all the drama with us here.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 08:44 PM (sI7wh)

107 This doesn’t mean it’s a date, does it?
I’m probably old enough to be his mother.
Posted by: nurse ratched

So?
There are whole categories about this on pr0n sites.
So I've read.

(ducks, runs, hides until the ONT)

Posted by: mindful webworker - and hello Horde at April 24, 2025 08:45 PM (SWvjw)

108 If he does start getting jealous, remember to share all the drama with us here.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 08:44 PM (sI7wh)

Yeah, that!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 24, 2025 08:45 PM (h7ZuX)

109
The Fram 2 crew do qualify as astronauts, commercial astronauts (NASA and the military get their own definitions, and at some point there was some sort of disdain for the private crews. The definition of that belongs to the FAA).

Anyway, the term "spaceflight participant" has been used. But, I don't think Katy Perry and co. even qualify for that. So, they don't even get a participation trophy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 08:46 PM (w6EFb)

110 Nothing better than dogs around consumables in restaurants and grocery stores.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:47 PM (+xH4m)

111 Nurse

Don't over think, just accept the gift and have a good time with a coworker.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 08:48 PM (FEpIj)

112 Anyway, the term "spaceflight participant" has been used

--

Oh man, "spaceflight participant" would likely infuriate the 70%ers even more.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:48 PM (+xH4m)

113 107 Hey, Mindful! Good to see you here. You were gone for awhile, no?

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2025 08:49 PM (77rzZ)

114 109
The Fram 2 crew do qualify as astronauts, commercial astronauts (NASA and the military get their own definitions, and at some point there was some sort of disdain for the private crews. The definition of that belongs to the FAA).

Anyway, the term "spaceflight participant" has been used. But, I don't think Katy Perry and co. even qualify for that. So, they don't even get a participation trophy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 08:46 PM (w6EFb
Did they get paid? If so they are called something else.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2025 08:49 PM (LHPAg)

115 We're having a downpour,
a tropical downpour . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2025 08:49 PM (Aqu9a)

116 >>No, but you can watch the sunrise on a tropic isle.

Oh to be young again.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 24, 2025 08:50 PM (viF8m)

117 If you want to see a stupid politician, try this video of the Governator of Wisconsin, for the NFL Draft.

https://tinyurl.com/4ktpz7nc

I think a lot of the Ettes here could do better.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 08:50 PM (VNX3d)

118 He bought me a ticket. This doesn’t mean it’s a date, does it?

I’m probably old enough to be his mother.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 08:31 PM (mT+6a)

Raawwwrrr, cougar! Really, though, I'll bet he just thinks you're a cool coworker and is glad to go to the game with someone who will have fun.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Either way, wear clean underwear cause you never know what might happen...

... could get in a wreck or something.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 08:50 PM (/lPRQ)

119 Oh man, "spaceflight participant" would likely infuriate the 70%ers even more.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:48 PM (+xH4m)

Supercargo. Super-duper supercargo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2025 08:50 PM (8zz6B)

120 Can you see the pyramids along the Nile?

No, but you can watch the sunrise on a tropic isle.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2025 08:32 PM (s8j++)

While choosing designs for new bathroom tile.
Posted by: Count de Monet

To show the world some guile
Try going that extra mile.

Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2025 08:51 PM (lJ0H4)

121
We're having a downpour,
a tropical downpour . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2025 08:49 PM (Aqu9a)

___________

Holy smokes, you really are. Looks like it'll miss us here in Brazoria County.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2025 08:51 PM (QnmlO)

122 appropriately for a Puppy Thread, tonight's sixer is New Glarus Tailwagger's Amber Ale.

*toast gesture*
Confusion To Our Enemies!

*tosses back last shot in the handle of Svedka*

*washes it down with a healthy quaff*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 24, 2025 08:52 PM (/Ghsb)

123 Oh man, "spaceflight participant" would likely infuriate the 70%ers even more.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:48 PM (+xH4m)

Supercargo. Super-duper supercargo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2025 08:50 PM (8zz6B)

Ballast.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2025 08:52 PM (Aqu9a)

124 118 Either way, wear clean underwear cause you never know what might happen...

... could get in a wreck or something.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24

I was ready to see Mama Miklos in the signature line.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2025 08:52 PM (p4NUW)

125 Thanks y’all.

Last time I was asked out for a real date I ended up on the hospital having my appendix removed.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 08:53 PM (mT+6a)

126 Either way, wear clean underwear cause you never know what might happen...

... could get in a wreck or something.
Posted by: Itineran

But if you are in a wreck, you will wind up with soiled underwear.

Posted by: Josephistan at April 24, 2025 08:53 PM (GM3CZ)

127 Anyway, the term "spaceflight participant" has been used

--

Oh man, "spaceflight participant" would likely infuriate the 70%ers even more.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:48 PM (+xH4m)

Call them "cargo", "supercargo", or, my favorite, "stowaways".

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 08:53 PM (VNX3d)

128 Can you see the pyramids along the Nile?

No, but you can watch the sunrise on a tropic isle.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2025 08:32 PM (s8j++)

While choosing designs for new bathroom tile.
Posted by: Count de Monet

To show the world some guile
Try going that extra mile.
Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2025 08:51 PM (lJ0H4)

Posted by: Burma Shave at April 24, 2025 08:53 PM (Aqu9a)

129 Fantastic news about Jim SND!!

Posted by: LASue at April 24, 2025 08:53 PM (lCppi)

130 Oh man, "spaceflight participant" would likely infuriate the 70%ers even more.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:48 PM (+xH4m)

Supercargo. Super-duper supercargo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Pax.
AKA Passengers. Like on an airplane or rollercoaster.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 08:53 PM (/lPRQ)

131 Speaking of soiled underwear, I once had a cup of tea made from Nile water.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 08:54 PM (hY4dx)

132 128 Can you see the pyramids along the Nile?

No, but you can watch the sunrise on a tropic isle.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2025 08:32 PM (s8j++)

While choosing designs for new bathroom tile.
Posted by: Count de Monet

To show the world some guile
Try going that extra mile.
Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2025 08:51 PM (lJ0H4)

Posted by: Burma Shave at April

Do it all with a smile.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2025 08:54 PM (p4NUW)

133
Supercargo. Super-duper supercargo.
-

Ballast.

-

Some other moron mentioned it first, but they proudly surpassed an accomplishment of a dog in 1957

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:54 PM (+xH4m)

134 Either way, wear clean underwear cause you never know what might happen...
... could get in a wreck or something.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

"Clean underwear" is the guy rule.

"Matching underwear" is the gal rule.

At least I once heard "if her bra and panties match, she was planning to show them to you when she put them on."

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 08:55 PM (DgGvY)

135 Last time I was asked out for a real date I ended up on the hospital having my appendix removed.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 08:53 PM (mT+6a)

Next on Dating Disasters . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2025 08:55 PM (Aqu9a)

136 We just got hit by a great gully washer and now the air is fresh and new. Lovely.

Posted by: LASue at April 24, 2025 08:55 PM (lCppi)

137 Look I get it. People love dogs. I get that you really love your personal pet dog. But if my dog destroys the TV, eats my couch, and tears a door to pieces, its going outside, if not to the pound.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 24, 2025 08:56 PM (2VST1)

138 awww cheezz, nurse ... bummer!

*fistbump* anyway; you survived, you're still here!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 24, 2025 08:57 PM (/Ghsb)

139 At least I once heard "if her bra and panties match, she was planning to show them to you when she put them on."

The one I heard is every woman has a favorite bra she wears for comfort and you only get to see that one when she really likes you and is comfortable with you.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 24, 2025 08:57 PM (2VST1)

140 Pax.
AKA Passengers. Like on an airplane or rollercoaster.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 08:53 PM (/lPRQ)

Yeah, did "passenger" become offensive when I wasn't paying attention?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 24, 2025 08:57 PM (h7ZuX)

141 Welcome home, JSND.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 24, 2025 08:58 PM (mH6SG)

142 Can you see the pyramids along the Nile?

No, but you can watch the sunrise on a tropic isle.
Posted by: Archimedes

While choosing designs for new bathroom tile.
Posted by: Count de Monet

To show the world some guile
Try going that extra mile.
Posted by: Tuna

Do it all with a smile.
Posted by: Piper

Everyone here's a logophile.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 08:58 PM (DgGvY)

143

Blue Bell has root beer float ice cream.

https://t.ly/VPO5W

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2025 08:59 PM (63Dwl)

144 Yeah, did "passenger" become offensive when I wasn't paying attention?

-

It's EDUCATORS, dammit!!!
- Teachers

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:59 PM (+xH4m)

145 Pax.
AKA Passengers. Like on an airplane or rollercoaster.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 08:53 PM (/lPRQ)
‘That is your seat. Fasten your seatbelt and do not touch the controls.’
- said most every pilot ever

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2025 09:00 PM (LHPAg)

146 Last time I was asked out for a real date I ended up on the hospital having my appendix removed.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Look on the bright side: that'll never happen again.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 09:00 PM (DgGvY)

147 136, yes, nothing quite like that freshest of air!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 24, 2025 09:00 PM (/Ghsb)

148 It's EDUCATORS, dammit!!!
- Teachers
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:59 PM (+xH4m)

I thought they preferred dictators, or dick taters, depending on their desire to corrupt the kiddies.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 09:01 PM (VNX3d)

149 I'm in the camp that thinks it's gross to drink a glass of milk. Ever.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 24, 2025 08:10 PM (h7ZuX)

I bought far too much Bavarian malt powder, so I discovered that it mixes well with milk if you warm the milk up.
I also have been making yogurt, but it took me a while to realize the starter I had required some sugar to get it kickstarted, otherwise it just clabbered and turned into curds.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 09:01 PM (D7oie)

150 142 Can you see the pyramids along the Nile?

No, but you can watch the sunrise on a tropic isle.
Posted by: Archimedes

While choosing designs for new bathroom tile.
Posted by: Count de Monet

To show the world some guile
Try going that extra mile.
Posted by: Tuna

Do it all with a smile.
Posted by: Piper

Everyone here's a logophile.
Posted by: mikeski
--------------------------

It all belongs to me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 09:01 PM (Drm1A)

151 I'm in the camp that thinks it's gross to drink a glass of milk. Ever.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
-

(looks up from my glass of buttermilk with cornbread crumbled in it)

Wait, what now?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:02 PM (+xH4m)

152 Speaking of space

Tomorrow morning, an hour before dawn (check to be sure that's right), there is going to be a really rare "smiley face" moon where Venus and Saturn serve as eyes and the moon is the smile.

I think it's going to be sideways, but it's still going to be something fun to see, especially if you have kids.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:04 PM (+xH4m)

153 151 I'm in the camp that thinks it's gross to drink a glass of milk. Ever.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
-

(looks up from my glass of buttermilk with cornbread crumbled in it)

Wait, what now?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:02 PM (+xH4m)
And molasses.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2025 09:05 PM (LHPAg)

154 Hmm... Never tried molasses in it. Just pour it on top?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:05 PM (+xH4m)

155 I used to drink a lot of milk. I stopped for some years, then tried it again. It came in a plastic jug, but tasted more like paper or cardboard than I remembered. Never reacquired the taste for it.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 09:05 PM (VNX3d)

156 I never really liked the taste of milk much but most products made from it are great. A glass of milk is not great, but a piece of cheese

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 24, 2025 09:06 PM (2VST1)

157 Tomorrow morning, an hour before dawn (check to be sure that's right), there is going to be a really rare "smiley face" moon where Venus and Saturn serve as eyes and the moon is the smile.

I think it's going to be sideways, but it's still going to be something fun to see, especially if you have kids.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

And you can tell your kids of the Olde Days, before emoji, when you had to make sideways smileys out of colons and parentheses.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 09:07 PM (DgGvY)

158 WHen I was a teenager we had goats and I had to milk them every morning. Goat milk has a particular tang to it that I really despised.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 24, 2025 09:08 PM (2VST1)

159 154 Hmm... Never tried molasses in it. Just pour it on top?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:05 PM (+xH4m)
Anywhere. Just don't put it on your cornbread and then crumble it.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2025 09:08 PM (LHPAg)

160 158 WHen I was a teenager we had goats and I had to milk them every morning. Goat milk has a particular tang to it that I really despised.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 24, 2025 09:08 PM (2VST1)

Same. I can't stand anything goat because of it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 24, 2025 09:09 PM (h7ZuX)

161 Somebody said they hadn’t had a milkshake in a long time. Well if you can have a milkshake but just haven’t in a long while there is a chain that just opened up in the county seat near me called Wayback Burgers. As the name suggests, they cook your burger to order, and you can complement your burger with whatever you want on it, but also things like real fried onion rings and a milkshake, choice of three flavors. You might go looking to see if there is an outlet near you! Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Wayback Burgers except as a customer.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 09:10 PM (12Bbv)

162 Anywhere. Just don't put it on your cornbread and then crumble it.
Posted by: Eromero

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Thanks. I don't eat a lot of sweet with cornbread (no sugar in mine), but I'll give that a try. Hmm... Maybe honey, too.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:11 PM (+xH4m)

163
And you can tell your kids of the Olde Days, before emoji, when you had to make sideways smileys out of colons and parentheses.
Posted by: mikeski

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Ha. And when we looked at the moon smiley face it was uphill both ways!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:12 PM (+xH4m)

164 I like goat milk. We have a lot of goat soap because when Joel ran the DHIA, he would work with a lot of goat dairies and they'd give him several bars every visit. Its old fashioned hand made soap (kinda like the stuff they made in Fight Club, but with goats not people) and it works really well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 24, 2025 09:12 PM (2VST1)

165 At phys.org: "Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades"

I saw Tardigrade Trampstamps open for The Nematoids at Avalon Ballroom, but I needed a microscope to do it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 24, 2025 09:13 PM (SdNC+)

166 good news from Jim SND.
Many prayers from many of us are sent regularly.

Jim, you are in our thoughts. Iris, too.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 24, 2025 09:14 PM (Eo96p)

167 Imma go with
This is just a fun thing with fun folks and I was invited to join in.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 09:14 PM (mT+6a)

168 . Well if you can have a milkshake but just haven’t in a long while there is a chain that just opened up in the county seat near me called Wayback Burgers.

They opened a place near here and its pretty good food, good burgers. However, I tried Steak and Shake when I was in Kentucky and damn, that's some good food. Especially the little fries. I had kind of burned out on french fries, but they reminded me what I used to like about them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 24, 2025 09:14 PM (2VST1)

169 Hey, Mindful! Good to see you here. You were gone for awhile, no?
Posted by: Bulg

I'm like Bill Murray in What About Bob? I'm always here.
https://youtu.be/0pKymngWgJw

I lurk along late-ish through the days, but burst out on the ONTs, usually.

Posted by: mindful webworker - is this some radical new therapy? at April 24, 2025 09:15 PM (SWvjw)

170 I have been experimenting with bread. Today's experiment involved cooking up a quarter cup of rice flour with a cup of water into gruel, letting it cool a bit, and mixing in amber malt and salt, letting it cool a bit more, and then adding yeast, a cup of water, and 5 cups of flour.
It makes a very sticky dough that makes a loaf that is almost as soft as store bread. apparently pre cooking the starch makes a nice gelatinized goo that really tempers the dough while rising.

I get to try it with other starches to see what works best.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 09:15 PM (D7oie)

171 I think I know the passengers on the next Blue Origin flight. They're going to send up a dozen ducks, to see if they end up in a row during the flight - or on landing!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 09:16 PM (VNX3d)

172 Especially the little fries. I had kind of burned out on french fries, but they reminded me what I used to like about them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Steak and Shake fries are fried in beef tallow now. That's why they taste so good.

Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2025 09:16 PM (lJ0H4)

173 Warm up...

" The biggest Existential Threat to the United States of America..."IS WHITE LIBERAL WOMEN!!!"

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 24, 2025 09:16 PM (25kuG)

174 BBL...

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 24, 2025 09:17 PM (25kuG)

175 StopAntisemitism@StopAntisemites
Only 3 lawmakers voted to classify Israel as an adversary of the U.S. - alongside North Korea, China, and Iran.
Who were they?
- Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
- Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
- Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)
Shameful. The amendment failed 3-410 in one of the most overwhelming rejections in congressional history.

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I thought they were straight shooting middle America mainstreamers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 24, 2025 09:18 PM (L/fGl)

176 Some other moron mentioned it first, but they proudly surpassed an accomplishment of a dog in 1957
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:54 PM (+xH4m)

Actually, they didn't. Laika orbited. Also, unlike the Penis Rocket Seven, Laika died on the mission.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2025 09:18 PM (ExV1e)

177 164 ) and it works really well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 24, 2025

It’s very moisturizing and supports the skin barrier. Good stuff!

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2025 09:18 PM (aT5K/)

178 Steak and Shake fries are fried in beef tallow now.

Yeah they announce it on the menu. Wish they had some around here. I tried Cracker Barrel as well and damn that's good stuff as well. Definitely need that in my town, maybe not the tchotchkies and the front store but the menu, nothing really like that around here.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 24, 2025 09:18 PM (2VST1)

179 There's yet another release of Star Wars, with yet another re-edit of the famous Cantina Scene. In the new release, a gigantic CGI muppet cuts off Luke's arm with a band saw.

Too little, too late.

Posted by: Bombadil at April 24, 2025 09:19 PM (MX0bI)

180 Imma go with
This is just a fun thing with fun folks and I was invited to join in.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 09:14 PM (mT+6a)

Be sure to order the footlong, quarter-pounder hot dog with a knowing, enigmatic smile.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2025 09:19 PM (Aqu9a)

181 Some other moron mentioned it first, but they proudly surpassed an accomplishment of a dog in 1957
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:54 PM (+xH4m)

Actually, they didn't. Laika orbited. Also, unlike the Penis Rocket Seven, Laika died on the mission.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

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That was the feat I was celebrating them accomplishing.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:19 PM (+xH4m)

182
Well, I'll be damned, I was looking at Stellarium to see the "smiley face" timing, and damned if the ISS isn't going to zoom right through the smiley face. Lightning conditions will be optimal, and it will about +1.8 magnitude.

So, I'll take that as a sign I should be out looking.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 09:22 PM (w6EFb)

183 Well, I'll be damned, I was looking at Stellarium to see the "smiley face" timing, and damned if the ISS isn't going to zoom right through the smiley face. Lightning conditions will be optimal, and it will about +1.8 magnitude.

So, I'll take that as a sign I should be out looking.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

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Neat. What time did you find for that?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:23 PM (+xH4m)

184 Gotta have a nice cold glass of milk with a slice of chocolate cake. Just gotta. IMO.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 24, 2025 09:26 PM (mH6SG)

185 He bought me a ticket. This doesn’t mean it’s a date, does it?

I’m probably old enough to be his mother.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 08:31 PM

Coo coo kachoo, nurse Robinson!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2025 09:27 PM (Wnv9h)

186 I get to try it with other starches to see what works best.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 09:15 PM (D7oie)

I like experimenting with cooking, but try my recipe that I stole from my sister. It's in the Horde Cookbook. Much easier, and the result is amazing.

I'm just too damned lazy to mess with cooking up starch...

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 09:28 PM (a4NoL)

187
He bought me a ticket. This doesn’t mean it’s a date, does it?

I’m probably old enough to be his mother.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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This isn't a real question is it?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:28 PM (+xH4m)

188 So, I'll take that as a sign I should be out looking.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 09:22 PM (w6EFb)

At the very least, you should be out standing in your field.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 09:29 PM (a4NoL)

189 Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2025 07:42 PM

Great news!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2025 09:29 PM (Wnv9h)

190 Doggy Grifter figures if I can't see you, you can't see me.

Posted by: javens at April 24, 2025 09:30 PM (8I4hW)

191 Confession: I take my tea with half and half as creamer. Hot tea from a blue bettie pot of course! I like PG Tips, but any strong black tea will do. I take Earl Grey in the afternoon, and sometimes make it a high tea. Problem: they don’t put any vitamin D in half and half because it is meant for adults. Only children’s milk is fortified. Solution: I take vitamin D2 in tablet form supplemented with vitamin K2. The K2 helps make sure the D2 goes where it ought to in the body, not into fat storage. Got to be careful about fat soluble vitamins like A and D!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 09:30 PM (12Bbv)

192 I have been wifing all day. Made pot pies for dinner, waiting for DH to get here and mix me a drink. I like it better when he works from home. I guess somebody still needs to pay the bills. Oh well.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 09:30 PM (a4NoL)

193 Last time I was asked out for a real date I ended up on the hospital having my appendix removed.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I seem to recall Morons remarking what lengths you'd go to just to get out of a date!

Posted by: mindful webworker - I seem to be recalled at April 24, 2025 09:30 PM (SWvjw)

194 193 Last time I was asked out for a real date I ended up on the hospital having my appendix removed.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I seem to recall Morons remarking what lengths you'd go to just to get out of a date!
Posted by: mindful webworker - I seem to be recalled at April 24, 2025 09:30 PM (SWvjw)

I think maybe she's running out of excuses. It's not like she could pull that appendix thing again.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 09:33 PM (a4NoL)

195
It's not really a smiley face, more of a triangle, really, but you can kinda sorta say it sort of looks like it.

Also, Neptune is right in the face too, so this is a 4 object conjunction. With a telescope, you could make out Neptune and its moons.

You can start looking about an hour and half before local sunrise. Local sidereal time will be ~18:10. I'm too lazy to convert to local mean time, but it will be the same for everybody. The time offset from sunrise pins it down fine.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 09:34 PM (w6EFb)

196 False Alarm: Smoke Coming From Vatican Just Cardinal Steve Accidentally Burning Toast Again
Church · Apr 23, 2025 · 53

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Also, if they elect a Globohomo pope, they'll announce it with rainbow smoke.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 24, 2025 09:36 PM (L/fGl)

197 I'm just too damned lazy to mess with cooking up starch...
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 09:28 PM (a4NoL)

You can use potato water for the liquid if you want, it is a similar result. Left over mashed potatoes will work too.

I usually use a cup of whole ground flour - I grind up wheat berries for this - and let them soak in two cups of water and yeast over night to do my bread, so taking 24 hours to bake bread is pretty standard here. The starch makes a softer bread that my wife loves. I like it tougher, though.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 09:37 PM (D7oie)

198 >> Neat. What time did you find for that?

It will be 5:34AM when the ISS is right in the middle of the smiley face.

Now, since the ISS is so close, parallax is YUGE. It would be quite different for Mike Hammer up there around Asheville, and even Miklos further down south.

Anyone around the Greenville, SC area, you'd need to get Stellarium or equivalent to see what it would be exactly for your location.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 09:37 PM (w6EFb)

199 Also, if they elect a Globohomo pope, they'll announce it with rainbow smoke.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 24, 2025 09:36 PM (L/fGl)

We have already had fags. Can't we just have a Catholic this time?

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 09:38 PM (a4NoL)

200 Thanks publius

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:38 PM (+xH4m)

201 You can use potato water for the liquid if you want, it is a similar result. Left over mashed potatoes will work too.

I usually use a cup of whole ground flour - I grind up wheat berries for this - and let them soak in two cups of water and yeast over night to do my bread, so taking 24 hours to bake bread is pretty standard here. The starch makes a softer bread that my wife loves. I like it tougher, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 09:37 PM (D7oie)

Looks very promising. Once I get the garden in I can start doing baking stuff again. I have about a month of digging and improving before I can plant outside. We also have fences to take out, drainage to improve.... Well, I will get back to bread at some point.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 09:40 PM (a4NoL)

202 119 Oh man, "spaceflight participant" would likely infuriate the 70%ers even more.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 08:48 PM (+xH4m)

Supercargo. Super-duper supercargo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2025 08:50 PM (8zz6B)

For some reason that reminded me of an old sci-fi short story called Cold Equations.

http://tiny.cc/s5lh001

Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 09:41 PM (sI7wh)

203 My sister, who is only slightly younger than me, has been dating a substantially younger than her. I told her she found him on Carbon Dating.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 24, 2025 09:42 PM (L/fGl)

204 For some reason that reminded me of an old sci-fi short story called Cold Equations.

http://tiny.cc/s5lh001
Posted by: tankdemon
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Thanks for that.

Also Pohl's Heechee saga where humans discovered the alien craft and figured out how to make them travel to the pre-determined destinations but had no idea where they would go or how they worked.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:44 PM (+xH4m)

205 My finger isn't infected thankfully.

Don't play with aluminum foil, kids.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 09:44 PM (mlg/3)

206
Well, shoot, just looked up the weather forecast. Cloudy and rain. So no ISS splitting the smiley face for me. Talk about an astronomical tease.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

207 I expected to see some Giza Sheets in the Nile photo. Disappointed.

Posted by: Mike Lindell at April 24, 2025 09:47 PM (G5+As)

208 You know what would have made a better Gladiator II?

What if Max actually was able to become Emperor? That would have been kickass.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 09:47 PM (mlg/3)

209 207 I expected to see some Giza Sheets in the Nile photo. Disappointed.
Posted by: Mike Lindell
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We all sheets in the Nile.
_some Muslim

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 09:49 PM (Drm1A)

210 I expected to see some Giza Sheets in the Nile photo. Disappointed.
Posted by: Mike Lindell

You're kinda late to the thread.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 09:50 PM (mlg/3)

211 178 Steak and Shake fries are fried in beef tallow now.

Yeah they announce it on the menu. Wish they had some around here. I tried Cracker Barrel as well and damn that's good stuff as well. Definitely need that in my town, maybe not the tchotchkies and the front store but the menu, nothing really like that around here.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 24, 2025 09:18 PM (2VST1)

Sigh, our Steak and Shake closed a few years ago. The only thing left is an abandoned building and a bunch of Tesla chargers since the site is right next to the freeway. Would love some of those fries now.

Posted by: Farquad at April 24, 2025 09:51 PM (bwvMs)

212
Also Pohl's Heechee saga where humans discovered the alien craft and figured out how to make them travel to the pre-determined destinations but had no idea where they would go or how they worked.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:44 PM (+xH4m)

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I rember reading Heechee Rendezvous years ago. Don’t remember much about it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 24, 2025 09:52 PM (yLZNp)

213 I rember reading Heechee Rendezvous years ago. Don’t remember much about it.

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Rendevous was beginning to go off the rails but was still okay. The ones after that were pretty bad.

That said, the two before that were fantastic. I think I went through the first two books in a couple of weeks. They were hard to put down.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:55 PM (+xH4m)

214 This is your captain, Shaneesha M'bwani. As the café makes its final approach to landing, please make sure your seatback is up, carry-ons are stored under your seat, and tray tables are up. Thank you for flying DEI airlines. Now, let's see if I can remember how to lower the landing gear. Wait. Is this still on?

Posted by: mindful webworker - is this thing on? at April 24, 2025 09:56 PM (SWvjw)

215 I cheated and looked it up. Gateway was the first. Dang what a great book. From wikipedia:

"Nearly a thousand small, abandoned starships are located at Gateway (an asteroid). By extremely dangerous trial and error, humans have partially learned how to operate them. The controls for selecting a destination have been identified, but nobody knows where a particular setting will take the ship, how long the trip will last, or even if enough fuel is available to get back. Those who choose to risk their lives cram the limited space with equipment and hopefully enough food for the trip, but sometimes it is not enough, and they have to resort first to cannibalism, and if that is not enough, to suicide"

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women chose the value of the vagina, men then chose the value of women at April 24, 2025 09:57 PM (+xH4m)

216 NOOD

ONT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 24, 2025 10:01 PM (Vqx30)

217 I saw Tardigrade Trampstamps open for The Nematoids at Avalon Ballroom, but I needed a microscope to do it.

You needed an electron microscope to see it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:07 PM (12Bbv)

218 "spaceflight participant"

Dunnage.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:14 PM (FEpIj)

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