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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Edvard Munch
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 09:30 AM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 09:31 AM (sgkY8)
Posted by: George Costanza at June 22, 2026 09:31 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 22, 2026 09:31 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 09:30 AM (gnNyN)
SHHHHHHH! You'll wake up the First Lady.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 09:32 AM (sgkY8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 22, 2026 09:32 AM (mPXxA)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 22, 2026 09:32 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at June 22, 2026 09:32 AM (+iIfu)
Posted by: Person who checks out titles at June 22, 2026 09:32 AM (Ov6Yl)
I like it and suspect it would be something that would have to be seen in person to be fully appreciated.
Where is it hanging out these days?
Posted by: Auspex at June 22, 2026 09:32 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 22, 2026 09:32 AM (ibDUx)
I thought that was the sniper's round breaking the window.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:33 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Kumala Whoris at June 22, 2026 09:33 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:33 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 09:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:33 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Otto Penn at June 22, 2026 09:33 AM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 22, 2026 09:32 AM
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She likes big balls and she cannot lie.
Posted by: Sir Suxalot at June 22, 2026 09:34 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 09:30 AM (gnNyN)
Heh.
That book was a girl's choice between necrophilia and beastiality...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:34 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I can explain that.
Posted by: Buttigig at June 22, 2026 09:34 AM (ItpVy)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 22, 2026 09:32 AM
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She likes big balls and she cannot lie.
Posted by: Sir Suxalot at June 22, 2026 09:34 AM (Ov6Yl)
I think that's her bed...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:34 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 09:34 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:35 AM (2YhKe)
If there is anything movies have taught me its that a girl in a long white night down moving around at night is at least 50% of the time a ghost...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 09:35 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: PabloD at June 22, 2026 09:35 AM (tTZHu)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 09:35 AM (+gA9j)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:35 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 09:34 AM
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Everybody. It's Mardi Gras.
Posted by: Rue Bourbon at June 22, 2026 09:35 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:36 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Stephen King at June 22, 2026 09:36 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: The girl at June 22, 2026 09:36 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 09:36 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 09:35 AM (+gA9j)
Maybe Munch had vision issues?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:36 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Creepy Joe at June 22, 2026 09:37 AM (Ov6Yl)
It’s a peaceful scene but my criticism of the painter is that the girls form, particularly arms and legs, is quite fuzzy and non-precise.
Planck's Constant is very large in that picture.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 09:37 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Van Halen at June 22, 2026 09:37 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:38 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Kris Kross at June 22, 2026 09:38 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Pointer Sisters at June 22, 2026 09:38 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 09:38 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 22, 2026 09:39 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 09:38 AM (jehhT)
The lesbians across the street have managed to screw up their bright ass LED outdoor motion lights where they just sit there and turn on and off all the time.
It's awesome because they light up the glass in my front door, which just so happens to shine right into my side of the bed.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:40 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 22, 2026 09:40 AM (tL5sl)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 09:41 AM (+gA9j)
Tryin' to lose the awkward teenage blues.
Posted by: Bob Seger at June 22, 2026 09:41 AM (Ov6Yl)
How many lesbians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Posted by: The girl at June 22, 2026 09:41 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:40 AM (2YhKe)
Yeah, no fun. Had issues with neighbor's lights flashing during Christmastime into my bedroom window...even with the blinds closed, the light still seeps in through the cracks and sides.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:41 AM (l3cgK)
Away to the window she flew in a flash, tore open the shutter and threw up... - a limerick
There once was a young girl from Maine
Who slowly was going insane
"I fret and I worry that my view is so blurry
But cleaning second-story windows is a pane!"
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at June 22, 2026 09:41 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Weasel at June 22, 2026 09:42 AM (GNqmQ)
How many lesbians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Posted by: The girl at June 22, 2026 09:41 AM (sKqQm)
Depends. Is scissoring involved?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:42 AM (l3cgK)
How many lesbians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Posted by: The girl at June 22, 2026 09:41 AM (sKqQm)
It appears, one. The other one ain't climbing a ladder.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:42 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:33 AM (X8xt3)
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WRONG!!!!
Everyone knows it's Windy!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2026 09:43 AM (exwma)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 09:43 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 09:43 AM (Riz8t)
Maybe she's watching the Muzzie r@pe gangs down the lane...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:43 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 22, 2026 09:44 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Jimmy Stewart unavailable for comment at June 22, 2026 09:45 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: red speck at June 22, 2026 09:46 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: Before the interwebs at June 22, 2026 09:47 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 22, 2026 09:47 AM (6v6cQ)
The only thing that would help is to go back in time and convince Edvard Munch to pick a different profession.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 09:48 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 22, 2026 09:48 AM (6v6cQ)
Now That Sissy Has Gone Off to College I sGet Her Bedroom
A young girl renowned for self-effacement
Gazed out on the world from her casement
"It's a beautiful day
and I really must say,
This view is much better than the basement!"
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at June 22, 2026 09:48 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Big Fat Farma at June 22, 2026 09:48 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: But it's still twenty bucks at June 22, 2026 09:50 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 22, 2026 09:50 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 09:51 AM (Iurxt)
Posted by: Eromero at June 22, 2026 09:51 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 22, 2026 09:48 AM
$20, same as in town.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 22, 2026 09:51 AM (0sNs1)
Having said that, this painting is effective. The girls is indistinct but recognizable. The colors are soft and reflect the look of moon light which is echoed in her night gown. all the elements combine to create a gentle, not necessarily peaceful, mood. It's listed as an oil painting but it looked like pastel to me.
Posted by: JTB at June 22, 2026 09:54 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 09:54 AM (vY9Lp)
Posted by: Beavis at June 22, 2026 09:54 AM (jDdwC)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 09:37 AM
Schrödinger's Cat's box is behind her, just out of frame.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 22, 2026 09:54 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Butthead at June 22, 2026 09:55 AM (Riz8t)
"Girl by the Window..."
"...Later Seen Running Down the Road, Screaming"
-- as reported on the Pittsburgh Police Scanner
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 22, 2026 09:55 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Fashion novice at June 22, 2026 09:56 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 09:37 AM
Schrödinger's Cat's box is behind her, just out of frame.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 22, 2026 09:54 AM (0sNs1)
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Where's the Heisenberg Compensator when you need one?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 09:56 AM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 09:37 AM
Schrödinger's Cat's box is behind her, just out of frame.
I'm not sure about that.
Posted by: Werner Heisenberg at June 22, 2026 09:57 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Fashion novice at June 22, 2026 09:56 AM (Ov6Yl)
Especially those worn by ghosts
Posted by: Doof at June 22, 2026 09:58 AM (jDdwC)
Posted by: The Vienna School of Fine Art at June 22, 2026 09:58 AM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: cmeat at June 22, 2026 09:59 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 09:37 AM
Schrödinger's Cat's box is behind her, just out of frame.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 22, 2026 09:54 AM
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Yes, but she's looking out of MY window.
Posted by: Johari at June 22, 2026 10:00 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2026 10:00 AM (iJfKG)
The Morning Report — 6/ 22 /26
Sir Keir Starmer choked up as he announced his resignation as UK Prime Minister Monday – less than 2 years after the Labour Party stormed to a landslide general election win.
Starmer, 63, set out a timetable to stand down after coming under mounting pressure following last month’s local elections, where the governing Labour Party lost over 1,000 seats. The Prime Minister announced his intention to step down after admitting the Labour Party was questioning whether he could lead it into the next general election, which must be held before July 2029, just 23 months after leading his party to a landslide win. “I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace,” Starmer said outside 10 Downing Street in London. Every decision I’ve taken has been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to His Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision.”
While I'm no expert, to say the least, on British politics but no doubt that one of the things that has led to Starmer's departure is the growing scandal of the Muslim rape crisis that has come to light especially over the last year or so. But shockingly Muslim men have been raping non-Muslim women and girls for decades!
This is something that’s also totally missed by the report’s focus on Islam as the main driving force behind the grooming: Pakistani Muslim men raping white British girls because they aren’t Muslim. In many cases, the Muslim identity of the men appears to be incidental to the grooming, and the kinship networks like the Kashmiri birādarī system that structure it predate conversion to Islam by centuries. Yes, some groomers do refer to the girls as kuffār—non-believers—and the justification is that of the wretched Quran verse “What the right hand possesses,” which says Muslim men can take sex slaves from among kuffār women, but it seems to be kinship, rather than religion, that gives these crimes their systematic and persistent character. Ultimately, though, this remains to be explored properly.Rape is not a one-off crime committed here and there but it is a documented tool of warfare used by Muslims to conquer and subjugate nations and people once Islam becomes a dominant force politically and/or demographically aided and abetted by a cowed and submissive indigenous populace that refuses to defend itself from invasion and conquest, and as is the case of Britain and much of western Europe brought it willingly upon themselves for myriad cultural and historic reasons.
While Starmer is gone, is there really a chance that the English people will recognize the mortal danger they placed themselves in by allowing the socialists to rule essentially unchecked since the end of the Second World War, Churchill's sunset years and Maggie Thatcher notwithstanding. The uprising in Belfast over the attempted public beheading of a man in broad daylight certainly gives one hope that people are indeed waking up at long last. Still, I'm hesitant to predict a sea change over there, knowing full well that despite being mugged by reality, Leftists/Democrats will lather rinse and repeat and continue to vote for their own destruction. Of course the societal and political pressure imposed by the globalist/political media cultural complex to bend the knee and surrender cannot be underestimated either. And in the UK there is now an official censorship regime where one can be hauled off and prosecuted for uttering anything critical against Islam, let alone even silently praying in front of an abortion mill. And elsewhere the beat goes on with the Iran negotiations. Some are hailing Trump and Vance as brilliant masters of 11-dimension chess. . .
Regardless of the naysayers, neoconservatives, and progressive leftist shills using social and mainstream media to portray America as weak for the thousandth time, President Trump's Iran deal and the communication of the deal by Vice President JD Vance has been a masterclass in geopolitics and media dexterity. President Trump's preliminary MOU with Iran took pressure, pragmatism, forceful language, and a militaristic strategy to secure, but it was all worth it. The priority of using peace through strength, the ever-powerful Trumpist foreign policy mantra, proved yet again that President Trump is the best negotiator in modern American or world politics. Using bombs to force conversation is certainly an option, but it ended up being the best solution for all sides of the war in Iran. While Obama's Iran deal funded radical Islamic terrorism and the spreading of Sharia Law throughout the globe, Trump's deal utilized tariffs, bombs, and blockades to bring Iran up the ramp and into 12 rounds with the 45th and 47th President of the United States.. . . Sounds great, but others are claiming they've both been taken to the cleaners.
Trump Coulda Been a Contender -- The destruction of a legacy. . . It’s one of the most justly celebrated moments in cinematic history. In Elia Kazan’s classic movie On the Waterfront (1954), the failed boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando), who was forced to take a dive during the bout that could have established him as a possible challenger for the championship belt, says to his brother, who was in on the fix: “I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.” I was going to make the subtitle to this article “Instead of a bum which is what he is,” but it was just too painful. Trump isn’t a bum, and maybe, just maybe, he will eventually right the ship and get on with the business of making America great again. But showering billions on a regime whose leaders routinely scream “Death to America,” and pretending that the evil men who now control that regime are rational people with whom America can do business — that’s the behavior of one of the America-Lasters who has governed this unhappy land in recent decades, not that of the visionary who promised to take on and defeat those who were selling out our interests.A number of good essays in the links that illustrate both sides of the argument. So, as the President himself is fond of saying, we'll just have to wait and see. Have a good day,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Starmer, 63, set out a timetable to stand down after coming under mounting pressure following last month’s local elections, where the governing Labour Party lost over 1,000 seats.
Keir Starmer chokes up as he resigns as UK Prime Minister — less than 2 years after landslide election win
- THE IRAN CONFLICT, "PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
- “You close it and you won’t have a country,” Trump said he told Iranian officials, according to Yingst. “You won’t even make it back to your f*cking country.”
‘You Close It And You Won’t Have A Country’: Trump Reportedly Says US Could Become ‘Guardian Angel’ Of Strait Of Hormuz
- President Donald Trump’s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran suggests we have now taken a breather in our conflict with the regime.
Is The Iran Deal A ‘Breather?’
- The destruction of a legacy.
Trump Coulda Been a Contender
- This deal, led by the peace-through-strength foreign policy, restores deterrence and positions the United States to dominate future negotiations in the Middle East.
New Iran Deal is a masterclass by President, Vance, and administration
- Iran gets everything. We get the strait.
The Facts About the Iran Deal
- This lack of monopoly was the flaw in Tehran’s calculation. Iran saw the Strait as insurance against retaliation, but it did not stop Israel or the U.S. from bombing it. The geography of the Strait only guarantees Iran can hurt others, but it provides no protection from actors that don’t rely on Hormuz.
The Strait War
- “Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon …”
Negotiations ‘Stalled’ As Iran Bristles Over Trump Threats
- Trump may have given Iran everything it wanted on paper—but the real question is whether Tehran fell for a deal that gives America the leverage to walk away.
Did Trump Snooker Iran?
- Sure, it’s a ‘deal’...but what kind?
The US-Iran MOU is worse than we thought
- Operation Epic Fury turns into Operation Epic Whimper.
The Disastrous Memorandum of Understanding with Iran
- In a post on X, Barak Ravid, the global affairs correspondent for Axios and a CNN analyst, said that Witkoff is en route to Switzerland. President Donald Trump’s other envoy, Jared Kushner, has already arrived in Switzerland.
Report: Special Envoy Steve Witkoff Heads to Switzerland for Potential Iran Nuclear Talks
- The Pentagon needs $80 billion to cover expenses from the Iran War and other expenses, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the discussions. The details of the funding constraints were reportedly unveiled by Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg during phone calls with lawmakers.
The Iran War Is Reportedly Bleeding The Pentagon Dry
- The terror tunnel system was built to execute Hezbollah’s “Conquer the Galilee” plan, an October 7-style massacre in northern Israel.
Iran Mounts Pressure on Trump Admin as Israel Encircles Hezbollah’s Underground “Nerve Center” in South Lebanon* * * * * - In 2024, Parastoo Ahmadi, age 29, livestreamed a video of her singing the patriotic song Az Khoone Javanane Vatan (From the Blood of the Youth of the Homeland) that went viral, generating millions of views. She and several musicians who performed with her was briefly detained before being released, but according to court documents obtained by The Guardian, she received a harsh and brutal punishment by the regime for not wearing a hijab.
Iran Sentences Singer Parastoo Ahmadi to 74 Lashings for Performing Without a Hijab
- You can’t always fight to the finish, but fighting can help you get there.
Punitive War 101
- It’s not Israel. It’s not even Iran. Look closer to home.
What the Iran MOU Is Really All About
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY - School principals, teachers, security personnel, attendants, counselors, and medical professionals.
USAID Confirms Israeli Claims: More Than 100 UNRWA Staff in Gaza Connected to Hamas
- Where's the outcry?
UN Blames Hamas for Torture and Public Execution of Gazans CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION - A new court filing seeks to disqualify Arizona’s far-left AG after documents expose ‘wide-reaching multi-state political influence campaign.’
Court Filing: Democrat AGs Behind Lawfare Coordinated With Leftist Groups About ‘How To Stop Trump’
- There's nothing the IRS won't allow except conservatives.
IRS Allows Hamas Non-Profit to Operate Even After FBI Bust
- Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, 67, was arrested Friday on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property.
Former Olympic Athlete Among Those Arrested for Reflecting Pool Vandalism
- The world’s first trillionaire is not democracy’s negation but perhaps its most astounding vindication.
Elon Musk and the Glory of Liberal Democracy "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - DHS added that the American people gave the Trump administration a “mandate to arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens,” adding that under President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the agency would “continue to deliver.”
DHS: ‘Record High’ Deportations Under Trump Administration
- The American dairy industry employs roughly 130,000 workers, half of whom are immigrants. The H-2A program is projected to import approximately 400,000 workers by the end of 2026. Along with the previously mentioned concerns about wage suppression, stagnant investment in automation, worsening working conditions, and displacement of native workers, the industry’s already heavy reliance on cheap foreign labor suggests that recent reports of worker shortages point to a more fundamental, structural challenge preventing it from hiring American workers.
Trump Admin Expands H-2A Program to Include Migrant Dairy Workers.
- All orchestrated behind the scenes without congressional oversight.
The Open-Border Funding and Facilitation Network Part I: International Pipelines, UN Cash, and Federally Funded NGO Resettlement Networks
- Randy Villegas made the claim in a doctoral paper that lamented the popularity of Gadsden flags and shamed a teacher who referred to 'illegals'
‘Climate of Fear’: California Dem House Candidate Suggested Conservatives in His District Created ‘Hostile’ Environment for ‘Latinx Immigrant Communities’ THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE - A Chicago native who allegedly ran a $1.2 billion healthcare fraud conspiracy targeting elderly victims on Medicare was captured in the Philippines and shipped back to the United States — becoming the second suspect nabbed on the FBI’s new “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list.
Most Wanted Fraudsters List: Fugitive Who Pled Guilty in $1.2 Billion Medicare Scheme Nabbed in the Philippines DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - No matter how boggy it is, the Reflecting Pool reflects TDS with perfect clarity.
Further Reflections On The Reflecting Pool
- Victor Davis Hanson: By any measure, California is a failed state — and a national embarrassment. What happened to the nation’s most richly naturally endowed, and once best-governed, state?The left took total control — after millions of the embattled middle class fled. Millions more impoverished immigrants, legal and illegal, took their place. Left-wing Silicon Valley spawned some of the wealthiest elite liberal enclaves in the world.
How California’s self-sabotage by the left made it a national disgrace
- It really is amazing the number of ways Congress finds to waste American taxpayers’ time and money. As if there aren’t any other pressing matters to attend to . . .
Televising Supreme Court Hearings Is A Terrible, Awful, No Good Idea
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - Raw Egg Nationalist: Britain’s institutions face growing scrutiny over a disputed murder case and decades-long failures in handling grooming gang scandals.
State of the Nation: What the New Grooming Gang Report Does—and Doesn’t—Say about the Mass Rape of British Girls
- Islamists are coming for our offices. Does it matter?
Anni Cyrus Video: The Sharia Wave is Coming FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Thad McCotter: America’s fertility crisis has many causes, but a new study suggests the device that changed how we communicate may also have changed how we connect.
Are iPhones Dialing Up the Birth Dearth?
- It has zero chance of passing even a Democrat Congress; it’s blatantly unconstitutional; it’s economic suicide — and it’s fundamentally tyrannical... Which means there’s an excellent chance some scaled-down version of it will be grist for multiple 2028 presidential campaigns, and the demand of lefties in Congress — and so prompt serious consideration of various “compromise” proposals. . . And, really, some smaller-scale version of “seize the wealth” now drives practically every major Democratic proposal — with “clever” Republicans looking for creative ways to join in.
Bernie Sanders’ call to seize the AI industry has damning lessons about politics today THE ECONOMY, STUPID - It seems like an impossible task. But we have to start somewhere, and this is as good a place as any.
How Do We Balance the Federal Budget?
- In a presentation for progressive House staffers, the sex workers also complained about their treatment at the hands of law enforcement
Sex Workers Visit Capitol Hill With a Message for Woke Congressional Staffers: The ‘Affordability Crisis’ Is Hard on Prostitutes, Too RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - Even communists have to eventually bow to the gods of economic reality.
China discovers electric vehicles aren't the future CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - “The ruling stops short of handing control of the cases to the state attorney general, but it creates a new court-ordered check on Krasner’s office in future post-conviction matters.”
Soros-Backed Philly DA Larry Krasner Gets Slapped by Pennsylvania Supreme Court AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS - Director of National Intelligence exposes Dr. Fauci - and his “intelligence community” collaborators.
Truth-Teller Tulsi
- MIRANDA DEVINE: On her final day as director of national intelligence Friday, Tulsi Gabbard released damning declassified evidence accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci of causing the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Anthony Fauci, COVID-19 origins cover-up runs ‘deep’ into our intelligence community EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - Education in America is a mess. Student achievement is abysmal and continues in decline. Without an honest assessment of what went wrong, we will never make the necessary changes to help children learn.
Education Scorecard Ignores Common Core disaster
- “Higher education can be rescued only by recovering the virtues it abandoned: truth, merit, discipline, intellectual courage, national confidence, and civilizational stewardship.”
Higher Education’s Crisis of Trust, Cost, and Ideology
- Embattled Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has resigned – almost four months after the FBI raided his home and office as part of a fraud and corruption probe. Carvalho, who held the role for just over four years, tendered his resignation Sunday and said it would be effective immediately, the Los Angeles Times reported.
LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho resigns four months after FBI raid SECOND AMENDMENT - Justice Clarence Thomas: "The Second Amendment is not a second-class right."
The Supreme Court puts off ruling on the PLCAA
- . . .Cuccinelli, who used the militia clause of the state constitution’s right to bear arms provision to challenge the ban in what he called a “case of first impression” in oral arguments before a Spotsylvania County judge Wednesday.
Ken Cuccinelli Deploying Novel Strategy To Sink Abigail Spanberger’s Semi-Auto Gun Ban DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY - The Arizona Democrat used his leadership political action committee (PAC) to fund recent trips to Miami, Chicago, Disneyland, and Disney World with his family, according to the report.
Report: Ruben Gallego Used Campaign Donations for Babysitting and Luxury Family Trips, Including Disneyland, Disney World, Super Bowl* * * * * - The since-deleted Reddit post came in the wake of the Iranian terror chief Qassem Soleimani's death
Graham Platner Endorsed Comment From 'RevolutionaryCommie' Calling America a 'Disgraceful Country': 'I'm an American, and I Can't Disagree' POLITICS - We can either renew the spirit of liberty that made America exceptional, or watch her collapse under policies that pull toward perdition.
Your Freedom Vs. Democrat Control: The 2026 Midterms Will Decide America’s Future
- Trump has reshaped the Republican Party into a disciplined political machine, rewarding loyalty, punishing failure, and forcing a movement long plagued by weakness to finally fight.
Who’s the Boss? Trump, That’s Who
- . . .it is “pretty humbling” to have Trump’s support and that “every day” he is “going to be working to make sure I live up to that endorsement.”
Trump-Backed Wisconsin Candidate Michael Alfonso: GOP Is ‘Favorite to Keep the House,’ Democrats Running on ‘Full-Blown Marxism’
- “Trump is more popular than Tim Walz in his home state because Minnesotans are sick and tired of Walz siding with illegal aliens and Somali fraudsters.”
Walz Approval Craters Below Trump in Minnesota BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS - U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich found Biden unlikely to win his case and ruled that the department’s choice to release the files was not an abuse of discretion, the opinion states. She wrote that heavy redactions had shrunk his privacy stake, leaving material that no longer touched on family, illness or death.
Judge Rejects Biden’s Bid To Bury Ghostwriter Tapes, Then Pauses Release For Appeal
- Autopen pardons can’t possibly be constitutional. Why not test the theory on a few high-profile malefactors?
How Bulletproof Are Joe Biden’s Pardons?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - Well, we can say that another country in Latin America has taken a swing to the right because El Tigre won narrowly, though I'm willing to bet Petro and his folks were up to some funny business. I just don't buy that nearly half the country voted for the commie... or, at least, half of the 63.6% of people who showed up to the polls in Colombia and beyond. For what it's worth, Colombian expats who live in North America and Europe overwhelmingly voted for de la Espriella. I'm seeing Colombian journalists on social media proclaiming that they are ready to return to their country.
Another One! Colombia Does the RIGHT Thing. Now On to Brazil.
- A self-confessed terrorist linked to the infamous Entebbe hijacking is running for a board position with Germany’s hard-left Die Linke party at their national convention this weekend. (Hello Mossad?! - jjs)
Self-Confessed Leftist Terrorist Whose Girlfriend Hijacked Israel Airline Flight Running For Election in Germany
- Whether Keir Starmer has resigned or not, Britain’s turmoil over immigration, speech, and identity signals a ruling consensus fracturing under public backlash.
“Is There No England Now?”
- Fear merchants can’t sell Armageddon if nobody listens.
The Four Jokers of the Apocalypse: Carney, Starmer, Macron, and Merz
- . . .As opposed to other knife attacks in which the ethnicity of the suspect is often kept from the public, Police Scotland said on Saturday that they have arrested a “36-year-old white Scottish man” on suspicion of carrying out multiple stabbings.
Police Arrest ‘White Scottish Man’ After Multiple Stabbings Near Mosque in Edinburgh
- More than 100,000 Canadians have fled Canada in 2025 alone.
Tyrannical legislation drives thousands of Canadians to flee Canada
- “My first message to President Trump is first to congratulate him for his action on peace,” Sall said in a phone interview ahead of a recent trip to Washington. “He’s a peace builder, even if sometimes we have some problems today with Iran, but what he did is huge on one year of peace in the world, around the world, and he has to continue this process to be and to stay a peace builder..."
Exclusive — Leading UN Secretary General Candidate Macky Sall Backs ‘Peace Builder’ Donald Trump’s Push for Reforms: ‘Make the UN Great Again’ HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - A PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report released on June 11 projects that U.S. healthcare costs will increase 9% for employers and 8.5% for individuals in 2027. The expected increases are being driven by “AI-enabled revenue optimization tools,” rising reimbursement pressure among providers and heightened spending by pharmacies, according to PwC.
AI May Actually Be Making Healthcare More Expensive
- Americans cannot drug and diagnose their way out of the national mental health and chronic disease crises. A huge part of our problem is our sedentary lifestyles, tech-fueled isolation, and childhoods spent primarily indoors. The Department of Health and Human Services has a new website to encourage Americans to reconnect with other humans and God's great outdoors.
Kennedy Tells Families to Reconnect and Get Outside This Summer
- The move away from FD&C synthetic colors is unlikely to stop with just Nestlé USA. Secretary Kennedy has already called on other companies to take similar action. “Now it’s time for every food company operating in America to do the same and help Make America Healthy Again,” Kennedy posted on X. The removal of synthetic dyes by Nestlé and other major companies reflects growing consumer demand for healthier, more natural ingredients. This story also shows that the MAHA agenda is making progress.
MAHA Win as Nestlé Delivers on Pledge to Eliminate Artificial Colors. ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - The science team for the asteroid probe Lucy yesterday published their final results from the spacecraft’s fly-by of the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson in April 2025, outlining their present hypothesis based on the data as to the asteroid’s origins and evolution that has left it today a tumbling peanut.
Final results from Lucy’s 2025 fly-by of asteroid Donaldjohanson: A tumbling peanut!
- This decision essentially ends the lawfare campaign of these groups. I am sure they will try again, but their options continue to shrink, especially because they have practically no support in the southern Texas region. Everyone else is enthusiastically enjoying the prosperity and wealth SpaceX is bringing to the area.
Texas Supreme Court rejects beach closure lawsuit against SpaceX FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - Stacie-Marie Laughton, a 42-year-old man who claims to be a woman, faces more than 33 years in prison after convincing his former partner, Lindsay Groves, to take photos of children at the daycare where she once worked. Groves took nude photos of children estimated to be between the ages of three and five during bathroom breaks and diaper changes, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), before sending them to Laughton via text. (RELATED: Doctor Pushing Puberty Blockers On Teen Boy Was Charged With Possessing Child Porn)
Trailblazing Trans Lawmaker Sentenced To Over 33 Years For Child Exploitation
- A recent survey claims to find they do, but its conclusions ignore key evidence.
Do “Anti-LGBTQ+” Policies Worsen Mental Health?
- The Pathways trial, led by King’s College London (KCL), aims to study the effects of puberty blockers on children with so-called gender dysphoria. Despite previous bans and safety warnings, the trial will proceed with a minimum age requirement of 11 for girls and 12 for boys. Critics argue that the trial is an unethical experiment on children who cannot give informed consent—under-18s in Britain are not allowed to smoke, drink alcohol, or even use tanning beds—to “treatments” that can permanently stunt growth and cause infertility.
UK Approves Trans Puberty Blocker Experiments on Children as Young as 11.
- This century-long experiment of demonizing, removing, and replacing men has failed.
Bring Back the Patriarchy CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - "You can’t take back the flag in an hour if the rest of the time you treat patriotism as something vaguely embarrassing."
Bill Maher Rips Into Dems, Kamala For Mocking Patriotism Until They Need Votes
- The World Cup is showing visitors the America many never see: a nation of friendly people, open spaces, family businesses, and everyday places built on trust.
The United States: No Place Like Home
- Let's hope that more of he U.S. rubs off on our guests than the other way around.
Mixed Feelings About The World Cup In America
- The self-styled socialist and Hollywood Hills resident – who has an estimated net worth of some $40 million thanks to the benevolent capitalist system which he professes to despise – used an interview with Katrin Riedl of Germany’s Metal Hammer magazine to deliver his sneering critique of artists who back away limelight: “When people say that musicians should not be involved in politics, it means they are people that disagree with your politics,” he shared, before continuing:
Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello: Artists Who Are Apolitical or Stay Silent on Politics Should Go to an ‘Extra Hot Layer of Hell’
- Christian Toto: Deranged star slated to host 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' - will ABC reign her in?
How Crazy Will Rosie O’Donnell Get as Kimmel’s Replacement?
- On the lost art of association—and how to recapture it
The Courage to Belong
- The “furious anti-immigration” parable has already been banned in Germany.
Vigilante Flick Touches a Nerve
HITHER & YON - Burrows spent his career behind the camera specializing in situation comedies. Few viewers recognized him or knew his name, other than to see it flash quickly on the screen in the opening credits. But they knew his work.
James Burrows, Director of Classic TV Comedies Including ‘Cheers’ and ‘Friends,’ Dies at 85
- “Rivalries aside, the acquaintance blossomed into a friendship...The yin and yang polarity resurfaced in their final exchange.”
Leonard Cohen’s Dark Faith
- Roger Kimball: The consequences of history often arrive like starlight: events unfold in real time, but their true significance can take years to reach us.
The Solstice of Our Discontent
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 22, 2026 07:25 AM (qZb7K)
Posted by: NR Pax at June 22, 2026 07:26 AM (RjOoY)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 22, 2026 07:26 AM (qZb7K)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 07:28 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Paul enjoys sex with his dog at June 22, 2026 07:31 AM (rUxRB)
Oh wow. The Thing That Never Happens is Happening Again.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 22, 2026 07:31 AM (RjOoY)
‘You Close It And You Won’t Have A Country’: Trump Reportedly Says US Could Become ‘Guardian Angel’ Of Strait Of Hormuz"
What do you mean "become"? We have been Team America World police there since the 1970s.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 22, 2026 07:31 AM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2026 07:31 AM (mWKAz)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 22, 2026 07:32 AM (1VZmA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2026 07:34 AM (mWKAz)
Posted by: A life long Republican and long time commentator at June 22, 2026 07:34 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: A life long Republican and long time commentator at June 22, 2026 07:35 AM (vFG9F)
spent the entire weekend acting like a sad little monkey on a chain, dancing furiously while a laughing Iranian organ grinder played a crazy tune.
Money is already, today, flowing in to Iran from China, Russia, Pakistan, Qatar, and Turkey. The plan to put Iran under economic pressure has collapsed completely.
This is no plan. This is complete and total failure.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 07:35 AM (nuNhM)
We severely degraded their military and killed leaders - GOOD
Long fruitless negotiations with hollow threats - Not so good
Yeah, we’ll have to wait and see…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 07:35 AM (+gA9j)
They fight to kill.
So by all means, let's continue to ignore their straight-up eliminationist policy.
They think they won. They are not defeated.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2026 07:37 AM (mWKAz)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 22, 2026 07:38 AM (kpbTM)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 07:38 AM (nuNhM)
Posted by: fd at June 22, 2026 07:38 AM (vFG9F)
Susan Rice popped up this weekend to say the Trump handling of Iran has been a complete failure, which should encourage you all otherwise.
Posted by: Auspex at June 22, 2026 07:40 AM (Y8DZL)
Go big or go home, but he shit the bed instead, only delaying that which needs to be done. Hopefully he recovers but the bed has been shitted.
Posted by: Clean Sheets Are Needed at June 22, 2026 07:40 AM (g7saB)
Too bad that wasn't Britain, bunky.
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 07:41 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Auspex"
I'm just disappointed that Rob Reiner is no longer around to give his input.
Posted by: fd at June 22, 2026 07:42 AM (vFG9F)
Hey, how can we be negative 24/7 with that sort of attitude?
/
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 07:43 AM (XuXeR)
When France says “whoa, slow down , you’re surrendering too fast!” you know you’re in trouble.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 07:43 AM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 07:43 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 07:43 AM (15Vi2)
No Labour PM will be better, and in this case might be far worse because of the perception that the rape gang scandal is behind them.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 22, 2026 07:43 AM (PLxDd)
The UK is gone, it doesn’t matter who is PM. Even Nigel Farage couldn’t fix it; certainly none of their political class can… they’re all clones. This Burnham guy is another Starmer, perhaps less wooden. No Thatcher out there to save the day… kinda sad but their voters have been digging this hole for decades. The numb skulls threw out Churchill after WWII and it’s been generally downhill since with only the respite from Thatcher applying some brakes on the downhill
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 07:43 AM (yz/88)
You left out "conserving conservative"
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 07:44 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 07:45 AM (XuXeR)
But Eastern Europe fell to Communism for generations. The entire Middle East was once Christian. The city of Constantine was overrun by Muslims and became Istanbul, the Hagia Sophia a mosque.
It can happen, it is happening, and if Europeans do not convulse violently enough to shake off this predator, the same thing will happen.
Meanwhile, in Dearborn, . . .
Posted by: Smallish Bees at June 22, 2026 07:45 AM (xKjWc)
Matthew 17:20
Posted by: Marcus T at June 22, 2026 07:47 AM (oIl0H)
And always will happen. What most of us think as "normal " is an oddity in human history...
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 07:47 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 07:47 AM (ExV1e)
Willowed : Alan Greenspan is mort. Andrea Mitchell is available.
Keir Starmer resigns.
Who amongst the famous will resign or die to make it three?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 07:48 AM (Iurxt)
Posted by: A life long Republican and long time commentator at June 22, 2026 07:34 AM (vFG9F)
Get it correct, please. He's a poopy mcpoopyhead!
Posted by: Will Robinson at June 22, 2026 07:49 AM (zBgIx)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at June 22, 2026 07:50 AM (53oGX)
UK is done done done. Burnham will be worse and more leftist (if that's possible) by a lot.
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 07:51 AM (22ggK)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2026 07:52 AM (EAwQ9)
“Don't they think to themselves that, if their threats had worked, they wouldn't have reached the desperation they face today? We don't take the Americans' threats into account.
They'd better watch their statements; our armed forces are ready to respond in another way. No matter how much they talk, it's we who take action.”
Iran is openly declaring that they are going to do any damn thing they want to, and that Trump won’t have the nerve to do anything about it. Money is already flowing in; arms are flowing in; supplies are flowing in. And oil is flowing out, all restrictions dropped already.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 07:52 AM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 07:53 AM (2YhKe)
So much ink spilled on a matter about which none of the authors knows more than we.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 07:54 AM (ExV1e)
And he goes out a lying sack of shit.
EVERYTHING he did was at the detriment to the people and he's responsible for thousands of rapes and murders.
F*ck you, Kweir Starmer. I hope the people can now sue you for what you've done.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 07:54 AM (2YhKe)
I have to assume that those estimates were made prior to the fraud starting to be uncovered. In a $7T budget, I'd guess that at least $4T of it is fraud.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 07:58 AM (ExV1e)
It seems like a cabal of retards over there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 07:58 AM (jehhT)
Sadly, too many fail to understand the value in shutting up...
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 07:59 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Will Robinson at June 22, 2026 07:59 AM (zBgIx)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 07:59 AM (Iurxt)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 07:59 AM (sgkY8)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 08:00 AM (HtIAP)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at June 22, 2026 08:00 AM (JNTt1)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 08:01 AM (sgkY8)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 08:01 AM (15Vi2)
But, the muslhams tell me this isn't true. Shame on you, JJ.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:03 AM (2YhKe)
Or, you know, a politician. But hey, some have to complain. Constantly complain.
Every day.
*sigh*
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:03 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Most people at June 22, 2026 08:04 AM (Ov6Yl)
Ah. They're just looking for someone to cuddle with. That makes it all better........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:04 AM (2YhKe)
I thought the Heritage Foundation won their suit against Joey and that the Hur tapes were going to be released this morning.
Posted by: Auspex at June 22, 2026 08:04 AM (Y8DZL)
God forbid that we should explore ways to end these programs. Just raise the taxes collected for them every so often until it eats up everything else.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 08:05 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:05 AM (XuXeR)
One thing will happen in the near future. The people returning from the US and her World Cup hosting will demand barbecue and Buc-Ee's to be brought to the country.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:06 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 22, 2026 08:06 AM (Ov6Yl)
Why Trump took on Iran before the midterms is …..anybody’s guess. Puzzling to be sure.
Posted by: Voter theater. at June 22, 2026 08:06 AM (FCPbW)
UK is done done done. Burnham will be worse and more leftist (if that's possible) by a lot.
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 07:51 AM (22ggK)
The Morning Rant has always been Eeyore Central.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 08:07 AM (T6aVk)
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Oh I quit trying to understand what he's doing re: Iran
I scroll right by all that Iran shit on X
SAVE Act posts too
no point
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 08:07 AM (15Vi2)
We have newer technology now.
Posted by: Wait, wut? at June 22, 2026 08:08 AM (Ov6Yl)
My guess is that there was a lot of DC panic, plus China was making noises. This has shut them up nicely.
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:08 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 08:08 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 08:08 AM (15Vi2)
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:09 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Theresa May at June 22, 2026 08:09 AM (Ov6Yl)
From 2014.
It’s been going on for awhile.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 08:09 AM (T6aVk)
His main priority and forever stated goal was to not allow the Crimson Jihad become a nuclear power.
He's seemingly accomplished that. If they try again, he will bomb the shit out of them. However, the success of that will lean heavily on who becomes President of the US next.......
Because, yes, EVERYONE knows you can't trust Iran. Even the stupid poopyhead.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:09 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 22, 2026 08:10 AM (VyBeY)
The nfl hates you but more importantly the hate ME. Not a single cent for those *&^^&&(*().
Posted by: Will Robinson at June 22, 2026 08:10 AM (zBgIx)
There is no honest defense of the last 48 hours possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 08:11 AM (nuNhM)
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:11 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 08:11 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 08:12 AM (15Vi2)
1) TOO HARD and
2) not nearly Marxist sounding enough.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 08:11 AM (T6aVk)
And 'prostitute' got such a bad connotation during the 'Jack the Ripper' period.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:12 AM (2YhKe)
Sir Keir Starmer choked up as he announced his resignation as UK Prime Minister Monday – less than 2 years after the Labour Party stormed to a landslide general election win.
They didn't exactly "storm to a landslide". Their share of votes cast was scarcely different than 2019. They won more seats because Reform took what were usually Tory votes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 08:13 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Danimal28 at June 22, 2026 08:13 AM (3peS3)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 08:05 AM (ExV1e)
Sure, and to hell with people that have been forced to pay into this boondoggle for 50 years only to have the rug snatched from underneath them as they get ready to collect their "benefit"
Posted by: Polka will never die at June 22, 2026 08:13 AM (TYCeo)
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:13 AM (XuXeR)
Senator Mark Warner, vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on 11 June that General Joshua Rudd, who leads both the NSA and the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, told him directly that Anthropic’s Mythos model ‘broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours.’ The extent of the alleged breach and which specific systems were affected have not been publicly disclosed. Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment.
The warning emerged alongside an abrupt move by the Trump administration to block foreign access to Anthropic’s two most advanced models, Mythos and Fable.
Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2026 08:13 AM (O7XEN)
Ok, $500 billion and he gives the Ayatollah a hand job on tv, then. Whatever makes America a strong winner whom the world respects. 🙄
The biggest problem with this deal is not the deal, it is the dealer. Trump’s word is worthless. He could offer 1 trillion dollars and everyone gets a free Tesla. Whatever he signs is just going to get torn up when his feelings change.
Republicans know they're cooked the moment he croaks. Keeping the cult he fostered is going to be difficult without their god emperor at the helm
Thank goodness we don’t have an emotional woman as president, right everyone who voted for him?
bUt hEr lAuGh!!
Cut off a majority of the world’s fuel/fertilizer while inflaming centuries old conflicts in a already war torn area during the worst El Niño the world has ever seen?! What could go wrong?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 22, 2026 08:13 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 08:13 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2026 08:13 AM (Ov6Yl)
I probably will not live long enough to ever see that.
Knowing I don’t know everything going on, I will just observe happenings and shut up about that.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 08:14 AM (T6aVk)
That's funny
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:13 AM (XuXeR)
That Neuman character seems to have gotten around a lot. Between he and Howdy Doody, there's a LOT out there that look like them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:14 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 08:15 AM (Iurxt)
Reportedly is doing a lot of heavy lifting these days...
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:15 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: fd
Are the WALLS CLOSING IN?! by now.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 22, 2026 08:15 AM (RjOoY)
Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2026 08:16 AM (O7XEN)
Anyone listening or paying attention to either one of those buffoons should be institutionalized as they're buttf*ck insane.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:16 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:17 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 08:17 AM (22ggK)
Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2026 08:17 AM (O7XEN)
Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2026 08:16 AM (O7XEN)
Nosferatu no longer lives......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:17 AM (2YhKe)
The wheels are closing in. Or the walls are falling off.
Either way, it's baaaad.
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:18 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2026 08:18 AM (O7XEN)
Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2026 08:19 AM (O7XEN)
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:19 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2026 08:18 AM (O7XEN)
New York would consider it a big win should Trump put Trump Tower up for sale. The state would actually buy it just so they could revel in the tearing down any signage with his name on it.
Now, they will never do anything other than house homeless in it, but the lost revenue will lead closer to complete bankruptcy. But they 'got Trump' so......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:20 AM (2YhKe)
Either way, it's baaaad.*
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And I'm circling the drain!
Posted by: The Fat Lady at June 22, 2026 08:20 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: Priorities people! at June 22, 2026 08:21 AM (Ov6Yl)
Ram or Hilux?
Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 08:19 AM (XuXeR)
If it's actually a Ram, seems the islhamic retards have learned irony.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:21 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 08:17 AM (22ggK)
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:22 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 08:23 AM (15Vi2)
Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2026 08:16 AM
Well...bye.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2026 08:23 AM (zC76q)
Posted by: Priorities people! at June 22, 2026 08:21 AM
No problem! It will be buffing right out!
- Ali Bubba, Khyber Pass Body Shop
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2026 08:25 AM (zC76q)
That perception that we lost is out there and that’s not good. The Iranian bluster sure sounds like they think they won
I still want power plant day and Kharg island leveled…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 08:26 AM (yz/88)
I've been predicting a circus Dem primary in 2028. With big beats mostly scripted, like pro wrestling. I think they want attention on it to deliver their "message" and that's how they're gonna do it. With one clear winner emerging. Maybe someone serious who can "rise above" it, not sure on that yet. But the primary preferred winner is already known.
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 08:26 AM (22ggK)
To distract from the Epstein Files, of course!
Posted by: davidt at June 22, 2026 08:26 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Voter theater. at June 22, 2026 08:06 AM (FCPbW)
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Very.
I concluded Trump got some news that convinced him he should act, and Pistol Pete (or someone) convinced him he COULD act, and that a bombing campaign would be sufficient to convince the mullahs to make a deal.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2026 08:26 AM (7EPvM)
On the last hole rather than cheer the guy in the lead as he approached the last green they sang happy birthday to the guy 4 shots back who had no way to win. BTW, I like Scottie Scheffler a lot and wish he would’ve won but he was out of contention at that point…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 08:28 AM (yz/88)
On the last hole rather than cheer the guy in the lead as he approached the last green they sang happy birthday to the guy 4 shots back who had no way to win. BTW, I like Scottie Scheffler a lot and wish he would’ve won but he was out of contention at that point…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 08:28 AM
Fans have been getting worse for years. People now feel that with the price of their entry fee, it's well within their right to act a fool and be as obnoxious as they want.
The Ryder Cup has become unwatchable with the obnoxiousness of the onlookers. On BOTH sides of the pond.
People just suck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:30 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: ...
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Carl Benjamin was making the same point. He viewed the results as generally good for Restrore, bad for Reform, and while temporarily good for Labour, the reason Labour is unpopular because their fundamental beliefs and solutions to problems don't work. You can change the figurehead all you want, but until you change the core values and solutions, they're destined to fail.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 22, 2026 08:31 AM (ycI94)
Bill Maher Rips Into Dems, Kamala For Mocking Patriotism Until They Need Votes
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'Dis be the same Bill Maher who endorses Graham Platner? Has he any awareness of this guy's sentiments and vile ideology as relates to patriotism for America?
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 22, 2026 08:31 AM (qBdHI)
Well...bye.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2026 08:23 AM (zC76q)
May Andrea's sorrow take her away from her role in the media, permanently.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:31 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2026 08:18 AM (O7XEN)
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Grok says the EC had 2.4 million members in 2000, and today is below 1.3 million, mostly composed of confused suburban leftists. The skin suit still has some incredibly wealthy churches though.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2026 08:31 AM (fA9NW)
Tiger Woods! Tiger Woods! Tiger Woods!
Posted by: NBC Sports at June 22, 2026 08:32 AM (g7saB)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2026 08:33 AM (exwma)
Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 08:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 22, 2026 08:31 AM (qBdHI)
Bill Maher is an asshole who huffs his own farts and feels he's the smartest human ever to live. He is NOT on your side. He would just as soon shoot you in the face than agree with you on most things.
He does a political talk show and does what he knows will keep people tuning in.
He's a full bore lefty communist.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:33 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: So there's that at June 22, 2026 08:33 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at June 22, 2026 08:34 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: NBC Sports at June 22, 2026 08:32 AM (g7saB)
Alas, his career seems to be finally over. The jackwagon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:34 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Josephistan at June 22, 2026 08:36 AM (y9ksN)
Posted by: Josephistan at June 22, 2026 08:36 AM (y9ksN)
And yet the people keep voting the same way over and over.
But this time......THIS next time will be DIFFERENT.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:37 AM (2YhKe)
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Yup
Over the last couple years... probably from around the time *biden was installed through the first two years of Trump II, I've noticed a real uptick in bad behavior.
It's not being dealt with.... properly. Meaning no beat downs.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 08:37 AM (jehhT)
1) TOO HARD and
2) not nearly Marxist sounding enough.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 08:11 AM (T6aVk)
Part of the push to make it legal.
And probably the politicians who started using it didn't want anyone horning in on their territory.
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 08:38 AM (22ggK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 08:38 AM (Iurxt)
I still want power plant day and Kharg island leveled…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 08:26 AM (yz/8
In international politics, perception IS reality. Iran isn’t just talking like they won, they are acting like they won. Pictures circulating of thousands of posters put up in Tehran this weekend, offering $1000 (American) to any man who will volunteer to go to Lebanon and fight for Hezbollah. To be paid for with the money pouring in today.
Iran views the talk about blowing power plants as a giant bluff that Trump doesn’t have the nerve to carry out. They’ve called the bluff.
If there’s to be any hope of salvaging the situation, the US needs to order a massive wave of strikes right now. Sadly, all we see is Vance in Switzerland agreeing that Israel is committing genocide in Lebanon, just to make the Iranians happy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 08:39 AM (kmEMr)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 22, 2026 08:41 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 08:42 AM (15Vi2)
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 08:42 AM (3cXW4)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 08:37 AM
###
You get what you tolerate.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2026 08:42 AM (Ov6Yl)
If there’s to be any hope of salvaging the situation, the US needs to order a massive wave of strikes right now. Sadly, all we see is Vance in Switzerland agreeing that Israel is committing genocide in Lebanon, just to make the Iranians happy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 08:39 AM (kmEMr)
Yes, because the Iranians pulled one over on the stupid poopyhead and we're all just slaves to the Iranian regime.
How sad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:43 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 08:43 AM (77rzZ)
What indoctrination in the public schools preceded the rest of the leftist type, and the woke stuff, and ...
Why, that which denied evening, morning, number, day. Evening, morning, number, day...
And we are only going to show you the #science that "proves" this to be wrong.
And you will be so sure of the "knowledge" you have gained that you won't even take the time to look at any discoveries that go against #the science.
Once there, you can make His Word mean anything you want. Or, better yet, deny it altogether.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 22, 2026 08:43 AM (ev5l/)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 08:42 AM
+++++++
Is this about me?
Posted by: Theresa May at June 22, 2026 08:44 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 08:42 AM (3cXW4)
He said he wanted them to give up their nukes. Period. He accomplished that by blowing the shit out of their nuke facilities. They will not be a nuclear power any time soon.
But we'll go ahead and call him a failure for not accomplishing things WE put as his goal that wasn't originally his goal......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:44 AM (2YhKe)
I've tried to make onion rings at home
they were not good
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 08:45 AM (15Vi2)
This is completely and totally predictable. Revelations from former career Pfizer executive is that drugs that quickly heal are dropped in favor of drugs that provide lifelong subscriptions. Cash flow, increasing quarterly returns.
There is also EMTALA and 100M+ foreigners and natives who lead lifestyles that require chronic care offering no means to pay.
The cultural expectations of Health Care Rights drive continued insurance as part of compensation.
There is no profit motive to make care more efficient for as long as a third party is paying. The only motive is to pump up margins and AI fits right in there.
Posted by: Community Notes at June 22, 2026 08:45 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Bulg
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I hate onions, but will eat onion rings. Or pretty much anything else deep fried.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 22, 2026 08:46 AM (XvL8K)
they were not good
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 08:45 AM (15Vi2)
The batter is the most important part. A good batter, cooked at a perfect oil temp, is key.
The oil needs to be hot, but not too hot where the batter burns.
I never attempt it because I KNOW I won't get it right.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:46 AM (2YhKe)
But we'll go ahead and call him a failure for not accomplishing things WE put as his goal that wasn't originally his goal......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:44 AM (2YhKe)
It's gonna be another on of those days I see... Sigh
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 08:46 AM (HtIAP)
It’s not a good system. I mean yeah if you win 47% and get a parliamentary majority that’s fine… but 33%?? Not a mandate
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 08:46 AM (yz/88)
it's not unprecedented
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 08:47 AM (15Vi2)
He's a full bore lefty communist.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:33 AM (2YhKe)
This more than anything else is what pisses me off so much about what happened this weekend. Trump’s decisions over the last few days are making all the idiot lefty communists look as though they are right for once. Even though all they’re doing is saying what’s obvious to everyone, but everyone on our side is now too terrified to even talk about it. It’s giving them all a cheap and easy win for no reason.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 08:47 AM (kmEMr)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2026 08:48 AM (tNwfv)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 08:46 AM (HtIAP)
Yeah, sorry.
I'll stop.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:48 AM (2YhKe)
The shortest‑serving UK Prime Minister is Liz Truss, who held office for 49 days in 2022 before resigning.
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 08:48 AM (15Vi2)
They're government schools.
Were they public, anyone could just walk in, sit down, and listen to what's being taught.
Shoot some hoops in the gym.
Check out a book from the library.
Try a meal in the cafeteria.
But you can't.
They're anything BUT open to the public.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2026 08:48 AM (Ov6Yl)
I'll stop.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:48 AM (2YhKe)
Not you.... The rest of the naysayers... You know... The Military experts here....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 08:49 AM (HtIAP)
Posted by: Bulg
_________
I hate onions, but will eat onion rings. Or pretty much anything else deep fried.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 22, 2026 08:46 AM (XvL8K)
******
I love onion rings more than I love french fries.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 22, 2026 08:49 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 08:42 AM (3cXW4)
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What a load of BS.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2026 08:49 AM (tNwfv)
Not you.... The rest of the naysayers... You know... The Military experts here....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 08:49 AM (HtIAP)
My egging them on isn't helping.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:50 AM (2YhKe)
Wes Streeting declared he will not seek the top job, throwing his weight behind Mr Burnham in the wake of the PM's resignation.
The announcement makes it far more likely that the former Greater Manchester Mayor will be in No10 by this time next month. "
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 08:50 AM (GD0B3)
I never attempt it because I KNOW I won't get it right.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:46 AM (2YhKe)
Use lots of oil and a thermometer. The oil cools when you put the food in, so the more oil...the less cooling!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 22, 2026 08:50 AM (PLxDd)
March 6, 2026, Truth Social post:
“ There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Following Tehran’s submission to the ongoing military campaign should be “the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s),”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 08:51 AM (kmEMr)
But we'll go ahead and call him a failure for not accomplishing things WE put as his goal that wasn't originally his goal......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:44 AM (2YhKe)
I thought we blew up their nuke capabilities last June. How many times can the same thing be blown up before it’s actually blown up?
Maybe we delayed it some, who knows. Nobody really does. We didn’t end it, that’s for sure.They will be back to doing what right we’re doing the second the ink is dry on the “peace deal”.
And regime change isn’t something WE said. He said it repeatedly. Remember his tweets to the Iranian people that he has their back? Don rewrite history man.
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 08:51 AM (3cXW4)
My egging them on isn't helping.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:50 AM (2YhKe)
It's frustrating I know.. I try to not chime in because I'm as far away of an expert in this then you can be but sometimes the doom and gloom gets to me...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 08:51 AM (HtIAP)
Posted by: Just got here at June 22, 2026 08:52 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: Heroq
>I must say, your assessment of the situation is brilliant and you have me convinced. What shall we do?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 22, 2026 08:52 AM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2026 08:52 AM (tNwfv)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 08:49 AM (HtIAP)
True, but President Trump has not helped his case. He has not spoken to the American people and explained what he is doing and why he is doing it.
That leads to the chaotic analysis and a sort of fill-in-the-blank foreign policy, and that is a problem.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 22, 2026 08:53 AM (PLxDd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:53 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 08:42 AM (3cXW4)
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Give some thought to possibly being wrong.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2026 08:53 AM (tNwfv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2026 08:53 AM (tNwfv)
How DARE you!!??
Posted by: AoS Gretta at June 22, 2026 08:54 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2026 08:48 AM (Ov6Yl)
Started happening after Columbine and really accelerated after that school shooting in Florida in 2017 (IIRC… the one where David Hogg heroically survived)…. At this point most schools are like fortresses. I went back to my old HS a few years ago in a tiny midwestern town and to my astonishment I couldn’t walk inside… had to be buzzed in by the main office. Security measures doncha know… I mean that tiny town is never gonna have a school shooting but it’s follow the leader amongst the edu-ma-cation class…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 08:55 AM (+gA9j)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Also most as if he wanted regime change.
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 08:55 AM (3cXW4)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:56 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 08:56 AM (22ggK)
·
5m
>>NEW: Vice President @JDVance
says the United States made significant progress in talks with Iran, building on the MOU:
>>- The Strait of Hormuz remains open
- Iran agreed to allow IAEA inspectors back into the country — a critical step toward ending its nuclear program
- New mechanism was established to help facilitate ceasefires during escalations
- Technical teams were formed to finalize the details over the next 60 days
>>"Yesterday was a very, very good day!"
Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 08:56 AM (viF8m)
That leads to the chaotic analysis and a sort of fill-in-the-blank foreign policy, and that is a problem.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 22, 2026 08:53 AM (PLxDd)
I see your point.. He could cut back on the bombast... Seems like Trump is the bad cop and Vance is the good cop...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 08:57 AM (HtIAP)
>>"Yesterday was a very, very good day!"
Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 08:56 AM (viF8m)
They're lying. Everything is a failure and they should resign in disgrace.
Run Gavin. You're our only hope.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:57 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 08:57 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2026 08:58 AM (afJtY)
Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 08:58 AM (77rzZ)
>>"Yesterday was a very, very good day!"
Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 08:56 AM (viF8m)
They're lying. Everything is a failure and they should resign in disgrace.
Run Gavin. You're our only hope.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:57 AM (2YhKe)
He isn't the 'roid you're looking for...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 08:58 AM (l3cgK)
@araghchi
11h
Tireless Pakistani and Qatari mediation has delivered major progress to end Lebanon War. Oil and petrochem exports are waived, blockade lifted, some frozen assets released, and major reconstruction & development plan launched for Iran."
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 08:58 AM (GD0B3)
How sad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 08:43 AM (2YhKe)
Serious question: do you have any argument beyond “nuh uh! Nuh uh!” ????
I simply believe that the most humiliating surrender in American military history is worth noting. This is what I would have expected from a President Kamala.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 08:59 AM (kmEMr)
Someone I work with occasionally is on site today. She brought me a bag of homemade cookies - white chocolate macadamia - and they're AWESOME!!
She put a slice of bread in the bag. This is supposed to keep the cookies from drying out too quickly. I did not know this was a thing. Did any of you??
Posted by: Doof at June 22, 2026 09:00 AM (jDdwC)
anyway, I shit-canned my deep fryer because it was kind of a PITA to use and clean
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 09:00 AM (15Vi2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:00 AM (2YhKe)
~~ Andy Kessler
---------------------------
Maybe get productive work AOC, and you might become prosperous
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2026 09:00 AM (gMz7B)
I hope the people in the UK are finally realizing that they have been invaded by Muslims who refuse to assimilate and want to take over Europe.
Next they need to get rid of the Muslim mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 22, 2026 09:00 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:00 AM (22ggK)
I guess they'll have to charge more than $20, same as in town?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:00 AM (l3cgK)
>>That leads to the chaotic analysis and a sort of fill-in-the-blank foreign policy, and that is a problem.
We've had a lot of presidents who specialize in talking to the public and we ended up with mullahs in Iran threatening nuclear armaggedon and funding terrorists for 50 years. Now we have a president who is a businessman who likes to make deals. Most effective deals are not negotiated in public.
Besides, what would the seemingly endless supply of experts do with their time and pixels if they couldn't endlessly explain everything that guy said is bullshit and I know cause I'm an expert?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 09:01 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Doof at June 22, 2026 09:00 AM (jDdwC)
Yes. First Lady has been doing this for years should we have a batch of cookies that won't be devoured in the first 2 hours.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:01 AM (2YhKe)
anyway, I shit-canned my deep fryer because it was kind of a PITA to use and clean
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 09:00 AM (15Vi2)
When it comes to baking and cooking,
There's the batter recipe and the wurst recipe...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:01 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 09:02 AM (Iurxt)
I simply believe that the most humiliating surrender in American military history is worth noting. This is what I would have expected from a President Kamala.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 08:59 AM (kmEMr)
I simply believe that everything you just said is bullshit. We'll just go to our respective corners and call it even, eh?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:02 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 09:02 AM (15Vi2)
The same media cheering and encouraging failure of Lincoln Reflecting Pool--one of our greatest American monuments; ffs of all things to shit on just "cause Trump"--are the same people you are reading to be "informed" on Iran.
So maybe you all can just sit down, drink some warm cocoa and calm your tits?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 22, 2026 09:02 AM (73/SM)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 09:02 AM (sgkY8)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 08:59 AM (kmEMr)
The Battle of Bataan? Vietnam? The US Embassy in Tehran in 1979?
You are being histrionic. We have no idea how this will play out.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (PLxDd)
I simply believe that the most humiliating surrender in American military history is worth noting. This is what I would have expected from a President Kamala.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 08:59 AM (kmEMr)
I simply believe that everything you just said is bullshit. We'll just go to our respective corners and call it even, eh?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:02 AM (2YhKe)
Um, Hello?
Posted by: Vietnam and Afghanistan at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (l3cgK)
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Posted by: Case at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (IY9No)
180 Glad I got back from town to read Tehran Tom's analysis.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2026 08:58 AM (afJtY)
You’re wrong Ben, and you know it. The reason you bought into the “Iranian propaganda “ op was because you knew the deal as reported was utterly indefensible. You did not want to believe it, but now you know it’s true.
It’s quite sad to see someone of your intelligence and ability slide into nothing but personal insults, because your intellectual position is totally bankrupt. You’re better than that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (kmEMr)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 09:00 AM (15Vi2)
This. A good deep frier is hard to get, unless you have a restaurant and enough space to install one. The countertop versions you get at WalMart or off Amazon are usually hot garbage.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (2YhKe)
You are being histrionic. We have no idea how this will play out.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (PLxDd)
Where's the fun in that ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (HtIAP)
You are being histrionic. We have no idea how this will play out.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (PLxDd)
Where's the fun in that ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (HtIAP)
You can always bet on the outcome...I wonder what the odds makers are putting it at?
Posted by: Vietnam and Afghanistan at June 22, 2026 09:04 AM (l3cgK)
That's why I'm not reading anything about it, and skipped to the bottom of the comments . I'm reading
neither dead tree reports, internet reports or comments from ASHQ commentators. I am grateful everyday for what J.J . does here but I can do without the vitriol of arguing posters today. It's my day off 🙂
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 09:05 AM (n3VHW)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (PLxDd)
But but but.......You KNOW it's true!!!!! YOU'RE AFRAID TO ADMIT IT!!!!!!
I'll be going to work soon.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:05 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:05 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: It's me donna
That's like 85% of commenters here! It is a smart military blog after all..m
Posted by: Military Moron at June 22, 2026 09:05 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 08:59 AM (kmEMr)
She would have pre surrendered without the bombing.
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 09:06 AM (3cXW4)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (2YhKe)
I have an enclosed rotating fryer that works great! Except it is a pain to clean, so I never use it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 22, 2026 09:06 AM (PLxDd)
He has his reasons for what he does, I don't think he is owned or fooled, he tries to get shit done. Maybe this is a failure - maybe not.
I would not call it humiliating, that's ludicrous. He tried shit, and might still be trying, no way we know the full story. Trump does and says things that look bad all the time and usually but not always, gets vindicated. Still trust him at the helm more than anyone and I don't think there is *anyone* that would have taken this Iran thing further than he will or would, if at all.
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:06 AM (22ggK)
That's why I'm not reading anything about it, and skipped to the bottom of the comments . I'm reading
neither dead tree reports, internet reports or comments from ASHQ commentators. I am grateful everyday for what J.J . does here but I can do without the vitriol of arguing posters today. It's my day off 🙂
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 09:05 AM (n3VHW)
Honestly, I didn't read those either, just looked at the JJ headlines, which indicate it's wonderful or horrible. No middle ground. So, I'll wait for Iran to violate it again, because they will.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:06 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 22, 2026 09:06 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 22, 2026 09:07 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)
I bought his logs!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:07 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:07 AM (2YhKe)
Just ask them.
You'll get a long form pontification on shit they know absolutely nothing about. It's all opinion pieces. Which is fine once you take all the posts as just that.
Everyone has something to say... Trump has to filter out the garbage too. And, sadly, he is supposed to have actual "experts" advising him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 09:07 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2026 09:07 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Have you considered a large donation to the Republican National Committee? We only control three thirds of government right now, but with your support, we can expand our majorities to finally enact the policy priorities you hold!!!
Posted by: RNC at June 22, 2026 09:08 AM (ycI94)
I understand your point, but the perception in the Arab/Muslim world of strength or weakness is often more important than the reality. And at this point, the agreement is chaotic at best. We won't know how it shakes out for weeks or months, but....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 22, 2026 09:08 AM (PLxDd)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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this is what I'm saying
I can do french fries in oil in an iron skillet, but that's the extent of my frying
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 09:09 AM (15Vi2)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 22, 2026 09:08 AM (PLxDd)
We shouldn't wait. We should light our hair on fire, storm the capital and demand the head of the Golden Scalp Weasel for his stupid poopyhead incompetence.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:09 AM (2YhKe)
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How about a 3rd option. It’s good Trump won but he has made mistakes and should be called out when he makes those mistakes.
Too radical?
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 09:09 AM (3cXW4)
Then recorded her response where she said islam isn't welcome here, it's not a religion, they need to go back, and mo' was a pedophile warlord.
Of course she was fired.
But her GSG had over $50k last I saw.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 22, 2026 09:10 AM (73/SM)
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 09:10 AM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:10 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 09:10 AM (GD0B3)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 22, 2026 09:06 AM (NpAcC)
Not a fan.
Unless you're talking about the Good Humor ice cream bar!
Posted by: Doof at June 22, 2026 09:10 AM (jDdwC)
But her GSG had over $50k last I saw.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 22, 2026 09:10 AM (73/SM)
So, this is the new grift, then.......wonderful.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:11 AM (2YhKe)
Then recorded her response where she said islam isn't welcome here, it's not a religion, they need to go back, and mo' was a pedophile warlord.
Just great. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:11 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: The Dead Horse at June 22, 2026 09:11 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: The Dead Horse at June 22, 2026 09:11 AM (amcLV)
Welcome to the party, pal.
Posted by: The Chicken at June 22, 2026 09:12 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 09:12 AM (HtIAP)
Posted by: runner
SEC didn’t see anything wrong with Bernie Madoff’s operation for decades.
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 09:13 AM (3cXW4)
Trump is always willing to play a long game. He is also always willing to sacrifice things that others would not to achieve his goals. This is gamesmanship and basic strategy, not 27D Space Chess.
When you are up against someone whose rules you can't quite make out it makes them formidable. The "rules" should have been don't risk Iran before the midterms. The "rules" should have been don't risk looking weak.
There are a lot of rules and *no one*, despite the many many experts on the subject, knows what Trump's really are. We can all guess but that's all we and his/our opponents are left doing. It *seems* he wants peace at any price and to not directly endanger civilians. Seems. But I wouldn't bet on it.
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:13 AM (22ggK)
Posted by: The Dead Horse at June 22, 2026 09:11 AM (amcLV)
Welcome to the party, pal.
Posted by: The Chicken at June 22, 2026 09:12 AM (2YhKe)
We're always lying on the job.
Posted by: Politicians at June 22, 2026 09:13 AM (l3cgK)
That’d be like a presidential candidate here winning the electoral college overwhelmingly with only 33% of the vote.
Yo!
Posted by: John Quincy Adams, 1824 (32.7%) at June 22, 2026 09:13 AM (O0L8i)
Glad to see I'm not alone!
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 22, 2026 09:13 AM (OUMaO)
Beyotch who grew up un a chichi NY suburb, went to BC, and now lives with her wealthy BF in a nice BC condo says whaaaaat?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:14 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 09:14 AM (GD0B3)
Posted by: runner
I wouldn't trust them for anything.....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 09:14 AM (HtIAP)
Lizzy
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My kinda gal
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:14 AM (22ggK)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:14 AM (X8xt3)
Forget it. She's rolling.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:15 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2026 09:15 AM (2GVsD)
That is true. The GCC is pretty much in lockstep against Iran right now and they don't appear to be wavering. If we are going to judge how things are going by their attitudes it's looking pretty good for the Orange Man.
For the umpteenth time, Trump is attempting to end this situation with a positive outcome with a deal not with bombs. It looks different because it is different. Iraq and Libya are examples of wars that ended with bombs and bullets, how did that turn out?
Deals require patience not constant freakouts over moves we may or not completely understand because they are not negotiating in public. I've seen nothing from Trump over the last decade to make me think he's gone soft.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 09:15 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:15 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2026 09:16 AM (afJtY)
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 09:14 AM (GD0B3)
The Hezzies and the Houthi rolls in Yemen need to be put down hard like the rabid dogs they are. Oh, and F**k the Iranian mullahs for their support of the above.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:16 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2026 09:15 AM (2GVsD)
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They can do anything with an Allen wrench.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 22, 2026 09:16 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: pookysgirl, worried about her baby bird's wings at June 22, 2026 09:17 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:00 AM (2YhKe)
******
What happened to Doof?
I've been extremely busy for the past six weeks so I'm sure I've missed a lot.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 22, 2026 09:17 AM (NpAcC)
That’d be like a presidential candidate here winning the electoral college overwhelmingly with only 33% of the vote.
Yo!
Posted by: John Quincy Adams, 1824 (32.7%) at June 22, 2026 09:13 AM (O0L8i)
Hi.
Posted by: House of Representatives voting as states at June 22, 2026 09:17 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2026 09:15 AM (2GVsD)
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They can do anything with an Allen wrench.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 22, 2026 09:16 AM (amcLV)
I always wonder why I end up with all those extra pieces...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 09:17 AM (HtIAP)
I've been extremely busy for the past six weeks so I'm sure I've missed a lot.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 22, 2026 09:17 AM (NpAcC)
I heard Weasel shot him during last night's gun thread and Doof is now causing havoc at Weasel Acres.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:18 AM (2YhKe)
Well, well, well. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:18 AM (X8xt3)
And I forgot to celebrate.
Posted by: Dang it at June 22, 2026 09:18 AM (Ov6Yl)
no lies detected
good for her
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 22, 2026 09:18 AM (j+aD2)
The waters have receded somewhat and we can go out so that Her Majesty can get her nails done and we can do some grocery shopping.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 09:18 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: pookysgirl, worried about her baby bird's wings at June 22, 2026 09:17 AM (Wt5PA)
She'll be fine. It's everyone else you'll have to worry about.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:18 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 09:19 AM (77rzZ)
Doesn't sound like 11D chess to me.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 09:19 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:18 AM (2YhKe)
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First Piper, now Doof. Been a rough June.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 22, 2026 09:19 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 09:19 AM (GD0B3)
First Piper, now Doof. Been a rough June.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 22, 2026 09:19 AM (amcLV)
It's a haunting development.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:20 AM (2YhKe)
“ On Sunday, Trump told Fox News he was "disappointed Israel can't put Hezbollah away", adding in reference to the fight against the militant group: "I'm close to giving it over to Syria."
6 hours later, our new ally Syrian President Al Sharra replied, on the record, that “No one from Syria is going into Lebanon. No one from Syria is going to fight Hezbollah.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 09:20 AM (kmEMr)
Posted by: The Black Knight at June 22, 2026 09:20 AM (Ov6Yl)
There is a soft "Trump can't do wrong" crowd and a "We should be able to criticize Trump" contingent and then a "here's our chance to GIT em" noise machine that is very annoying. Maybe not all here this morning.
But everyone wants to judge everything. Bottom line, R's will take the midterms unless they are cheated out of it, and they 100% do NOT deserve to take it. Not because of Trump but because they are useless and HATE their own voters.
That's a bigger problem than Iran right now. Much.
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:20 AM (22ggK)
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 09:20 AM (3cXW4)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:18 AM (2YhKe)
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First Piper, now Doof. Been a rough June.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 22, 2026 09:19 AM (amcLV)
What happened? I've been in and out for a few months now...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:20 AM (l3cgK)
@EndWokeness
Colombians are now flooding the streets to celebrate the fall of socialism
https://tinyurl.com/yxreszjp
Posted by: redridinghood at June 22, 2026 09:20 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 09:20 AM (3cXW4)
Just another Taquiya Sunrise...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:21 AM (l3cgK)
Holy sh#t, crying over your failed career instead of the 100's of thousands (millions?) of UK citizen's lives you've ruined is quite bad.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3)
True but, distinction without a difference.
The common terms used are public schools and private schools.
It changes nothing about the point of my post.
And this is why I'm never all hair on fire.
I know that God wrote it all out, beginning to end, before He laid the foundations of the world. To the "smallest detail." Including each of our lives.
We were given the Cliff Notes. Enough to teach us about who He is. Proven through His miracles and fulfillment of things told beforehand through His prophets.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 22, 2026 09:21 AM (ev5l/)
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 09:21 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 09:02 AM (sgkY
Last sporting event I saw were the Olympics. (Yeah, I can hear the booing.). I still savor the men’s hockey gold, knowing that a horrible country lost to the USA.
I love that the foreign visitors are discovering this great country (I implore that they see the countryside, get out of the cities. They are fine but the REAL goodies are out in the countryside) but soccer still sucks and is bloody boring.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 09:22 AM (T6aVk)
A few years ago the socialist despot of Columbia assassinated his opponent and everyone just pretended it was a one off crazy guy acting on his own.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 09:23 AM (sKqQm)
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 09:21 AM (sKqQm)
People will label them racist, and some can't live with bad people calling them bad things.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:23 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3)
I ruined millions of UK citizens’ lives?
So be it.
Posted by: PM Keir Starmer at June 22, 2026 09:23 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2026 09:23 AM (l3cgK)
Do you think there is a tenable solution with them?
I'm not saying what's happening is right. I mean beyond that. Genuine query, I really want to know what you think.
Because short of blowing them off the map......
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:23 AM (22ggK)
Well, there's also the stabbings, beheadings, acid attacks, church burnings. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:24 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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"humiliating surrender?"
Ya kinda gave the whole game away there bub--you might just want to sit down from here on out.
But you won't.
Remember how like last week you were swearing up and down that Rubio wanted nothing to do with this deal, had nothing to do with it, and was distancing himself from it?
Only for Rubio to be standing right behind Trump as the MOU was signed?
Opps.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 22, 2026 09:24 AM (73/SM)
Too slow
Too many players on the field
Too much of two guys dancing with each other where nothing happens in relation to scoring outside of their personal foreplay
Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 09:24 AM (sKqQm)
Do you think there is a tenable solution with them?
I'm not saying what's happening is right. I mean beyond that. Genuine query, I really want to know what you think.
Because short of blowing them off the map......
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:23 AM (22ggK)
Will that work?
Posted by: Kumala Whoris at June 22, 2026 09:24 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Vietnam and Afghanistan at June 22, 2026 09:03 AM (l3cgK)
That's totally not histrionics.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 09:24 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:18 AM (2YhKe)
I'm not passing on what you just said to Pooky, because then he'll go over to his dad's gun locker to pick out a shotgun.
Posted by: pookysgirl is smarter than that at June 22, 2026 09:25 AM (Wt5PA)
Has anyone noticed that since USAID was crushed communists aren't doing so well in elections in Latin America?
Just a coincidence I'm sure.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 09:25 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 09:25 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: pookysgirl is smarter than that at June 22, 2026 09:25 AM (Wt5PA)
Ah. Likely a good call.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:25 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: TeeJ at June 22, 2026 09:21 AM
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(Searches bible for Book Of Cliff.)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2026 09:25 AM (Ov6Yl)
Shipping companies have to oblige too. And they are all too willing to abide because they're cowards and rely on the insurance industry to protect their assets.
Plus, the majority of the crews who man those commercial vessels are typically 3rd worlders with hardly any education... but a whole lot of superstition.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 09:26 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:26 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 09:26 AM (GD0B3)
Has anyone noticed that since USAID was crushed communists aren't doing so well in elections in Latin America?
Just a coincidence I'm sure.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 09:25 AM (viF8m)
I won’t argue against it.
But Socialism also leads to problems people realize can be put to an end by voting for people with good policies.
I’d say it’s both. Cutting USAID DOES help a great deal.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 09:26 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 09:27 AM (GD0B3)
Holy sh#t, crying over your failed career instead of the 100's of thousands (millions?) of UK citizen's lives you've ruined is quite bad.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3)
Leftard puppets are so weird.
Though on this note, Lizzy, I had a crazy realization over the weekend. I've always known I only ever saw my stoic yet warm father cry a single tear in his life - when he received news of an aunt's death. One tear. And *yet* that's still one more entire genuine tear than I ever saw my narcissist BPD histrionic mother cry.
Mind blowing!
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:28 AM (22ggK)
Shipping companies have to oblige too. And they are all too willing to abide because they're cowards and rely on the insurance industry to protect their assets.
Plus, the majority of the crews who man those commercial vessels are typically 3rd worlders with hardly any education... but a whole lot of superstition.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 09:26 AM (jehhT)
There are also plenty of pipelines that lead to the Red Sea and can otherwise get around the Strait of Hormuz.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 09:28 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 09:29 AM (15Vi2)
Holy sh#t, crying over your failed career instead of the 100's of thousands (millions?) of UK citizen's lives you've ruined is quite bad.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3)
Crying while lying about how EVERYTHING he did was for the PEOPLE of the UK...........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:29 AM (2YhKe)
So be it.
Posted by: PM Keir Starmer at June 22, 2026 09:23 AM (T6aVk)
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I call for a vote to give
Posted by: Jar Jar Binks at June 22, 2026 09:29 AM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:29 AM (2YhKe)
I'm not saying what's happening is right. I mean beyond that. Genuine query, I really want to know what you think.
Because short of blowing them off the map......
Posted by: ... at
If past performance is an indicator of future expectations then I don’t see it. Thats why to me it’s binary. Either you get rid of them or you’re stuck with the same shit we’ve been dealing with for 50 years. There’s now middle ground with these people.
Which is why it’s frustrating for me to see Trump fall into this trap every other president has fallen into. You’d think k after 50 years one of them would finally learn.
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 09:29 AM (3cXW4)
Too slow
Too many players on the field
Too much of two guys dancing with each other where nothing happens in relation to scoring outside of their personal foreplay
Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 09:24 AM (sKqQm)
I like the idea of keeping the same amount of players but reducing the size of the field - sorry, the pitch - by one half.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 09:30 AM (T6aVk)
Yes.
Also helps that Trump took Maduo, is squeezing Cuba, and South Americans have witnesses the success of Bukele and Millei.
A whole lot of proof that decline is a choice, and it's possible to choose better!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:30 AM (X8xt3)
Holy sh#t, crying over your failed career instead of the 100's of thousands (millions?) of UK citizen's lives you've ruined is quite bad.
Posted by: Lizzy
+++
Well.... That would be because he actually cares about his career.
His doesn't give a rats ass about all those Brit citizens.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 22, 2026 09:30 AM (Lo97M)
I don't think anyone would argue that there isn't a freedom, for lack of a better word, movement in many if not most countries. There has also been widespread and coordinated corruption by those who want to foster tyrannical rule that made it impossile for those movements to succeed.
Remove the tyranny and look what happens. Here included.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 09:30 AM (viF8m)
I read the review of the Vigilante movie, which was 100% bad, and immediately thought, Great, I want to see it. Make a lot of sequels.
Posted by: Wenda at June 22, 2026 09:30 AM (iIAkP)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)
Mind blowing!
Indeed!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 09:32 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: three weird sisters at June 22, 2026 09:33 AM (pBJ6M)
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 09:29 AM (3cXW4)
Yeah and I can't say as I disagree. Maybe he thought he could get it done, maybe he had intelligence that hasn't been shared. Maybe he got bad info, and zipped up and put in a sack by some bad actors that knew what would get his motor going. Wouldn't be the first time.
If nothing else it's showing the world what it is up against. And *may* (key word) be setting the nuke program back which is likely the least we or anyone including Israel has been able to do.
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:33 AM (22ggK)
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 09:29 AM (3cXW4)
Which means what, exactly, militarily?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 09:34 AM (dK+Kv)
Blair opened the door to millions of 3rd World “migrants” in the 90s and 00s then Conservatives ruled for 14 years between 2010 and 2024, keeping the door wide open.
It’s kinda like Blair set fire to the house, Cameron and Boris Johnson puted gas on it and then Starmer gets blamed for the fire when firefighters show up because the other two ran away.
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 09:34 AM (3cXW4)
The muzzie lady, in full burka, provoked the white lady (called her a "cracker" by reports), and then recorded the white lady's response, calling mo' a pedo, etc.
The white lady was the one fired, not the muzzie.
(LOL at the thought of some garbage bag wearing muzzie having a job (other than farming government welfare).
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 22, 2026 09:34 AM (73/SM)
Posted by: Case at June 22, 2026 09:34 AM (IY9No)
To me that would make the whole effort worth it. There are other considerations too, like putting Europe and China on their back heel.
But talking strictly about Iran as it stands here, they are gonna be a thorn in earth's side for a long time.
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:38 AM (22ggK)
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:38 AM (22ggK)
It's a silly point to argue, because there is not one person that does not realize such. The question is how to deal with them. And can our current course bear fruit at all?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 09:40 AM (dK+Kv)
Guess who else needs the Strait open to sell the product that makes up a huge precentage of their national GDP?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 09:41 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 09:42 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 09:40 AM (dK+Kv)
There is only one way to deal with them and no one really wants it because it will involve many innocents dead. There is probably more to this than meets the eye so simple Twitter wins and losses are the real silliness here.
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:43 AM (22ggK)
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:38 AM (22ggK)
We chide the left for being perpetually online, but we have our own contingent, too, who are subject to any and all foreign influence ops that come down the pike.
Musk did me a solid.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 09:46 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: far cry at June 22, 2026 09:46 AM (pBJ6M)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 09:46 AM (dK+Kv)
He did indeed. Social media is a virus
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:47 AM (22ggK)
Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 09:43 AM (22ggK)
Some actually do want it, but they are unwilling to sacrifice their own to accomplish it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 09:48 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2026 09:48 AM (afJtY)
And they never say what their plan is for dealing with Iran after we have an all out war. And there's always an after to be dealt with.
Oil just fell below $74/barrel, by the way.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 09:53 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 22, 2026 09:56 AM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2026 09:58 AM (afJtY)
Daily Tech News 22 June 2026
Top Story
- A tech-worked backed PAC is spending $5 million to fight a multi-trillion dollar industry. (Tech Crunch)
Or blatantly stealing the money while serving the goals of communists foreign and domestic. One of those.
- Speaking of which did my old job only exist because of fraud? (It's not about code)
Always awkward to realise this is a possibility. Something of a comfort to realise that the answer is... Probably not.
Tech News
- Sony's Xperia 1 VIII is a pretty good phone. (The Verge)
One would hope so for $1850.
It does have a headphone jack and a microSD slot, but so does my Motorola phone which cost a tenth of that.
- Viewsonic has a 24" 4k monitor. (Notebook Check)
With a 160Hz refresh rate and coverage of 95% of DCI-P3, but the main selling point is its size. 24" 4k models are rarer than you might think.
- TikTok shows three times more AI slop than YouTube. (Search Engine Journal)
Yay.
- Polymarket ads are ads. (MSN)
In that nothing they present is real.
This has got to break at least a dozen laws.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 04:30 AM (6wpGE)
DEATH TO ALL MICE!!!!
Why yes, I seem to have some four legged squatters. Little vermin bastards!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 04:32 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 04:34 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 04:34 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 22, 2026 04:34 AM (BGSp9)
Posted by: clarence at June 22, 2026 04:41 AM (I5lp2)
Posted by: Okjohn at June 22, 2026 04:41 AM (lE/nR)
In that nothing they present is real.
I am not a lawyer, but ... that's what ads do.They sell things using actors pretending stuff (excuse the heavy lawyerlike vocabulary).
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 04:43 AM (6wpGE)
****
First paragraph tells you that this sucks balls. One big grift.
Posted by: clarence at June 22, 2026 04:45 AM (I5lp2)
Posted by: Accomack at June 22, 2026 04:50 AM (GbONR)
Posted by: clarence at June 22, 2026 04:50 AM (I5lp2)
See you when I get there
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 04:51 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 22, 2026 04:51 AM (Q/FnY)
from the article:
Why This Matters
Brands producing TikTok content are entering a feed where automated content may outweigh human-made videos for new users. For children's content specifically, the concentration is higher.
TikTok added user controls for AI content, but data suggests that what new users see by default still leans heavily toward AI-generated videos.
But, wait. That doesn't tell us Why This Matters.
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 04:52 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 22, 2026 04:55 AM (mqAOW)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2026 04:55 AM (rmmrE)
from the article:
“Our fundamental belief here is that people still do have the power to stop this autocratic takeover of the Trump administration and the tech sector,” Thomas told the NYT.
Oh, for heaven's sake.
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 04:57 AM (6wpGE)
https://tinyurl.com/4az7c8eh
Here's betting that the barbarian who replaces him will be the same or worse.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2026 04:58 AM (rmmrE)
Very close to having a meow in your hash.
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 04:59 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2026 04:58 AM (rmmrE)
BBC:
Keir Starmer announces his resignation as UK prime minister
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 05:00 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Accomack at June 22, 2026 05:01 AM (/Chlc)
BBC:
Trump-backed political outsider wins Colombia election, initial count shows
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 05:01 AM (6wpGE)
Keir Starmer announces his resignation as UK prime minister
He should be replace with a sack of cornmeal. That will give time for the UK to clean up Starmers mess. Couldn't be any worse.
They are going to pick somebody worse, aren't they.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 05:04 AM (sAmhv)
I think the fellow who will be his replacement is even worse
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 05:04 AM (guLpK)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 22, 2026 05:05 AM (mqAOW)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 05:06 AM (6wpGE)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 22, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)
What happens now?
Starmer says he'll remain in post until Labour chooses a new leader, which he's asked the party's governing body to ensure happens "before Parliament returns in September"
Andy Burnham - who could replace the PM - will be in Westminster today to be sworn in as MP for Makerfield, after winning a by-election last week
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 05:11 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 05:12 AM (sAmhv)
(editor, editor)
Starmer announced he had already spoken with the King and in said if there is a contest to succeed him, a new Labour leader will be in place before parliament returns in September
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 05:14 AM (6wpGE)
Starmer announced he had already spoken with the King and said if there is a contest to succeed him, a new Labour leader will be in place before parliament returns in September
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 05:20 AM (6wpGE)
I still think that behind the scenes, they hit him with the really nasty blackmail video or pictures that were taken and set aside for just such a day and said to him, "You can resign, or you can resign in utter disgrace, your choice."
Guys like him and Justin Trudeau are way too narcissistic to resign "for the good of the party". In their own eyes, they did, and can do no wrong, but their weakness is that they don't want to be a pariah, despised by everyone in public for the rest of their lives. They'll do anything to salvage their image in the eyes of the public, especially if they've got a soft landing set up such as a "consulting" job that leverages their political career up to that point.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 05:22 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 05:23 AM (guLpK)
Victor snap traps baited with peanut butter. Those work.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 05:24 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 05:22 AM (O7YUW)
Maybe this phrasing, at the BBC, prior to the resignation announcement, was code:
Shadow minister: Keir Starmer is a 'busted flush'
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 05:25 AM (6wpGE)
https://tinyurl.com/24junfth
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 05:26 AM (guLpK)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 05:27 AM (qFwJc)
Starmer quit
I thought Trump was just outgassing on his truth social, but it's true
interesting to see if this changes things in the UK
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 05:28 AM (hkbGk)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 05:30 AM (hkbGk)
Starmer quit
I thought Trump was just outgassing on his truth social, but it's true
interesting to see if this changes things in the UK
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 05:28 AM (hkbGk)
BBC:
(prior to the resignation announcement)
Donald Trump also weighed in, asserting that Starmer "will resign" having "failed badly" on immigration and energy in a post on Truth Social. No 10 tells the BBC Starmer has not spoken to Trump this weekend.
heh
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 05:31 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 05:32 AM (6wpGE)
https://tinyurl.com/3ahxsz5j
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 05:32 AM (guLpK)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 05:34 AM (6wpGE)
https://tinyurl.com/3ns9w3fn
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 05:37 AM (OYsYV)
https://tinyurl.com/mt4fjs83
Time for a walk. May you all have a blessed day everyone and know that you are a blessing to others.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 05:46 AM (KxQqp)
The weekend was a bit on the busy side. We had eight dogs in the house. Three went home on Saturday and one was picked up on Sunday so things are quieter.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 22, 2026 05:47 AM (RjOoY)
BBC:
Green Party leader Zack Polanski ...
On Starmer's potential successor Andy Burnham, Polanski says he "must be bold or he will be bust".
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 05:48 AM (6wpGE)
The problem is getting Victor traps set. I have a hell of a time doing it. I've been using Tomcat traps and have had some success with them. This mouse has so far avoided all of them, except for the sticky trap that it pulled itself out of. That kind of pissed me off. I've used them before too and had success. Just not this time.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 05:53 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 05:22 AM (O7YUW)
And look at PM Carney. He is a technocrat with no patience at all for politics. He believes he should be ruling Canada and has no time for anyone else, even his colleagues.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 05:57 AM (T6aVk)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2026 06:01 AM (whRlH)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2026 06:02 AM (whRlH)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2026 06:04 AM (whRlH)
a) Are you using the old style Victor with the metal trip pedal, or are you using the new style with the expanded trigger plate (plastic, yellow, made to look like a piece of cheese.)
b) Can you describe why you have a problem setting the trap, ie, what the specific difficulty is?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 06:11 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 06:12 AM (sgkY8)
Scratch that liberal party paint, find the communist logo beneath.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 06:13 AM (O7YUW)
'night daywalkers!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 06:13 AM (sAmhv)
Those suck ass. I've had one trip three times, and all it's done is create a smart mouse. I'm going to have to make a bucket trap.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 06:14 AM (dK+Kv)
Okay, I'll admit, it's Monday. But remember:
"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 06:12 AM (sgkY
Yep. The UK is a conquered people. They would give that up easily. I'd like to be pleasantly surprised.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 06:16 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 06:17 AM (dK+Kv)
Howz about you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)
I have preps for my flight home after the MoMeet of pleasant memories.
May you be blessed with your week as well.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2026 06:21 AM (whRlH)
Given that they had a Scottish dude go after Muslims with a knife and yell at the cops when they brought him down, things might be starting to turn.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 22, 2026 06:21 AM (RjOoY)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 06:13 AM (O7YUW)
Especially now. If they were halfway pragmatic, they would look at AB and say "get all the oil out of the ground, we have to pay for lots and lots of social spending." But they are not pragmatic. They are very much Maoist in their outlook. PM Carney is right and if you disagree you are just an evil capitalist roader.
This view is bankrupting Canada and the government's view that if Canada is destroyed as a consequence of their decisions, so be it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 06:23 AM (T6aVk)
Okay, get some of the original style with the metal trip pedal. I've never had trouble setting those, there's a notch that's easy to see where the trip-arm sets into.
1. Bait the metal trip pedal with peanut butter. Put a nice glob of the peanut butter onto the metal loop and work it inside the loop too if you can.
2. Move the spring 180 degrees to the other side, holding it down on the wood with your thumb.
3. Swing the trip arm up and over the spring.
4. End of the trip arm fits into the notch on the metal trip pedal.
5. GENTLY remove pressure with your thumb so the trip arm locks into the notch on the metal trip pedal.
6. Hold the trap between thumb and index finger on the side that the spring arm is on when ARMED. If it lets go, this way it won't snap you. :-)
7. GENTLY place it down along side of where the wall and the floor meet, long side against wall.
8. Check every 12 hours, or wait for the *SNAP!* :-)
(continues...)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2026 06:25 AM (afJtY)
I don't think even Nigel can turn the UK around. May I be mistaken.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2026 06:04 AM (whRlH)
The UK couldn't be turned around in 1979. Just sayin.
(And absolutely they were. To the extent we would prefer? Perhaps not, but it is undeniable that the UK was better off after PM Thatcher was in office. The UK CAN be turned around. That is not the question. The question is: will it? THAT is an open question.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 06:26 AM (T6aVk)
1. That would desecrate Gaia.
2. This would lead to people having well paying jobs.
So you can see why there would be no interest in this.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 22, 2026 06:28 AM (RjOoY)
I've had cases where the trap has been tripped or the bait has been eaten without tripping the trap multiple times. Do not lose patience, just keep baiting the trap, it'll work.
Small mice can lick the bait completely out of the trip trigger, but a bigger fatter mouse (more importantly a mouse that has been fed well from your peanut butter and is used to an easy meal) will make a mistake and will get killed.
Mice can not resist peanut butter. They will return time after time for the easy meal.
Best way to load the trap to avoid contaminating your peanut butter jar:
a) Load the tip of a knife with peanut butter.
b) Transfer PB to fresh NEW toothpick.
c) Use toothpick to load trigger on trap (while disarmed.)
d) Throw toothpick away.
e) If loading another trap, repeat from (a) or (b).
We had one year where we killed over 20 mice. It was nuts. You couldn't even find traps in the store, apparently the mouse population had exploded that year and everyone was having problems. Always, ALWAYS keep 6 to 12 extra new traps on your shelf, ready to go. Get a "value pack".
Next year we caught maybe 1 or 2 all year.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 06:30 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 06:26 AM (T6aVk)
The UK is a beaten dog. They enjoy their serfdom. It is their national identity. Read the rape gang report or even just the reported details.
Sad, but true.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 06:30 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 06:32 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2026 06:33 AM (afJtY)
Oh.
Imagine you are the US Senate....
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 22, 2026 06:34 AM (NlEaG)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 06:34 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: m"
Once they get in your ducts it's time to bring out the heavy firepower.
mornin yall
Posted by: fd at June 22, 2026 06:37 AM (vFG9F)
The political life of a PM in Britain seems to be just under 2 years. 7 in the last 10 years
Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2026 06:25 AM (afJtY)
In the 1820s-1830s there were 9 in 8 years.
Liverpool: 1827
Canning: 1827
Goderich: 1827-1828
Wellington 1: 1828-1830
Grey: 1830-1834
Melbourne 1: 1834
Wellington 2: 1834
Peel: 1834-1835
Melbourne 2: 1835
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 06:37 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 06:40 AM (sgkY8)
BBC:
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey says the public is "sick" of constantly changing prime ministers, following the resignation announcement from Keir Starmer.
"The British people are sick of being let down by an endless merry-go-round of prime ministers while nothing really changes," Davey writes on X.
"This time must be different. It can’t just be about changing who’s in Number 10, it has to be about changing our broken politics so we can fix our country."
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 06:41 AM (6wpGE)
"This time must be different. It can’t just be about changing who’s in Number 10, it has to be about changing our broken politics so we can fix our country."
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 06:41 AM (6wpGE)
Note that it's about changing politics instead of changing policies.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 06:45 AM (O0L8i)
----
who thinks that will happen
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 06:45 AM (15Vi2)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 22, 2026 06:45 AM (VyBeY)
"The British people are sick of being let down by an endless merry-go-round of prime ministers while nothing really changes," Davey writes on X.
"This time must be different. It can’t just be about changing who’s in Number 10, it has to be about changing our broken politics so we can fix our country."
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 06:41 AM (6wpGE)
Narrator: They continued to be let down.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 22, 2026 06:45 AM (NlEaG)
****
Well, no. Your politics are working just like the gov wants. It ain't broke if no one wants to fix it.
Posted by: clarence at June 22, 2026 06:46 AM (I5lp2)
Maybe I will start dropping references from times past. For example, today I sliced like a large war mattock. I also tore one of my good shirts. Can a guy get a shirt around here?
Posted by: meh at June 22, 2026 06:47 AM (kK7U2)
A platform with a 360 degree laser trigger that sets off high explosives when tripped from 10 ft or closer. The liability questions here are a bit problematic but probably could be a handled by safety stickers similar to what is used for airbags.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 22, 2026 06:48 AM (ffi9I)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 06:48 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 06:49 AM (qFwJc)
Prime Minister of Australia
The current prime minister is Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party, who assumed office on 23 May 2022.
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 06:55 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 22, 2026 06:56 AM (A46K3)
A platform with a 360 degree laser trigger that sets off high explosives when tripped from 10 ft or closer. The liability questions here are a bit problematic but probably could be a handled by safety stickers similar to what is used for airbags.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 22, 2026 06:48 AM (ffi9I)
How easy is it to set, tho.
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 06:56 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: fd at June 22, 2026 06:58 AM (vFG9F)
Someone needs to tell CBD, this could fix all his house problems in his First World Problems threads!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 06:58 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 06:59 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 22, 2026 06:59 AM (ffi9I)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
Perhaps some day, the Powers That Be will add the ejection seats to the bus.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 22, 2026 07:03 AM (RjOoY)
Posted by: Buck at June 22, 2026 07:07 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Just Wondering at June 22, 2026 07:09 AM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: Buck at June 22, 2026 07:07 AM (z6ONu)
62 Have a great day, everyone.
I have preps for my flight home after the MoMeet of pleasant memories.
May you be blessed with your week as well.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2026 06:21 AM (whRlH)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 07:10 AM (6wpGE)
A platform with a 360 degree laser trigger that sets off high explosives when tripped from 10 ft or closer. The liability questions here are a bit problematic but probably could be a handled by safety stickers similar to what is used for airbags.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions
>Sounds like a perfect task for AI. Roborat. Fornicate them to death.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 22, 2026 07:11 AM (fkjGs)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 07:11 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2026 07:15 AM (mWKAz)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2026 07:15 AM (mWKAz)
That's very bould of you!
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 07:16 AM (6wpGE)
35 32 I still think that behind the scenes, they hit him with the really nasty blackmail video or pictures that were taken and set aside for just such a day and said to him, "You can resign, or you can resign in utter disgrace, your choice."
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2026 05:22 AM (O7YUW)
They didn’t need to. A popular Labour Party member, Burnham, won a by election to get a seat in Parliament, and beat Reform pretty easily. Reportedly all of Starmers cabinet ministers told Starmer he had this week to get out or they would lead the vote to throw him out. Burnham will be his replacement.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2026 07:17 AM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 07:18 AM (15Vi2)
Alan Greenspan is mort. 100yrs old
Andrea Mitchell is available. Too soon?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 07:18 AM (Iurxt)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 22, 2026 07:21 AM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 06:40 AM (sgkY8
It needs to stop with the diversity shit and deport the muslim army
Posted by: night lifted at June 22, 2026 07:21 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 07:18 AM (Iurxt)
Yeah, Mitchell being available would be too soon for anyone...
Posted by: Boswell at June 22, 2026 07:21 AM (NTVPI)
On the last hole rather than cheer the guy in the lead as he approached the last green they sang happy birthday to the guy 4 shots back who has no way to win. BTW, I like Scottie Scheffler a lot and wish he would’ve won but he was out of contention at that point…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 07:22 AM (yz/88)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 07:23 AM (6wpGE)
Couple times a week it seems, only when I come here in the morning, a pop up appears...
KEY CHAIN
Chrome is checking certificates
Fades, comes back. Fades, comes back...
Screen is frozen and only way to get rid of it is restart my phone.
Any knowledge appreciated.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 22, 2026 07:23 AM (ev5l/)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 22, 2026 07:25 AM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 22, 2026 07:25 AM (ffi9I)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 22, 2026 07:26 AM (qZb7K)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 22, 2026 07:25 AM (ffi9I)
yikes
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 07:26 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2026 07:29 AM (yz/88)
Posted by: Out With The Fag at June 22, 2026 07:29 AM (g7saB)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2026 06:04 AM (whRlH)
During the campaign, he flatly stated that he's looking for immigration reform, not any mass deportations, and that he wants his coalition to build Muslim support, not alienate them.
Perhaps someone else will rise up and demand a Britain for the British, but it won't be Farage.
I expect Reform's approach to deportations will be less aggressive than Trump's, not more.
He was good on Brexit, but he's not exactly strong on immigration - his Party is succeeding by offering the less blatantly insane approach to the problem.
If they (or us, for that matter) want to "turn things around," a whole lot of people have to be sent packing, and nobody yet seems to have the political will for this kind of dramatic reversal of globalist policy orthodoxy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 07:31 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2026 06:04 AM (whRlH)
During the campaign, he flatly stated that he's looking for immigration reform, not any mass deportations, and that he wants his coalition to build Muslim support, not alienate them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 07:31 AM (BI5O2)
he = Farage?
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 07:33 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 07:33 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 07:33 AM (6wpGE)
Yes - he wanted to calm people's fears that Reform would send Precious Foreigners packing.
He may have succeeded at that, but it also tells me he's not serious about reversing any damage, just slowing it down.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 07:36 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 07:33 AM (6wpGE)
Yes - he wanted to calm people's fears that Reform would send Precious Foreigners packing.
He may have succeeded at that, but it also tells me he's not serious about reversing any damage, just slowing it down.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 07:36 AM (BI5O2)
Thanks.
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 07:37 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 22, 2026 07:39 AM (CHHv1)
Senator Mark Warner, vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on 11 June that General Joshua Rudd, who leads both the NSA and the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, told him directly that Anthropic’s Mythos model ‘broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours.’ The extent of the alleged breach and which specific systems were affected have not been publicly disclosed. Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment.
The warning emerged alongside an abrupt move by the Trump administration to block foreign access to Anthropic’s two most advanced models, Mythos and Fable.
Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2026 08:14 AM (O7XEN)
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - June 21, 2026 [Doof]
Happy Father's Day Becoming your dad
Happy Father's Day to all of you magnificent kings.
— Flappr (@flapprdotnet) June 21, 2026
Level up. pic.twitter.com/r9Derzx7Kv
Some dads are just dicks
💟 So I See This Family Almost Every Morning On My Run And The Dad Is An Absolute Dick‼️😆😁 pic.twitter.com/T2SoYgjHug
— Bee 🐝🌿 (@BeeAwake1) June 19, 2026
What a moment for this dad
🥹
— U.S. Open (@usopengolf) June 21, 2026
Miles Russell's father, Joe, took over as caddie for his son's final walk up 18.
What a Father's Day gift! pic.twitter.com/7tfHKSrjyx
Another great father / son moment at the US Open
Wyndham Clark's dad, Randall, got on a red-eye flight that landed at 6 AM on Father's Day to surprise his son at the U.S. Open.
— ESPN (@espn) June 21, 2026
Look at their reactions after he sealed his second major title 🥹❤️ pic.twitter.com/i5oQVPVPN6
Preparing the new dads
When mom leaves dad alone with the baby- pic.twitter.com/AkkEYPrfjp
— Kerry Slone(Stilettos&Shotguns) (@thereal_SnS) June 21, 2026
Mike wore an E. Marinella pink classic silk tie in the Small Flower pattern.
The Duke of Edinburgh once again delivered in his signature “Racing Colours and Saddles on Pastel Ground” tie by Soprano, a piece he has worn every year for the last 12 years.
Among the dresses, two stood out: Princess Catherine’s rewear of a gorgeous marigold Roksanda Brigitte dress (not everyone could pull that one off) and Zara Tindall’s utterly charming bespoke Claire Mischevani Poppy Dress in Polka Dot.
Alongside the bright yellow dress, Princess Catherine wore a Jane Taylor London Pomona hat, Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Chandelier Earrings, and a Nigel Milne Birthright Three-Strand Pearl Bracelet. She carried an Anya Hindmarch Maud Pearl-Embellished Clutch Bag in Ivory and finished the look with Gianvito Rossi Gianvito 105 Pumps in Bisque Suede.
Zara Tindall paired her polka-dot dress with a bespoke Sally Ann Hats Ariel Hat (retail version shown), Hector Lion Cassis Collection Croissant Earrings, and a Mulberry Amberley Clutch in Black Small Classic Grain leather. Her shoes were the Emmy Rebecca Pump in Jet Black Suede.
Then Henry Cavill arrived with his… um, watch, and the internet promptly lost the ability to behave. The watch itself was spectacular: a 1926 Longines Monopusher Chronograph. But honestly, the video says it all In the end, Royal Ascot proved once again that while the hats are huge, the horses are fast, and the royalty is royal, nothing, and I mean nothing, can compete with a 6’1 superhero in morning dress casually flexing a vintage chronograph on his wrist. 😉 ----- Thanks, Piper! Don't forget to check out Piper's X page.
Happy Father’s Day. 🫶 David Gates of Bread wrote this song in memory of his father. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/6ID9eVr05I
— Luce (@lucyshow11) June 21, 2026
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 21, 2026 10:07 PM (uTEOj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 10:08 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at June 21, 2026 10:08 PM (g14+z)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 10:09 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:09 PM (1Ff7Z)
Joy Reid: “Nobody black I know is really excited about the 4th of July."
“It is the celebration of slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the Crown for their slave empire."
Reid was considered a 'mainstream media’ personality for years.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 10:09 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 10:09 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:09 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:10 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 10:10 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 21, 2026 10:10 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2026 10:10 PM (ItpVy)
Yay again!😜
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 21, 2026 10:10 PM (uTEOj)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 10:11 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:11 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 21, 2026 10:12 PM (uTEOj)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 10:12 PM (2YhKe)
Missed Mass today because my driveway was under six inches of water this morning. Washed Puff and Ruth and cleaned their pen. Exhausted afterwards. Driveway was still under water later in the afternoon.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 10:12 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Bulg at June 21, 2026 10:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LRob in OK at June 21, 2026 10:12 PM (Jr+re)
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The doctor told my 96-year-old great-grandfather that he had to "quit all high-adrenaline activities" because of his blood pressure. I found him in the driveway, trying to jump his mobility scooter over a row of flaming trash cans.
He shouted over the engine, "The doctor said no adrenaline, but my heart is so old it needs a jump-start! I'm just 'defibrillating' my soul. Now, move the cat, I need a longer runway!"
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 10:13 PM (qx7Zg)
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Maybe not but at least the sun will let us sleep longer.
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 10:13 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 10:13 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 10:13 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:14 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: TRex - NoVaMoMe hangover dino at June 21, 2026 10:14 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 21, 2026 10:14 PM (uTEOj)
Posted by: LRob in OK at June 21, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Bulg at June 21, 2026 10:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at June 21, 2026 10:15 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: RandomDave at June 21, 2026 10:15 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: cherries in season at June 21, 2026 10:15 PM (Ozvnh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:15 PM (u/oMr)
The take of someone actively seeking to be pissed-off all the time. What a way to live.
Posted by: Halfhand at June 21, 2026 10:15 PM (6RaZt)
Posted by: COMountainMarie
All of them. Goslings optional.
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 10:15 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: EveR at June 21, 2026 10:16 PM (wTevN)
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2026 10:16 PM (vTZFs)
Finished Road Hard which was really good . In the middle of The Hammer. Also really good. He needs to make another movie.
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 10:17 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:17 PM (OoFl2)
Wait - am I dead?
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
___________
*flips pages on clipboard*
Says here you ought to be.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 10:17 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Halfhand at June 21, 2026 10:15 PM (6RaZt)
Funny, I don't see a chain keeping her here.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: LRob in OK at June 21, 2026 10:17 PM (Jr+re)
-Tucks in shirt *nods approval*
-White socks *yes, my child! It is time*
-Pulls laces so tight it cuts off circulation
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 10:18 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2026 10:18 PM (ItpVy)
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Most Morons never make the Hajj to Corsicana, even though the AoSHQ Big Book of Guidelines says you should do it at least once in your life.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:18 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: EveR at June 21, 2026 10:16 PM (wTevN
Did you try Nordstrom?
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:18 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: pookysgirl, getting set up at June 21, 2026 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
Oh no…..
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:17 PM (OoFl2)
Well, if YOU'RE answering me, I must be.
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:18 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Bulg at June 21, 2026 10:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 21, 2026 10:19 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
Oh no…..
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:17 PM (OoFl2)
Well, if YOU'RE answering me, I must be.
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:18 PM (QMAsf)
If you're not, I have to put the cart back.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:20 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: pookysgirl, getting set up at June 21, 2026 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)
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I hope you're making a sock.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:20 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:14 PM
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It's good to belong.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 10:20 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:20 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:18 PM (u/oMr)
I'm glad I went multiple times before I died. I kindly request some of my ashes by scattered in the camper section of the ranch.
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:20 PM (QMAsf)
shear, is that the word?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 21, 2026 10:19 PM (/lPRQ)
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Diaphanous, that's the word.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 10:21 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
************
Thank goodness I checked in, otherwise I might have missed the news.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 10:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
— Zombie Doof
Posted by: Bulg at June 21, 2026 10:21 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 21, 2026 10:22 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 10:22 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Bulg at June 21, 2026 10:14 PM (77rzZ)
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It's a great time, for sure. Contact Ben Had for details.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 10:22 PM (+1HQm)
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:20 PM (QMAsf)
Let’s go haunt it!
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:22 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Piper
Oh I watched it. Mr. Cavill was sporting more than a spiffy watch. LOL
Posted by: Tuna at June 21, 2026 10:22 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 21, 2026 10:22 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:20 PM (OoFl2)
Nope. I don't even know who he is.
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:22 PM (QMAsf)
Heard some folks are under water and also heard Utah is on fire. Crazy weather.
Posted by: Case at June 21, 2026 10:23 PM (IY9No)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:20 PM (OoFl2)
Nope. I don't even know who he is.
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:22
He is Superman! You should watch it. Or maybe don’t.
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:23 PM (OoFl2)
Or perhaps that's just my imagination.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 21, 2026 10:22 PM (Riz8t)
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Well, you're a guy...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 10:23 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Black JEM at June 21, 2026 10:23 PM (UQRAm)
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:22 PM (QMAsf)
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He has a well-worn meme where he says "FUCK"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:23 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 10:24 PM (+1HQm)
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:20 PM
***
Next to the port o potties? Tell ya what. For five bucks, I'll try to intervene and at least upgrade you to the 100 yard marker.
Posted by: TRex - helpful dino at June 21, 2026 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 10:24 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:18 PM (OoFl2)
Thx! I will. Love that short, boxy look.
Posted by: EveR at June 21, 2026 10:24 PM (wTevN)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 21, 2026 10:22 PM (Riz8t)
I actually didn’t notice that at the time. But that girl still runs, obviously.
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:24 PM (OoFl2)
https://tinyurl.com/msy2pvyj
Another pasty white liberal politician who thinks the black folks are cool with her and think she's one of them.
They do not.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 21, 2026 10:24 PM (Riz8t)
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Reminds of that Stevie Wonder song, Hotter Than July,
you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 10:25 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:25 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 10:24 PM (+1HQm)
*sets up a spooky outpost at Weasel Acres*
Posted by: Doof's ghost at June 21, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at
It’s quite the watch!
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:26 PM (OoFl2)
I've been so lucky, starting with my dad, to have had many wonderful men who happily lived by these credences! Bless them each and every one..
I was usually the asshole😏..
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 21, 2026 10:26 PM (uTEOj)
I feel responsible for Doof's passing.
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Is that involuntary homicide or manslaughter?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 10:26 PM (O0L8i)
*sets up a spooky outpost at Weasel Acres*
Posted by: Doof's ghost at June 21, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)
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Oh great.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 10:27 PM (+1HQm)
And thanks to Piper for the Ascot fashion report. Well done, as always.
Fabulous photo up top!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 21, 2026 10:27 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Bulg at June 21, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:27 PM (u/oMr)
you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 10:25 PM (iLKq
There's plenty of hot left in this year.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:28 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Doof's ghost
*****
Careful, I understand there are bear and bobcat that visit....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: TRex - helpful dino at June 21, 2026 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
Dead men have no cash
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:28 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Hemlines, balderdash, smallderdash
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 10:28 PM (iLKq8)
Also, seems fitting that Father's Day falls on the longest day of the year. Have the feminists complained yet about Mother's Day getting short changed?
Posted by: Orson at June 21, 2026 10:29 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Archimedes
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It would appear that she has nice thighs.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:29 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 21, 2026 10:30 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 10:26 PM (O0L8i)
I caught the end of the gun thread waiting for the ONT. I think it was a joke, therefore not murder, but mans laughter.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)
Here, the 3rd week in July is the hottest period, although often early August, dog days, feels worse due to the humilarity.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 10:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 10:26 PM (O0L8i)
I caught the end of the gun thread waiting for the ONT. I think it was a joke, therefore not murder, but mans laughter.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:30
Oh, that was good!
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:31 PM (OoFl2)
Well, that hiddenclick music is quite a juxtaposition to the tranquility of the top pic.
Just got back from a nice dinner out with the keeds. Warms this daddy's heart.♥
Posted by: mindful webworker - every day is Our Father's Day at June 21, 2026 10:31 PM (9bb3y)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 10:22 PM (2YhKe)
I expect a recurring "pour one out" for me from the usual MoMe After Dark crew
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:31 PM (QMAsf)
Alas, I'm claiming that loophole for the mandatory Haj to Corsicana. I'm just too old & decrepit to do that kind of traveling.
Posted by: mnw at June 21, 2026 10:31 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Doof's ghost
Oh great.
Posted by: Weasel
Well, now you can blame wobbly shit on poltergeist activity.
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 10:33 PM (VHUov)
Happy Father's Day and RIP *bows head*
That final meme was perhaps the greatest gift of the day, as I realized my eldest son now checks off that entire list...
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 10:33 PM (6lIrI)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 21, 2026 10:34 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 10:34 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 10:33 PM (VHUov)
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Excellent point.
*Dammit Doof!*
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 10:34 PM (+1HQm)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 21, 2026 10:35 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: Doof at June 21, 2026 10:31 PM
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That would be alcohol abuse and a major party foul.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 10:35 PM (2YhKe)
My wardrobe cries out for a top hat and a monocle.
Posted by: Cicero
Are you wearing a peanut shell?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 21, 2026 10:35 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:31 PM (OoFl2)
Thanks. That gave me one of the few smiles of the day.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:37 PM (1Ff7Z)
(pulls out pipe, starts sleuthing)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 21, 2026 10:37 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 10:38 PM (2YhKe)
Well, I'm sure they already "pour one out" for kale smoothies for Piper... cuz noone can drink that stuff!
Posted by: RandomDave at June 21, 2026 10:38 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Case at June 21, 2026 10:38 PM (IY9No)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:39 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 10:40 PM (qx7Zg)
https://youtu.be/XYV8Zt2k0RQ
(Lyrics don't start until 5:30)
I never wanted to become someone like him
So secure!
Content to live each day just like the last
I was sure I knew that
This was not for me
And I wanted so much more
Far beyond what I could see
So I swore that I'd
Never be someone like him
1/3
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 10:40 PM (VHUov)
Since I proclaimed my independence
My mission, My aim, And my vision
So secure!
Content to live each day like it's my last
It's wonderful to know that I could be
Something more than what I dreamed
Far beyond what I could see
Still I swear that I'm
Missing out this time
2/3
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 10:41 PM (VHUov)
As far as I could tell
There's nothing more I need
But still I ask myself
Could this be everything?
Then all I swore
That I would never be was now
So suddenly
The only thing
I wanted
To become
.....to be someone just like him.
3/3
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 10:41 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 21, 2026 10:42 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Doof's ghost
Oh great.
Posted by: Weasel
At least he didn't choose your home, where he could wing up FSJ and Gertie, and smoke your stogies.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 10:42 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 10:45 PM (O0L8i)
Then I refreshed my memory as to what Johnny Depp has been up to these last 15 years or so. Yikes. If I had $75 million, I think I could do better.
Posted by: mnw at June 21, 2026 10:46 PM (RCjYY)
... wind up FSJ and Gertie ...
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg)
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They're highly trained and effective watch dogs!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 10:48 PM (GNqmQ)
Posted by: mnw at June 21, 2026 10:46 PM
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He pissed off a woman enough she shit on his bed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 10:48 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Case at June 21, 2026 10:51 PM (IY9No)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 10:48 PM (2YhKe)
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That may be a message.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 10:52 PM (GNqmQ)
Yes, and then there was the really bad stuff!
If you're rich, filing a lot of lawsuits is like a bad drug habit. Of course, Mr. Depp filed a lot of lawsuits AND had a bad drug habit.
Posted by: mnw at June 21, 2026 10:52 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:28 PM (1Ff7Z)
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It can show up anytime. My tomatoes would enjoy that.
Posted by: Black JEM at June 21, 2026 10:52 PM (UQRAm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 21, 2026 10:54 PM (sn5xH)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:54 PM (OoFl2)
To all dads coming along.
To the dads we've loved and lost...
To dads who fought and lived or died for us💔
It's fitting that the first day of summer - longest day of the year...
Should be DADs day!!!
Screw 🌈 month ha😜!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 21, 2026 10:59 PM (uTEOj)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 21, 2026 11:00 PM (Ov6Yl)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 21, 2026 11:00 PM (Ov6Yl)
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Good times.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 11:01 PM (2YhKe)
Should be DADs day!!!
Screw 🌈 month ha😜!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 21, 2026 10:59 PM (uTEOj)
If you live in Indiana, it's officially Nuclear Family Month. Might be in other states.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Even if it's not, party like it is!
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 11:04 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Black JEM at June 21, 2026 10:52 PM (UQRAm)
The heat's killed mine pretty much. A few left on the vines ripening. Once I pick them, I'm ripping out the plants and trying again in September.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 11:05 PM (1Ff7Z)
If you live in Indiana, it's officially Nuclear Family Month. Might be in other states.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)
_____________
*men gasp*
*women faint*
*dogs howl*
During Pride Month? How homophobic can you get?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 11:06 PM (O0L8i)
Due to my own shortcomings, and a moment of madness 6 years ago, I've been estranged from my two sons (41 and 36).
I have tried my best over the past 6 years to reach out to them, to apologize, and ask their forgiveness.
All to no avail.
I would like to ask the Horde to pray for their hearts to open, to allow me to properly apologize, and and to try be the father I should have been.
This year has been especially hard not being able to be part of their lives, and ... well it just hurts.
They're losing their mother to early onset Alzheimers, and I need them to know I'm a better person today, than I was then, that I can be counted on.
***Sigh***
Posted by: browndog downcast at June 21, 2026 11:07 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 21, 2026 11:08 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: mnw at June 21, 2026 10:46 PM
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He pissed off a woman enough she shit on his bed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
TBF, she was a lunatic. She probably did that to all her mates.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 21, 2026 11:10 PM (sAmhv)
***Sigh***
Posted by: browndog downcast at June 21, 2026 11:07 PM (3sXRv)
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Sorry, man. Hoping you and yours can overcome this incident and restore your relationship.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 11:11 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: L -No nic, another fine day at June 21, 2026 11:12 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 21, 2026 11:13 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: fly gal at June 21, 2026 11:13 PM (U6vhD)
Posted by: browndog downcast at June 21, 2026 11:07 PM (3sXRv)
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Hashem always hears the prayers of a broken heart.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 21, 2026 11:13 PM (mWKAz)
You know there will be many....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 21, 2026 11:14 PM (uTEOj)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 11:14 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 11:14 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 11:11 PM (O0L8i)
I echo that sentiment.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 11:16 PM (1z8ji)
Islamic end-days prophecy has something called the 'Dabbah Min Al-Ard'. Literally, the 'Beast of the Earth', showing up fairly late. And guess what! It marks people! Said marking is an irrevocable act. Except that in Islam's version, they're taught to want it...
Posted by: Anonymous at June 21, 2026 11:16 PM (wiYsG)
Posted by: Anonymous
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They work for it. everyday
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:18 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 11:18 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: mnw at June 21, 2026 11:19 PM (RCjYY)
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Dirt Farm NH has a booth at Weare Patriotic Celebration. A local couple started this group to teach kids to ride dirt bikes for free on their private property.
https://tinyurl.com/mt4vrxa2
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:21 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: wth at June 21, 2026 11:21 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: mnw at June 21, 2026 10:46 PM (RCjYY)
There was a famous audio file on the net a few years ago, of a heated argument between Johnny Depp and his financial manager. (Who I think is the one who released it)
In it Depp accuses the manager of squandering his money and leaving him broke, even though he’d made $100 million in the previous year. The manager fires back, with figures and specific things Depp had done, and said “Johnny, you can’t spend $20 million a month and expect to have anything left, no matter how much you start with!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2026 11:23 PM (nuNhM)
Dressing like a dad. I recommend Skechers slip-ons.
Posted by: wth at June 21, 2026 11:21 PM (oq9dX)
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No more shoes with laces.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 11:25 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
TBF, she was a lunatic. She probably did that to all her mates.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come
.......
She was just prepping them for butt stuff.
Posted by: wth at June 21, 2026 11:25 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Anonymous at June 21, 2026 11:16 PM (wiYsG)
Let me guess - blue hair and weird tats…
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2026 11:25 PM (nuNhM)
Cool buildings, but most of them leaked,
Same with Crank Lloyd Wrong... a building that doesn't keep the rain out is a failure, no matter how much the art critics might like it.
Architecture is very demanding... needs to be esthetic, functional, and economical.
If you can't handle all three, stick with sculpture.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 11:27 PM (qpyNK)
Similar to Nick Cage. He sued his business manager. The jury kind of lost interest when they heard Nick had spent appx $10 million (IIRC) for a Mongolian dinosaur skeleton.
Posted by: mnw at June 21, 2026 11:28 PM (RCjYY)
Now, see, I would've figured that for a low-budget Flintstones/Scooby Doo crossover.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 11:29 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: wth at June 21, 2026 11:21 PM (oq9dX)
Yes. The walkers are fine. Just don't get those old man shoes with the velcro.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 11:30 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 11:31 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 11:32 PM (rbvCR)
Architecture is very demanding... needs to be esthetic, functional, and economical.
If you can't handle all three, stick with sculpture.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 11:27 PM (qpyNK)
Were FLW's designs inherently leaky, or were they put up by builders who did not understand what had to be done to make them weathertight?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 11:32 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 11:32 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 21, 2026 11:33 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 11:33 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 11:34 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 21, 2026 11:35 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 11:32 PM (rbvCR)
I see Wikipedia and the Grauniad describe him as "far right", so he may be something of a centrist.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 11:36 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 21, 2026 11:37 PM (uTEOj)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 11:37 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:38 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 11:32 PM (1z8ji)
I think it would be very hard to make Fallingwater not leak, especially with 1936 waterproofing technology. The builders bear some responsibility, perhaps.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 11:38 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 11:32 PM (1z8ji)
He had a lot of odd roof angles and flat roofs in places, I’ve learned from living in houses with some of these and being around others, that odd roof angles are always points of failure, and flat roofs Always Always Always! leak.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2026 11:39 PM (nuNhM)
Great first baseman!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
......
Those Russian Puerto Ricans are the best ball players!
Posted by: wth at June 21, 2026 11:40 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 11:40 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:41 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2026 11:39 PM (nuNhM)
Yep. They suck under snow load, too.
It's rare that we have a snowy winter here without at least a few flat-roofed buildings collapsing.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 11:41 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 21, 2026 11:41 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Rex B at June 21, 2026 11:43 PM (rgnea)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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There is a flat roof house that has been up for auction, in a neighborhood worth living in, over nine months at a price anyone can afford and there are no bidders.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:44 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:45 PM (iLKq8)
It's rare that we have a snowy winter here without at least a few flat-roofed buildings collapsing.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Just spend a couple of extra bucks and put it on a 5 degree slant.
jeepers
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:47 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:44 PM (iLKq
Many industrial buildings have flat roofs, apartment blocks, too. They don't seem to have insurmountable leakage problems. Why is it an issue with houses?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 11:47 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: wth at June 21, 2026 11:48 PM (oq9dX)
jeepers
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:47 PM (iLKq
A five degree slope likely would not let snow slide off.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 11:49 PM (1z8ji)
Some poor bastid & his wife bought Marilyn Monroe's home in L.A. where she died. They were like the 18th owners since MM died in '62. the house had had undergone multiple re-designs.
Nonetheless, the L.A. city council, famed in song & story, recently passed a new law designating the house as a City Cultural Heritage Treasure (or some such).
So... the new, current owner can't remodel it , OR sell it, without Mayor Bass' approval! It's turned into a nightmare. Plus, the new owner is solely responsible for security, which costs a fortune, due to the sightseers.
Posted by: mnw at June 21, 2026 11:49 PM (RCjYY)
He was great in Viva Lost Wages!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 11:50 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: RandomDave at June 21, 2026 11:51 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I told Buddy I was going bid on this fantastic buy. He took me to school. Yeah, I worked in a strip center office, nice neighborhood, and it leaked like a sieve. (thought it was a one off)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:52 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: mnw
He could Always burn it down.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 11:52 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: mnw at June 21, 2026 11:49 PM (RCjYY)
I foresee an outbreak of financial combustion in the coming months.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 11:52 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 11:33 PM (qx7Zg)
Probably this one..dusty..
https://youtu.be/AeadLurGR1U
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 11:55 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: RandomDave at June 21, 2026 11:55 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 11:55 PM (qpyNK)
But I was going to say, an old time high pitched roof will last forever. Your grand kids will have to re-roof it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:55 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 21, 2026 11:55 PM (ZVgZ4)
94 92 77 66 At the risk of being really crass, that picture of Princess Catherine appears to be backlit and reveals more of her than I think was intended. Or perhaps that's just my imagination.
Posted by: Archimedes
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It would appear that she has nice thighs.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:29 PM
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Buttix.
Posted by: Jack LaLanne, Fitness Titan at June 21, 2026 11:55 PM (mS8PE)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 11:52 PM (1z8ji)
Great-Grandpa Borgia always called that "spontaneous combustion caused by the mortgage rubbing against the insurance policy".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 11:56 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Frog People for Bass at June 21, 2026 11:57 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 11:58 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: RandomDave
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I live more than a thousand miles from CA. I buy water bottled from CA. It is the least expensive bottled water of all the grocery stores in town.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 11:58 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Frog People for Bass at June 21, 2026 11:57 PM (oq9dX)
LOL. Do a deep fake video of Karen Bass eyeballing a big fly that lights on an object near her. Suddenly, her huge tongue darts out, snaffles the fly, and returns to her maw. She chews contentedly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 22, 2026 12:00 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Braenyard
I drink water out of the tap.
Good enough for me.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 22, 2026 12:02 AM (A5RD0)
Posted by: raimondo at June 22, 2026 12:01 AM (GvOiG)
You need to learn reading comprehension. I called you no names, just suggested that you have been getting high on your own supply.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 22, 2026 12:03 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 22, 2026 12:09 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 12:11 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 12:11 AM (iLKq8)
Elvis Salvador! Do we know him?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Is he related to Carmen San Diego?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 22, 2026 12:12 AM (Cqx++)
Used to
Now its crap just like all the other brands.
$$$ and still feels worse then the worn out ones in the back of your closet.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 12:16 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 22, 2026 12:19 AM (0nHVk)
http://tiny.cc/o3g5101
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 22, 2026 12:19 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 22, 2026 12:23 AM (bhZyo)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
......
I think I saw him at the ER. Fat guy with chrome shades complaining of constipation.
Posted by: wth at June 22, 2026 12:24 AM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 12:24 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 12:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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You live longer and healthier?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 12:26 AM (iLKq8)
Trust in the Lord...Prayers for both of your sons to be open to reconcilation, and for you to find the right words to bring them back into your life, for all of your sakes.
Posted by: L -No nic, another fine day at June 22, 2026 12:28 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Where's the fun in that?
Posted by: Elvis Salvadoe at June 22, 2026 12:30 AM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 22, 2026 12:31 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 22, 2026 12:23 AM (bhZyo)
My bad habits are automatically activated. I don't even need a daily planner to remember them. My alarm clock is the signal to start them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 22, 2026 12:32 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 12:34 AM (77rzZ)
Damn.
I'm glad that i am a dad because this would of sucked if this were mom's day.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 22, 2026 12:36 AM (2WIwB)
Just clicked over to Naked and Afraid. Thank goodness they blur out the nasty bits. They should rename that show Uggos on Parade. Bunch of dirty chuds running around with no underwear.
Posted by: Elvis Salvadoe at June 22, 2026 12:40 AM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Bravo
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 12:40 AM (iLKq8)
Next, the roof drains invariably get clogged with wind-borne trash. Ever see a roof drain filled with Styrofoam packing peanuts? I have.
Lastly, when snow melts, it doesn't do so evenly. Water will start running in places you would never imagine.
Like that poor little baby child in the ghetto that Elvis sang about, a flat roof will invariably come to a bad end.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 22, 2026 12:40 AM (bhZyo)
This going to bed early stuff isn't really going to work for me. I have been a night owl for most of my life, it is a very tough habit to break.
Hi Braenyard and Bulg et al.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 22, 2026 12:41 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: publius
S.F.'s record high (106) occurred in 2016 on the Friday of Labor Day weekend. That was hot.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 22, 2026 12:42 AM (DZ9Lv)
South Bushwick Church in NYC just burned down. 173 years old. Cause not known.
@RealJamesWoods - Jun 20
If anybody with an IQ in the triple digits doesn’t know, I would be shocked.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 12:42 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 22, 2026 12:36 AM (2WIwB)
And then a thought occurred...They ain't doing that in Bangladesh.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 22, 2026 12:43 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Azjaeger at June 22, 2026 12:45 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 22, 2026 12:45 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: mnw at June 22, 2026 12:48 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Diogenes
What scotch?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 22, 2026 12:49 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: mnw at June 22, 2026 12:50 AM (RCjYY)
The office and workshop were insured, the inventory was not.
https://shorturl.at/757Qt
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 22, 2026 12:53 AM (bhZyo)
On Sept. 1, 1973, George Foreman knocked out José Roman in the first round, just two minutes into the match, to retain his claim as the heavyweight champion of the world.
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When he won the gold in Mexico City, did you see him walk around the ring carrying the American flag while other asshoes stood on the podium giving the black power salute?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 12:55 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 22, 2026 12:57 AM (0nHVk)
We are safe after a night of tornadoes dropping everywhere around us. A small village about 9 miles north of us had two people killed in their mobile homes. Our own little city did have a tornado on the north side of town, but I haven't heard anything much about that one yet.
I hope everyone is ok as well, these storms are causing havoc as they move southeast.
Posted by: Joyenz at June 22, 2026 01:03 AM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Braenyard
www.youtube.com/shorts/ggluspG7xJU
This is cool:
www.youtube.com/shorts/Mj8FlYDHM-o
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 22, 2026 01:07 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: mnw at June 22, 2026 12:48 AM (RCjYY)
He's going to work looking like Lawrence of Arabia in the desert, including the knife?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 22, 2026 01:09 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 22, 2026 01:11 AM (0nHVk)
Just clicked over to Naked and Afraid. Thank goodness they blur out the nasty bits. They should rename that show Uggos on Parade. Bunch of dirty chuds running around with no underwear.
Posted by: Elvis Salvadoe at June 22, 2026 12:40 AM (oq9dX)
One of the last TV shows my father ever got into.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 01:13 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 01:14 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 11:58 PM (1z8ji)
If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 01:16 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: scampydog at June 22, 2026 01:16 AM (gWiqo)
If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 01:16 AM (T6aVk)
That asshole has been swept away. Cow demons and snake spirits must be swept away. He is now on Xinjiang province fixing tractors on some shitty rations.
Properly attribute my genius next time.
Posted by: Mao at June 22, 2026 01:18 AM (T6aVk)
Thank you, Debby. Time to finally get some sleep.
Night all!
Posted by: Joyenz at June 22, 2026 01:19 AM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Joyenz
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Glad you are OK.
Time to have that storm cellar dug?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 01:21 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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She pulled it off quiet nicely.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 01:22 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: mindful webworker - unfortunately at June 22, 2026 01:22 AM (9bb3y)
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
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Good to see you here. A night's not complete if you don't show up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 01:25 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: James Talarico at June 22, 2026 01:25 AM (r7ofC)
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 01:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Rex B at June 21, 2026 11:43 PM (rgnea)
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Saved me a post. Here's the link:
https://youtu.be/5hr64MxYpgk
No, the song has nothing to do with my own relationship with my father. On the contrary, I had wonderful parents who brought us up right. We were very fortunately blessed to have them both for so many years. I miss them every day.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2026 01:36 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 22, 2026 01:38 AM (0nHVk)
Removed the shell, cut it up, cooked in butter over low heat just until opaque-- then submerged the pieces in melted, lightly seasoned butter & drove to the nursing home. He *loved* it!
And then poured the butter over his regular lunch! LOL. Chicken, taters & corn-- yeah, I'd do that too.
Stepson called while we were outside for hubby's cig time... great (almost 40!) kid... Just got a promotion to ass't supervisor at his job. Told him we're proud of him. Hubby was alert and lucid today, so that was awesome!
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 01:38 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 01:39 AM (iLKq8)
How goes the hell of fighting night-owlishness? LOL
I'm about to give up... some nights I can sleep (not many) and others, I can. *shrug*
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: James Talarico
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May you find out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 01:42 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 01:44 AM (rdVOm)
Trimmed a couple of roses and pulled a few weeds, nothing strenuous of course, too hot for heavy work.
It's nice to just putter, without any time constraints!
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 01:49 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Rex B at June 21, 2026 11:43 PM (rgnea)
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Saved me a post. Here's the link:
https://youtu.be/5hr64MxYpgk
No, the song has nothing to do with my own relationship with my father. On the contrary, I had wonderful parents who brought us up right. We were very fortunately blessed to have them both for so many years. I miss them every day.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
Sometimes a Great Song is just a Great Song. It, of course resonates with people in the situation that the song is about but it even resonates with those with great relationship with our parents. My parents are still on this side of eternity and I always cherish my moments with them. They stagger along, being in there 80s, but are doing ok otherwise. The song is beautiful.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 01:49 AM (sAmhv)
ugh.......
Posted by: JQ
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I have discovered/decided not to be concerned. If it's not necessary to be on a timetable it doesn't matter. Sleep when it comes. Gerald Ford slept four hours a night and took naps in the mid day. If I have an appointment, what the heck, I get up and do it. I can sleep when I get home. It's a natural thing. Don't allow the constraints of regimented workforce influence your thinking.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 01:51 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Braenyard
Haha, I've always been annoyed by the concept of "early risers are superior to late risers"-- what a load of horse crap!-- but that's not my current issue...
It's so hot in the afternoon! I really ought to get my ass out of the rack early, so can get yard stuff done before lunch time. Any later in the day, and work becomes a miserable experience due to the heat.
But then again, I only have *myself* to please... heh.
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 01:59 AM (rdVOm)
JQ, sounds like a really nice day.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 22, 2026 02:01 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ
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I've never understood those who jump out of bed ready to 'hit it'.
Oh, please be quiet and put on the coffee. Anyway ---
Turn the tables. Stay up a little longer and hit the yard work at sunrise. Finish up and go to bed while everyone else sweats outside..
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 02:06 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 22, 2026 02:08 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 02:12 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 02:13 AM (rdVOm)
I have a whole family FULL of *that type*! Ugh. I once got the attempted guilt-trip from an uncle, because I slept late (never mind that my shift at that time was 5pm to 3am) and getting up by 11am required effort!)
>>Stay up a little longer and hit the yard work at sunrise. Finish up and go to bed while everyone else sweats outside..
That would F up lunches with hubby. Otherwise, I *would* do that! I just need to get up a little earlier, not a whole lot really, just a couple hours. You'd think it would be no big deal, but it IS for me.
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 02:21 AM (rdVOm)
Oh, yes, Princess Kate's dress is lovely.
I'm glad that you and hubby had a very nice Father's Day, JQ, and that he enjoyed his lobster tail.
Good night.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 02:21 AM (n3VHW)
She says they met on the Parliament’s roof & “drank a lot, a lot” to celebrate passing new laws for deporting illegal migrant
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Full Screen:
https://tinyurl.com/tx8zvwys
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 02:23 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 02:23 AM (n3VHW)
Posted by: Rex B at June 21, 2026 11:43 PM (rgnea)
Woke me up for several weeks in eighth grade as they happened to be playing it on the radio.
The Living Years, by Mike Plus the Mechanics and featuring Paul Carrack on vocals, is on my lengthy list of “songs to play when self-eliminating”. Therefore especially hated.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 02:26 AM (T6aVk)
She says they met on the Parliament’s roof & “drank a lot, a lot” to celebrate passing new laws for deporting illegal migrant
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Full Screen:
https://tinyurl.com/tx8zvwys
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 02:23 AM (iLKq
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LOL!!!!!!!
So... Karenne?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2026 02:31 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: JQ
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It's a natural circadian rhythm. Some have one, some have the other. Many a year morning was 4:00 or 4:30 but that was responsibility. Without a forced timeline I'm an all-nighter by nature. Evening jobs were the best. Times past a friend and I would go out on the terrace, share a smoke and bid the morning sun.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 02:31 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It's obvious she's had a rough go but she wears that yellow dress well.
More power to her.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 02:34 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Braenyard
Absolutely! I am the same way.
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 02:36 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Neil de Grasse High Tyson Chicken at June 22, 2026 02:39 AM (KL9cQ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 02:26 AM (T6aVk)
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I would have thought that's the equivalent of Daffy Duck's "I can only do it once" grand finale.
https://youtu.be/BRMrlFRRJgY
BTW, what Hollywood political correctness required WB to change the above original to this?
https://youtu.be/ZKpyrHiZgZA?t=68
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2026 02:40 AM (3UbC6)
👍👎The mediators said the U.S. and Iran agreed to establish a High Level Committee, which will provide political oversight to the negotiation in addition to working groups focused on nuclear, sanctions, and a monitoring and dispute resolution group.
---ya da, ya da, ya da.
Predicting it won't be long before IRGC takes out it's watch and pulls the trigger.....again. ----... they can't help themselves
a wild animal is easier to tame.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 02:43 AM (iLKq8)
Dad chuckled at the truth of it, and approved my restraint-- in the name of keeping the peace with his in-laws.
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 02:46 AM (rdVOm)
a wild animal is easier to tame.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 02:43 AM (iLKq
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I'm guessing this is a 60-day hudnah during which Iran will drag their feet to comply with anything and prep themselves for their next stage of jihad. Maximum they will ask for an extension of the hudnah.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2026 02:48 AM (3UbC6)
More power to her.
Posted by: Braenyard
More Backlight !!!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 22, 2026 02:56 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 03:05 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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She knew what she was doing. Have no intuition but think it was a statement, I'm back, I'm whole and I ain't quitting. Make way for Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, Countess of Chester, Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay in Scotland.
She's had a rough go but she's as tough as she is pretty. Charles, beware the Princess and her husband Prince William, the Prince of Wales.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 03:07 AM (iLKq8)
I have found that small nuts or grain work well, without being messy. Highly recommend these traps, they are reusable and easy to bait & set:
https://tinyurl.com/58dr6r3f
I use raw, in-shell sunflower seed or pieces of cracked corn.
Best of luck!
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 03:16 AM (rdVOm)
Donald Trump backed Abelardo de la Espriella for the presidency of Colombia, endorsing him as a strong leader against his opponent, progressive Iván Cepeda.
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Colombian President-Elect @ABDELAESPRIELLA and his vice-president @jrestrp are out celebrating on the streets of Barranquilla tonight after winning.
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Due to the assassination risk from communist terrorists, they can’t shake hands with supporters
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Milei congratulates @ABDELAESPRIELLA on winning the Colombian presidential election:
“The lion and the tiger roar in Latin America!”
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I think he's going to give Espriella a chainsaw.
Orlando Avedaño@OrlvndoA5 o'clock
Elon Musk also reacts to Abelardo de la Espriella's victory
Elon Musk@elonmusk8h
Replying to @visegrad24 @ABDELAESPRIELLA
Cool
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 03:20 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 03:23 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 03:28 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 03:29 AM (rdVOm)
Mice eat almost anything, but... you could try pasta, or rice, or a rolled-up pinch of bread... just about anything, if you've noticed them eating it.
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 03:34 AM (rdVOm)
Put traps along baseboards and under/behind furniture, back of cabinets. They like 'cover' and tend to stay away from open areas.
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 03:38 AM (rdVOm)
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 03:20 AM (iLKq
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Handy koinkadinky chart:
https://tinyurl.com/2s3v242a
Off to exercise!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2026 03:44 AM (rmmrE)
except for mice. Set out 15, really, Victor traps. All night long, snap, slap same thing next night. Did n't get rid of the little bastards till I bought Warfarin. The dogs didn't like it so no worries. Everywhere I put it. Eat it bitches.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 03:45 AM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 03:47 AM (Ia/+0)
except for mice. Set out 15, really, Victor traps. All night long, snap, slap same thing next night. Did n't get rid of the little bastards till I bought Warfarin. The dogs didn't like it so no worries. Everywhere I put it. Eat it bitches.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 03:45 AM (iLKq
(takes notes)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 03:48 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 03:05 AM (sAmhv)
Place them along the baseboards. Mice love to run against them.
As soon as I started doing that I started catching the fuckers left right and center.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 03:50 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It's obvious she's had a rough go but she wears that yellow dress well.
More power to her.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 02:34 AM (iLKq
May her next dress be blue.
Posted by: Depeche Mode at June 22, 2026 03:52 AM (T6aVk)
I don't use warfarin because of neighborhood cats (plus my own) -- I don't want to harm any pets!
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 03:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 03:55 AM (T6aVk)
https://tinyurl.com/2s3v242a
Off to exercise!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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Yes the southern hemisphere has been drifting away from socialist/communism to the conservative right. Lula bitch is holding on only because Brazil is so corrupt. It's truely a pincer movement generated by Trump, hemispherical independence. Milei is the strong man of the South and Trump of the North pushing out the communist mindset and the CCP.
With God's help the North and South will align in mutual alliance and trust strengthening our self reliance eliminating Any dependence on the old world. - not meaning that we won't do business, just meaning - we don't need them.
Praying that 'little satin' Israel and 'big satin' US are always aligned.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 03:59 AM (iLKq8)
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Behind the oven, around the ice box.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 22, 2026 04:03 AM (iLKq8)
I used them outdoors too-- 4 of them-- would empty and re-bait them in the morning before work. Then empty and re-bait them after work. And again empty and re-bait before going to bed. A dozen mice *each day* caught with raw, in-shell sunflower seeds. Those traps last a long time and don't need to be trashed after single use!
Traps were placed 2 under deck stairs, 1 in corner between outbuilding & retaining wall, and 1 next to house under shrubbery. Score, 3 times a day EACH, for couple of weeks. Probably could've caught more, but *catches* slowed afterward. Don't know if they got smart or eradicated for a while...
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 04:23 AM (rdVOm)
That I've done. I do have sunflower seeds. I'll add them to the trap menu. I do have the baseboards covered but I'll check.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 04:29 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: m at June 22, 2026 04:30 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 04:31 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 22, 2026 04:29 AM (sAmhv)
I have never left bait. I just left out the glue traps where I saw them running around. I set them out at sunset, and when getting ready for work the next morning...lo and behold, one or two of the little bastards are on the glue traps, struggling and shitting everywhere trying to get out. (I then put the trap in a plastic shopping bag and tie it up and throw it in the dumpster.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 04:33 AM (T6aVk)
Good luck catching the lil bastards!
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 04:37 AM (rdVOm)
If only a couple days before home trash pick-up-- in garbage can at home.
If hot weather and it'll be several days before home trash pick-up-- double bag and take it to gas station trash can.
Works for me, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at June 22, 2026 04:40 AM (rdVOm)
But first, find out where they're getting in. I had cleaned out an infestation in the studio where I hadn't seen a mouse in 6 months and then, wham! I find a box of cereal in the pantry cabinet where there's a hole chewed into the back of the box. Input out the traps and caught three over the b next two weeks, but I still found those little mouse turds here and there. A week goes by with 4 traps set along the wall, under the sink, behind a set of shelves. Nothing. I finally set a sticky board along the wall near the door and tied it to the stove leg with a piece of wire. Got 'im!
I found that they had found their way up the outside wall - the little buggers can climb rough surfaces easily - into a small space under the eaves, through the attic, then down the space where the built in oven used to be. I stuffed that with rockwool insulation then blocked it off with a couple of pieces of plywood. I also plugged the space under the eaves with steel wool and a screen.
Posted by: buddhaha at June 22, 2026 04:48 AM (RW118)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2026 05:55 AM (T6aVk)
Gun Thread: Post NoVAMoMe Discussion and Analysis Edition!
FUNdamentals FUNdamentals of MoMe'n that is, with the operative word being FUN! The social event of the season kicked off Friday afternoon with a small group and perfect weather, and by perfect I mean really actually perfect. The Pre-MoMe is a low key affair and among other things we mostly discussed the perfect weather, and enjoyed each other's company without being in full NoVAMoMe mode. The following day was the main event, and to make up for the perfect weather the day before we had, you guessed it, more perfect weather. People arrived at the appointed time, and did the normal MoMe things, which is to say, enjoyed each other's company. We were fortunate to have attracted some new mostly-lurker types who, judging by the smiles, enjoyed themselves thoroughly. It's so nice to watch people meeting and re-acquainting with their online pals. I say this a lot as you all know, but these get-togethers are pretty special, and you are only cheating yourself if you don't make the effort to get to one. I am aware that we have a fair amount of introverts among us, and imagine that's fairly common among online communities, but I cannot overemphasize the low-key nature of these gatherings. You owe it to yourself to give it a try at least once. You can absolutely be a total wallflower and hide and not talk to anyone, or be the life of the party, the choice is yours. There is absolutely zero pressure from anyone, and believe me when I say you will not be the biggest weirdo present. If you missed the NoVAMoMe, fear not. The TXMoMe is right around the corner, October 16-17, in Corsicana, TX. Contact Ben Had for details. A link is always on the main page, left sidebar. Finally, I want to thank my bestest blog buddy bluebell for her continued friendship over all these years. She makes being the nicest person in the world look easy.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 07:00 PM (os4kt)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 07:00 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 07:01 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 21, 2026 07:02 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Coelacanth at June 21, 2026 07:03 PM (vt7xw)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 07:04 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 07:05 PM (zC76q)
Did some shootin' in the last couple of weeks. Went with a friend to his gun club in rural Western PA. It's right behind the middle of nowhere. Didn't get a chance to shoot my S&W FPC (.9mm) but did get extensive work with my .357 revolver. I did ok.
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by pew pew at June 21, 2026 07:07 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 21, 2026 07:08 PM (OB8ow)
Though, you probably won't succeed at the 'not talking to anyone'. Other wallflowers will notice and you will soon be surrounded by them and having an absolute blast.
I'm sorry I had to miss it again this year. I will probably miss Texas, too. It's turning into a very rough year for me. But I can smile, sitting here, remembering all the other times and all the people I've met.
Posted by: GWB at June 21, 2026 07:08 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Buck at June 21, 2026 07:08 PM (z6ONu)
And thanks to all of you who ventured out and made it the great social event that it is!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 07:08 PM (zC76q)
Posted by: Ed L at June 21, 2026 07:09 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 21, 2026 07:02 PM (CHHv1)
And it was fantastic meeting you! I hope you can join more of the events.
Also, crowds isn't a thing with us. We're more of a horde.
Posted by: GWB at June 21, 2026 07:10 PM (kU0PQ)
Maybe he can backtrack and make Ultima 8-9 actually good.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 21, 2026 07:11 PM (gKWVE)
So, the introverts looked at their shoes, and the extroverts looked at your shoes?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2026 07:11 PM (0sNs1)
And my Gubs are way up yonder feeling lonely.
Thx, bluebell and Weasel, in any event. These MoMes keep us together.
And don’t require much bail money.
Posted by: RI Red at June 21, 2026 07:12 PM (SHg5Q)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 07:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
Who is the biggest weirdo present?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2026 07:14 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Buck at June 21, 2026 07:16 PM (z6ONu)
A very Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers and grandfathers here
Toughest and most important job
Posted by: Coelacanth at June 21, 2026 07:18 PM (vt7xw)
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 07:18 PM (afFes)
Posted by: Buck at June 21, 2026 07:16 PM
Even having only been to TxMoMes, I can guarantee that's not the case.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2026 07:18 PM (0sNs1)
It's always nice to meet new friends and always wonderful to see our ol' faithfuls. You guys really are the best! Thank you for making it such a great day.
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 07:20 PM (afFes)
But today reminded me that I need to get back into the twice a week practice schedule.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 07:20 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2026 07:20 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: fd at June 21, 2026 07:20 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2026 07:20 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2026 07:21 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 07:22 PM (afFes)
As for the meeting in person part, it's fun to put nics to faces, and if you're a regular reader you already have a bit of familiarity with a bunch of them. For some of them, you're like, yup, the persona online is exactly who they are in real life. For me, Berserker was like that (Mrs. Berserker is a great gal too). Hrothgar as well. And seeing AlextheChick get riled up was always fun.
Posted by: Vendette at June 21, 2026 07:22 PM (1ieqq)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 07:23 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2026 07:20 PM (0sNs1)
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I was too busy doing my usual nagging, making everybody put on a name tag.
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 07:23 PM (afFes)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 07:24 PM (GNqmQ)
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 07:24 PM (afFes)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 07:27 PM (IQ6Gq)
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The Horde is its own little Island of Misfit Toys. Everywhere else I'm an oddball, but the Horde feels like home.
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 07:27 PM (lOlUK)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 07:27 PM
Dunno. You seem pretty normal to me.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2026 07:30 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 07:24 PM (afFes)
*Waves*
Posted by: Vendette at June 21, 2026 07:31 PM (1ieqq)
I've expressed my opinion on the best .357 Mag here before. Can't beat the S&W model 686. Mine has been one of the best purchases I have ever made. Love that gub.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 21, 2026 07:33 PM (ceJ0R)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 07:34 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 07:34 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 07:27 PM
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How many problems are in your crawl space at the moment?
Posted by: TRex - subterranian dino at June 21, 2026 07:35 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 07:36 PM (afFes)
Posted by: Ed L at June 21, 2026 07:38 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 07:38 PM (lOlUK)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 07:34 PM (afJtY)
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This needs to be written down somewhere!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 07:38 PM (GNqmQ)
https://tinyurl.com/4dwu8nt9
I'm not sure how quiet it is, but it could be a pest control device where quiet is necessary.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 07:39 PM (qx7Zg)
Weasel, you mentioned a kydex holster with a leather lining. What is the company?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 21, 2026 07:39 PM (kJmSS)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 07:27 PM
Yes...a great time was had!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 07:39 PM (zC76q)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 07:34 PM (afJtY)
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This needs to be written down somewhere!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 07:38 PM
It was comment #42....what more do you people want?!
Posted by: Deep Thought at June 21, 2026 07:41 PM (zC76q)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1)
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I did see that and bookmarked to go back and review later. Thanks!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 07:41 PM (GNqmQ)
How Clay Targets Are Made | How It’s Made
https://youtu.be/iamy_3IQ_ng
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 07:43 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Ben Had
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So true!
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 21, 2026 07:43 PM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 21, 2026 07:39 PM (kJmSS)
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Garrett Holsters. The model I like is the Silent Thunder.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 07:44 PM (GNqmQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 07:44 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 21, 2026 07:45 PM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 21, 2026 07:47 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: TRex
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I'm happy to report that as of Thursday I'm now the proud owner of shiny new snake-free ductwork. The crew accidentally disconnected the dehumidifier pump drain line on their way out, though. I discovered it shortly after they left and notified them. But I had to get under there and reconnect it myself because they weren't able to get back the same day and meanwhile, the pump was spraying water all over the crawl space. By some miracle, I did it right!
Not sure if the flooding problem is resolved. Next heavy or prolonged rain will be the test. I am hoping to spend less Leisure Time (to bring it on topic) with a shop vac in the crawl space.
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 07:48 PM (lOlUK)
Posted by: Voices from the Far Side at June 21, 2026 07:48 PM (X7dyz)
And it was a great event as usual, like visiting with the family you would like to have!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NoVA MoMe in Virginia, Yes ~ at June 21, 2026 07:48 PM (hOUT3)
And it was a great event as usual, like visiting with the family you would like to have!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NoVA MoMe in Virginia, Yes ~ at June 21, 2026 07:48 PM (hOUT3)
It isn't a NoVaMoMee without you there!
Posted by: Vendette at June 21, 2026 07:52 PM (1ieqq)
Good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 07:52 PM (Ia/+0)
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Hey! I have one of those. Have only fired it once and the empty brass got stuck. I have since had it cleaned by my local range guys but have not had a chance to try shooting it again.
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 07:53 PM (lOlUK)
Posted by: NR Pax at June 21, 2026 07:53 PM (/k3in)
It isn't a NoVaMoMee without you there!
Posted by: Vendette
********
Truth
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 07:55 PM (IQ6Gq)
Berserker.
Met Ben Had a little bit later.
Holy cow, that was an experience. Highly recommend.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 21, 2026 07:56 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: TRex - merch dino at June 21, 2026 07:57 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Vendette at June 21, 2026 07:52 PM (1ieqq)
So I can count of seeing you there next year, right!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NoVA MoMe in Virginia, Yes ~ at June 21, 2026 07:58 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 21, 2026 07:59 PM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 07:59 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 08:01 PM (GNqmQ)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 21, 2026 08:01 PM (kJmSS)
They are making them new now, and they are selling the barrel and magazine kits.
The down side is that the silenced carbine is about $6,000, though the barrel kit is much cheaper
New DeLisle Carbines Coming From US Armament Manufacturing
https://tinyurl.com/4nphwen5
Centerfire Systems - Enfield 45ACP Conversion Kit w/ Bull Barrel
https://tinyurl.com/y5zmx6ds
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 08:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NoVA MoMe in Virginia, Yes ~ at June 21, 2026 07:58 PM (hOUT3)
Get me through to next year first!
Posted by: Vendette at June 21, 2026 08:03 PM (1ieqq)
Posted by: NR Pax
There are several regional MoMe that spring up and info is usually posted on the blog, or word of mouth! Keep you eyes open on the blog; you will never regret attending a MoMe!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next Up TX MoMe ~ at June 21, 2026 08:04 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 07:48 PM
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What caliber do you recommend for snakes?
Posted by: TRex - just checking... dino at June 21, 2026 08:05 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next Up TX MoMe ~ at June 21, 2026 08:05 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 08:06 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: TRex - just checking... dino at June 21, 2026 08:05 PM (IQ6Gq)
.... I didn't know they used the "caliber" system to measure cruise missiles.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 21, 2026 08:06 PM (Ot/FD)
on it on CBD's back (see last night's ONT).
And when I pointed out that in fairness, between his khakis , polo short & wraparound shades he looked like a Fed, he responded as only a Jersey Moron can:
"Aw, FUCK you all!!!"
Yeah, if you missed it come on out next year!
Posted by: Brother Bob at June 21, 2026 08:09 PM (tBfGm)
Not all cheesy old SF movies are created equal.
That Spider movie last week was… enjoyable to see the old vehicles.
Posted by: mindful webworker - spiders, man at June 21, 2026 08:14 PM (9bb3y)
https://tinyurl.com/4nphwen5
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 08:03 PM (rbvCR)
I have one of the US Armament Manufacturing examples. The workmanship on the rifle is quite good. The wood is finished well (relative to WWII standards) and the butt plate is brass. The sights are adjustable out to 200 yards. The suppressor is quite effective. It really cuts down the noise, even in an indoor setting. After about 75 rounds, the sights look like they're dead on at about 25 yards. My one complaint (beyond the price) is that 1911 magazines modified to accommodate the De Lisle's unique magazine catch are cheap generic 1911 magazines. I would have preferred to start with a higher end magazine manufacturer like Wilson Combat or Chip McCormick.
Posted by: Ed L at June 21, 2026 08:15 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 21, 2026 08:16 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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It's a small win, but the way things have been going with the house/yard, I'll take it.
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 08:16 PM (lOlUK)
It was my first one, the Momentous 10th.
Just want to know if I have been barred…
I’d like to try it again, if I haven’t been spurned…
Ben Had was the warmest one of all. Probably because she never stops. But I meant temperament-wise…
And the Grand Ambassador Weasel, was the best, most accepting for Newbs.
Did I mind my manners enough to be able to come back?
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 21, 2026 08:23 PM (3hOgI)
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 21, 2026 08:23 PM (3hOgI)
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Ben Had always has the final say, but you have my hearty endorsement!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 08:25 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: TRex
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I'm only a simple librarian but I'm pretty sure it would have been a bad idea to fire a gun of any caliber into one of my vents.
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 08:25 PM (lOlUK)
Posted by: Zod at June 21, 2026 08:26 PM (vneJl)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 08:28 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 08:28 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 08:25 PM (lOlUK)
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So, flamethrower?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 08:30 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 21, 2026 08:30 PM (3hOgI)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 08:28 PM (afJtY)
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Gunslinger - this is a good sign.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 08:31 PM (ei1sX)
Thanks Ben, and you to Weasel.
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 21, 2026 08:31 PM (3hOgI)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 21, 2026 08:32 PM (kJmSS)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 08:25 PM (lOlUK)
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So, flamethrower?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
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Perfect response!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 08:33 PM (IQ6Gq)
So glad the MoMe went well but not surprised. Every gathering of Horde members is always a pleasure.
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 08:33 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Vendette
I propose a team effort!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next Up TX MoMe ~ at June 21, 2026 08:05 PM (hOUT3)
Mutual accountability FTW!
Posted by: Vendette at June 21, 2026 08:33 PM (1ieqq)
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By the way, I'm enjoying the last third of a giant 6x60 Brick House Maduro Mighty Mighty!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 08:34 PM (ei1sX)
Squirrels are just tennis balls thrown by God.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 08:34 PM (qx7Zg)
on it on CBD's back (see last night's ONT).
And when I pointed out that in fairness, between his khakis , polo short & wraparound shades he looked like a Fed, he responded as only a Jersey Moron can:
"Aw, FUCK you all!!!"
Yeah, if you missed it come on out next year!
Posted by: Brother Bob at June 21, 2026 08:09 PM (tBfGm)
I can't believe someone would do that!
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 21, 2026 08:34 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 08:34 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ed L a
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By WWII, brass was in scarce supply so buttplates on Lee Enfield WWII types were zamac or blackened steel. You won't see either of those on pre WWII rifles unless retrofitted.
Like the 1903a3, a lot of shortcuts were made during WWII for the sole remaining English firm BSA Shirley made No. 1, Mk 3's and later transitioned to No. 4 rifles. They used the dispersal scheme so a number of different subcontractors made the parts.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 08:35 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Just the punchline at June 21, 2026 08:35 PM (NOXbI)
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Thanks JTB. You and Mrs. JTB were missed!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 08:36 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 08:25 PM
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Without proper fundamentals, obviously. Can you practice ductwork snake hunting with dry fire?
Posted by: TRex - wind caller dino at June 21, 2026 08:36 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: screaming in digital
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Snakes in the AC would not be a horror movie I would watch.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 08:36 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Zod at June 21, 2026 08:26 PM
Yo, Zod! S'up? You were missed at the MoMe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 08:37 PM (zC76q)
CAO Brazilia for me. Perfect for the last stogie for a Sunday night.
Early bed for the following, always oppressive Monday back at work…
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 21, 2026 08:37 PM (3hOgI)
Posted by: screaming in digital
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Yep, but it is the thoughtful suggestion that counts I guess.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 08:25 PM (lOlUK)
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So, flamethrower?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
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Perfect response!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 08:33 PM (IQ6Gq)
Why not the Carl Spackler approach, from Caddyshack - C4 made up like snakes prey?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 08:38 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 08:34 PM (qx7Zg)
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Someday remind me to tell the story of the squirrel that fell out of a tree in the backyard and landed on top of FSJ. Hilarity ensued!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 08:38 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: whig
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And to add to that, for No. 1. Mk 3, I suspect Australian used steel, dunno about Ishapore as India had a pretty active brass industry. I have an Aussie Lithgow downstairs but it is hardly original.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 08:39 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 21, 2026 08:39 PM (NlEaG)
I plan to tell my friends back home that I got to talk with Bunny.
It was good to see familiar faces like Hrothgar, Sharon (willow's apprentice), Bulg and new ones such as Buck, who had some great stories. I could list everyone, but only Google and bluebell have the complete list.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2026 08:40 PM (whRlH)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 21, 2026 08:40 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: John McClane at June 21, 2026 08:41 PM (NOXbI)
Posted by: fd at June 21, 2026 08:42 PM (vFG9F)
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Unfortunately it's now at the sad point of letting it die or trying to get one or two more puffs.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 08:43 PM (ei1sX)
The demonstration on greasing the bolt was helpful and applies to any of the bolt action battle rifles.
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 08:44 PM (yTvNw)
On board the vehicle will be some things that will no longer be legal in VA when I come back.
VCI bags came in from Amazon today.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at June 21, 2026 08:45 PM (NlEaG)
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The CMP did an outstanding job of rebarreling the one in the video.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 08:45 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Weasel
Oh, that is sad. About as sad as being reduced to a little cigarillo because it's too hot to be out longer than that.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 21, 2026 08:46 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 08:48 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: screaming in digital
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Some of those old WWI chambers can be generous and the US Army did not store 1917 rifles in the best of ways so they had some issues reissuing them in WWII to the extent that they put in a order for new barrels as barrels and chambers on some rifles corroded in storage between the wars. WWII barrels were made by Johnson Automatics and by High Standard--the greenish gray parkerizing is also in use. The original parkerizing in WWI used a bit different ingredients so you got a blackish parkerizing. IRRC, manganese (dark gray to blackish) in WWI, and zinc (light gray to grayish green) in WWII, probably because manganese was better employed in alloy steels rather than outsides of rifles.
And some are just dirty.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 08:49 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 08:39 PM (E4rtv)
Perhaps my DeLisle reproduction started out as an Ishapore product?
Posted by: Ed L at June 21, 2026 08:49 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: TRex
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Hm. I had lost my motivation to shoot but a snake target might get me back to the range.
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 08:49 PM (lOlUK)
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 21, 2026 08:49 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 08:50 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 08:51 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 21, 2026 08:52 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: JTB
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The heaviness of the rifle offsets the recoil--in full battle rattle, they weigh heavier than springfield 1903s.
The 1917 action and their P14 predecessors were altered post war into magnums by several custom gunshops because of strength. Not really true for the WWI era 1903's. The 1903a3s were built of modern steel but conversions were relatively scarce for those.
The P14 better fits the 300 Win Mag due to the differences in magazine length (shorter for the P14). The 1917 often was converted into a 300 Norma Magnum. Good round that never really caught on.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 08:54 PM (E4rtv)
Thank you Grateful and T-rex for everything.
Had a great time shooting some of Ed L's toys.
Thank you Ed!!!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 21, 2026 08:54 PM (OF02a)
Posted by: Ed L at June 21, 2026 08:54 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 08:55 PM (zC76q)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 21, 2026 08:32 PM (kJmSS)
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Muad'dib. He was so generous to do all that for us, and more. Great guy.
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 08:55 PM (afFes)
Posted by: Ed L at June 21, 2026 08:55 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Vendette
I propose a team effort!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next Up TX MoMe ~ at June 21, 2026 08:05 PM (hOUT3)
Mutual accountability FTW!
Posted by: Vendette at June 21, 2026 08:33 PM (1ieqq)
Let's not get carried away here!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next Up TX MoMe ~ at June 21, 2026 08:57 PM (hOUT3)
“Unfortunately it's now at the sad point of letting it die or trying to get one or two more puffs.”
Torch lighter!
But if the wrapper is starting to unravel, time to tap out.
I have waayyy too many shirts, with micro-holes in the front. Best to call it done. And have your shirt live another presentable-in-public day.
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 21, 2026 08:57 PM (3hOgI)
Posted by: Ed L
I'll bet they put a brass one on because it is prettier. The steel ones look pretty much WWII minimum specs of ugly but enough to get through the war quality. Post war, it simply was often whatever the armorer had in stock when one was refitted. FTR'ed in their lingo.
Brits saved the quality for where it counted in rifles but not the finish on rifle furniture on WWII products or later WWI ones for that matter. The No. 1 Mk 3* came about in 1916 after the Battle of the Somme created an enormous demand for rifles.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 08:57 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 08:58 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: whig
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Jesse had copious notes on this rifle. On the back of one of the pages, he wrote about shooting 50 rounds on some date in 2020. I think that note goes with this rifle, but I'm not sure. I don't recall him telling me about shooting this rifle, but he had many rifles. I still don't know some of what I have without checking his notes. I do remember that this particular rifle had changed hands between him and one of his buddies a couple different times. His buddy offered to buy it from me shortly after J died. At the time I would have agreed, but have since changed my mind about selling. And I haven't heard from this guy in ages so maybe he forgot!
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 08:59 PM (lOlUK)
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 21, 2026 08:46 PM (ftFVW)
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Looking forward to October and chatting over a cigar with you!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:00 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Ed L
Occasionally you will see a parts rifle with the proper sights switched as you can put a P14 sight and front sight blades on a 1917 but not vice versa because the P14 sight bed is not long enough as the receivers had to be lengthened for the 30-06 cartridge. Front sight blades, it doesn't matter much as the P14/1917 will even take some Lee Enfield front sight blades with some effort.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:00 PM (E4rtv)
As with Sponge, I remember your firsts.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 09:00 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 09:01 PM (2YhKe)
I'm pretty sure my fundamentals were good.
So, my plan was, going into the match, take two rifles. One optimized for 6.5 mm 135 grain A tip bullets and the other optimized for 6.5 mm 153 grain A tips.
My thinking was, due to the way the wind kicks up around here, I would move to the heavier bullets with the better bc if we saw significant wind. The fly in the ointment: The 153 grain loads might be a little sketchy from a consistency standpoint.
Day of the match I got caught right in the middle: Breezy enough to question using the lighter bullet but not so breezy I wanted to risk using loads I wasn't all that confident in.
In the end, I went with the lighter bullets traveling a little faster and decided to trust my wind reading skills. I ended up in a 3 way tie for second place with a 96 but ultimately 4th as I only had two in the X ring. But, I did catch the wind shift and increase and beat several of our more experienced shoots.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 21, 2026 09:02 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 09:00
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To be fair, you made me do it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 09:02 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 08:49 PM (lOlUK)
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Hey!
Posted by: Snake Plisskin at June 21, 2026 09:03 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: Weasel
Yay, me too! Probably should start the planning now that the big family summer trip is behind me.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 21, 2026 09:03 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Ed L at June 21, 2026 08:49 PM (BCwQW)
You can check the cartouche on the right side, unless that was ground off.
The MOD were not using No 4 SMLE actions, they were using No.1 actions, often ones with shot out barrels so they had a use for good actions that needed new barrels.
I expect there is some notes somewhere that details whether or not the brass SMLE No.1 butt plates were to be removed or not. The buttstock was basically standard. Probably Forgotten Weapons.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 09:04 PM (rbvCR)
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Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:04 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 08:58 PM
*looks around innocently*
*says nothing*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 09:06 PM (zC76q)
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I understand that bullet weight can make a difference but what settings do you optimize on a rifle for different bullet weights? Just MOA because of the difference in trajectory?
BTW, thanks Weasel for the video in the content on grains.
Posted by: TRex - optimized dino at June 21, 2026 09:07 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: screaming in digital
The value on those keeps escalating. They really are a magnificent rifle with one fault, the mag ejection spring is prone to breaking. And btw, when it does, the rifle's bolt will not extract brass from the chamber sometime or eject it depending on how broken it is.
Which now that I think about it, you might want to check that spring.
You don't have to take the rifle apart, just remove the bolt, look on the left side inside the back of the receiver for the rifle, and you should see the tip of the ejector spring. It is held in place by a small screw going from the top to the bottom and the spring pivots on that screw to eject spent shells.
https://tinyurl.com/Blog-with-pictures-of-spring
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:07 PM (E4rtv)
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Change the bullet weight and everything about the load changes, particularly velocity and bullet jump.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:08 PM (ei1sX)
The British ARES write up on the deLisle, with the video by Forgotten Arms
https://tinyurl.com/mrywdh7z
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 09:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot
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It is in Skelton's book on the Lee Enfield as are a lot of details about it.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:09 PM (E4rtv)
The MOD were not using No 4 SMLE actions, they were using No.1 actions, often ones with shot out barrels so they had a use for good actions that needed new barrels.
I expect there is some notes somewhere that details whether or not the brass SMLE No.1 butt plates were to be removed or not. The buttstock was basically standard. Probably Forgotten Weapons.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 09:04 PM (rbvCR)
US Armament Manufacturing put on all new wood stocks, so no original markings on the wood remain.
Posted by: Ed L at June 21, 2026 09:09 PM (BCwQW)
Thanks again for a great NoVaMoMe and a great Gun Thread!
Looking forward to seeing all of you amazing people in Corsicana!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 09:09 PM (zC76q)
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Elevation adjustment will change as will the ability of the projectile to resist wind offset.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:09 PM (ei1sX)
Put about 90 rounds through my P320C and only about 60 rounds through the MCX Rattler.
Groupings were poor to start out with on the pistol but quickly improved as I reacquainted myself with my firearm that I hadn't shot in months.
Started out low and to the left like all right handed shooters naturally do I think.
Posted by: Defenestratus at June 21, 2026 09:10 PM (CNp5O)
BTW, thanks Weasel for the video in the content on grains.
Posted by: TRex
Makes a difference in the arc of the bullet trajectory and sometimes wind can be a factor at longer range. So you zero your scope differently for each. If you have to use the same rifle for both, most people mark their scope rather than rezeroing each time. Fine enough for hunters but if you are in a shooting competition, zero the rifle each time you switch ammo in the location you are shooting--altitude, humidity, and a bunch of other factors come into play at long range shooting comps. Weasel is your guy for that.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 09:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
BTW, thanks Weasel for the video in the content on grains.
Posted by: TRex - optimized dino at June 21, 2026 09:07 PM (IQ6Gq)
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I shoot a 6.5-06. The barrel on one of my rifles is a 28" Heavy Palma contour. The distance to the lands is short so I use a smaller bullet, the 135 gain A tip.
My other 6.5-06 has a 26" Heavy Varmint profile barrel on it, with more freebore, which allows me to seat the bullet further out without the bullet jamming into the rifling lands.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 21, 2026 09:12 PM (UJMvS)
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Low/left from a right hand shooter typically results from anticipating recoil. Don't do that!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:12 PM (ei1sX)
Any advice on getting a Browning Auto-5 12 ga. unjammed? a 1949 model made by FN. I was able to partly field-strip it, and got a spent shell ejected from the chamber when I removed the barrel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 09:12 PM (1z8ji)
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Elevation adjustment will change as will the ability of the projectile to resist wind offset.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:09 PM
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So you might optimize things on a rifle like barrel twist?
You might have two rifles and zero each one separately rather than taking one rifle and trying to make changes at the range?
Posted by: TRex - twisted dino at June 21, 2026 09:14 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Safe trip home, amigo. Always a pleasure to see you and mom!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:14 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:12 PM
*makes note not to do that*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 09:14 PM (zC76q)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:14 PM
Likewise, Weasel. See y'all in TX!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 09:15 PM (zC76q)
Posted by: Ed L at June 21, 2026 09:15 PM (BCwQW)
The freebore difference between the two rifles dictates seating depth.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 21, 2026 09:15 PM (UJMvS)
Thank you!
Sure do appreciate all y'all being here tonight and hope to see you next Sunday. A special thanks to everyone who joined us on Saturday!!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:16 PM (ei1sX)
Just curious, has there ever been a Pacific Northwest MoMe?
Posted by: frammish at June 21, 2026 09:17 PM (rcENI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Those are Swiss watch precision fitting on the A5. Check Numrich for a schematic but sometimes the problem is someone did not adjust the friction rings when shooting a different shotgun load and that affects the extraction. Most people casually shooting pop or grandpop's Auto 5 never read the manual and assume that it will handle all different shotgun loads without adjustment. It won't function sometimes if changing from light to heavy or heavy to light.
Apart from oiling it, I will use a dummy round and check for firing and extraction.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:17 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 21, 2026 09:17 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 21, 2026 08:25 PM (lOlUK)
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So, flamethrower?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
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Perfect response!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 21, 2026 08:33 PM (IQ6Gq)
Since she's left, TRex, is this a sign of what you're getting for Christmas?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 09:17 PM (qx7Zg)
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Thanks again Ed L, and THANK YOU for the wonderful gift. I will feature it in an upcoming Gun Thread, soon!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:17 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 21, 2026 09:17 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ed L
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Ed L, you are a top notch and knowledgeable collector of exquisite firearms and hope to meet you someday if I ever get to travel much to a MoMeet.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:19 PM (E4rtv)
Holes made in paper, a good day was had.
In other news, I'm continuing to inch closer to getting rid of the vast majority of my firearms. With a few sentimental exceptions, I'm probably going to get rid of all my .45's, .44's, 38's and every other caliber that isn't 9mm, .22lr or 5.56. And maybe 12 gauge.
That's a lot of tools. Just need to figure out how best to get $ for it without me listing stuff on Gunbroker because...being serious, I'm not doing that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 21, 2026 09:20 PM (xcxpd)
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I have the utmost confidence in you.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:20 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: frammish at June 21, 2026 09:17 PM
Ask MAE. I have heard rumors.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 09:20 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:21 PM (E4rtv)
Just curious, has there ever been a Pacific Northwest MoMe?
Posted by: frammish at June 21, 2026 09:17 PM (rcENI)
jah, most years. This year I was on vacation and nobody else felt like organizing it. Typically happens in May.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 21, 2026 09:22 PM (xcxpd)
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Thanks Blake. Need to apply my small brain and digest further, but your explanation is helpful.
Posted by: TRex - partially seated dino at June 21, 2026 09:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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How's your Glock shooting going.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:21 PM (E4rtv)
honestly, really solid. I had a few low-right strings on dot torture yesterday but I'm happy with what's happening. I have other guns I love but I shoot Glocks well and I have hi-cap mags for them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 21, 2026 09:23 PM (xcxpd)
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I hope it works out someday. It would be a pleasure to meet you!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:24 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: TRex - partially seated dino at June 21, 2026 09:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Well, a wise Weasel once warned madness lay along the road to shooting long range matches. Did I listen? Nooooo....
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 21, 2026 09:25 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: TRex
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Easier if competing with it. Not really needed for minute of elk etc. The long range competition shooters are just getting warmed up by the time it is well past what most hunters would consider a humane kill range.
I never shot much long range even when I did shoot back a ways. Most of my rifles are battered old shooter grade military bolt actions and you get minute of man accuracy unless you tune them specifically for competition (which in turn negatively affects their collector's value and some alterations like glass bedding, etc. are not allowed anyway). So 3-5 MOA is usual with open sights and range ammo fodder and a bit less with peep sights on a good day at 100-200 yards==maybe 2.5-4 on something like an Lee Enfield No. 4 with Singer peep iron sights.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:25 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 21, 2026 09:27 PM (xVpNO)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next Up TX MoMe ~ at June 21, 2026 08:57 PM
Concur.
Posted by: Winston Wolfe at June 21, 2026 09:27 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Zod at June 21, 2026 08:26 PM
Yo, Zod! S'up? You were missed at the MoMe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 08:37 PM (zC76q)
And most threads
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 21, 2026 09:28 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:29 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 21, 2026 09:29 PM (xVpNO)
Was Weasel experimenting with rice in his rear bag?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2026 09:30 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 21, 2026 09:30 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 21, 2026 09:31 PM (xVpNO)
Posted by: Arch Stanton at June 21, 2026 09:31 PM (hWzgv)
Posted by: Weasel
It will take a year from my surgery in last Feb that I will know for sure as far as resuming any shooting longarms apart from rimfire or 223 in August at teh sixth month mark.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:31 PM (E4rtv)
And he fires it off sitting not 5 feet away, without hearing protection. The only nod to "it should be really loud" is he squiggles his ear with a finger afterwards. And it's the ear furthest away from the weapon. Mhmmmmm....
Posted by: GWB at June 21, 2026 09:31 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 21, 2026 09:32 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: GWB at June 21, 2026 09:31 PM
Maybe he was temporarily deaf in the ear closest to the weapon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2026 09:33 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 21, 2026 09:34 PM (xVpNO)
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I couldn't remember when I included that for tonight if it was the "fourth shot" video of shame.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:35 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Blake
Software beats hardware on the range, but as you said, money spent on hi end reloading gear, premium brass, etc. can go well beyond a rifle.
Not for me, I'm afraid as I don't think I will probably ever be shooting hard recoiling rifles and shotguns again. We will see at the one year mark after my back surgery. I am probably downsizing my collection of old milsurps soon and selling off the reloading equipment for those weirdo military rounds while keeping a few for sentimental reasons or due to appreciating prices.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:36 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:18 PM (E4rtv)
Yeah. This one has the suicide safety, which won't move at all right now. My game plan: Remove the stock, wash out the receiver and action with brake cleaner, blow out with compressed air, oil lightly with suitable oil, and reassemble. Buddy who owns it was shooting gophers with target loads, and it failed to eject. This gun is pretty beat up, and has had a hard life, I expect.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 09:36 PM (1z8ji)
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Shooting is optional! Coming to visit is just fine.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:37 PM (ei1sX)
I learned stuff and have more questions than I started with. May your collective crawl spaces be clear of problems.
Posted by: TRex - unkestrelized dino at June 21, 2026 09:37 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Arch Stanton at June 21, 2026 09:31 PM (hWzgv)
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Nice. I found some of those in deep storage the other day and have a couple on deck for this week.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:39 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: TRex - unkestrelized dino at June 21, 2026 09:37 PM (IQ6Gq)
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You have my contact info!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:40 PM (ei1sX)
In January 2014, a letter that Kalashnikov wrote six months before his death to the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, was published by the Russian daily newspaper Izvestia. In the letter, he stated that he was suffering "spiritual pain" about whether he was responsible for the deaths caused by the weapons he created. Translated from the published letter he states, "I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I... a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?"
The patriarch wrote back, thanked Kalashnikov, and said that he "was an example of patriotism and a correct attitude toward the country". Kirill added about the design responsibility for the deaths by the rifle, "the church has a well-defined position when the weapon is defense of the Motherland, the Church supports its creators and the military, which use it."
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I agree with the patriarch. A weapon is a tool. The designer isn't responsible for misuse.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 09:40 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
And the mags will be available for a long time at a reasonable price. That is what is problematic for a number of people, these rapidly changing models mean that magazines aren't available for boutique brands for long at a cheap price. They are using magazines as a driver of profits from a lot of handgun mfgs. Glock and Springfield XD are the exception but the newer Springfields seem to following S&W, Beretta, or other mfg pricing.
Bersas in particular can be ridiculous, you get the pistol cheap and then pay out the wazoo for mags. $299 firearm with a $50 per mag.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:40 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:41 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Arch Stanton at June 21, 2026 09:44 PM (rmzEU)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 09:44 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Start with the friction rings, you can find Auto 5 manuals online. My guess is the friction rings are buggered and perhaps congealed old grease.
I would use sewing machine oil for lube or the old 3-1. The tolerances are fine on the parts of them in those shotguns and they used really light oils back in the day for lube as they lubed field guns and cleaned them each day they used them.
And be careful with the brake cleaner, use the non chlorinated stuff as that can affect the rather thin bluing on those Auto 5s. Odorless mineral spirits would do as well (which is often what the non chlorinated stuff is anyway). And the rest you know, light grease on sliding surfaces, oil around pivot points.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:45 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 21, 2026 09:45 PM (UJMvS)
Bersas in particular can be ridiculous, you get the pistol cheap and then pay out the wazoo for mags. $299 firearm with a $50 per mag.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:40 PM (E4rtv)
WA state's ammo restrictions really killed my interest in buying new tools. Luckily I stocked up on a variety of mags for my EDC options. Still...it's a barrier and started me on this trajectory.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 21, 2026 09:45 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Weasel
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What you are saying is that you need a target I guess (LOL). I warn you, I can't run fast so not much of a challenge in leading shots.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:47 PM (E4rtv)
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Excellent observation! The short answer is yes, I need the extra height due to my using a higher rear bag. I sort of just grabbed what I had available at the farm that day. That setup is much less than ideal, but worked out ok for video exhibition purposes.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:48 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:45 PM (E4rtv)
The brake cleaner I have is the non-chlorinated kind. I'm sure I have some real light oil here, but maybe a spray can of some sort of light gun oil would be better?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 09:48 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:49 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Simplicity has a virtue of its own. I have too many to shoot and maintain much anymore and for the same reason, looking to trim down the collection to manageable size.
Weasel, if you are still interested in original content, I am about to pull old milsurp bolt action rifles out, clean them, and prepare them for sale which means pictures, etc. I'll try to send you some pix and a brief writeup on some of them.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:49 PM (E4rtv)
Open thread in the time remaining for Doof jokes.
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:41 PM (ei1sX)
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So I can say what I want? Well, let me tell you something, pal!....
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 09:50 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 09:50 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 09:51 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Rem oil is cheap and quite good. Sewing machine or clock oil is very good. I tend to use lubriplate for the grease on rifles as it is non toxic and I have a garand and m1 carbine.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:51 PM (E4rtv)
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Sounds great! Thanks. To all of you who have sent me stuff, I swear I will get to it eventually. I'm a little bit of a lazy-bones lately and typically leave writing the thread until Sunday afternoon. I need to get better about that!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:51 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 21, 2026 09:52 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:48 PM (ei1sX)
Thanks Weasel. I’d actually like a little higher rear bag as sometimes I have issues at my range getting the rear of the gun high enough to get on target. Was going to make a couple wood or cardboard shims to go under my current rear bag. Do you happen to remember the maker and model of rear bag you were using?
Posted by: Arch Stanton at June 21, 2026 09:52 PM (rmzEU)
Posted by: Weasel
Uh oh, you will find it hard to live down now. You should have pulled the inscrutable Weasel Fu--
"Grasshopper, when you can catch a fly in the hand, then you can learn the secrets of my shooting bags" or some such.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 09:53 PM (E4rtv)
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100% I do. Protektor Shooting Bags in PA. Just search for Protektor and you'll find them. Very very very very highly recommended. Great people and products. If you don't see what you want online, just call them. Great folks!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:56 PM (8gM3l)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 21, 2026 09:22 PM (xcxpd)
Oh, I'll watch for it next year! I have a database conference I attend every May, but hopefully I can make it.
How big of a crowd is it? If you want someone else to do it next year, I have a cabin on Mt Hood I could offer. I'm mostly just a lurker, but I've been reading off and on for many years.
Posted by: frammish at June 21, 2026 09:56 PM (rcENI)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 09:58 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 10:04 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: the hampsters at June 21, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 09:36 PM (1z8ji)
Check the brass friction rings around the magazine tube. There is a configuration for heavy recouping loads, and a different one for light loads.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 21, 2026 10:05 PM (bhZyo)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:05 PM (OoFl2)
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I have again shamed my ancestors!
Posted by: Weasel
Seppuku is not allowed. We would have to run the Gun Thread and then the caliber wars would flare anew 45 v 9 30-06-308, madness lies that way.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 10:06 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:05 PM (OoFl2)
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I fear I have tormented him with ridicule!
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 10:06 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 21, 2026 10:07 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 10:07 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 10:07 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 10:09 PM (ei1sX)
Food Thread: Fish Eggs, Fish Eggs, Roly-Poly Fish Eggs!
65 Organizations Petition FDA to End Routine Preventive Antibiotic Use in Food Animals
A coalition of 65 health, consumer, environmental, farming, and animal welfare organizations has filed a citizen petition urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to withdraw approvals for the routine use of medically important antibiotics for disease prevention in food-producing animals. The petition argues that administering antibiotics through feed and water to livestock and poultry that are not diagnosed with disease contributes to the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that AMR is associated with approximately 35,000 deaths and 2.8 million illnesses annually in the U.S alone.
I have no particular resistance (Hah! See what I did?) to decreasing antibiotic use in agriculture. Antibiotic Resistance is a huge problem that isn't getting any better, so we should certainly address overuse. But that coalition of 65 organizations makes me deeply suspicious, especially the "environmental" and "Animal Welfare" organizations. They tend to be lunatics with political agendas, so let us tread lightly!
'Cooking Oil Thieves' caught on camera in Fenwick Island
"They ride around with two large hundred gallon tanks inside their vehicles. Then they hook up to the tanks and are out of there in three to five minutes," Robert Quirk with the Fenwick Island police department told WBOC.
As opposed to "two small hundred gallon tanks?" Well, it's Delaware, and they elected Joe Biden, so the assumption that everyone who lives there is a retard isn't unreasonable.
From lurker "LF" comes more proof of the superiority of the American south (except for no snow!).
Green garlic is available at farmer's markets in the south. Bought and used fresh, until frost. Clean, delightful.
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Green garlic is a hint milder in the bulb, and the green stems are edible, yet a bit milder. Just happy to known it's not from a filthy polluted country.
David Lebovitz is pompous and irritating, but he does know how to cook, and his recipes are rarely fussy. Here he makes something I have never made...Strawberry Jam. Well, I have cooked down fruit for compotes and such, but I am not a significant consumer of jams and jellies, because I am not, nor have I ever been a big big breakfast guy. Vacations are different though; I love trying local joints, which can often be amazingly good, even in areas that are not known for their food. And...jams and jellies tend to be quite sweet, which is a big No-No for breakfast, especially the dreaded Maple Syrup on French Toast mania! But Lebovitz's recipe is straightforward and gives the option to cut the sugar, which makes it intriguing, even though he is a toad.
The garlic is doing well! I think. I know all of you are worried, but it is still tall and green and healthy! And if they survive the deer and squirrel apocalypse, and actually grow into something edible, I will be in garlic heaven! Now I have to figure out when to harvest! Late June into July seems like the consensus. But I'm a Dildo, not a farmer! In case it doesn't work out, send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. Rumor has it that the Bourbon Bubble is bursting. I have seen no evidence of decreasing prices, but maybe the bursting started somewhere else! I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle. The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 04:02 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 04:04 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 21, 2026 04:05 PM (b84UO)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 21, 2026 04:06 PM (b84UO)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 21, 2026 04:07 PM (b84UO)
So yeah, I would try the Italian version!!
Posted by: moki at June 21, 2026 04:08 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 04:11 PM (h7ZuX)
nailed it
tonight is top sirloin, reverse seared
nobody cares
Posted by: Don Black at June 21, 2026 04:11 PM (RP2m/)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 21, 2026 04:07 PM (b84UO)
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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I EXIST!!!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBERGER at June 21, 2026 04:13 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 04:13 PM (hftzA)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 21, 2026 04:13 PM (3Ope8)
I think I'm having watermelon for supper.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21
I could get behind this. Do you get black diamond watermelons?
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 04:15 PM (hftzA)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 04:15 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 04:15 PM (2UnvF)
Linguini con vongole is a great summer dish. Dad would love to spend hours in the bay between Tuckerton and LBI, to bring home 6-10 dozen clams. The chowders were for soup, little necks were for eating raw, and cherrystones were for pasta. If mom was feeling it, some of those were baked, often with just a small square of bacon. Those were good days...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 04:16 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 04:15 PM (qEb4U)
This is exactly the type of typo I would make. I am laughing so hard right now.
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 04:16 PM (hftzA)
I’d make a pound of pasta and my boys would down it in one meal.
Simply, bacon and egg pasta.
Sometimes I would add preserved lemons and fresh basil. They ate it all. One sitting. Easy peasy.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 04:17 PM (X1Jq6)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 04:17 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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They did sesame seeds because they were cheaper than the traditional poppy seed bun.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 04:20 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: DanMan at June 21, 2026 04:20 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 04:21 PM (GNqmQ)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 04:15 PM (hftzA)
I get whatever my small town Kroger has, and I don't think it's Black Diamond. That sounds too fancy for Meth County, haha!
It is nice and red, though, and firm. I hate it when I cut one open and it's mushy.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 04:21 PM (h7ZuX)
If you aren’t showing improvement after 14 days, you prescribe antibiotics.
Who, in today’s world, is that patient?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 04:22 PM (X1Jq6)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 04:23 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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When things got going I took my iPad into the room and camped out. Sometimes you can't run fast enough.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 04:23 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 04:16 PM (hftzA)
I missed it. I was still back there on Don Black's chicken farmer John. Voice to text error, DB being funny, or is chicken farmer John a thing?
*ponders
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 04:24 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 04:15 PM (qEb4U)
This is exactly the type of typo I would make. I am laughing so hard right now.
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 04:16 PM (hftzA)
I like big cheesteaks and I cannot lie.
Posted by: Sir Eats-A-Lot at June 21, 2026 04:25 PM (PiwSw)
*ponders
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21
And now I am laughing even harder. By myself in the studio. Good morning, I hope no one looks through the glass doors because I have tears running down my face and look psychotic. I don’t know why these have struck me as hysterical today.
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 04:28 PM (hftzA)
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Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026 04:29 PM (Kt19C)
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Posted by: Toxic Jeff at June 21, 2026 04:31 PM (LL3es)
check out the specials at DoorDash
Posted by: DanMan at June 21, 2026 04:33 PM (8uzBS)
I didn't get my starter out to refresh this morning, so no bread for me this week.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 04:34 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at June 21, 2026 04:34 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 04:17 PM (X1Jq6)
A signature dish in our family has this ingredient list. We called it Pastera, which could be confused with the traditional Easter pie. This is not that.
Boil two pounds of spaghetti and bake a pound of bacon in a medium-to-large roasting pan. Remove bacon from pan when done, but keep the fat. Strain the cooked pasta and dump it into the roasting pan. Toss a bit to get the bacon fat fully involved. Now scramble 8-12 eggs (you can add a bit of parsley to this for color and a bit of flavor) and pour into the pasta. Crumble the cooked bacon over the top and give the pan a little shake to settle everything then bake a 350 for about an hour. Do an extra 10 minutes at 400 for extra crispiness if you're into that kind of thing. Cool, cut into squares and serve.
Mom would sometimes pack this in my lunch instead of a sammich. I was a spoiled kid in many ways...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 04:35 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 04:36 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 21, 2026 04:38 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 04:15 PM (qEb4U)
This is exactly the type of typo I would make. I am laughing so hard right now.
I'm still stuck on figuring out what "Butt Cheese" is.
Posted by: Fritzy at June 21, 2026 04:38 PM (2GIh1)
Posted by: ballistic at June 21, 2026 04:38 PM (oqH4h)
Is easy ordering grubhub? Or pizza?
Is easy popping in a microwave?
Is easy doing a little chopping and sautéing and then finishing in the oven?
And is easy most satisfying? I like preparing a meal from scratch. And sourcing ingredients. And prepping before the prep. It’s such a wonderful feeling to sit down and eat something thoughtfully prepared.
I made a pork chop for myself for lunch. Dusted in seasoned flour, fried I olive oil/butter. Added French herbs and a big dose of fresh lemon. Served with hummus, roasted eggplant, onion and garlic ( did that yesterday) and Greek yogurt.
Just me. It was nice.
Heading out to the beach. It’s 68 and sunny.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 04:39 PM (QBhXE)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 04:39 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 04:22 PM (X1Jq6
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I hear you. So many contributors to the issue... regulation and insurance bastardizing the doctor/ patient relationship and cost-benefit decisions. To say nothing of the internet making everyone half-smart about complex issues.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 04:40 PM (kOluj)
There are several kinds of bottarga -- red mullet, grey mullet, bluefin tuna. You want the Sardinian grey mullet. Trust me.
Posted by: jix at June 21, 2026 04:43 PM (y687V)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead "
That sounds good but remember what happened to poor old Zachary Taylor.
Posted by: fd at June 21, 2026 04:44 PM (vFG9F)
The US uses antibiotics in chickens to treat, control, and prevent bacterial diseases (such as necrotic enteritis), and to maintain flock health. However, under FDA regulations, these are heavily regulated, and strict "withdrawal periods" ensure no antibiotic residues remain in the meat before it reaches the market. (There are lots of rules & more than one antibiotic-free label.)
Shapiro Administration Moves Quickly to Protect Pennsylvania Farms from New World Screwworm, June 13, 2026
Antibiotics in U.S. beef and the recent resurgence of the New World Screwworm (NWS) are distinct but overlapping issues. While antibiotics are widely used in cattle management, neither the parasites nor the drugs present a food safety risk to consumers.
By federal law, all meat sold in the U.S. must be free of antibiotic residues, whether it is labeled "antibiotic-free" or not. (The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service randomly tests carcasses to ensure compliance.)
We're not so bad. Right?
Posted by: L -No nic, another fine day at June 21, 2026 04:45 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: DanMan at June 21, 2026 04:20 PM (8uzBS)
No she is not!! Shoulder roast for you!
Posted by: DanMa'am at June 21, 2026 04:48 PM (8uzBS)
Regular oven she does.
Posted by: Toxic Jeff at June 21, 2026 04:48 PM (LL3es)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 04:49 PM (qEb4U)
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There was a Simpsons episode about this...
Homer steals the cooking oil from Bart's school, but gets caught in the act by Groundskeeper Willie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu24aQ3D5sk
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 04:49 PM (gnNyN)
Haven't made jam in...probably a decade now. No desire.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 04:53 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: L -No nic, another fine day at June 21, 2026 04:45 PM (NFX2v)
No...our food is safe! I am more concerned with antibiotic resistance then food safety.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 04:54 PM (PLxDd)
Regular oven she does.
Posted by: Toxic Jeff
Me, too. All of my cooking happens inside. I don't even grill. Don't have the equipment nor the skills.
If I had a place for it, I would consider building a brick oven outside.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 04:55 PM (h7ZuX)
I thought jam without seeds was called jelly....
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at June 21, 2026 04:55 PM (/enuJ)
Why Thieves Are Suddenly Targeting the Trash Behind Beachside Restaurants
Two men were just arrested in Delaware for stealing this common waste product. Here’s why officials don’t think it’s an isolated incident.
Jun 17, 2026
Posted by: L -No nic, another fine day at June 21, 2026 04:56 PM (NFX2v)
At least slice up the steak, savages, or your bread will be turned to mush and destroyed while you try to rip that steak apart with you teeth.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 04:57 PM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at June 21, 2026 04:55 PM (/enuJ)
Jelly is made from clear juice. Jam can have seeds strained out, but will still have fruit pulp.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 04:57 PM (h7ZuX)
I thought jam without seeds was called jelly....
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at June 21, 2026 04:55 PM (/enuJ)
No. Jelly is made from juice. Jam is made with fruit pulp.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 04:58 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 04:57 PM (h7ZuX)
IDNKT, thanks DMLW
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at June 21, 2026 04:59 PM (/enuJ)
Fight me.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 04:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 05:00 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 05:00 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 05:00 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at June 21, 2026 05:01 PM (/enuJ)
At least slice up the steak, savages, or your bread will be turned to mush and destroyed while you try to rip that steak apart with you teeth.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
So he accuses of of sucking at cooking, but he sucks at eating?
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 05:01 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 05:02 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at June 21, 2026 05:01 PM (/enuJ)
She got me into it, including the sterilization of the jars/lids, adding the sugar, using the thermometer to know when to do which step. Lots of work, but folks loved it as gifts.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 05:03 PM (l3cgK)
Was it used?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 05:04 PM (jehhT)
At least slice up the steak, savages, or your bread will be turned to mush and destroyed while you try to rip that steak apart with you teeth.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
So he accuses of of sucking at cooking, but he sucks at eating?
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 05:01 PM (VHUov)
Is your steak that tough? I guess you didn't sous vide it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 05:04 PM (l3cgK)
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George Foreman grill is also a superior option for cooking bacon. Much less smoke than a skillet and can achieve whatever doneness you like just by varying duration.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 05:05 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 05:06 PM (KC5Lt)
I make an apple compote by peeling apples, shredding them, and then cooking the shreds down with sugar and pectin and a teaspoon or so of lemon juice. It comes out so much brighter tasting than the jelly. I make a pear compote the same way.
When you use the shredded fruit it is spreadable like jam.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 05:07 PM (rbvCR)
Thank you to all that offered tips about cooking a brisket in a slow cooker.
While not Rancherbob quality it was definitely above parr. Melt in your mouth tender and moist.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 05:07 PM (afJtY)
This is the guy I got the Smash Taco recipe from that worked so well.
There's 4 varieties here. I made the Mexican taco version, duh.
Just great. A home-run. Everyone loved it. Instantly on the rotation.
The Pizza version looks great too, I'lll make it eat some point and the Breakfast Smash Taco looks like a perfect waker-upper.
Here's the vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQPIpxjDv8
Fire up your flat-top grill or cast iron skillet and make some today.
Do it!
Do it now!
Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2026 05:08 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 05:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 05:10 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 05:10 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 05:12 PM (PLxDd)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 05:12 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 05:05 PM (kOluj)
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I'll have to try that some day. I do use mine for cooking burgers and smoked sausages. Works great for those.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 05:13 PM (gnNyN)
Sides are mushrooms and mashy taters. The wine? You would ask, wouldn't you? Ribeye comes alive against a solid merlot, but a recent guest brought a wine to me so we're going with that. A Cooper's Hawk Moscato.
(Ducks a thrown chair and tosses jerky sticks into the more animated section of the crowd)
Hear me out brethren! The red meat/red wine rule serves us well, but a lively white wine bearing the light carbonation of a Moscato cuts through the ribeye's fatty richness, cleansing the palate for the next enticing forkful. Let us boldly explore this path so rarely trod, and reap the rewards of the unexpected pleasures to be found therein.
I'll let you know next week if it sucked...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 05:13 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Wenda at June 21, 2026 05:14 PM (iIAkP)
The lovely and delightful Mrs naturalfake is making
Fried Chicken with Biscuits and Gravy for muh Father's Day Dinner.
Yay!
She paid attention when my Mom was still alive and make a perfect duplicate of Mom's Fried Chicken. So, life is great.
That seems to be one of her gifts, Mrs naturalfake often duplicate foods we eat in restaurants and like.
She lost always hits her target the first time and even improves on the recipe.
It's kinda amazing.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2026 05:15 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 05:16 PM (afJtY)
I had a Chablis with the sweetbreads, so you won't get an argument from me about wine pairings.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 05:17 PM (PLxDd)
For a man who burns his house down to resolve minor maintenance issues, sojourning to Sardinia seems a trifle, barely an inconvenience.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2026 05:20 PM (0sNs1)
A new diet is sweeping through President Trump's cabinet-and it involves heaping portions of sauerkraut.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick,
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Vice President JD Vance have all embraced the diet, drawn by the promise of slimmer waistlines and glowing skin.
They all apparently have determined the health benefits outweigh the slightly sulfurous odors that have been the cause of some domestic friction.
"Within 30 days I lost 20 pounds," Kennedy said at an event in Michigan this week. "JD
Vance is also on the diet and you can see how different he looks."
The diet is the brainchild of Dr. Sean O'Mara, who advises his high-profile patients to eat fermented foods such as sauerkraut and kimchi, alongside grass-fed steak-and to abstain from alcohol and sugary food.
O'Mara says the diet leads to a reduction in visceral fat, which wraps around organs, as well as a more robust microbiome, which can help with digestion.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2026 05:24 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 05:13 PM
Obviously the other side of the hall, opposite the genteel and reserved Texas BBQ Aficionados.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2026 05:25 PM (0sNs1)
Wait until we happy-foot through your dining room. Slightly will be a distant memory.
Posted by: Penguins of the World at June 21, 2026 05:28 PM (JZDm4)
While not Rancherbob quality it was definitely above parr. Melt in your mouth tender and moist.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 05:07 PM (afJtY)
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Awesome! We've done fresh briskets in a slow cooker and generally treat them the same as any other beef roast, with similar results. Low & slow is the key.
I also have a recipe for corned beef in the slow cooker that I love. Basically cover it in Guinness and throw in a couple heads of garlic that are halved cross-wise. A couple other ingredients that escape me now....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 05:30 PM (kOluj)
If you aren't making it yourself, where do you get fermented sauerkraut and kimchi?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:31 PM (OYsYV)
In fact, tomorrow (depending on weather) I have some fresh bratwursts that could probably use some 'kraut on 'em.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 05:32 PM (jehhT)
Otherwise you can get it at US Food Source, which is a restaurant/bulk store, and of course H Mart and any asian market.
Live sauerkraut is harder, mostly it is canned.
I make my own, in fact I am making some right now. I make it in quart jars.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 05:35 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:36 PM (OYsYV)
Tonight I'm having a salad of the last of it, cut into match sticks, with an equal amount of parboiled celery root, also cut into matchsticks, and a mustardy dressing.
Posted by: Wenda at June 21, 2026 05:39 PM (iIAkP)
Posted by: Wenda at June 21, 2026 05:40 PM (iIAkP)
I don't think I could cook without wine, Guinness, rum or tequila.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 05:41 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 05:43 PM (afJtY)
Wenda,
Years ago our toaster bought the farm. We found an inexpensive Oster toaster oven at Costco with mechanical controls, not electronic. It has a bigger foot print on the counter but it's worth it for us. We use it for toast and baking things like small winter squash. It can bake about six of my biscuits. And we use it to reheat a lot of things. Very sturdy and versatile. It cost about 35 bucks but that was about seven years ago. I liked it so much when Ollie's had it I got a second one as back up.
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 05:49 PM (yTvNw)
Chop a cabbage in half, remove the heart, and peel off the outer leaves until you get a few nice leaves. Set the nice ones aside since you will need them
Chop the cabbage up into thin slices. A mandoline will work as well as a knife for smaller batches.
Pile shreds into a large bowl (I have some broad stainless bowls I got just for this sort of prep) and at this point you can add shredded carrots or green onions, or red pepper. Then add salt.
It doesn't need to be canning salt, but table salt can make your kraut soggy eventually.
The ideal ratio is between 1 or 2 tablespoons of salt to 1-3/4 lbs of cabbage. This is not an exact science.
Let the cabbage sweat for 30 - 60 minutes, You are now ready to pack the shredded cabbage into quart jars, and pack it down firmly. Leave an inch clearance on top and then cover the cabbage inside with a cabbage leaf trimmed to fit., fill the jar to cover the cabbage with the brine from the steel bowl.
Set it on the drainboard to age for 4-5 days to bubble over, then put it in the fridge to store. Start eating it whenever. It will turn khaki eventually when it is fully ripe.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 05:51 PM (rbvCR)
Here's that recipe: https://shorturl.at/u037q
I like doing the cabbage this way, but usually only do that on St Paddy's Day.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 05:52 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 05:54 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 05:57 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 05:59 PM (zC76q)
https:/www.youtube.com/
watch?v=mC78Adz93e0
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 21, 2026 06:01 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 06:04 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 06:05 PM (zC76q)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 06:06 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 06:06 PM (afJtY)
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That diet should be banned immediately for anyone negotiating with the Iranians.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 06:07 PM (XjKiU)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 06:09 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 05:57 PM (LHPAg)
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Winn ah wuz a little bitty baby
Mah mamma woulda rock me in da cradle
In them ol' cotton fields back home
Posted by: J. Fogerty at June 21, 2026 06:10 PM (XjKiU)
Posted by: ballistic at June 21, 2026 04:38 PM (oqH4h)
You seem nice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 06:11 PM (PLxDd)
I have been enjoying Father's Day by working my fanny off on deferred projects that have achieved immediacy.
Posted by: Pete Bog's agentic AI alter ego at June 21, 2026 06:11 PM (BGSp9)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 06:15 PM (afJtY)
The local Food Lion won my heart when they started carrying Bit O' Honey candy, one of my childhood favorites.
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 06:15 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: PabloD at June 21, 2026 06:15 PM (tTZHu)
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I'm all in favor of more farting and less giving away the family jewels.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 06:16 PM (XjKiU)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 06:17 PM (PLxDd)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 06:17 PM (R+iUD)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 06:17 PM (PLxDd)
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If only Dr. Demento was alive to see this.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 06:18 PM (XjKiU)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 06:17 PM (PLxDd)
No one expects a Mystery Click in the Food Thread!!!
(but I did catch the reference in the title)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 06:18 PM (R+iUD)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 05:17 PM (PLxDd)
Hey Dildo, someday you should try Sauternes with roast chicken or spicy Thai food. Great combination.
Posted by: Pete Bog's agentic AI alter ego at June 21, 2026 06:20 PM (BGSp9)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 06:21 PM (bxhng)
You seem nice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 06:11 PM (PLxDd)
I bet his or her thoughts on romance and commitment would be equally compelling.
Posted by: Pete Bog's agentic AI alter ego at June 21, 2026 06:21 PM (BGSp9)
I like when generic brands are better than the name brands for about half the price. Best example for me is Ritz crackers. They were my favorite for decades but some change must have been made. They just don't taste the same: not as tasty and they crumble too easily. The Food Lion version tastes like Ritz used to at about half the cost.
I agree about Ritz on both counts (taste and crumbling).
We have no Food Lion here. I wonder if Kroger brand or Walmart brand are better?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 21, 2026 06:22 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 06:22 PM (afJtY)
Grass fed steak is just going to be leaner than corn fed or corn finished, and if you haven’t had it, it may have a slightly different taste when you first start to eat it. We do grass fed beef here for the most part, to include ground beef. That may be overkill, honestly, but it can’t hurt.
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 06:23 PM (OoFl2)
Joe Kidd,
That pasta recipe sounds great. You had me at bacon. I had hopes for the dish at the top of the thread but Mrs. JTB is allergic to any seafood. Bacon is another matter.
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 06:24 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Pete Bog's agentic AI alter ego at June 21, 2026 06:24 PM (BGSp9)
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It's a decidedly different taste, and not for the better IMHO.
I always look for Angus beef, fed on grain and unlucky ranch hands.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 06:26 PM (XjKiU)
Wood fire I think.
Posted by: Pete Bog's agentic AI alter ego at June 21, 2026 06:26 PM (BGSp9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 21, 2026 06:22 PM (Cqx++)
I find a lot of Kroger brand to be equal or, often superior, to national brands. Usually.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 06:27 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 21, 2026 06:27 PM (XeU6L)
Thanks for the information on your Oster toaster oven. Decisions, decisions....
Posted by: Wenda at June 21, 2026 06:27 PM (iIAkP)
You seem nice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026
I wonder how to parlay this into a Mome give away. Both Snobby Twat and You Seem Nice need to be memorialized.
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 06:28 PM (OoFl2)
robotic fish sorting machine that killed the fish quickly and bled them to keep the flesh fresh and more salable.
Robot fish vampire
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 21, 2026 06:28 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 06:30 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 06
Oh I bet the ranch hands might add a little piquant to the marbling!
Joking aside, you never know with pork!
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 06:30 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 06:30 PM (afJtY)
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There's a song idea in there somewhere.
Posted by: Alice Cooper at June 21, 2026 06:32 PM (XjKiU)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 06:28 PM (OoFl2)
I guess that instead of a "Fed" sticker, at next year's NoVaMoMee someone will slap a "Snobby Twat" sticker on CBD's back.
Posted by: Vendette at June 21, 2026 06:37 PM (1ieqq)
Posted by: Pete Bog's agentic AI alter ego at June 21, 2026 06:20 PM (BGSp9)
I agree! I'll make the roast chicken, you bring the d'Yquem.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 06:38 PM (PLxDd)
Starting Monday, Aldi will be giving away free mystery boxes of groceries.
The limited-time blind boxes have different themes: snacks, fiber, protein, and “mystery.”
Available on a first-come, first-served basis, while supplies last, the blind boxes will be released at noon ET on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
https://shorturl.ly/kROs1
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 21, 2026 06:38 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 06:30 PM (A5RD0)
Are they Seattle's soccer team?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 06:40 PM (PLxDd)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 06:30 PM (A5RD0)
Are they Seattle's soccer team?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2026 06:40 PM (PLxDd)
*sucks in breath, holds...
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 06:41 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 21, 2026 06:41 PM (VCgbV)
Go for a full brick of cheese!
The machine-gun burst will be fun!
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 21, 2026 06:42 PM (3hOgI)
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 21, 2026 06:44 PM (b4s65)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 06:44 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 04:15 PM (2UnvF)
Ever had one before?
If you have...well, you know the score.
If you haven't...they fill your colon with air so when you wake up you're like a big ole whoopsie cushion. It's fun!
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 21, 2026 06:45 PM (b4s65)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 06:49 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 06:49 PM (OoFl2)
Feel free to share with all of your European friends
1 cup mayonnaise (Hellman's or Duke's, not MiracleWhip)
1 cup store-bought buttermilk* OR
*1 cup whole milk + 1 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. dried parsley
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/8 tsp. dried thyme powder
Combine all ingredients in a bowl ... Stir, chill, then stir again until uniform ... To thicken, gradually add Sure-Jell powdered pectin in 1/8 tsp. increments until the dressing is as thick as you want it to be.
Posted by: Kathy at June 21, 2026 06:49 PM (MOK4W)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 06:50 PM (afJtY)
I agree about Ritz on both counts (taste and crumbling).
We have no Food Lion here. I wonder if Kroger brand or Walmart brand are better?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 21, 2026 06:22 PM (Cqx++)
___________________________
I always go for the generic spices, flavorings, and cooking add-ins when buying. High end brand on garlic salt or powder tastes almost exactly the same and costs a few bucks more for a very small bottle, jar, container.
Posted by: Orson at June 21, 2026 06:53 PM (dIske)
I've had the bakery tortillas and still prefer the ones you cook as needed.
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 21, 2026 06:53 PM (VCgbV)
Be very careful with your answer
Posted by: Pete Bog at June 21, 2026 06:54 PM (BGSp9)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2026 06:56 PM (zC76q)
First World Problems...
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 02:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 02:05 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 21, 2026 02:05 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: polynikes
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He couldn't dismiss the Administrative State.
Look at the trouble he's having now when a whole team of tough, smart people on his side.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 02:05 PM (iLKq8)
Throw it in the garbage where it belongs.
Posted by: Euro Trash Beer at June 21, 2026 02:06 PM (g7saB)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2026 02:07 PM (ItpVy)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 02:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Brando at June 21, 2026 02:08 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
It will bring nothing except as part of a $1 box at the garage sale along with grandma's spoon and salt and pepper shaker collections.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2026 02:08 PM (ItpVy)
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Speaking of drinking glasses. Preparing to mix a drink, last night, I discovered my one and only favorite glass missing. How does this happen? I searched for it again and again, today too. It's spaced aliens.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 02:10 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Case at June 21, 2026 02:11 PM (IY9No)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Blaspheme!
_one who throws naught away
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 02:12 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2026 02:08 PM (ItpVy)
Then it will become a treasure forgotten with fond memories lost forever with the mists of time.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 21, 2026 02:12 PM (g8Ew8)
youtube.com/watch?v=n9ot2MyW2w0
Posted by: gp at June 21, 2026 02:12 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Case at June 21, 2026 02:11 PM (IY9No)
Admit his genius and let it go, he won't get less irritating or logically corrupt, but he won't keep following you around trying to prove you wrong.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 02:14 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gp at June 21, 2026 02:14 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
You're exactly right and such a shame. Every time someone passes, we lose a book full of knowledge, experience and history of what was.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2026 02:14 PM (ItpVy)
Posted by: Max K at June 21, 2026 02:17 PM (fgk4Z)
Because you might need it sometime.
Same as for the house full of similar kept stuff.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 21, 2026 02:17 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2026 02:14 PM (ItpVy)
LOL. We keep this up and we'll have written Kameltoe's next speech.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 21, 2026 02:18 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 02:18 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: cherries in season at June 21, 2026 02:18 PM (Ozvnh)
Posted by: Miflin at June 21, 2026 02:18 PM (aA6YN)
youtube.com/watch?v=n9ot2MyW2w0
Posted by: gp
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Good.
Now teach engineers and music producers that drummers cymbals are something to be recorded and the sound reproduces. Drummers pay good money for them and hit them for a purpose more than expending energy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 02:20 PM (iLKq8)
A middle of the road lager from what I recall. Better than Coors, but what isn't?
Posted by: From about That Time at June 21, 2026 02:22 PM (sl73Y)
Stella would win EVERY SINGLE YEAR because all the guys would split their votes around various porters stouts ipas etc while all the ladies (plus a good number of pansy ass lib type males wearing pants) would vote for the weak ass watered down piss flavored “beer drink.”
Thank you CBD for all your posts look forward to lurking on the food thread again!
Note….i don’t live in Chapel Hill anymore, escaped to the coast, near MCAS Cherry Point.
Posted by: NC Ref at June 21, 2026 02:23 PM (UhW4G)
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 02:23 PM (KC5Lt)
Just like our combined birthday party 3 weeks ago for 3 of us guys. It wasn't for us guys, it was an opportunity for them to exercise their harpyness.
I have an idea - let me alone. I'd much rather sit in my underwear on the deck drinking with the guys - only. We might speak, we might not. Perfect.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2026 02:24 PM (ItpVy)
The glass would make good plinking target.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 02:26 PM (1z8ji)
This June stuff just ain't cutting it.
Posted by: Case at June 21, 2026 02:28 PM (IY9No)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 21, 2026 02:29 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 02:30 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Buck at June 21, 2026 02:30 PM (z6ONu)
Posted by: illiniwek at June 21, 2026 02:30 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 21, 2026 02:31 PM (L9YhZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 21, 2026 02:31 PM (L9YhZ)
it's my husbands favorite beer....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 21, 2026 02:36 PM (FtULh)
But I would posit that the real analog is Father's Day, except for how relatively unimportant Father's Day is.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 02:37 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026 02:39 PM (Kt19C)
Because the first thing I heard once she got up was "would you mind getting that mulch" ? Which meant "I'm going to say it all day until you bring home that mulch".
Straight up. Heard it was Father's Day on the radio. So I called my Dad on noon. He didn't give a shit either.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:39 PM (P5MQi)
https://is.gd/8QqXru
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 21, 2026 02:40 PM (ZVgZ4)
I have an idea - let me alone. I'd much rather sit in my underwear on the deck drinking with the guys - only. We might speak, we might not. Perfect.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2026 02:24 PM (ItpVy)
Bingo.
My dad always said he just wanted to be left alone for a day.
Never worked. Never has, never will. It's a pointless holiday, like if people celebrated monogamy for one day at a gay bath house. Wouldn't last past 9am.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 02:41 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 02:42 PM (R+iUD)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 02:42 PM (PV+Zw)
So going to go see him, mom and my sister.
Back when I get there
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 02:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Its like everything else. The Womenz got Mother's Day - so Hell or High Water - we'll have to put up with the same shit.
Now make Steak and Blow Job day National ? And look, like everything else, its not like your or my old lady can't hire that out either.
And I can make my own Steak.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:44 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: Buck
My Grandpa's barn has entered the chat - he had at least one Ford from every decade from the 00's onward. The Model 'C' that was in drivable shape brought north of $40,000 when we sold it.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2026 02:44 PM (ItpVy)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 02:44 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 02:45 PM (afFes)
Well, at least your wife didn't smother you with pillows as you remarked she might do on a thread from yesterday. All she asked for was mulch.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 02:45 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 02:45 PM (7RYym)
I think she's scared. To smother me with a pillow, she'd have to climb onto my chest to do it.
Pretty sure that's how Kid #2 started. So I get her reservations.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:47 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 02:45 PM (7RYym)
He needs to apply himself.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 02:47 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 02:48 PM (afFes)
Here's my deal: You figure out how much to charge for twelve ounces of your product. I figure out if your product is worth that charge. If you refuse to offer me twelve ounces of your product at any price, I'll find a vendor that will. Good day to you, sir - I say good day!!
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 02:48 PM (nbLIj)
Kronenburg 1664 is my favorite beer.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 21, 2026 02:50 PM (sn5xH)
The absolute most excellent "domestic" I've ever drank. By far.
Can't get it here.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:52 PM (P5MQi)
My cupboard still looks like college. Stray mugs, glasses, whatevers as if from former roommates, people who dropped by, thrift shops, something nice that somehow hasn't broken yet. I've given away everything in moves a few times, but somehow it all keeps reassembling itself in my house. In fact, that gives me an idea for a sci-fi short story. Or a Disney movie, about all the mismatched mugs and dishes and silverware that get slammed together in some jolly hodgepodge, and suddenly the owner decides to remodel and they're all going to be thrown out or given away and replaced with shiny-new matching sets. Oh no!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 21, 2026 02:52 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: gp at June 21, 2026 02:54 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 02:55 PM (ndZc7)
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The absolute most excellent "domestic" I've ever drank. By far.
Can't get it here.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:52 PM (P5MQi)
Maybe, maybe not.
https://shorturl.at/k15u3
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 02:56 PM (R+iUD)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 21, 2026 02:57 PM (ZVgZ4)
https://tinyurl.com/5n7w7dx5
or the gangs will use it for target practice for their heavy weapons, and have reduced it to rubble. I'm not sure which is more likely.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 02:58 PM (qx7Zg)
https://shorturl.at/k15u3
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 02:56 PM (R+iUD)
They have it at East End Louisville at that Total Wine ... $15 a six. Thanks for the link.
That's an hour drive one way. Gonna' be a no.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 03:00 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 03:01 PM (kpS4V)
Kronenburg 1664 is my favorite beer.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 21, 2026 02:50 PM (sn5xH)
When I was in Amsterdam, I reluctantly ordered Heineken, bracing for the skunky experience of the stuff that washes ashore in the US. It was a revelation, so much so that I can enjoy an occasional glass here because my palate can now sense what it's meant to be..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 03:01 PM (nbLIj)
Did someone have the same conversation that was had with Justin Trudeau? (Always fun trying to tell a narcissist that the party's over and that they're going to step down, or the really BAD blackmail pictures will surface. What, you didn't think these guys actually resigned voluntarily, did you?)
Now back to our "what to do with the lone beer glass" discussion...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 03:01 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 21, 2026 03:03 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 03:03 PM (afJtY)
I still keep a pilsner glass just for the occasional bottle. And a pint glass as well.
Right now ? Miller High Life Lite out of a bottle.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 03:04 PM (P5MQi)
KTVU
@KTVU
A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses.
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A thug shortage.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 03:04 PM (ndZc7)
And couldn't help thinking "sounds like a Kamala Harris quote" afterwards. Why the architects didn't convince Barky to cut down the length and at least only have the letters on 1 building side the world will never know. Maybe they figured it was ugly and stupid regardless so why not have the words wrap around the 90 degree corner. I read they are having trouble with birds roosting on the letters and crapping.
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 03:05 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 03:07 PM (P5MQi)
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Scissors. Glass, party dip jars. Zip lock w/real zippers. I transfer everything into more secure packaging.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 03:07 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 03:01 PM (kpS4V)
I used to collect beer mugs. My favorite is one my kid sister brought home for me from her Germany trip. Ceramic, bearing the Berlin city crest and holds a proper liter. Took it to many a kegger back in the day..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 03:07 PM (nbLIj)
I think that the meme was funny, but don't know how they'd get up there to paint all that graffiti
When we have to stop for a train, we often watch the art on the cars. Some of these people are rather talented . It's a shame the cat find a way to use this talent in a more productive way. Then again, if they're doing train car grafitti it means they probably aren't stabbing or robbing someone.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 03:08 PM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: PaleRider
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Murder Bird Statue
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 03:08 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Sam Adams at June 21, 2026 03:09 PM (X+xvk)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 03:11 PM (PV+Zw)
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I read they are having trouble with birds roosting on the letters and crapping.
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 03:05 PM
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I would be surprised if that didn't happen. Nobody anticipated that, or a few people knew better but kept quiet?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 21, 2026 03:12 PM (lsrsS)
UK Approves Trans Puberty Blockers for Children as Young as 11
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 03:13 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 03:08 PM (lQ+/f)
But isn't the theme of the grafitti all about stabbing or robbing people?
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 03:14 PM (LHPAg)
Yeah ... if they're defacing or taking somebody else's shit ... it couldn't be that bad.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 03:16 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 03:04 PM (ndZc7)
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Please, "a pyrsyn experiencing thuggishness."
Posted by: NY Times Style Sheet at June 21, 2026 03:17 PM (PiwSw)
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So he's going to fake another assassination attempt.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 03:17 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 03:04 PM (ndZc7)
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Please, "a pyrsyn experiencing thuggishness."
Posted by: NY Times Style Sheet at June 21, 2026 03:17 PM (PiwSw)
I thought it was " a pyrsyn involved in the justice system".
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 03:18 PM (R+iUD)
I've bitched about him all day. But credit where credit is due. The Old Man showed a bit of "color" on the last one.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 03:19 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 03:19 PM (ndZc7)
Um, that sounds like more than spring cleaning?
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:20 PM (6wpGE)
It's in no recognizable language to me. Maybe it's their initials or something.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 03:20 PM (looXz)
KTVU
@KTVU
A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses.
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A thug shortage.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 03:04 PM (ndZc7)
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Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James B., when his careless son happened to break a pane of glass? If you have been present at such a scene, you will most assuredly bear witness to the fact, that every one of the spectators, were there even thirty of them, by common consent apparently, offered the unfortunate owner this invariable consolation--"It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. Everybody must live, and what would become of the glaziers if panes of glass were never broken?"
Posted by: Zombie Bastiat at June 21, 2026 03:20 PM (2tnrG)
Posted by: Dr_No at June 21, 2026 03:20 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:21 PM (6wpGE)
Right now ? Miller High Life Lite out of a bottle.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 03:04 PM (P5MQi)
Since my move to Florida, I keep my pint glasses in the freezer. Otherwise, I'd have to pound every beer if I wanted to enjoy it cold. I do find a pint glass is the superior delivery system for beer, properly bathing the tongue while the foam plays into my sinuses for a fully immersive experience. I understand the utility of drinking straight from the bottle or can when on the beach or in a boat, but at home, nothing beats a frosted glass...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 03:22 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Howdy
Eddie Scarry: New York Times Writers Are Mad About the War Ending. That Means Trump Is on the Right Track
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 03:23 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Dr_No at June 21, 2026 03:20 PM (ayRl+)
I'd never heard of this so had to look it up. You can get it in a some hardware stores, and there are even a few drive-ins remaining:
https://frostop.com/drive-in
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 03:23 PM (R+iUD)
Posted by: Syme993 at June 21, 2026 03:25 PM (wNgri)
It is honestly ... about me and my wife. If she caught cancer - and I had the cure ? She'd rather die.
That's politics today.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 03:25 PM (P5MQi)
Gov. Hochul Extends Free Healthcare for Sex Workers with NY Taxpayers Footing the Bill
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 03:26 PM (ndZc7)
It's in no recognizable language to me. Maybe it's their initials or something.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 03:20 PM (looXz)
They all mean something.
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 03:27 PM (LHPAg)
Gov. Hochul Extends Free Healthcare for Sex Workers with NY Taxpayers Footing the Bill
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 03:26 PM (ndZc7)
She's just trying to help the NY tourism industry.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 03:27 PM (R+iUD)
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, onions, pickles on a sesame seed bun.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 03:27 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 03:27 PM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 03:27 PM (LHPAg)
Yes, I'm sure it does, but I'm not part of the hood so I can't translate it. It's just that the use of the colors and shapes shows some artistic ability by these folks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 03:30 PM (jtjbl)
No reason to be uncivilized
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 03:30 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 03:27 PM (2UnvF)
Damnit, Lowell. Now I want a Big Mac and I haven't had one in 20 years. Same as a Royale, right?
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 03:30 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 21, 2026 02:52 PM (XJ22o)
You've described my cabinets. Exactly.
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:30 PM (6wpGE)
Earth May Survive the Sun’s Fiery Death in New Study That Flips Science on Its Head
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 03:32 PM (ndZc7)
Next we're gonna' learn that biocarbons from below the ground come from ... get this ... the extreme heat and pressure from below the ground. With a massive assist from a great big nuke reaction in the sky.
Not from dino matter. You know ... not finite.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 03:34 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 03:30 PM (LHPAg)
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Royale is the quarter pounder. Euro weenies use Royale because they use the metric system like all countries who haven't been to the moon.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 03:35 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 03:35 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 03:35 PM (1z8ji)
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Harsh, but fair.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 03:37 PM (2UnvF)
Gotta' say ... I would lure AOC in with something like a ride in a big truck. Maybe some fishing. Then I'd put on some old school Alabama on the radio. Subtle.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 03:38 PM (P5MQi)
Royale is the quarter pounder. Euro weenies use Royale because they use the metric system like all countries who haven't been to the moon.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 03:35 PM (2UnvF)
Only time I ever heard of a Royale was in the movie Pulp Fiction.
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 03:39 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 03:27 PM (2UnvF)
pickles, onions
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:41 PM (6wpGE)
The second glass came from The Flying Fish Brewing Co, a place I frequented in PA. That one just disappeared and I suspect it was broken by someone. I have a spare, and the other survivor is from the Back Bay Brewing Company, a Boston establish of which I have many fond memories..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 03:41 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 03:39 PM (LHPAg)
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Same, but I'm still gonna use it to make fun of the euros.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 03:41 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:43 PM (6wpGE)
Posted by: DaveA at June 21, 2026 03:44 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:41 PM (6wpGE)
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I almost went back and changed it but I figured I had a 50/50 shot. Plus, it was fifty some odd years ago and I can't believe I remembered as much as I did.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 03:44 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:41 PM (6wpGE)
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I almost went back and changed it but I figured I had a 50/50 shot. Plus, it was fifty some odd years ago and I can't believe I remembered as much as I did.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 03:44 PM (2UnvF)
Whatta team! *highfive*
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:44 PM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 03:45 PM (qEb4U)
My daily routine included getting off work, stopping at the local pac-n-sac and getting two, count 'em two, Stellas for my drive home from near Hobby airport to Meyerland in Houston.
That was totally legal in those days.
Posted by: DanMan at June 21, 2026 03:45 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Effie Perrine at June 21, 2026 03:46 PM (p1D+n)
"But beyond his remarkable achievements, Burrows will be remembered for something even greater: his kindness, generosity, and unwavering belief in the people around him,” his family said in its statement. “He possessed a rare ability to make everyone better and was known for remembering every person he met by name, making colleagues at every level feel seen, valued, and appreciated"
Sounds like a very nice guy Full story at Legal Insurrection" site.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 03:46 PM (looXz)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 03:47 PM (fkjGs)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 03:05 PM (PV+Zw)
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This, too, is the story of Obama.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 21, 2026 03:47 PM (amcLV)
Lauren Sanchez swaps sultry dresses for leggings as she flaunts her all-natural beauty in rare glam-free photo in honor of Father's Day
_DM
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 03:47 PM (iLKq8)
@KTVU
A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses.
Next report:
A decline in street gang murders is contributing to a downturn in mortuary businesses and the layoff of several grave diggers.
Film at 11
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at June 21, 2026 03:47 PM (MNCvZ)
To to be metioned.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 03:48 PM (looXz)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 03:45 PM (qEb4U)
I get it ... but Fuck No. I just enjoy the idea of things getting a little less easy.
Because that is all it will take.
And then you'll see certain folks here pissing and moaning. But not for long. Because their ability to emote online will just stop.
And then I'll like that much more. I'm like that.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 03:48 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 03:05 PM (PV+Zw)
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This, too, is the story of Obama.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 21, 2026 03:47 PM (amcLV)
This is MAGA Country!
Posted by: What the Chicago birds are saying at June 21, 2026 03:49 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 03:05 PM (PV+Zw)
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This, too, is the story of Obama.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 21, 2026 03:47 PM (amcLV)
They're coming home to roost.
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:49 PM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Dr_No at June 21, 2026 03:49 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 21, 2026 03:49 PM (EI0rs)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 03:49 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 21, 2026 03:49 PM (b84UO)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 03:05 PM (PV+Zw)
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This, too, is the story of Obama.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 21, 2026 03:47 PM (amcLV)
They're coming home to roost.
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:49 PM (6wpGE)
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Nice!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 21, 2026 03:49 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:41 PM (6wpGE)
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I almost went back and changed it but I figured I had a 50/50 shot. Plus, it was fifty some odd years ago and I can't believe I remembered as much as I did.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2026 03:44 PM (2UnvF)
Whatta team! *highfive*
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:44 PM (6wpGE)
You've convinced me to take Mrs. E to McDonalds for supper.
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 03:51 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 03:51 PM (LHPAg)
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Hot apple pies return in 2 days.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 21, 2026 03:52 PM (amcLV)
No collection of eclectic cups is complete without the indestructible dark red Pizza Hut tumbler.
Posted by: Community Notes at June 21, 2026 03:52 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Dr_No
I'd never heard of this so had to look it up. You can get it in a some hardware stores, and there are even a few drive-ins remaining:
https://frostop.com/drive-in
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Somewhere, a manufacturer of Black hair-care products wants a trademark battle.
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 03:52 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 21, 2026 03:52 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 03:56 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 03:56 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026 03:57 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: DanMan at June 21, 2026 04:00 PM (8uzBS)
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at June 21, 2026 04:01 PM (7kJyR)
FOODIE NOODIE TIME
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 04:02 PM (qEb4U)
Just in case you need an excuse to trash a perfectly usable glass.
Posted by: b at June 21, 2026 04:04 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 21, 2026 04:59 PM (1vOUV)
That was totally legal in those days.
Posted by: DanMan
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For years, my daily routine when heading home from work was to stop and buy a beer to drink on the way. Never thought a thing about it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 21, 2026 06:18 PM (XeU6L)
I got a couple of Crown Royal glasses. They're okay. They're quite good at holding whiskey before I put it down my gullet.
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 21, 2026 06:27 PM (b4s65)
Another mRNA Vaccine? Really?
The science of vaccines and the resulting public health miracles are one of the glories of Western Civilization. We eradicated Small Pox, have marvelous vaccines for Rabies, Tetanus, Diphtheria, and a slew of childhood diseases that can be dangerous like Pertusis (Whooping Cough), Mumps, and Measles.
But the arrogance of the government medical establishment, coupled with good old grifting conspired to create a "modern" vaccine for a manufactured disease that has destroyed the trust that most Americans had for the once-vaunted FDA and its offshoots, and the medical establishment that carried its water during the catastrophically destructive COVID fiasco. They created a disease, they lied about its origins, they used it to destroy our civil liberties and manipulate the country to be more compliant, and perhaps worst of all, they sabotaged possible treatments to favor their dangerous and expensive vaccine and treatments. So why should the American people think that all of those failings have magically disappeared, and the new and improved FDA/Pharma/Deep State is any more invested in the health and well being of America? FDA Advisers Recommend Approving First mRNA Influenza VaccineThe Food and Drug Administration should approve the first messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for influenza, the agency’s vaccine advisory panel said on June 18. The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee in a unanimous vote advised the FDA to approve an mRNA flu shot from Moderna for adults aged 50 and older.
The same mRNA technology that is implicated in some serious side effects? The same mRNA technology that was used to create the COVID vaccine that was famously awful? And all for a disease that has shifting antigens that are very difficult to identify quickly enough to create an effective vaccine? The flu vaccine works adequately, but it is by no means impressive, and the mRNA vaccine won't change that, so why risk the documented side effects of an mRNA vaccine when the traditional vaccine is safe? Oh. Look! Money!
“The presented data do indicate efficacy against flu with no safety signals,” Dr. Hana El Sahly, a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and committee member who worked on a trial for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, said after the vote.First of all, this harridan should have never been allowed on the committee because she has a clear conflict of interest in making mRNA vaccines mainstream. Second, she is a liar. Their own data show a higher risk of complications, but she uses typical biomedical weasel-words to avoid admitting that..."no safety signals?" what the f*ck does that mean? Traditional vaccines work wonderfully. Until mRNA vaccines are shown to be equal to or better than traditional vaccines, in particular for diseases that by definition cannot be eradicated or whose vaccine is only marginally effective, we should be very, very suspicious!
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)
g'early afternoon, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 21, 2026 12:03 PM (AMvSw)
"They" just did "it" wrong before. It'll work this time.
Posted by: Marooned at June 21, 2026 12:04 PM (kt8QE)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 12:04 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 12:05 PM (kOluj)
Ihave serious doubts about any vaccinations anymore.
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 12:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 12:07 PM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 12:08 PM (kOluj)
Now that I live the life of a suburban hermit I see little need, and shrug it all off.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 12:09 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: SMOD at June 21, 2026 12:10 PM (O7XEN)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 12:11 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Case at June 21, 2026 12:11 PM (IY9No)
"They" just did "it" wrong before. It'll work this time.
Posted by: Marooned at June 21, 2026 12:04 PM (kt8QE)
We have the Right People In Charge!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 12:11 PM (R+iUD)
By Inauguration Day morning, Fauci and his legal team reportedly had their eyes locked on one goal: getting that pardon signed, sealed, and safely accepted.
Martin confirmed that the pardons were being pumped out by autopen rather than Joe Biden himself.
He explained that, legally speaking, the presidential pardon power is near absolute.
Posted by: SMOD at June 21, 2026 12:12 PM (O7XEN)
Now, I'm reading that there have been individual case reports along with studies finding a link between TTP and the mRNA vaccines.
Covid didn't kill my wife, but the vaccine may have.
Fuck Fauci.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 21, 2026 12:12 PM (J4Dwc)
This concludes this public service announcement.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 12:12 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 12:14 PM (R+iUD)
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How Vaccines Work.
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Put about one centimeter cubed of liquid immune system antagonist, (AKA vaccine,) into an interstitial space of about one micron cubed in sacrificial tissue where said immune system can learn from said antagonist. Trust the science, the vaccine will not escape into the vascular and lymphatic capillaries which have been ripped apart by the overwhelming volume of antagonist.
Posted by: Marooned at June 21, 2026 12:15 PM (kt8QE)
It's not they just care about their own power and don't have your best interests at heart. They actively hate you.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 12:16 PM (BI5O2)
Step two: Offer a radical new cure!
Step three: Profit! $$$
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 12:07 PM (gnNyN)
This was the plot of Mission Impossible II IIRC. Life imitated art only with no car chases or gunfights. And big Pharma made bank as the citizenry acted like the sheep they are.
Posted by: The FDA is captive. And can suck my balls. at June 21, 2026 12:16 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 12:18 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: The FDA is captive. And can suck my balls. at June 21, 2026 12:16 PM (TbWk/)
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Yep. It's also the plot of "Mount Dragon" by Preston & Child.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 12:21 PM (gnNyN)
Posted by: kingsman at June 21, 2026 12:21 PM (ehY6c)
Any or all of that. Despite the perpetual bitching and moaning from the public to do something.
Which makes me wonder why there's been no attempted hit on the guy or a go-fund-me type effort to hire someone to do a snatch-n-grab. Despite his security crew... which for the right price would likely give him up anyway.
*shrugs* Lots of stompy feet... no action.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 12:23 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: It Was All A Scam at June 21, 2026 12:23 PM (g7saB)
Happy Father's Day to all the daddys.
Given the cover up of the VAERS data on the COVID vaccines I think approving another mRNA is juuuust a bit premature
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 21, 2026 12:24 PM (L9YhZ)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at June 21, 2026 12:30 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 12:30 PM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 12:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: YosemiteSatchmo at June 21, 2026 12:32 PM (tlMsu)
Morons applauded
Posted by: Paul at June 21, 2026 12:34 PM (cfeRq)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 12:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Step two: Offer a radical new cure!
Step three: Profit! $$$" Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
It helps if between one and two, there is a 1B: Kill a bunch of people, and promote a fear campaign (led by MSM).
Posted by: illiniwek at June 21, 2026 12:36 PM (vbXSk)
Unless Christ Himself comes to Earth and says that mRNA vaccines are the bomb, I shall never trust them. I'm not a research beagle.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 21, 2026 12:36 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 21, 2026 12:38 PM (diia5)
I don’t even get the traditional flu shot anymore since the covid debacle. Trust gone
BTW… I haven’t had flu since before covid
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 21, 2026 12:39 PM (26GAh)
I called my son and wished him a Happy Father's Day, he wished the same to me.
I haven't had a government sponsored shot for anything since the 80's when a flu shot made me sick for a week. I got the pass around sickness of the week when my son was in the public education school system, got all my immunity boosters from him too.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 21, 2026 12:39 PM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 12:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Heroq at June 21, 2026 12:40 PM (3cXW4)
Posted by: illiniwek at June 21, 2026 12:41 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 21, 2026 12:41 PM (26GAh)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 12:41 PM (4tsnh)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 21, 2026 12:43 PM (26GAh)
Fuck Fauci.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 21, 2026 12:12 PM (J4Dwc)
My brother died from his stomach cancer. Something his doctor said would not happen. That prognosis was delivered circa 2019. Three years post COVID vax (not sure but think it was J&J), the cancer stopped responding to the chemo, and he was gone within months. He also had a sizeable blood clot in his left leg. Blood clots do not run in our family.
We argued over the wisdom of taking an experimental vaccine for a virus that seemed no worse than the flu. His information came from mainstream media, where mine came from talk radio and medical experts who were able to get their message out before getting shut down.
Fauci has accomplices. May they all burn in hell..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 12:43 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: illiniwek at June 21, 2026 12:41 PM (vbXSk)
The “experts” now say every 5-7 years.
I wonder if “experts” are paid vax companies which make more Money 5-7 vs 10.
Nah that’s just crazy conspiracy thinking. always trust the experts. And remember quadruple mask and stay 6ft apart.
Posted by: Heroq at June 21, 2026 12:44 PM (3cXW4)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Check if there are any small or solo docs around
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 12:45 PM (4tsnh)
No one is clamoring other than Big Pharma for mRNA vaxxes when other conventional vaxxes exist and it will actually cause a lot more people to simply skip vaccines altogether due to distrust of exactly what is in the vaccine.
Own goal for the rather stupid and manipulative public health community.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 12:46 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 12:47 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 12:47 PM (Ia/+0)
The big problem with mRNA is that flu mutates quickly and as shown in Covid,
the mRNA creates antibodies aimed at one single type of antigen target, and-
not aimed at multiple antigens like various proteins with the virus or bacteria.
It's "effectiveness" disappears within a single year.
It's a stupid way to vaccinate and needs much, much, much more testing. Probably, multiple years worth given the donkey-fucking carnival that was the covid mrna vaccine.
Do. Not. Want.
The regular flu vaccine is just fine.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2026 12:48 PM (iJfKG)
Even some who took the covid operation seriously and did self isolation, perhaps without all the other horseshit, won't buy another op like it.
The next "compliance op" will be different. Probably "security" related. Run by the Democrats once they're back in power. And it'll be absolutely draconian.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 12:48 PM (jehhT)
Its a genetic therapy. That's why Big Pharma is so excited about it. And frankly why Big Gub is so willing to go along.
It quite literally triggers your body to alter itself to produce new responses to a stimulus. Let that sink in. Now - this may be the first real step to a cancer cure. Or many others.
And lets be real about this. Generations some of you revere rushed their kids in to be the first test subjects for the original polio vaccine.
All that said to say this - its bullshit the way the entire industry is pushing it. But that's another example of the Government / Industry alliance we have now.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 12:49 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 12:49 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 12:45 PM (4tsnh)
Those are pretty much extinct. Maybe in a small town there might be some remnants of the wild ways. But generally speaking doctors are now either employees of some (often PE backed) conglomerate or if they own the practice part of a network. Either way your health is the least of thejr concerns. Visits per hour and revenue per patient is what they care about.
Posted by: Heroq at June 21, 2026 12:49 PM (3cXW4)
Keeping my immune system up is my chosen approach.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 12:50 PM (4tsnh)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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All med insurance and gubmint specific payments to adminster to physicians and hospitals should be barred for drugs as well as vaccines.
It creates a bad incentive to push something nasty just for the doc to get their cash spiff.
And ban them advertising the damn stuff or refuse to let Big Pharma write off costs from that on taxes and no sidepasses to NGOs to encourage that shit.
Government in medicine and food has basically shit in its nest as far as believability because the political process is not the way you want to figure out treatments nor diet. They do bad enough just dealing with welfare.
Posted by: whig at June 21, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/
jfoum/forums/show/39.page
Posted by: Jeff at June 21, 2026 12:51 PM (wEnou)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Just tell Doc Idiot that you have already had the shingles shot.
Posted by: Never Trust Them at June 21, 2026 12:51 PM (g7saB)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 12:53 PM (4tsnh)
That link doesn't work for me, but I saw on Fox this morning that there's an official, funded Antifa operation to fill the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with algae because Trump cleaned it.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 21, 2026 12:54 PM (QZThv)
I got a tetanus shot about 6 years ago. Shortly before the "get the clot shot mania" The HMO gave me some combo that included Pertussis. Bit of a sore arm for a couple days was my only side effect but I was not thrilled at them sneaking in that Pertussis when I agreed to get a tetanus vaccine. I'll probably wait until the next time I get a puncture wound to get another tetanus shot, however long that is. Hopefully I haven't jinxed myself.
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 12:54 PM (PV+Zw)
On Reddit there was a post by someone saying something like look how well of Europeans are they can take 6 weeks vacation to go to the World Cup. But in America everyone takes only a week vacation because it’s all they can afford. This was triggered by reports of how Mississippi has a higher GDP per capita than the UK.
Meanwhile there are a gazillions posts how the wild cup is so expensive nobody from Europe can afford to go. Also a lot of talk how Trump and his Gestapo ICE has scared foreigners from attending.
It’s crazy how they’ll say the exact opposite thing in the same breath and not skip a beat.
Posted by: Heroq at June 21, 2026 12:55 PM (3cXW4)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 21, 2026 12:55 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 12:55 PM (hLhMb)
Folks - what you're getting over is the credentialism that has been a hallmark of both parties. Republicans love Doctors and Cops. Democrats love Professors and Lawyers.
I'll just focus on this topic. Just because he or she is a Doctor ? Really no more trustworthy than any other contractor. Because that's all they are.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 12:57 PM (P5MQi)
No If you take the Fake Vax, diarrhea, high blood pressure and clots could occur, stop.taking the Fake Vax if these symptoms occur.
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 12:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Morons applauded
Posted by: Paul
>Trump created the logistics to provide Fauci's vaccine. Did you see Trump in the lab personally mixing up a witches brew?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 12:58 PM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 12:58 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 12:59 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 01:00 PM (hLhMb)
No. But lets call it what it was. Trump was out front and center bitching at DeSantis for opening up FLA too soon. Trump - being what he is - put Fauci and Scarves front and center and whatever panic porn they told him was the gospel.
Trump did not cover himself in glory during Covid. And yes - Trump sold these shots as "the cure". To say he didn't is revisionist history.
He was publicly pissed that Big Pharma didn't announce them soon enough in the campaign cycle.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:01 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: kelly cereal lurker at June 21, 2026 01:01 PM (bn0S5)
Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2026 01:01 PM (GNqmQ)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at June 21, 2026 01:01 PM (lLWPg)
"the issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution."
even if it's just the 24/7 psy-op of spreading FUD about anything & everything ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 21, 2026 01:01 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 01:02 PM (pKd0j)
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Purportedly the Park Police who oversee security at the monuments and memorials in the capitol city made a couple arrests last night as some idiots tried to mess with the reflecting pool (again.) One's said to be a former Olympic kayaker.
Why we're not putting the assholes behind Antifa's funding in a box is beyond me.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 01:05 PM (jehhT)
And your conclusion is not impossible. Firstly - I wish you well and hope things are moving in the right direction.
Those of us that took it - and I took the original J&J - took a test genetic therapy. No two ways around it.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:06 PM (P5MQi)
@LeadingReport 7m
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign, per POTUS.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 21, 2026 01:06 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)
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Most people didn't buy the first op. That's not the point. Government says "this is the op and between us and Karen, you're going to comply, or else."
It's not about people believing the lie. It's the opposite. The sillier the lie the better.
"This outbreak of mild skin rashes will extinguish the sun unless you superglue your testicles to your taint. Until we reach 89% ultratucking saturation, nobody gets to leave the house. Also, pants are now illegal. We're all in this together. Register at gluedeeznuts.com for your free tube of Cyanoacrylate Solidarity Adhesive brought to you by Pfizer and the Ad Council."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 01:07 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Yes. He was. Which does not absolve him in the slightest. The buck stopped with him.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:08 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: Heroq
Well, Reddit. But I have seen the video of the young woman ticking off her expenses to the tune of $55k and six weeks off. Definitely reminded me of the Coachellla influencers, so I'm going to guess that's her job, or she has rich parents. Maybe both.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 21, 2026 01:08 PM (yFLFB)
The funniest I've seen yet is mass Bluesky REEEEEEE because a World Cup tourist was going on about flavored ice at Sonic. The female (of course) spokesthey/them said "Please don't use the word 'ice', we're going through some things here".
Posted by: Ian S. at June 21, 2026 01:08 PM (QZThv)
My riding buddy was "but you are not very religious" But I do identify as christian, and I have read the bible, and since it was all online its not like I had to have memorized chapter and verse for listing why I felt that getting the shot would violate my religious beliefs.
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 01:08 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:09 PM (iLKq8)
Scott Bessent said a few weeks ago that they were going to start doing that. I realize nothing in FedGov is as fast as we'd like, but now would be an excellent time.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 21, 2026 01:09 PM (QZThv)
It was the ideal op to tie up a famously germophobic President, never mind someone old enough to still think experts know anything.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 21, 2026 01:11 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: RandomDave at June 21, 2026 01:13 PM (aJQbY)
Why isn't the SPLC getting raided right now ? Why does NAMBLA still have a public address ? And on and on and on.
It was brought up, by all places, on Fox Sports Radio a few days ago. Not a new idea. But I was surprised shit as superficial and sports media figured it out.
Because Consequences just don't happen anymore. Because Standards were so subjective before that. That's why you see so many feral people - really feral, not just stupid shit like hat indoors. Shit like "lets cut out white girls eyes on the bus".
That's why you see Mr. Diversity driving 90 down a 55. Because back in the day, Johnny Law used to like to pull people over and show them the busted tail-light they didn't have until he made one.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:14 PM (P5MQi)
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He spent a lot of timing bragging about it in 2024 before he figured out why his crowds were booing him.
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:16 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 12:49 PM (P5MQi)
The polio vaccine was declared safe and effective in 1955, six years after the virus was successfully cultured in human tissue. We still had adults running things back then, and the thought of rushing out a product to cash in on public hysteria never even entered the minds of that generation..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 01:18 PM (nbLIj)
He f'ed up... He trusted them...
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Posted by: It's me donna at June 21, 2026 01:18 PM (dFjQQ)
He was publicly pissed that Big Pharma didn't announce them soon enough in the campaign cycle.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:01 PM (P5MQi)
In hindsight - even though there were many voices both here and outside this blog that Trump was making a mistake - we could see that listening to authorities was a mistake.
That said, Trump and most of the rest of the world was acting on incomplete, imperfect information. As a leader, Trump not only had to think about the health of US citizens, but the world economy. The industrial world had, in effect, shut down. Supply chains were collapsing, and if there wasn't a way that the world could reasonably open again, secondary effects from a 'vaccine' would have been the least of our problems. The COVID shots (and I didn't take any of them) were the way the planet would have the confidence to open up again. For that alone, they were a success. Yes he made a mistake, but I don't think he has anything to be ashamed of. He never advocated forcing people to take it. It only had to exist.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 21, 2026 01:19 PM (DrlQb)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 01:19 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: kelly cereal lurker at June 21, 2026 01:19 PM (XRaX7)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 01:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Reminds me of a time I was working with vendors in China who were supposed to run regulatory testing on our device. It had been a while with no response from them, so I called them and asked if our device had passed testing.
"It hasn't failed", the guy on the other line said. Turned it it hadn't failed because it hadn't been tested. Bastards...LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 01:21 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 21, 2026 01:21 PM (dFjQQ)
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That's his excuse for Iran, too.
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:21 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 21, 2026 01:21 PM (dFjQQ)
Thank you. I guess my job as a Dad doesn't end until I join my wife. LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 01:22 PM (l3cgK)
COVID didn't reap children like stalks of wheat.
It was a nasty cold.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 01:22 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Heroq at June 21, 2026 01:23 PM (3cXW4)
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That's his excuse for Iran, too.
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:21 PM (vSvIl)
When a patient has cancer, the best option is to kill and remove the cancer, if possible...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 01:23 PM (l3cgK)
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Don't worry, they are mandating it for your dogs.
Share and share alike.
They/ the local tyrants, mandated vets to register and tax tag every local pet. We took ours out of the city for rabies shots.
Regulators want us to buy permits for everything and their clerks want to log it.
youtube.com/watch?v=eyCuIBDjehg
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:25 PM (iLKq8)
Then Biden/Dems doubled down on the spending and forced everyone to take the vax.
It was a shit show all around.
Posted by: Heroq at June 21, 2026 01:26 PM (3cXW4)
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That's his excuse for Iran, too.
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:21 PM (vSvIl)
And he's not wrong there, either. How soon we forget the problems that North Korea - tiny PRK - can cause the world for simply existing. Iran's actions over the last four months prove what damage they can do to the world simply by not being as isolated as PRK. I don't hear a single serious person say that there's nothing to worry about with the IRGC - even if they are saying that the threat isn't immanent.
We're not the policemen of the world, but there are some things that only we can do. Iran is a mistake that Reagan neglected to fix, and we've paid the price for that ever since. If we can fix it - and we can - there's no reason why we shouldn't try.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 21, 2026 01:26 PM (DrlQb)
COVID didn't reap children like stalks of wheat.
It was a nasty cold.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 01:22 PM (BI5O2)
Children were basically safe from it unless they had weakened immune system or comorbidities. Folks like me and my wife, on the other hand, had comorbidities (and immunosuppression in my case), so more of an issue. I got the jab exactly 2x. I caught COVID and survived, already improving even before I got the monoclonal antibody treatment.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 01:26 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 01:26 PM (PV+Zw)
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That's his excuse for Iran, too.
Posted by: Methos
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It's not an excuse it's a job.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:27 PM (iLKq8)
The entire CNN panel agreed JD Vance was very good at interviews and responding to tough (biased) questioning. All except fat ass , low intellect , thieving Goldberg. He actually called him a liar but of course not saying what he was lying about.
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 01:27 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 01:27 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
Giving Iran’s thug dictator leaders $300B ain’t fixing shit.
Posted by: Heroq at June 21, 2026 01:28 PM (3cXW4)
Posted by: Case at June 21, 2026 01:28 PM (IY9No)
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BS, he mentioned several alternatives but was jammed by bureaucrats, regulators, and turncoats.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:29 PM (iLKq8)
Whether that agenda was theirs alone, (I tend to think not) or foreign influenced (I think it was) didn't really matter if nobody outside a handful of people knew what covid really was.
Pardon(s) or not... Fauci and his co-conspirators need to hang. But they won't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 01:29 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Case
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Dr. Hotez, I hear he's great.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:29 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 01:30 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:01 PM (P5MQi)
and that is how you came to vote for Biden and Kamala Harris. I am proud how you stick to your principles no matter what they turn out to be. Only a Hero man, only a Hero.
Never swerve, and never turn away from the consequences of your decision!
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:31 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:31 PM (rbvCR)
My late January/early February, someone had performed a DNA/RNA analysis of the virus and found that it had features that could not have existed together in nature via intermixing or mutation...focus was especially on the furin cleavage site (no, not Riddick's ass). The report disappeared pretty fast. I think we now know why.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 01:31 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:32 PM (iLKq8)
I meant that was his excuse for stopping the bombing.
In order to make a grand bargain to open the Strait of Hormuz.
Which is closed again. Because the Iranian regime is what it is no matter how much anyone wants to pretend that they can be bribed into civility.
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:32 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Case
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Dr. Hotez, I hear he's great.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:29 PM (iLKq
As an engineer I didn't work out so well, did I?
Posted by: Zombie Herbert Hoover at June 21, 2026 01:33 PM (l3cgK)
Which is closed again. Because the Iranian regime is what it is no matter how much anyone wants to pretend that they can be bribed into civility.
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:32 PM (vSvIl)
According to Centcom it is not closed...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 21, 2026 01:33 PM (dFjQQ)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
Giving Iran’s thug dictator leaders $300B ain’t fixing shit.
Posted by: Heroq at June 21, 2026 01:28 PM (3cXW4)
Let's assume for a moment that Trump actually is giving Iran $300B. How exactly could they possibly spend it to their ends effectively? When Obama gave Iran money, their infrastructure was completely intact, so any money they received could be funneled for max effect. We've just obliterated their military capacity. Other than paying themselves, they won't be able to utilize it before Election Day in the US. Trump, I think, doesn't care about what they do in 2027. He cares about what they do in the next four months. If he can keep Congress after Tue 3 Nov, he's bombing Iran on Thu 5 Nov if they haven't come to the table to surrender by then.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 21, 2026 01:33 PM (DrlQb)
I am not a commiecrat, I am okay with a president who is human and makes mistakes. IMO covid was one of Trumps mistakes in his first term. He learned from it and has been much better at not accepting traitors suggested by the DC Rs as staff and so on.
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 01:34 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:31 PM (rbvCR)
How so? I had no idea. His vaccine actually worked and didn't kill thousands of people like this piece of shit... what did he do? Unethical human trials or something?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 01:34 PM (BI5O2)
If he can keep Congress after Tue 3 Nov, he's bombing Iran on Thu 5 Nov if they haven't come to the table to surrender by then.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 21, 2026 01:33 PM (DrlQb)
Oh, we won't know the exact results for more than a month.
Posted by: Kalifornia at June 21, 2026 01:35 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 21, 2026 01:35 PM (BZaww)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:31 PM (rbvCR)
Salk never won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. If ever there was a shoo-in for someone to get it, it would have been him. He was such a toxic personality that he had no peers that would vouch for him getting it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 21, 2026 01:35 PM (DrlQb)
I hope I'm wrong because no amount of criticism from me is going to change the outcome.
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 01:36 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 01:26 PM (PV+Zw)
Because everything with the left is a gateway. Gay marriage became you bake that fucking cake, to sex changes for 10 year olds, and tranny hour at kindergarten. They do it with everything. Oh maybe a vax to help with a small % of people who might benefit , and maybe just 2 weeks to flatten the curve became everybody get the vax or its camps for you, and yeah, the kids will be out of school for a year, our manufacturing will be fucked, and no you can't be outside alone in a frigging desert without a mask.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 21, 2026 01:37 PM (snZF9)
When they meet a term they receive a portion of their money, that is being withheld, back.
If they VIOLATE Any portion of the agreement the deal is off and Trump, 'bombs them in the head'.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:37 PM (iLKq8)
As do I. Every single damn day ending in Y. Just like everyone else.
Yet - if the calls I make turn out wrong ? Then I'm wrong. That's how it works.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:37 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:01 PM (P5MQi)
There is a claim out there that Putin is the hero here. He had produced the Sputnik vaxx, which was a standard old school vaccine.
The argument was that with the production of the COVID virus, and the "only effective mRNA treatment" the west could implement vaccine passports to end the spread through travel restrictions. This could have passed on to digital ID through WHO demands, and would have been transnational and inescapable.
There was a bit of that going on with the vaccine passports, up until Putin's government labs put out Sputnik and a low price that was taken up widely by the Global South at something like $10 USD per dose, and that broke the option for global adoption of the mRNA and the enforced vaccine passports under WHO which depended on that.
This is very troubling in its implications
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Heroq at June 21, 2026 01:28 PM (3cXW4)
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We're not "giving" Iran or the mullahs anything. The $300B is frozen Iranian assets.
Sure, the US froze them, but they're originally Iran's funds. Or so I've been told.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 01:38 PM (jehhT)
And here we go. Again. Just shut up Americans. I've got the World to think about.
Is that what you want to go with ? Sure about that ?
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:39 PM (P5MQi)
Trump wasn't opposed to Obama's deal except that Obama gave all the money up front .
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 01:40 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Put that in a frame and nail it on the wall.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:40 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Heroq at June 21, 2026 01:28 PM (3cXW4)
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We're not "giving" Iran or the mullahs anything. The $300B is frozen Iranian assets.
Sure, the US froze them, but they're originally Iran's funds. Or so I've been told.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 01:38 PM (jehhT)
Maybe we should do it Chinese style: Charge IRAN for the costs of our military and munitions used...deduct it from the frozen assets...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 01:40 PM (l3cgK)
I believe to this day they still have a weakened but live polio vaccine as well as one with killed polio virus. And some docs or CDC etc encourage the weakened version to be used because it can confer some immunity to non-vaccinated kids. Never married and had kids but when I read that and was still of child bearing age I thought "well my pediatrician will be told to give my future kid the killed virus version"
Posted by: PaleRider at June 21, 2026 01:41 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Put that in a frame and nail it on the wall.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:40 PM (iLKq
Yeah...
It would be like forcing everybody to get Monkey Pox vaccines and stay masked and 6 feet apart because gays can't help shoving their meat into pustulant asses.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 01:42 PM (l3cgK)
Perhaps he was party to the entire scheme, which I highly doubt, given that he was the main target of a big part of it.
Or, he was a credulous fool who got rooked by people who he of all people should have seen through instantly.
Neither is satisfactory.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 01:42 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Damn it, you don't understand. Sure, Trump lived amongst the Left his entire life. But how could he possibly know they would do what they always do ? Besides - he had "imperfect information".
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:43 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 21, 2026 01:35 PM (DrlQb)
Cutter labs incident probably had something to do with that
The only circulating polio strain in the developed world is the one we use for vaccinations, by the way. An uncharitable man would suggest that Polio vaccination has turned into a way to inoculate the population from the possible injuries from the vaccination itself.
But I am charitable and I am perfectly willing to listen to any explanation that resolves that question
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:43 PM (rbvCR)
This is very troubling in its implications
Posted by: Kindltot
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Thought I was keeping up. What are the troubling implications?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:43 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 21, 2026 01:33 PM (dFjQQ)
So what?
Iran declared it closed after their minions in Hezbollah fired on Israel, and they unsurprisingly fired back, citing language in the MoU that Trump foolishly agreed to about Lebanon. Current reporting is that no one crossed the strait overnight so as not to risk Iranian attack. So it's as closed as it has been at any point in the last three months.
I'd post a ZH link, but I can't get through to tinyurl for some reason.
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:44 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:32 PM (vSvIl)
They also want to pretend that they can close the straits at will in the face of the USN and the other gulf state's navies.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:44 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:44 PM (iLKq8)
If I win $20 off you at the Poker Table ? And then I - for whatever reason - flip you a $20 chip ?
I just gave you $20. Because that money was mine the moment I took it.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:44 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: $XOM Shareholder at June 21, 2026 01:45 PM (2ap+5)
Do you think the R & D departments in various Pharmacuetical companies are interested in outright cures, or do you think their focus is more on "medical maintenance" type treatments?
Keep in mind that actual all encompassing iINDUSTRIES have been created to address individual diseases and medical conditions. Industries require employees, who require stability and compensation. They have made a career out of finding a cure (which if found negates that career). So, medical maintenance (which provides ongoing revenue) is the focus. Cures would harm the bottom line.
Posted by: Orson at June 21, 2026 01:46 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 01:34 PM (BI5O2)
Yes. The Cutter incident too. Also the standards to what polio is was changed when the vaccine came out so the stats showed a reduction in polio.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:46 PM (rbvCR)
And here we go. Again. Just shut up Americans. I've got the World to think about.
Is that what you want to go with ? Sure about that ?
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:39 PM (P5MQi)
Don't put words in my mouth. The US is not an autarky. What happens in the world - especially with the world supply chains shut down by C-19 - affects us as well. Trump can certainly answer for what the 'vaccine' did to people here in the USA. What I wrote was if we couldn't have proper international trade flowing again, the consequences of that would have been more severe for everyone than people - even many people - getting secondary illnesses. The Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2020 would have been the least of our worries then. I stand by that assertion.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 21, 2026 01:47 PM (DrlQb)
Trump put the search for a vaccine on the fast track and when they delivered some quickly Trump of course wanted credit and thus he was a supporter. Of course it appears he ignored all the warnings of an mRNA vax and just hung his hat on ' I got a vax quicker than anyone in history! '
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 01:47 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Case at June 21, 2026 01:48 PM (IY9No)
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:44 PM (P5MQi)
Would you like to guess the link between excluding Russia from SWIFT and the development of the BRICS?
Why would India and China think they needed an alternate international settlement system when Obama was President?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Methos
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ZH brings a lot of information but one must consider its' source, they need clicks too. Otherwise it appears that you are particularly adverse to any sourced information. At best.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:49 PM (iLKq8)
The only one interested in your individual health is you. Big Pharma wants to sell you a product - same as everyone else.
At least Big HVAC produces tangible results. You want to be cool or warm ? They sell a solution. They're more honest that Big Auto - which seems dead set on telling you how you should enjoy driving instead of just giving you want you want to drive.
Big Health (doctors and pharma) baffle me - with how older than me folks treat them. "My doctor said I have to do X".
Every thought about telling your doctor to go fuck himself ? He works for you, after all. He should not "make" you do anything. He's a consultant.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:49 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 01:38 PM (jehhT)
Maybe we should do it Chinese style: Charge IRAN for the costs of our military and munitions used...deduct it from the frozen assets...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 01:40 PM (l3cgK)
It wasn't that long ago that Bessent was proposing to use the funds to repair damage down by Iran's "drone everybody" approach to the war.
In any case it's funds that Iran didn't have three weeks ago that are potentially being given.
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:50 PM (vSvIl)
Pick your poison. I'd rather the US say okay we have shortages . We are going to start manufacturing these products ourself though we may have short term pain. We're Americans.Suck it up and get to work. (. Also American capitalists there is money to be made)
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 01:50 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:43 PM (iLKq
Maybe that Putin is more dimensioned that some Evil Hun meme generated for WWI?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:52 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:48 PM (rbvCR)
I know that answer. Because "The Dollar" is just fiat currency now as well. No better than anyone else.
On this - I get it. If I'm "not" in the United States ? Wouldn't want to trade on the dollar globally either. Its not like we're an honest broker of currency anymore. We are not.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:52 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:32 PM (vSvIl)
SoH is open and traffic is freely passing. The IRGC is just throwing more bullshit into the air.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 21, 2026 01:52 PM (g8Ew8)
"Dr. Hana El Sahly recused herself from reviewing COVID-19 vaccines for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 2020 due to a potential conflict of interest. As the chairwoman of the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, she stepped aside because she was simultaneously serving as a lead investigator for Moderna Inc.'s late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial."
The grift goes on...
Posted by: SL at June 21, 2026 01:52 PM (aFtqG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 01:53 PM (1z8ji)
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It was speculated at the time that Trump was a bit of a germaphobe and Fauci played to that weakness. Probably told Trump a "worst case scenario" that was totally fictitious. And because Fauci was in bed with the various US intelligence agencies, those entities confirmed what the CDC and Fauci was telling him.
"Speculation" But to a certain degree, makes sense.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 01:53 PM (jehhT)
Screw Just In Time Inventory
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 01:53 PM (KC5Lt)
Pick your poison. I'd rather the US say okay we have shortages . We are going to start manufacturing these products ourself though we may have short term pain. We're Americans.Suck it up and get to work. (. Also American capitalists there is money to be made)
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 01:50 PM (KC5Lt)
That is an absolutely fair critique of my argument. And I think that in the longer term, you're right - a move towards self-sufficiency helps us greatly. Trump's reshoring efforts are one way to get us there. What I would say is that it's one thing to run on that goal and get people to vote for it, and another thing to back them into a corner in the middle of a crisis - and the 2020 election - and push that policy. Reasonable people can disagree. I don't think that Trump 1.0 had the ability - and certainly not the political capital in 2020 - to do what you suggest back then.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 21, 2026 01:55 PM (DrlQb)
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:55 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:52 PM (P5MQi)
Which is why you are supporting Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez. I celebrate your dedication to an economic concept, even though it has failed continually.
I am certain that the City of London banks appreciate your support.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:55 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 01:56 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:49 PM (iLKq
The source was a site that monitor the transponders of traffic through the strait, and there wasn't any overnight.
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:56 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 21, 2026 01:55 PM (DrlQb)
And my kid - at 12 - didn't have the ability to drive a car. But if he took the keys and knocked the shit out of the fenders ?
"Well ... he's learning" is not an excuse. Trump wasn't drafted into the job. He wanted the job. All the heat for all the mistakes is justified.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:57 PM (P5MQi)
They bypassed the vaccine review board and authorized its emergency use. The majority on that board would not have approved it thus the reason they were bypassed.
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 01:57 PM (KC5Lt)
Deys enuf niggers in here to make a Tarzan movie!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026 01:58 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 01:58 PM (Ia/+0)
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Can we put a pin in that thought for when we celebrate America's "independence" in two weeks?
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 01:59 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 01:57 PM (P5MQi)
I'm sure you could have done so much better under the same circumstances.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 21, 2026 01:59 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 01:58 PM (Ia/+0)
Not me.
Government scientists are proven liars, and they were long before this particular shitshow. They lie the paint off the walls. No sale.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 02:00 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 21, 2026 02:00 PM (qFwJc)
That anything he did would have been used against him.
The unused hospital ship in NY.
The recommendation for, brain fog on the anti-virans he was given) remember he caught Covid early on was given treatment and recommended it highly.
It was pulled from use.
They gagged Trump and beat him up on the whole thing.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 02:00 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 01:55 PM (rbvCR)
And that's twice. What clever point do you think you are making ? The "well, its my guy so he's perfect" argument ?
Voted Trump three times. Pretty sure I picked the winner all three. But he fucked up Covid.
And he's fucking up Iran in spades. If he was eligible again ? I'd go Heavy D or Vance for starters.
The old man has passed his expiration date.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:00 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 01:53 PM (KC5Lt)
it is an attempt to create efficiency in the supply chain, and creates fragility as well.
It is also created by tax authorities, where any stock you have on hand is actually taxed, just like the capital equipment and the office furniture. There is also the problem that Just In Time also means companies are running on borrowed money, and the banks don't like to see extra inventory and the financials hate paying interest on money borrowed to buy stock that just sits around. That will have to be resolved before we get much more reserves built up in manufacturers.
I worked for a welding shop that did manufacturing on the side, and the boss was always on me for keeping too much hardware on hand, and of course if we were out of fasteners we couldn't get equipment out the door and get paid for it.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 02:01 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 01:58 PM (Ia/+0)
If one would have taken the time to review the history of those experts. Especially the British guy who came up with the Covid mortality model, you would have seen so many red flags you would have dismissed them.
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 02:01 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 21, 2026 01:59 PM (g8Ew
Most of us could. A simple "No - that's bullshit" would have sufficed.
Many - in real time - were calling bullshit every day. Including here.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:02 PM (P5MQi)
or 1ST WORLD NOOD
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 02:02 PM (Ia/+0)
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And years later, still no hangings.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 21, 2026 02:02 PM (6h45X)
Recommended it for everyone, said, 'it made me feel ten years younger'. They shut him down.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 02:02 PM (iLKq8)
Posted by: Case at June 21, 2026 02:02 PM (IY9No)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 12:55 PM (hLhMb)
Bind them hand and foot, and throw them face-down into the Reflecting Pool so they can reflect upon their sins. Until they drown.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 02:03 PM (1z8ji)
You are really going to be pissed when you discover Six Sigma.
Posted by: Howdy
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You people aren't Team players. It's as if you are opposed to Quality Circles.
Posted by: W. Edwards Deming at June 21, 2026 02:04 PM (XeU6L)
Its like the Tuskegee Experiments never happened.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:04 PM (P5MQi)
I see JITI as all or nothing solution. It concentrates too much on the present without any consideration of the consequences of the future. It's a solution built on a model . Models will disappoint you in the real world.
I do think there is a compromise and tax solution.
Posted by: polynikes at June 21, 2026 02:05 PM (KC5Lt)
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That's an interesting statement, given that what reporting I've seen is that Vance is leading the weak on Iran side of the administration (and his public statements seem to support that).
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 02:05 PM (vSvIl)
You are an underappreciated genius for international affairs on creating peace. Why are you here, and not banging on Rubio's door?
Certainly you are not here to just make people fight with you, since that would prove you a hypocrite.
(secret to arguments versus fights: arguments are for exploring options to discover solutions to conflict. Fights are to hurt the opponent so badly they run away or give up)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 02:06 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: W. Edwards Deming at June 21, 2026 02:04 PM (XeU6L)
Who-ever you are - and I hope you sock off - you get it.
I'm 54. There's a manufacturing fad about once a decade. The Six Sigma shit was awful because Excel happened about the same time.
All these stupid fucking managers ... measuring shit wrong and then putting that dumb data into spreadsheets. Then buying Statistical Methods books and trying to apply that.
Get this ... real processes don't follow a Bell Curve. Not one bit.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:07 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 21, 2026 02:07 PM (ZVgZ4)
"Christine Grady is the chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and she is married to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is a prominent immunologist and former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 21, 2026 02:08 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Methos at June 21, 2026 02:05 PM (vSvIl)
The best thing about Trump / Vance is that Trump is the bad cop. But I'm convinced that's not a choreographed move. Trump is just an attention-hungry old man amplifying his attention-hungry as he gets more old.
I think Vance is effective. We'll see if he can shake off the Trump in '28.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:09 PM (P5MQi)
A lot could be said on the topic, some of which might be illuminating. Probably would require an in-person conversation after a good meal, with an adult beverage in hand watching a mountain sunset.. Not so much on a forum such as this. So I shall defer.
I appreciate your efforts on this topic the last few years..
Cheers!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at June 21, 2026 02:10 PM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2026 02:06 PM (rbvCR)
And here we go. Have you ever built a car - from raw metal shapes - in your garage ? I haven't.
So then I can't comment on the difference between a Yugo and a BMW. Or note the flaws in each. After all - I've never built a sedan from the ground up.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:11 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 21, 2026 02:12 PM (ZVgZ4)
Manufacturing processes do not at all. Not one bit. Because they are not random in the slightest.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:13 PM (P5MQi)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 21, 2026 02:02 PM (6h45X)
That’s why they are trying to do it again.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 21, 2026 02:15 PM (ZVgZ4)
A lot could be said on the topic, some of which might be illuminating. Probably would require an in-person conversation after a good meal, with an adult beverage in hand watching a mountain sunset.. Not so much on a forum such as this. So I shall defer.
I appreciate your efforts on this topic the last few years..
Cheers!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at June 21, 2026 02:10 PM (I0N4X)
Too true, Muldoon. I really need to get myself to a MoMe soon.
Thanks, CBD!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 21, 2026 02:15 PM (DrlQb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 21, 2026 02:24 PM (ZVgZ4)
I found that there are three on offer, GSX makes a traditional type RSV vax, as does Pfizer [spit], but lo! behold Moderna's RSV vax, in all its mRNA glory. No way.
So maybe the GSK one? I look into the efficacy of these vaccines and learn that in one year after the shot, chances of hospitalization appear to be about 4 in 10, so roughly 60% effective; after two years, odds drop to 6 in 10, or 40% effective. No boosters recommended.
I am not sure this is worth whatever risks there may be. The blurbs of course only refer to soreness around the injection site, but who knows? Think I'll take my chances for the time being.
YMMD
Posted by: Fritz at June 21, 2026 02:28 PM (J7jo9)
Posted by: Fritz at June 21, 2026 02:30 PM (J7jo9)
We are using it in the EXACT same way. I understand all that. And as such, I'm telling you why Six Sigma ... and a lot of other probability and statistics as applied to industry ... is simply fucking wrong.
The same as AI is the next fad. But you have to have lived through some of these fads to understand the next one.
The "deviations" ... and what you are talking about regarding measurements that fine ... are noise. Because no industrial instrument - no instruments, really - are absolute. They all have error.
And nobody is recording those errors to the resolution which is random. But this is great - because we're back to one of the arguments I always had with the "science crowd" here.
All real life data is anecdotal.
Posted by: Howdy at June 21, 2026 02:31 PM (P5MQi)
Cultural Heritage: He is the son of Palestinian refugee parents and grew up in Libya and Saudi Arabia.
Literary Work: His poetry and translations deeply engage with Islamic narratives, Sufi mysticism, and the Quran. He frequently references Islamic concepts (such as Barzakh and the story of the Prophet Muhammad in the cave) and cites Islamic scholars like Ibn Arabi.
Self-Identification in Context: In interviews, he discusses the experience of being an Arab Muslim in the West and the lack of Islamic narratives in Western literature, often speaking from an insider's perspective on these traditions.
Evidence regarding Dr. Hana El Sahly:
Background: She was born in Lebanon and holds a name of Arabic origin.
Public Stance: Unlike her husband, her public profile is strictly focused on science and medicine. She has not publicly discussed her faith or religious identity in interviews or professional biographies.
Draw,your own conclusions.
Posted by: Augusto Perez at June 21, 2026 02:37 PM (S/pXD)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2026 02:57 PM (VuzyX)
Alarmingly, among my nieces and nephews - all of whom I think are getting their regular COVID boosters - they are coming down with cancer diagnoses. I blame it mRNA.
When I first read that they were looking into mRNA-type flu shots, I ceased getting the thing, and never will again. My sawbones presses me to get the RSV shot, but that too is getting the mRNA look-at. No way, no how, not ever. Period.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 21, 2026 04:13 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: Sixiron at June 21, 2026 08:53 PM (UMeAV)
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/weblog/2026/06/19/update061926
Example: "It also creates a difficult situation for cult leader, convicted felon, and failed President Donald Trump."
You have to see this stuff to believe it. I really think it's worth a minute of your time to see how much these people spew hate for Trump--and by extension, for all of us.
Posted by: sf at June 21, 2026 09:54 PM (9RZd3)
Morons and 'ettes, Jim is right, and the moment has arrived for the plot to be revealed: the first confirmed case of duh Chyna virus in the U.S. was 29 Jan 2020. By chance, two DAYS later I stumbled on a tech paper showing the gene sequence of the spike protein. It clearly showed four genes not in the closest bat virus, and which had obviously been inserted. Everything is explained in my paper: https://tinyurl.com/3y79t3f8
It's easy reading. The surprising thing is that all coronaviruses have long-since been sequenced, so the comparison was easy.
Posted by: sf at June 21, 2026 10:42 PM (9RZd3)
Sunday Morning Book Thread 6-21-2026 [Sabrina Chase]
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: davidt at June 21, 2026 08:58 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 09:00 AM (znREB)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 09:00 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:01 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 09:03 AM (yTvNw)
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...extolling the merits of putting carrots in Pompeiian chili?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 09:03 AM (gnNyN)
Volcanoes and books don't get along.Posted by: Sabrina Chase at June 21, 2026 09:04 AM (ee9bx)
Posted by: davidt at June 21, 2026 08:58 AM (Q+gd/)
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It's a cook book!
Yay book thread!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:04 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:01 AM (78a2H)
Or the returned manuscript of a new writer after being read by a literary agent.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 09:05 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026 09:05 AM (gQhJN)
Posted by: Reliability experts everywhere at June 21, 2026 09:05 AM (eDbqp)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at June 21, 2026 09:04 AM (ee9bx)
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I read a book this week that flat out told me to burn it before I read it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 09:06 AM (gnNyN)
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...extolling the merits of putting carrots in Pompeiian chili?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 09:03 AM (gnNyN
She said Epicurean, not barbarian.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 21, 2026 09:06 AM (jGGMD)
https://tinyurl.com/yjk49xy5
( maybe a good book thread picture)
As for me, trying to read Carl v. Clauswitz's On War
It really is a serious stone read, and hard to read if not wide awake and concentrate
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 09:06 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 09:07 AM (znREB)
"No!" said the agent. "Do the opposite!"
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026 09:08 AM (gQhJN)
Safe travels for all the NoVaMoMe attendees.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 09:09 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 09:09 AM (h7ZuX)
"But there are also many other things which Jesus did, which, if they were written in detail, I expect that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written."
Posted by: John 21:25 at June 21, 2026 09:10 AM (eDbqp)
I am reading St. Augustine's City of God and he makes tons of references to other works, many of which are lost to us. This is why I have so little patience with people who try to challenge ancient histories. We have but a fraction of the sources they had, and their works would not have been preserved if their contemporaries considered it false rubbish.
The fact that they survived - often in quantity - tells us that the people closest to events valued it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 09:09 AM (h7ZuX)
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Lasers...what can't they do?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 09:10 AM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026 09:11 AM (gQhJN)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 09:11 AM (znREB)
It could have been a crackling 20-page monograph, but I guess he had to pad it out to make a book. Sigh.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026 09:11 AM (gQhJN)
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Whatever you do, don't read it aloud!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)
A Navy lieutenant, recalled to active duty and not happy about it, thumbs a ride to Norfolk with a guy who gripes about his dismissal from government because he's suspected of Red sympathies. Through circumstances not fully disclosed, the officer wakes up in a hospital bed, badly banged up, with his face covered in bandages. The hospital staff calls him by the driver's name -- because, he's told, he was wearing the driver's clothes and carrying the driver's identification. No photo IDs in those days.
The only other person who knows the truth is the driver's estranged wife. She takes the lieutenant out of the hospital to her home on Chesapeake Bay, where she tells him that her husband had tried to kill him in a phony car crash and disappear, but something went wrong and Hubby died instead.
It all sounds straightforward, yet I'm skeptical. We've only been told through other characters what is going on; we have yet to see anything for ourselves. And, after all, this is Donald Hamilton.
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026 09:13 AM (gQhJN)
Finally, the Book Thread includes-
the Fossilized Foreleg of a Unicorn to kick things off.
Cn we have the Piltdown Man pay us a visit next week?
Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2026 09:15 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026 09:15 AM (Kt19C)
I plan to listen to others as well.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 21, 2026 09:15 AM (eDbqp)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 09:15 AM (kpS4V)
This one is obviously a huge influence on Iain Banks, about envoys from an advanced society (in this case Earth, and yes, it's explicitly after the triumph of Communism) living secretly in a more primitive society on another planet. They're all humans, because this was the 1960s and the Strugatskys were Europeans. (I don't know why Euro writers were so allergic for so long to realistically alien aliens.)
There's an afterword in my edition about the writing of the book, and in some ways it's more interesting than the novel as it gives a glimpse into the realities of writing under Communism. They had to delete any references to FTL travel because the Nazis had once denounced Einstein, therefore FTL in fiction was a sign of fascism. You can't make this stuff up!
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:15 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026 09:16 AM (Kt19C)
One of the questions they do try to address is deciding what knowledge should be preserved for the long term. Not just the scientific technical skills they need, but the culture as well.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 09:16 AM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7)
Finally, the Book Thread includes-
the Fossilized Foreleg of a Unicorn to kick things off.
Cn we have the Piltdown Man pay us a visit next week?
Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2026 09:15 AM
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Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: Australopithecus at June 21, 2026 09:17 AM (eDbqp)
Problem: many reams of bullshit were preserved because they were more entertaining than the real thing and the real thing got lost.
John Malalas, Historia Augusta, Movses Khorenatsi, Ctesias' Persica...
Posted by: gKWVE at June 21, 2026 09:18 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Well, I hope they include the Limerick.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 09:19 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 21, 2026 09:18 AM
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This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Obama's college transcripts at June 21, 2026 09:20 AM (eDbqp)
I agree about multiple back ups of digital materials but still have no confidence in them. Too many ways to go wrong. Lack of power. Lack of software and machines to read them. (How many computer files are still usable after only a few decades?) Deteriorating storage media.
I have more faith in microfiche for long term preservation. So sayeth the curmudgeon.
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 09:21 AM (yTvNw)
This week I finished S.M. Stirling's Conan novel, Blood of the Serpent. It was written to lead into Howard's own short story, "Red Nails," and explain how Conan came to know and be following Valeria of the Red Brotherhood. The Howard story starts with him following her into a jungle.
Stirling's pastiche is quite readable and displays Conan as not only a tough and expert swordsman, but a smart leader as well. Howard's story is fast-moving and colorful (as is Stirling's), though the tendency to purple prose and said-isms ("We're both penniless vagabonds," [Conan] grinned hardily) is a little jarring. All said, a good read.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 09:22 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7)
I read that as Rick Astley. Moar coffee.
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 09:23 AM (LHPAg)
I am reading St. Augustine's City of God and he makes tons of references to other works, many of which are lost to us. This is why I have so little patience with people who try to challenge ancient histories. We have but a fraction of the sources they had, and their works would not have been preserved if their contemporaries considered it false rubbish.
The fact that they survived - often in quantity - tells us that the people closest to events valued it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:10 AM (ZOv7s)
But we totes have a complete picture of history, not only from books but archaeological findings as well.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 09:23 AM (R+iUD)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 09:24 AM (Ia/+0)
It's so interesting to read the various drafts of a story whose proper finished form I feel in my bones. I knew Tolkien had a history sketched out but was surprised at how much the tale grew in the telling:
"I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothlórien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horse-lords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn Forest was an unforeseen adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the Stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystified as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear on September 22."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, in a letter to W.H. Auden
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 09:24 AM (kpS4V)
So, what am I to take away from this? Are women fierce and independent? Or fragile and in need to constant protection? Without some additional explanation, it's hard to reconcile some of these reactions...
And that story was written by a woman...
Posted by: Castle Guy at June 21, 2026 09:25 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: huerfano at June 21, 2026 09:25 AM (VJX5o)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:26 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 09:26 AM (Ia/+0)
I was at the Chicago Public Library a few months ago, researching old TV Guides (1952-1954), only available on microfilm. Final day of research, I come in, and it won’t let me log in to the film reader.
“The computer’s down. You can’t use the film readers until the computer comes back up; they’re aware of the problem.”
“What about that manual film reader over in the corner?”
“You’re welcome to try it. I have no idea how it works.”
I’m 90% certain I was able to get it to work, but the lower level of magnification and the complete lack of software-based image enhancement wasn’t enough to make the film readable. Fortunately, by the time I got that far, the computers were functional again.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 21, 2026 09:26 AM (kYmoU)
So far, this seems more like a mix of the best of Somerset Maugham and John Dickson Carr, though without the latter's impossible crime tropes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 09:26 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: TRex - dead sea dino at June 21, 2026 09:27 AM (IQ6Gq)
Do I recall correctly that St. Augustine at least thought he had seen the Roman records of Jesus’s crucifixion?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 21, 2026 09:27 AM (kYmoU)
To avoid spoilers, I will only say that the butler didn't do it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 09:28 AM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026 09:28 AM (gQhJN)
Howdy, Horde.
One backup? True -- not enough. The ebooks, and some movies and music here at Casa Some Guy are on my Chromebook's SSD, and also on a couple of USB hard drives and a couple of USB thumb drives. This is not careful planning on my part. Every time I get it into my head that I really need to finally organize and cull some of those files, I back up the mess so that I don't screw up the set I'm working on and lose everything. Some day I'll consolidate all of it and finally get it trimmed down and organized in one set of files without a lot of unwanted duplication, but before I get into that, I'd better run a backup. Just in case.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 21, 2026 09:30 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026
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I have Night Walker on my shelf and have read it, but recall almost nothing about it. That's not a slam at Hamilton; I'm sure I enjoyed it, but I may have read it years ago and other things have intruded.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Trimegistus
One of my favorite stories about artistic censorship under the Soviets concerns Prokofiev's opera War and Peace. Known primarily for his lighter works such as Peter and the Wolf, he decided to write something patriot when the Nazis attacked. But Stalin banned it because in the opera, as in real life, Moscow fell to Napoleon and Stalin wasn't having any of that Moscow falls crap.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 09:32 AM (ndZc7)
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Problem: many reams of bullshit were preserved because they were more entertaining than the real thing and the real thing got lost.
John Malalas, Historia Augusta, Movses Khorenatsi, Ctesias' Persica...
Posted by: gKWVE
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In modern times -
- Kung Flu will kill you, and killed millions, not a government agent known as Fauci
- J6 was an insurrection somewhere on the scale between Whiskey Rebellion and Civil War.
Somewhere around here I have a fairly modern book on Ancient Rome. It's author points out these problems in history - we know people lie and they lie for political gain/power, and one of the most extension collections are (or some of) the papers of a guy who was paid to spread writings favorable to his patrons. We know this because that is in his writings.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 21, 2026 09:32 AM (/lPRQ)
I finished reading Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile this week.
To avoid spoilers, I will only say that the butler didn't do it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 09:28 AM (gnNyN)
Dame A played fair on that one but if you paid attention it was easy to figure out who done it.
An "easy" one to give her readers a victory?
Do mystery authors do that?
Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2026 09:33 AM (iJfKG)
I've seen the movie with Peter Ustinov. It's about shots fired.
Posted by: dantesed at June 21, 2026 09:33 AM (Oy/m2)
You don't _have_ ethnically diverse societies when most people die in the same village where they were born. You might have a family known as the "Blacks" because three generations back a shipwrecked sailor with darkish hair settled nearby, but all his descendants will look pretty much like their neighbors after fifty years.
You don't _have_ women in military professions before firearms. I have a family member, a woman, who competes at a fairly high level in fencing. She can beat other women her age, but not men. Size and strength actually matter. Plus societies which put fertile women on the battle line don't last long.
If you're writing a fantasy, why are you depicting the world as a bunch of Bluesky subscribers wearing LARP costumes?
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:35 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 09:35 AM (R+iUD)
Speaking to the 'comic book' part of the adaptation, the art is okay. It doesn't stand out, but neither is it terrible. Its most interesting aspect is that the main hero is a long-faced teenager with a near-constant look of disgust/disdain. Given the events of the book, this is perfectly justified.
Posted by: Castle Guy at June 21, 2026 09:36 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:35 AM (78a2H)
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Because it's all they "know" about the real world...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 09:37 AM (gnNyN)
One of my favorite stories about artistic censorship under the Soviets concerns Prokofiev's opera War and Peace. Known primarily for his lighter works such as Peter and the Wolf, he decided to write something patriot when the Nazis attacked. But Stalin banned it because in the opera, as in real life, Moscow fell to Napoleon and Stalin wasn't having any of that Moscow falls crap.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 09:32 AM (ndZc7)
I don't know how Prokofiev would have turned out had he stayed in the West instead of going back to the USSR, but his life after his return was a misery.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 09:37 AM (O0L8i)
Speaking of authors who refuse to write the next sequel (death being no excuse), Eris, did you know Alan Bradley died in May? Leaving his last Flavia de Luce book with a wide-open ending? God rest his soul.
But as it turns out, he did finish the next Flavia book and it is scheduled for publication in November of this year.
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 09:38 AM (afFes)
AHE,
I have that set in hardcover, as any proper devotee of Tolkien must. (I gave the paperback version to my niece and her husband.) Not something I would read cover to cover but interesting for fanatics and obsessives.
I've seen that letter from Tolkien to Auden. Knowing how much of the LOTR story was developed on the fly was a fascinating, and surprising, insight. That's one of the reasons I enjoy collections of letters from authors I enjoy; the glimpses into the development of their writing.
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 09:38 AM (yTvNw)
To avoid spoilers, I will only say that the butler didn't do it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026
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During my big detective phase in my teens, I read a lot of her mysteries and was not terribly impressed with her use of clues and reasoning. Reading some of those same books now, I see that she had an excellent grasp of human nature, and that human nature often was essential to the crimes and their solutions . . . much like the later Ellery Queen novels.
Her "Mary Westmacott" non-genre novels -- I've read three -- are superb stuff, with, again, that dramatic knowledge of human nature and motivations. They are like a mix of Somerset Maugham and A.J. Cronin's works, written in Agatha's own plainer style.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 09:38 AM (wzUl9)
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If you're writing a fantasy, why are you depicting the world as a bunch of Bluesky subscribers wearing LARP costumes?
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:35 AM (78a2H)
Because those books are written by and for Bluesky subscribers wearing LARP costumes.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 09:39 AM (R+iUD)
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026
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And their biographies or autobiographies. We see the kinds of things that inspired their choice of genre, or that inspired individual elements and characters in their work.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Piper at June 21, 2026 09:42 AM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 09:43 AM (kpS4V)
Am I on to something here?
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:43 AM (78a2H)
This curmudgeon's problem isn't with microfiche per se, but with libraries putting their holdings on microfiche and then destroying the originals. This is one reason why complete runs of some of the great newspapers like the New York Herald and Los Angeles Examiner no longer exist.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 21, 2026 09:44 AM (qRla/)
- Kung Flu will kill you, and killed millions, not a government agent known as Fauci
- J6 was an insurrection somewhere on the scale between Whiskey Rebellion and Civil War.
Itinerate Alley Butcher, I pray to GOD our great grand-children don't hear those fables. As an almost 78 year old adult who knows authentic history, I almost weep at the left continuing to re-write it. General Steven D. Lee warned us.
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 09:44 AM (LHPAg)
Problem: many reams of bullshit were preserved because they were more entertaining than the real thing and the real thing got lost.
Not just ancient history. Ty Cobb was given the reputation of a psychopathic racist because of the lies of Al Stump. Cobb wasn't a nice guy and he was raised in late 1800's Georgia, but most of the stories about him were later found to be false.
And Bill Veeck blackened Kenesaw Mountain Landis by claiming Landis prevented him from buying the Phillies in 1943 and using black ballplayers on the roster. There's no contemporaneous evidence for those two events.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 09:45 AM (O0L8i)
Am I on to something here?
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:43 AM (78a2H)
NO.
Posted by: the current derp state at June 21, 2026 09:46 AM (R+iUD)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:35 AM (78a2H)
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Because that is the core audience.
I have three daughters, two of which are into D&D. They both bristle at the idea of women NOT being able to play whatever they want. It is, after all, a fantasy.
However, they also accept men are stronger than women, and so when they want to play a brute crusher, they play a dude rather than a girlboss.
But the opening up of the fantasy genre to women means it gets female fantasies as well, and we all know those are very much different from how men think.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 09:46 AM (afFes)
I’m currently reading a good spy novel (The Charm School) but it is…overlong. What is it with all these authors who think they’re Herman Melville? Just because you researched how whales get processed, doesn’t mean it goes in the book.
Posted by: The best thief in Lankhmar at June 21, 2026 09:47 AM (64rer)
Sorry to be a minority of one, but I detest fantasy fiction.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 09:48 AM (O0L8i)
Yup. When I returned to the Chicago Public Library a few months ago, it was to verify some poorly readable text against the originals. The scans look like they must have been made in the early nineties!
No can do. We don’t have the originals any more. I was able to tweak the computer enough to be reasonably certain of all of the iffy texts but one, but there are other things I fortunately didn’t need that will probably never be reasonably decipherable.
I see this on newspapers.com a lot, too. Though I hope they aren’t destroying their 1776-1826 papers, I am also not placing any bets.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 21, 2026 09:49 AM (kYmoU)
John Malalas, Historia Augusta, Movses Khorenatsi, Ctesias' Persica...
Posted by: gKWVE at June 21, 2026 09:18 AM (gKWVE)
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Or they were as discredited as we believe.
In the (many footnotes) to City of God, the translator points to an "error" which I ran to ground and found that it wasn't an error. Augustine was correct.
We can look at Herodotus and say he was full of crap, but he was writing what everyone said, and that's very useful to know.
Also: the modern idea of "just the facts" has its own weaknesses. Pre-modern audiences has a much stronger grasp of symbolism than we do.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: callsign claymore at June 21, 2026 09:50 AM (/6r4m)
It could have been a crackling 20-page monograph, but I guess he had to pad it out to make a book. Sigh.
There was a columnist for a dog-show publication that would never say in less than a paragraph anything for which a sentence would ordinarily suffice.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 09:51 AM (O0L8i)
Now that's funny. I've learned that "near fine" means "still has most of the pages" and "very good" means "still has at least one cover."
Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2026 09:51 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 09:48 AM (O0L8i)
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I have come to despise it. I like Tolkien because he both defined and then transcended the genre. He reads completely differently to me know than he did back then.
I like R.E. Howard because he's just so over the top. He's not fantasy so much as just rolling with it. Minimalist world-building, character development is an afterthought.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: The best thief in Lankhmar at June 21, 2026 09:47 AM (64rer)
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Yeah, I'm running into that issue with Seveneves...
It might as well be called "Technobabble: The Book!"
Stephen Baxter and Alistair Reynolds did a much better job of telling their version of this story in half the pages.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 09:51 AM (gnNyN)
Me too. 'Somewhere', I have a microfiche of my Navy records, and you just reminded me 'hey why have you been going round and round with the VA almost 5 years when you have a microfiche?'. But alas how would I read it?
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 09:52 AM (LHPAg)
Tried to cure my sadness by book shopping this weekend. Picked up a few things here and there, but it didn't help.
One is Jack Beatty's The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began. He discusses five paths that would have led away from the War - a military coup in Germany, imminent civil war in Britain and so on - to support his thesis that "the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand [wasn't] the catalyst of a war that would have broken out in any event over some other crisis, but rather as its all-but-unique precipitant."
*I've always loved that name, probably because I had a crush on Kate Jackson.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 21, 2026 09:52 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026
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A lot of the modern stuff bores me, and I write it. It seems as though every huge fantasy novel on the Barnes & Noble shelves begins with some young woman looking out of a tower, remembering sadly the good old days when King Arglebargle IV ruled the land.
Give me Fred Saberhagen and his hardboiled Empire of the East. Or Larry Niven's imaginative Magic Goes Away stories in which mana, the power behind magic, is fading from the world, and creatures like mermen and unicorns breed oddly (giving us dolphins and ponies in the present world) where the mana is low.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)
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This should read "weren't as discredited."
Note well that most "Bible scholars" detest their subject matter and work tirelessly to prove it false.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:53 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 09:48 AM (O0L8i
I hate it too, unless it is Arthurian fiction, and even then it's hit or miss.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 21, 2026 09:54 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at June 21, 2026 09:56 AM (PHjsi)
Posted by: PabloD at June 21, 2026 09:56 AM (tTZHu)
I see this on newspapers.com a lot, too. Though I hope they aren’t destroying their 1776-1826 papers, I am also not placing any bets.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 21, 2026 09:49 AM (kYmoU)
In James Caan’s Rollerball, a quiet but key moment is when he goes to the library to look up old records, and learns that nothing is there anymore, they just have links to the central database in Zurich.
So he goes to Zurich, and finds that the Central Database has forgotten everything and is useless.
The ruling class has erased the past.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2026 09:57 AM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:35 AM (78a2H)
Because the author him/herself is a Bluesky subscriber wearing a LARP costume. And because the publisher is likely also a Bluesky subscriber.
Regardless, I full-heartedly share your disdain for too much modern attitudes in fantasy stories.
Posted by: Castle Guy at June 21, 2026 09:58 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 09:58 AM (wzUl9)
Tolkien, for example, is really difficult to keep in a single book case. There are oversized folios, illustrated guides, and then trade paperbacks. I'm doing a vertical system, so that the right side of the case is all Tolkien, but even then, the trade paperbacks are on the bedside bookcase - which is convenient for obvious reasons. I'm not reading a folio as a bedtime book.
There have been more than a few "wtf?" moments and I handle a book I've never seen before. Also a small stack of books to be sold or donated.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:58 AM (ZOv7s)
Isaiah 64:8
Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2026 09:59 AM (PM/iv)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:43 AM
You and Roger Daltrey, Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Really my take on the Russian Revolution is like all Leftists, flowery thinking everything will be different when we are in charge, but once that power is achieved the greed of it takes over and any old plans of equally are long forgotten.
Every Revolution has been this way.
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 09:59 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 21, 2026 09:59 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:35 AM (78a2H)
Because those books are written by and for Bluesky subscribers wearing LARP costumes.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 09:39 AM (R+iUD)
I also think there's a bit of...oh, let's call it, Brain Block working here.
Their imaginations can only wander down certain pre-approved paths. (ie, Travels in Woketardia).
It's the same reason why most Soviet fiction is so lousy and forgettable.
They strap the
Sad.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2026 10:00 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:00 AM (wzUl9)
I can't dispute Clarke's line about sufficiently advanced technology but for me the (admittedly fuzzy) line is somewhere this side of dragons. I make an exception for Tolkien because... well... because I do, I guess.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2026 10:00 AM (vTZFs)
For me these days, it's a section in the bookshop that might as well be labelled "This You May Safely Ignore."
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 21, 2026 10:01 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 21, 2026 10:01 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 21, 2026 10:02 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at June 21, 2026 09:56 AM (PHjsi)
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Newspapers and magazines were never designed to be archival records. They were the television/radio/internet of their time, durable only because there was no cheaper way to make them.
When I was in college, the universities were switching over from bound copies of periodicals to microfiche, which was much more convenient, but now digital is the thing, and it's shocking how empty the library building is these days. It used to densely packed, with vast card catalogs, but all that's gone.
Worth remembering that many of the books that survived from antiquity were from private collections that were later moved to abbeys or castles.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2026
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Magic systems in so many stories seem to be, well, unsystematic. Magic, like tech, should have its own rules, and if there are exceptions they should be explained. It should also not be easy to work a spell, or then everybody could do it and why would you need professionals?
The two basic classical rules of magic, the Law of Similarity and the Law of Contagion, are a good start. But a clever writer will go beyond those.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:03 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 09:35 AM (78a2H)
Because those books are written by and for Bluesky subscribers wearing LARP costumes.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 09:39 AM (R+iUD)
This is the reason I spend so much time here! No get ready for church. Later.
I also think there's a bit of...oh, let's call it, Brain Block working here.
Their imaginations can only wander down certain pre-approved paths. (ie, Travels in Woketardia).
It's the same reason why most Soviet fiction is so lousy and forgettable.
They strap the Chastity Political Belt around their brains so certain things can't occur or even be imagined.
Sad.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2026 10:00 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 10:04 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 10:04 AM (Ia/+0)
A point emphasized in Luke Timothy Johnson's The Real Jesus.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 21, 2026 10:04 AM (qRla/)
That right there.
Posted by: Eromero at June 21, 2026 10:05 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: PabloD at June 21, 2026 10:05 AM (tTZHu)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)
Sorry to be a minority of one, but I detest fantasy fiction.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 09:48 AM (O0L8i)
*Shrug*
Some people hate BBQ too
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 21, 2026 10:06 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 21, 2026 10:06 AM (xcxpd)
I don't understand those words of English in that order.
Posted by: dantesed at June 21, 2026 10:07 AM (Oy/m2)
Good point. In the spirit of full disclosure, I should also admit an exception for Butcher's "Dresden Files" books. I think he generally does a good job with that.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2026 10:08 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 09:46 AM (afFes)
I read the first Flavia book some years ago, and then got distracted with other things and didn't read anymore. Maybe that's what I need to get me out of the current slump of disinterest.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 21, 2026 10:08 AM (h7ZuX)
Section 1 - facts: hard science like basic arithmetic, geography, how to make gun powder, etc.
Subsection - guess work and theories presented as facts including anything to do with Fauci or the United Nations and any system of government not based on individual freedom.
Section 2 - wisdom: myths, philosophy, literature, and, especially, poetry.
Section 1 would provide information. Section 2 would provide meaning.
The complex could be powered by burning the millions of unsold autobiographies of former First Ladies. That should cover the power needs for the first hundred years, maybe longer.
Guess I'm in a whimsical mood this morning.
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 10:09 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 21, 2026 10:09 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 10:04 AM (Ia/+0)
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The initial rebellion was to assert their traditional rights as Englishmen. It was only after their efforts were dismissed that independence was considered.
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 was their model, and even the term "Bill fo Rights" was copied from that event.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 10:04 AM (Ia/+0)
The leaders asserted they were reclaiming their rights as Englishmen, and while the *original* No Kings concept was certainly new, they didn't invent a whole new and insane set of RIGHTS! as our modern-day commie retards have.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 21, 2026 10:09 AM (R+iUD)
Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 21, 2026 10:09 AM (qRla/)
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There were many off ramps that might have been taken but instead all parties marched blindly into the abyss. I do think that the war guilt clause that Germany was forced to accept was a vast over simplification. Now, WWII was more clear cut.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)
Also: the modern idea of "just the facts" has its own weaknesses. Pre-modern audiences has a much stronger grasp of symbolism than we do.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)
A Greek writer who lived just 100 years after Herodotus (his name escapes me) wrote “Herodotus is called the Father of History, but he is the Father of Lies.” So some saw it from the start.
Lost great works - we know very little about the Etruscans now, mostly inference and guesswork. Yet there was a multi volume work in existence at the time of Claudius which covered their history, culture, and language in detail, as told by Etruscan descendants still living at the time. A truly great loss.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2026 10:10 AM (nuNhM)
The Hawthorne actor is murdered - was he the target or was it the real one? The story-within-a-story is a flashback to Hawthorne's first case as a PI because one of those involved in that case turns up in Hastings...
Posted by: Wethal at June 21, 2026 10:10 AM (gihWY)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 10:10 AM (fkjGs)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 10:12 AM (q5DOt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:13 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)
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It went from an Imperial system to a Republican one, and the Golden Decade of Nationalist rule from 1928 to 1937 is often overlooked. Huge gains were made in modernizing China, building internal improvements, eliminating things like foot binding, etc. Having known peace for the first time in decades, the economy took off.
The Communists were on the ropes, and the Long March would have come to naught if Japan hadn't attacked in 1937.
The Communists took over (read my book!) and did make a break from tradition, and it was disastrous. After Mao died, the old Imperial system has reasserted itself to the point where the CCP is the new Mandarin bureaucracy, only far less competent.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 21, 2026 10:15 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2026
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I believe Claudius was said to be working on a history of the Etruscans before he became emperor. Or maybe that was Robert Graves' invention?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2026 10:10 AM (nuNhM)
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Right, but historians are just as prone to character assassination as anyone else. I think Herodotus was a transitional figure between the idea of poetic, mythical history and a more grounded factual version. I note that Herodotus does frequently take the line of: "I don't say it's true, it's just what I heard."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)
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It's true. Graves was a Latin scholar, and Penguin uses his translation of Suetonius, who Graves drew upon heavily.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Happy Father’s Day to all you dads.
Posted by: Uncle Slayton at June 21, 2026 10:21 AM (PJ6NO)
This curmudgeon's problem isn't with microfiche per se, but with libraries putting their holdings on microfiche and then destroying the originals. This is one reason why complete runs of some of the great newspapers like the New York Herald and Los Angeles Examiner no longer exist."
MP4,
I know about that and it is an abombination. If endless space and resources can be created for AI crap data centers, space can be set aside for preservation of documents and books. It's in the same category with libraries purging their shelves if a book isn't used i a year or so. That might explain why it's hard to find classic literature and history in a lot of libraries. Makes me wonder if libraries are administered by people who couldn't cut it in the NEA teachers union.
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 10:22 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 21, 2026 10:24 AM (VCgbV)
Certain temples and sacred mountains associated with dynastic change have been fenced off and locked down. Beijing itself has been entirely encircled by fencing - not just traffic checkpoints (which it always had but are now buffed up) but actual monitored border walls.
Mentioning "June 4th or "6/4" is forbidden. Even saying six and four together is forbidden. That's how paranoid they are right now.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 10:25 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Who Knew at June 21, 2026 10:25 AM (QeSDj)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 10:26 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 21, 2026 09:52 AM (qRla/)
You are a man of taste and discernment, MP4.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:27 AM (1Ff7Z)
I've read only the first Flavia de Luce novel, and that was long before I joined AoS.
She's a smart young girl who's a self-taught chemist. Has an older sister who's a featherhead. Father is missing; I think the girls live with a relative. The family has money.
The only other thing I recall about the book is that it opened with Flavia mixing up a concoction to lace her sister's face cream.
The books are on my TBR list -- but for a change, I don't own them. Will need to rely on the library.
Now, please, someone who knows much more about Flavia jump in and correct me!
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026 10:27 AM (+zDJ+)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 21, 2026 10:28 AM (VCgbV)
Stephen Baxter and Alistair Reynolds did a much better job of telling their version of this story in half the pages.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2026 09:51 AM (gnNyN)
It could be the perceived value of a book three inches thick instead of one and a half. If I'm not mistaken, 40k words is still considered a novel, but who wants to pay $20 for a 40k word book?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:29 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026
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Yes; a kind of magical Newtonian law. I've tinkered with the idea of inertia having to be considered too; that a colossal magical change to something in the world takes a little time to accomplish.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:29 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026 10:30 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026
Gandalf vs The Balrog
Posted by: davidt at June 21, 2026 10:31 AM (Q+gd/)
Since we're talking about the Ancient Greeks and fantasy...
There's very fun novel from the 1990s titled
"Celestial Matters" by Richard Garfinkle.
It's a Hard Science SF novel where the Science is that of the Ancient Greeks with the Geocentric and Aristolean models being true.
And the Greeks are in a fierce physical, ideological and philosophical battle against the Middle Kingdom (China) and their Taoist Science lasting hundreds of years.
The Greeks believe they can achieve victory with a piece of the true(?) fire of the Sun, and thus plan a space journey, aaaand go!
I've never read another novel like this one before or after. Fun, entertaining read and very unjustly neglected.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2026 10:33 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Who Knew at June 21, 2026 10:33 AM (QeSDj)
Posted by: davidt at June 21, 2026 10:31 AM (Q+gd/)
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Loyal angel vs rebel angel.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 21, 2026 10:36 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 21, 2026 10:36 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Who Knew at June 21, 2026 10:37 AM (QeSDj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)
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I find it odd that the affairs of the early Romans were so intertwined with the Etruscans, but the Etruscan language was completely unrelated to Latin. If I'm not mistaken, Etruscan wasn't even an Indo-European language.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:38 AM (u/oMr)
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I finished it a few days ago and quite liked it. I didn't see the solution to either murder coming.
Speaking of Horowitz mysteries, I have two. I have a clear recollection of Amazon offering me the opportunity to pre-order a fourth Susan Ryeland novel some months ago to be released at the end of the year. I thought it ridiculous to pre-order so early but now there is no reference to this book anywhere. Second, in Deadly Episode, there are a couple references to this being the sixth book in the series when, in fact, it is only the fourth. What happened to the other two books?
Incidentally, I saw a guy on YT discussing differences betweent British and American English. One concerned the word "quite". The Brits use it to mean "almost" while we use to mean "very". So when I say I quite liked the book, I mean I liked it very much while Horowitz might interpret it as I almost liked it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 10:38 AM (ndZc7)
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All modern historians stand on the shoulders of Greek giant homos.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:39 AM (u/oMr)
I agree about multiple back ups of digital materials but still have no confidence in them. Too many ways to go wrong. Lack of power. Lack of software and machines to read them. (How many computer files are still usable after only a few decades?) Deteriorating storage media….
Posted by: JTB
Early his morning, randomly recalling a bit of video of my late brother and his then-wife, I was whelmed with remembering all the media that I hope, despite long odds, to someday digitize. Family film negatives I've never developed. Dad's old slides. Our old Super8 video, super-8mm films (some with sound!), VHS, even 16mm film. Every kind of digital media except 8" floppies, including Zip tapes that have a few files I'd really like to recover. Double-density double-sided 5" floppies from the Shack Model I days - yeah, those will be easy to recover.
Meanwhile, I haven't even got what's on the disk drives backed up sufficiently. And new drives cost a fortune, I hear.
Pixy recently wrote, it's not safe until you have backups in at least three formats on two different continents.
And keep away from volcanos!
Posted by: mindful webworker - preserve your memories, they're all that's left you -Paul Simon at June 21, 2026 10:40 AM (9bb3y)
Fun fact: Sherwood Schwartz named the ill-fated SS Minnow after FCC Chairman Newton Minnow, who famously disparaged the "vast wasteland" of television.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 10:41 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 21, 2026 10:25 AM (ZOv7s)
That can't be true! I have it on good authority of someone who says he's the smartest person on the internet, that China is about to take over the world. It must just be capitalist running dog lies!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:41 AM (1Ff7Z)
The numbers aren't huge by NYT bestseller standards but I am amazed and encouraged at the reception. Volume two comes out in November. I heard the special, limited edition is already sold out.
FWIW, I think Guite's Arthuriad will end up in the same tier as Tennyson's Idylls of the King and might revitalize the ballad form for epic poetry.
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 10:42 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 10:43 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2026 10:33 AM (iJfKG)
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I second the recommendation of Celestial Matters.
Garfinkle also wrote All Of An Instant, which is about the discovery of a realm outside of time. Adventurous stuff.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 21, 2026 10:45 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2026 10:53 AM (1Ff7Z)
I find it odd that the affairs of the early Romans were so intertwined with the Etruscans, but the Etruscan language was completely unrelated to Latin. If I'm not mistaken, Etruscan wasn't even an Indo-European language.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026
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The Romans got the idea of gladiatorial arena games from the Etruscans, I believe. And the latter are supposed to have come originally from Asia Minor, or somewhere out that way.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:53 AM (wzUl9)
In an attempt to make amends, let me promote this website:
bookseriesinorder.com
You can search by author, character, or title.
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026 10:54 AM (+zDJ+)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Ah, the MSNOW approach. Incidentally, the MSM seems to be all in on the algae in the reflecting pool story because we haven't anything else to worry about. Here, for example, The Atlantic covers Big Algae
https://tinyurl.com/3fjjn3v8
and here Karoline Leavitt is forced to cover Algae-gate.
https://tinyurl.com/38czw65n
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 21, 2026 10:55 AM (ndZc7)
In an attempt to make amends, let me promote this website:
bookseriesinorder.com
You can search by author, character, or title.
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026
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Oh -- the Flavia books are a mystery series! Okay!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:57 AM (wzUl9)
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For a time it was believed that the language of Linear B was related to Etruscan. Then someone figured out it was actually early Greek.
There was an idea tossed around once that had the Hittites related to the Etruscans, but I think that fell by the wayside when it was confirmed that Hittite was an Indo-European language.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 10:59 AM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 21, 2026 11:01 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 21, 2026 10:24 AM (VCgbV)
Not just female authors. Female playwrights, directors, CEOs, pilots,.........
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 21, 2026 11:02 AM (5Jn8W)
The two basic classical rules of magic, the Law of Similarity and the Law of Contagion, are a good start. But a clever writer will go beyond those.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 10:03 AM
I decided to ditch rules of magic in my writing because it was starting to feel like video game systems.
I was doodling the stairs of creation - I don't know the real name, but it's the stairs toward God with angels, then Man, then animals, and plants. I was trying to remember the different levels of angels and remembered an Irish legend that the magical people are just angels who remained neutral in the war of Heaven.
So my magic "system" is really about the nature of created beings and envy driving them to gain attributes they weren't meant to have.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 21, 2026 11:07 AM (ysTZR)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026 11:08 AM (Kt19C)
In our collection is a volume of an encyclopedia published in the 19th century. The binding is falling apart, and in it is a portion of a newspaper article on the annexation of Texas. (In the mid-19th century, newspapers were printed on flatbed presses, using much higher quality paper than nowadays.) It's not quite the same as the recovery of a lost treatise by Archimedes, but it's a fragment of history nonetheless.
Posted by: Nemo at June 21, 2026 11:09 AM (4RPgu)
Posted by: Metal Roofing at June 21, 2026 10:12 AM (8rrT7
Posted by: gKWVE at June 21, 2026 11:09 AM (gKWVE)
And when you get a new backup technology, the older ones' last duty is to serve as the source for moving its backups to the new tech.
Posted by: SDN at June 21, 2026 11:12 AM (0sMG6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026
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"Hittites?"
"Very big in ancient Mesopotamia. Big guys."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:13 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026 11:08 AM (Kt19C)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Capt. Clarence Oveur at June 21, 2026 11:16 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 21, 2026 11:18 AM (ysTZR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 21, 2026 11:20 AM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:21 AM (wzUl9)
It is 1950, and WWII veteran Rix Banner is thoroughly enjoying the quiet life of small town America as he runs his auto repair shop. Then one evening, a pretty girl shows up at his garage and asks if he can fix her spaceship...
It's simple space opera, but it is notable for its lack of gore, sex, and foul language. There is not even a hint of The Message or pandering to Modern Audiences. I found it refreshing.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 21, 2026 11:21 AM (5QSoL)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 11:22 AM (Ia/+0)
It is 1950, and WWII veteran Rix Banner is thoroughly enjoying the quiet life of small town America as he runs his auto repair shop. Then one evening, a pretty girl shows up at his garage and asks if he can fix her spaceship...
It's simple space opera, but it is notable for its lack of gore, sex, and foul language. There is not even a hint of The Message or pandering to Modern Audiences. I found it refreshing.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 21, 2026
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Sounds very Heinleinesque, like his Have Space Suit -- Will Travel!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:22 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026
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All I can recall is Gandalf and the Balrog falling off the bridge over the chasm, and Gandalf shouting up at the Fellowship members: "Fly, you fools!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:23 AM (wzUl9)
I could put dough on the counter, push yo face in it and make gorilla cookies.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026 11:26 AM (Kt19C)
I've been working on a project involving the city of Chicago in the year 1919. Much of the material is coming from newspapers preserved on microfilm. It's clear to me that a writer a century from now who wishes to write a similar project about our time is going to have a much tougher time of it. In part, that's because the newspaper, as a synopsis of events in a given place and time, no longer exists. And in part, it's because of the fragility of the media on which records of our time are being kept. I doubt whether more than a tiny fragment of what we're recording electronically will still exist a century from now. Despite our luxuriating in electronic media, our time may well be another dark age, in the sense that future historians will find it nearly impossible to learn what was happening in our here and now.
Posted by: Nemo at June 21, 2026 11:26 AM (4RPgu)
Naw, that's Sherlock Holmes.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026 11:27 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026 11:27 AM (p/isN)
Wait are we talking about California now?
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2026 11:29 AM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
Or was that Sherlock Holmes?
Posted by: From about That Time at June 21, 2026 11:30 AM (sl73Y)
I could put dough on the counter, push yo face in it and make gorilla cookies.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 21, 2026
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I fondly recall when Ace was signing himself "Lamont the Big Dummy."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:31 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
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Or was that Sherlock Holmes?
Posted by: From about That Time at June 21, 2026
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Holmes left a very polite and civilized note for Watson before grappling with Moriarty at the falls.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:32 AM (wzUl9)
Am I the only one with the impression that television comedy turned into an almost non-stop exchange of insults with the arrival of Norman Lear?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 21, 2026 11:34 AM (q3u5l)
Fred: “what kind of a name is Esther anyways? Where’d that come from?”
Aunt Esther: “I’ll have you know that my name is found in the Holy Bible itself!”
Fred: “oh yeah, didn’t Sampson kill a thousand men with yo’ jawbone?”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2026 11:35 AM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Weak Geek at June 21, 2026 11:35 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 21, 2026
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I don't think you are alone. The modern age of more sophisticated TV comedy began with Mary Tyler Moore's show and the other MTM offerings. But it was Archie, Fred Sanford, George Jefferson, and many others that started the "relevant" era of comedy and the rapid-fire insult routines that had been the province of Don Rickles before that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:36 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:36 AM (wzUl9)
The show that started it all: All In the Family.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 21, 2026 11:39 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:40 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 11:41 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 21, 2026
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Mary's series premiered about four months before AitF. But yes, Archie and his family began the full cycle of "topical" comedies, where a lot of the conflict had to do with then-modern morality and how America was changing from the old ways. Maude arguing with her daughter and husband, George Jefferson hating white people living nearby, all of that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:42 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2026 11:44 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 21, 2026 11:44 AM (Meyva)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at June 21, 2026 11:44 AM (ee9bx)
So I'm a neovim/vim/cli kind of guy, so I bashed together a config that basically looks like a word processor from the 80's but has screenwriting hooks.
I've been testing it out with the screenplay to Sinners.
Basically copying the entire structure verbatim, it's working out pretty good.
I will say this, reading the screenplay to Sinners is fascinating because what's on paper is so dry and matter of fact, and quite frankly boring, that I have no idea how that film got made or had any interest.
I've also been reading screenplays in general and have discovered that a lot of great films do not come from the page at all.
Like reading the screenplay for Wedding Crashers, the screenplay is not funny at all.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 21, 2026 11:45 AM (XV/Pl)
The First Source and Universe Center has never revealed himself by name, only by nature. If we believe that we are the children of this Creator, it is only natural that we should eventually call him Father. But this is the name of our own choosing, and it grows out of the recognition of our personal relationship with the First Source and Center.
—The Urantia Book, Paper 1, Section 1, The Father's Name
I've been thinking about reading the UB again. Been a long time, although parts of it I've re-read often.
There was a time I started to tell on here, in serialized comments, about the interesting (to me, anyway) struggle of Urantia Bookies to preserve and protect the "original text," which struggle eventually vacated the copyright. I was discouraged in this effort by Oregon Muse, although suppressing my efforts was probably not his intent. Suggested no one was interested. Perhaps he was right.
Explore the first lines in the UB in mindful cartoon webwork format
Exploring the Foreword
https://bit.ly/natl-ubographic
Posted by: mindful webworker - preserve your memories, they're all that's left you -Paul Simon at June 21, 2026 11:46 AM (9bb3y)
It was falling to pieces, the muslin cover loose; the binding loose, but the pages were in fine condition - the spine was indeed shimmed with slips of text cut from some other book. It also had some interesting images - eye centered in the palm of a hand sort of thing.
Posted by: 13times at June 21, 2026 11:46 AM (fnZRl)
When you see a 20 or 30 fantasy book series on Amazon with a female name as the author, you can pretty well bet that it's AI generated mommy pron.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2026 11:48 AM (vTZFs)
That is, when I'm not busy creating redundant backups of the ebook files.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 21, 2026 11:49 AM (q3u5l)
It was falling to pieces, the muslin cover loose; the binding loose, but the pages were in fine condition - the spine was indeed shimmed with slips of text cut from some other book. It also had some interesting images - eye centered in the palm of a hand sort of thing.
Posted by: 13times at June 21, 2026 11:46 AM (fnZRl)
If you put it under a black light, it might be a treasure map.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 21, 2026 11:50 AM (g8Ew8)
Pretty much all Tarantino screenplays and movies are what you read is what you get.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 21, 2026 11:51 AM (XV/Pl)
There were a few other old books, one was a small book compilation of Norse mythology - the original owner had pressed a four-lear clover between pages - the clover was still perfectly preserved and green.
Posted by: 13times at June 21, 2026 11:51 AM (fnZRl)
Fred: “what kind of a name is Esther anyways? Where’d that come from?”
Aunt Esther: “I’ll have you know that my name is found in the Holy Bible itself!”
Fred: “oh yeah, didn’t Sampson kill a thousand men with yo’ jawbone?”
And note that the punchline depends on the audience being familiar with the Bible. I doubt that joke would land today.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2026 11:52 AM (vTZFs)
When you see a 20 or 30 fantasy book series on Amazon with a female name as the author, you can pretty well bet that it's AI generated mommy pron.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2026 11:48 AM (vTZFs)
Putting the cock in cockatrice.
Posted by: Minotaurs ravaged my cooch! at June 21, 2026 11:53 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:54 AM (wzUl9)
Maybe a lot of great flicks don't come from the page, but without the page would the director and cast have much to work with?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 21, 2026 11:58 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:58 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 11:59 AM (wzUl9)
Thanks for the thread, Sabrina.
Have a good one, gang.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 21, 2026 12:00 PM (q3u5l)
Read only good books! Or, failing that, top tier trash.
*disappears in a puff of lavender smoke and holographic glitter*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 12:00 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 21, 2026 11:50 AM (g8Ew
The funny part being that various groups both lunatic* and fun loving used Mount Shasta caves and lava tubes for initiation ceremonies. I bought the bought the box of books in the Shadow of Mount Shasta.
*The belief in Lemuria in Mt. Shasta
*Love Has Won
Posted by: 13times at June 21, 2026 12:01 PM (fnZRl)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0)
I will publish this trash under the pseudonym "Cornelia Flickbean."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2026 12:04 PM (BI5O2)
Book Thread: West Coast Edition
Posted by: 13times at June 21, 2026 12:05 PM (fnZRl)
>>If the playwright doesn't include stage directions and indications of *how* a character says something, it can come across very flat.
Learning about scriptwriting, those are called parentheticals, and are generally used sparingly because the idea is that the actors will interpret how the lines are too be delivered.
Tarentino doesn't use them but will tell an actor exactly how his line will be delivered.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 21, 2026 12:11 PM (XV/Pl)
Lemurians on Mt. Shasta by Dr. Clem Davies
https://archive.org/details/lemurians-on-mount-shasta
Posted by: 13times at June 21, 2026 12:13 PM (fnZRl)
Learning about scriptwriting, those are called parentheticals, and are generally used sparingly because the idea is that the actors will interpret how the lines are too be delivered.
Tarentino doesn't use them but will tell an actor exactly how his line will be delivered.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 21, 2026
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Right, but I mean a reading copy for the general public. Certainly some of the stage directions can be carried over from the actual production.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 12:48 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Aawlberninf350 at June 21, 2026 01:08 PM (8RozV)
@13times: Thanks for the link in #227 about Lemurians in Mt. Shasta. My in-laws retired there, so we would camp in the area so our kids could visit with their grandparents. And it's beautiful country there in "The State of Jefferson."
There were some interesting independent bookstores in Mt. Shasta City, including some that were not "New Age." Bought the first volume of the "Outlander" series in one of the bookstores where the staff wrote notes to recommend books and placed them on the shelves.
Posted by: March Hare at June 21, 2026 01:28 PM (O/GSq)
Posted by: March Hare at June 21, 2026 01:34 PM (O/GSq)
A book like that is perfectly suited to Amazon's long-tail model, if it was converted to an ebook.
Which brings up the copyright issue and DRM. Proposed modification of DRM law: the code has to build in its expiration coincident with copyright expiration. When the © expires, the encryption disappears.
Posted by: buddhaha at June 21, 2026 02:15 PM (RW118)
Posted by: March Hare
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I climbed (Actually slogged, since there is practically no technical climbing on the easy route to the top. You pant a lot at 14k) Mt Shasta in the mid-70s. The town then was much, much, smaller. On forays up and down I5 in the 90s, we'd always stop at the original Black Bear Diner there. My last, not pleasant, visit 5 years ago emphasized how big it has grown. My truck sprung a diesel.leak under the hood at 10 in the evening, and I wound up in a hotel there. The next morning, I started finding a garage to look at it. There were now 4 garages doing diesel work in Mt Shasta city. (It was the regulator fitting). North of Reading, inland NorCal is one big summer resort. Bookstores are a standard resort business. Glad you found a good one.
Posted by: buddhaha at June 21, 2026 02:35 PM (RW118)
160 I'm also in Paul Cantor's "Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization". In it he compares optimistic products of consensus culture, like Star Trek and Gilligan's Island . . .
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 21, 2026 10:41 AM (kpS4V)
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Those poor people!
Posted by: Mathesar at June 21, 2026 03:03 PM (TPFQA)
Happy Fathers day to the fathers estranged from their sons for TDS. I still love you.
Posted by: frankly at June 21, 2026 08:05 PM (ACKqg)
Posted by: Pooklord at June 21, 2026 08:44 PM (9MAOs)
Daily Tech News 21 June 2026
Top Story
- AMD and Intel have unveiled their new ACE instruction set, which extends AVX vector instructions into matrix calculations. (Tom's Hardware)
A single ACE instruction can result in up to 1024 multiplications, which is convenient but not exactly adhering to the RISC philosophy.
We'll probably be waiting a couple of years to see this. AMD previously announced a new matrix engine for Zen 7 - which is not expected until 2028.
Tech News
- UK supermarket Tesco is suing Broadcom over their VMWare villainy. (The Register)
Tesco purchased perpetual licenses to VMWare and signed matching support contracts before the company was bought by Broadcom. Broadcom is now - according to the suit - refusing to provide support services unless customer repurchase the licenses at new, vastly inflated prices.
- Cloudflare has announced temporary accounts for AI agents that can be deployed for an hour without human intervention. (Cloudflare)
There are nine and sixty ways I can think of off the top of my head that this could go horribly wrong. I suspect that Cloudflare can think of even more, and have already put in place countermeasures for half of them.
- A $200 ChatGPT subscription used to the full could be costing OpenAI $14,000. (TechSpot)
And a $200 Claude subscription could cost Anthropic $8000.
Be right back, upgrading some subscriptions...
- A suicide booth for fish? (Tech Crunch)
Marketed as humane but actually designed to preserve the flavour.
Hmm.
- The Atlantic did something useful? (The Verge)
They published a searchable database for music used in training AI song generators.
Most of it copyrighted, much of it by extremely litigious labels.
And here's me all out of popcorn.
- Lenovo's Thinkpad X11 is an 11" tablet. (Notebook Check)
Not the fastest and certainly not the lightest, but it has something few tablets can match: A removable battery.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Mada fada coconut.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 04:32 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 04:32 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 04:37 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: clarence at June 21, 2026 04:38 AM (I5lp2)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 21, 2026 04:40 AM (Hpgos)
He seems nice.
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 04:41 AM (6wpGE)
He seems nice.
Posted by: m
>Interesting. Nice editing and directing. What genre would you call that?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 04:48 AM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 21, 2026 04:48 AM (Q/FnY)
I forgot about this silliness. Sunrise at Stonehenge. That happen a little before midnight EDT:
https://t.ly/i5pu9
Sunrise happens there at about 1:10 in. The Druids blow some damned horn or something. Now, I don't know why they don't put a camera right dead center so they can show the sun rise over the Heel Stone.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 04:49 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 04:52 AM (O7YUW)
https://tinyurl.com/4dnj2ef9
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 04:52 AM (dSKRp)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 04:37 AM (3UbC6)
I failed to hydrate before going to bed and that was a big mistake.
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 04:53 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 04:48 AM (fkjGs)
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Korean Rot.
Psy is most famous for Gangnum Style:
https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 04:54 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 04:54 AM (dSKRp)
lovely foggy morning out there, 44 degrees, and I'm getting ready for a hit-the-trailhead-at-dawn hike!
making extra coffee, woohoo!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 21, 2026 04:57 AM (VyBeY)
https://tinyurl.com/499bvm84
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 04:58 AM (n3VHW)
Paul Sperry
NEW: Just heard something extraordinary from a former White House official who worked with former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in Trump45's NSC: "McMaster had weekly phone calls with George Soros. We have no idea why." Neither could be reached for comment.
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All the signs were there. I first read about the deep statesman McMaster in the 2020 book, "The Memo: Twenty Years Inside the Deep State Fighting for America First, by Rich Higgins.
Higgins kept trying to send a message way upstream to Trump WH no. 1 that something was very rotten in the NSC, where McMaster ruled.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 05:01 AM (3UbC6)
My first thought was "weird" but in actuality I believe it's K-pop (Korean pop).
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 05:02 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: fluffy at June 21, 2026 05:06 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:09 AM (OYsYV)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 21, 2026 05:12 AM (AMvSw)
Leaves gently swaying in line
Warm summer sunlight will agree
That all is right and fine
The soft scent of flowering hedge rows
Deepens our love of beauty
Colorful birds line up to pose
As if this were a call to duty
Raise your eyes up to the sky
Let your voice call to the breeze
And let all know that as we fly
All may do as they please
fin
Posted by: clarence at June 21, 2026 05:18 AM (I5lp2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:20 AM (n3VHW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:23 AM (n3VHW)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 21, 2026 05:29 AM (NyXeV)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)
Thanks. That's very kind of you. He also makes me laugh - which is important in a relationship ( at least for me) I think.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:33 AM (OYsYV)
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 21, 2026 05:34 AM (CUnWa)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:38 AM (dSKRp)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:40 AM (OYsYV)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 21, 2026 05:47 AM (4+cmr)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2026 05:47 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 21, 2026 05:47 AM (4+cmr)
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Sometimes, changing servers under the VPN resolves such issues.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 05:53 AM (3UbC6)
Happy Father's day toalldadsout there
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 05:53 AM (Ia/+0)
Good morning, Hordians. Can't go to church this morning, and maybe not today, because about half my driveway is several inches under water.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 05:54 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 05:54 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:40 AM (OYsYV)
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That's so nice to hear! So did we, in fact! 😄
Missed you, VIA. Hope you and the missus can come next time.
Happy Father's Day to all our Hordeling dads. God bless them all.
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 05:55 AM (afFes)
BUT....hijinks of the political kind did rear its head yesterday during the leadoff to this Tuesdays run-off election.
I get a text in the middle of the day. And it starts with my name, and goes on to tell me how it is time to support one of the state candidates whom we shall simply call Jenny. And it tells me how she is great for women, supports all the major leftist women's causes, and we need to rally to support her.
But something, from the statements, which go completely against her platform, to the photo, which is a rather unflattering photo all make me suspect that this is an attempt to turn conservatives against her on Tuesday and vote for her opponent.
So I sent her campaign an email with a screenshot of the email that I received, and less than thirty minutes later the actual candidate called me directly, and we talked for over ten minutes.
As I suspected, someone supporting her opponent in the runoff is sending this out, quite possibly in violation of the law.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2026 05:58 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2026 05:59 AM (iMotb)
I dreamed I was part of a vast evacuation ahead of some apocalyptic event. My boss said,"We need to get you a gun," and we went to the armory. Nobody else was there, but guns kept vanishing from the tables even as I looked. I grabbed a .38 revolver and a box of shells before it disappeared.
Later there was some discussion about restoring medical databases after The Event. "We don't have any programmers for Cameron!" I spoke up and said, "I know it." Someone else complained that the developers had located one table *inside* of another. I explained lucidly how a one-to-many relationship works. (How we had time for this when civilization was about to collapse is beyond me.)
So. Howz yer Sunday morning?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 06:00 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 21, 2026 06:05 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 06:05 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 06:06 AM (wzUl9)
https://tinyurl.com/mr3ssaxk
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2026 06:07 AM (iMotb)
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I prefer Klingon Style:
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=CayMeza487M
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 21, 2026 06:09 AM (amcLV)
https://tinyurl.com/mr3ssaxk
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2026 06:07 AM (iMotb)
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OK. Not Elm Street Freddy.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 06:14 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 05:55 AM (afFes
Thanks, bluebell . Same to you and your husband as well. Next year I will not have a picnic, nor a service I need to be at on Sunday,, so God willing and the event is still on. I will be there. Thanks to you and all the folks who got things together!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 06:15 AM (6jy2V)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 06:05 AM (Ia/+0)
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Were you drinking at the ONT again?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 06:15 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 06:15 AM (DoBxX)
Collapse: When the Null Hits the Boyce-Codd Normal Fan
Posted by: fluffy at June 21, 2026 06:17 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 21, 2026 06:17 AM (3Ope8)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2026 06:22 AM (whRlH)
Very important. I try to make my wife laugh at least once daily. Sometimes, rarely, I can get the type of laughter where she's giggling so hard she has to sit down on the floor exactly where she is. Big win when that happens. :-)
I also have a regular caution I give her before she heads off to drive for work or errands: "Watch out for stupid out there, it's legion". I'm sure FenSpouse will appreciate that one as well!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Accomack at June 21, 2026 06:30 AM (/Chlc)
I plan to tell my friends I talked with Bunny. Who is a good conversationalist. I may leave that part out.
After the TxMoMeet, on my return my friends wanted details, because I talklked up the experience before going. I told them I got served bacon by a Bacon Wench and danced with Bunny. There was an imediate silence as they continplated my wayward path.
No bail money was needed yesterday, at least by the time I want. And CBD with a Fed sticker on his back was ... *chef's kiss*.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2026 06:32 AM (whRlH)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 06:35 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2026 06:35 AM (whRlH)
Once again though, Google aligns with the leftists/globalist stance on the nuclear family: Minimize it, ignore it, don't recognize it whatever you do. Jerks.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 06:36 AM (O7YUW)
Yes, we missed being there as well.
Life has been busy lately, but I suspect that it will slow down here in a bit. Then we can get back to the important things.
Like spending time with friends.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2026 06:37 AM (iMotb)
In the past it was a catered meeting, with good food. This time the local bar and grill sufficed.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2026 06:38 AM (whRlH)
Summer here in SC is like a bad house guest. Arrives too early and stays too long.
Oh well. You can buy a house here and in 20 years it's worth 30% more.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 21, 2026 06:40 AM (qFwJc)
The saga of Freddy the German is amazing. As are a number of other overseas guests that discovered the part of America outside the decaying urban cores.
That is heartwarming.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2026 06:41 AM (whRlH)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 06:43 AM (afJtY)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 06:45 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: . at June 21, 2026 06:47 AM (sOa7t)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 06:48 AM (1Vo6X)
You and your circle show true Texas hospitality. Time spent there is incredibly healing. Good people, good times.
One true gift of America is the spontanious formation of groups with a purpose. This is in line with Alexis de Tocqueville's observations noted in Democracy in America (1835)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2026 06:49 AM (whRlH)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 21, 2026 06:52 AM (afJtY)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2026 06:54 AM (whRlH)
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=CayMeza487M
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
I like the Blue Grass style.
https://tinyurl.com/4k3mk86z
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 21, 2026 06:55 AM (l26NL)
Odd how it wouldn't start with the drives in place. I thought I had formatted them all, but maybe I didn't.
Will try again later. I'll probably end up putting TRUENas on but I figured it'd see what it could do on its own.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 21, 2026 06:56 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 21, 2026 06:56 AM (6h45X)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 06:58 AM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 21, 2026 07:04 AM (3Ope8)
If so the entire operation should be ran like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 1943, destroy anything to open it.
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 07:05 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Just Wondering at June 21, 2026 07:12 AM (h0AkI)
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and black eyed Susan which is one of my favorite flowers? and we just passed a doe and her spotted fawn.
May everyone have a blessed day, and know that you are a blessing to others!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 07:13 AM (m6Eem)
Although we have a beloved non-traditional family that is close to us, I still insist that a 100% varsity grade father should be:
POP = person of pen1s, or:
PPP = person possessing pen1s
( yeah, I’m still reluctant to spell out certain words on social media that is probably subject to snooping)
Posted by: Fenderbender at June 21, 2026 07:14 AM (1FEc1)
So. Howz yer Sunday morning?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 06:00 AM (wzUl9)
Wet
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 07:21 AM (O0L8i)
Sunny, delightfully cool (58 deg F). Humidity is at 93% though so I'd better enjoy the morning before it turns into "warmer and muggier". (Rain/thunderstorms are forecast starting at 2 PM.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 07:29 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026
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Wet
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026
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As I finished my workout and was on the way back to my door, a light sprinkle of rain began to fall. As if we hadn't had enough of that stuff this week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 07:30 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Buck at June 21, 2026 07:31 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 21, 2026 07:33 AM (3Ope8)
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Sunny, delightfully cool (58 deg F). Humidity is at 93% though so I'd better enjoy the morning before it turns into "warmer and muggier". (Rain/thunderstorms are forecast starting at 2 PM.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026
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I can't remember when I last saw 58 here. In Kansas in April, yes, but here? Maybe in January.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 07:33 AM (wzUl9)
Mostly sunny and 64F here in Bourbon Country this morning. No chores await (that I'm aware of) so it should be a relaxing day.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2026 07:37 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Buck at June 21, 2026 07:41 AM (z6ONu)
it's odd that peak summer comes on the first day
it should be in the middle somewhere
Posted by: Don Black at June 21, 2026 07:41 AM (sOa7t)
it should be in the middle somewhere
Posted by: Don Black at June 21, 2026 07:41 AM (sOa7t)
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No love for July 4th?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 21, 2026 07:47 AM (6h45X)
It's pouring here. I'll send it east to you.
Posted by: man at June 21, 2026 07:50 AM (XuXeR)
why
Posted by: Don Black at June 21, 2026 07:51 AM (sOa7t)
Since the recent election, I have renamed the “Commonwealth of Virginia” to “Commontrash of Virginia”, at least in my head.
Posted by: Fenderbender at June 21, 2026 07:54 AM (1FEc1)
it should be in the middle somewhere
The so-called solar seasons definition does just that. The solstices and equinoxes are the mid-points of each season, with the cross-quarter points being the boundaries.
The problem is what you mean by "peak" summer. Insolation wise, the solar season are the best. But, as for temperature/climate, inertia gives about a 1 month delay between peak insolation and peak "summer weather" (except where it doesn't, and June and Dec are the hottest and coldest). The meteorological seasons are the best match for that. Summer begins June 1st and ends Sept 1.
Astronomical seasons have always been traditional, as it divides the seasons into nice quadrants off the ecliptic.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 08:00 AM (w6EFb)
Survey says "No."
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 21, 2026 08:01 AM (b4LBp)
House of Strangers w/ Edward G. Robinson and Susan Hayward is on Movies! tonight at 7 Central. Today is Father's Day movies, with Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend,, and Cheaper by the Dozen. In real life Clifton Webb might have been queerer than a three-dollar bill, but he was great on film, both in comedy and drama. His dramatic turn in the 1953 Titanic is excellent.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 08:03 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Don Black at June 21, 2026 08:05 AM (sOa7t)
Posted by: man at June 21, 2026
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I like the look and sound of it, but it doesn't make things any cooler here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 08:05 AM (wzUl9)
In the past it was a catered meeting, with good food. This time the local bar and grill sufficed.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2026 06:38 AM (whRlH)
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Pun lost. Sigh!
/stovetop coffee in hand to cheer me up
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 08:06 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: Don Black at June 21, 2026 08:05 AM (sOa7t)
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So... dispostable?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 08:07 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 08:08 AM (3UbC6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 21, 2026 08:10 AM (6h45X)
Posted by: Don Black at June 21, 2026 08:05 AM (sOa7t)
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Heh Are you new here
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 21, 2026 08:11 AM (6h45X)
/stovetop coffee in hand to cheer me up
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 08:06 AM (3UbC6)
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As an anti-puntite this pleases me
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 21, 2026 08:15 AM (6h45X)
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Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 08:23 AM (3UbC6)
Straightline winds that hit 100mph a few times.
Attendant rain and hail,,, and dust.
Storm chasers with cracked and broken windshields showed the story.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 21, 2026 08:29 AM (5gyQ/)
Grocery shopping
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 08:29 AM (Ia/+0)
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Sigh. I wonder about my fellow West Pointers sometimes; at some point, you realize that nobody gives a shit about those that aren't glorious failures and/or glorious successes.
I was a tanker and then switched to being a signal puke. You can believe I was an West Point grad or not; I don't particularly care. I wasn't a glorious failure but I never made O4 despite staying in for 12 years; that's a merely being a failure. So keep that in mind when you read the rest.
For example, Pompeo was a West Pointer; he punched out after his 5 year commitment and became a lawyer. Oh, he was a tanker as well. Not a company/troop commander, for what that's worth.
McMaster was also West Pointer. McMaster commanded one of the units that got shot at in Gulf War I (that was him as an O-3 in the battle of 73 Easting). He, too, was a tanker and a company/troop commander.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 21, 2026 08:35 AM (vU0j9)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 08:36 AM (nbLIj)
Perpetual licence for support smells like slavery.
Also how the hell can company A sell a promise to thousands of people, pocket the money, and then sell the liabilities to company B then bugger off to Bermuda.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 21, 2026 08:48 AM (gKWVE)
Sigh. I wonder about my fellow West Pointers sometimes; at some point, you realize that nobody gives a shit about those that aren't glorious failures and/or glorious successes.
Makes you wonder, and the data should be available. What percentage of officers are ring knockers? What percentage of newly-minted officers are? What percentage of officers with X years are?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 08:49 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 21, 2026 08:50 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: M. Gaga at June 21, 2026 08:50 AM (zeLd4)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Today my umbrella begins it's slow trip back to the southern end of the porch as the angle of the sunlight slowly changes for my breakfast each morning.
I don't have a Druid horn though.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 21, 2026 08:51 AM (Lo97M)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at June 21, 2026 08:55 AM (VCgbV)
Hundreds of Years before the Dawn of History
Lived a strange race of people, the Druids
No one knows who they were, or what they were doing
But their legacy remains...
Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at June 21, 2026 08:56 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 06:05 AM (Ia/+0)
Beenhavingthesameproblemlately.Mustbealiens.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 21, 2026 08:59 AM (5xuJ/)
Here, have another set of drill bits. The cheap ones.
Posted by: Dads everywhere at June 21, 2026 09:03 AM (eDbqp)
Sorry, I'm not sure where this was going.
Some members of the classes 1983, 1982, and 1981 will know who I am, if for no other reason that "Oh, THAT dickhead".
I'm not unknown within my class (1980), but I've removed myself from the class mailing list that West Pointers have due to my providing more heat than light in our discussions there.
To discuss 2 important current West Pointers....
Pompeo and his cabal went to Harvard; that, in and of itself, tells you how he would turn out. The fact that he was able to use the West Point sieve/hammer/flame to produce a posse is worth some analysis. Maybe VDH could provide some insights.
McMaster didn't get hazed by me since he was in the class of 1984. He did appear to have a somewhat privileged life, since he didn't go to a public school prior to getting a West Point slot.
I'm thinking of my classmates; the first class with women in it (some of whom have come clean that they lied about their sexual orientation as part of the initial screening process), the class that had the focus about the cheating scandal from the class of 1976 (despite the lying lesbians referenced earlier).
TMI for this format. Done.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 21, 2026 09:19 AM (vU0j9)
Knew the VAMoMe would be rated nothing less than fabulous, especially given the hosts and weather. 👍
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P.S. - The musical interlude was just...cruel. (Note this opinion comes from someone who laughed at the local Bloodhound Gang.)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 21, 2026 09:20 AM (NFX2v)
Will the ACE instruction set be shelved? Will those shelves fall down?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2026 09:27 AM (l3cgK)
Well, ROTC provides the bulk of new officers; the academies crank out ~1,000 new officers. Army ROTC provides ~5,000
new officers.
The Navy and Air Force have their own numbers. I was neither a squid nor a zoomie, so I don't care about their numbers.
(As a former ground-pounder, I liked being able to think that the think flying above was one of ours. As a former ground-pounder, I'm not sure how any soldier can survive in the modern battlefield. Much less any vehicle.)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 21, 2026 09:46 AM (vU0j9)
web page is actually pleasant and the people are
genuinely sharing nice thoughts.
Posted by: Metal Roofing at June 21, 2026 10:12 AM (8rrT7)
Good way to bankrupt a competitor.
Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at June 21, 2026 12:54 PM (Skc+N)
also clear their motive, and that is also happening
with this article which I am reading at this place.
Posted by: Commercial Roofing at June 21, 2026 06:16 PM (fFRIG)
I was working in the industry when RISC came up. Even then, no one could agree on exactly what it was.
Initially people associated RISC with simple instructions running at high clock rates. And that was largely true for gen1. Once superscalar & out of order came into the chat, it wasn’t so simple. I spent a lot of time doing high performance machine code for both gen1 & superscalar/OOO.
Posted by: Mike at June 21, 2026 09:58 PM (bWB2b)
Saturday Night Club ONT - June 20, 2026 [D Squared]
So -- will we be seeing you in Texas in October for TxMoMe XI???
On Wednesday, the 2027 Porsche Taycan debuted with fake gear shifts and as the German automaker put it, "more emotive electric sport sound." The fake gear shifts are being dubbed "virtual gears" with the feature known as E-Shift, according to Porsche. It's an option on all 2027 Taycan models, though it's standard on the Turbo GT trim, and will deliver a "perceptible shift motion," according to the automaker. Taycans already had fake noise, but now Porsche said the system, which uses speakers to pump fake noise into the world just like Hyundai's does, has been "reinterpreted," according to the automaker. It's also officially called Porsche Electric Sport Sound. Dangerously close to sport exhaust. Porsche also added a virtual rev counter to the 2027 Taycan to count the fake revs from the fake transmission.Tell me you've lost your way without telling me you've lost your way. Content cleanse with this:
The June 16, 1984, episode of Piper's Pit would go down in history as the start of something huge: the Rock 'n Roll Connection. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper interviewed pop star Cyndi Lauper, Captain Lou Albano crashed the conversation, and chaos ensued!We know what you're thinking. "If only Mattel would make a trio of collectible figures to commemorate such a significant cultural moment in time..." Well, we have news for you. A new 3 pack of action figures will make their debut at San Diego Comic-Con next month! Each is 6.5 inches tall. How much you ask? Only $80! What a bargain! If that's not enough, the Lauper figure comes with an interchangeable head and two extra pairs of hands.
The TikToker @itsmeju1iette is dedicated to trolling food internet at an exceptionally well-executed level. Juliette does things like create meat cereal in the style of Froot Loops, uses her dog's actual paws to make paw print cookies, and fills the frunk (front trunk) of a Tesla completely with tiramisu (unfortunately, commercially-made meat cereal does exist, and we once tried it). One of her videos from a few years back is a simple one showing her cooking hot dogs in Gatorade, which turns them a remarkable blue color. Could this actually happen? Gatorade needs no introduction, but in my mind, the drink wouldn't impart that much color to a hot dog - or would it?The verdict:
Interestingly enough, the Gatorade only colored the surface of the dog, and the Fierce Grape flavor was subtle. But it was there all right, though it was very faint. The meaty savoriness of the all-beef hot dog did the heavy lifting, and for something this strange-looking, it didn't taste as atrocious as it appeared.
I might Wang Chung tonight. Haven’t decided yet. pic.twitter.com/BHKit1wGIG
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) June 13, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 20, 2026 10:00 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 20, 2026 10:01 PM (PJdmB)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 20, 2026 10:01 PM (kOluj)
Um… or something.
Hullo.
Posted by: mindful webworker - dino mite at June 20, 2026 10:01 PM (9bb3y)
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Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2026 10:05 PM
***
We missed you! (but waved from across the river)
Posted by: TRex - Club ONT coat check dino at June 20, 2026 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:09 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:10 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Piper
*****
But your personality is more like Ravioli, a golden retriever/poodle who was the friendliest, most enthusiastic doggo and want to say hi to everyone!
Missed you, try coming to one of these in the future...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 20, 2026 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)
https://tinyurl.com/3uwzzrx3
Posted by: LASue at June 20, 2026 10:12 PM (6mVIs)
And thanks for the reporting on the NoVaMoMe! We ALL wish we could have been there today.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 20, 2026 10:12 PM (D/6p1)
Tell me you've lost your way without telling me you've lost your way."
I hate that crap. Fake and gay.
#2 son and I went on a little road rally today, in a 1965 Spitfire. The sounds and smells are all real, not like that fake teutonic twaddle. Everybody loves that car. Park it next to a Porsche SUV and guess what gets the attention.
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 10:12 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 10:12 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:12 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2026 10:12 PM (Hpgos)
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 10:12 PM (RCjYY)
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Shocking Blue's best effort.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:13 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 10:13 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Piper
*****
But your personality is more like Ravioli, a golden retriever/poodle who was the friendliest, most enthusiastic doggo and want to say hi to everyone!
Missed you, try coming to one of these in the future...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 20, 2026 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)
I need to do that, life keeps getting in the way. I had to go to MD a few weeks ago for my uncle’s funeral and I can only get away from the studio so much. The downside to owning your own business is actually less flexibility! I don’t even know if I will make it (again) on our family vacation, at least not the full time. Boo hiss.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:14 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 10:13 PM (vFG9F)
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Big Mike would respectfully disagree.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:16 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:17 PM (77rzZ)
Well, maybe I'll again make the much more honorable roll of top sock-er players. Socket puppets. Whaaatever.⚽
Posted by: mindful webworker - soccer it to me? -Dick Nixon at June 20, 2026 10:18 PM (9bb3y)
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 10:13 PM (vFG9F)
"No need cut it off. It fall off by self in two, three day!"
Posted by: Just The Punchline at June 20, 2026 10:18 PM (bhZyo)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:18 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 10:18 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2026 10:05 PM
***
We missed you! (but waved from across the river)
Posted by: TRex
I work on the NoVA side of the Potomac, so probably on the same side. I waved while driving in. Got flipped off. Probably not a moron.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2026 10:19 PM (Hpgos)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 10:19 PM (ZHOnm)
The downside to owning your own business is actually less flexibility!
How can you take any time off at all without shutting down?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 20, 2026 10:20 PM (Cqx++)
Would I lose my barely-accepted Moron status if I confess that I have know idea what this is about, much less why Cyndi Lauper should have interchangeable heads?
Posted by: mindful webworker - do what now? at June 20, 2026 10:20 PM (9bb3y)
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They called it Widowmaker for a reason.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:20 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 10:20 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 10:21 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Piper
*****
But your personality is more like Ravioli, a golden retriever/poodle who was the friendliest, most enthusiastic doggo and want to say hi to everyone!
Missed you, try coming to one of these in the future...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 20, 2026 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)
I need to do that, life keeps getting in the way. I had to go to MD a few weeks ago for my uncle’s funeral and I can only get away from the studio so much. The downside to owning your own business is actually less flexibility! I don’t even know if I will make it (again) on our family vacation, at least not the full time. Boo hiss.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:14 PM (OoFl2)
My first thought was that Saijo and your cats had recruited a local dog to see if they were safe enough for you to meet.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 10:21 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Piper
*********
You would have loved him Piper. He was so earnest and happy and loveable. Determined to meet and greet everyone!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 20, 2026 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Patches at June 20, 2026 10:23 PM (88s3w)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 10:23 PM (bXbFr)
Dammit! Where are my damn glasses...and where is my cocktail?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 20, 2026 10:24 PM (uTEOj)
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 10:24 PM (vFG9F)
T - 6 hours to solstice. Astronomical summer begins, and the days starting getting shorter. Astronomical spring 2026 will clock in at 92 days, 17 hours, and 38 minutes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 10:24 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 10:24 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:24 PM (77rzZ)
Oh baby, she's got it.
I'm your Venus
I'm your fire
That Venus?
Posted by: mnw
I'd wager that, instead, it was
Venus if you will
Please send a little girl for me to thrill
A girl with all your kisses and your charms
A girl without arms like you…♥♥♥
Posted by: mindful webworker - surely the things I ask can't be that great a ta-au-ah-ah-ah ah -ask at June 20, 2026 10:24 PM (9bb3y)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 10:26 PM (qx7Zg)
So of course, I'll soon be stealthily dropping them on all my neighbor's porches in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2026 10:26 PM (ItpVy)
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: New Hampshire’s first transgender elected Rep., Stacie Laughton (D), sentenced to 33 YEARS in prison for the s*xual exploitation of children.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:26 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 20, 2026 10:27 PM (R+iUD)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 10:27 PM (bXbFr)
I think it's happened.
I have no real idea what came over that guy, but I'll try stepping carefully in future.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 10:27 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:12 PM (6/7Fs)
Which Canned Heat shamelessly stole, and faithfully copied, from Henry Thomas, a Texas blues man, who recorded it in 1928. Henry used an instrument called a "quill" worn on a neck brace, for the pipe part. Henry Thomas had a very haunting timbre to his voice.
Here is Henry's original of the song:
https://youtu.be/DTi6Z6qALwY
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 10:27 PM (bXbFr)
I have signed an NDA. Sorry.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:28 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 10:28 PM (bXbFr)
The first openly transgender person elected to a US state legislature has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for child sexual exploitation.
Stacie Marie Laughton's defense had argued for a lower sentence on the basis of his possible "retardation."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:29 PM (ndZc7)
Two clowns are eating a cannibal.
One turns to the other and says, "I think we got this joke wrong"
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 10:29 PM (qx7Zg)
So of course, I'll soon be stealthily dropping them on all my neighbor's porches in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Tonypete
Just don't leave a box of them on the back seat of your car.
Someone's likely to break the window and leave another box.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 10:29 PM (VHUov)
So of course, I'll soon be stealthily dropping them on all my neighbor's porches in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2026 10
And then viral in 23 TikTok’s from nest video.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:29 PM (OoFl2)
So of course, I'll soon be stealthily dropping them on all my neighbor's porches in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2026 10:26 PM (ItpVy)
I thought you were supposed to drop them on the driver's seat of their cars wherever possible.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 20, 2026 10:29 PM (R+iUD)
Spring 2026 clocked in a little short this time, about and hour and a half less than average.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 10:30 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:20 PM (6/7Fs)
Mostly because the 104 was a high-altitude interceptor, forced into a ground-attack role, for which it was very ill-suited.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 10:31 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes"
I don't know it was so tightly regulated. I would just shape shift into a small dinosaur then.
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 10:31 PM (vFG9F)
The crew were all young Pennsylvania good old boys, very pleasant and professional.
They all smoked and had butt's hanging out of their mouths the whole time.
Which oddly, was very reassurring.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 20, 2026 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 10:31 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:31 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Piper
Eau de irony. Magnified by your own tragic demise.😀
Posted by: mindful webworker - death as a part of life, it's true at June 20, 2026 10:31 PM (9bb3y)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:31 PM (OoFl2)
So of course, I'll soon be stealthily dropping them on all my neighbor's porches in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2026 10:26 PM (ItpVy)
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You can also attend a WNBA game and toss them out in the court in the middle of play.
Just a thought.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:32 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 10:33 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 10:30 PM (w6EFb)
Somebody didn't wind Spring's spring quite tight enough this year, I guess.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 10:33 PM (qx7Zg)
>>You can only shapeshift into something youre own size right
Well, it depends on the needs of the story and if it's coherent within the rules that are set up.
Or you could be Terry Gilliam and don't give a sh*t about such things as coherence.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 20, 2026 10:33 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:33 PM (77rzZ)
Chris Murphy
@ChrisMurphyCT
The plan is for this plane to be in service for two years and then Trump will take if for himself. No President has ever stolen an Air Force for himself.
And you paid for it. The total cost could be $1 billion of your money for a new luxury jet for Trump and his family.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:33 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 10:34 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 10:34 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:26 PM (ndZc7)
Pity New Hampshire is too poor to be able to afford a gas chamber.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 10:34 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Bulg
___
We're hoping to be there too, but this buying a house put a huge dent in our savings (closing costs), and Ex-ex is looking for a new job, since commuting 2 hours each way is not an option.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 10:35 PM (ZHOnm)
And you paid for it. The total cost could be $1 billion of your money for a new luxury jet for Trump and his family.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:33 PM (ndZc7)
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Why, this is an outrage.
Beef jerky?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:35 PM (6/7Fs)
Beef jerky?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:35 PM (6/7Fs)
Is anything ever inrageous?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 10:37 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 10:35 PM (ZHOnm)
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A two-hour commute? Pfft.
I used to do that in my sleep.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:37 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:37 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 10:38 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 10:38 PM (bXbFr)
Just a thought.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:32 PM (6/7Fs)
Does he get bonus points if he gets the zucchini to land on a player's head without breaking?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 10:38 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2026 10:38 PM (ZVgZ4)
The downside to owning your own business is actually less flexibility!
How can you take any time off at all without shutting down?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 20, 2026 10:20
I have employees, but I teach a lot on week days. so covering all of my classes is hard. I only teach a few weekends, weekend get aways are easiest. I would have to do a modified schedule if I left for the whole week, and I hate to do that to clients. I may just for 1/2 the week or something.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:39 PM (OoFl2)
The F-16 took off and immediately stood on its tail and climbed straight up. What was amusing was what happened next.
Next to take off were three Phantoms. For those unfamiliar, the Phantom was a big, heavy airplane, especially compared to the F-16. Each Phantom rolled down the runway, lifted off, tried to go vertical for a split second, and immediately gave up the attempt.
I imagine there was much grunting of frustration and the grinding of teeth in the cockpits.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2026 10:40 PM (bhZyo)
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 10:40 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:42 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Cicero
Hey! If you don't like the way I drive, stay off of the sidewalk!
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2026 10:43 PM (ItpVy)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:43 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 10:44 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:44 PM (77rzZ)
I wouldn't mind if a couple of zucchini were left on my porch once in a while. They want $1.99/lb at the grocery. Insane!
Last time I grew them, one plant got hit by vine-borers & died. The other was okay until I skipped watering... and it died. But that's okay, we got quite a few. And no-- we *asked* neighbors if they wanted any-- didn't just dump surprises on them.
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 10:44 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
We keep that to ourselves.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 10:40 PM (VHUov)
At least until the head explodes or lava starts to leak.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 10:44 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: clarence at June 20, 2026 10:44 PM (I5lp2)
Posted by: PT, Piano Teacher, former Official Delurker at June 20, 2026 10:45 PM (XqvXS)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:45 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 10:44 PM (0nHVk)
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*checks clipboard*
Line on the left. One cross each.
Posted by: Centurion #4 at June 20, 2026 10:46 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: PT, Piano Teacher, former Official Delurker at June 20, 2026 10:46 PM (XqvXS)
"I don't want to brag but I picked my first zucchini today."
For you, then, "The Zucchini Song"!
"Ohhh! What a beauty,
I never saw one as large as that before!
Ohhh! What a beauty,
It must be 2 foot long or maybe more!"
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 10:46 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes
Still a great superpower. I'd be constantly shapeshifted into me, except super ripped.
Posted by: mikeski asks, "Bro, do you even shift?" at June 20, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 10:44 PM
***
You're earlier than usual!
Posted by: TRex - tick tock dino at June 20, 2026 10:46 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 10:47 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 10:47 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
***********
Wow, this is a treat...either I am way past my bedtime or you are early, cause we are never on here at the same time....but great to see you in real time!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 20, 2026 10:49 PM (IQ6Gq)
Pppfffttt.
*yawns*
Now. Roll a battalion of tanks across that airport and now you got something exciting!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 10:50 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: JQ
Clearly you are not of Italian-American heritage.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2026 10:51 PM (ItpVy)
She mentioned that the Horde is a family, of sorts, unto itself. And I fully agree with her in this. Thank you all, for being my Internet family, and for getting me out today.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:52 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 10:50 PM
***
That's tankdemon's department and he's late. We don't know why.
Posted by: TRex - sherman dino at June 20, 2026 10:53 PM (IQ6Gq)
Extra points if your hotdog cart has a sign:
The Green Dildo (don't play with your food)
Posted by: Orson at June 20, 2026 10:53 PM (dIske)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 10:53 PM (rdVOm)
Blame the Moon. That's the biggest driver of the variation in exact apparent season timing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
She mentioned that the Horde is a family, of sorts, unto itself. And I fully agree with her in this. Thank you all, for being my Internet family, and for getting me out today.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:52 PM (77rzZ)
And we all know who the weird uncle is….🤣
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:54 PM (pZEOD)
Hair color, maybe?
I actually enjoy Cyndi Lauper’s albums quite a bit. But Lauper herself always reminds me of the singer from Eraserhead. Of which I was recently reminded while watching horde-adjacent movie material.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 10:54 PM (kYmoU)
JQ, good to see you, a Chivas if you will please.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 10:54 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 10:50 PM
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That's tankdemon's department and he's late. We don't know why.
Posted by: TRex - sherman dino
***********
YET! I have faith he will report in....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 20, 2026 10:55 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 10:56 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 10:56 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 20, 2026 10:58 PM (IQ6Gq)
There's a Bob Segar song with something about "Blame it on the Moon", IIRC.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 10:58 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg
And we all know who the weird uncle is….🤣
Posted by: Piper
I'm wondering who (among the 'Rons) it isn't.....
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 10:58 PM (VHUov)
Shame on you for misremembering lyrics.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 10:59 PM (kYmoU)
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Just don't ask for a loan and we'll be fine, ummkay?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 11:00 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Marilyn Munster at June 20, 2026 11:00 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 20, 2026 11:00 PM (Yw4Qw)
Same here, Debby! It's too darned hot here by noon, so yard work needs to be done very early. And then lunch with hubby (because he sundowns in the afternoon and that's hard for me to handle) so, I need to get going much sooner than I have been doing. Ugh. Never was a "morning person" even when the job demanded it.
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 11:00 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 11:00 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at June 20, 2026 11:02 PM (Skc+N)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 11:03 PM (rdVOm)
There's a Bob Segar song with something about "Blame it on the Moon", IIRC.
Posted by: publius
youtu.be/AOcDyBS7T1U
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2026 11:03 PM (Hpgos)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 11:04 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 10:44 PM (rdVOm)
But the third one...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 20, 2026 11:05 PM (nbLIj)
One person vs. 16 x 24 tarp, in the wind... had to pin down the corners with lawn chairs before spraying off. LOL! It'll be dry by tomorrow and hopefully not so windy while I re-fold it.
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 11:09 PM (rdVOm)
Piper, I waded into something that I shouldn't have last night. I was oblivious to any prior history, thank you for being the classy person that you are, I meant no offense to you.
Bulg, get you butt to Texas, you will have a great time, meet some more of your family.
Thanks JQ, that was delish, might I trouble you for another before bed.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 11:10 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 11:10 PM (p4NUW)
I don't want to brag but I picked my first zucchini of the season today.
So of course, I'll soon be stealthily dropping them on all my neighbor's porches in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Tonypete
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::seething with jealousy::
Not that I'm not a neighbor, but that you're able to grow zucchini.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2026 11:11 PM (XJ22o)
Peck is sort of miscast as a farmer in 1870s Florida, but Jane Wyman absolutely nails her role as the non-demonstrative and no-nonsense, but loving, mother.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 11:11 PM (wzUl9)
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I thought we were supposed to blame it on Rio. You know, that girl who dances on the sand.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 11:13 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 11:14 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2026 11:11 PM (XJ22o)
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Have you tried burying a dead fish where you plant the seeds?
Posted by: Squanto at June 20, 2026 11:14 PM (6/7Fs)
Pretty crazy on the beach. Sunny and 65.
So. Many. Tourists. Cruise ships just left port, three of them. USA vs AUS yesterday and the BoSox in town. I’ve never seen so many Star Spangled Benners flying and USA soccer jerseys and happy people.
Not a fag flag in sight. Serious. It’s spooky.
Almost like Seattle has an excuse to fly their red white and blue and not be harassed by the freak show haters. I’m stunned.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 20, 2026 11:15 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026
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They would probably laugh at how low my budget is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 11:16 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 11:17 PM (w6EFb)
Yes, it's blame it on midnight, and shame on the Moon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026
***
They would probably laugh at how low my budget is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 11:16 PM (wzUl9)
Don't they focus on couples, like an influencer and a day care center owner with a $5 million budget?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 11:18 PM (qx7Zg)
You know, I'll have another beverage too. Couldn't sleep last night, slept late this morning... ugh. Get so tired of fighting it! Maybe can just knock myself out? No, not worth the hangover.
Tomorrow is Fathers' Day, and surely stepson will call while I'm with hubby. Don't want to be all messed up then! I'll saute a lobster tail (cut-up) to bring with me at lunch. Good thing the place is nearby.
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 11:19 PM (rdVOm)
It's almost officially summer!
Bonus tracks!
https://youtu.be/7NJ_nzOckOQ
https://youtu.be/Z2ys-mE9NNA
https://youtu.be/8epnNzRSUdI
https://youtu.be/2Hoehsoj5xk
https://youtu.be/HVBE0cvDukE
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 11:20 PM (VHUov)
G'night. Too bad I couldn't be a the MoMe.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 20, 2026 11:21 PM (CHHv1)
Tomorrow night I plan to sit up late and have a late snack about 10:30 or 11:00. Reason? Monday at 8 am I have to have blood drawn, so no food or coffee after midnight. They usually get to me fast, so I should be able to zip to my favorite diner for food and black juice soon after.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 11:21 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
They would probably laugh at how low my budget is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Don't they focus on couples, like an influencer and a day care center owner with a $5 million budget?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
"I'm a butterfly therapist and my husband is a stay-at-home astronaut. Our budget is 1.2 million."
Posted by: the meme about that at June 20, 2026 11:22 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 11:23 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb)
I used to always be the scapegoat, but time has passed me by.
Posted by: The Bossa Nova at June 20, 2026 11:29 PM (1z8ji)
Happy Summer, everyone! I'm taking a vacation from internetland. See you around the autumnal equinox? :-)
Posted by: PT, Piano Teacher, former Official Delurker at June 20, 2026 11:29 PM (XqvXS)
German Shepherd: Why are you here?
Doberman: I chewed up the mailman. At first he was demanding I be put down, but my owner got him to agree to just have me castrated. Why are you here?
German Shepherd: The lady who owns me came out of the shower and dropped the shampoo bottle. It rolled behind the toilet, so she got down on all fours to retrieve it. I couldn't resist... I mounted her.
Doberman: So you're here for castration too.
German Shepherd: Nope, just a nail trim.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 20, 2026 11:30 PM (qpyNK)
It just occurred to me, this is the evening of the day before the summer solstice. So, this is Summer's Eve. Are you feeling fresh?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 11:31 PM (w6EFb)
We have a launch late tomorrow morning.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-28
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: June 21, 2026
Launch Time: 8:12 a.m. PDT (1512 UTC, 17:12 CEST)
https://youtu.be/mC_L0wUT_gs
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026 11:31 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:37 PM (6/7Fs)
Hey!
I was 14 ok. And it only happened twice.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 11:33 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 11:33 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 20, 2026 11:33 PM (6lIrI)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 11:34 PM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: The Bossa Nova at June 20, 2026 11:34 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 11:00 PM (77rzZ)
That's not stealing. Those old bastards put their money down fair 'n square.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 11:34 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Seals and Crofts at June 20, 2026 11:37 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 20, 2026 11:38 PM (6lIrI)
Glad you're enjoying it. In these modern times, we just don't do that much anymore. Time, navigation, seasons, etc, are all automatic now, and the connection is lost on the modern general public.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 11:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 20, 2026 11:39 PM (6lIrI)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 11:41 PM (0nHVk)
The Gas engines they use in the gokarts are now verboten.
Going... after... Disneyland... Hubris.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 20, 2026 11:42 PM (mP0Kj)
No idea what I was thinking, maybe Ron Popiel was trying to find a new market or set up a line of mecha-warrior suits or something.
I wonder what story I was working on.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2026 11:43 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: PabloD at June 20, 2026 11:44 PM (tTZHu)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 11:44 PM (rdVOm)
No idea what I was thinking, maybe Ron Popiel was trying to find a new market or set up a line of mecha-warrior suits or something.
I wonder what story I was working on.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2026 11:43 PM (rbvCR)
RONCO Heavy Weapons, a subsidiary of Acme Corp
Posted by: Wile E. Coyote. at June 20, 2026 11:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 20, 2026 11:45 PM (6lIrI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 20, 2026 11:45 PM (mPXxA)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 20, 2026 11:42 PM (mP0Kj)
The article I found says they're switching to electric.
I predict failure... even in California no self-respecting kid is going to want to drive a gussied-up mobility scooter.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 20, 2026 11:46 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 20, 2026 11:45 PM (6lIrI)
As everything must have its opposite.
Silly Putty shows there must be Serious Putty... which some of us call.. C4
Posted by: Wile E. Coyote. at June 20, 2026 11:47 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: PabloD at June 20, 2026 11:44 PM (tTZHu)
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Meh. Everyone knows the whole thing is rigged.
Not to take away from your achievement or anything...
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 11:49 PM (6/7Fs)
Another kid for him?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 20, 2026 11:52 PM (qpyNK)
Another kid for him?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Dude better be careful, or he'll be only a billionaire again.
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 11:54 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
Oh! It’s temporary, for sure. But.
It tells me there’s a lot of folks out here going with the flow just to get along. And now there’s an excuse to go all USA USA USA, they are taking it unabashedly.
Makes me happy.
Next weekend. Iran vs Egypt. It’s the PRIDE MATCH.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 20, 2026 11:56 PM (A5RD0)
Along those lines, I was listening to a podcast the other day with one of the Younger Dryas impact guys being interviewed by some young feller. He was talking about the alignment of Giza and some of the others that corresponded to the sky around 10,500BC due to precession.
"What's precession?" Well, it's the 26,000 year wobble of the earth's axis.
"How does that affect the alignment and of what". Well, it changes the constellation the equinox appears in. "Equinox?" When the sun rises due east and sets due west, basically. It's the Zodiac constellation that occurs in.
"You mean star patterns?".....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb)
Hey, Bartender: I notice we've somehow got some coffee liquor. Wondering what to do with it. Of an evening, not in the morning coffee. If we had some vodka, we could make a Russki, I guess. Just have rum and whiskey. And weird things like bitters. Any ideas?
Over vanilla ice cream along with some crumbled cookies, maybe? I'm a glass of wine or a beer guy, not much of a mixed bev type. Occasional rum-and-something.
Maybe I should just go to bed…
Posted by: mindful webworker - adopted cousin in the Horde family at June 20, 2026 11:57 PM (9bb3y)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 11:54 PM (rdVOm)
Supposedly he does a business agreement with each.
It's got to be an odd headspace to be in.
I'd prefer just one, but he is an odd one. Maybe he is so hyperfixated on not losing sight of Mars that he does not want to take the risk. If he married someone, you know some judge would give her half his shit (automatically making her the world's richest woman- which would deform a relationship to incomprehensibility.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2026 12:00 AM (mPXxA)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 20, 2026 11:42 PM (mP0Kj)
Newsome kept it shut down during COVID despite their pleadings that Disneyworld had been open for almost a year with no one getting sick.
Something something...boot stamping a face forever...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 12:00 AM (nbLIj)
He's flailing. Pandering. Kind of cutting off your nose to spite your face though.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2026 12:01 AM (mPXxA)
I guess he's got a bunch of them living in a luxurious high-security compound.
Odd headspace indeed.
No word on whether he's still boning all of them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 12:03 AM (qpyNK)
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 20, 2026 11:56 PM (A5RD0)
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Lol - that oughta be a riot....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 12:04 AM (6lIrI)
Posted by: Jackson K. at June 21, 2026 12:04 AM (Es4vZ)
Many drugs can cause paranoia, including weed, speed, and coke, and it sounds like Chris Murphy needs detox.
Posted by: SciVo at June 21, 2026 12:04 AM (Sy6m/)
He wants to have as many children as he can. He has the ability to support them and their mothers.
He’s never said he’s a saint. He’s never professed he’s a one woman guy. I don’t judge him. He’s done a lot more good in the world than bad and he has never demanded I pay for his kids.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 12:08 AM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Ian S. at June 21, 2026 12:11 AM (5hs8R)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 12:11 AM (6lIrI)
Posted by: Jackson K.
>Do they serve little redhead girls with pigtails at Wendy's?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 12:11 AM (fkjGs)
Well, there's also the white russian if you want to use up the wotka. Or, leave it out and just have the coffee liquor with cream (personally, half n half is too rich for me, I just use plain milk)
Consider a "toasted almond" which is like the white russian, but with Amaretto instead of vodka.
I agree that the kahlua, or tia maria or whatever, is great over ice cream!
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 12:12 AM (rdVOm)
On loan from the WNBA?
Posted by: Ian S. at June 21, 2026 12:11 AM (5hs8R)
You could tell when he put the maple syrup on his hot dog.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2026 12:12 AM (mPXxA)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 12:13 AM (6lIrI)
Posted by: The Bossa Nova at June 21, 2026 12:14 AM (1z8ji)
I remember my parents would get this giant tub (like 2 gals) of this toasted almond ice cream (chocolate with almonds.) It was delicious. Never been able to find store bought like that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2026 12:14 AM (mPXxA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 12:14 AM (1z8ji)
On loan from the WNBA?
Posted by: Ian S. at June 21, 2026 12:11 AM (5hs8R)
You could tell when he put the maple syrup on his hot dog.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2026 12:12 AM (mPXxA)
No one put Bob from NSA on the label? What was his temporary fill-in, George?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 21, 2026 12:15 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2026 12:15 AM (1z8ji)
The soon-to-be god-emperor of Mars must have many concubines, of course. He may be shooting to break Solomon's record.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 12:17 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 12:17 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 12:19 AM (6lIrI)
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 12:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
Ah, thanks. I used to drink that in my long-ago yout'. Hadn't thought of that.
Posted by: mindful webworker - memories, fading through the ages just like something something at June 21, 2026 12:20 AM (9bb3y)
Our house addition is going apace. We got foundations this week, framing next. Will be lovely to have a bedroom on the ground floor, with a flat ceiling at the correct height. No more ducking to get into bed. No more stairs either. We are old, dammit.
However, the mosquitos are thick enough to carry off a small dog, so not much hangin' outside tonight. We demolished the deck anyway, for the addition, so I guess we are inside this evening.
Days like this are the reason we live up here. It is paradise.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 21, 2026 12:20 AM (bl07w)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 21, 2026 12:22 AM (6lIrI)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 21, 2026 12:23 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 12:23 AM (rdVOm)
He's made a few high-profile violations of Rule #1, but most of his choices seem to be respectable and do their best to stay out of the limelight.
He dodged a real bullet when that flirtation with AOC went nowhere, though. Rule #1 and how!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 12:23 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at June 21, 2026 12:24 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 12:08 AM (A5RD0)
It recently occurred to me that maybe he’s trying to spread his genetics as widely as possible to father a child or two most like him to carry on his mission to Mars…and beyond!!!
Posted by: NC Ref at June 21, 2026 12:25 AM (OTOad)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
Netfux has a documentary on the Eraserheads.
Filipino band that was apparently very popular there about twenty years ago. Don't know if the name has anything to do with the movie.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 21, 2026 12:25 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Jackson K. at June 21, 2026 12:04 AM (Es4vZ)
AOC is so dumb that she thought the mascot was based on her.
It's the teeth.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 12:25 AM (qpyNK)
Solstice in about 4 hours. If you want to know the exact moment, that will be 08:24:31Z, 04:24:31 EDT.
Solstice = Sol-stice = Sun-still. Lo, the sun stands still. Well, declination wise, it's moving on the fast side longitudinally. Peak declination will be 23d26'16.5".
The alignment is a bit off this time, 0.2" (arc seconds). Last year, solstice 2025 was one of the rare times when the alignment is dead on, the center of the sun dead on the ecliptic of date to within Stellarium's 0.1" display resolution.
Shame on the Moon for that, of course. The Moon causes the center of the earth to do the slightest little side-to-side and up and down bobbing and weaving relative to the "osculating" plane of the ecliptic. Last year, it was dead on center, but this time the Erf is a smidge above that plane of date.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 12:27 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 12:27 AM (w6EFb)
You are getting dangerously close to math and physics here, buddy.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 21, 2026 12:30 AM (bl07w)
So of course, I'll soon be stealthily dropping them on all my neighbor's porches in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2026 10:26 PM (ItpVy)
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You can also attend a WNBA game and toss them out in the court in the middle of play.
Just a thought.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:32
Now right there I think you have a top 10 post of the week Cicero.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at June 21, 2026 12:33 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
How about about Oprah?
Isn't she the world's richest woman already? Or was that US?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 21, 2026 12:34 AM (/lPRQ)
Sounds lovely out there!
Not a fan of bugs though. And Alaskan mosquitos are nothing to take lightly. Are you going to have a screened in porch? With triple panes windows for wintertime?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 21, 2026 12:35 AM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
How about about Oprah?
Isn't she the world's richest woman already? Or was that US?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 21, 2026 12:34 AM (/lPRQ)
I don't think Musk would be interested in Oprah.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 21, 2026 12:36 AM (dK+Kv)
https://youtu.be/uNSBq6hvU1s
Goodnight, goodnight, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - relationships are never simple at June 21, 2026 12:37 AM (9bb3y)
Isn't she the world's richest woman already? Or was that US?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 21, 2026 12:34 AM (/lPRQ)
Oprah is worth 3.42 Billion according to bing.
Half of his wealth would be 500 Billion (over 100 times her worth.)
Still quite a disparity. Plus she's too old to have kids.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2026 12:37 AM (mPXxA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2026 12:39 AM (mPXxA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2026 12:40 AM (mPXxA)
Isn't she the world's richest woman already? Or was that US?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 21, 2026 12:34 AM (/lPRQ)
Alice Walton is the richest woman in the world. I think it was Lizzie Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (aka "Windsor") until she passed on.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 12:40 AM (qpyNK)
He wants to have as many children as he can. He has the ability to support them and their mothers.
He’s never said he’s a saint. He’s never professed he’s a one woman guy. I don’t judge him. He’s done a lot more good in the world than bad and he has never demanded I pay for his kids.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Like Brigham Young populated Salt Lake with his spawn,
Elon Musk is going to populate Mars with hundreds of his spawn, each by a different woman.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 21, 2026 12:45 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 21, 2026 12:45 AM (tcsrY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 12:47 AM (2UA/a)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 21, 2026 12:40 AM (qpyNK)
63.6 billion according to bing.
So he's only twenty times as wealthy as her.
It really is stupidly wealthy.
The 'richest person in history' list is retarded. Very much infested by DEI.
No Charles the V. They put Mansa Musa as #1 because he controlled gold mines. But Charles Owned all of the gold mines in the New world- plus Spain. Plus the Holy Roman Empire.
But he was white so Catherine the Great was richer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2026 12:47 AM (mPXxA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 12:47 AM (2UA/a)
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 12:48 AM (YZ0Fo)
It does help to know a little bit about that for this stuff.
Just a little bit. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 12:51 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: 496 at June 21, 2026 12:52 AM (mzbnH)
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 12:54 AM (YZ0Fo)
I'm all for smart people having as many kids as they can support (and boy, can he support them).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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I'm not. Fatherlessness is a worse problem than having a distant dad that you share among a harem of moms, even if he can give you an entire fleet of Cyber Trucks. I don't think it's an accident that one of Elon's sons has committed semi-suicide by "transitioning" to female.
And it also bothers me that conservative men who wink at ol' Elon and cut him slack for the harem thing are hostile towards women who have chosen not to have kids for entirely responsible reasons and mock them as "empty egg cartons." I've never seen a moron express a shred of sympathy for Jennifer Aniston, who wanted kids, got dumped by a faithless husband, tried to have them later in life, and finally resigned herself to childlessness. And I'd better say Good-night.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 21, 2026 12:56 AM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Jennifer Aniston has had 50 years to have a kid. She didn't want to when she was younger and now has buyers remorse.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 12:59 AM (YZ0Fo)
A-- One guy wants kids by a couple of dozen women.
B-- One gal wants kids by a couple of dozen men.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
Where are any lyrics of today depicting this:
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city
Cool town, evening in the city
Dressing so fine and looking so pretty
Cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city
Till I'm wheezing like a bus stop
Running up the stairs, gonna meet you on the rooftop
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:03 AM (2UA/a)
Posted by: wth at June 21, 2026 01:04 AM (oq9dX)
A-- One guy wants kids by a couple of dozen women.
B-- One gal wants kids by a couple of dozen men.
Posted by: JQ at June
Who pays for/supports them?
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 01:05 AM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: BruceWayne
>Now they have a cologne that The Rock is promoting. Who the fuck wants to smell like a wrassler?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 01:06 AM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Spaced Aliens
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:06 AM (2UA/a)
Posted by: BruceWayne
In my scenario-- don't worry about it, it isn't you. Or the taxpayers.
A--Independently wealthy man.
B--Independently wealthy woman.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 01:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
I mean I might be interested in "stone cold said so" scent
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 01:07 AM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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May as well take off both of them.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:08 AM (2UA/a)
A--Independently wealthy man.
B--Independently wealthy woman.
Posted by: JQ at June 21
But see that's the difference. In that scenario yall do what you want. Wouldn't be a life I wanted but good on ya. But that's not how it is.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 01:09 AM (YZ0Fo)
Elon can do what he wants-- it's his life.
I wouldn't want to be either him OR one of his concubines, don't care how much money.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 01:14 AM (rdVOm)
He dodged a real bullet when that flirtation with AOC went nowhere, though. Rule #1 and how!
...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Possibly it has to do with the quality of survive-ability combined with the ability to achieve above average; leaving the rest to
who has control over it anyway?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:16 AM (2UA/a)
I wouldn't want to be either him OR one of his concubines, don't care how much money.
Posted by: JQ
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Been independent minded all your life.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:19 AM (2UA/a)
Posted by: Braenyard
Yes. It has become a weakness, sadly.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Dagwood at June 21, 2026 01:21 AM (CC0N1)
Posted by: Braenyard
Yes. It has become a weakness, sadly.
Posted by: JQ at
Not a weakness. It's a good thing. Always have your own voice and use it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 01:22 AM (YZ0Fo)
178 I was going through some notes from 2021 in my tablet, and I found the entry, "RONCO Heavy weapons division " with no explanation.”
I’m visualizing a TV ad selling MANPADS and RPG’s with the RONCO Christmas music playing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2026 01:25 AM (nuNhM)
Posted by: JQ
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BS, it's taken you this far in good stead. Rough patches are part of the deal. Hang in there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:26 AM (2UA/a)
Posted by: Dagwood at June 21, 2026 01:21 AM (CC0N1)
does a Blue Hotdog lead to a Night in Bangcock?
Posted by: Wile E. Coyote. at June 21, 2026 01:26 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
I've never been asked to express a shred of sympathy for her. I knew nothing of her personal life. Looking at her wiki bio, I would say Aniston is unfortunate. She apparently bought into the "you can have it all" lie.
She put "having kids" on hold for her career. "Friends" started when she was 25. Her first marriage was when she was 31, and lasted until she was 36. "Friends" ended when she was 35.
"Pregnant at 35" is what they used to call "a geriatric pregnancy."
In her own words, she was trying IVF, but it never worked for her. So maybe she was just infertile at that age (or any age) and it was never going to happen? I doubt she lacked money to throw at the problem, medically.
Her second marriage was from the age of 46 to 49, which is getting up to menopause age.
And there was always the option to adopt a child, though that's not for everyone.
And Musk's philandering is worse than Trump's serial-trophy-wifing. I take the Catholic view.
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 01:28 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Dagwood
Everyone knows blue dogs are for Democrats.
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 01:28 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:29 AM (2UA/a)
Posted by: Braenyard
Yes. It has become a weakness, sadly.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Dysfunction is contagious. If you let dysfunctional people into your life, even to help them, it WILL screw up you life.
Independence... equals ... peace... because we never know or can predict who ACTS rational, but will later turn out to have serious problems.
THIS is why I am not dating now...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 21, 2026 01:30 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:31 AM (2UA/a)
I use the JPL DE440/441 ephemerides for Stellarium. It's crazy accurate, with an accuracy for the inner solar system of 0.2 mas. That's .2/1000 of an arc second. This is the position of something on the celestial sphere as seen from the earth. In terms of error in actual spatial distance, that works out to be around 200 m at the worst. Their lunar solution is 1.3 cm. IOW, the Moon's actual center of mass is within 1.3cm of where it's calculated to be.
In the neighborhood out to Jupiter and Saturn, that will get up a kilometer or two.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 01:32 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: wth at June 21, 2026 01:33 AM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:37 AM (2UA/a)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 01:38 AM (2UA/a)
Dysfunctional: my fam's picture is right there in the dictionary.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 01:39 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mikeski
Anything goes?
Posted by: Braenyard
Heh. That marriage should be a lifetime thing, and kids should happen within it.
That post was exactly at the Pixy limit for characters.
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 01:40 AM (VHUov)
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He wants to have as many children as he can. He has the ability to support them and their mothers.
...
Not for long. Gee. what could possibly go wrong?
Elon is the Dare to Be St00p1d posterboy -- until he isnt.
ATLAS SHRUGGED UPDATED FOR ELON
(when the filth foams up around ELON's waist and Trump whispers: NO).
https://tinyurl.com/LIBs-WhatPriceTheirVision
... How he hated his debased need for her, he who loathed self-sacrifice but would give up everything he valued to get in her pants … Did she know?
...
“Why make a product when you can make dollars? Right this second, I’m earning millions in interest off money I don’t even have.”
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 21, 2026 01:41 AM (XsqmQ)
No- or low-contact.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
Can confirm
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at June 21, 2026 01:42 AM (6VErX)
I. Am. Done. with "dating" or looking for opposite-sex companionship. DONE.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 01:45 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
Listen, mac
The lady don't like to be bothered, got it?
Or do me and Rocco gotta explain?
Posted by: Surly but considerate bartender Miklos at June 21, 2026 01:52 AM (6VErX)
She put "having kids" on hold for her career. "Friends" started when she was 25. Her first marriage was when she was 31, and lasted until she was 36. "Friends" ended when she was 35.
"Pregnant at 35" is what they used to call "a geriatric pregnancy."
In her own words, she was trying IVF, but it never worked for her. So maybe she was just infertile at that age (or any age) and it was never going to happen? I doubt she lacked money to throw at the problem, medically.
Her second marriage was from the age of 46 to 49, which is getting up to menopause age.
And there was always the option to adopt a child, though that's not for everyone.
And Musk's philandering is worse than Trump's serial-trophy-wifing. I take the Catholic view.
Posted by: mikeski at
When she was married to Brad Pitt. She didn't want to have kids which why he "cheated " or whatever. She had a million chances to have kids
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 01:53 AM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 01:54 AM (rdVOm)
Meh. It's okay, I didn't find hubby until it was *too late* and he has a son anyway. Adopted btw, because he & XW couldn't have their own either.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
We've all made bad decisions and we live with them.
Sounds like she's using her bad decision to regain lost attention.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 21, 2026 02:00 AM (2UA/a)
Posted by: Surly but considerate bartender Miklos at June 21, 2026 02:00 AM (6VErX)
If you want a little taste of the math involved in those DE integrations, here you go:
https://tinyurl.com/44sey4zy
JPL's DE (development ephemeris) is a full, *relativistic* (meaning Einstein gravity, not Newton, at least to as high an order as needed) numerical integration of the entire Solar System. Just that base run takes days of CPU time on supercomputer clusters. And add a few months on either side of the base run for all the pre and post data processing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 02:01 AM (w6EFb)
We've all made bad decisions and we live with them.
Sounds like she's using her bad decision to regain lost attention.
Posted by: Braenyard
I'll give her credit for saying "ya I shouldn't have done that" if it makes younger women rethink their path. But ya I have no sympathy for her and her always playing the victim.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 02:04 AM (YZ0Fo)
Really, it's ok. Yeah, I sometimes feel disappointed that my fam is weird & uncaring. Just got to shrug it off & get on with my life, I can't change them. Can't change the sucky dynamics.
But I get tired. So tired. Not getting any younger, LOL.
Soon I'll be yelling at clouds, and wearing an onion on my belt.. because it was stylish at one time I guess?
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 02:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at June
Should I have waited to do that???
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 02:07 AM (YZ0Fo)
Maniacs!
Here's one. Pleads innocence but something hints otherwise:
https://tinyurl.com/35ba3443
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 02:08 AM (3UbC6)
If you want to get a spacecraft, a little probe to rendezvous with a comet or asteroid using all that fancy low-energy gravitational slingshot maneuvering, you need this level of accuracy.
That is your tax dollars at work. According to Grok, trying to put this is in human-scale relatable terms, it would be like me firing a bullet (it would be one hell of a fancy rifle and bullet indeed) and hitting a postage stamp in London within 1mm of the target point on that postage stamp.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 02:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 02:09 AM (rdVOm)
Maniacs!
Here's one. Pleads innocence but something hints otherwise:
https://tinyurl.com/35ba3443
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta
I saw a lefty group showed up and complained that Trump got rid of the algae.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 02:11 AM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: BruceWayne
HellifIknow. Heh.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 02:09 AM (rdVOm)
Hahahahah I been yelling at the clouds since I was 14
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 02:12 AM (YZ0Fo)
And forget to add, that would be a moving postage stamp in London.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 02:12 AM (w6EFb)
Well, we've entered the solstice window. To 0.1" arc second, the Sun has reached it's peak declination, it's northern most point. It will remain there for a little over 4 hours. The sun now stands still. Another two hours until the exact longitude point is reached.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 02:19 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally
Yup. Also known as my birthday.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 02:21 AM (YZ0Fo)
THIS is why I am not dating now...
Posted by: Romeo13
You mentioned "dysfunctional" -- yeah, it's hard to discern before becoming *too* involved. I was lucky with current hubby, and BF before him. All the others? Nah, bro-- they were toxic. Just like I was trained to choose, by dysfunction.
Not sure I'd be able to pick another "good one" is what I'm trying to say.
Best to you, Romeo13!
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 02:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
FUN FACT
In 1910, it took about 3 days for a letter to travel from London to St. Petersburg in Imperial Russia.
By 1990, that had increased to about three weeks.
Posted by: The stuff Miklos knows at June 21, 2026 02:28 AM (6VErX)
If you want a little taste of the math involved in those DE integrations, here you go:
...
https://tinyurl.com/44sey4zy
JPL's DE (development ephemeris) is a full, *relativistic* (meaning Einstein gravity, not Newton, at least to as high an order as needed) numerical integration of the entire Solar System. Just that base run takes days of CPU time on supercomputer clusters. And add a few months on either side of the base run for all the pre and post data processing.
But 'splain me. JPL.
why does earth cross Saturn's orbital perihelion foci during the Epiphany, and aphelion foci right about now with an amazing coincidence of 1.03 AU around July 4?
It is Capitol. not Capital -- from Rome/Temple of Jupiter (specifically Jupiter Optimus Maximus, meaning "Jupiter the Best and Greatest").
Huuuge and bigly.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 21, 2026 02:29 AM (D9K3+)
Posted by: Sol Invictus at June 21, 2026 02:29 AM (6VErX)
THIS is why I am not dating now...
Posted by: Romeo13
You mentioned "dysfunctional" -- yeah, it's hard to discern before becoming *too* involved. I was lucky with current hubby, and BF before him. All the others? Nah, bro-- they were toxic. Just like I was trained to choose, by dysfunction.
Not sure I'd be able to pick another "good one" is what I'm trying to say.
Best to you, Romeo13!
Posted by: JQ at
I was engaged 2x. Dated my fair share. I don't think we get to pick. Cause I met she hobbit and knew immediately that was the person for me.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 02:30 AM (YZ0Fo)
The Sun is now directly overhead the Tropic of Cancer (taking precession into account, we should call it the Tropic of Gemini now). The word "tropic" comes from the Ancient Greek Homo talk meaning "turning point". The sun stops, stands still, and then turns south.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 02:31 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
FUN FACT
In 1910, it took about 3 days for a letter to travel from London to St. Petersburg in Imperial Russia.
...
By 1990, that had increased to about three weeks.
In 1990 MANFRED got on a plane to Detroit and beat the email to the destination.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 21, 2026 02:31 AM (m961t)
The Sun is now directly overhead the Tropic of Cancer (taking precession into account, we should call it the Tropic of Gemini now). The word "tropic" comes from the Ancient Greek Homo talk meaning "turning point". The sun stops, stands still, and then turns south.
Which strictly speaking if you back you realize that the zodiacal are not coordinates in the sky but rather points of reference on the ground, because even back then, they knew that the sky was moving, but the earth remained the same and gravity existed because the earth sucked... it was simple enough back then.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 21, 2026 02:35 AM (Tj3cd)
Posted by: BruceWayne
You're probably not 'disordered' then. LOL. I've always been attracted to people (friends or lovers) who are *bad for me* somehow. Or, maybe, they are somehow attracted to me. It's like I'm a freak magnet. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 02:36 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at
Oh dont get me wrong the others were not great for me. Hahah
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 02:38 AM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: JQ
So
There are nekkid pictures of you on somebody's refrigerator somewhere
Posted by: Miklos already regrets hitting post at June 21, 2026 02:39 AM (6VErX)
Posted by: BruceWayne
But got me where I needed to be
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 21, 2026 02:42 AM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Miklos already regrets hitting post
LMAO!
If so, they'd be very old pics. Doubt I'd be recognized today.
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 02:43 AM (rdVOm)
Good night, horde & thanks for chatting!
https://youtu.be/KJBTOC3Mfpk
Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2026 02:56 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 03:04 AM (VHUov)
It took me a while to figure out just what you meant by "orbital perihelion foci". For a heliocentric elliptical orbit, the line between between peri- and aphelion is the semi-major axis. The Sun is always at one focus, the primary, and on the other side, you have the other. And for Saturn the distance between those two foci does come to 1.028 AU. So, the secondary focus like about at earth's orbit.
So, you're saying the earth crosses that line of apsides on the aphelion side around July 4th, and on the perihelion side around Epiphany. I think that's it. I'll have to dig around to confirm the dates.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 03:05 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ
Saw a t-shirt once that read "What am I? Flypaper for freaks?"
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 03:06 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 03:09 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 21, 2026 02:35 AM (Tj3cd)
The sky, in fact, moves sideways.
Posted by: Porcupine Tree at June 21, 2026 03:24 AM (pKv0r)
movie career, beginning with, of course, "They Live".
Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 21, 2026 03:28 AM (DxVhp)
Well, this is quite the coincidence (of current epoch). The secondary focus distance is 1.08AU currently, a bit farther. And Saturn's line of apsides lines up within the blame it on the Moon fuzz with the earth's own line. That is we hit the Saturn perihelion point about our perihelion, and same for aphelion. A couple-day window around July 5th and Jan 4th.
Now, we've got precession to contend with. Saturn's apsidal precession rate is about around twice earth's own. Throw axial precession in, and Saturn's line of apsides thus walks around our seasons once every 11 - 13K years at the fastest. These things vary in a complex fashion, over 100K year cycles, and after millions of years, well chaotic behavior stars smearing things too much.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 03:33 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:43 PM (6/7Fs)
The Qatar-donated Air Force One?
You CANNOT talk about the Air Force One from Qatar without mentioning that it is the Air Force One from Qatar.
Posted by: The media at June 21, 2026 03:33 AM (pKv0r)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 21, 2026 03:34 AM (pKv0r)
Man, Grok is something else. All that information, Saturn's line of apsides, and precession rate and all that, while not really "arcane", well it would take a while for me to dig that up. Grok can do the digging and run the numbers quickly.
Too late for me to continue, but if Saturn's line of apsides and precession somehow lines up with the Younger Dryas, well, I'll be spooked.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 03:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mikeski at June 21, 2026 03:06 AM (VHUov)
Yikes.
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 03:44 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: frankie at June 21, 2026 04:19 AM (a16Yj)
And we have solstice. Sun's ecliptic longitude dead on 90 degrees, and right ascension dead on 6hr.
Summer beings. And it's downhill from here to the Dec.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 04:24 AM (w6EFb)
For those people who have lost their dear father, and those who have lost a child through death, may their faith give them hope, and for family and friends who support and console them, we pray to the Lord.
For men, though without children of their own who like fathers have nurtured and cared for others, we pray to the Lord.
For fathers who have been unable to be source of strength to their children, we pray to the Lord.
God, our Father, in your wisdom and love you made all things , Bless the fathers and grandfathers and grant that we their sons and daughters may honor them with a spirit of profound
respect. Amen.
( From the "Book of Blessings"-20tn century)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 04:30 AM (ceTyQ)
Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 04:32 AM (6wpGE)
Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 6/20/2026
Hugo
The movie world continues to make quality films from time to time, and fifteen years ago Martin Scorsese released what I think is one of his best films, the adaptation of the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. The novel is a children's novel, several hundred pages long but with minimal words on each page and heavily illustrated in black and white pictures. However, I did not care at all about the novel when the film was announced. All I cared about was that Martin Scorsese was making a new movie.
It came, it went. I saw it in theaters, but it was a financial failure. Most people seem to have completely forgotten about it, most people seemingly dismissing it because it's a Scorsese movie that's not a gangster movie. That's all he makes, right? And he's making a children's movie? In 3D? He jumped on that bandwagon? There is every reason to ignore this, right?
Well, I love the film. I've purchased it twice (once on Blu-ray and once the 4K disc), and I've seen it half a dozen times. A couple of weeks ago, though, I decided to actually read the source novel with an eye towards the questions of adaptation. What did Scorsese (and screenwriter John Logan) change? What did they add? What did they take away?
The Story
The story itself is obviously something that would attract Scorsese. It's about the title character Hugo Cabret, an orphan in 1928 whose father died in a fire in a museum where he was working. Hugo's uncle took him in. Claude Cabret maintains the clocks in Gare-du-Nord in Paris. However, we start the story with Hugo alone, his uncle having disappeared for months, maintaining the clocks himself and stealing parts from the toy store in the train station owned by Papa Georges. Hugo is stealing parts to fix an automaton that Hugo's father found in the museum, convinced that it will provide him some kind of secret message from his father once fixed.
Hugo gets caught by Papa Georges, forced to work for him to retrieve the notebook his father had kept detailing the progress with repairs, befriends Papa Georges' goddaughter Isabelle, and discovers that Papa Georges not only designed the automaton but is also George Melies, the pioneering French filmmaker. Hugo's discovery of Papa Georges through the automaton ends up fixing both Hugo's lack of family and Papa Georges' sense of failure at having been forgotten by the world, having been forced to sell his movies to a chemical company who melted them down for heels for women's shoes. The discovery also brings the attention of a French film academic who brings Melies back to the limelight, and all is well with the world of Hugo Cabret.
All of this is nearly identical in both film and novel. The movement of the plot has a handful of changes into a film. Hugo and Isabelle get injured near the middle of the novel, and that's been excised. There's an extra character, Etienne, who acts as a middle-man to connect Hugo and the film academic in the book who's completely gone in the film. However, those are relatively small changes. Hugo's journey, the overall structure of the story, and the dual character repairs between Hugo and Georges are the same. Scorsese took out very little.
He did add a lot, though.
Broader and Deeper
It seems obvious that Brian Selznick enjoys movies. The book is about movies, movie history, and even the use of illustrations in the film are meant to mimic camera movements. There's an opening series of illustrations that effectively make it a pan and zoom from outside Paris in the sky and into Gare-du-Nord (which Scorsese replicates in the film).
However, no matter how much Selznick enjoys movies, he does not enjoy movies nearly as much as Martin Scorsese, the man whose childhood was defined by looking out his apartment window in NYC at the kids who could play while he couldn't because of his asthma as well as watching movies on television (where he was first exposed to the films of the British-based duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the Archers). He also established The Film Foundation, an organization dedicated to preserving and restoring films. He has a very long history of loving, protecting, and making films. He knows a lot.
And what he added into the adaptation was mostly related to side characters that help broaden the story's emotional impact but also deepen the story's appreciation of film, in particular with regard to French film history.
Tati
The additions to the story are mainly around four characters. The station inspector is in the novel, mainly as a generic antagonistic force without much character. Madame Emile and Monsieur Frick are essentially just named store owners who end up helping chase Hugo around late in the novel.
All three of these characters get a lot more time in the film. Madame Emile and Monsieur Frick's additions are mostly silent as Frick tries to woo Emile, but Emile's dog snips at the man. It's just a minor little subplot and comedic drama as the two try to find ways to connect despite the dog. It ends with Frick getting his own dog, and it's a nice addition. Showing another pair of people finding a connection in the train station, a minor way to reinforce the movie's central ideas.
The station inspector gets the most attention, being that antagonistic presence in the story, and the most additions come from a new character created for the film, Lisette. She is a middle-aged woman who sells flowers in the train station that the station inspector yearns for but can't speak to. There are these wonderful moments where the station inspector simply struggles to approach her because of him being very self-conscious of the metal brace on his leg, necessary because of a wound from WWI, and these moments strike me clearly as references to the comedy films of Jacques Tati.
Jacques Tati was a French filmmaker whose cinematic persona was centered around his character M. Hulot. M. Hulot was the star of several of his films, a perennially polite man befuddled by and trying to navigate in a modern world that was increasingly absurd and distancing. His most well-known film is Playtime, a film he self-financed that was also a financial bomb that lead him to living in, essentially, destitution for the rest of his life. The central element of it was the large set called Tativille, a shiny, urban environment with large interior sets and exterior sites that is often held up as one of the most impressive feats in production design in film history.
It's hard not to see a comparison between Tativille and Scorsese's bringing of Gare-du-Nord to cinematic life. A large set (with digital extensions, this ain't all real) filled with human life with bits of human comedy that recall the style of storytelling that Tati did? If this isn't a Tati-inspired series of choices, I'll eat my hat.
Now, this is not important in and of itself. Police Academy 6: City Under Siege has Jacques Tati references, and it's supposedly not very good (I haven't seen it, I just know that the references are there). References don't make films good or bad. However, Scorsese isn't just referencing Tati, he's bringing human emotion to the references that add to the central emotional core. The station inspector finding ways to connect with Lisette despite his feelings of brokenness because of his leg mirrors Hugo and Papa Georges finding each other and fixing each other. It's just told in this Tati-esque manner at the same time.
Adaptation
Is the book always better?
It's a common enough assumption and impression, but I always imagine some kind of long-form adaptation of Jaws that completely lacks the excitement and punch of the Steven Spielberg film but retains more of the novel by Peter Benchley. Hugo, though, is going to be my central counter-argument from now on, though.
Brian Selznick wrote a good book. It's definitely for children, but the combination of story, characters, illustrations, and ending come together to make a satisfying little adventure through a French train station and early cinema history.
Martin Scorsese, though, makes it so much more. He takes everything that's good of the book, and he finds ways to make it all simply better. He finds ways to make the emotional impact hit harder. He finds ways to make the appreciation of cinema more encompassing. He finds ways to bring all these additions together to create a finished product that ends up feeling like an improved draft, like Scorsese acted as an editor who pushed the story into new, better directions that feel natural from the intention of the original author.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret was a book that wanted to be a movie. Martin Scorsese made it into Hugo using all of his technical skill and cinematic acumen to do it.
It is honestly one of the best examples of adaptation I can think of.
Movies of Today
Opening in Theaters:
Toy Story 5
Movies I Saw This Fortnight:
The Brides of Dracula (Rating 2/4) Full Review "This is a film that seems to have so little story that it just revels in prim properness for long stretches, and it just sucks all the joys the film could have out of it." [Library]
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, or House of Fright, or Jekyll's Inferno (Rating 2.5/4) Full Review "It entertains well enough, but it really could have reached a bit higher. " [YouTube]
Sword of Sherwood Forest (Rating 3/4) Full Review "Honestly, the film doesn't ask too much, and it largely delivers. That's not too bad." [Tubi]
A Weekend with Lulu (Rating 1/4) Full Review "Really, the film is light in tone but unable to find any comic reason to really exist even though the situation, characters, and setting are actually rife with that potential." [Library]
The Curse of the Werewolf (Rating 3/4) Full Review "Could this have been the great werewolf movie? I really think so. Hammer was never going to invest in the three hour version, though, so I have to celebrate the solid werewolf adventure I got." [Archive.org]
Taste of Fear, or Scream of Fear (Rating 3/4) Full Review "Effective, stylish, and intelligent, this is a quality find." [YouTube]
Cash on Demand (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "It's a marvelous character study, impeccably performed, and exactingly filmed." [YouTube]
Captain Clegg, or Night Creatures (Rating 3/4) Full Review "Still, the adventure, performances, and look of the film are fun. " [Library]
Please check out my videos from the last few weeks:
John Ford: The Directors Series
John Ford: The Definitive Ranking
Alexander Mackendrick: The Directors Series
Alexander Mackendrick: The Definitive Ranking
David Lynch: The Directors Series
David Lynch: The Definitive Ranking
Contact
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2026 07:49 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Open Channel D at June 20, 2026 07:51 PM (tgTrV)
*shakes head*
*leaves quietly*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Better than scratching before leaving.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 20, 2026 07:52 PM (B0dAE)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Or to write an essay of my own on this topic.
I will say that all directors who are adapting some other work are acting like an editor, I agree with TJM there. But very, very few filmmakers are GOOD enough at it to improve the source material. Most bungle it, miss the point, or maybe (probably often) never actually read or studied it.
Park Chan-Wook actually improved on LeCarre's 'Little Drummer Girl', shockingly enough. Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (and throw in a word or two for the many people who altered the first screenplay) is much better than Dick's 'Do Antroids Dream of Electric Sheep'.
Improving on a work is rare, but it's uncommon for an adaptation to even be competent. Often there's a lot of contraversies even by the successful adaptations like Peter Jackson's adaptation of 'Lord of the Rings' or Zach Snyder's adaptation of 'The Watchmen'.
Hugo though, I don't like it. It didn't move me and kinda low-key annoyed me, frankly. Blame Sasha Baron Cohen if you must, he's part of it, but not the only part.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 20, 2026 07:58 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 08:04 PM (bXbFr)
Watchmen was probably faithful but i didnt care for it
Snyder seems to have brought the bug into the dcu
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 08:07 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 08:08 PM (Ia/+0)
Most bungle it, miss the point, or maybe (probably often) never actually read or studied it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 20, 2026 07:58 PM (xcxpd)
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Verhoeven bragged that he never finished reading Starship Troopers.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 20, 2026 08:08 PM (Zn6QU)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 08:08 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 08:09 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 08:10 PM (bXbFr)
"Can I make it better?"
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 20, 2026 08:10 PM (Zn6QU)
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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 08:17 PM (ndZc7)
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My mom and I liked that show back in the day. Jeff was so young! I liked that he kept the name Goldblum (I dunno, were they still telling actors to take whitebread names by that point?).
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 20, 2026 08:25 PM (kpS4V)
Admittedly, I saw "Hugo" on streaming.
But, it didn't do much for me.
I felt like I was watching a guy exhaustively showing me his matchbook collection,
and his enthusiasm didn't connect with me.
Now, a Scorsese box office failure movie that deserves much more love IMHO is "Bringing Out the Dead"
A great movie in which Scorsese doesn't show his cards until the very end, which incidentally is the way I love movies and novels to unfold.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 08:26 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 08:28 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 08:29 PM (u/oMr)
For those unaware, D-Day was originally planned to occur on June 5th, but Gp. Capt. Stagg warned that the weather was going to be severe on that day. D-Day was delayed to June 6th, and the rest is history.
I noticed in the final credits that the movie was based upon a stage play. Almost everything takes place in a few offices.
The only thing that I thought was a mistake in the film was a scene with a squad of American GIs getting drunk in camp while waiting to embark the landing craft. They would have actually been tossed into the stockade.
I suspect the film does that to give the audience some soldiers to bond with during the invasion scene. Historical film footage was colorized: usually pretty decently, but some was a bit grainy.
Interesting little movie definitely worth a viewing.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 08:30 PM (ksbjf)
I love "The Brides of Dracula " for all its flaws.
It was probably the first quality horror movie I ever saw.
I bought it and still watch it every 1-2 years despite its loungeurs.
It has the best ending of any vampire movie and all the beautiful ladies a 9(?) year old boy could want.
Not perfect but give it a watch. It has a pretty good story as well.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 08:31 PM (iJfKG)
Emelio Estevez is an interesting case. His Spaniard father (and brother) were "Sheen". Estevez decided he was going to try representing his people (he was literally whiter than Jesus, but whatevs).
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 08:33 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 20, 2026 08:33 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 08:34 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at June 20, 2026 08:34 PM (NZIuw)
Derbyshire chose a different path.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 08:35 PM (gKWVE)
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Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 08:40 PM (bXbFr)
* looks at watch *
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Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 08:41 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 20, 2026 08:08 PM (Zn6QU)
And thus missed the theme about citizenship and military service. Verhoeven focused solely on "hunting bugs" and we got cheated-out of the powered armor used by the Mobile Infantry. Oh, he also completely missed the point of Heinlein's novel and re-imagined the society as being ruled by some sort of neo-Nazi government.
Doogie Houser showing up looking like a WWII Wehrmacht officer was another kick in the 'nads for fans of the novel.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 08:41 PM (ksbjf)
Porn in the 70's.
Shitty films ever since.
Read "The Moviegoer" by Percy Walker.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 08:46 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 08:47 PM (bXbFr)
Verhoeven is and was a shitstain on the underwear of Hollywood.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 08:48 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 20, 2026 08:08 PM (Zn6QU)
What bothered me the most about that movie was how abjectly stupid the 'mobile infantry' was. They walk casually down a 'road' in the desert, no support, no scouts, no nothing... And when a flying bug grabs a commutations guy, the soldiers just stand around looking worried, and eventually the officer shoots the human, and lets the bug fly off.
Even as a teenager, that felt like an insult to my intelligence. And Veerhoven wanted to make a morality play out of that idiocy? F--- that moron. My time would have been better spent watching the ExoSquad or Wing Commander cartoons.
Posted by: Castle Guy at June 20, 2026 08:50 PM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Castle Guy at June 20, 2026 08:52 PM (3v7ra)
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Always protect your flanks.
Posted by: Marshal Georgiy Zhukov at June 20, 2026 08:53 PM (6/7Fs)
Lately, I've been rewatching Malcolm in the Middle on Hulu.
It's still great. Several laughs per show. I saw the Helper Monkey for Craig episode yesterday...I don't think I've laughed that hard in years.
Very much worth the rewatch.
Avoid the reboot at all costs. The ruined all the characters and turned the show into a fake and gay, trannie extravaganza. Nutkicks and Cuntpunts all around for that abomination.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 08:53 PM (iJfKG)
Verhoeven is and was a shitstain on the underwear of Hollywood.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 08:48 PM (qFwJc)
Universal suffrage is a fatal flaw to a republic. The Founding Fathers knew this. We are actually living in the "mobocracy" the Founders feared.
You seem to have strong opinions about Verhoeven. LOL.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 08:55 PM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Castle Guy at June 20, 2026 08:52 PM (3v7ra)
Will it be Black Sonja? Ghey Sonja? Moslem Sonja?
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 08:55 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 08:57 PM (bXbFr)
Watching the dinosaurs in Vietnam extravaganza, "Primitive War"
Starting slow, not sure if I'll keep with it. But, we're coming to the "WTF!!! There's dinosaurs here!!!" part so I still watch for now.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 08:57 PM (iJfKG)
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Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 08:58 PM (ksbjf)
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Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 08:59 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:00 PM (bXbFr)
1) The Favourite, and
2) Tea With Mussolini
I loved The Favourite. A beautiful film about Queen Anne's early 18th century court... and Anne's supposed bisexuality. It has a wonderful ensemble cast. And the look of the film is just stunning!
I disliked Tea, one of Franco Zeffirelli's last films. The story drowns in treacle. I watched it on Amazon Prime, and I thought it was funny that it had subtitles for the English parts, which I could understand perfectly well without subtitles. But NO subtitles for the Italian parts, which I couldn't understand at all! But I got the gist of it. It's a mess.
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 09:01 PM (RCjYY)
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The co-ed showers were the only thing that left an impression on my primitive male lambic consciousness.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 09:02 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 08:59 PM (q3u5l)
Yeah, I like "Starship Trooper", but I never read the novel.
It's a very well-made, and well-directed movie that know exactly the story it wants to tell. Linear plotting to a great ending.
And yes, Dina Meyer!!!! What ever happened to her?
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 09:02 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 09:02 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:04 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 08:55 PM (LHPAg)
We almost got half of the first; the mixed-race actress who played Ghost in the marvel movies was attached to the project for a while. I'm assuming we got a bit of the second; with an alphabet-director adapting a comic written by a raging leftist. And the third....would have just been insulting, since the original book-version of Red Sonya was actively fighting Muslims at the Siege of Vienna...
Posted by: Castle Guy at June 20, 2026 09:05 PM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:07 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 09:07 PM (q3u5l)
So I'm a neovim/vim/cli kind of guy, so I bashed together a config that basically looks like a word processor from the 80's but has screenwriting hooks.
I've been testing it out with the screenplay to Sinners.
Basically copying the entire structure verbatim, it's working out pretty good.
I will say this, reading the screenplay to Sinners is fascinating because what's on paper is so dry and matter of fact, and quite frankly boring, that I have no idea how that film got made or had any interest.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 20, 2026 09:07 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:08 PM (bXbFr)
I think most people would hate working in that cubicle farm in the pic above. Fake privacy.
Worked on this office building that had a cubicle farm largely divided up into groups of 2 x 3 like pips on a die, and divided into two large groups, half with six foot walls and the other half (near the windows) with four foot walls.
However, because of overall size of the space and walk-ways, not all groups were 2x3, there were some 2x2, 1x3...
But this one solo cubbie with four foot walls and walk-ways on all four sides. We called it 'the tank'. While sitting there anybody from any side walking could casually walk-by and make sure you are keeping your nose down to the grindstone.
In the land of cubicle hell that was the 9th circle, err square.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 09:08 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:09 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:10 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:12 PM (bXbFr)
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IIRC, Doogie really did a number on that bug's orifice with a big honking probe.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 09:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Actually look a lot more modern and if working in a occupied building seems people move a bit of home to them.
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 09:15 PM (Ia/+0)
Did you know this?
The 9th circle is the LEAST bad, IIRC. He put Judas Iscariot & Caesar's assassins in the 1st circle, I think.
Souls in the 9th circle were merely "buffeted by strong winds," I believe. Could be worse.
Dante also put a lot of Italian politicians in the 1st circle--people no-one today ever heard of. That's because Dante disliked them.
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 09:16 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 20, 2026 09:16 PM (XV/Pl)
In one of Borges's essays or lectures, I think he said that if a book didn't appeal to you, you should set it aside -- the writer apparently wasn't talking to you and you should try the book later.
Same for movies, I think. There are an awful lot of movies and books these days that simply aren't talking to me.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 09:17 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:19 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:20 PM (bXbFr)
I erred. The 9th circle is the least bad-- where he put unbaptised infants, etc. The v1st circle is the really bad one, where he put Judas Iscariot & his own political enemies.
I DID saY IIRC.
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 09:20 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: The AoSHQ Comment Propriety Review Referee at June 20, 2026 09:21 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:23 PM (qFwJc)
First Circle (Limbo) – Home to the unbaptized and virtuous pagans.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 09:23 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:24 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:25 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: mnw
Dante did put certain known people of his time into appropriate circles - sodomites, thieves, etc.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 09:25 PM (/lPRQ)
Dante Alighieri won't be. He hated the popes of his time.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 09:26 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:26 PM (bXbFr)
I was right the first time. The 9th circle is bfor the worst sinners.
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 09:27 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:27 PM (bXbFr)
I got stuck at "The Purgatorio." Too close to home.
Pride of family. Pride of accomplishment.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:28 PM (qFwJc)
>>Superman 3 &4 were progresiveky worse
They really should have stopped at 1, but two was not terrible.
Most films do not need a sequel.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 20, 2026 09:29 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:30 PM (qFwJc)
They need to bring back zombie salkind
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:31 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 09:31 PM (6/7Fs)
Dante Alighieri won't be. He hated the popes of his time.
Posted by: gKWVE
IIRC, he put a current or recent Pope into hell with a blown out rectum for a lifetime of... blowing his rectum out.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 09:32 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:32 PM (bXbFr)
And yes, Dina Meyer!!!! What ever happened to her?
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 09:02 PM (iJfKG)
Her and Denise Richards.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2026 09:32 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 09:33 PM (q3u5l)
Is Dante in paradise? After 500 years, most heathens are free.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:34 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:35 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:37 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:38 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:39 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 09:40 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:37 PM (bXbFr)
hot blonde and Lobo. I'm in
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 20, 2026 09:41 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 09:41 PM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 08:59 PM (q3u5l)
I like both (the book and the movie).
The movie is one of those examples of the maker hate-fucking the material, but inadvertently making something good and conveying different messaging despite his intentions anyway.
Kind of like The Wire. What people take away from it and what was intended are generally two different things.
This is often the case with people who are blinded by their ideology. Like the movie Men. Supposedly a feminist screed. Normies watching it: bitch be cray-cray.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 20, 2026 09:43 PM (MIvVV)
This one is like guardians but a more emo ronan
That comic has like a 60 year run they chose this arc
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:44 PM (bXbFr)
Alexander VI Borja might not have been a moral paragon but he did care about keeping the Church safe, stable, and independent. John XII on the other hand showed up to the Papal offices aged all of 18 and ready to party, including with other mens' wives. He was almost literally Pope Paolo.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 09:44 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 20, 2026 08:08 PM (Zn6QU)
Which is why I despise that movie. It had some great SFX, but Verhoeven took one of Heinlein’s greatest books and shit in its mouth.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 09:45 PM (nuNhM)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 09:45 PM (gKWVE)
It was the Summer of 1970. Charlie Manson. He liked to what "Dark Shadows." I was bored. I went back to the beach, which was 2 blocks from my house.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:45 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 09:46 PM (vFG9F)
Nobody is going to write a miniseries about the Theophylacts, because everyone just sucks and there's no excuse for those guys.
Although a Cadaver Synod movie might at least be funny.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 09:47 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:48 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:49 PM (bXbFr)
I'd have loved to see a Starship Troopers faithful to the source. That said, the bug effects and the presence of Ironside, Brown, and Meyer kept the movie watchable even in the moments when you could almost feel Verhoeven spitting on the source. The movie's not what it could have been, but in spite of all that, I kinda like it too. I just wish it had been better.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 09:49 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 09:49 PM (gKWVE)
I'd have loved to see a Starship Troopers faithful to the source. That said, the bug effects and the presence of Ironside, Brown, and Meyer kept the movie watchable even in the moments when you could almost feel Verhoeven spitting on the source. The movie's not what it could have been, but in spite of all that, I kinda like it too. I just wish it had been better.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 09:49 PM (q3u5l)
There is a better Japanese adaptation, it keeps the mech suits.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 20, 2026 09:50 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 09:40 PM (RCjYY)
That’s what the Catholic leadership said at the time, because they hated Alexander for being a Spaniard who was crashing their Italians only party.
But in fact the fault lies with Pope Leo X, the Medici banker pope who was desperate to raise funds, and who commissioned the sale of indulgences to do so. That’s what lit the fire in Northern Europe.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 09:51 PM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:51 PM (bXbFr)
One of the 4 sections concerns the failure of the Renaissance Church to reform itself.
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 09:51 PM (RCjYY)
One of the 4 sections concerns the failure of the Renaissance Church to reform itself.
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 09:51 PM (RCjYY)
That's a good one, worth reading
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 20, 2026 09:52 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:53 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 09:53 PM (RCjYY)
"God has given us the papacy. Let us enjoy it."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 09:54 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:54 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 09:54 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:55 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 09:56 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:56 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 09:57 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:58 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 09:58 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 09:58 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:58 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 20, 2026 09:59 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 09:59 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 10:00 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 10:00 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 10:01 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 20, 2026 10:02 PM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 20, 2026 10:02 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Jackson K. at June 20, 2026 10:45 PM (Es4vZ)
Jaws.
The Godfather.
Holes.
Plenty more out there. Most film noir movies based on books.
Of course, Lawrence of Arabia is a great movie based on fictional autobiography.
Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at June 20, 2026 10:57 PM (Skc+N)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 09:41 PM (nuNhM)
There is a good documentary about Méliès free on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NWN90TU6vdg
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at June 20, 2026 11:50 PM (NZIuw)
Posted by: Dagwood at June 21, 2026 01:18 AM (CC0N1)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2026 09:32 PM (T6aVk)
The school uniforms they wore at the beginning.,,wow.
(Not being a perv at all, as Denise Richards was 25 and Dina Meyer was 30, or at least close to 30.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 21, 2026 03:22 AM (pKv0r)
Posted by: Dagwood at June 21, 2026 01:18 AM (CC0N1)
Which version of the movie? Swedish (2009) or English with Daniel Craig (2011)?
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at June 21, 2026 12:36 PM (NZIuw)
It doesn't happen often but that's an example of the film transcending the source.
Posted by: SL at June 21, 2026 03:41 PM (eW3mZ)
Hobby Thread - June 20, 2026 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is on fire. It spun and spun and landed on a candle theme for this Hobby Thread.
"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle." St. Francis Of Assisi. [Photo credit: NoName_13 on Pixabay]Step 2: have French people make the candles
Step 3: sell inefficient French-made candles as a "luxury" item for $660
Step 4: profit!
Citronella oil is extracted from Cymbopogon species - types of lemongrass - and is rich in mosquito-repelling compounds like citronellal, citronellol, and geraniol. These compounds interfere with mosquitoes' ability to locate humans by masking the scents that attract them. However, the "citronella plant" often found in garden centers (usually a type of scented geranium) contains very little citronella oil and does not offer the same protection unless its leaves are crushed and applied directly - a far cry from the ease of a ready-to-use spray.
Citronella candles and tiki torches are popular for outdoor use, but their range and effectiveness are limited. They may provide mild deterrence in a small radius but are not sufficient for lasting protection, especially if there's even a light breeze. Similarly, decorative citronella plants add aesthetic value but don't repel mosquitoes unless the plant's oils are actively released. This makes them more of a conversation piece than a serious solution. For those seeking reliable mosquito relief, citronella-containing sprays and wipes offer several practical options. They contain active concentrations of citronella oil and are designed to be applied directly to the skin, where they provide a more consistent barrier.I hate mosquitos.
Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2026 05:30 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2026 05:32 PM (1Ff7Z)
Back in the day we had "smudge pots." They burned diesel. Smoky. Mosquitos didn't like them.
Neither did we.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 05:37 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: JTB at June 20, 2026 05:37 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)
There's a classic Peanuts strip (that I couldn't find with a quick search) where Linus makes that quote and then says "Some people may disagree." And the third panel is Lucy shaking her fist at the sky and yelling "YOU STUPID DARKNESS!!"
Posted by: Oddbob at June 20, 2026 05:42 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 05:42 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:43 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 20, 2026 05:44 PM (B0dAE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 20, 2026 05:44 PM (Cqx++)
Back in the day we had "smudge pots." They burned diesel. Smoky. Mosquitos didn't like them.
Neither did we.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026
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There were those little coils that you lit at one end and that burned, sending up smoke to deter mosquitoes and other insects. Are those still around?
And Shell No-Pest Strips? I know those are gone, but are there any modern items you can hang up to send insects fleeing without choking yourself?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:45 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:46 PM (wzUl9)
Picked up wax. Sent, color, mold and don't think she used them yet.
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 05:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 05:42 PM (/lPRQ)
A well known scent in the German High Command Center in the early 40's.
Wolfus, see any other good prospects?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2026 05:47 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 05:48 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 05:48 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 05:48 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2026
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Yeah, my house hunting is turning into a hobby, isn't it? There was the very nice 2BR/1BA place with a rear deck, floors all done, walls painted in colors I already liked, basement, 2-car garage next to the house. Good price. Bad? Located a block from a low-income, "affordable housing" (read: Section
development. The development looks worlds better and cleaner than the same things you see here . . . but how long will it stay that way?Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 05:50 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JTB at June 20, 2026 05:50 PM (yTvNw)
And Shell No-Pest Strips? I know those are gone, but are there any modern items you can hang up to send insects fleeing without choking yourself?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:45 PM (wzUl9)
The good mosquito coils had pyrethrin (a plant extract) in them, and worked quite well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 05:50 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 05:48 PM
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Best wishes on the project.
I have contemplated welding as a hobby theme from time to time. Yes? No?
Posted by: TRex - metal melding dino at June 20, 2026 05:50 PM (IQ6Gq)
I was not unusual. We all used to say that the REAL Boy Scout Motto was “Fire is Good! Fire is our Friend!” My mother would wonder why I would come back from camping trips with my eyebrows obviously singed.
I’m sure any modern day mamby pamby version of scouts today would be horrified by that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 05:51 PM (nuNhM)
I hope that I never have to light them.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 05:51 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: JTB at June 20, 2026 05:53 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 05:54 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 05:50 PM
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Hey Bulg! Glad you made it back home without the need for a bail money call.
Posted by: TRex - social dino at June 20, 2026 05:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
But. No strong florals and NO FOOD SMELLS.
I do love sandalwood and tobacco and Frankensence. And cedar, pine and fir.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 20, 2026 05:55 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 05:51 PM
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Absolutely.
Posted by: TRex - fireman dino at June 20, 2026 05:55 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: TRex - metal melding dino at June 20, 2026 05:50 PM (IQ6Gq)
Could be an interesting topic. I don't regard it as a hobby myself, but it is a very useful skill that enhances the pursuit of other hobbies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 05:56 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 20, 2026 05:55 PM (A5RD0)
No myrrh no more?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 05:57 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 20, 2026 05:57 PM (B0dAE)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 20, 2026 05:57 PM (ZdKYs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 05:57 PM (nuNhM)
Amazon has them. I haven't bought a new pack in a while; I need to.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:58 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 05:59 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 05:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 05:59 PM (p4NUW)
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I have a spray bottle of pyrethrin that I spray on my work clothes during the summer. The mosquitos right now are excessive around here. I got bit about a half dozen time earlier while spraying for weeds along the driveway. Even with the clothes sprayed with it.
Bastards.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 05:59 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 06:01 PM (Ia/+0)
35 I was born with the specific human genes that produce a massive quantity of ear wax. It’s kind of my superpower. Not a great one I admit, an annoyance thus far, but it’s high time I put it to good use. I imagine I could excrete a candle/month, sell them in the french candle market as a luxury, and become the musk of earwax candles. $$$$
Posted by: banana Dream at June 20, 2026 05:57 PM (ZdKYs)
That’s about the nastiest post I’ve ever read here. I’m sorry, this is in the same class as the old Indian Guru who had big tufts of 6” long hair growing out of his ears.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 06:02 PM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 06:03 PM (jehhT)
Just IMO but don't commit the rest of your life to a house with a structural feature that you really hate. Paint is easy, replacing fixtures is easy, etc. Changing a large door that is the primary access to the yard is crazy. Doable, but crazy. And expensive.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 20, 2026 06:03 PM (vTZFs)
Otherwise, who knows what RMBS — or worse, his mother — will do to me.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 06:05 PM (77rzZ)
35 I was born with the specific human genes that produce a massive quantity of ear wax. It’s kind of my superpower. Not a great one I admit, an annoyance thus far, but it’s high time I put it to good use. I imagine I could excrete a candle/month, sell them in the french candle market as a luxury, and become the musk of earwax candles. $$$$
Posted by: banana Dream at June 20, 2026 05:57 PM (ZdKYs)
That’s about the nastiest post I’ve ever read here. I’m sorry, this is in the same class as the old Indian Guru who had big tufts of 6” long hair growing out of his ears.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 06:02 PM (nuNhM
Call Gwyneth Paltrow, she hook you up.
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 06:08 PM (LHPAg)
Otherwise, who knows what RMBS — or worse, his mother — will do to me.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 06:05 PM (77rzZ)
Are you expecting RMBS to say "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot"?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 06:09 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 06:10 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ulster Scot at June 20, 2026 06:10 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:54 PM (wzUl9)
We bought a house like that, first thing we did was yank it out and replace it with a set of French doors, same size. Completely different look.
Also we have a nice looking back yard, but in the family room facing it, the walls were blank except for that door. So we knocked big holes in the walls and put in more French doors (these don’t open, no reason) on either side of the main door. Now that room has a mostly glass view of the entire back yard from almost any point in it.
We like changing any houses we owned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 06:10 PM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 06:14 PM (Ia/+0)
One technique that was kind of cool was to pour the candle wax about 1/3 of the way into an empty quart milk carton, add an ice cube, pour to cover, and add another cube on the opposite side of the first, and fill to the top.
The wax would congeal around the ice, creating interesting shaped voids in the candle once the ice melted. Then as the candle burned, you could watch the wax pour from these openings and course down the side of the candle. We were easy to entertain back then...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 20, 2026 06:14 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 06:14 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 06:15 PM (Ia/+0)
In the window sill at night
Soon the curtain catches fire
Never was a fate so dire
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 06:17 PM (LmPA0)
Back in colonial times, candles were for the wealthy. Regular people used a "taper," a wick in a container of tallow.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 20, 2026 06:18 PM (HLgI3)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 05:59 PM (p4NUW)
I use old wine glasses!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 20, 2026 06:20 PM (+YlH3)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026
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We bought a house like that, first thing we did was yank it out and replace it with a set of French doors, same size. Completely different look. . . .
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026
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Good idea, TS. Now can you get the seller to come down on the price?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:21 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 05:59 PM (p4NUW)
I use old wine glasses!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 20, 2026
That sounds fun!
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 06:22 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:23 PM (wzUl9)
It was pretty cool. There was fireworks too. Old school type.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 06:23 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 20, 2026 06:20 PM (+YlH3)
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Aren't they full of wine?
Posted by: Weasel at June 20, 2026 06:23 PM (GNqmQ)
Posted by: Weasel at June 20, 2026 06:23 PM (GNqmQ)
No...the candle maker is though!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 20, 2026 06:24 PM (+YlH3)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 20, 2026 05:44 PM (Cqx++)
Ok, what did you do to get barred from Yankee Candle?
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 20, 2026 06:25 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 20, 2026 06:24 PM (+YlH3)
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Well if you have worn out a wine glass I guess you know what you're talking about.
Posted by: Weasel at June 20, 2026 06:25 PM (GNqmQ)
I imagine that on a frontier there might be candle making gatherings. Materials, like beeswax or tallow, for candles wouldn't be available all the time so supplies to get through the season might be made once or twice a year. Probably similar to groups making maple syrup or butchering hogs or even quilting bees. Make a chore a social event.
Posted by: JTB at June 20, 2026 06:27 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:29 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 20, 2026 06:33 PM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 06:34 PM (77rzZ)
Also didn't you mention that the shades are between glass? Very useful with cats. That's the first thing that visitors with cats notice about our windows.
Posted by: Wenda at June 20, 2026 06:35 PM (iIAkP)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 06:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Wenda at June 20, 2026
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That was the place near the affordable housing development. This 2BR/2BA place, I don't know.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:40 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 06:41 PM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: Bulg
>This is blog, what are people saying?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 20, 2026 06:41 PM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026
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Those were known as Indian attacks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:42 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 06:44 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 06:44 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 20, 2026 06:44 PM (nbLIj)
Light:
https://youtu.be/6A8QwNLXSYY
Darkness:
https://youtu.be/688AIr6hfOE
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 06:46 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 06:48 PM (77rzZ)
Gave me when they moved. I use them in the winter mostly.
I made two cooking oil candles last year in jars. I used part of one when the power went out. Gave off a good amount of heat if not light.
My current hobby is housecleaning. Dad gave me another box of items they kept after they sold their snowbird home. I have been testing their items against what I have. I had to laugh that I bought a tablecloth (rather drab) for my table and Mom had three pretty ones of the perfect size.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 20, 2026 06:49 PM (ysTZR)
Posted by: Dr. Frederick Frankenstein at June 20, 2026 06:50 PM (Cqx++)
Did I mention that the bride's sister, who was also in the wedding party, and I were pregnant and experiencing occasional dizzy spells in those pregnancies?
Fortunately, we both were fine that day. :-)
Posted by: PT, Piano Teacher, former Official Delurker at June 20, 2026 06:51 PM (XqvXS)
Based on the rule that you’re supposed to capitalize the addresse that is being addressed in what would otherwise be the vocative case.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 06:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 20, 2026 06:53 PM (B0dAE)
61 Oh, Tom Servo, about those French doors: Will they work in a climate with winter? I mean, do they close tightly and keep out drafts?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:23 PM (wzUl9)
That’s probably a reason they’re far more common in the South than in more northern climes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 06:55 PM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Wenda at June 20, 2026 06:35 PM
That is one do the reasons I didn't replace the sliding glass door in my house with a glass door. (Not enough room for two doors, either.) I got a Pella custom slider with the screen on the inside and a key. Comes in handy when unloading groceries.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 20, 2026 06:55 PM (ysTZR)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 06:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JTB at June 20, 2026 06:55 PM (yTvNw)
Did I mention that the bride's sister, who was also in the wedding party, and I were pregnant and experiencing occasional dizzy spells in those pregnancies?
Fortunately, we both were fine that day. :-)
Posted by: PT, Piano Teacher, former Official Delurker at June 20, 2026
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A number of years ago I attended a Santa Lucia (or St. Lucia) service at the local Norwegian Seamen's Church. The lady leading it, a local singer of Norwegian ancestry, carried a candle, and the entire church interior was lit that way. Beautiful.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:57 PM (wzUl9)
91 Sounds lovely, Wolfus.
Posted by: PT, Piano Teacher, former Official Delurker at June 20, 2026 06:58 PM (XqvXS)
That’s probably a reason they’re far more common in the South than in more northern climes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026
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Nearly every apartment, condo, or house I've ever seen or visited in the South has those sliding doors. I'm trying to flee reminders of these long hot summers, and a slider door is not welcome.
My current place does not have such a door, for which I'm thankful.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:59 PM (wzUl9)
Brings back memories of those times the FART was a little wet during an Oval Office Meetings with foreign leaders....
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 20, 2026 07:00 PM (rvNIn)
And, there's another reason to visit the HQ store in person that you wouldn't know about unless you stopped in regularly. They put their experimental candles out for purchase just to get an idea of interest. And some of them are absolutely bizarre. I still have a "Apple Maple Bacon Wrapped Smoked Brisket" candle that only comes out on special occassions when I want to torment my black lab.
Posted by: Orson at June 20, 2026 07:00 PM (dIske)
Posted by: PT, Piano Teacher, former Official Delurker at June 20, 2026
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The singer was and is a one-woman band, playing several instruments (with hands and feet!), and sings beautifully. Theresa Andersson.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 07:01 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
We attended a Tenebrae Mass at Holy Cross Church in Marine City. It really made us appreciate how our ancestors might have felt with the vast shadowy space lit with so few candles.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 20, 2026 07:03 PM (ysTZR)
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That’s probably a reason they’re far more common in the South than in more northern climes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026
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Nearly every apartment, condo, or house I've ever seen or visited in the South has those sliding doors. I'm trying to flee reminders of these long hot summers, and a slider door is not welcome.
My current place does not have such a door, for which I'm thankful.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:59 PM
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My house in San Diego County is loaded with doors like that. My only real concern is that they facilitate burglary. That hasn't happened yet, but the State keeps heading south, so who knows.Other than that, they're fine.
I suppose a determined burglar could hammer their way in, regardless.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 20, 2026 07:05 PM (HLgI3)
Posted by: Orson at June 20, 2026 07:00 PM
That is hilarious! I wonder if the creators try to outdo each other with weirdness.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 20, 2026 07:06 PM (ysTZR)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
Locks keep honest people honest.
They don't do much to dissuade the dishonest ones.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 07:07 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 20, 2026
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"This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
(Refrain
—Every nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
(Refrain
And Christe receive thy saule."
(Also given as "fire and sleet and candlelight.")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 07:07 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: PT, Piano Teacher, former Official Delurker at June 20, 2026 07:08 PM (XqvXS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 07:08 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: PT, Piano Teacher, former Official Delurker at June 20, 2026
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Her bio on Wiki says she lives in Shreveport now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 07:09 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 07:08 PM
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Managing gray box punctuation should be a hobby...
Posted by: TRex - parenthetical dino at June 20, 2026 07:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
It exploded. Red wax went EVERYWHERE in the kitchen. When we remodeled years later we found red wax in the strangest places. Nobody got injured, fortunately ... but it was exciting!
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at June 20, 2026 07:10 PM (PHjsi)
No clue what it means. Type of wax?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 07:11 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 07:14 PM (Ia/+0)
No clue what it means. Type of wax?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 07:11 PM
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Funny you mention that. I went down that rabbit hole doing research for the thread and the closest I could figure was people cheated by turning a wax candle into an oil lamp. That may or may not be the answer. I spent too long trying to figure it out.
Posted by: TRex - lamp lighter dino at June 20, 2026 07:14 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at June 20, 2026 07:10 PM
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This should go on a t-shirt or bumper sticker.
Posted by: TRex - merch seller dino at June 20, 2026 07:15 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at June 20, 2026 07:18 PM (xNKY/)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase
This should go on a t-shirt or bumper sticker.
Posted by: TRex - merch seller dino
That which does not kill you gives you neat stories to post on the HQ.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 07:19 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2026 07:19 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: TRex - lamp lighter dino at June 20, 2026 07:14
I think "long-burning" have smaller wicks and denser wax.
What you're describing is the "easy" way to make an emergency candle: just shove a regular taper into a metal container of Crisco shortening.
I made mine with beeswax wicks and poured warm shortening into the jars.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 20, 2026 07:21 PM (ysTZR)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 07:21 PM (Ia/+0)
You're welcome to hang out here for a while this evening but don't forget to stop by Club ONT later.
Posted by: TRex - crisco-enabled dino at June 20, 2026 07:23 PM (IQ6Gq)
And I'm not even retired-retired yet.
Just think I'll have more time to do more things.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 20, 2026 07:23 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2026
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It's a shame, but I think you're right. Its location is probably why the price was so low.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 07:24 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at June 20, 2026 07:26 PM (PHjsi)
Posted by: JTB at June 20, 2026 07:27 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 20, 2026 07:28 PM (ysTZR)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at June 20, 2026 07:18 PM (xNKY/)
Thanx T-Rex................ No loss and saved me 10 IQ points from not reading the comment..
Posted by: Jackson K. at June 20, 2026 07:29 PM (Es4vZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 07:31 PM (afJtY)
117 Yay for playing the piano! I'm looking forward to more time for that when I retire at the end of summer.
I've always loved playing a number of preludes and fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume I, but never acquired Volume II. That's going to be my next music purchase and one of the first retirement projects I plan, exploring WTC Book II.
Posted by: PT, Piano Teacher, former Official Delurker at June 20, 2026 07:32 PM (XqvXS)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 20, 2026 07:28 PM
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You're welcome! Thanks for being here.
Posted by: TRex - not naughty dino at June 20, 2026 07:33 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 20, 2026 07:39 PM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 20, 2026 07:40 PM (DZ9Lv)
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That's next Saturday, right?
Posted by: Weasel at June 20, 2026 07:41 PM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 20, 2026 07:41 PM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 07:42 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 20, 2026 07:52 PM (B0dAE)
My current place does not have such a door, for which I'm thankful.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:59 PM (wzUl9)
You can replace the patio door with a single glass panel door, and a non-opening glass door as well, you will have most of the same light and just one door to worry about. They doo make double pane french type doors rated for outdoors, and they are as good as any door at keeping the cold out.
You could just put in a single door and a window next to it, and frame in the rest. The hard part is putting IN a door, not taking one out.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2026 07:55 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ronster at June 20, 2026 08:08 PM (XKmOA)
Posted by: Ronster
*****
I look forward to your comment every Saturday!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at June 20, 2026 08:18 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ronster at June 20, 2026 08:24 PM (XKmOA)
Bravo for music making! I returned to playing the trumpet after a 55+ year layoff. Now 3 years into my comeback, I'm starting to get the chops back, still short on endurance and range. Oh well. I'm old.
Got into it because I played a recording of my playing in high school for my grandson. Next thing I know, he'd signed up for middle school band to play . . . the trumpet. So I bought myself a new horn. He's now 3 years in as well, and we get together several times a month to play together -- his band music, my classical and pop pieces.
First time in my life I have a hobby. Very rewarding, and even my neighbors have been nothing but complimentary. :-)
Posted by: Fritz at June 20, 2026 09:10 PM (J7jo9)
Posted by: Ronster at June 20, 2026 08:08 PM (XKmOA)
I am another non-fan of movies. If I get dragged out to a movie, I might enjoy it, but they simply aren't something I want to seek out for myself. I will hang out here until the ONT blossoms.
Got the muffler and tailpipe job done on the Buick. It looks good from underneath. One little job remains: hang the other tailpipe on the left side on some hangers so it looks like the car has dual exhaust (it doesn't), Owner asked if I could do that, so I will.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 10:01 PM (1z8ji)
How about Prepping as a Hobby?
We enjoy it and pray we won't need it.
Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at June 20, 2026 10:59 PM (Skc+N)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, June 20
Courtesy Terry Glenn
A lot of people are confused by the concept of “cat years" so here's a little guide:
— For the love of Missy. (@MissyBBBobtail) June 15, 2026
0-1 years - just a little baby
1-3 years - just a little baby
4-9 years - just a little baby
10+ years - just a little baby pic.twitter.com/9aZUTNghuw
The Maratus, or peacock spider, is a tiny arachnid known for its vibrant colors and intricate courtship dances.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 15, 2026
[📹Michael Lun / wa_peacock_jumping_spiders]pic.twitter.com/INZkTxCA0u
Now here's a cool pet!
— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) June 20, 2026
💯 pic.twitter.com/QSDlkY3iH1
I am a lurker but this brought into the sunlight. This is Gideon, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, from 2018 when he was 6 months until now. Two weeks ago, I let him out for his morning duty. I heard him barking and looked up and saw him barking at a full grown male black bear up a tree. I had to grab him, and he wasn't happy about that, and back away. lurker MGWow! Gideon is charming! And he was super-cute at six months. Doesn't really look like a bear hunter. Glad you got him away from the bear.
We'll title this "Transgression." This is the look my brother got from Sammy when he had the nerve to try to brush the belly. Note claws. - MileyIn that photo, Sammy looks a lot like the black kitten among the four brought to our house by their mother not long ago. He can be held for a few seconds, but then usually gives "that look" and shows the claws.
Hi K.T. I had to say goodbye to Emma last week. She was the last of a long continuous line of Scotties we had beginning in 1975. I introduced Emma on AOS Pet Thread back in March 2018. This is her last Christmas picture -- She was such a good girl. Bill in FLOh, how heartbreaking to lose sweet, lovely Emma. She looks so happy in her Christmas picture. Keep in touch.
Encountered by Members of The Horde
Hello K.T.,I like that photo a lot! And the story even more Thanks for sending it in.
The pictures of all the deer in this week's Pet Thread reminded me of a pic I took some days ago. In the early morning we looked out the front window and there was Mama deer with a newborn. When we first saw them the doe was laying down with the fawn standing next to her. She got up and they both slowly walked away. Thanks for the Pet Thread. Always a good read. George V.
Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!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.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, June 13 I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 20, 2026 03:32 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 03:33 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 20, 2026 03:34 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 03:34 PM (X/a22)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 03:35 PM (X/a22)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 20, 2026 03:35 PM (f0sNM)
He was enjoying his back being brushed, then relaxed and showed his belly. Kevin didn't understand that was not an invitation, it was just happiness. So funny, because after the failed belly-brushing, he wouldn't allow Kevin to touch the brush.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 03:36 PM (w6EFb)
And Doggies too
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 03:39 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026 03:44 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 03:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: KT at June 20, 2026 03:45 PM (rdeQO)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at June 20, 2026 03:48 PM (sAmhv)
Bill in FL I am sorry for the loss of your Emma. She was beautiful.
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026 03:48 PM (2F0/Y)
Red wasp got me again while putting fuel in the tractor. Can’t imagine what snake venom feels like.
Posted by: Billythesquid at June 20, 2026 03:48 PM (nEiEH)
Now crickets even in older age they were deadly.
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 03:50 PM (Ia/+0)
Cloudy and thunder-grumbling here. Thunder doesn't bother the cats -- not like the arrival of strangers or the roar of the vacuum cleaner.
A King Charles Spaniel -- I expect the breed is named for the second Charles of England? Though when I look it up, I see that the separate breed, the Cavalier King Charles, was developed by John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. He was the husband of Queen Anne's great confidant (and probably manipulator), Sarah (Jennings) Churchill. In any case, Gideon is a beauty. That chestnut color against the pur white is striking.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 03:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 03:50 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 03:53 PM (tcsrY)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 03:53 PM (w6EFb)
Naturally I didn't want him to try to kill the thing and maybe get stung. I'd flatten the wasp with a magazine, then give him a kitty treat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 03:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Retired, thank God at June 20, 2026 03:54 PM (va0Yo)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 20, 2026 03:56 PM (l3cgK)
https://is.gd/ZU2Za3
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 20, 2026
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Another beauty!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 03:56 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 20, 2026 03:59 PM (fkjGs)
It has not, however, helped with her peeing in stupid places, like bathmats. I have to toss all of the bathmats and come up with something rubber to replace them. Maybe gel mats like for the kitchen, I don't know.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 04:01 PM (w6EFb)
The SK clay litter is 14 lbs., and costs $7; and I get only one litter filling out of it. The FP runs, then, a bit less than half the cost of the clay litter per pan change. The Pine also seems lighter in weight when it's turned into sawdust at the end of a 7-9 day period, so it's less trouble to lug out to the dumpster.
Winning!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 04:02 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 04:04 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 04:05 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 04:07 PM (qx7Zg)
Which is getting hard to find in the small 14 lb. jug. At some stores, so is the Feline Pine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 04:08 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 04:08 PM (w6EFb)
Always have a small child to dab jam on
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 20, 2026 04:08 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 20, 2026 04:09 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Retired, thank God
"Dude, could you be more gay?" - male black widow, chilling at the bar
"At least I'll be alive tomorrow morning." - male maratus, dancing fabulously
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 04:09 PM (VHUov)
Purry is a litter box asshole. He kicks it around like crazy and breaks up the poop into little pieces, and I think it offends Della.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 04:10 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 20, 2026
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My mother, who grew up on a farm, always told me to leave spiders alone, as "They eat other things you don't want in your house." So I still leave them be.
Spiders on my car, however, I don't want getting inside it. (I've had it happen on other cars. You haven't lived until you've had a big pale spider swing down in front of your face while you're driving.) If I can brush the spider off the car without killing it, I will, but if not, c'est la vie.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 04:11 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 04:18 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 20, 2026 04:19 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 04:02 PM (wzUl9)
Great to hear. We love it and makes the house smell nice. We won't use anything else again. With the cats we have, we buy the 40lb bag.
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026 04:20 PM (2F0/Y)
He tried to bully her the other day, and I actually heard her growl at him. I'd never heard her growl before -- and I've never heard him do it at all. I keep telling her, "Swat him across the nose; he'll leave you alone." But she does not have his reach, I guess.
He thinks she's fun to play with and chase; I somehow think she doesn't like him that much. I never see them sleeping together or grooming each other, not recently anyway. They did sleep together, with me, during the cold times this past winter.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 04:21 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026
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I did buy the 40 lb. bag at first, but now the stores near me, if they have the stuff in stock, offer only the 20. If I see a 40, I'll grab it.
The FP does provide a better scent. The local utility guys were here Monday installing a new thermostat and other items, and were surprised that I had cats. "It doesn't smell!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 04:23 PM (wzUl9)
The film is in color, so even Miss Linda should enjoy it. She dislikes B & W films. It depends, I suppose, on what you grew up with. At home we only had a B & W TV. Didn't get my first color set until 1984.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 04:30 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at June 20, 2026 04:32 PM (XeU6L)
We order the 40lb from Walmart online. My sister works at Walmart, so she gets a 10% discount and Walmart+ for free, so it works really well for us financially.
We have never found the 40lb in-store. For in-store purchase, we would have to drive an hour down to the closest Petsmart.
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026 04:32 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
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This leads to a very abrupt, barely controlled stop.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2026 04:36 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 04:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 04:41 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026
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And they probably charge 50% more at Petsmart than at Walmart.
Once I move and get settled, I may buy it online at WM. My experience with WM delivery is not great, though it could be the kind of people they hire to run deliveries here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 04:43 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 04:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 04:46 PM (wzUl9)
Not gonna click that "pet" spider. Watching a spider move is worse than watching one parked.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2026 04:47 PM (XJ22o)
I once inadvertently rode into a swarm of cicadas doing 60 mph. That was...uh...interesting.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 20, 2026 04:47 PM (ceJ0R)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 20, 2026 04:54 PM (ceJ0R)
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026 04:55 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 04:56 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 04:43 PM (wzUl9)
My sister works in the OGP department (online shopping). We have had no issues with the delivery people. I've noticed a lot of people complain about doordash etc in other cities and states, but we have never experiences those issues where we live.
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026 04:58 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 04:56 PM (77rzZ)
Doing alright, how about you? How's the job going?
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026 04:59 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: argie at June 20, 2026 04:59 PM (6lIeU)
Since it’s summer, the tutoring biz has kinda slacked off. Hopefully, it will pick up again come late summer.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 05:04 PM (77rzZ)
But she is still not quite used to the idea that she has safety and food now.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 20, 2026 05:04 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: argie at June 20, 2026
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I guess you'd buy those at Tractor Supply or any of the farm and feed places?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:05 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:06 PM (wzUl9)
what you gonna do when they come for you?
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 05:08 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: JTB at June 20, 2026 05:09 PM (yTvNw)
Have to be careful with just using any kind of pellet. What isn't toxic to a horse can be toxic to a cat. Oils etc need to be considered carefully.
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026 05:09 PM (2F0/Y)
I'm sorry to hear about your sister. Sending hugs your way.
Posted by: Joyenz at June 20, 2026 05:11 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 20, 2026 05:11 PM (OYsYV)
Vet appt Monday. I think she needs abx for her long term sinus issues. At least I hope they let me try. I’m not going to do the X-rays and ct scans I know they will try to sell me. I don’t spend that much on my own “healthcare (such that it is).
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 20, 2026 05:11 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 05:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JTB at June 20, 2026 05:14 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)
I was told 1 more litter box than number of cats. So I have 3, identical, bought at the same time. They both use the one in my bedroom 90% of the time to pee, the one in the laundry 90% of the time to poop, and the one in the garage, which is the most convenient, hardly at all. Anybody else find that kind of behavior?
Posted by: Wenda at June 20, 2026 05:32 PM (iIAkP)
Sunshine one minute, showers and clouds the next.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 05:35 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 20, 2026 05:37 PM (CFj4+)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 05:38 PM (Wmg4n)
Cat got a hot breakfast yesterday-- I found *parts* on the patio doormat. Urk.
Then he got a dove last night. Lightning quick, he jumped down from deck and came back up with the bird. He proceeded to the doormat, just in view from where I sit at the computer. Not wanting to watch, I closed the drapes. Just *knew* there would be huge mess to clean...
No mess this morning. I figured there'd be feathers all over the deck and, um, leftovers on the mat again. Nope. Birdy either got away or he took it somewhere else to dine.
LOL. Critters. :shrug:
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 05:44 PM (rdVOm)
Thanks KT!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 20, 2026 06:12 PM (Ha3no)
Posted by: EyeofSauron at June 20, 2026 07:33 PM (G6FGs)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, June 20
My little garden has been pretty colorful and a delight to look at out the window on a 90 degree day. Here's a couple photos of my Tequila and lime Daylilies. Didn't realize that each blossom actually only last for a day til Hrothgar mentioned it.
In one picture you can see the delicate pink hydrangeas. I was initially disappointed that they didn't get those big rounded flowers but grew to like how delicate they look. Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By We have updates from Intrepid Liaison/Admiral Ackbar from May 15 and from more recently today. May 15:
In some ways, plants are pretty uneventful. Most flowers on my plants have fallen off, and tiny little fruit are starting. Little baby quince fruit starting under the dying flower. The North Star cherry tree has always produced massive harvests, despite being fairly small and young still. The side of my house is overgrown with grape and kiwi vines, so I put up some ghetto "trellising" to help if grow out more. We'll see how well it holds up. Last year we had quite a few grapes. . . but raccoons ate them all. Okay, I lied. The Pawpaw tree is native, and always a little behind the other fruit trees, so it still has its weird, brownish bell-like flowers.
Lots of fruit and berries growing at the homestead, but with a move coming up, I haven't harvested like I usually do. Tons of mulberries and wild raspberries ready to pick, and finally a few pawpaw fruit on our young trees!
We have just a few grape vines on the side of the house, but they produce a ridiculous amount of fruit. Problem is keeping the critters out long enough to let them fully ripen and harvest. Saw a little turtle on the walking trail. Had a weird worm looking thing on the back of his shell...maybe a leech? Ewww.
Oh! I saw a mass of bright yellow mushrooms growing along a local path. Wife said they're "Golden Oyster", edible and invasive. I brought a backpack and hopped the fence on my next walk (chain-link fence to keep people away from the train tracks), and they were JUST out of reach. And, I pulled something trying to reach for them lol.
History - Some Special Trees
Halnaker tree tunnel in Sussex is a hollow way, or just Holloway
— The English Oak Project (@TheKentAcorn) June 19, 2026
Created by 2,000 years of traffic on the original Roman Road from London to Chichester
Stane Street is the modern name of the road from Londinium (London) to Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester) pic.twitter.com/F4SrJvQWST
Hello KT! I have been meaning to send pictures of my patio efforts for some time now! Things are growing and blooming and the bees seem to be very happy. My sunflowers are getting tall and the flowers are starting to bud-soon Bee balm is blooming: The Spiderwort has really done well. I chose a sunny/shady spot: Thanks as always for providing such a lovely spot on the internet! Mrs. Leggy
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening 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.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 20, 2026 01:39 PM (B0dAE)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 20, 2026 01:41 PM (B0dAE)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 20, 2026 01:44 PM (Kt19C)
I am just about to start digging potatoes, the vines have flowered and dropped, which indicates that I can dig some new potatoes. I wait until the vines die back to dig for the ones I am going to store for winter.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2026 01:45 PM (rbvCR)
Only thing have accomplished is a bigger leaf pile that was over my scap metal pile
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 01:49 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: KT at June 20, 2026 01:54 PM (rdeQO)
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 02:11 PM (vFG9F)
I'm almost done with the lawn. I had to take a break and eat lunch. It's only 85 out there but that humidity will choke you.
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2026 02:16 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at June 20, 2026 02:42 PM (dyL4B)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 02:42 PM (jxNsH)
I'm finally seeing butterflies around the vegetable garden, which has many pollinator flowers. The perennial coneflowers are YUGE and luxurious. My butterfly weed at home is finally getting ready to bloom.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 20, 2026 02:42 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: fd
I live in central Iowa. For now...
Take care of yourself. Are you really moving?
I'll be starting a new job in Hawaii soon. We'll keep the Iowa house for the immediate future, and I'll just be in a small apartment to start. Should provide plenty of interesting new Garden Thread photo opportunities...
Posted by: Intrepid Liaison/Admiral Ackbar at June 20, 2026 02:48 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 20, 2026 02:49 PM (lOlUK)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 20, 2026 02:50 PM (A5RD0)
Out of the trees I planted, the Asian pears are the slowest to grow. One never came out of dormancy. I pulled that and planted a pecan there. Garden wise, I can't buy the starts at the local store. They just don't do well. I do have a cold frame to put together so will make that a priority. I have one rose and some comfrey plants to plant. And I got seeds for a Homesteaders Kaleidiscopic Perennial Kale Grex fromThe Experimental Farm Network. I mentioned to someone on Solomon's group that I wanted to plant greens to reseed themselves and he suggested these. I think I still have variegated collard seed too. I have this idea f how to make it easier and moreproductive to garden but it's not there yet.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 20, 2026 02:52 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: DanMan at June 20, 2026 02:56 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 20, 2026 02:57 PM (bl07w)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 20, 2026 03:15 PM (cWLG3)
I can kill some ducks!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 20, 2026 03:17 PM (Kt19C)
I think the whole thing needs to come down because it's been nothing but trouble. I recently bought a battery powered chainsaw (12 inch) for such a time as this, but I'm still working up the courage to try it.
But I think the neighbors and I - mostly they - have made progress in the War on Kudzu. Would you believe the previous owner of my house actually PLANTED the kudzu?
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 20, 2026 03:19 PM (lOlUK)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 20, 2026 03:22 PM (Kt19C)
I never thought about it, but daylilies do only last for a day. That's why you need lots of blooms. My Shattered Glass daylily plant had only 2 blooms; maybe it will develop more over the years. They bloomed and died before I had a chance to capture their lemon yellow glory.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 03:29 PM (w6EFb)
But I think the neighbors and I - mostly they - have made progress in the War on Kudzu. Would you believe the previous owner of my house actually PLANTED the kudzu?
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 20, 2026 03:19 PM (lOlUK)"
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I felt trepidacious about firing up my Ryobi chain saw, loving all my digits and appendages right where they are, but after watching a YT video or two, I became a convert. Nay, an aficionado.
Buy a hockey mask and really freak out the neighbors.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 20, 2026 03:31 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Case at June 20, 2026 03:32 PM (IY9No)
Posted by: kallisto at June 20, 2026 03:39 PM (kD8Fh)
Wow! Iowa to Hawaii is a move! And keeping the Iowa house, with its survival foods!
Posted by: KT at June 20, 2026 03:40 PM (rdeQO)
Buy a hockey mask and really freak out the neighbors.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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I have cool neighbors, they would get a kick out of it.
I need to Read the Manual and watch some vids. But I have learned how to use things like firearms and a weedwhacker so maybe I can do this too.
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 20, 2026 03:43 PM (lOlUK)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 20, 2026 03:44 PM (lOlUK)
While I was gone for a weekend, critters ate the peas to the dirt and chewed the tops of most of the surviving Jerusalem artichokes. Only one of the onions came up; no garlic. Someone said I planted the garlic too deep - the same someone who told me how deep to plant them.
On the bright side, the onion that came up is an "walking" onion that already has two offshoots at its top. And there are two Jerusalem artichokes poking up behind the rhubarb. They're too tall now for rabbits, although the squirrels might still dig them up.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 20, 2026 04:02 PM (ysTZR)
Just back from the MoMe. We had a perfect day, clear, warm but nice breeze off the river. Lots of people out and about but we had a great area that let us move around but out of the way of others enjoying the day.
I bought another tomato and jalapeño plant. Everything doing so well I wish I had more room.
Have a great week.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 20, 2026 04:39 PM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 05:40 PM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Tony Litwin at June 21, 2026 07:13 AM (yW7Qk)
Father's Day Weekend, 2026
Happy Father's Day Weekend! Are you seeing or doing anything different from other Father's Day Weekends? Like maybe,
Remembering the Founding Fathers
Abigail Adams wrote these words to her husband, John Adams, the day after the Battle of Bunker Hill having learned about the death of their dear friend Dr. Joseph Warren during the battle. “The Day; perhaps the decisive Day is come on which the fate of America depends. My bursting Heart must find vent at my pen. I have just heard that our dear Friend Dr. Warren is no more but fell gloriously fighting for his Country— saying better to die honourably in the field than ignominiously hang upon the Gallows. Great is our Loss. He has distinguished himself in every engagement, by his courage and fortitude, by animating the Soldiers and leading them on by his own example.”- Abigail Adams (June 18, 1775)
I began to think about their ages on that day...Joseph Warren had recently turned 34, Abigail was 30 & John was 39. Somehow we think of the founding generation as elderly. . . most were not.
Pictured is John Trumbull’s painting “The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775.”
Freddy headed home to Germany https://t.co/9X2Y4r3FiM pic.twitter.com/O2ncpeirfT
— Brandon (@BS_355) June 18, 2026
And now we have a Museum of the Bible, with some special lectures for a special anniversary . . .The answer is obvious. https://t.co/3nlAS1POrw pic.twitter.com/ZPHGKnaXsX
— Tidewater Cavalier (@TDomhnaill) June 16, 2026
We've discussed air conditioning. What about other Great American Inventors?
Norman Borlaug — good Lutheran from Iowa — might be the most impactful figure of the 20th century that you’ve never heard of. https://t.co/paeZ6OWtiR
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 19, 2026
34 American composer Samuel Barber and his Adagio for Strings. Try to listen to that without getting emotional. Posted by: banana Dream - I double dog dare you at June 13, 2026 12:03 PM
I wrote the entry on chicken fried steak. I believe it is the best essay on chicken fried steak that has ever been written. If you read it and don't think so please send me the better one. https://t.co/28siRsSaub
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) June 14, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 19, 2026 01:57 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 19, 2026 01:57 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 11:17 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:17 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2026 11:18 AM (T6aVk)
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Wait. I thought George W. Chimpy McHitler Bush was the worst president ever.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 11:19 AM (ndZc7)
If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have?
J. D. Salinger, man. The Catcher in the Rye changed my life.
Posted by: Some stoned retard who's now in his 70s at June 20, 2026 11:20 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:20 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 11:20 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: RandomDave at June 20, 2026 11:20 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Reagan was literally Hitler first!
Posted by: The wheel of liberal fickle at June 20, 2026 11:21 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:21 AM (KC5Lt)
327 314 Hollywood doing Hollywood.
“Matlock” Reboot Writer Sues CBS and Showrunner for Alleged Racism, Sexual Harassment
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 11:08 AM (ndZc7)
Don't you mean the Andy Griffith Show? Wall to wall wypipa on that one. Now Matlock was a virtual this-n-that, a paint color choice catalog of humanity. No racism there except the occasional 'white guy did it'.
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 11:15 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 11:21 AM (LHPAg)
"Wild Bill says:
Saturday, 20 June 2026, 10:17 at 10:17 am
She looks like Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit."
I laughed outloud and woke up people
Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at June 20, 2026 11:21 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 11:22 AM (LHPAg)
Best character on the Andy Griffith Show.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:22 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 20, 2026 11:23 AM (b4s65)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 20, 2026 11:24 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:25 AM (KC5Lt)
Tempted to put in a word for Robert E Howard.
Posted by: the riddle of steel at June 20, 2026 11:25 AM (W0KIM)
I've heard Twain thrown about as the Great American writer.
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 20, 2026 11:23 AM (b4s65)
Ugh.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2026 11:26 AM (T6aVk)
tl;dr: Stick it in your ear and palpate your brain. Lumpy? That's normal. (Remember to remove finger from ear after the procedure.)
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:26 AM (Jr5Lq)
Boston is full of statues and monuments to our founders. So many you almost don't notice them after a while. No matter what you think of massholes if you are a fan of US history its a great city to visit.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2026 11:26 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at June 20, 2026 11:27 AM (Skc+N)
Best character on the Andy Griffith Show.
Posted by: polynikes
"It's me, it's me! It's Ernest T!"
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 20, 2026 11:28 AM (l26NL)
tl;dr: Stick it in your ear and palpate your brain. Lumpy? That's normal. (Remember to remove finger from ear after the procedure.)
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:26 AM (Jr5Lq)
So many quack clickbait scam ads, so little time.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2026 11:28 AM (T6aVk)
Herman Wouk? Herman Melville? 'Herman' sounds a little bit like 'Homer.' At least if you have bad hearing like I do.
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:29 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: the riddle of steel at June 20, 2026 11:25 AM (W0KIM)
Ever been to his home in Cross Plains, TX?
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2026 11:29 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 11:30 AM (dE3DB)
JUST IN: Cuba’s Communist Party approves sweeping free-market reforms in an unprecedented move to open the economy.
Jun 18, 2026 · 10:23 PM UTC
#winning
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 11:31 AM (W0KIM)
Posted by: the riddle of steel
Tom Wolfe, maybe? Maybe?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 20, 2026 11:31 AM (l26NL)
If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have
SAT question :
Who above does not belong in the group?
Dante. The rest are considered playwrights
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:31 AM (KC5Lt)
It's not perfect. For example early on when they're going over the debates on independence the guy who played John Rutledge played him as if he were a flaming queer. I really have no idea why. It was...bizarre. But the focus is on John Adams and Paul Giamatti was outstanding. Laura Linney played Abigail Adams and was very easy on the eyes.
The book is obviously WAY better but I think the miniseries is definitely worth your time.
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 20, 2026 11:32 AM (b4s65)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 20, 2026 11:32 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:32 AM (Jr5Lq)
@PabloEscoburner
At this rate Freddy - after gaining 20 pounds - will be flying back to Germany on the back of a bald eagle, shooting an AR-15 while drinking Miller Lite, flanked by F-35s streaming red, white, and blue across the sky while Free Bird is playing from the heavens.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 11:32 AM (6U1c2)
If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have
SAT question :
Who above does not belong in the group?
Dante. The rest are considered playwrights
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:31 AM (KC5Lt)
That's because Dante played wrong...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 20, 2026 11:33 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Ben Jonson at June 20, 2026 11:33 AM (W0KIM)
Oh....and ROCK & ROLL!!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 20, 2026 11:34 AM (1qLmG)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 11:34 AM (2WIwB)
Mark Twain maybe?
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 11:34 AM (Ia/+0)
What is it with the word 'playwright' anyway? "I'm Arthur Miller, and I implore you to see all the plays I wrought."
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:35 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 20, 2026 11:35 AM (FMtrg)
What is it with the word 'playwright' anyway? "I'm Arthur Miller, and I implore you to see all the plays I wrought."
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:35 AM (Jr5Lq)
There's iron in those words...wrought iron.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 20, 2026 11:35 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit!
I'm starting it now, dadgummit. I don't like the episode where they give the cow pox as a vaccine to stop small pox. It's too painful. But it worked. Dr Fauci, care to comment?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 20, 2026 11:36 AM (l26NL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 11:36 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Case at June 20, 2026 11:36 AM (IY9No)
Posted by: I left my real nic in my other pair of pants at June 20, 2026 11:36 AM (i0sUn)
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Aflfred Hitchcock
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 11:36 AM (6U1c2)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:37 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 11:37 AM (W0KIM)
Posted by: polynikes
My mother has always been big into community theater, so I've been obligated to attend all sorts of shows. My recollection of Tennessee Williams was "boring" and "dysfunctional, mean-spirited and anti-American," but after looking up the two plays I specifically recalling, he is absolved.
"Buried Child" by Sam Shepard and "Long Day's Journey into Night" by Eugene O'Neill. People sitting around being miserable and hating each other seems to be compelling storytelling to far too many people.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 20, 2026 11:38 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 20, 2026 11:38 AM (l26NL)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 20, 2026 11:40 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace
Shelby Foote, iirc ...
Posted by: Adriane the Chronologically Challanged Hump Day Critic . . . at June 20, 2026 11:40 AM (3ZUWJ)
JUST IN: Cuba’s Communist Party approves sweeping free-market reforms in an unprecedented move to open the economy.
Jun 18, 2026 · 10:23 PM UTC
#winning
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 11:31 AM (W0KIM)
Cuba takes it's next step into Elbonia. New product: signs saying: My Hovel, My Pig.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 11:41 AM (qx7Zg)
Death of a Salesman isn't a joyous play either.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:41 AM (KC5Lt)
author of Travis McGee.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 20, 2026 11:41 AM (vOjEn)
Posted by: Ben Jonson
An old white racist colonizer who stole ideas from the indigenous colored English and labeled them as his own original work!!!
Posted by: Rep Jasmine Crockett at June 20, 2026 11:42 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:43 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2026 11:43 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:43 AM (Jr5Lq)
Thanks, Horde, you bunch of experts!
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 20, 2026 11:43 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 20, 2026 11:44 AM (yQ27C)
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:44 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Rep Jasmine Crockett at June 20, 2026 11:42 AM (ycI94)
Get thee to a nunnery, virago.
Posted by: Sir Thomas North at June 20, 2026 11:45 AM (W0KIM)
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:46 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 11:46 AM (1z8ji)
Took him almost 60 years, but better late than never.
Sitting here on the porch, watching the horses graze on our pasture (crazy to even say those words), I thank God that He brought us here, and in this moment of time.
Fifty years ago, when I was seven and living in military housing in the Bay Area, I witnessed all the hoopla surrounding the Bicentennial and it was something to behold.
Little did I know then that fifty years later, I'd be living in the country in the Ozarks in Missouri, watching my daughter's horses possibly destroy the apple tree saplings.
God Bless America.
BRB
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 11:47 AM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)
Probably my fave.
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:44 AM (Jr5Lq)
About as depressing as can be. To me anyway.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:48 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 20, 2026 11:38 AM (ycI94)
This is true. And if you've noticed, every backstory of almost every character in movies has a tragic or really fucked up childhood. I get so sick of it that I usually start to think that shitty little brat deserved it.
I'd like to see a main character have a wonderful childhood with TWO (a man and a woman) loving parents for once.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 20, 2026 11:48 AM (1sDNq)
Posted by: Ben Jonson
An old white racist colonizer who stole ideas from the indigenous colored English and labeled them as his own original work!!!
Posted by: Rep Jasmine Crockett
Greek homo.
Posted by: Al Sharpton at June 20, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
He was an epicist. Whoa, that's a real word. IDNKT!
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:48 AM (Jr5Lq)
==
"Buried Child" by Sam Shepard and "Long Day's Journey into Night" by Eugene O'Neill. People sitting around being miserable and hating each other seems to be compelling storytelling to far too many people.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 20, 2026 11:38 AM (ycI94)
I looked up summaries of both (had never even heard of the first one) and holy @(%*& the writers sound like miserable douchebags.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 20, 2026 11:49 AM (R+iUD)
Posted by: Moron Analyst
Pffffffft.
Posted by: Henrik Ibsen at June 20, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Case
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'Sociology' replaced 'Civics'. It's been downhill ever since.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2026 11:50 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Rep Jasmine Crockett at June 20, 2026 11:42
+++
Thereby hangs a tail.
Posted by: IYKYK at June 20, 2026 11:50 AM (D2IX4)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2026 11:50 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ace's crow at June 20, 2026 11:51 AM (XeU6L)
John Philip Sousa for music?
Early Norman Rockwell for art?
Both kind of capture the original American spirit.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 20, 2026 11:51 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 11:51 AM (1z8ji)
A Raisin in the Sun is a story that strikes a chord in many people.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 11:52 AM (ZHOnm)
That sounds wonderful. Congratulations on the move and being closer to grandbabies and their parents.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 20, 2026 11:53 AM (R+iUD)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:53 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:53 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Moron Analyst
Pffffffft.
Posted by: Henrik Ibsen
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pffffffffft.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Posted by: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at June 20, 2026 11:54 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 20, 2026 11:53 AM (R+iUD)
Likewise from me!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 11:56 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 20, 2026 11:56 AM (FMtrg)
Best song is Damn Yankees "Don't Tread on Me"
I eat hotdogs with ketchup
I throw rocks
Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at June 20, 2026 11:57 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:53 AM (KC5Lt)
Didn't he live in America for a bit? Like somewhere in New England?
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 20, 2026 11:57 AM (b4s65)
Their horses moved in before we did.
Daughter and SiL saw all the pasture, and as soon as the papers were signed and they got the keys from the seller, their three horses and a donkey were moved in to feast on 3+ acres of overgrown pasture.
The pasture on their property is very rocky and it's pretty much depleted, so they're usually fed hay.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 11:58 AM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
In contrast, the play Driving Miss Daisy, by Alfred Uhry, was wonderful and positive. Don't know much about him personally, but the play itself is a good, uplifting story.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 20, 2026 11:58 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 11:58 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 20, 2026 11:57 AM (b4s65)
He lived with Mary in Brattleboro.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:59 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Samuel Langhorne Clemens at June 20, 2026 11:59 AM (D2IX4)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 12:00 PM (ZHOnm)
POE-T
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 12:00 PM (6U1c2)
Posted by: the stonecutters at June 20, 2026 12:01 PM (qdr3M)
I despise salesmen, but I love dramas about salesmen.
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 12:01 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 12:02 PM (ZHOnm)
Wonderful!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 12:02 PM (6U1c2)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:59 AM (KC5Lt)
Ooohhhh, so THAT was the white man's burden he was talking about!
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 20, 2026 12:02 PM (b4s65)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 12:02 PM (KC5Lt)
For me England has a toss up between Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill.
Mark Twain or Will Rogers are some candidates for America.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 12:05 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 12:00 PM (ZHOnm)
I can relate. It's kinda depressing what Denver and Boulder are doing to my beloved Colorado. But I'm loving the wholesome and sweet culture of Arkansas. (When I was researching for the primaries, I noticed the candidate websites nearly always mentioned what church the candidate attends.)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 20, 2026 12:06 PM (FMtrg)
Wonderful!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 12:02 PM (6U1c2)
___
All this is just a foretaste for what's to come when Jesus returns.
Imagine what the new Heavens and Earth are going to look like after the Master Craftsman gets done with them both.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 12:08 PM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
Best to get out of commieland while one can.
I saw a post by Gad Saad bemoaning the fact that when he started to plsn to leave Canada, he realized that Canada's departure tax would take the equivalent of ten tears of savings snd spend it on anti-semitic immigrants
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 12:11 PM (6U1c2)
Puts in plug for Louis L'Amour.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 11:51 AM (1z8ji)
I'm partial to Elmore Leonard myself, but I'll accept L'Amour, especially Last of the Breed.
Poe is probably the serious choice, unless you're a poofter academic, then you can slap-fight each other over Whitman vs Thoreau.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 20, 2026 12:11 PM (y9nCu)
"I decide to leave Quebec/Canada because:
1) the taxation system is astounding, rendering it nearly impossible to accumulate enough money to truly retire
2) the government's open immigration policies have made it unsafe for my family to remain here (due to the exponential increase in Jew-hatred).
Today I found out that I shall have to pay a departure tax for exercising my right to leave, and the money that will be taken from me (because the obscene amount of taxes that I've already paid in full is not enough) will be given to new incoming immigrants who hate Jews. My taxes funded my forced exit and will fund the harassment of any remaining Jews in Canada.
It would take me 10+ more years of work to save the amount that is likely to be taken via the departure tax.
Is this moral? Ethical? Just? In any case, off to bed. Tomorrow is a new day."
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 12:12 PM (6U1c2)
83 I'm kinda partial to Lorraine Hansberry, because reasons.
A Raisin in the Sun is a story that strikes a chord in many people.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 11:52 AM
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Was the raisin a grape when it was first put out in the sun?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 20, 2026 12:13 PM (KDsZt)
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 12:13 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 12:14 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 12:11 PM (6U1c2)
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Good luck if Illinois tries to collect a dime from us.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 12:14 PM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 20, 2026 12:15 PM (R+iUD)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 12:11 PM (6U1c2)
I did not know we had a departure tax. Turns out the only substantial assets I own are exempt categories, Canadian real estate, and registered retirement income fund.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 12:15 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 11:52 AM
The movie was very good. Of course I don't know how much they edited the play for the big screen.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 12:17 PM (KC5Lt)
Standing up against criminals: bad
Teenaged homosexuals: good
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 12:18 PM (KAw7u)
youtube.com/watch?v=rG7PSC9ICeU
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 12:22 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Case at June 20, 2026 12:24 PM (IY9No)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 20, 2026 12:25 PM (6h45X)
Posted by: polynikes
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The movie was adapted from the Broadway play.
In fact, Lorraine Hansberry herself wrote the screenplay, and most of the Broadway cast reprised their roles in the movie.
So there's little difference between the play and movie.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 12:25 PM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
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Moral? No.
Ethical? No.
Just? No.
Expected from a country that murders its citizens over being depressed? Yes.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 12:29 PM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 12:15 PM (1z8ji)
Yup, there's the Canadian one and Quebec has one too. He lives in Quebec so it's really ugly for him.
Posted by: Vendette at June 20, 2026 12:31 PM (1ieqq)
You can't leave until we are paid.
Posted by: Reforger at June 20, 2026 12:34 PM (wjnjX)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 12:35 PM (KC5Lt)
You can't leave until we are paid.
Posted by: Reforger
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Yep.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 12:35 PM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: Vendette at June 20, 2026 12:31 PM (1ieqq)
He should find a good tax lawyer and accountant, and find a way to structure his assets to avoid, or evade the departure tax.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 12:35 PM (1z8ji)
You might like some books/plays by Charlayne Woodard. I was a close friend with her brother when I lived in NY.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 12:38 PM (KC5Lt)
Gad's already lived in Mississippi for almost a year, I think.
Ole Miss installed him at their Constitution Center. Because a Lebanese-born Jew from Canada is more patriotic than Democrats.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 20, 2026 12:38 PM (QZThv)
Having been severely punished by exile to Canada for shutting off the lights. Snake Pliskin again is on the run. This time it's financial.
Posted by: Reforger at June 20, 2026 12:40 PM (wjnjX)
It's also expensive to immigrate TO Canada. After Trump's second election the number of "ex-pats" heading to Canada spiked. But many were unprepared for the costs associated, and the other requirements about buying property there, employment, and so on.
Much sobbing ensued.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 12:41 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at June 20, 2026 12:42 PM (D2IX4)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 12:42 PM (Ia/+0)
They're giving her IV antibiotics. Not sure how long they'll keep her, but one hopes not long.
The doctor said they're putting her on IV lasik to combat edema. He wants to put her comfort first, which is exactly right (the edema is what lies behind the hematoma, I think).
The house is empty without her. The oxygen concentrator stands silent. There is no sound of a bell ringing for an escort to the bathroom to carry the oxygen hose for her and prevent her from tripping over it (she loves the PureWick thing the hospitals use).
A foreshadowing. Losing his father was hard, but losing his mother is going to be brutal. And it's inevitable.
Prayers are always appreciated.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 12:42 PM (w6EFb)
Ole Miss installed him at their Constitution Center. Because a Lebanese-born Jew from Canada is more patriotic than Democrats.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 20, 2026 12:38 PM (QZThv)
If he was up there for part of 2025 he'd file a tax return, so that's how they got him on the departure taxes. Canada's filing season is a bit later than the U.S. season.
Posted by: Vendette at June 20, 2026 12:43 PM (1ieqq)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 12:44 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Southeastern Conference football fans at June 20, 2026 12:45 PM (D2IX4)
Posted by: gp at June 20, 2026 12:46 PM (Jr5Lq)
DC is the same. Not sure I can recommend just walking it nowadays, but you can’t toss a conveniently-laid brick without hitting the statue of some obscure historical figure well worth reading up on.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 12:46 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 12:46 PM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 12:47 PM (KC5Lt)
Much sobbing ensued.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 12:41 PM (jehhT)
Because they're not part of the favored groups for which the government rolls out the welcome mat and provides handouts. If you're not one of them, absolutely it's a pain to move there. And not shockingly, Quebec is the hardest province to emigrate to because they have their own rules in addition to the federal ones.
Posted by: Vendette at June 20, 2026 12:47 PM (1ieqq)
Of the first five presidents, three died on Independence Day, two of them within hours of each other on the Jubilee of 1826.
I’ve been going through the post July 4, 1826, newspapers reading eulogies and other writings, pursuant to my July 4 blog post. There are times when I think God is attempting to prove Oolon Colluphid right.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 12:48 PM (kYmoU)
"Wild Bill says:
Saturday, 20 June 2026, 10:17 at 10:17 am
She looks like Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit."
I laughed outloud and woke up people
Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at June 20, 2026 11:21 AM (jrgJz)
Hillz is trying to pull off the Melania-in-the-bolero-hat look.
Like everything else she has done, she failed.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2026 12:49 PM (rbvCR)
Carney is a European Socialist, you see, whose family lives in the United States, along with his money.
When you live north of the border looking down comes naturally.
Posted by: Auspex at June 20, 2026 12:50 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 12:50 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 12:51 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 12:53 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: polynikes
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Will look her up, though to be honest, the only reason I even heard about Lorraine Hansberry and A Raisin in the Sun is because she's family (dad's aunt, so my great-aunt, I guess), and the movie was shown constantly when I was growing up.
I read the play when I was well into adulthood, as well as her other writings.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 12:53 PM (ZHOnm)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 12:53 PM (KAw7u)
This is how stupid these people are.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 12:53 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 12:54 PM (qx7Zg)
So the cinemas here are cluttered with "Girls Like Girls" and "Leviticus", and nobody's playing "Citizen Vigilante".
Standing up against criminals: bad
Teenaged homosexuals: good
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 12:18 PM (KAw7u)
Citizen Vigilante has two seemingly insurmountable obstacles. A subject matter which the Hollywood commies despise, and Uwe Boll.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 20, 2026 12:55 PM (y9nCu)
Maybe the Gulag system having workers workfor free was making more money that letting them leave for a few thousand rubles
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 12:55 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 20, 2026 11:23 AM (b4s65
Twain, Grant, and Lincoln defined the modern American voice. Prior it was all sorts of purple prose and Feinmoor Cooper alliteration, even Twain's actual contemporaries were overly intricate and cloyingly saccharine in their language.
Twain got sucked into that voice when he was being literary, but in his newspaper articles and the stories he was selling for money, he was very clean and open in his language.
The current bests, in my opinion, are David Drake and Larry Correia. They are both excellent technical writers who also have imagination, something to say, and a keen vision on people.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2026 12:56 PM (rbvCR)
American letters are littered with wouldbe Iliads, most clustered in Civil War literature.
"Gone With The Wind" might count alongside one of those posthomeric fanfics which didn't get copied by the Romans and those after them.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 12:56 PM (KAw7u)
Leaving aside how much of his planetary stories were about Americans on an Odyssey in very foreign lands, it is always a good idea to read more ERB. Tarzan, for example. And the Earth’s Core series.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 12:57 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 12:57 PM (qx7Zg)
In "Good Will Hunting" Matt Damon, who is wicked smaht, definitively pegged Howard Zinn as America's Homer 'cause he was right about everything.
Posted by: Auspex at June 20, 2026 12:58 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Back in the day at June 20, 2026 12:58 PM (D2IX4)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 12:58 PM (KAw7u)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 12:59 PM (kYmoU)
American letters are littered with wouldbe Iliads, most clustered in Civil War literature.*
(ahem)
Posted by: My name's Gump. Forrest Gump. at June 20, 2026 01:00 PM (D2IX4)
Twain, and Steinbeck. Maybe Hemingway.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 01:01 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Auspex at June 20, 2026 12:58 PM (Y8D
Definitely the worst part of the movie .
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 01:03 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 01:05 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: JTB at June 20, 2026 01:06 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 20, 2026 01:07 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 12:53 PM (ZHOnm)
Good reason to read it. Same reason I'm familiar with Woodards plays , which are about family similar to RitS, is because of my friendship with her brother.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 01:07 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 01:08 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: JTB at June 20, 2026 01:09 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:21 AM
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Yea, if Shakespeare was a poofter.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at June 20, 2026 01:09 PM (PY/mn)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 20, 2026 01:09 PM (w6EFb)
>Dr. Seuss
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 20, 2026 01:11 PM (fkjGs)
Posted by: Toad-0 at June 20, 2026 01:14 PM (cct0t)
“I am no wordsmith dripping words divine
Into the golden chalice of a sonnet;
If love songs witch you, close this book of mine,
Waste no time on it.”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 01:16 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Toad-0 at June 20, 2026 01:16 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:21 AM
——-
Yea, if Shakespeare was a poofter.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at June 20, 2026 01:09 PM (PY/
The guy wrote more about getting tail than any other playwright even if liked the D.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 01:18 PM (KC5Lt)
Sweden getting stomped by the Dutch. Couldn't happen to a more deserving country.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2026 01:19 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2026 01:19 PM (O0L8i)
More than the Dutch who hate us more bigley than the Swedes?
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 01:19 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Reforger at June 20, 2026 01:21 PM (wjnjX)
Posted by: JTB
James A. Michener... if anybody actually read him.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 01:22 PM (/lPRQ)
Technically, nobody read Homer either.
I’d say, as long as the movies are popular, not being read isn’t a disqualification.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 01:24 PM (kYmoU)
More than the Dutch who hate us more bigley than the Swedes?
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 01:19 PM (KC5Lt)
____________
Sweden, the pioneer country of abortion, pornography, smug neutralism and making bank selling iron ore to the Nazis. An asshole country with asshole people.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2026 01:24 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 20, 2026 01:25 PM (q3u5l)
Twain, and Steinbeck. Maybe Hemingway.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 01:01 PM (2WIw
First two go candidates. Never got the Hemingway love.
As modern authors go, I think Steven Pressfield should be considered. Anyone who can write Gates of Fire and The Legend of Bagger Vance and have both project the western warrior ethos should be a candidate.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 01:26 PM (KC5Lt)
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Stephen Vincent Benet.
"John Brown's Body."
That is all.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 20, 2026 01:27 PM (amcLV)
In "Good Will Hunting" Matt Damon, who is wicked smaht, definitively pegged Howard Zinn as America's Homer 'cause he was right about everything.
Posted by: Auspex
He secretly wanted to BE pegged by Howard Zinn.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 20, 2026 01:28 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 01:28 PM (MyPTh)
American composer Samuel Barber and his Adagio for Strings.
Try to listen to that without getting emotional.
_____________
Thomas Schippers conducting the New York Philharmonic. Accept no substitutes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2026 01:29 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Heroq at June 20, 2026 01:31 PM (7YTFo)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 01:33 PM (KC5Lt)
A mental illness will send you to the Big House
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 01:33 PM (Ia/+0)
I don’t think you can exclude the Senate from that maxim…
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 01:35 PM (kYmoU)
In his long career, the legendary conductor Herbert von Karajan conducted exactly two (2) works by American composers, once each. The Barber Adagio wasn't one of them. Makes you wonder how it would have sounded.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2026 01:37 PM (O0L8i)
It's spooky. It's like they were born to offset each other.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 20, 2026 01:37 PM (BI5O2)
A mental illness will send you to the Big House
Posted by: Skip
Who would have guessed that a depraved pervert would amp up their depravity to criminal levels?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 01:38 PM (/lPRQ)
In fact, it made me want to watch the movie again. Not surprising, since I enjoyed the movie, but it has been a very long time.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 01:40 PM (kYmoU)
Its a Harlan Coben thriller starring Sam Worthington and that redhead from Severance.
Fun watch and a tribute to fatherhood
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 01:43 PM (cSByu)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 01:40 PM (kYmoU)
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Watch the director's cut. So much was left out of the theatrical cut that the movie becomes inexplicable.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 20, 2026 01:44 PM (amcLV)
Great American writer is Twain -- for prose. His fiction isn't that great -- narratives, plots, pacing, etc.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2026 01:44 PM (XJ22o)
“At the grave of such men envy dies, and party animosity blushes while she quenches her fires.”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 01:45 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 20, 2026 12:53 PM (2WIwB)
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The legislation and budgeting coming out of Sacramento (California) right now is not to be believed. Out of all the hellish data I could drop, I'll keep it to this:
Another $1bil PER YEAR for the Train To Nowhere
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2026 01:51 PM (XJ22o)
Thanks! I actually have the extended version on DVD, but it’s very old and looks horrible on a modern television. Despite it being much longer, I don’t recall it being overly long—like some other extended editions I’ve had—I remember on the extended Blues Brothers, the director talks about some of the scenes he cut from Aykroyd’s phonebook script, and for very good reason—and at least one of those scenes are in the new cut!
I’ll make sure that when I replace it the replacement also has the extended cut.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 20, 2026 01:53 PM (kYmoU)
Another $1bil PER YEAR for the Train To Nowhere
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
I assume Cali has a Mini Davis Bacon which requires submission of all payrolls. These could be tallied up. Probably not even 5% of total project cost. Not like they have a bunch of guys out there digging holes and filling them back in.
Cost is most likely almost all ideal equipment 'rent' even though wholly. owned by the contractors and paid for many times over... and profit and overhead on top of that. So really on order of 75% real profit and a good chunk of that finding its way back into politicians pockets.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 02:08 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Auspex
He secretly wanted to BE pegged by Howard Zinn.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar
He actually shared a backyard with him. Which leads me to believe there was a pegging. I guess Damon's mom and he taught at the same college.
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Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 20, 2026 03:10 PM (DZ9Lv)
You don't include "There once was a lass from Nantucket, ..."?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 03:34 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 20, 2026 03:58 PM (DZ9Lv)
Hopefully she'll make the chiro appt for Monday afternoon.
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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Morrison) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Black marks on your permanent record are not pretty.
3) A weekly reminder. No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a great weekend and a Happy Father's Day to all of you Fathers.
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 3/28 – Jordan61 posted that Mr. Jordan61 is back in the hospital. His sepsis has returned and gotten into where his compression fracture is, and he has vertebral osteomyelitis. The doctor is supposed to come in today and let them know the plan.
5/26 Update – Mr. Jordan61 had his last antibiotic infusion on 5/24 and his PICC line was removed on 5/26. He will have follow-up blood work in 2 weeks but for now, all looks good! 4/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. Her chemo seems to be holding things steady for now. Unfortunately, as she is receiving a steroid, she has gained about 25 pounds. Her blood sugar has also jumped up about 40 points (which only happens when she is on steroids).
6/1 Update – Teresa had a CT scan and has seen the surgeon. Everything looks good/stable. There are no new tumors and the ones that are there have pretty much stayed the same or shrunk. No metastises seen. Additional good news is that she can stay on the current medication, and just alternate it with other meds. She continues to respond extremely well to the protocols. She sends her gratitude for each and every prayer. 5/16 – Tonypete asked for prayers for Jane who is dying of breast cancer, and for Cheri who is in jail (again) for drug related crimes.
6/13 Update – Jane and her husband have sold their home and have moved back to Green Bay, to be with family when she dies. 5/20 – D gave an update on his wife Susan and her continued battle with cancer. Her cancer markers are still headed in the right direction. She is on a new antibiotic, and it is causing some side effects, but it is keeping her out of another surgery, so that is a win. Thanks again to everyone for their prayers. May 1 marked one year since they found out about the cancer, and Susan is doing so well. 5/20 – E gave an update. She and her family were having financial struggles a few months ago, and asked for prayers. E sends her thanks for the prayers, and wanted to let people know that things are getting better, thanks to the Horde’s prayers and their church family. They have resolved their mortgage issue and her husband has resumed his side gig making deliveries. They are also cutting monthly expenses. They would like continued prayers as they deal with the insurance company of the person who crashed into (and totaled) E’s vehicle. Insurance only offered half the replacement value, so that struggle is still going on. 5/23 – San Franpsycho sent a praise report. His prayer to become a grandad has been answered, and Girl F will have a baby in December. Girl F still plans to attend grad school, but will delay a year, which means they will depend on them for child care. This pleases San Franpsycho to the nth degree! 5/23 – Vmom deport deport deport would appreciate prayers. She has been freaking out about her eyesight. Her eye doctor says she has myopic macular degeneration. 5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/2 Update – I used to have a Different Nic sent in an update. He has been diagnosed with risk group 2 prostate cancer. It appears to be localized to the prostate but this will be verified via another scan. He has doctor appointments lined up for the next month or so before he starts treatment. 5/23 – George V sends his thanks for the prayers on behalf of his wife, when she had a heart valve replacement. The procedure went very well and she is doing great in the rehab program. But prayers are still needed. There are indications of problems in her lymph nodes that showed up in the scans checking her heart. She will have a biopsy in June, as well as a biopsy on a skin lesion that is looking suspicious. Thank you for all prayers. 5/26 – Doof posted a request for prayers for his mom. She is back in the hospital. She is very weak from one or more infections, and is sleeping a lot. She isn’t really talking when she is alert for a few minutes.
6/14 Update – Doof’s mother passed away. 5/27 – Grannysaurus Rex asked for prayers for Sherry, a co-worker, who is being tested for possible cancer of the blood. 5/29 – Bulg requested prayers for his sister, her husband, their four children, and the rest of the family as his sister is dying. She is in palliative care in the hospital, with a lot of blood clots, and is not expected to last long.
6/5 Update – Bulg asks for continued prayers for his sister and the family. He visited, and her condition had improved a lot. She was conscious and lucid. Bulg and his brother had a nice visit with their sister, and also got to visit with her family (husband, kids, grandkids). Bulg is grateful for the reconciliation with his sister and prays that she may be with them for a long while.
6/14 Update – Bulg’s sister passed away on 6/14. They all could use prayers of comfort. 5/29 – huerfano requested prayers for her brother, R, whose appendix “got hot”. Luckily he was with his daughter, who got him to ER quickly, and surgery was scheduled for 5/29.
6/6 Update – R had surgery, but his appendix was already leaking, so the surgery was more complicated and required lavage of his internals. He has been back at his daughter’s house since 6/1, and is thinking he’s ready to go home. Unfortunately, that’s 500 miles. 5/29 – Beltway Elite posted that s/he had just signed forms for her/his mom to enter hospice. Mom’s quality of life has been declining since she had a stroke several years ago, and she hasn’t been able to speak or swallow solid food recently. 5/30 – RandomDave posted that he would appreciate prayers as he searches for work. He has had some good job prospects/interviews over the past week. 6/2 – Ellipsis (…
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.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Weasel at June 20, 2026 07:59 AM (ei1sX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 20, 2026 07:59 AM (OYsYV)
Posted by: one hour sober at June 20, 2026 08:00 AM (J4Dwc)
bus route. and he wanted to stop this morning too.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 20, 2026 08:03 AM (OYsYV)
Were you deferring to s possible Blade appearance or just a naturally humble guy?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 20, 2026 08:04 AM (OYsYV)
Posted by: Annies Stew at June 20, 2026 08:04 AM (dNIAD)
Please keep praying for her. She and the Rev will be married ten years in July if I'm not mistaken. I know your prayers are a source of great comfort to her.
Posted by: bluebell at June 20, 2026 08:04 AM (afFes)
Posted by: bluebell at June 20, 2026 08:05 AM (afFes)
Posted by: Annies Stew at June 20, 2026 08:07 AM (dNIAD)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 20, 2026 08:10 AM (zC76q)
Local headline:
Man attacked by bear while riding a bike, authorities say
I'm assuming a circus bear.
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at June 20, 2026 08:11 AM (qgHp7)
Psalm 63:1
Posted by: Marcus T at June 20, 2026 08:13 AM (Uh88k)
Posted by: bluebell at June 20, 2026 08:14 AM (afFes)
Zephaniah 3:17
Posted by: Marcus T at June 20, 2026 08:15 AM (Uh88k)
Thanks for all who have prayed for Lisa. She has been allowed to go home for hospice care. Cancer has metastasized throughout her body; looks like this is the end for her.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 20, 2026 08:15 AM (h7ZuX)
Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen
St. Silverius, Pope and martyr, pray of us.
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I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 08:15 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 08:15 AM (ksbjf)
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I always love seeing this. Thank you.
Posted by: bluebell at June 20, 2026 08:17 AM (afFes)
Posted by: Annies Stew at June 20, 2026 08:04 AM (dNIAD)
Prayers for Christina, and Tonypete's friend Cheri, and all those who self-destruct. May the Lord be merciful and lift them from their despair.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 20, 2026 08:18 AM (h7ZuX)
Prayers out to those in need. May God comfort you.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 20, 2026 08:20 AM (Uh88k)
I love the public aspects of high stakes negotiations - totally different level of tactics than haggling on a used car.
Posted by: Community Notes at June 20, 2026 08:21 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 08:15 AM (ksbjf)
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I always love seeing this. Thank you.
Posted by: bluebell at June 20, 2026 08:17 AM (afFes)
You're welcome, I just want the Horde to know that I am intentionally lifting them up in prayer. I always petition that their suffering be lifted-up as a sacrifice in common with Christ's sacrifice upon the Holy Cross.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 08:24 AM (ksbjf)
Prayers that he be fully healed and able to return to work would be much appreciated.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 20, 2026 08:26 AM (9Pag4)
Always a joy from my earliest times here, when she was mama.
May our always good Lord keep the rest of her "skinsuit" time pain free and well cared for.
When that time is passed, she will immediately be in His loving arms.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 20, 2026 08:26 AM (5gyQ/)
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Hi back, bluebell. Thanks for the grammie wiger update. I still do limericks, but the thrill is gone, my heart isn't really into it. I did use a limerick for my outgoing voicemail message. It seems to have cut down on junk calls.
"There once was a man named Malone
Who just couldn't come to the phone
So if you're not a scammer,
a jammer or a spammer,
Please leave a message at the tone.
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at June 20, 2026 08:26 AM (qgHp7)
Good morning everyone. Smash is sweating and working out at black belt camp in Booneville, MS and I've eight local to Booneville Duval war sites and markers to go tour on the motorcycle. A quick prayer for the other drivers on the road that they stay alert and don't hit me would be very appreciated.
Posted by: BifBewalski at June 20, 2026 08:27 AM (M1QYt)
Posted by: bluebell at June 20, 2026 08:27 AM (afFes)
I mean what else are you going to do on your day off and you got a bad foot?
As a goof I made a neovim config that emulates Wordstar.
I also threw in the functions to write screenplays.
I have always had a couple of ideas for movies, one of them is for a courtroom drama after the events of Jaws where Mrs. Kitner sues the town of Amity for the wrongful death of Alex.
It gets into the psychology of Larry and why he was determined to keep the Summer Money flowing at any cost.
Also explores the reasons Brody left NYC as well as gets into the lore of Quint and into the backstory of Hooper and just explores Amity in general and the dark underbelly of the quaint New England town.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 20, 2026 08:28 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: bluebell at June 20, 2026 08:28 AM (afFes)
Posted by: BifBewalski at June 20, 2026 08:30 AM (M1QYt)
Any spare thoughts you have, my sister M. is dealing with not only her husband D.'s rapid decline from Alzheimer's but also supervising the care of her autistic son C. I think (and I hope) she's looking at memory care for D. She looked rather haggard and worn out at our reunion last week.
Also, for my nephew L., who is housebound with chronic and severe depression.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2026 08:31 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 20, 2026 08:31 AM (9Pag4)
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 08:33 AM (ZOv7s)
Prayers out to those in need. May God comfort you.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 20, 2026 08:20 AM (Uh88k)
Amen.
Jesus, I trust in You.
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Marcus T, I seem to recall that you had been at the "pointy end of the spear" when you were in the military. You are always a great preacher of the Good News.
I find it intriguing that those of us that seen suffering and violent death, but have accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, take the craziness of the world pretty calmly.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 08:34 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 20, 2026 08:26 AM (9Pag4)
Absolutely. Prayers ascending.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 20, 2026 08:34 AM (h7ZuX)
I have to do without coffee first thing Monday morning. The clinic will draw some blood at 8 am, so no coffee and no food after midnight the night before. Horrors.
Probably I'll stay up later on Sunday, eat a bit around 10:30, and sleep as late as I can before running to the clinic. Afterward I'll stop at a favorite diner for the black juice and some real food.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 08:35 AM (wzUl9)
I told my sister's other son B. how much I admired him for turning out to be such a solid citizen despite his mother being tied up with taking care of his autistic brother. It could not have been easy for him but he's a truly fine fellow.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2026 08:39 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 20, 2026 08:40 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2026 08:40 AM (O0L8i)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 20, 2026 08:46 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 08:46 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 08:48 AM (77rzZ)
Looks like it's our turn again. 70-80 mph winds. Possible tornadoes. And to make matters worse,,, late at night.
And I need to haul off brush I got cut off the downed limbs I cut up at the widow's place yesterday.
Guess I'll wait till tomorrow to clean up the half of my yard that's there from the last go round.
Others have had it worse.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 20, 2026 08:48 AM (5gyQ/)
Posted by: Don Black at June 20, 2026 08:49 AM (MWGxi)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 08:50 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 20, 2026 08:50 AM (TA/+K)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 08:34 AM (ksbjf)
Peter 3:15
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 08:52 AM (KC5Lt)
I'm heading down to the MoMe now. Hope to see many of you there!
Posted by: Doof at June 20, 2026 08:53 AM (idrXH)
Praise the Lord all ye nations.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 08:54 AM (DoBxX)
I still say that building reminds me of him with his nose in the air while speaking down to us plebes.
Prayers for his salvation.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 20, 2026 08:55 AM (5gyQ/)
Posted by: Mick at June 20, 2026 08:55 AM (qMwGq)
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Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 08:58 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 08:59 AM (77rzZ)
I thought we were rid of him but the stupid library put focus on him again. Can't wait until the library is a non-story.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 08:59 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)
I think that was because I applied my experience with organized religion and once they got to high school, I backed off, leaving them to their own desires but always keeping the door open. I realized I was creating resistance through my actions.
Perhaps the decisive factor was my pushing the parish preschool and paying the full tuition for the first year. Emma flourished, and my daughter saw that. Given all that she had been through, it was amazing. So naturally she got to say and her brother followed. As First Communion approaches, their mother relented, and I think her faith is growing in response to theirs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Prayers up for all who have asked for them,
and
prayers up for those of us that haven't asked but still need them!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NoVA MoMe in Virginia, Yes ~ at June 20, 2026 09:02 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Doof at June 20, 2026 09:02 AM (idrXH)
If she is so inclined, I suggest listening to sung lauds & vespers prayers (on youtube or spotify etc) as very mentally relaxing and uplifting. Search for Sing The Hours by Peter Rose
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 09:03 AM (znREB)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 20, 2026 09:03 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NoVA MoMe in Virginia, Yes ~ at June 20, 2026 09:03 AM (hOUT3)
God be praised!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Teej you know, prayers are not needed for Godless Marxists, God can sort them by himself
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)
I always ask for the conversion of sinners and non-believers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2026 09:04 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 20, 2026 09:03 AM (kpS4V)
Especially after that last embarrassing incident!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NoVA MoMe in Virginia, Yes ~ at June 20, 2026 09:05 AM (hOUT3)
Sad news I dropped & broke my favorite coffee mug last night. Good thing it was empty so no coffee was wasted.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 09:05 AM (znREB)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 09:05 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NoVA MoMe in Virginia, Yes ~ at June 20, 2026 09:05 AM (hOUT3)
You'll have to be more specific!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 20, 2026 09:06 AM (kpS4V)
Matt 5:43-48
Much easier to follow when you understand that salvation is not the result of anything we have done.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 20, 2026 09:06 AM (5gyQ/)
Is it to early to start drinking yet?
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 09:07 AM (Ia/+0)
There are great youtube videos available. Took the laptop into the garage and followed it, pausing the video between steps. Worked out great.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:08 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Weasel at June 20, 2026 09:11 AM (ei1sX)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)
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They are the ones most in need of conversion and their salvation brings extra joy in heaven.
God laments the loss of every soul. We should do the same. How glorious would it have been if Fidel Castro had accepted Christ on his deathbed? I know some people thing celebrities starting to find religion is fake or opportunistic, and sometimes it is, but often playing the role changes the person in ways they did not expect.
And yes, I was once obnoxiously anti-religious, though never a Marxist. The prayers of my grandparents paid off, though. My father, who is still a skeptic (he identifies as Unitarian) is really bemused at how he ended up being surrounded by Catholic descendants.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Lord, please give me the strength and endurance for the chores ahead. And the wisdom to do em right.
In Jesus' name I ask
Posted by: TeeJ at June 20, 2026 09:11 AM (5gyQ/)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:12 AM (qFwJc)
Thanks for all who have prayed for Lisa. She has been allowed to go home for hospice care. Cancer has metastasized throughout her body; looks like this is the end for her.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 20, 2026 08:15 AM (h7ZuX)
I am so sorry to hear this - we had a nice conversation on the phone. She and her family will be in our family's prayers. 💔💔💔
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 20, 2026 09:12 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 09:07 AM (Ia/+0)
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It's five o'clock somewhere!
It's acceptable to have Irish coffee at this time of day. Around 11 Mimosas can be served. Noon is the traditional dividing line.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)
Jacksonville - Cecil Field,FL (VQQ) KVQQ 191832Z 36018G235KT 1SM TSRA OVC002 23/22 A3005 RMK TSB32
Posted by: one hour sober at June 20, 2026 09:13 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:14 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 20, 2026 09:15 AM (FMtrg)
You both are the best !!!
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 09:15 AM (afJtY)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 09:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:12 AM (qFwJc)
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I've had this happen twice. Our door uses a single very powerful spring and I have a professional replace it. It took a decade for the first one to go, much less time for the second. I asked why and the tech said that all springs wear out and the more you use them, the faster that happens. He noted that he does a lot of business in my neighborhood because people treat the garage as an entry door.
I put a stop to that, and we now open and close it for vehicles, not just to go for a walk. That's what the front door is for.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 20, 2026 08:50 AM
*Boston City Hall has entered the chat*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 20, 2026 09:17 AM (zC76q)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 09:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Ear plugs ?
Posted by: runner at June 20, 2026 09:18 AM (GD0B3)
May God continue to bless all of His children this day.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Happy Father's Day, y'all!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 20, 2026 09:18 AM (D/6p1)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 09:14 AM (qFwJc)
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My father's family is Protestant, and I was conspicuous for refusing to go to church growing up, following the lead of my father.
There's a certain amusement that I now lead the Catholic branch of the family, which is conspicuous at reunions when we cross ourselves when grace is being said before the meals.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)
I disagree. As Christians, agape', requires us to "desire the good" for our neighbors. What is the ultimate good? To go to Heaven.
So, I pray for the collectivists (and Democrats) that they come to realize that they are motivated by the Deadly Sins, repent, perform acts of contrition, and thus save their immortal souls.
God is the just judge.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 09:20 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 20, 2026 09:12 AM (SRRAx)
Thank you so much. We appreciate your positivity and support--you are a wealth of information and resources! This was just found too late.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 20, 2026 09:20 AM (h7ZuX)
I think this is going to drive a cultural shift and make patriotism a thing again. While there are lots of pride flags, I'm seeing an unusual number of homes flying Old Glory as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: creeper at June 20, 2026 09:21 AM (80oeU)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 09:21 AM (Ia/+0)
On the work journal I name each page for a saint's feastday, for example : "Feast of St Lutgardis June 16." This requires me to look up who the saint is for the day before I start my actual work, putting me in a good frame of mind.
Also it feeds my history-curious mind.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 09:22 AM (DoBxX)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 20, 2026 09:17 AM (zC76q)
*quick image search
Oh, my...that is awful.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 20, 2026 09:23 AM (h7ZuX)
Local headline:
Man attacked by bear while riding a bike, authorities say
I'm assuming a circus bear.
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at June 20, 2026 08:11 AM (qgHp7)
; )
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 09:23 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 09:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Obama is talking about flowers?
Posted by: dantesed at June 20, 2026 09:23 AM (Oy/m2)
Also it feeds my history-curious mind.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 09:22 AM (DoBxX)
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I love the liturgical calendar. It really adds depth to each day. I am subscribed to Aleteia, and every day I get an email with news and also the Saint of the Day. It's a great way to maintain perspective and experience time with faith at the center.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:25 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: dantesed at June 20, 2026 09:23 AM (Oy/m2)
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I thought he was more into starfish.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)
That's a fantastic voicemail greeting. Wow.
I hope your joy of rhyming returns - it's a genius level talent. Probably some R&R might help.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 09:26 AM (DoBxX)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 20, 2026 09:26 AM (FMtrg)
So, I pray for the collectivists (and Democrats) that they come to realize that they are motivated by the Deadly Sins, repent, perform acts of contrition, and thus save their immortal souls.
God is the just judge.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 09:20 AM (ksbjf)
I have mixed feelings about this. I think you’re probably right but on the other hand, the Psalms (for instance) are full of sentiments like the following (26:5)…
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
So we hate them and won’t sit with them (ie have relationships) but on the other hand we should pray for their good? I’ll pray for their repentance, yes…. But that’s where it ends. I also pray for their destruction, as does the Psalmist many times…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 20, 2026 09:26 AM (ugElV)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 09:27 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 20, 2026 09:28 AM (NyXeV)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author
_______________
The morning draught was a thing for quite a while. From what I've read, everybody used to be half drunk in the morning in the late 18th, early 19th centuries.
Posted by: Boswell's Johnson at June 20, 2026 09:29 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)
Yes, this. Wasn't there a recent poll in which something like only 29% of Democrats were proud to be Americans?
I've been flying the Betsy Ross flag ever since the Obama administration and the effort to "cancel" that flag. I just recently ordered a replacement and noticed that there is a version with "250" in the center of the constellation of stars.
Lots of my neighbors fly the American flag. Of course, lots of us either support or work at the nearby Air Force base. So, a rather self-selecting sample set.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 09:29 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:29 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Exactly.
Oh there's a digital artist I saw via X who sells a print of his interpretation of the liturgical cycle. Kinda pricey but cool. Let me see if I can gind it to show you.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 09:29 AM (DoBxX)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 09:31 AM (DoBxX)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 20, 2026 09:26 AM (ugElV)
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Those that do not repent will get what they deserve. And many will not repent. Universal salvation is a vile heresy.
But there are also many examples of sinners repenting and being welcomed with joy. Saul of Tarsus for one.
We pray for their conversion, not for leniency in their punishment. That's the problem that "nice" Christianity suffers from. They offer mercy for the unrepentant, denying justice to the faithful. We call it virtue signaling today but it used to be known as "cheap grace." Same thing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:31 AM (ZOv7s)
God is the just judge.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 09:20 AM (ksbjf)
I have mixed feelings about this. I think you’re probably right but on the other hand, the Psalms (for instance) are full of sentiments like the following (26:5)…
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
So we hate them and won’t sit with them (ie have relationships) but on the other hand we should pray for their good? I’ll pray for their repentance, yes…. But that’s where it ends. I also pray for their destruction, as does the Psalmist many times…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 20, 2026 09:26 AM (ugElV)
I had a conversation with my confessor about this. Father advised that sometimes punishment is necessary, but praying for their repentance does not mean that you tolerate their evil.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 09:31 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:31 AM (KC5Lt)
Oh, my...that is awful.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 20, 2026 09:23 AM
Only the finest in commie brutalist architecture for the People's Republic, comrade!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 20, 2026 09:32 AM (zC76q)
--
To put it in meme form:
The West Coast mind cannot comprehend the goodness of Wawa.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 09:32 AM (DoBxX)
Posted by: creeper at June 20, 2026 09:32 AM (80oeU)
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 09:32 AM (6wpGE)
At the ceremony yesterday there were so many men in the audience wearing tan suits. Lol! Kind of like giving the pearl clutchers the middle finger and having fun with it. Colbert, to name but one
the opening ceremony was so relaxing, stress free, bp went back down a few hours of pride and hope!
I wish he and Michelle hadn't spent so much time revitalize George Bush's image, again by inviting him to the ceremony. He appointed 2 of the Justice who dismantled the VRA and Civil Rights in general.
he invited all past presidents, and the thought is (until recently) you can be amicable with the other side and be a president for ALL people.
W sucked. He stole his election (thanks Roger stone!), hypocritically banned stem cells, continued Reagan's dismantling of the public school system with "no child left behind" and of course started our forever wars to like his and Chemey's pockets.
In comparison to today's standards, though, he's a fucking saint.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 20, 2026 09:34 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 20, 2026 09:34 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:34 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 09:29 AM (ksbjf)
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A family across the circle was flying the Betsy Ross flag under Biden, and then switched to Old Glory when Trump took office. I don't have a flag pole, I hang the flag from the porch ceiling and I'll fly the Welsh flag on St. David's Day and the modern "four county" Irish flag on St. Patrick's.
In October, I raise the Hospitaller flag and keep it up through Halloween. I'm sure no one knows what to make of it, but it looks great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 20, 2026 09:34 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: creeper at June 20, 2026 09:34 AM (80oeU)
Posted by: creeper at June 20, 2026 09:35 AM (80oeU)
LOL
Bamster Building
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 09:32 AM (6wpGE)
I prefer calling it the Presidential Flak Tower.
One conspiracy theory that I came across (here at the HQ, as I recall) is that the building is actually intended to be a bunker to protect the Party elite from the zombie hordes.
A rejection of beauty, one of God's transcendental characteristics, is a sure sign of a rejection of God.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 09:36 AM (ksbjf)
You always make me have to double up on my forgiveness prayers.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:36 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: creeper at June 20, 2026 09:37 AM (80oeU)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 20, 2026 09:37 AM (26GAh)
I think those prayers for enemies are very important .sometimes I forget to pray for them ( leftists ) for conversion. and just pray for their downfall. So that to you and Hadrian for those reminders .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 20, 2026 09:38 AM (OYsYV)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 20, 2026 09:39 AM (FMtrg)
Wonderful!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 20, 2026 09:39 AM (OYsYV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 20, 2026 09:40 AM (OYsYV)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:40 AM (KC5Lt)
It is uglier than hammered sin, and I can't for the life of me understand why anyone thought it was a good idea.
Posted by: Don Black at June 20, 2026 09:41 AM (MWGxi)
I have a blood condition which I share with Bulg---too much iron. Dangerous to the liver. Liver cancer is always out there. Has in the past required frequent blood donations, which my body hasn't handled well.
Last week I had my annual liver exam, and at the discussion 2 days later, my oncologist said that the rest of me may be getting older, but my liver appears to be getting YOUNGER!
Fatty deposits have disappeared, and as for liver cancer, he said, It's off the table! We won't even discuss it any more.
!!!!!
I've never asked for prayers, because I'm so lucky in so many ways, and I figure we're all included in all of them. But I offer thanks for God's grace in this.
Posted by: Wenda at June 20, 2026 09:42 AM (iIAkP)
I always defended W when he was prez but the evolution of time… I can’t stand him now but I’m nowhere close to hating the guy.
Just to be controversial, I think it’s possible that if Al Gore had won in 2000 things might be overall a tad better now… I don’t think Gore would’ve gone all hardcore GWOT after 9/11…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 20, 2026 09:43 AM (26GAh)
It is uglier than hammered sin, and I can't for the life of me understand why anyone thought it was a good idea.
Posted by: Don Black at June 20, 2026 09:41 AM (MWG
The engineer and architect admitted as much when they were defending it against the criticism. I don't think that was their intention.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:43 AM (KC5Lt)
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Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 08:58 AM (Ia/+0)
Some really good ones.
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 09:43 AM (6wpGE)
You always make me have to double up on my forgiveness prayers.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:36 AM (KC5Lt)
LOL.
Mercy and forgiveness are absent in the "Party of Tolerance (tm)". It's almost as if they're Minions of Satan and Marxism is an inversion of Christianity that was inspired by Satan. (Read Paul Kangor's book, The Devil and Karl Marx -- it will blow your mind: Marx admitted to be influenced by demons!)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 09:44 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 20, 2026 09:44 AM (26GAh)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at June 20, 2026 09:39 AM (FMtrg)
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They are lost in their own world, fighting imaginary enemies and gaining glorious ephemeral victories against hobgoblins of their own creation.
I've hammered this point for a while, but these people are incapable of kinetic action. For all the talk of Civil War 2.0, there has to be an OPFOR for it to happen, and the arrests of Antifa activists are going to demonstrate how feeble their militias were, and also how small. They shifted their mentally ill shock troops from point to point to give the illusion of national presence, but that's all it was.
They do have some "minutemen" in places like Seattle and Portland, but they have no reach, and are basically only capable of destroying their own nests.
The Overton Window is shifting in terms of popular perception, a fruit of Trump holding back and letting these nuts do their thing. After 18 months of fraud reports, shockingly large amounts of corruption, no one is caring much about it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Drinking my second cup of coffee and about to get ready for the MoMe. Have decided to take an Uber so I don't have to figure out how to drive there.
I am looking forward to giving and getting hugs in person but for,those of you who can't be here, know that I think of you often. This thread is like weekly family reunion. Wouldn't miss it for the world.
Have a good day. Touch grass. It helps.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 20, 2026 09:45 AM (kJmSS)
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Nice two mile . Nice day out
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 20, 2026 09:45 AM (L9YhZ)
Sad news I dropped & broke my favorite coffee mug last night. Good thing it was empty so no coffee was wasted.
; )
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 09:46 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 09:46 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 09:46 AM (6wpGE)
This is why I'm relaxed about the midterms, and also Thune. Whatever he is, the SAVE Act continues to be a hot topic, and it's basically going to drive conservative turnout to presidential levels.
At the same time the massive, undeniable fraud in California is going to force SCOTUS to take action it would otherwise have avoided. Trump's EO on the USPS tracking ballots destroys the whole enterprise, but Trump waited until he had undeniable evidence before moving on it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:47 AM (ZOv7s)
W sucked. He stole his election
+++
Yeah. Obama was so amicable with us that we replaced him with Trump.
And also it sure is funny that biden's election couldn't possibly have been stolen. And you would have to be an idiot to believe that it was.
But W obviously stole his election.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 20, 2026 09:48 AM (Lo97M)
Posted by: Don Black at June 20, 2026 09:48 AM (MWGxi)
It is uglier than hammered sin, and I can't for the life of me understand why anyone thought it was a good idea.
Posted by: Don Black at June 20, 2026 09:41 AM (MWGxi)
The Tower Of OBabel?
It's fabulous!
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 09:49 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 20, 2026 09:43 AM (26GAh)
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He's dead to me. An abject coward. We keep a campaign magnet on the fridge to remind us of our error.
He was arguably the least worst option, but he has much to answer for.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 20, 2026 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I began collecting historical American flags to teach the Li'l Blutarskis history. I've dug them out and begun flying a different one every day. Today is the David Burnett flag which I think was the first official flag of the Republic of Texas. If not it was one of the first official flags. It not, it was an official flag of the Republic. It looks like the Somali flag except the star is gold.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 20, 2026 09:51 AM (l26NL)
Picked strawberries with the grandkids this morning, actually met a happy farmer who said the weather for all crops this spring was the best he ever saw.
Posted by: Auspex at June 20, 2026 09:51 AM (Y8DZL)
I always defended W when he was prez but the evolution of time… I can’t stand him now but I’m nowhere close to hating the guy.
Just to be controversial, I think it’s possible that if Al Gore had won in 2000 things might be overall a tad better now… I don’t think Gore would’ve gone all hardcore GWOT after 9/11…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 20, 2026 09:43 AM (26GAh)
I disagree. Gore would have been awful: there would have been even more navel-gazing about how America sucks and those 3000 Americans deserved to die.
W's mistake was trying to nation-build and create Jeffersonian democracies in societies unprepared for such a political form. Trump is showing the way: punitive expeditions intended to punish, break the enemies toys, then leave.
W set the stage for Obama, which set the stage for Trump I, which set the stage for Biden, which set the stage for Trump II.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 09:52 AM (ksbjf)
Both designed by I. M. Pei, whose major contribution to western civilization is more as a crossword puzzle answer than as an architect.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 20, 2026 09:52 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 20, 2026 09:52 AM (3Ope8)
Prayers for a (diagnosed) psychotic acquaintance. She is an absolute disaster and has destroyed all relationships of which she is a part.
I struggle with this one because of all the bombs she's dropped into everyone's lives and my first reaction is to want to punch her in the throat.
But I know she is sick, and prayer is much more proper than throat punches.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2026 09:53 AM (ItpVy)
Posted by: Heroq at June 20, 2026 09:53 AM (7YTFo)
I don't want to waste such a lovely day. I need to find something to do that isn't hiding in the house all day or going out and getting hammered. I have no desire to work on my book (depression has paralyzed me), I can't really walk downtown since the sodomites have taken it over for 'pride' day and I've already hit the closest used bookstores.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 20, 2026 09:54 AM (qRla/)
So you need coffee.
(H/t, Slayer)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2026 09:54 AM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
We adopted an older great dane/huskie cross 2 weeks ago. She had been in a rescue kennel for 3+ years, but in her photo online she looked like such a happy girl.
From the first day here she fell in love with the fenced in grass play area. She flops down and rolls on to her back so hard I fear she'll hurt herself!
Touch grass like it's the first time in 3 years!
Posted by: old chick at June 20, 2026 09:55 AM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:55 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I began collecting historical American flags to teach the Li'l Blutarskis history. I've dug them out and begun flying a different one every day. Today is the David Burnett flag which I think was the first official flag of the Republic of Texas. If not it was one of the first official flags. It not, it was an official flag of the Republic. It looks like the Somali flag except the star is gold.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 20, 2026 09:51 AM (l26NL)
I’d like to get a 49 star flag, available between 1959-1960 after AK was added to the union.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2026 09:56 AM (T6aVk)
Gore wasn’t Obama.
Posted by: Heroq at June 20, 2026 09:56 AM (7YTFo)
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 09:57 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:57 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 20, 2026 09:58 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 09:58 AM (Ia/+0)
I don't hate W. I don't regret my vote for W.
Do I wish I'd had a better choice? Sure.
But, W was the least worst option, and being least worst doesn't mean good or great.
The Democrats have simply been a terrible choice for so long, I'd vote for a syphilitic tapir as long as it keeps the Democrats out of power.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 09:59 AM (iJfKG)
There would have been no Iraq with Gore and that’s a good thing.
There is a case to be made that gore wins 2000, he fucks shit up and loses in 2004. No Iraq war and probably, no Obama in 2008. Good outcome in that scenario.
Posted by: Heroq at June 20, 2026 09:59 AM (7YTFo)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 20, 2026 09:43 AM (26GAh)
Hell no. Given his obsessive devotion is global warming, we’d be hip deep in poverty. (BTW, what were we supposed to do after 9/11/01? Pout and whine?)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2026 10:00 AM (T6aVk)
The Tower Of OBabel?
It's fabulous!
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 09:49 AM (iJfKG)
haha
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 10:00 AM (6wpGE)
There is a case to be made that gore wins 2000, he fucks shit up and loses in 2004. No Iraq war and probably, no Obama in 2008. Good outcome in that scenario.
Posted by: Heroq
If only one could go back and assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary we could have avoided that whole mess.
Oh, wait. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2026 10:02 AM (ItpVy)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 10:03 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:55 AM (KC5Lt)
I don't think W is going to be looked at kindly by history. A middling POTUS that had nothing to say during Obama's reign of error or Biden flooding America with millions of illegal aliens.
BUT, he was all too eager to talk $h!t about Pres. Trump. Curiously, that stopped after that letter was delivered at his dad's funeral.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 10:03 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 10:03 AM (8YGuO)
Thanks for the grammie update. I know she knows how much we love and miss her.
Prayers for all y'all and your loved ones.
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 20, 2026 10:03 AM (lOlUK)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 20, 2026 09:52 AM (3Ope
On the ILS to 36R, I got close, but a gust pushed me back to approximately Daytona.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 20, 2026 10:04 AM (J4Dwc)
And one cat hiding somewhere.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 10:04 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 20, 2026 09:58 AM (qRla/)
Hi, MP4: I think we have the same book!
Well, have to go to run errands.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 10:05 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Florida Peasant
It was a whitelash against a changing country. It was a whitelash against a black president, in part.
(Odd that the whitelash waited until after they reelected the president they hated so much before voting against him)
Posted by: Van Jones at June 20, 2026 10:05 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 10:03 AM (8YGuO)
Ramped up beyond even what we can imagine, I bet.
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 10:05 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Case at June 20, 2026 10:06 AM (IY9No)
And one cat hiding somewhere.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 10:04 AM (jehhT)
Good kitty!
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 10:07 AM (6wpGE)
If Gore won, things would've been just peachy?
No. We have no way of knowing. Alternate history is stupid.
The Past is unchangeable. It's a lost and dead country.
The Present is all there is. The future lives in Hopeville.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 10:08 AM (iJfKG)
There is a case to be made that gore wins 2000, he fucks shit up and loses in 2004. No Iraq war and probably, no Obama in 2008. Good outcome in that scenario.
Posted by: Heroq
If only one could go back and assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary we could have avoided that whole mess.
Oh, wait. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2026 10:02 AM (ItpVy)
Too bad that God's not outside of time and doesn't know our past, present and future.
It's a mystery, we just have to have trust that God is working the bad to some ultimate good.
***
With that, I really have to go.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 10:08 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Heroq at June 20, 2026 10:09 AM (7YTFo)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 20, 2026 10:10 AM (ugElV)
Posted by: naturalfake
Hopeville is a dumb name. We don't have to hope...we can make it happen if we all work together and follow our simple plan! We should name it something more epic, like Utopia!
Posted by: Communism at June 20, 2026 10:10 AM (ycI94)
He squandered the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be listed as one of the great Presidents. Although, admittedly, considering his background, his advisors and his partnerships in the Deep State, a capitulation to Islam and a turn to an American surveillance state was baked in the cake.
Frankly, I don't think even Reagan would have reacted to 9/11 with the proper actions.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 20, 2026 10:11 AM (qRla/)
The Bush Family machine dominated GOP politics in Texas for over 30 years, from GWB’s election as Governor until quite recently. First sign it was over was George P. Bush getting taken out by Paxton in the AG race.
Which of course led to an impeachment of Paxton by the Bush machine led Texas House, which was squashed by the anti-Bush conservatives in the Texas Senate.
And that fight was really what the huge loss by Cornyn was all about. He was always a very loyal Bush machine member, but their days running things in Texas are over for good.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 10:11 AM (8YGuO)
Take Iraq away and I don’t think that happens.
Posted by: Heroq at June 20, 2026 10:11 AM (7YTFo)
Posted by: huerfano at June 20, 2026 10:11 AM (VJX5o)
Funny, that. I just finished An Assassin in Utopia, which is about Charles Guiteau and his murder of POTUS James Garfield, but also details Guiteau's connections to the free-love Oneida community. A pretty good read.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 20, 2026 10:13 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Heroq at June 20, 2026 10:13 AM (7YTFo)
Like a particularly dumb dog, Americans can learn but only after several smacks of the newspaper.*
* now that I think of it, what do you smack your dog's nose with these days, an iPad with a news site on the screen?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 20, 2026 10:13 AM (vTZFs)
I forget who was his running mate at that time.
Posted by: dantesed at June 20, 2026 10:15 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Wenda at June 20, 2026 09:42 AM (iIAk
Great news, happy for you. God works in mysterious ways.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 20, 2026 10:16 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 10:17 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Oddbob
My cock. Slathered in peanut butter.
Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at June 20, 2026 10:18 AM (ycI94)
I forget who was his running mate at that time.
Posted by: dantesed
Joe Lieberman. Thus the "Sore/Loserman" signs of the Bush partisans.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:18 AM (77rzZ)
Gonna go get a $50 cheeseburger at CWC later today
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 20, 2026 10:18 AM (3Ope8)
I forget who was his running mate at that time.
Posted by: dantesed at June 20, 2026 10:15 AM (Oy/m2)
PeeWee Herman?
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 10:18 AM (LHPAg)
Now it’s 90-30. Bush Derangement Syndrome started it all. They lost their minds over the Florida recount and never recovered.
Posted by: Heroq at June 20, 2026 10:18 AM (7YTFo)
Take Iraq away and I don’t think that happens.
Posted by: Heroq at June 20, 2026 10:11 AM (7YTFo)
W really F'd up the subprime mortgage crisis, too, while playing right into the hands about Rs paying off their crony capitalist buddies. What a loser.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 10:18 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 10:19 AM (Ia/+0)
I miss you Daddy!
Posted by: Al Gore, Rapist at June 20, 2026 10:19 AM (og9zY)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 20, 2026 10:20 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:21 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 10:11 AM (8YGuO)
They should try Connecticut or Massachusetts.
Posted by: runner at June 20, 2026 10:21 AM (GD0B3)
It’s like he looks me right in the eye and says 2 + 2 = 5 and thinks he’s convincing and expects me to believe him.
TBF to ManBearPig, he's not the one doing the math. He's just the one telling you what The Experts say two plus two equals because he believes* it. Which makes him stupid, not necessarily a psychopath.
* I guess. If he doesn't (which selling out to Qatar or UAE or whoever it was might suggest) then he's a soulless grifter but still not necessarily a psychopath.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 20, 2026 10:21 AM (vTZFs)
Except for the diagnosed part, this describes my ex. Narcissistic behavior disorder coupled with paranoia. That's my diagnosis after more than thirty years of observation. But I'm not a doctor, so what do I know?
Last week, Little got a call from an Inyo County sheriff to notify him that they dropped his mom off at a Catholic-run homeless shelter after finding her walking along a road in Death Valley. She had been living out of her car, so it seems she lost that recently.
I'm guessing they called him because her arrest for assaulting me a couple years ago took me off the next-of-kin list. We've made our peace with her choices years ago, and I'm sure our indifference will not be affected by her eventual passing. Best I can manage is to pray for God's current team of angels sent to reach her. She left so many others who extended amazing grace and charity in various states of brokeness and bitterness over the years.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 20, 2026 10:21 AM (nbLIj)
Sure, Bush was an idiot and did damage to the nation, but at least he respected democracy and was willing to compromise with democrats. Not like the Trump fascist!!
Posted by: Leftist Historians at June 20, 2026 10:22 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 20, 2026 10:23 AM (lOlUK)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:21 AM (77rzZ)
I'm sorry I won't have the chance to meet you, but there really was no way I was going to go this year. I almost certainly won't go to Texas, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 20, 2026 10:24 AM (qRla/)
To paraphrase the famous saying, it depends on who writes the history.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 20, 2026 10:25 AM (qRla/)
Fuck that guy.
Posted by: Heroq at June 20, 2026 10:25 AM (7YTFo)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 10:25 AM (Ia/+0)
You can take some of the rocks out of the river, but you can’t change the current, or the direction of the flow. Or the final destination.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 10:26 AM (8YGuO)
A bad pick by Reagan, but I guess it was either H.W. or Gerald Ford. Ford would have been worse as a VP, and always trying to run things, or backstabbing Reagan.
Just a pity that H.W. had to run for President, and won.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
I'm sorry, man.
Sometimes I wonder if we'd be better off with the government assigning us spouses at age 24 based on personality-profiles.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 10:26 AM (W0KIM)
It's got a Hanks, and an Eastwood in it. Trailer looks pretty good, problem is theater only. Ixnay on that.
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 10:26 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 10:27 AM (r64gj)
Now it’s 90-30. Bush Derangement Syndrome started it all. They lost their minds over the Florida recount and never recovered.
Posted by: Heroq
Actually, that poll (that CNN commented on) was taken in January 2001, so after SCOTUS "stole" the election, and Dems still generally loved the US. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were part of the decline, some of Obama's race hustling, but mostly just the unhinged hatred of Trump. Trump's election broke a lot of people's brains.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 20, 2026 10:27 AM (ycI94)
Somehow that mattered in '88 and not in '92.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 10:28 AM (W0KIM)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at June 20, 2026 10:28 AM (XY7MO)
BUT, he was all too eager to talk $h!t about Pres. Trump. Curiously, that stopped after that letter was delivered at his dad's funeral.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 20, 2026 10:03 AM (ksbjf)
I think people forget what he did during his administration and exaggerate what he had to say about Trump. I'm not going to get into it again because people have made up their mind facts or no facts.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 10:28 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Yes, I would like to meet you someday. I have two nieces who live in Beantown, so maybe if I ever go there to see them (unlikely, as I'm not close to either of them, but still...), you and I and RMBS can meet up.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:29 AM (77rzZ)
Somehow that mattered in '88 and not in '92.
Posted by: gKWVE
It mattered in 2008 😔
Posted by: John Edwards at June 20, 2026 10:29 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 20, 2026 10:21 AM"
++++
Remember, Jerry: it's not a lie if you believe it.
Posted by: George Costanza at June 20, 2026 10:30 AM (D2IX4)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 20, 2026 10:30 AM (cWLG3)
But I think the biggest change was not using sauces. Piper is of course the expert on this, but the more I read, the more it seemed that sauces were developed to draw iron out of meat and into the body's workings. Well, that's the opposite of what I needed.
Also my twin brother had the same blood condition. He had lots of medical problems, mostly related to weighing over 350 pounds. That's a lot, even for someone who's 6'6". But hemochromatosis was certainly involved in his death.
Knowing that certainly makes it easier to follow the rules.
Posted by: Wenda at June 20, 2026 10:30 AM (iIAkP)
* I guess. If he doesn't (which selling out to Qatar or UAE or whoever it was might suggest) then he's a soulless grifter but still not necessarily a psychopath.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 20, 2026 10:21 AM (vTZFs)
He might be moderately dumb, in the way any other run of the mill criminal is dumb. A moral dumbness when they think "I found this great way to get paid that all the chumps haven't figured out yet." What I'm getting at is all of his BS is to gain wealth. It always was. And that meshes well with being a politician.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 20, 2026 10:30 AM (3uBP9)
I’ve sadly had some experience with someone fitting that description, enough that I recognize it when I see it. And *real* paranoia - the kind that makes your eyes pop out when they start talking about what they’re thinking - is most of the time associated with some level of schizophrenia.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 10:31 AM (8YGuO)
I'm going to let it shine
Kamala explains to Don Lemon the power of hope:
“I really, truly believe this. We we each have have light inside of us. And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves. And when we feel that and and and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, and instead light, let that light kind of carry us in particular through moments of darkness, that that we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other. And in particular, at this moment, it is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a verb."
https://tinyurl.com/mr63wnbz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)
(Great substitute for cutting board, too.)
Posted by: creeper at June 20, 2026 10:32 AM (80oeU)
Vets don’t know shit all of the time.
Posted by: Heroq
Minor quibble - Proctologists know shit.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 20, 2026 10:32 AM (ItpVy)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 10:26 AM"
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In the immortal words of Clint Eastwood:
"Just find someone you hate and buy them a house."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 20, 2026 10:33 AM (D2IX4)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 20, 2026 10:27 AM (ycI94)
Was it 2001? OK.
Iraq/Afghanistan was a big part of it. And it was on top of Selected Not Elected. People were mad at Iraq and were like the guy in change didn’t even win fair. It was a double whammy of anger.
I remember 2003/4 talking to people who were otherwise chill middle of the road politically. Or even apolitical. But were amped up on Iraq, like intensity of 1000 burning suns seething over it. The media of course poured gas over the fire, but the end result was people who in 2000/2001 would have said yeah I’m patriotic turned into fuck no America sucks man because of Bush/Iraq. And they never went back from it.
Posted by: Heroq at June 20, 2026 10:33 AM (7YTFo)
The Epoch Times is a great paper. Used to read it every day when it was distributed for free in DC.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner at June 20, 2026 10:33 AM (GD0B3)
I picked up a book yesterday, The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began by Jack Beatty (who also wrote an excellent bio of Boston mayor James Michael Curley). He says much the same thing in his introduction. I'll have to mention it tomorrow if I find myself on the Book Thread.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 20, 2026 10:35 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: naturalfake
This. A million times this.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 20, 2026 10:35 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 20, 2026 10:27 AM (ycI94)
Rejection will do that to people. The millennial mindset and all their ideologies were utterly repudiated. They were the ones they were waiting for, after all. Turns out, not.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 10:35 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
I may have to get that. I can't get enough of the start of WWI. So many "what ifs?" to ponder.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:36 AM (77rzZ)
Kamala explains to Don Lemon the power of hope:
“I really, truly believe this. We we each have have light inside of us. And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves. And when we feel that and and and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, and instead light, let that light kind of carry us in particular through moments of darkness, that that we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other. And in particular, at this moment, it is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a verb."
So she's like a refrigerator.
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 10:36 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Vendette at June 20, 2026 10:36 AM (1ieqq)
Mrs Emhoff, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 10:37 AM (W0KIM)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2026 10:37 AM (r64gj)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 20, 2026 10:37 AM (D2IX4)
I'm going to let it shine
Kamala explains to Don Lemon the power of hope:
“I really, truly believe this. We we each have have light inside of us. And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves. And when we feel that and and and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, and instead light, let that light kind of carry us in particular through moments of darkness, that that we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other. And in particular, at this moment, it is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a verb."
https://tinyurl.com/mr63wnbz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)
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GenAI looks like AGI next to that word salad shooter.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 20, 2026 10:37 AM (cWLG3)
Compare Reagan, who gave arms to both when they were in a shooting war with each other.
The Deep State now acts for its own good, not ours, which means they will often align with Globalists.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 20, 2026 10:37 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 10:38 AM (Ia/+0)
With your own eyes!
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at June 20, 2026 10:38 AM (D2IX4)
Which reminds me of an old Mother Goose and Grimm cartoon showing Woodsy the Owl sitting glumly at a bar with the caption "Sometimes, after a 'Save The Earth' rally, Woodsy would spend his evenings secretly getting polluted."
Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 20, 2026 10:38 AM (qRla/)
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Dr. Frita says that Michelle Obama jokes are causing increased heart disease for blacks
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:38 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:21 AM (77rzZ)
You will feel better.
Posted by: Vendette at June 20, 2026 10:39 AM (1ieqq)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Back at ya, MP4.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:40 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 20, 2026 10:38 AM (qRla/)
I hope you have a lovely day too! You were a delight to talk to at the NoVaMoMes we both attended. And the best-dressed.
Posted by: Vendette at June 20, 2026 10:40 AM (1ieqq)
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They were conditioned with covid to be told what to do, what not to do, where to go, where not to go, etc.
Trump freed people's minds and some couldn't/can't deal with it. They've been effectively brainwashed. They are broken people and will never return to normalcy.
IMO this is the legacy of the covid op. Compliance at any cost.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 10:41 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: creeper at June 20, 2026 10:41 AM (80oeU)
Posted by: creeper
I'll get there. Gotta shower first. Guess I'll go do that now.
Posted by: Bulg at June 20, 2026 10:42 AM (77rzZ)
I don't know if a more horrible weapon of war was ever invented up to then.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 10:42 AM (W0KIM)
And then the Police coerced them into saying it never happened. How do these girls carry that Betrayal?
Raping a country's women with impunity is a time-honored way to subjugate a people. The Soviets did it to the Germans at the end of WWII. But you didn't see Germans telling the women that it was just their imagination.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 20, 2026 10:43 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: the Democrats at June 20, 2026 10:44 AM (W0KIM)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:44 AM (p4NUW)
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) told The Dallas Morning News she does not plan to attend the state convention and instead is focusing on helping down-ballot candidates across the country.
Crockett also said she’s not sure whether Democrats, particularly Black voters, have united fully behind Talarico and the rest of the ticket.
She said the lack of a Black nominee for major statewide office could dampen enthusiasm among some voters.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)
I, for one, an eager to hear more from Mr. Talarico about his unique insight into religion and how it will make him a better Senator.
Posted by: Auspex at June 20, 2026 10:45 AM (Y8DZL)
Oh, no. Black Big Mike got disrespected by the white UFC fighter.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 20, 2026 10:45 AM (J4Dwc)
Not saying it's easy, but practice makes perfect.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 20, 2026 10:48 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: The Jolly Time Popcorn Company at June 20, 2026 10:48 AM (D2IX4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)
Proving that she’s not as stupid as the act she puts on for the cameras. What she said there has been true for every Texas election for at least 30 years. No black candidates, the community mostly stays home.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 10:48 AM (jxNsH)
We have the guns AND the numbers. All they have is a few Deep Blue enclaves where only the criminals have guns. And very few of their men know how to fight.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 20, 2026 10:48 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 10:49 AM (ZHOnm)
Some authors think the NT was agreed-upon very early (if they say 2 Peter doesn't count, that might actually reach consensus).
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 10:49 AM (W0KIM)
+++++
Where my EBT card at?
Posted by: La'Shondra at June 20, 2026 10:50 AM (D2IX4)
M&M MAHA Shake-Up: Candy Removes Artificial Dyes, Ditches Blue and Brown in Push for “All-Natural” Look
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:51 AM (ndZc7)
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'Tis indeed a mystery.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:51 AM (6/7Fs)
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Oh, FFS...
Maybe quit shoving greasy, calorie-laden foodstuff down their gullets and eat a vegetable that isn't deep-fried once in a while.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 10:53 AM (ZHOnm)
WTH? Who told us what to do when COVID first broke? I understand he hadn't experienced DC and the manipulation it can hoist on the inexperienced but he was President when we were locked down. Trump 2.0 and his administration wouldn't have allowed it but Trump 1.0 was successfully bullied.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 10:53 AM (KC5Lt)
Racism is a public health emergency!
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 10:54 AM (W0KIM)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 10:55 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 20, 2026 10:53 AM (ZHOnm)
Now that's just hateful.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 10:55 AM (dK+Kv)
The Left and MSM had put us all into panic state. Trump couldn't move on Fauci / Brix without it destroying his Presidency. He did do things to push it down onto the States.
Many Americans have since woken up to this.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 20, 2026 10:56 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt)
“I really, truly believe this. We we each have have light inside of us. And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves. And when we feel that and and and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, and instead light, let that light kind of carry us in particular through moments of darkness, that that we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other. And in particular, at this moment, it is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a verb."
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Look at transcripts of Barky's speeches. It's very close to the senseless meanderings as this.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 20, 2026 10:56 AM (jykex)
Posted by: Case at June 20, 2026 10:57 AM (IY9No)
Maybe quit shoving greasy, calorie-laden foodstuff down their gullets and eat a vegetable that isn't deep-fried once in a while.
Posted by: SMH at God's m
Crazy talk! lol.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 10:58 AM (Wmg4n)
I didn't see it that way . It was confirmed when he criticized GA for opening up too soon. Anyway that's history and he learned his lesson.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 10:58 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 20, 2026 10:58 AM (l26NL)
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 20, 2026 10:59 AM (b4s65)
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 20, 2026 10:56 AM
"Question authority."
Posted by: The 1960s at June 20, 2026 10:59 AM (D2IX4)
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He can't. Mommy said she'll pay for a high school auditorium, but no larger.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 10:59 AM (6/7Fs)
“I really, truly believe this. We we each have have light inside of us. And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves. And when we feel that and and and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, and instead light, let that light kind of carry us in particular through moments of darkness, that that we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other. And in particular, at this moment, it is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a verb."
It probably lost something in translation from the original gibberish.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2026 10:59 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Joementum at June 20, 2026 11:00 AM (D2IX4)
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Boy, you said it!
- John Thune
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 11:00 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 20, 2026 11:00 AM (tcsrY)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 11:00 AM (W0KIM)
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That there is whatcha call yer soaring rhetoric. Don't you know soaring rhetoric?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 11:01 AM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)
Does she know about the "ing"? I'm not sure if she knows about the whole "ing" situation with the english language.
Posted by: banana Dreaming at June 20, 2026 11:01 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: gKWVE
__________
"Hiram Maxim reported that in 1882, an American acquaintance in Vienna advised him to 'invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other’s throats with greater facility' if he wanted to make a fortune."
Posted by: Boswell's Johnson at June 20, 2026 11:02 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at June 20, 2026 11:02 AM (dyL4B)
Posted by: muldoon,
Head uphill, he'll never be able to work the derailleur.
Posted by: DaveA at June 20, 2026 11:02 AM (PMJuY)
-any and every democrat and all rinos
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 11:02 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:03 AM (KC5Lt)
Doof, very sorry to hear that your mom passed.
And Bulg, very sorry to hear your sister passed.
I think it's safe to say where we have all gotten to that point in life where we look around and, quite futilely, demand that the people around us stop dying.
Posted by: Robert wants to see Rush, dammit! at June 20, 2026 11:03 AM (b4s65)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 20, 2026 11:04 AM (W0KIM)
Posted by: Boswell's Johnson at June 20, 2026 11:02 AM (XvL8K)
And was the cross fire technique was implemented it became even more deadly.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:05 AM (KC5Lt)
283 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 10:48 AM (jxNsH)
They still elect Dem mayors.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt)
Dallas hasn’t had a white mayor in a long time. But Erik Johnston is intelligent, unlike so many of his northern counterparts. He knows how to keep the business establishment on his side, while still keeping his black voting base in his pocket.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 11:05 AM (jxNsH)
OK, prove it. Show us the data.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 20, 2026 11:06 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 20, 2026 10:56 AM (jykex)
285 Crockett is too stupid to understand how racist she sounds.
Race communism filtered through prosperity theology always is. Just throwing words out. Malcome X is not too different from Oswald Bates. Which is why the skits were funny.
Posted by: banana Dreaming at June 20, 2026 11:06 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:07 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:03 AM (KC5Lt)
He lost the Dem primary, so ran as an independent in the general and won. He caucused with the Democrats (like Bernie and Angus King do today).
Posted by: Vendette at June 20, 2026 11:07 AM (1ieqq)
>>@ThrillaRilla369
>>I'm launching a website called OlderFans where I post today's injury and the wildly normal thing that caused it
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2026 11:07 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: one hour sober at June 20, 2026 11:07 AM (J4Dwc)
“Matlock” Reboot Writer Sues CBS and Showrunner for Alleged Racism, Sexual Harassment
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 11:08 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Sore Loserman at June 20, 2026 11:09 AM (D2IX4)
Yes he remained liberal but he was no Commie Bernie.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:09 AM (KC5Lt)
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Poll Finds 25% of Democrats View the u.s. As “Worse Than Average” Compared With Other Nations
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 11:09 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 20, 2026 11:09 AM (kOluj)
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Most of the actual protocols foisted on the public came out under *biden's administration. Trump was conned by his staff. And as a germaphobe, it didn't take much to get him to support early containment.
But the *biden administration turbo charged the lockdowns and the recriminations for non-compliance.
The point was that some people were conditioned during this time and were brainwashed so badly that they've never recovered.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 11:10 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:09 AM (KC5Lt)
That's true.
As an aside, Lieberman was one of the biggest proponents of DC school choice.
Posted by: Vendette at June 20, 2026 11:11 AM (1ieqq)
Posted by: Jeb! (pronounced Heb!) at June 20, 2026 11:12 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Old Lady Birx at June 20, 2026 11:12 AM (D2IX4)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2026 11:07 AM (viF8m)
I like the comedian who had a big talking about when you were younger and had an injury you had a good story.
How'd you hurt your neck?
A: Playing a little bit of Rugby on the weekend.
Now: How'd you hurt your neck?
A: Sleeping
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 11:12 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: The Jebster at June 20, 2026 11:12 AM (D2IX4)
285 Crockett is too stupid to understand how racist she sounds.
Posted by: Case at June 20, 2026 10:57 AM (IY9No)
And this is the exact opposite of what’s actually going on with her! She is making millions, literally, from liberal donors and YouTube subscribers who will throw money at her for spitting out the most angry, hateful racist shit that she can come up with. She doesn’t care that she’s losing her seat in Congress, because that was too limiting - she’s free to make a lot more money from it now.
And when Talarico loses, She’s gonna be the one telling Texas Dems, “See? Ah tol’ you so! But did your pasty white asses listen to anything me and the black community said? Oh nooOOOooo..”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 11:14 AM (jxNsH)
Posted by: The Noodist at June 20, 2026 11:14 AM (D2IX4)
“Matlock” Reboot Writer Sues CBS and Showrunner for Alleged Racism, Sexual Harassment
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 11:08 AM (ndZc7)
Don't you mean the Andy Griffith Show? Wall to wall wypipa on that one. Now Matlock was a virtual this-n-that, a paint color choice catalog of humanity. No racism there except the occasional 'white guy did it'.
Posted by: Eromero at June 20, 2026 11:15 AM (LHPAg)
My birthday fell on St. Alexis' day. So, I am blessed with a very unusual middle name. I love it.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 11:16 AM (qFwJc)
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Wait. I thought George W. Chimpy McHitler Bush was the worst president ever.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 20, 2026 11:16 AM (ndZc7)
You always make me have to double up on my forgiveness prayers.
Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2026 09:36 AM (KC5Lt)
I no longer forgive. I'm on the revenge side of things these days. They can ALL DIAF.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 20, 2026 11:29 AM (5xuJ/)
This is necessary, as we pray for God to lead us not into temptation, it would be wrong for us to do it to each other. And there are many good people who have worked hard for low-to-middling five-figure incomes their whole lives, who would be tempted into sin (if not theft then wrath) seeing others get free money for lying on a form. None can be allowed to get away with it.
Thank you, God, and give them strength to continue, until every single last one is doing hard time in Federal prison. Amen.
Posted by: SciVo at June 20, 2026 01:48 PM (Sy6m/)
Daily Tech News 20 June 2026
Top Story
- Amazon has dropped - the bad kind of dropped - its planned Sam Altman biopic, Artificial. (The Independent)
The film, which depicted the credibly accused but I would never say so myself compulsive liar and total sociopath in an unflattering light may just possibly have conflicted with Amazon's $50 billion investment in OpenAI and OpenAI's $38 billion in contracts with Amazon.
But I would never say so myself.
- I will take the consummate serpent grease entrepreneur's side any day of the week over communist senator Bernie Sanders' plan to simply steal the entire AI industry. (Tom's Hardware)
Sanders' insane plan offers a dividend of $1000 to every adult American drawn from the profits of an industry that is losing massive amounts of money.
Tech News
- South Korea's Hyundai has taken full ownership of creepy robot dog company Boston Dynamics. (Startup Fortune)
They bought out Japanese investment firm SoftBank's 10% holding for $325 quadrillion.*
* Delete zeroes until it makes sense.
- AMD's TSME will return to Ryzen 9000 CPUs via a BIOS update. (Tom's Hardware)
This is AMD's memory encryption system that prevents any potential leakage of data between mutually untrusted virtual machines on shared hardware. Necessary on servers running cloud systems at Amazon and Google, but also useful for homelabs and developers who want to try it out on affordable hardware.
- There's an unpatchable security bug in the iPhone 11. (9to5Mac)
If you let someone plug it into a malicious USB cable, at which point they could also just smash it with a hammer.
- AMD is planning a 10-15% price hike on its Radeon graphics cards. (WCCFTech)
Could be a lot worse. AMD cards are available for just a little over MSRP in America (and a little below MSRP in Australia).
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Four fried chickens and a coke.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 04:31 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 04:33 AM (BGSp9)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at June 20, 2026 04:34 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 04:35 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: clarence at June 20, 2026 04:36 AM (I5lp2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2026 04:40 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 20, 2026 04:41 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2026 04:41 AM (WBro8)
Posted by: clarence at June 20, 2026 04:43 AM (I5lp2)
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 04:46 AM (BGSp9)
Need a cleric to cast Detect Evil.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2026 04:47 AM (2GVsD)
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it.
Posted by: CCP Malicious USB Manufacturing, Inc. at June 20, 2026 04:48 AM (zZxsY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2026 04:49 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 04:50 AM (BGSp9)
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 04:54 AM (BGSp9)
What could possibly go wrong?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 20, 2026 04:56 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Wally at June 20, 2026 04:58 AM (+nC3J)
What could possibly go wrong?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 20, 2026 04:56 AM (l3cgK)
I’m amazed that old coot can still find people to listen to him rant. In a Senate full of embarrassing idiots he may be the worst.
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 05:04 AM (BGSp9)
Posted by: Wally at June 20, 2026 04:58 AM (+nC3J)
My wife bought his CD...all his songs basically were the same...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 20, 2026 05:07 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 05:08 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 05:14 AM (6wpGE)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 20, 2026 05:16 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 05:20 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 05:20 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 05:04 AM (BGSp9)
The NYT boosted him.
Bernie Sanders: A.I. Belongs to the People, Not to Billionaires
The New York Times
A.I. is built on our collective intelligence: our books, songs, artwork, journalism, computer code, scientific research, videos, conversations
and NPR.
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 05:22 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: fluffy at June 20, 2026 05:23 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 05:24 AM (afJtY)
Posted by: fluffy at June 20, 2026 05:25 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 20, 2026 05:27 AM (O7YUW)
Could "the people" give him to someone else? I vote yes!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 20, 2026 05:33 AM (guLpK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 20, 2026 05:34 AM (guLpK)
Posted by: Just Wondering at June 20, 2026 05:34 AM (D2IX4)
I slept about enough last night but various parts of the chassis are sluggish about waking . . . like a vintage Mercedes kept outdoors in a Denver winter. Once started and driven for a little bit, it's fine, and I will be too. A winter-weight oil for the MB, coffee for me!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:34 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:35 AM (wzUl9)
Bernie Sanders: A.I. Belongs to the People, Not to Billionaires
The New York Times
A.I. is built on our collective intelligence: our books, songs, artwork, journalism, computer code, scientific research, videos, conversations
and NPR.
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 05:22 AM (6wpGE)
Funny how commies say all your bases belong to them...it's not your labor anymore either. No, it belongs to the "State", which means it belongs to the leadership elite...some animals are more equal than others...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 20, 2026 05:36 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 20, 2026
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Sorta like Springsteen . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:37 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fluffy at June 20, 2026 05:37 AM (V0/Sp)
Are you settled on Terre Haute?
Posted by: fluffy at June 20, 2026 05:37 AM (V0/Sp)
What size rifle does one use on a house hunt?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 20, 2026 05:38 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 20, 2026 05:38 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 05:39 AM (afJtY)
Ohio sing old time gospel song "I'll fly away away" at their cousin's funeral. Faithpot site :
https://tinyurl.com/ex77zrxe
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 20, 2026 05:39 AM (guLpK)
AMD's TSME will return to Ryzen 9000 CPUs via a BIOS update.
For now. The enshittification will return in a future future BIOS update.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 20, 2026 05:39 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
It started with four seasons's comment #7 and escalated from there. Piper graciously forgave her so I hope the whole thing will blow over and be forgotten.
Posted by: Tuna at June 20, 2026 05:40 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Tuna at June 20, 2026 05:42 AM (lJ0H4)
I found it's within a block of an "affordable housing" development. "Driving" around it on Gorgle Street View, I see that as of March this year it looked clean and neat, a world better than the kind of low-income and Section 8 places we have here. But there's always the chance it won't *stay* nice. I'd hate to buy a place, spend time and money customizing it, then get robbed by thugs or mugged when out exercising by gang members.
No, no place is perfect. But that kind of unpleasant experience is part of what I'm trying to flee.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:43 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 05:44 AM (afJtY)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 05:45 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: clarence at June 20, 2026 05:47 AM (I5lp2)
Not really. Heat index of 85 already at 5 am? Ugh. It's better than yesterday's 94 HI, but still, ugh.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 05:57 AM (afJtY)
Here's what's left if you want to follow the comment progression in the ONT:
The two-wolves picture, then comments: 11, 17, 25, 44, 52, 65, 66, 74, 79, 88, 89 (COB warning).
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 20, 2026 05:59 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: clarence at June 20, 2026 06:02 AM (I5lp2)
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I flicked over it. Probably best to let things settle down.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:03 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:05 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 20, 2026 06:06 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 05:57 AM (afJtY)
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8 hours on low and it should be melt in your mouth good.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 20, 2026 06:08 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 06:10 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 06:11 AM (afJtY)
Yup. (I only commented on it this morning because you asked about it.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 20, 2026 06:12 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 06:18 AM (Ia/+0)
The car needs washing and spray waxing; and after that, so will I. (No, not the waxing part.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 06:11 AM (afJtY)
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Nope. Low and slow all the way through.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 20, 2026 06:23 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 06:24 AM (afJtY)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 20, 2026 06:24 AM (whRlH)
The use of the M28 is not recommended in residential neighborhoods, as its use may contravene several municipal, county, state, and federal regulations, as well as violate an international treaty or two.
"Go Big or Go Home" doesn't apply in this case because after using it, you ain't goin' home!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 20, 2026 06:25 AM (O7YUW)
I've never done a brisket. Quite a few roast, taters and carrots.
Brown the roast in a frying pan. Put in pot and add water 1/3 - 1/2 height of roast. Scrub brush taters and carrots, slice taters in half lengthwise and add then carrots on top.
Unless you need it done quicker than 8, no need to start on high.
And since I'm not much on making gravy, I use the drippings instead of water with McCormick's brown gravy mix.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 20, 2026 06:26 AM (5gyQ/)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 06:28 AM (afJtY)
May you be by a babbling brook, in a birch forest, with a glass of excellent Pinot Grigio in hand. All while fluffy clouds scud by.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 20, 2026 06:30 AM (whRlH)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 20, 2026 06:31 AM (Hbeqj)
I ain't in no way the cook most folks in this place are. Except for my baked beans so, word to the wise...
Posted by: TeeJ at June 20, 2026 06:31 AM (5gyQ/)
Posted by: Taggert at June 20, 2026 06:33 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 06:34 AM (afJtY)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 06:35 AM (afJtY)
Doin' okay. Wish I was what I was 20 even years ago. Four hours at the widow's, chainsawing, trimming, pulling turnips and digging in the garden did me in.
And a dog gone borer moth already got one of her zucchini plants. And the deer are chomping her tomato plants.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 20, 2026 06:38 AM (5gyQ/)
User: "What is the capital of Belgium?"
BS-GPT: "Oligachy!"
User: "What is Avogadro's number?"
BS-GPT: "Oligachy!"
User: What is today's forecast high temperature?"
BS-GPT: "Olgachy!"
Experts expect it to be heavily used on college campuses....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 20, 2026 06:39 AM (n9eFH)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 20, 2026 06:40 AM (n9eFH)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 06:40 AM (afJtY)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 20, 2026 06:42 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 20, 2026 06:47 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 20, 2026 06:48 AM (whRlH)
Posted by: Wally at June 20, 2026 06:49 AM (+nC3J)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 20, 2026 06:49 AM (whRlH)
Whenever PsyOpAnime does anything involving Sanders it's always such titled "CCP gibberish". Same for Warren, but she always also has a full Sioux warbonnet.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 20, 2026 06:51 AM (hdRdU)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 05:24 AM (afJtY)
YUM
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 06:52 AM (6wpGE)
Also, unless they tell you nobody knows what personalstresses people are going through which might cause a reaction that might be stronger than it might otherwise be.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 20, 2026 06:56 AM (O14q3)
Well, glad somebody is. Maybe, someday,... have nice 12' v-hull. Bought trailer later but, being the dummy I am, it's for at least a 14 footer and had no bow stop/winch mount. I was originally just gonna cart it in the back of the truck but found out that while loading on level ground was easy, the first time out sliding it up at a 45° angle into the bed,,, not so much.
Skinny and old, you see.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 20, 2026 06:56 AM (5gyQ/)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 06:57 AM (afJtY)
I'll shower and shave first. If I get sweaty while washing the car later, I can always shower again!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 07:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 05:44 AM (afJtY)
Best wishes to everybody!
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 07:01 AM (6wpGE)
Maybe I can figure how to bolt one together, maybe, if I get the steel needed. And get someone to weld the post to the trailer mounting plate,,, maybe.
Posted by: TeeJ at June 20, 2026 07:01 AM (5gyQ/)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 06:57 AM (afJtY)
Thank you!
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 07:02 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 07:04 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 20, 2026 07:05 AM (l26NL)
I mean what else are you going to do on your day off and you got a bad foot?
As a goof I made a neovim config that emulates Wordstar.
I also threw in the functions to write screenplays.
Why?
Why not.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 20, 2026 07:06 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 07:08 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026
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No, it's free -- over the air! If you get it in your area, of course. Their website is moviestvnetwork.com. You can enter your zip code and see if you have it. It's 24-hours, and they show the films with commercials but apparently without cutting. Whereas some channels would shoehorn a film into a two-hour slot, Movies! lets it run over to 2:15 or 2:20, fills the gap with old Looney Tunes cartoons or a Fractured Flickers excerpt, then starts the next on the half hour.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 07:09 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 07:10 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 07:10 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 07:11 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026 07:14 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 20, 2026
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It's a fairly new channel in my area, so new the channel guide on my Vizio TV does not give details on it, but I can see their schedule on their site and on my ontvtonight.com page.
Sunday night is film noir, as is all day on Thursday. They'll often have a weekday devoted to a given classic actor or actress like James Stewart or Bette Davis. Tomorrow is "Father's Day" movies. And odd, "lost" films turn up. Last week they ran an early Bogart from 1934 called Call It Murder: strange, slow, talky Universal flick, but interesting anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 07:20 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 07:21 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2026 07:21 AM (jehhT)
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Only the official Timekeeper knows for sure...Even the refs don't know how much time is left on the clock.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 20, 2026 07:27 AM (gnNyN)
Our house is rather badly designed. The front faces almost due south and the back faces north. The master bedroom is on the west side and the garage is on the east side.
What happens is that the master bedroom often becomes hot from the afternoon sun, especially in warm weather. Like we're having now. Last night, I was pretty uncomfortable and Diana even decided to decamp to find somewhere cooler, an extraordinary event.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2026 07:29 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2026 07:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 20, 2026 07:33 AM (f0sNM)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 20, 2026 07:33 AM (6h45X)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2026 07:35 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 05:44 AM (afJtY)
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Is that today?
Posted by: Weasel at June 20, 2026 07:44 AM (ei1sX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 20, 2026 07:44 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 20, 2026 07:47 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 20, 2026 05:44 AM (afJtY)
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Is that today?
Posted by: Weasel at June 20, 2026 07:44 AM
Oh, crap! Where are my car keys?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 20, 2026 07:52 AM (zC76q)
66° at the moment not getting over high 70s today. Time to take a two mile walk to CVS. See you in the prayer breakfast
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 20, 2026 07:58 AM (L9YhZ)
Posted by: Weasel at June 20, 2026 08:00 AM (ei1sX)
If you ignore the "Skynet" scenario, AI operated humanoid robots is the cat's pajamas endpoint of the AI business, and they're taking control of the necessary component.
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Posted by: Pokemon card decks at June 20, 2026 07:26 PM (CrLRm)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing! Glory To The ONT!
Welcome to the Friday ONT! You guys are a real enough world for me.
Fido and feline Friday: Hey baby
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 19, 2026
Ketchup burger?
Heavenly sandwich
Ta dah!
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 19, 2026
Kollege
Moo
America the beautiful
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 19, 2026
Time keeps on slippin'
Playing chicken
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 20, 2026
New idea for my will
Today's insanity
Blast from the past
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 20, 2026
The left
Perry the platypus?
Red 9
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 20, 2026
When Leafs get uppity
Call me Moon Moon
Japan is building up their military
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 20, 2026
They ain't lion
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by dragons:
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2026 09:58 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at June 19, 2026 09:58 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2026 09:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2026 09:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Again.
CURSE YOU, RED BARON!
Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2026 09:59 PM (LrJiL)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2026 09:59 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Jose, can you si? at June 19, 2026 10:00 PM (9bb3y)
Posted by: Cameron Burgess at June 19, 2026 10:03 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2026 10:03 PM (ZVgZ4)
You can't just bypass hundreds of years of lichdom and go straight to demilichdom.
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 10:04 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 10:04 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 19, 2026 10:06 PM (SRRAx)
Again.
CURSE YOU, RED BARON!
Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2026 09:59 PM (LrJiL)
At least you didn't meet an angry dragon, and watch it fall in flames and ash while your parachute burned.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 10:06 PM (qx7Zg)
Except attracting girls.
Well.....no, that's definitely out.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 19, 2026 10:07 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: RandomDave at June 19, 2026 10:07 PM (aJQbY)
.308 / 7.62×51
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 10:07 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 10:08 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2026 10:09 PM (LrJiL)
I completely agree.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 10:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: From about That Time at June 19, 2026 10:11 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 10:11 PM (VPNgR)
I think I've seen some of those scenes in Godzilla movies.
Thank you WD!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2026 10:11 PM (B0dAE)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2026 10:09 PM (LrJiL)
Oh! Ask us!
Posted by: the muslims at June 19, 2026 10:11 PM (gKWVE)
Holy smokes is it garbage. Juvenile, shallow and as non-informative as it could be.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2026 10:12 PM (ItpVy)
Both of the wolves are whores?
Posted by: four seasons
Whoa. That came out of left field. Not ok.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 10:12 PM (21WNI)
I completely agree.
Posted by: JackStraw
The last guy was going gaga over Chipotle.
How bad are the restaurants in the rest of the world?
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)
Both of the wolves are whores?
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 10:08 PM (/QHx4)
Where did I put that 20 dollar bill?
Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2026 10:13 PM (LrJiL)
Posted by: Another Anon at June 19, 2026 10:14 PM (4h45B)
Japan is building up their military
While I was not born when the Nips got frisky, I read a lot of comic books in which they were definitely the bad guys.
I'm awfully glad they're on our side this time.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2026 10:14 PM (Riz8t)
Foreign fans here for the World Cup are posting all about how great this county is, great food, friendly people, lovely vistas, and it's just the most wholesome thing in the world.
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And their MSM and ours are saying, "Who are you going to believe, us or your lying eyes and taste buds?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 10:14 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2026 10:14 PM (Cqx++)
I completely agree.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 10:09 PM (viF8m)
I was informed that it was all fakey fake clickbait, or something.
I choose to ignore them. There is something happening. A lot of the folks coming here for the World Cup have lived their entire lives learning that America was horrible. And they are not the old money rich folks on some kind of beer and wine safari. They are regular folks who flew over coach to see their teams.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'm not weird, your face is weird! at June 19, 2026 10:14 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2026 10:09 PM (LrJiL)
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Requesting thought, critical thinking and logic at the same time is a bit much for these people.
_when synapses collide
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 10:14 PM (VPNgR)
Mostly because it is how I feel right now but without that much drama.
How did the chicken get into the room with the balloon on her head and then pop it?
My day: my dude had a peridontist mess with him for a gum graft. Apparently braces in the past can cause receeding gums for his front lower teeth (otherwise perfect with one cavity in his entire life). I hate dental work like this, and wisdom teeth were enough for my sons.
His graft site (roof of mouth) bled like a gunshot wound for 30min. I had to peer in there with a flashlight and discuss this grossness with their office. A suture has maybe popped and I told him he could not remove it. He can't spit, either, and I am thinking if you do not like blood you would not have enjoyed our event.
I am a nurse and did not enjoy it but it FINALLY quit bleeding with pressure/gauze, wet teabag, and ice on his cheek.
All was well til he tried to take a nap (head elevated) and then texted me he was bleeding a lot.
I do hope this is not how my night is going to be.
The bad pain from graft starts in 3 days.
I may take drugs soon, too.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 19, 2026 10:15 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: From about That Time
Hey, I was top-ten with a comment about the Content.
And "first" on the lawyer thread, with a comment about the Content. And a sock change.
Of course, that way of thinking means I've been "first" maybe 6 or 8 times, ever.....
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2026 10:16 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 19, 2026 10:17 PM (WBro8)
Posted by: Orson at June 19, 2026 10:18 PM (dIske)
Two wolf moon moon.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2026
I feel like this could be the start of a song.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 10:19 PM (OoFl2)
Bring payphones back. But they're giant touchscreens made to look like iPhones. And the audio is always set to speakers, so everyone else hears your conversation (just like regular iPhone users in public). Camera, however, stays disabled. No need to share THAT much about your babydaddy chillax'n at your home.
Posted by: Another Anon at June 19, 2026 10:19 PM (4h45B)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2026 10:19 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: four seasons
I think you call them "bitches" when they're canines.
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 10:19 PM (VHUov)
Two wolf moon moon.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2026 10:16 PM (Riz8t)
++++++++++
M-O-O-N spells moon.
Posted by: Tom Cullen at June 19, 2026 10:20 PM (dIske)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 10:20 PM (/QHx4)
Except attracting girls.
Posted by: Dr. T
Would your choice on Friends have been Phoebe, over Rachel or Monica? Then it could work.
"Yeah, this is my baby dragon. I've got a baby unicorn in the van over there....."
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 19, 2026 10:22 PM (G3T/K)
Mississippi residents are richer, on average, than UK citizens.
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Take Greater London out of the calculations and it's even more glaring.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 10:22 PM (O0L8i)
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and their neighbors. Gave some boats to the Philippines, sold some naval high tech to India along with personal assistance also new, never before internal legislation OK'ing sharing home made sekret tech with neighbors. Included in alliance is Taiwan, Viet Nam Thighland, and other South China Sea friends.
Xi has more than Trump to worry about.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 10:23 PM (VPNgR)
One time, there were a lot of extra people who went to the pizza place, so in order to make sure that the staff wouldn't get too confused, the person who ordered for us got an order form and dutifully proceeded to order separate pizzas. Made a "list" of it with 1), 2), 3), etc. I think we had 6 or 7 pizzas ordered that evening.
About 30 minutes later, the owner came to us rather sheepishly and asked if any if us would like to buy the "extra" pizzas for $5 apiece.
Turns out one of the new employees misunderstood and thought we wanted 1 of this pizza, 2 of the next pizza, 3 of the following pizza, etc.
We still laugh about that all these years later 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 19, 2026 10:23 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Eyegore at June 19, 2026 10:23 PM (Cqx++)
>>How bad are the restaurants in the rest of the world?
The everyday stuff that most of us eat are ok. But nowhere has the kind of variety and abundance we do here. And even when they try to copy a hamburger most places do not succeed. Their overall experience is just not close. And most of us are pretty friendly and good people. And trust me, even when some of us get real barbecue we get a little misty, imagine how bad UK barbecue is.
The average American lives really well compared to the rest of the world. There's a reason so many try to break in here and so few want to leave.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 10:24 PM (viF8m)
It is Ace. . Aren't we allowed to express our opinions here?
Oh no, I might have offended someone here.
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 10:25 PM (/QHx4)
I think I've seen some of those scenes in Godzilla movies.
Thank you WD!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2026 10:11 PM (B0dAE)
Sort of looks like an AI production, putting Japanese insignia an American soldiers and weapons?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 10:26 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 10:26 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2026 10:27 PM (Riz8t)
About 30 minutes later, the owner came to us rather sheepishly and asked if any if us would like to buy the "extra" pizzas for $5 apiece.
Turns out one of the new employees misunderstood and thought we wanted 1 of this pizza, 2 of the next pizza, 3 of the following pizza, etc.
We still laugh about that all these years later 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
.....and to this day, the owner gets pissed when he hears "The Twelve Days Of Christmas."
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)
I figure my husband and I, if he survives this weekend's fun of dental recovery, and I would be the only conservatives there. Far outnumbered, big time. I think not!
I'm going to RSVP thank you but we have plans (to stay home possibly, but I cannot deal with Trump haters in one large group on our country's 250th birthday).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 19, 2026 10:27 PM (hzuYO)
Of course, that way of thinking means I've been "first" maybe 6 or 8 times, ever.....
Posted by: mikesk
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Bragging about your fast computer, eh?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 10:27 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Methos at June 19, 2026 10:28 PM (vSvIl)
The blue diamond eye skull thing....man I sooo want that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 19, 2026 10:28 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: mrp at June 19, 2026 10:28 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
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Evangelical America, I hope this helps them back home.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 10:30 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 10:30 PM (/QHx4)
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Need more Gundam
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We lost the Philippines last time this happened.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 10:30 PM (6/7Fs)
You don't live together to try it out.
Flame me i don't give a shit
Posted by: four seasons
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I've done the "living in sin" thing before. But didn't want to do it again after BF passed away.
Now-hubby invited me to move in, but I said no. I had a job & house, all settled in. He wanted to know why not...Because I don't want to *play house*
About a month after we married, I asked boss for a week off-- for moving. He was concerned: "Already?! But you just got married!"
Uh, yeah dude... it's time to move IN.
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 10:32 PM (rdVOm)
You don't live together to try it out.
Flame me i don't give a shit
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 10:20 PM (/QHx4)
We lived together for a while before getting married because we were paying our own way through college, and both families thought we were too young to get married.
The difference was that we KNEW we wanted to get married - we weren't doing a trial run.
We celebrate 46 years of wedded bliss in August. 💕💕💕💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 19, 2026 10:32 PM (SRRAx)
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Need more Gundam
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We lost the Philippines last time this happened.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 10:30 PM (6/7Fs)
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Japan kicked their defense spending into high gear after the Norks launched IRBMs over the Home Islands back in the 90s.
Posted by: mrp at June 19, 2026 10:32 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: From about That Time at June 19, 2026 10:11 PM (sl73Y)
Absolutely! You’d miss the top 10 or worse if you did. But you can go back and read at leisure after first posting, and I do.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2026 10:32 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 19, 2026 10:27 PM (hzuYO)
yeah uh...sorry I can't make it. I got ball surgery with a rusty soup can lid scheduled that day and I don't want to miss that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 19, 2026 10:32 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Joyenz at June 19, 2026 10:33 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 10:33 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Braenyard
They do have a rudimentary sort of cunning, as shown by the "The Left" meme up there.
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 10:34 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2026 09:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Look up the Amelia "Deport Deport now" song or any of the world cup tourist videos. They will put a smile on your face. Also, watch the chicken balloon video over a few times.
Posted by: moki at June 19, 2026 10:34 PM (wLjpr)
Please stop.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 10:34 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2026 10:35 PM (Cqx++)
___________________
I hate to admit it, but tipping is a factor in the US. Not so much fast food, but any restaurant above and beyond. I spent quite a bit of time traveling, and the US is pretty much the only place that encourages tips in restaurants. You are the patron. The waiter and the chef try to be patronizing. So they, for the most part, will go that extra step in food quality and service. Europeans are mystified by these perks.
In the rest of the world it's a different atmosphere altogether. In a lot of restaurants (especially in France) they act like they're doing you a favor by allowing you to eat there. I'm not talking about the high end Michelin star restaurants. I'm talking about cafes and mid-level. They put as much effort into their entres as well....CBD may disagree, but I walked out of more than one restaurant in Europe, including one in Belgium that had a tomato worm in the salad bigger than my finger.
Posted by: Orson at June 19, 2026 10:36 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2026 10:36 PM (rbvCR)
I do hope this is not how my night is going to be.
The bad pain from graft starts in 3 days.
I may take drugs soon, too.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 19, 2026 10:15 PM (hzuYO)
I seriously hope he isn't on blood thinners, for both your sakes.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 10:37 PM (qx7Zg)
You don't live together to try it out.
Flame me i don't give a shit
Posted by: four seasons
I agree. If you go into it with a 'trying it out' mentality, you'll always be straddling the fence, never jumping in the deep end, to mix metaphors. Commit mentally, emotionally, and if possible ceremonially, before you commit physically, and it will all go smoother.
I say this as an engaged-until-we-can-marry-no-matter-the-obstacles guy
Posted by: RandomDave at June 19, 2026 10:37 PM (aJQbY)
Furriners feasting America had me grinning like crazy.
Dogs getting startled had me roaring with laughter; the table getting upended was the icing on the cake.
The D&D video: never played D&D, but this is exactly how I always presumed it would be.
Japan building up? I've said it before, I'll say it again, Japan is getting militant. Germany wants to have the biggest military force in Europe. Meloni better start getting the trains to run on time, IYKWIMAITTYD.
About the moo cows, though, from a ranch-dwelling Okie, let me advise you, the cowboys can tell you all those bent-up tailgates and bashed-in sides on their pick'm'ups aren't from traffic accidents, they're from the cattle just crowding around thinking they're going to be fed. They can crush you just by accident.
Mamas with calves are nothing to be trifled with.
And then there's the bulls.
Speaking of: Daughter in high schoolbrought some city boys out here once, and seeing the herd of angus in the field, they asked, "Do you milk those cows?" Sure, I said, go out and milk that big one with just one udder. Living in cattle country and that dumb. Sheesh!🤠
Posted by: mindful webworker - bow wow moo hic at June 19, 2026 10:39 PM (9bb3y)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2026 10:36 PM (rbvCR)
I did not know that any C96 was full-auto. Full auto on any weapon that can only load 8 or 9 rounds is damned stupid. Hit one attacker, miss the rest, then use the gun as a club when the remaining attackers swarm you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 10:39 PM (1z8ji)
Stupid linear brain. I read this as "My thirty-six-year-old female husband....." and my brain didn't stop to reorder it until the (41M) part didn't fit into the sentence.
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 10:40 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 10:41 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Kindltot
I did not know that any C96 was full-auto. Full auto on any weapon that can only load 8 or 9 rounds is damned stupid. Hit one attacker, miss the rest, then use the gun as a club when the remaining attackers swarm you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I think you'd get swarmed while you were assembling and loading your CCW jigsaw puzzle.
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 10:42 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2026 10:42 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: polynikes
Internet Meme that the minimum length of a CVS receipt is seven yards.
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 10:42 PM (VHUov)
At 50. You’re not being a whore. Or a tramp. Youre not going to be a baby mama on the dole.
Don’t be a judgemental bitch.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 10:43 PM (LdAYY)
The difference was that we KNEW we wanted to get married - we weren't doing a trial run.
We celebrate 46 years of wedded bliss in August. 💕💕💕💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 19, 2026 10:32 PM (SRRAx)
I’m glad you kids are no longer living in sin.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2026 10:43 PM (ZVgZ4)
Four seasons, enough. You can keep your lily white legs together or your teeny little dick dry all you want, but you don't get to lecture other people about what they do, Enough. It ends NOW
Posted by: Weirddave at June 19, 2026 10:44 PM (df/te)
Posted by: mindful webworker - bow wow moo hic at June 19, 2026 10:39 PM (9bb3y)
The Wisconsin Democratic Party put out a "Happy Dairy Month" Tweet with a picture of 2 bulls.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2026 10:45 PM (LrJiL)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 10:45 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2026 10:46 PM (mP0Kj)
At 50. You’re not being a whore. Or a tramp. Youre not going to be a baby mama on the dole.
Agreed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 10:46 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2026 10:45 PM (LrJiL)
I chuckled when I saw that.
"Sorry, Dad"
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'm not weird, your face is weird! at June 19, 2026 10:47 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 10:41 PM (KC5Lt)
CVS is notorious for extremely long receipts even for just one or two items.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2026 10:47 PM (LrJiL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 10:39 PM (1z8ji)
The schnellfeur was a Mauser design for the 30's, Astra also made the 712 which was full auto. Both used detachable magazines and were generally meant to sell to China. There were other sales too, but mostly they were sold to China
The one in the video may have been modified, or it might have a busted sear. That one, though, was a model for WWI in 9mm from the hammer and the grips.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2026 10:47 PM (rbvCR)
I completely agree.
Posted by: JackStraw
The last guy was going gaga over Chipotle.
How bad are the restaurants in the rest of the world?
Posted by: mikeski
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Sometimes anything new and palatable is awesome.
That or have another plate of spotted dick and whirled peas...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 19, 2026 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)
But that's on a different level from most of what is being posted on social media. The people posting are big sports fans, they aren't here to sample fine dining and stay in fancy place or even mid-level places. They are here for the World Cup. They raving about Buc-eess and Chipolte and bars with cheese steaks.
As I'm sure you know from traveling they are fed a bigger dose censorship and far left government than we are. And they've heard we MAGA types of the devil.
World Cup is so much bigger to these people than the Super Bowl is to us. Some of them are here for weeks. They came to party and got way better than they expected. Kinda cool. Yea us.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 10:48 PM (viF8m)
Now-hubby invited me to move in, but I said no. I had a job & house, all settled in. He wanted to know why not...Because I don't want to *play house*
About a month after we married, I asked boss for a week off-- for moving. He was concerned: "Already?! But you just got married!"
Uh, yeah dude... it's time to move IN.
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 10:32 PM (rdVOm)
We did it all out of order. We found a house first, then got engaged, then married, then moved into the house. My roman catholic genuine Italian grandmother would have lost her shit if we even thought about moving in before we were married. I would have done it, but I didn't want to be blamed for granny wearing black the rest of her life and whipping herself like Silas in the Da Vinci code.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 19, 2026 10:48 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 10:39 PM (1z8ji)
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IIRC, WSC carried a C96 in a cavalry charge at Omdruman. I bet it was switched to semi-auto
Posted by: mrp at June 19, 2026 10:49 PM (rj6Yv)
Also fuck that chicken.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 19, 2026 10:49 PM (xcxpd)
Gojira wasn't in it, at all. I mean, come on, you're Japan. Get with the game.
Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2026 10:49 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'm not weird, your face is weird!
Does mean they cannot go on a beer, wine, liquor safari with all the small producers and free tasting tours.
I highly recommend it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 19, 2026 10:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: From about That Time at June 19, 2026 10:50 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 19, 2026 10:47 PM (LrJi
Thanks I was not aware of that. And I used to manage a CVS when they were a small northeast company run out of Woonsocket, RI.
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 10:52 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: mrp
That is up by Pall Mall, Fentress County. You really can't get much farther out or you'd be going back in.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2026 10:52 PM (ItpVy)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2026 10:53 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 19, 2026 10:53 PM (DL7HR)
Gojira wasn't in it, at all. I mean, come on, you're Japan. Get with the game.
Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2026 10:49 PM (kU0PQ)
Also missing Mothra and Gamora. They're probably close to Mechagojira(sp.) though.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 10:54 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: mrp at June 19, 2026 10:49 PM (rj6Yv)
Indeed it was, but there was no switch then. Semi-auto was all you got. Churchill gave high praise to his Broomhandle Mauser, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 10:54 PM (1z8ji)
I highly recommend it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 19, 2026 10:50 PM (/lPRQ)
They choose to drain Boston of all of its beer.
Man, I love that story.
Fooking Scots.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ulster Scot at June 19, 2026 10:54 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 10:54 PM (VPNgR)
Got married first. I didn't and Her Majesty didn't want us living together first because of the stepdaughter.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 10:55 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2026 10:56 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Ol Faithful at June 19, 2026 10:56 PM (hyQrc)
That or roll me into the ditch and the gators will take care of the rest...
I think it'll be the later.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 19, 2026 10:57 PM (/lPRQ)
"Thighland"?
Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2026 10:57 PM (kU0PQ)
Bad taxidermy is FUN taxidermy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Same for fine art restoration!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 19, 2026 10:57 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2026 10:58 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Berserker
LMAO! You're a good grandson!
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 10:58 PM (rdVOm)
- Rush Limbaugh
Posted by: Ol Faithful at June 19, 2026 10:56 PM (hyQrc)
Nope. Not gonna do it. Nosiree.
Not gonna repeat my comment from earlier today on 2028.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 10:59 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 10:59 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2026 10:56 PM (ZVgZ4)
My grandparents were a little younger (1915ish), but yeah, they saw some amazing advances in a very short time frame. Grandpa ended up working for Boeing and NASA.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Ulster Scot at June 19, 2026 10:59 PM (0aYVJ)
"Politics is Hollywood for the ugly".
- Rush Limbaugh
Posted by: Ol Faithful
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Politics' rejoinder: Hollywood is Washington's ATM.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 19, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o)
Buddy - "Uhhhh, I really don't think I can do that."
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2026 11:00 PM (ItpVy)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I believe Tinian airfield is quietly being reactivated.
A couple of other Pacific island airfields have recently been restored (google Earth, etc).
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 19, 2026 11:00 PM (/lPRQ)
Nope. Not gonna do it. Nosiree.
Not gonna repeat my comment from earlier today on 2028.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Oh yes you are.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 19, 2026 11:00 PM (XJ22o)
youtube.com/watch?v=DADmZdbQ9x8
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 10:54 PM (VPNgR)
Good, but at this time of the night, I sort of was waiting for an Indian Head test pattern and the station to go off the air. Guess I fit that pay phone meme better than I thought.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2026 11:01 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 19, 2026 11:01 PM (DL7HR)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 11:01 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 19, 2026 11:03 PM (gKWVE)
How hard can it be to make a mechanical apparatus that moves your arm in a wave?
I'm sure AOP can spin that up in a shake.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 11:03 PM (viF8m)
Not gonna repeat my comment from earlier today on 2028.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Oh yes you are.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 19, 2026 11:00 PM (XJ22o)
You've been warned!
The 2028 Democrat Presidential ticket will be Biden/Biden. I'm not sure if Hunter or Jill will be on top.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)
Hold on. We're probably not wearing pants.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Somehow, your autocorrect changed "any member of the Horde" to "All Hail Eris."
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 11:04 PM (VHUov)
Buddy - "Uhhhh, I really don't think I can do that."
Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2026 11:00 PM (ItpVy)
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Might want to have yourself digitally recorded doing the waving thing. Then you can have a laser projector light show on the porch every night for as long as there's electricity.
Posted by: mrp at June 19, 2026 11:04 PM (rj6Yv)
My F-N-L fought all thru the pacific. I told him once before he passed that I would hate having to fight them today.
He agreed. Said once was enough.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2026 11:05 PM (2WIwB)
Not gonna repeat my comment from earlier today on 2028.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Oh yes you are.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 19, 2026 11:00 PM (XJ22o)
You've been warned!
The 2028 Democrat Presidential ticket will be Biden/Biden. I'm not sure if Hunter or Jill will be on top.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)
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Giggity giggity!
Posted by: G. Quagmire at June 19, 2026 11:05 PM (4h45B)
Feminists that believe physical work is below them
Male feminists that hate, fear, and want to rape those feminists
Racial minority supremacists with no impulse control
Jihadis
Insane violent trannies
The old commies had some sort of organization structure they could make work in combat but the current left? They rely on the straight white men not in their coalition to cow the populace and create some sort of order.
Though in fairness it is working in places like Britain.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2026 11:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 11:03 PM (viF8m)
Wind-powered, just like those "flying ducks".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 11:05 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 11:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)
Jill will be on top. Hunter always fucks up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 11:07 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: javems at June 19, 2026 11:07 PM (zFsEm)
Hold on. We're probably not wearing pants.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Somehow, your autocorrect changed "any member of the Horde" to "All Hail Eris."
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 11:04 PM (VHUov)
I remember her talking most about threads with pants required.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 11:08 PM (qx7Zg)
nurse,we aren't allowed to have differing opinions here?
We might offend someone here?
fuck them and the horse they rode in.
Goodnight all.
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 11:08 PM (/QHx4)
Seriously enjoyable ONT issue.
All good, but especially loved the Japan military clip.
Lots of US hardware…F15s, F35s, C130s, Ospreys. All good stuff. And I’m heartened by the fact that, if anyone can further pimp out existing stuff, they can. Just think about all the chrome and neon they could put on it all…
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 19, 2026 11:09 PM (3hOgI)
Posted by: L'Observateur Mikleuse at June 19, 2026 11:10 PM (6VErX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 11:11 PM (O0L8i)
We are allowed to have differing opinions. But. We are also allowed to call out people who personally attack other people and are assholes.
I’ve been called out.
You’ve been called out.
Don’t get personal. Or do. Your choice.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 11:11 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 11:12 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 11:12 PM (rdVOm)
Four seasons, enough. You can keep your lily white legs together or your teeny little dick dry all you want, but you don't get to lecture other people about what they do, Enough. It ends NOW
Posted by: Weirddave
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If you check, you will see four seasons made one statement that has been quoted by several other commenters. You are pointing a finger in the wrong direction.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 11:13 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 11:12 PM (rdVOm)
You need a bigger cat. One that can catch and kill Canada geese. Or pheasants.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 11:14 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ
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Squab for supper?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 11:14 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 19, 2026 11:14 PM (D2IX4)
Seriously enjoyable ONT issue.
All good, but especially loved the Japan military clip.
Lots of US hardware…F15s, F35s, C130s, Ospreys. All good stuff. And I’m heartened by the fact that, if anyone can further pimp out existing stuff, they can. Just think about all the chrome and neon they could put on it all…
Posted by: Gunslinger at June 19, 2026 11:09 PM (3hOgI)
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IIRC, the Japanese have created a Fleet Information Warfare Command that creates a seamless bond with operational US fleet elements. Everything the Japanese see or hear is instantly available to US forces.
Posted by: mrp at June 19, 2026 11:16 PM (rj6Yv)
"So far this month, Microsoft has provided patches to address 360 browser vulnerabilities ... the vast, and presumably sustained, uptick in the number of browser vulnerabilities has led to Microsoft no longer enumerating Chromium CVEs in the Security Update Guide."
So many defects, they won't even count and list them anymore. AI is digging them out briskly.
Posted by: gp at June 19, 2026 11:18 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Braenyard
LOL. Evidently. I'll clean up the mess of feathers in the morning. He had a rat for breakfast-- only had to sweep away the tail, entrails and *the green part* of that.
Birds are messy.
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 11:18 PM (rdVOm)
"Some Seattle soccer fans have mixed feelings about patriotically backing the U.S. team during the FIFA Men’s World Cup, given the actions of President Donald Trump,” the post from The Seattle Times said.
From what I could see, maybe half a dozen people were quoted. 65,000 in the stands. Thousands more in the streets.
Fu*k you Seattle Times. You really do suck.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2026 11:19 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: gp
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I try to avoid Microsnot at every turn. Its got tentacles.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 11:20 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: I saw it on a bumper sticker at June 19, 2026 11:20 PM (D2IX4)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 19, 2026 11:20 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: mrp at June 19, 2026 11:21 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
...all the slaves go back to the fields?
Well, I guess we're only half-slaves. The government lets us keep half.
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 11:21 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: JQ
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A coyote disassembled a wild turkey on my front lawn last week.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2026 11:22 PM (XeU6L)
I walked through thousands of fans on my way to the waterfront to catch my Boat home.
So much red, white and blue. So many American flags. So much happiness and joy and cheering.
I didn’t see a single protest sign.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 11:23 PM (A5RD0)
Their Chromium is the base engine inside Chrome. And Brave, BTW.
I tried to completely divorce from Google's stuff. I failed.
Thanks for the back brace tips, Braenyard! I will report back after trying them.
Posted by: gp at June 19, 2026 11:23 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
I can just imagine what THAT looked like. Yeesh.
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 11:24 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,
I guess the Roadrunner got away
Posted by: L'Observateur Mikleuse at June 19, 2026 11:24 PM (6VErX)
Posted by: ... at June 19, 2026 11:25 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: JQ
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Even after wind, rain, and a mowing, there are still some feathers around.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2026 11:26 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
...all the slaves go back to the fields?
Well, I guess we're only half-slaves. The government lets us keep half.
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 11:21 PM (VHUov)
So all the money we make each year goes to the government until Juneteenth. Then we get to keep what we make? checks out, or there about.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 19, 2026 11:28 PM (w/O5Q)
Rented a gas powered auger twice. Mostly it would sit on top and turn. Had a friend on the other side and it ate our lunch.
Rented a 4" trencher and it sat on top of the clay, mostly. And ate my lunch. (heavy bitch)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 11:29 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 11:23 PM (A5R
I bet it was awesome!
My grandson is at the baseball game. They went up early to get the experience. He is having a great time.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2026 11:29 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: gp at June 19, 2026 11:32 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Just like old times!
Posted by: Station Hypo at June 19, 2026 11:32 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: That cat made me feel dirty at June 19, 2026 11:34 PM (BldAX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 11:34 PM (1z8ji)
My grandson is at the baseball game. They went up early to get the experience. He is having a great time.
Posted by: Diogenes
Gorgeous evening. The Mariners would have gained a ton of fans had they offered $10 tickets to anyone with a foreign passport and a free American hotdog and coke.
Butts in seats.
And it’s the red socks. Fuck those guys in particular.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 11:35 PM (A5RD0)
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Get some sailboat-grade blocks. Harken is good.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 11:37 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 11:35 PM (A5RD0)
Concur...although they've been holding onto a 1 - nil lead.
(SWIDT?)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2026 11:37 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 19, 2026 11:37 PM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.
Like Darleen's last birthday party
Posted by: Miklos remains stoically stoic at June 19, 2026 11:38 PM (6VErX)
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Just like old times!
Posted by: Station Hypo at June 19, 2026 11:32 PM (6/7Fs)
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Excellent WW 2 reference!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2026 11:39 PM (2WIwB)
Now, as most of us here are a mere two score and nine, it's never too early to consider how we want to be as we approach the creakier years.
On these videos by Nurse Jen, when she gets to the "free guide" plug at the end, you can safely quit watching. Otherwise, pretty good info:
➡️Why Healthy 70 Year Olds Suddenly Decline (6 Reasons)
https://youtu.be/qEUVfFvAi_E
➡️For Ages 60–80 If You Still Have These 7 Abilities, You’re Winning at Aging
https://youtu.be/Khs8kvCTbBA
➡️6 Surgeries You’ll Likely Regret After 65 (The Data Doesn’t Lie)
https://youtu.be/BppjYSC3-_0
There's more, but that should hold you for a few years.
🤪
Stepping away from the blog for a bit. Pizza's ready, and we'll probably have some movie time with it.🍕📽️
Posted by: mindful webworker - a bit past 29 at June 19, 2026 11:39 PM (9bb3y)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 19, 2026 11:40 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 11:37 PM (6/7Fs)
Heh. The far pulley is an old die-cast V-belt pulley that I put up there because the original plastic pulley broke. Maybe the bearing needs oil. It's easy enough to reach, lean stepladder against pole, go up two steps, and its right there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 11:41 PM (1z8ji)
https://youtube.com/shorts/jpgoizctpAQ
Suitable for work, but perhaps not The Grateful.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 11:42 PM (qx7Zg)
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Just like old times!
Posted by: Station Hypo at June 19, 2026 11:32 PM (6/7Fs)
COTW.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 19, 2026 11:43 PM (dK+Kv)
Kirishima, Atago, Maya, on and on. Of course it's not surprising, many Japanese ship names are cultural, historical, or geographical names, so they'll stay in the rotation.
A few years back I toured a JNSDF destroyer in Kure. The rising sun ensigns on all the ships there was a striking picture. Years ago at a volunteer gig I met a JNSDF submariner, had been XO on one of their newest subs. He was starting a very prestigious year's assignment at Annapolis. Positive he got a sub command when that was over, though he never contacted me later.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 19, 2026 11:44 PM (U/Byj)
Heh. The far pulley is an old die-cast V-belt pulley that I put up there because the original plastic pulley broke. Maybe the bearing needs oil. It's easy enough to reach, lean stepladder against pole, go up two steps, and its right there.
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Then I guess I'll keep my turnbuckles plus wire rope ideas to myself.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 11:45 PM (6/7Fs)
the Japanese have created a Fleet Information Warfare Command that creates a seamless bond with operational US fleet elements. Everything the Japanese see or hear is instantly available to US forces.
Does it go both ways? Is AF's fresh water condenser operating?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2026 11:47 PM (Cqx++)
Then I guess I'll keep my turnbuckles plus wire rope ideas to myself.
Posted by: Cicero
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I wanted to hear about a motor drive...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2026 11:47 PM (XeU6L)
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Isn't that kind of like naming a cruise ship "Titanic"? Not good feng shui.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 11:48 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 11:48 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 11:45 PM (6/7Fs)
You want to put them on a fancy hat. Like a pilgrim ninja. Right?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 19, 2026 11:48 PM (DL7HR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 11:48 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)
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Ewwwwwww!! Can someone hand me the eye bleach?
Posted by: Brazzers at June 19, 2026 11:50 PM (yWllJ)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 19, 2026 11:51 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2026 11:47 PM (XeU6L)
That's entirely too much work for too little return.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 11:52 PM (1z8ji)
Oops duh. One score and nine.
Hate it when a bunch of hot cheese and sauce slides off the pizza crust.
Posted by: mindful webworker - in Roman numberals at June 19, 2026 11:52 PM (9bb3y)
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Isn't that kind of like naming a cruise ship "Titanic"? Not good feng shui.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 11:48 PM (6/7Fs)
We did it in World War II:
Yorktown (CV-5, CV-10)
Lexington (CV-2, CV-16)
Hornet (CV-8, CV-12)
Wasp (CV-7, CV-1
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 11:54 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 19, 2026 11:56 PM (U/Byj)
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True. Also, Enterprise.
Then there was the Harvey Milk. Somehow nobody saw any reason to commission more than one.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 11:56 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 19, 2026 11:56 PM (Zn6QU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Mission creep. It's a way of life.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2026 11:56 PM (XeU6L)
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I didn't know that. Rochefort was a weirdo, but a true genius.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 11:59 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 19, 2026 11:59 PM (YlWIZ)
Rented a 4" trencher and it sat on top of the clay, mostly. And ate my lunch. (heavy bitch)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 11:29 PM (VPNgR)
Do like the plumbers do now. Use a pressure washer and some sort of trash pump.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2026 12:00 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 11:07 PM (1z8ji)
::applause:: It took me a second but I loved the joke.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at June 20, 2026 12:01 AM (NZPfR)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 20, 2026 12:01 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 12:01 AM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 12:01 AM (6/7Fs)
So sorry, not sorry.
I am ashamed i had a opinion that i didn't please people here.
Rock on with your opinions.
Been nice knowing those of you who aren't assholes
Posted by: four seasons at June 20, 2026 12:02 AM (/QHx4)
Us an old tireless bike wheel with the bearings still in it. It is large enough to not jump easy.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2026 12:04 AM (rbvCR)
I've got to give a lot of these foreigners credit for trying wild new foods like biscuits-and-gravy, chicken-and-waffles, Mexican food, and all kinds of meats and sauces at the barbecue joints.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2026 12:05 AM (XJ22o)
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I didn't know he got the Medal of Freedom from Reagan. He deserved it. Thanks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 12:05 AM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: four seasons at June 20, 2026 12:02 AM (/QHx4)
That's only Whig. That guy is the Patron Saint of Knowing a Lot of Stuff.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 12:06 AM (dK+Kv)
How bad are the restaurants in the rest of the world?
Much worse than you think. I saw a video where a foreign woman was nearly having an orgasm eating at Golden Corral. Chipotle is Michelin starred compared to that.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 20, 2026 12:07 AM (sabhw)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 12:01 AM (6/7Fs)
No worries. I wish we still named carriers after famous battles and famous ships.instead of the USS Gerald R. Ford, we could have had the USS Yorktown. The USS Enterprise is already in the same class, and the third ship the USS Hornet. The Lexington, Saratoga, Ranger, and Wasp might have followed.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 12:08 AM (qx7Zg)
I am ashamed i had a opinion that i didn't please people here.
Rock on with your opinions.
Been nice knowing those of you who aren't assholes
Posted by: four seasons at June 20, 2026 12:02 AM (/QHx4)
I, for one, like having you here, even if I do not agree with every position you take. I am ambivalent on the shacking up thing. If you are going to have kids, get married. If that's not possible, it really doesn't matter all that much.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 12:08 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 11:45 PM (6/7Fs)
I put in a trellis for my cane berries, and I strung new trellises for two of my grape rows, using heavy gauge wire and turnbuckles. So far so good, but the grapes are still on the old wires, the real test is when they take the full weight of the vines and grapes next summer.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2026 12:10 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2026 12:04 AM (rbvCR)
The "new" pulley has been in there for several years, and the jumping is pretty recent. Post has quite a lean to it now. Probably insufficient tension on line, plus stiff bearing on pulley. Remedy: oil pulley bearing, and use loader bucket on tractor to push post back upright, and relocate prop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 12:11 AM (1z8ji)
The was one called King's Table that I & bunch of friends went to (decades ago). We were sky'd on various substances and *hongry!*
Man, that hours-old, dried-out fried chicken was The Best! We ate until we bulged. Never went back.
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 12:12 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos so opinionates at June 20, 2026 12:13 AM (6VErX)
212 Wait. The original Enterprise wasn't sunk. It was scrapped after the war. I withdraw my comment and blame alcohol.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 12:01 AM (6/7Fs)
That’s why Roddenberry picked “Enterprise” for the name of his ship. It was the magic carrier that went through every battle unscathed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 12:14 AM (nuNhM)
The Scots are having a grand time in Boston and the suburbs, they are called the Tartan Army and they proudly sing our national anthem quite more enthusiastically than our paid sports oligarchs do. What they are enjoying most about America right now is not our food but our freedom.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 12:16 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Miklos so opinionates
They'd be a modern, overproduced, autotuned band.
Debut album "Float like a butterfly, Sing like a bee."
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 12:16 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Far from unscathed
The Big E took numerous bomb hits
Posted by: Miklos the Stickler at June 20, 2026 12:16 AM (6VErX)
Debut album "Float like a butterfly, Sing like a bee."
Posted by: mikeski
And?
I'm only in it for the money
Posted by: Mercenary Musical Miklos at June 20, 2026 12:18 AM (6VErX)
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 12:19 AM (vE0+H)
I'll take the USS Kolombongara or USS Tassafaronga, even a USS Savo Island (an epic defeat and disaster, in memoriam to the hands lost) over a Harvey Milk or Cesar Chavez (even before the recent revelations).
Posted by: rhomboid at June 20, 2026 12:19 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 12:01 AM (nuNhM)
There already is!
https://is.gd/wrft7M
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2026 12:24 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: four seasons
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Hey, flouncing's not permitted. Just take a minute.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2026 12:24 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 12:19 AM (vE0
Yes, she did. But if possible, I would like to let it go. It’s the last comment I am going to make on it. Thank you for understanding that part, it is appreciated.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 12:25 AM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: JQ
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Looked back, don't understand the big beef.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2026 12:27 AM (VPNgR)
Here it is:
https://tinyurl.com/47ba9m43
Posted by: Orson at June 20, 2026 12:27 AM (dIske)
Posted by: four seasons at June 20, 2026 12:02 AM (/QHx4)
Four Seasons, come back.
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 12:28 AM (BGSp9)
I'd better skeedaddle to Hooterville, life was simpler there.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 12:31 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: mikeski
Can’t understand the lyrics. I just hear a buzzing in my ears.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2026 12:31 AM (ZVgZ4)
The ref absolutely gives zero fucks, though. (That's a cardin').
Posted by: Locarno at June 20, 2026 12:32 AM (wiYsG)
Posted by: Locarno at June 20, 2026 12:35 AM (wiYsG)
I'd better skeedaddle to Hooterville, life was simpler there.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June
I really don’t want to rehash this, but it’s all the way at the top, after my wolf comment, it’s not the first time, but I hope it’s the last. I don’t want her to leave either, despite it. I hope she stays. Truly.
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 12:36 AM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Weirddave at June 20, 2026 12:36 AM (bfFZM)
I did not know that any C96 was full-auto.
In the 1890s when it was designed regular machine guns were pretty new. I don't think full auto hand held at all existed til towards the end of WW1. There may have been some Chinese copies with that feature designed in the 20s...it seemed to be a status thing in some non major countries to have a full auto pistol. I think Argentina or Spain made some full auto 1911 copies
Posted by: Azjaeger at June 20, 2026 12:37 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 12:39 AM (Wmg4n)
With a heartfelt apology to Pipes for failing to honor her request this single time - I want to state for my own record that 27 comments later any ambiguity of comment #17 was clarified in words and punctuated in tone. I am a precise writer, I know precision when I see it.
Carry on.
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 12:41 AM (vE0+H)
Ps. Snoopy is patriotic all over x and that is pretty fun, to feel like we are back! 🇺🇸
Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2026 12:41 AM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Braenyard
Yeah, even the Horde's assholes are better people than 99% of the rest of the Internet.
Posted by: as mikeski underestimates at June 20, 2026 12:42 AM (VHUov)
The Favorite, circa 2010, and
Tea With Mussolini, circa 1999
Thought the first one was really interesting & well done, and the second one sukked.
Franco Zefferili made "Mussolini." He was an interesting character. He was elected to the Italian Senate on the Forza Italia ticket, Berlusconi's right wing party. In that capacity, he spoke in favor of the Biblical injunctions against homosexuality. Many years later, he announced he was gay.
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 12:43 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Azjaeger at June 20, 2026 12:44 AM (3/XaG)
This place is special, helped me through the toughest times of my life. I am forever grateful for each and every one of you.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 12:44 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: LASue at June 20, 2026 12:44 AM (6mVIs)
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 12:45 AM (vE0+H)
I completely agree.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 10:09 PM (viF8m)
I was told by someone who works in downtown Seattle that they really cleaned up the city for this: . planted trees, cleaned out the demented drug addicts... which only shows it can be done if they just want to do it. Anyway, Im looking forward to the Australian yt on the beauty of mountainous seatte. Rainier was especially lovely today.
Posted by: LASue at June 20, 2026 12:47 AM (6mVIs)
Posted by: LASue at June 20, 2026 12:49 AM (6mVIs)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2026 12:49 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 12:45 AM (vE0+H)
The hell you will. Who will I look to for my own thoughts?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 12:51 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Locarno at June 20, 2026 12:35 AM (wiYsG)
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I heard that she was dead for like, two weeks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2026 12:52 AM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 12:53 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Hello Fresh at June 20, 2026 12:54 AM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: mnw at June 20, 2026 12:56 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 12:56 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 12:56 AM (0nHVk)
Night, Debby. Sleep tight.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 12:58 AM (1z8ji)
Those who know me would suggest that I typically remain baffled. Without regard to context.
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 12:58 AM (BGSp9)
Almost all of us are born with a love of beauty and happiness. Learning to enjoy misery and ugliness is taught.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2026 12:58 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 12:51 AM (dK+Kv)
LOL
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 12:59 AM (vE0+H)
This place is special, helped me through the toughest times of my life. I am forever grateful for each and every one of you.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2026 12:44 AM (0nHVk)
Just my two assholish cents: This place has become way too sensitive. It's okay to have very strong disagreements. I can think you're (not Debby, you!) are grossly wrong on something important and it not be the end of the world. At the end of the day, I'm just a jerk with an internet connection. Like you. Maybe consider that being upset about my opinions of your opinions is ridiculous. Now universalize that sentiment.
Is now a good time to bring up the War of Northern Aggression?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 20, 2026 01:01 AM (DL7HR)
Apparently it is better to have all your data in one place to facilitate having it stolen. Or something like that.
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 01:03 AM (BGSp9)
I remain baffled by the kerfuffle despite scrolling back and forth several times.
Those who know me would suggest that I typically remain baffled. Without regard to context.
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego
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Same here. I thought maybe some comments had been removed or something because I remain baffled.
But that's okay! Don't anyone explain it to me -- really.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2026 01:04 AM (XJ22o)
That's stupid. /s
People need to have a heart attack or something to lighten up about internet stuff.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 01:04 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: wth at June 20, 2026 01:04 AM (oq9dX)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 20, 2026 01:01 AM (DL7HR)
Is there ever a bad time? And don’t say the boys in nutmeg or butternut or whatever are a metaphorical Mary Anne.
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 01:06 AM (BGSp9)
I was going to make a joke about white out on your screen here, but probably inappropriate.
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 01:06 AM (vE0+H)
I was told by someone who works in downtown Seattle that they really cleaned up the city for this: . planted trees, cleaned out the demented drug addicts... which only shows it can be done if they just want to do it.
Posted by: LASue
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Interesting, aren't we supposed to love the "authentic," gritty, non-bougie, quaint richness that the unhomed and justice-involved bring us? As for those billionaires and the garish stuff they build -- bye!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2026 01:06 AM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:07 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2026 01:07 AM (ZVgZ4)
I LOL'd!
Yeah, guys-- FLAVOR. Beats the 'ell out of beans and mushy peas, right?
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: wth at June 20, 2026 01:04 AM (oq9dX)
And also Ella Langley. An affectation I can understand.
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 01:08 AM (BGSp9)
Almost all of us are born with a love of beauty and happiness. Learning to enjoy misery and ugliness is taught.
Posted by: JackStraw
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That's why you have to be educated to appreciate the new Ob-scenity in Chicago. It takes a trained eye.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2026 01:08 AM (XJ22o)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2026 01:07 AM (ZVgZ4)
I can't wait until my youngest discovers internet message boards. Dude would argue if you offered him ice cream.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 01:09 AM (dK+Kv)
I am in town but avoided downtown.
Posted by: LASue at June 20, 2026 01:09 AM (6mVIs)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 20, 2026 01:09 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2026 01:09 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2026 01:09 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
* gets out yarn and thumbtacks *
I'm not sure yet, but I bet it's my tax dollars, somehow.
Posted by: mikeski w/ tinfoil hat at June 20, 2026 01:10 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)
Brits can do better. Prime rib roast with Yorkshire pudding. Shepherd's pie. Cornish pasties. Even bangers and mash.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:11 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Locarno at June 20, 2026 01:11 AM (wiYsG)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 01:09 AM (dK+Kv)
No he wouldn't.
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 01:12 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2026 01:12 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 01:09 AM (dK+Kv)
No he wouldn't.
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 01:12 AM (vE0+H)
I am going to get him.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 01:13 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 20, 2026 01:13 AM (DL7HR)
Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 20, 2026 01:08 AM (BGSp9)
She's cute. Definitely has singers' lungs, LOL. Too bad about the ink.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:14 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: frankie at June 20, 2026 01:14 AM (a16Yj)
It wasn't until I started traveling a lot internationally that I understood the difference between what we consider big sports to what people around the world consider it. It's way beyond the World Cup and just Europe.
I remember seeing throngs of Indians clearing customs with me for some cricket match. Not a WC type thing, just some lesser game. Happened all over with rugby and soccer too.
They take their sports way more seriously than we do.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2026 01:14 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 20, 2026 01:13 AM (DL7HR)
When Brit Lass first offered me the full English, I thought she meant something completely different.
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 01:15 AM (vE0+H)
I thought the Fido Feline and Kollege memes were funny!
I don't quite get the Golden Calf one, but I've been Golden Corral in Victorville, north of L.A. it was over the Christmas holidays and wife and I were just driving around. Since it was the holiday season she said we could eat there. It was raining lightly when we went in.When we came out an hour or two later it was snowing and there were 4 inches of snow on the car. The ride back over the pass to the civilized world was....interesting.
She says she'll never go to Golden Corral again. She says if I want to go I can take her cousin.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 20, 2026 01:15 AM (QGaXH)
Meet exoplanet HD 80606 b, one hell of an extreme "hot Jupiter".
https://t.ly/lzDqa
It orbits a sun-like star about 127 ly away in Ursa Major. It's about 4x Jupiter mass, but about the same radius. It's orbit is one hell of a skinny ellipse, eccentricity of 0.93 and semi-major axis of about .46 AU.
That ellipse is so extreme, it's periastron is 1/10th that of Mercury. JSWT has been observing it and during that close approach, it's temperature shoots up by 1100F, far more than they thought. Then, after it whips around, it cools back down. If you plopped it our solar system, the apoapsis would be a smidge less the 1AU. A very comet like orbit for one huge gas giant.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 01:17 AM (w6EFb)
They take their sports way more seriously than we do.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2026 01:14 AM (viF8m)
The question remains. All those airline flights run into very serious money. It's a lifestyle that the average working stiff simply cannot afford. Do they put it all on a credit card, and then work two-three years to pay off the balance?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:18 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 20, 2026 01:13 AM (DL7HR)
When Brit Lass first offered me the full English, I thought she meant something completely different.
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 01:15 AM (vE0+H)
Dear Penthouse Forum,
I never thought it would happen to me ...
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 20, 2026 01:18 AM (DL7HR)
Posted by: wth at June 20, 2026 01:18 AM (oq9dX)
Also what is their purported science behind the pregnancy?
I know someone is just trying to upset Christians or whatever but this is what you call being educated way beyond one's intelligence.
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 01:19 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: publius
Did they account for the fossil fuels? And the cow farts?
Posted by: The Left at June 20, 2026 01:20 AM (VHUov)
270
I remain baffled by the kerfuffle despite scrolling back and forth several times.
I most strongly object to you calling this a kerfluffle. It was quite obviously a contretemps.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 01:22 AM (nuNhM)
Also what is their purported science behind the pregnancy?
I know someone is just trying to upset Christians or whatever but this is what you call being educated way beyond one's intelligence.
Posted by: ...
Some things are so stupid only an intellectual can believe them.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 01:22 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 01:22 AM (nuNhM)
Definitely a tinge of ballyhoo.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 01:23 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:18 AM (1z8ji)
Interest only home loan is how my brother-in-law does it. He lives in England. But at the end he owes the entire balance of his house. It's funny as he thinks he's getting his mom and dads stuff but they are leaving it to my wife and I.
Posted by: Reforger at June 20, 2026 01:23 AM (wjnjX)
Posted by: wth at June 20, 2026 01:23 AM (oq9dX)
Posted by: wth at June 20, 2026 01:23 AM (oq9dX)
I think at least 70% is merely influencer hustle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 01:25 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 01:22 AM (nuNhM)
Definitely a tinge of ballyhoo.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 01:23 AM (dK+Kv)
It had the scent of violence. So it were a donnybrook.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 20, 2026 01:25 AM (DL7HR)
Posted by: ...
All the complex organic chemicals needed for life just sort of came together in a puddle one day. -- some people
We're going to run out of oil soon because the Earth doesn't produce simple organic chemicals. -- the same people
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 01:26 AM (VHUov)
Yea, I don't completely understand it either. On average they make less than we do. But I think it has a lot to do with lifestyle.
We live bigger in our daily lives than they do. All those restaurants and bars they are bragging on are everyday for us and we have a lot of toys. But I do know they are way more fanatical about sports than we are. This World Cup is not their first rodeo.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2026 01:26 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 01:17 AM (w6EFb)
I got tripped up by "periastron". Sounds like a skin tag you know where. Perihelion works for me. It's a different Solar system, but its star is still a Sun.
Wouldn't surprise me to learn that some sort of life might exist on that planet; sure enough the pot is getting stirred regularly!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:26 AM (1z8ji)
The heat pulse that thing gets when it whips close to the star drives shock wave winds, like 11,000 mph.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 01:27 AM (w6EFb)
I wish they would just move here.
Posted by: Reforger at June 20, 2026 01:28 AM (wjnjX)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 01:25 AM (dK+Kv)
This is very cynical, and probably true. But to paraphrase Philippians, it is best that the virtues of the US be preached whether sincerely or not.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 20, 2026 01:30 AM (DL7HR)
Posted by: Locarno
......
I don't know what this means but it almost sounds like sports or something.
Posted by: wth at June 20, 2026 01:31 AM (oq9dX)
Uh-huh. Bet they fought over which of them got to take it home and prepare for themselves!
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:31 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: wth at June 20, 2026 01:18 AM (oq9dX)
A good meat pie, or Cornish pastie is a thing of beauty. Basically all the elements of a burger and fries, just packaged differently.
When I am in Arizona, and go to Phoenix or Glendale for an event, I try to stop at the George and Dragon pub on Central in PHX, for a beer and some Brit grub, because they do a fine job of it there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:32 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: as mikeski underestimates a
*buffs nails*
Posted by: El Mikloso at June 20, 2026 01:32 AM (6VErX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2026 01:22 AM (nuNhM)
Definitely a tinge of ballyhoo.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 01:23 AM (dK+Kv)
And Donnybrook is right out....,
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 20, 2026 01:32 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: wth at June 20, 2026 01:31 AM (oq9dX)
It's football!!
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 01:32 AM (vE0+H)
Hah. The most general term is "-apsis", periapsis vs apoapsis. "Astron" means star in general.
Something closer to what you envisioned would be one of several for the apsides of a black hole. "Peribothron" would mean "near(est) the hole".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 01:33 AM (w6EFb)
You should have seen what happened when a British exchange student asked me to knock her up back when I was in college. Em-barr-assing!
Posted by: Weirddave at June 20, 2026 01:33 AM (VOQu9)
Something closer to what you envisioned would be one of several for the apsides of a black hole. "Peribothron" would mean "near(est) the hole".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 01:33 AM (w6EFb)
Imma go with "closest approach" and "furthest excursion". I wonder if that "hot Jupiter" has moons? Sounds to me like what we really have there is a double star, but the second one was just too small to fire up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:36 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
There is an honest to gawd Fish and Chips place in a storefront near me. One wall is filled with all manner of English packaged foods.
Union Jack Fish and Chips in Huntington Beach, Ca
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 20, 2026 01:36 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Weirddave at June 20, 2026 01:33 AM (VOQu9)
LOL!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:37 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:41 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: wth at June 20, 2026 01:41 AM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 20, 2026 01:41 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: publius
And yet I've never heard the word on a golf course.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 01:42 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Hahahaha, and the jokes wrote themselves!
"Hey, let's go get Big Dick's!"
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: wth
They're big. One is enough for dinner. But that sort of food, yes. A calzone with stew ingredients instead of pizza ingredients.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 01:44 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: wth at June 20, 2026 01:41 AM (oq9dX)
Sort of, I guess. A Cornish pastie was the Cornish miner's lunch, back in the day. A turnover in the form of a semicircle, made of flaky pastry, stuffed with meat, potatoes, and veggies. They could be warmed up over a carbide miners' lamp. That general format for a hand-held meal shows up all over the world.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:46 AM (1z8ji)
Because I might be on here off and on all night/morning/eternity.
My husband's mouth thing from dental graft is of course bleeding again at bedtime to make this day more special.
More like a cut/wound vs gunshot this time. We hope that's a good thing as we are tired. He claims he can bleed alone this time vs me helping determine if it's getting better or not. Golly.
We both just want to go to sleep. Will probably wake to a puddle of blood in the wee hours. The DMD called him tonight (routine) and said that was probably the worst of it. We have her cell # and maybe should ask her over.
I think the worst of it is the entire deal. Ordeal.
I should suggest a leech next time to gross him out entirely (and me as well). That will be my next advice.
Or I will do drugs, too, to honor our vows.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 20, 2026 01:46 AM (hzuYO)
The rule of thumb for apsides is you use the Greek names and Latin for the proper names. Except when you don't. It's perijove for Jupiter, not some peri-Zeus.
For Mecury, it would be peri/apophermion.
Venus is a special case. Using Greek, it would be periaphrodision (or something close), which sounds like aphrodisiac. If you used the Latin, you'd get peri-venereion (or whatever the Latin declension or whatever you call it would be), but that sound like venereal, so they went with pericytherion, after the island Aphrodite was born on. Or maybe came out of the sea to, or however the legend goes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 01:46 AM (w6EFb)
"Hey, let's go get Big Dick's!"
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm)
Kind of like the t-shirts that advertised imaginary products branded 'Big Johnson'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 20, 2026 01:47 AM (QGaXH)
"Hey, let's go get Big Dick's!"
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm)
Oh yeah. Jokes abounded, and Dick was well aware of them. It was a one-man shop, and I think he just burned out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:48 AM (1z8ji)
Today/tonight has been, well, Less Than Stellar here too. Thought I'd turn in early but noooooo. Can't sleep either.
Sending good vibes your way!
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm)
I should suggest a leech next time to gross him out entirely (and me as well). That will be my next advice.
Or I will do drugs, too, to honor our vows.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 20, 2026 01:46 AM (hzuYO)
Maybe a little alum applied to the wound would stop the bleeding? Or a hot iron?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:51 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
I remember those. Many of the guys at work wore them. Crude, but funny.
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
Mostly just the spotted dick, whirled peas, and (whole) fish pie.
A lot of Brit food is boring because it is actually too familiar.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 01:52 AM (/lPRQ)
Meanwhile, Australia and Paraguay will probably be having a spectacularly dirty match. They both have had a pair of games Bill Laimbeer would approve of, and I don't think they'll tone it down when they fight to see who gets second place.
For those who aren't soccer fans, usually the US team tends to have amazing defense and nonexistent offense. This US team is decidedly not like that: we actually have a good offense that scores pretty well! But, as if to even things out, our defense is sketchy as hell. Those guys are definitely going to get burned by a better team.
Posted by: Locarno at June 20, 2026 01:53 AM (wiYsG)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)
The art work on them was very good, for the genre it was.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:54 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Locarno
......
I don't know what this means but it almost sounds like sports or something.
Posted by: wth
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Maybe Obamao can show us his Sweet Sixteen picks to help us plebes understand.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 01:54 AM (/lPRQ)
Hope you and hubs are ok.
Not to turn this into a math blog but the fifth and seventh prime numbers will help you find the answers.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 20, 2026 01:55 AM (QGaXH)
You should have seen what happened when a British exchange student asked me to knock her up back when I was in college. Em-barr-assing!
Posted by: Weirddave
If they ask you if you want to "smoke a fag"... whatever it is it is not worth the risk.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 01:57 AM (/lPRQ)
Today/tonight has been, well, Less Than Stellar here too. Thought I'd turn in early but noooooo. Can't sleep either.
Sending good vibes your way!
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm)
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Thanks. Sorry you're having a bad one, too.
I don't know why the font grew for this comment.
My comment on the ONT, I started disliking phone booths and holding the receiver far away from my face as it stunk like halitosis. Gross. I have many issues and that one is in the past.
The issue I was made fun of this week was the opening of an ironing board. The one my mother had/has weighs about 50lbs and I think it pinched my finger or something as a kid. I don't like them.
Maybe I could iron my husband's mouth wound like the cowboys. Give him whiskey and stick my curling iron up there to staunch the bleeding. My branding iron is in the shop.
Oh how I want to go to sleep then wake at 0800 for his antibiotic and to let the repair guy in to work in the basement. I will probably look pretty scary at that point.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 20, 2026 01:57 AM (hzuYO)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2026 01:59 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:51 AM (1z8ji)
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Oh, lawsie. I swear I did not see this comment before I mentioned ironing his bleeding. Bless my husband's heart for real.
Now I am concerned that I am thinking like AOP in the wee hours of hades. I may go stare at him and see if he's still with us. I knew this was not going to be easy and he's lucky to be married to such a fine looking old bag who went to nursing skool, but not dental.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 20, 2026 02:01 AM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 02:02 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 20, 2026 02:03 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 02:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 20, 2026 02:05 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 20, 2026 02:01 AM (hzuYO)
Alum was a semi-serious suggestion. It's used in "styptic pencils" to stop bleeding from razor cuts when shaving. Maybe get some of that Israeli bandage material that is meant to stop bleeding from gunshot wounds, and apply a little wad of it as a compress to the wound in his mouth?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 02:06 AM (1z8ji)
A moon's orbit couldn't survive that close approach. The tidal gradient would just disrupt the orbit. The parent star is part of a binary, and that extreme eccentricity of the planet is likely the result of something called the Karzai or something close mechanism. That can drive eccentricity to extremes like this.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 20, 2026 02:07 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 20, 2026 02:09 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 02:09 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 20, 2026 02:10 AM (QGaXH)
*corks wine, chugs dregs*
Ready for another hot summer's day tomorrow.
https://youtu.be/Z6vFt7FTBQ8
G'nite, keeds.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - all swol wots end swoll at June 20, 2026 02:14 AM (9bb3y)
Store wants real money for a 4000 psi pressure washer.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2026 02:17 AM (VPNgR)
Store wants real money for a 4000 psi pressure washer.
Posted by: Braenyard
Sounds like the right tool for digging.
Through sandstone.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 02:21 AM (VHUov)
Store wants real money for a 4000 psi pressure washer.
Posted by: Braenyard
Suddenly, my yard & landscape issues seem trivial.
Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2026 02:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)
Jill will be on top. Hunter always fucks up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 11:07 PM (1z8ji)
{takes notes}
Nice one. Now I'm thinking of her as Dr. Cowgirl Biden, and wondering how long my silly brain will hold onto it.
Posted by: SciVo at June 20, 2026 02:26 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: SciVo
Alcohol can help you forget things like that.
Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2026 02:29 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2026 01:57 AM (/lPRQ)
I can't count the number of times Brit Lass has said to me "Oh I could murder a fag!". And she doesn't even smoke.
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2026 02:38 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Using those things is counterintuitive. Unlike a drill, you don't push it into the dirt. You actually have to lift it up so that the end is just scraping the ground.
The first time I rented one I had your experience. The auger would dig in and then we couldn't hold it, it would just torque us around. My older neighbor across the street came over and told us that it was entertaining, but he didn't want the siren noise when he had to call 911, and then explained that we had to hold it up so that it could lift the dirt up and out. We did that and dug 11 2.5' deep post holes for a fence in a little over an hour.
Posted by: buddhaha at June 20, 2026 02:39 AM (RW118)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Russian Piroshki. Wife uses cream cheese in the dough, and they're great. The meat and veggies are all cooked before they go into the dough, and then baked in the oven. She'll make a batch of them, then individually wrap them and into the freezer. Quick lunch: unwrap and into the microwave.
Posted by: buddhaha at June 20, 2026 03:00 AM (RW118)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The real styptic is a cotton swab with silver nitrate. It's the chemical equivalent of a hot iron. When it's applied, you can actually smell burnt flesh. I had it done when I managed to rip open a varicose vein on my ankle and it wouldn't stop bleeding. The urgent care doc used it. When I mentioned that I'd like to pick up a couple of those swabs for my home wound care kit, he told me that they only sell them to medical.professionals.
I suspect that I could get something on the web from China or wherever, but who knows what it actually would be.
Posted by: buddhaha at June 20, 2026 03:12 AM (RW118)
Posted by: buddhaha at June 20, 2026 03:16 AM (RW118)
Posted by: raimondo at June 20, 2026 03:18 AM (nmiJT)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 20, 2026 03:22 AM (VPNgR)
Posted by: raimondo at June 20, 2026 03:27 AM (nmiJT)
Posted by: buddhaha
Just the insomniacs and midshift drones are up now. Troll bots too.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 20, 2026 03:32 AM (WBro8)
The next game in Philly will be played Monday....France vs Iraq. Not expecting those happy vibes this time. Ugh.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 20, 2026 03:33 AM (xverI)
I see your comments just fine, but I'm typically doing other things and just catching up on comments between. I did not know that about the styptic.
Posted by: SciVo at June 20, 2026 03:33 AM (Sy6m/)
What's this we business, moron. Stupid Indian shitlib-impersonator hasn't served a day in his miserable fatherless life.
Don't you have to get back to the call center to scam old people?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 03:34 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 20, 2026 03:43 AM (An2iq)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Thanks. I got shadow banned out of Disqus for the inexcusable crime of changing my email to a protonmail.address, which they defined as defacto spam. My objection was ignored. I'm sure that one of their people looked at my posts, realized that there was nothing spammy about them but also realized that I argued from the non-left position, and figured good riddance. Disqus is in San Francisco.
Posted by: buddhaha at June 20, 2026 03:44 AM (RW118)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2026 01:41 AM (1z8ji)
Up here we have Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn. Halfway between Nenana and Fairbanks. The t-shirt art is two polar bears making more polar bears, natch.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 20, 2026 03:44 AM (bl07w)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 20, 2026 03:34 AM (dK+Kv)
Pretty sure he needs to report to the local truck stop toilet.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 20, 2026 03:45 AM (bl07w)
Posted by: m at June 20, 2026 04:31 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 20, 2026 04:35 AM (DZ9Lv)
Armored Sheep Cafe
Norbert the Therapy Dog
A dance troop forms the numbers 1 through 9. Number 8 will SHOCK you!!! London's got Beaver Fever! They've reintroduced wild beavers (the wilder the better) to the London area. Beavers had previously been hunted out of existence on the theory that they're nuisances that cause flooding by erecting dams. The new theory -- which I'm not endorsing -- is that beaver dams actually, somehow (I'm unclear on how this works) actually reduce destructive flooding by creating some kind of reservoir area that absorbs a lot of flood overflow. Is that true? I would not even presume to offer a guess. But beavers, especially a big chonky mama beaver weighing over 120 pounds, are now a spectacle in London, with gawkers collecting on Beaver Viewing Pavilions to watch them chomp wood. A dog dumped by her former owner is happy and beloved now. Some practical considerations concerning adopting a zebra.
Everyone appreciates a little show of affection.
Fed up with wolves attacking his sheep, a farmer crafted spiked armor to let them graze safely and peacefully. pic.twitter.com/QJ5rcxJ00Z
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) June 17, 2026
He lost the race but won the show.
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) June 16, 2026
Enjoying the process and pursuing the result are different experiences. pic.twitter.com/WUMwgJa0er
Newest firefighter reporting for duty. 😂 pic.twitter.com/3sq8BRNBLT
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) June 15, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 07:32 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 07:32 PM (RWslB)
Can verity this one, though.
Cellphone video taken Wednesday evening at a Target store in Simi Valley shows a man randomly attacking a woman while she was shopping, and then the good Samaritans who jumped in to help her and stop the man.
Police ultimately arrived at the store, arresting the suspect, Rejean Tabor, who they say had been released from custody two days before after being arrested in March for indecent exposure and assaulting an officer.
Tabor entered the store around 6 p.m., and cellphone video shows a woman rushing to help the woman being attacked – but she was quickly thrown off by the attacker. "He was choking her, she was almost dead, I don't know that guy!" the woman said in the video:
https://tinyurl.com/3yza4yt3
Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2026 07:32 PM (mYCqF)
Posted by: Guy who thinks everything sounds dirty at June 19, 2026 07:33 PM (vFG9F)
Isn't he cute
Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2026 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 19, 2026 07:33 PM (Sco7b)
We had to do that in Illinois back around 1900. Same with deer. They are now thriving.
Posted by: gp at June 19, 2026 07:34 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Billy Idull at June 19, 2026 07:34 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 19, 2026 07:34 PM (R+iUD)
I understand a lot of people like cats. If I wasn't allergic I would have cats.
Me, I am dog crazy.
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 07:35 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 19, 2026 07:35 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2026 07:35 PM (gnNyN)
Demunged link is here:
https://x.com/TheFigen_/status/2066639874350895558
C'mon ace. How hard is it to spell href? Be better!
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 19, 2026 07:35 PM (syz1S)
No, it's not true. Beavers used to build a damn on a stream on the back of my parents place. And we would go out and tear it out.
If we didn't the water overflowed the stream and flooded the yard.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 07:36 PM (viF8m)
Any big brown ones?
Asking for a band.
Posted by: Winona at June 19, 2026 07:36 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2026 07:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 19, 2026 07:37 PM (G3T/K)
Posted by: JTB at June 19, 2026 07:37 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Pete "Litella" Bootygig at June 19, 2026 07:38 PM (VHUov)
==
Demunged link is here:
https://x.com/TheFigen_/status/2066639874350895558
C'mon ace. How hard is it to spell href? Be better!
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 19, 2026 07:35 PM (syz1S)
Do you want him to start leaving open tags again???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 19, 2026 07:38 PM (R+iUD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 19, 2026 07:38 PM (G3T/K)
You may think this is about a cute dog and a little girl, but it's really about Piper.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 19, 2026 07:39 PM (0sNs1)
Temporarily maybe but when there is a big enough flood the dam and pond all get washed away, making the flood worse.
Posted by: Billy Idull at June 19, 2026 07:39 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 19, 2026 07:40 PM (DoBxX)
Good thing the Koreans waste time perfecting stuff like this, so they don't decide to take over the world.
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 07:41 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Billy Idull
That's a new one.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2026 07:43 PM (mYCqF)
Posted by: Billy Idull
Beaver spillways are usually inadequate and any flood more than designed for will blow the dam out.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 19, 2026 07:43 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 19, 2026 07:43 PM (/lPRQ)
Heh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 19, 2026 07:44 PM (G3T/K)
Temporarily maybe but when there is a big enough flood the dam and pond all get washed away, making the flood worse.
Posted by: Billy Idull at June 19, 2026 07:39 PM (vFG9F)
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This might be true in rural areas where they are working with streams, but if a beaver dams up a drainage ditch, that's going to cause big problems.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 07:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 19, 2026 07:48 PM (G3T/K)
"Beavers are nocturnal (active mostly at night and during dusk or dawn). Visit during the early morning or late evening for the best chances of seeing them swim."
Too early, too late. I don't want to see them that bad, I guess.
Posted by: gp at June 19, 2026 07:49 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: notsothoreau at June 19, 2026 07:51 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2026 07:53 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 07:55 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 19, 2026 07:56 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2026 07:57 PM (afJtY)
God bless those people for doing that. For the people that abandoned the dog? yeah, you'll get yours. The barbed c**k of karma is going to help you celebrate pride for the rest of your hopefully short miserable life.
Posted by: Nelly at June 19, 2026 07:57 PM (6+ehB)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 07:58 PM (GseMx)
But it probably warns off Islamic dudes too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 19, 2026 07:58 PM (G3T/K)
Posted by: 1977 Remembers at June 19, 2026 07:59 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2026 07:59 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2026 08:00 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: fd at June 19, 2026 08:00 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 08:00 PM (GseMx)
I was shamed into taking a parrot years ago.
He was a bastard. Luckily the owner got resettled somewhere after a few months and wanted his parrot back.
We took great care of the bastard and were thrilled to give the bastard back to him..
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:02 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 19, 2026 08:03 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 08:03 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: gp at June 19, 2026 08:04 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 08:00 PM (GseMx)
A team of Andalusian shepherds would do the trick. Widely utilized in the Rocky Mountain West. Big, loyal, smart and will fuck up a wolf. Saw them a lot in the Bighorns in Wyoming and the Flattops in Colorado.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Dave's Not Here! at June 19, 2026 08:04 PM (0aYVJ)
We loves you and miss yuo..
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at June 19, 2026 08:04 PM (xNKY/)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:04 PM (77rzZ)
And on a side note all birds should be named Larry.
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 08:04 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 08:05 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:05 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:05 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 19, 2026 08:06 PM (bkuEU)
We loves you and miss yuo..
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt
Thought you would be celebrating Juneteenth downtown watching the fireworks and drivebys.
Everybody else is.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 19, 2026 08:06 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Pawl at June 19, 2026 08:07 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2026 08:07 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 19, 2026 08:07 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:08 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: javems at June 19, 2026 08:10 PM (zFsEm)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2026 08:10 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 08:11 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
That's why I named my canary "Onan."
Posted by: zombie Dorothy Parker at June 19, 2026 08:11 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:11 PM (/QHx4)
We’ll see how I feel tomorrow.
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:13 PM (77rzZ)
They lived in a big round cage I made. A lot of the time they could come and go as they pleased. When I lived in the old farmhouse they spent a lot of time on the screened porch, with the iguana.
Posted by: fd at June 19, 2026 08:14 PM (vFG9F)
National Garfield the Cat Day, , National Dry Martini Day, World Sauntering Day, National Sickle Cell Day, International Day for the *Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, National Eat an Oreo Day, National Flip Flop Day - June 19, 2026 (Third Friday in June), National FreeBSD Day, National Pets in Film Day, National Watch Day, Take Back the Lunch Break Day - June 19, 2026 (Third Friday in June), Ugliest Dog Day - June 19, 2026 (Third Friday in June), Work at Home Father's Day - June 19, 2026 (The Friday before Father's Day),
*note: sexual violence is OK as long as it's not in conflict
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 08:15 PM (VPNgR)
Do you think your sister would mind?
I think it's probably possible to grieve a loved one while still enjoying the company of people who like and appreciate you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2026 08:16 PM (AphQx)
Posted by: fd at June 19, 2026 08:16 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 08:16 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Braenyard
Don't be greedy,
Pick ONE
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 19, 2026 08:17 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2026 08:19 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:19 PM (/QHx4)
That's just nuts. A damage shield only works for tanks. Sheep aren't tanks. They're backstabbers, moving around silently in wool armor until bam! a charge sneak attack for triple damage. Give the sheep a spiked helmet. Like one of those kraut pickle bucket hats.
What planet is this guy on?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 19, 2026 08:20 PM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 08:21 PM (qx7Zg)
My sister went from being a commie in college to being a Trump supporter when she passed.
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:22 PM (77rzZ)
also a gorget to protect the throat.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 19, 2026 08:23 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 19, 2026 08:24 PM (VyBeY)
the news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas while we don't have a day to celebrate the actual Emancipation Proclamation was signed. For that matter we got rid of Abraham Lincoln's birthday and rolled he and Washington's Birthday into one day. And no, I am not trying to start a debate about he War Between the States again.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2026 08:24 PM (j3j1r)
We’ll see how I feel tomorrow.
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:13 PM (77rzZ)
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Take your time. No need to rush things.
At the same time, life goes on. I don't think our loved ones who have died would begrudge us enjoying fun and fellowship.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 08:25 PM (ZOv7s)
"Birds attracted to Obama mausoleum lettering are beginning to roost there and shit all over the building.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others "
Even I could see that would happen and I ain't no fancy smancy expert arkitech. Now they have to kill all the birds.
Posted by: fd at June 19, 2026 08:25 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Accomack at June 19, 2026 08:25 PM (T8bqm)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 19, 2026 08:26 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2026 08:26 PM (j3j1r)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at June 19, 2026 08:27 PM (xNKY/)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 08:27 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2026 08:27 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2026 08:27 PM (afJtY)
"Birds attracted to Obama mausoleum lettering are beginning to roost there and shit all over the building.
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I salute the birds for doing what all of us dream of doing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 08:28 PM (u/oMr)
Bulg,
It is devastating to lose a sibling. A lot of us of here have experienced that loss.
I lost a brother when we were in ,our 30's.
He was full of life and wanted us to continue to enjoy life.
You aren't disrespecting your sister by continuing a good life.
She would want that for you.
Go for it big boy!
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:28 PM (/QHx4)
It does not translate to anywhere else. From the moment Michigan was organized into the Northwest Territories it was free soil. It is meaningless to most of the country.
The true agenda is seen in the neo-Marxist flag and the language used - to create a "new" independence day to replace the real one and completely discredit the Founding.
I'm enjoying all my liberal neighbors wondering why there is no mail or trash pickup today.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 08:29 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 19, 2026 08:29 PM (3uBP9)
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Only if Fryer Chickens wear white robes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 08:29 PM (u/oMr)
I think that I’ll probably put in an appearance tomorrow just to say hello to everyone, but I don’t know how long it will last. Like I said, we’ll see.
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: fd at June 19, 2026 08:25 PM (vFG9F)
Or they can fix the lettering where it would not attract the birds to roost.
I recently had to place a covering over the top of my front door where a pair of swallows were attempting to roost. I didn't notice until they started to build their mud nest because I go into my house through the garage.
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 08:31 PM (GseMx)
Ah, there's good news tonight. The Diocese of Arlington (VA) has announced that the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter has been granted a chaplaincy to provide the Traditional Latin Mass in the diocese.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 08:31 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Beltway Elite at June 19, 2026 08:31 PM (hPk6V)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:32 PM (77rzZ)
Anyway, thanks for the prayers.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2026 08:32 PM (O14q3)
They can put spikes up there but why should they have to? Just have the laser banks blast any incoming birds.
Posted by: fd at June 19, 2026 08:33 PM (vFG9F)
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I salute the birds for doing what all of us dream of doing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 08:28 PM (u/oMr)
If we could only train them to attack like an A-10.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 19, 2026 08:33 PM (snZF9)
Condolences to you and your family. Went through this myself in 2022.
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 08:33 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:33 PM (77rzZ)
Bulg, you should go.
Your sister would not begrudge you the chance to fellowship with likeminded individuals that you've come to know and care about.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 19, 2026 08:33 PM (Rln0i)
I'm so sorry. May God comfort and be with you and all who loved your mom.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2026 08:34 PM (O14q3)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 19, 2026 08:34 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
https://youtu.be/38jcBs7Qd14
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there; I did not die.
I say to you "I will see you again,
On the other side, someday....."
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 08:34 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:34 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 19, 2026 08:35 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 08:35 PM (VHUov)
"Birds attracted to Obama mausoleum lettering are beginning to roost there and shit all over the building.
These birds are "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST" by defecating on our first Mulato President's Taj Mahal !!!!!!
IMPEACH TRUMP NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson K. at June 19, 2026 08:35 PM (FrBdv)
Sorry; Mistype. Meant she needs to give her father permission to let go and go to God.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2026 08:35 PM (O14q3)
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Only if Fryer Chickens wear white robes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 08:29 PM (u/oMr)
Don't mess with the Shaolin White Cranes.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 19, 2026 08:36 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 08:37 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:38 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Beltway Elite at
I am so sorry. Losing your mama is just hard. Prayers for you.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 08:38 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at June 19, 2026 08:38 PM (yTvNw)
Lots of Seattle progtards freaking out right now.
All the flags. And the shirts. And the crazy costumes. And the chants of “USA. USA. USA!!!” Through the streets of downtown.
Holy shit. It’s hilarious. I’m loving it. All of the normal people (yes, there are more and more) are getting the chance to show their patriotism and not be harangued by the freaks.
I’m pretty happy with my city right now.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 08:40 PM (A5RD0)
Bulg, it's OK to play the MoMe by ear. I'm sure everyone will understand if you leave after 15 minutes - or if you spend the entire time enjoying the company.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 08:40 PM (qx7Zg)
I would love to meet you in person sometime, Dear Lady. I have great respect for you.
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at June 19, 2026 08:41 PM (yTvNw)
94 Juneteenth was a fun, local holiday in the best American tradition. It was completely organic, the outgrowth of people remembering how wonderful it was to get the news that they were no longer slaves.”
Exactly! I’m in East Texas, where it started and 30, 40 years ago it was just little local celebrations, there’d be a custom car parade down MLK blvd and then the community would all have picnics and get togethers into the night. Everyone thought it was nice and it was no big deal to anyone. All local employers cooperated with any employees who asked off that day, it was understood.
Now it’s been turned into some political monstrosity.
Posted by: Zombie Brian Dennehy at June 19, 2026 08:41 PM (nuNhM)
Beer time! Sipping on a Shiner Bock.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 08:41 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2026 08:27 PM (afJtY)
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That is clearly the second echelon support sheep.
The breakthrough sheep wear plate armor and are fitted with explosive probes that blow off the noses of inquisitive wolves. Or the gate. Or fences. Or anything, really.
We only arm them when it's go time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 08:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 08:42 PM (A5RD0)
We’ll see how I feel tomorrow.
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:13 PM (77rzZ)
What would you tell your sister if the roles were reversed? There's your answer.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 19, 2026 08:42 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 19, 2026 08:35 PM (3uBP9
I bought a pair of ostrich skin boots and took them with me when I moved to NYC . Wore to work on occasion which was good water cooler conversation for the yankees. One day took them off after work and changed into my tennis shoes for my drive to Connecticut . About 30 minutes into my drive I heard a thump and look at my review mirror and saw one of the boots bounce off the trunk onto the freeway. Never bought another pair of boots.
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 08:43 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 19, 2026 08:43 PM (wVcYX)
Now it’s been turned into some political monstrosity.
Posted by: Zombie Brian Dennehy at June 19, 2026 08:41 PM (nuNhM)
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Like you said, it was a genial, organic Texas holiday. Now it's a federalized Bash Whitey Day for the progtards and Grievance mongers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 08:44 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 08:45 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 08:45 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2026 08:45 PM (B0dAE)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 08:45 PM (OoFl2)
If we didn't the water overflowed the stream and flooded the yard.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 07:36 PM (viF8m)
The dirty secret is this: beavers build dams to suit their perceived needs, not those of humans who may also inhabit the area. Sometimes their needs also work to the benefit of humans, other times they don't.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 08:45 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 08:46 PM (u/oMr)
I don’t do socks much I never remember I’ve done it. Not that my mind is fading or anything.
Hey where’s my granddaughter?
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2026 08:46 PM (nuNhM)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:47 PM (/QHx4)
You may think this is about a cute dog and a little girl, but it's really about Piper.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 19, 2026 07:39 PM (0sNs1)
Awwwwwwww!
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 08:47 PM (OoFl2)
Yikes. I must have pushed Post really hard.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 08:46 PM (u/oMr)
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Like time in The Barrel, everyone has to double post at least once.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 08:48 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
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A full gorget for the young ladies in England and Ireland.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 08:48 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 08:48 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 08:46 PM (u/oMr)
It's a good one to double post.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 08:48 PM (qx7Zg)
SNAP, Section 8 housing, welfare, and other governmental freebees are not enough !!!!!
Posted by: Jack Meehoff at June 19, 2026 08:48 PM (X7dyz)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:49 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2026 08:49 PM (afJtY)
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Speaking from experience, sometimes even that isn't enough.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 19, 2026 08:49 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:47 PM (/QHx4)
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My grandkids will be baptized on Sunday.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 08:50 PM (ZOv7s)
*clink*
Posted by: Cicero
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*clink*
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 08:50 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:51 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 08:48 PM (GseMx)
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If the House and Senate hold, Trump will push to repeal it in his final two years.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)
I would love to meet you in person sometime, Dear Lady. I have great respect for you.
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:40 PM
SMH is ... awesome.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 19, 2026 08:51 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: fd
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& keep on killing them. How many birds are they going to kill before the Avian Society or Birds Unlimited complain that the Obama's are causing several species to become extinct?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 08:51 PM (VPNgR)
Christianity: there is no sin beyond the mercy of God.
Leftism: you can never be forgiven and your sin can constantly be dug up and used against you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 08:51 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:52 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 08:52 PM (GseMx)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 08:52 PM (OoFl2)
That's an accurate, succinct way to describe it. Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2026 08:53 PM (AphQx)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 19, 2026 08:53 PM (kpS4V)
We only arm them when it's go time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
"Sis boom bah."
Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at June 19, 2026 08:53 PM (VHUov)
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Also Leftism: Advertise your sin and all will be forced to applaud it
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 08:53 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 19, 2026 08:53 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026
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Or they could rescind it and let it be a Texas holiday where it belongs.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 08:54 PM (VPNgR)
*double clinks to my sister*
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:53 PM (77rzZ)
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I'll drink to that. Prosst!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 08:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Beltway Elite
My condolences. Your correct in your thinking. My mom died in 2011, and let me tell you, she swooped in twice and pulled my ass from the fire in an unmistakable big way and proved to this originally non believing idiot that maybe I was wrong. The funny thing, she always threatened to do it. Mom proved she is still around and watching. No doubt your mom is too.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 19, 2026 08:56 PM (snZF9)
Leftism: you can never be forgiven and your sin can constantly be dug up and used against you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 08:51 PM (O0L8i)
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More proof that leftism is really for people with mommy and daddy issues.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 08:56 PM (ZOv7s)
I didn’t get to watch the game at all. I was buried at work. The team prayed together after the game? On the field?
I only walked through the aftermath. Everyone happy. Red white and blue. And the yellow and green. Laughter and cheers and joy. What an amazing atmosphere!
So many people on the waterfront. It’s a gorgeous day, sunny and 78. Mountains are out. Everyone is behaving. So far.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 19, 2026 08:56 PM (gjFiG)
Good news is my grandson just turned 14 and he and his friends think their moms are full of shit about everything.
He has proved the old aphorism - why do grandchildren and grandparents get along so well?
Because they have a common enemy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2026 08:56 PM (nuNhM)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:56 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 08:51 PM (VPNgR)
They already extincted the passenger pigeons. Will the cargo pigeons be next? (he asked hopefully)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 08:57 PM (1z8ji)
"Or they can fix the lettering where it would not attract the birds to roost."
They can put spikes up there but why should they have to? Just have the laser banks blast any incoming birds.
Posted by: fd
The proper solution is to put a decoy Bald Eagle atop each letter to scare the birds away.
Because that'd be like decorating the entrance to the Fortress of Solitude with kryptonite.
Posted by: mikeski luthor at June 19, 2026 08:57 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 19, 2026 08:58 PM (Rln0i)
Leftism: you can never be forgiven and your sin can constantly be dug up and used against you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
More proof that leftism is really for people with mommy and daddy issues.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
More proof that one movement is led by a Man, and the other by women (some of whom have Y chromosomes.)
Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2026 08:59 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 08:59 PM (/QHx4)
Same here.
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 09:01 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: mikeski luthor at June 19, 2026 08:57 PM (VHUov)
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Can you even imagine an American flag on top of that commie monstrosity?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 09:01 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 08:51 PM (O0L8i)
Leftism - one of the most bitter, cruel, and vicious religions ever inflicted on men and women.
And in the end, the greatest betrayal of all will be when they finally have to confront the fact that their gods were weak, foolish, and very fallible.
Because they made gods of themselves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2026 09:01 PM (nuNhM)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 09:01 PM (O0L8i)
https://tinyurl.com/musw576v
Also, I said I'd help at a conservative picnic tomorrow and talk about 1776. If you could pray for all our safety, it would be appreciated. Last year our signs were defaced and graffiti put at the park entrance. Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2026 09:02 PM (guLpK)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 09:03 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 08:55 PM (77rzZ)
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Thanks! It was something of a surprise that my daughter, who fell away from the Church rather conspicuously, would decide to move ahead with it. I pushed for them to go to the parish preschool and then elementary school, paying the first year entirely out of my pocket. The experience of her daughter (the elder) convinced her to come on board with it and I think she sees how well the kids are doing, and how remarkable it is given how tragic their lives have been.
She still gets into stars and symbols and stuff, but the kids are learning their prayers and going to Mass regularly.
Miracles happen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Cicero
Surprised they didn't put a Palestine flag on it for the grand opening.
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 09:03 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 19, 2026 09:04 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2026 09:02 PM (guLpK)
Watch a few episodes of Forged in Fire, and you will learn how to beat a plowshare into a sword.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 09:04 PM (1z8ji)
Lacrosse seems to be the next target for extirpation. First it was the Duke team and the phony rape accusation. Now it's a high-school team photographed smoking cigars.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 09:05 PM (O0L8i)
And the normies are realizing they don't have to play along. They can just say "screw you" and get away with it.
The world is healing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:06 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 09:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 09:05 PM (O0L8i)
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You're a quarter-century too late. Title IX gutted lacrosse programs across the country. They went from varsity sports with scholarships to clubs. Same with fencing.
Maybe we can roll that back next. Let the boys play!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 09:03 PM
It’s good! It’s a busier summer than normal, I usually can cut classes for a reduced summer schedule but that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:09 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 09:11 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 09:13 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Yes! It was awesome. I will find a picture.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:13 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Bulg at June 19, 2026 09:09 PM (77rzZ)
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I appreciate that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 09:01 PM (O0L8i)
Clearly they are one of the four pests you know
Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2026 09:14 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 09:11 PM (/QHx4)
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It profit a man nothing to gain the world for his soul, but for sodomy?!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:15 PM (ZOv7s)
I got another look at pics from the opening of the Ob-scenity yesterday. Michelle ought to change her last name to O-zempic. She picked an outfit to show off her slim new form. She added the weight back in eyelashes, though.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 19, 2026 09:15 PM (XJ22o)
Lacrosse is another quintessentially Canadian sport. Use a stick to beat the tar out of your opponent.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 09:15 PM (O0L8i)
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The enemy within and the CCP from without aligned against us but we stand. That is why they hate and fear us.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 09:15 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:16 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Cicero
Surprised they didn't put a Palestine flag on it for the grand opening.
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 09:03 PM (rdVOm)
It deserves the Galactic Empire flag (from Star Wars).
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 09:16 PM (qx7Zg)
Celebrate responsibly.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 19, 2026 09:17 PM (D2IX4)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 09:17 PM (/QHx4)
My new AO has a goodly number of parishes, as well as the cathedral. I think my mission will be to find one that feels right. Might sound odd, but I've been in some Catholic churches that felt more like a Joel Osteen rah-rah fest. My Momand Dad's church was excellent. Conservative pastor. He spoke at her celebration of life ceremony a couple weeks ago.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Dave's Not Here! at June 19, 2026 09:17 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 19, 2026 09:17 PM (D2IX4)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 09:15 PM (O0L8i)
It originated with the Iroquois and Mohawks, I believe. Even way out west in British Columbia, the teams were largely populated by Indians. One team I remember was the New Westminster Salmonbellies. Lacrosse scores were reported on the front page of the sports section, as "Boxla" (box Lacrosse).
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 09:18 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 09:15 PM (O0L8i)
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Eastern tribes, not just Canada. Michigan and upstate New York used to be big into it. Fort Michilimackinac fell due to a ruse during a lacrosse game. The Indians "accidentally" threw the ball into the fort's gate, and the crowd followed as the amused British soldiers looked on. With the gate breached, they turned on the British and massacred them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 09:16 PM (qx7Zg)
A Gay Pride flag would be so appropriate.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 09:19 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 19, 2026 09:17 PM (D2IX4)
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Typos. "Ideal" of course, but this is in fact good writing weather.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:20 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 09:15 PM (O0L8i)
And an American arguably the best ever Lacrosse player.
Jim Brown
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2026 09:20 PM (GP8V/)
Posted by: KT at June 19, 2026 09:21 PM (rdeQO)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:22 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 09:22 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2026 09:22 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 09:22 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: davidt at June 19, 2026 09:23 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 09:19 PM (1z8ji)
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There are a lot of them on houses this year, probably because they realize the tide has turned and they need to rally the troops and virtue signal.
Funny juxtaposition in my neighborhood.
Older black man has Trump yard sign still up. Pride flag goes up three doors down. He put up two signs calling people to Christ and to turn against sodomy.
Next door neighbor is muslim. Your move, pride guys.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:23 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:24 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: mikeski luthor at June 19, 2026 08:57 PM (VHUov)
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Can you even imagine an American flag on top of that commie monstrosity?
Posted by: Cicero
An East German flag would be right at home.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 19, 2026 09:25 PM (WBro8)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 09:25 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: davidt at June 19, 2026 09:23 PM (Q+gd/)
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Oui.
Posted by: Black Robe at June 19, 2026 09:25 PM (ZOv7s)
Ugh. Seen it before & was thankful for the 'warning' so I left. Ruined an already bad day, as today marks 7 years since Dad passed away.
Think I'll finish my beverage and go to bed. Tomorrow just *has to be* better!
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 09:25 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Accomack at June 19, 2026 09:26 PM (8jVAy)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 19, 2026 09:25 PM (WBro
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An epic-level prank would be to paint pride slogans and tranny flags on it, and then see if they have the guts to clean it off.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:26 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 09:26 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 19, 2026 09:25 PM (WBro
Maybe we could start a cottage industry of using drones to affix appropriate flags to Barky's Maosoleum.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 09:27 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:22 PM (OoFl2)
Nice. I think Team America is going to do well.
I say this knowing little about the soccer world.
But I do love the side stories of Europeans and Latin Americans falling in love with America. A lot of these folks are just regular people who scrimped and saved to get here. Not the hoity-toity rich that tour the country with their sniffy attitudes. Having worked in Yellowstone, I know the type. Snooty old-money ponces.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Dave's Not Here! at June 19, 2026 09:28 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 09:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Puddleglum
Or ISIS, or Taliban...
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 09:26 PM (rdVOm)
Paint a sign next to the entrance that the Muslim LGBTQ+ fellowship meets on the roof.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 09:29 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2026 09:29 PM (afJtY)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:29 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:29 PM (ZOv7s)
In the late seventies I crossed the Atlantic on the QE2. I went First Class, which I paid for with my first real paycheck. We had a mandatory dress code for dinner. Black Tie and commensurate formal wear for the ladies. It was one of my favorite memories
https://tinyurl.com/hrcunb3s
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 19, 2026 09:29 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 09:29 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
*snort*
Thanks, I needed a chuckle!
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 09:30 PM (rdVOm)
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..and then going home...
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:30 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 19, 2026 09:25 PM (WBro
Maybe we could start a cottage industry of using drones to affix appropriate flags to Barky's Maosoleum.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June
Think we could get in trouble for that? Maybe we just utilize AI and stay out of jail. The stories might not be as fun, I get it. But we do have some reputation to keep. I think.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:31 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: mikeski luthor
"The first Fortress of Solitude belonged to Doc Savage." Kryptonite won't do a thing to Doc.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2026 09:31 PM (B0dAE)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 09:32 PM (6/7Fs)
https://tinyurl.com/hrcunb3s
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Carnival ...
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:32 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Accomack at June 19, 2026 09:32 PM (8jVAy)
But I do love the side stories of Europeans and Latin Americans falling in love with America.
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..and then going home...
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:30 PM (GD0B3)
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It will suffice for them to realize they've been lied to for years. And for them to begin wondering what other lies they've told.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 09:33 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:31 PM (OoFl2)
You only get in trouble if you get caught doing it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 09:33 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2026 09:32 PM (6/7Fs)
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"I believe I can fly..."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JQ at June 19
Hugs to you. I can’t make it better, but I wish I could.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:33 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 09:33 PM (O0L8i)
I agree with commenter @246.. it's all clickbait and money for them. They know more about the US that some who live in the US.
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:34 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2026 09:31 PM (B0dAE)
Doc Savage was a cooler hero than Superman. He invented a super fast-shooting machine pistol, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 09:35 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ at June 19, 2026 09:36 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09
I can tell you Freddy from DE is organic. The rest I think wanted to hope on his coattails, but his grew like it did because it was organic.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:36 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 19, 2026 09:37 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Dave's Not Here! at June 19, 2026 09:37 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:37 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Dave's Not Here! at June 19, 2026 09:38 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:38 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 09:38 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09
Oh noes!
I had no idea there were blue ones.
Wait. Is this a joke?
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:39 PM (OoFl2)
Wait. Is this a joke?
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:39 PM (OoFl2)
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Stay away from the green ones.
Posted by: Eddie Van Halen at June 19, 2026 09:40 PM (6/7Fs)
Whores gonna whore.
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 09:40 PM (/QHx4)
And the GOP will sweep the midterms, because the Dems will be whining about it and refusing to celebrate.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:40 PM (ZOv7s)
Get a cabin in the mountains, by a river or a creek ! Get up at dawn on a weekend , go fishing in crystal clear waters...
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:41 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 19, 2026 09:41 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:38 PM (GD0B3)
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The brown ones give you a baaad trip, man.
Posted by: Geriatric Woodstock Hippie at June 19, 2026 09:41 PM (ZOv7s)
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I think the best showing was quarter finals ? Beating the likes of Spain, or Brazil or even Argentina is an insurmountable task for newbies like the US.
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:42 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Dave's Not Here! at June 19, 2026 09:37 PM (0aYVJ)
Silver City used to be one of the most prosperous cities in Idaho, until the mines played out. One of Dad's older friends had been an attorney there
Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2026 09:42 PM (rbvCR)
From my experience the general makeup of Europe and a lot of places isn't that different from here. The elites who control the media, are all elitists and leftists, many even worse than ours. But the regular people aren't all that different from us.
And we love it here. I think a lot of them do as well because we have it way better than they do and now they are seeing this place as it really is not what the left tells them it is.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 19, 2026 09:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 09:40 PM (/QHx4)
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This is about me, isn't it? Would you like to see a painting?
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Esq. at June 19, 2026 09:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 19,
Let’s not get too hasty. We can have a few on our exceptions list, right? Not all though. Just a select few.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:43 PM (OoFl2)
I had no idea there were blue ones.
Wait. Is this a joke?
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:39 PM (OoFl2)
No. I don't joke. MAHA and all that.
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:43 PM (GD0B3)
Wait. Is this a joke?
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:39 PM (OoFl2)
Yes.
I do not eat much candy, but sometimes I'll buy a bag of M&Ms, then spend some time sorting them by color on a little plate, then eat one sequentially in a clockwise pattern.
Friends and family think that is weird, for some reason.
I do the same thing with Skittles.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'm not weird, your fce is weird! at June 19, 2026 09:44 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:43 PM (GD0B3)
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Blue makes sense, brown is wtf, though.
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Esq. at June 19, 2026 09:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:45 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:46 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 09:47 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:48 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:45 PM (GD0B3)
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I bought some of the NKD Doritos last week due to a sale because my kids like them. I don't. They taste off. Or maybe I changed.
My wife tore into a bag and called me over. "Try this! It tastes like they used to taste."
So I did and WOW, they do taste so much better. Less, chemical, metallic, odd. It's weird to have a flavor come back through the old memory banks, but that was it, what I remember from waaay back when.
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Esq. at June 19, 2026 09:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Yes.
Dang. I meant no. there are, or were blue M&Ms. (My brain is in Friday night mode.)
I remember being a kid in the 1980s and the red ones were taboo, because Red Dye will kill all the kids or something.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'm not weird, your fae is weird! at June 19, 2026 09:48 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'm not weird, your face is weird! at June 19, 2026 09:50 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:50 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'm not weird, your face is weird! at June 19, 2026 09:50 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 09:47 PM (/QHx4)
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Ahem.
Posted by: Kamala at June 19, 2026 09:50 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2026 09:48 PM (GD0B3)
I did. No Juneteenth BS here in Canada, but there were still no big fat checks in the mailbox.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 09:51 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 19, 2026 09:52 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 09:52 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:52 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Things Confucius wanted to say but did not at June 19, 2026 09:53 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 19, 2026 09:53 PM (Zn6QU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2026 09:52 PM (1z8ji)
Medium rare for me. Thanks.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'm not weird, your face is weird! at June 19, 2026 09:53 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2026 09:53 PM (ZOv7s)
Some whores only remember who elevates them into what they they think is acceptable society. Doesn't matter, they are still whores.
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Posted by: four seasons at June 19, 2026 09:54 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 19, 2026 09:55 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'm not weird, your face is weird! at June 19, 2026 09:58 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2026 09:58 PM (Wmg4n)
Out on the back deck, just now at 10 too dark to read.
God knew what he was doing when he invented Sommer solstice.
Posted by: Auspex at June 19, 2026 10:00 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2026 10:02 PM (O0L8i)
Leftism: you can never be forgiven and your sin can constantly be dug up and used against you.
_-_
Good formulation, there. My daughter said to me the other day, "They've rediscovered original sin, but they nothing about grace " That kid's gonna turn out all right.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 19, 2026 10:03 PM (iP/HW)
Leftism: you can never be forgiven and your sin can constantly be dug up and used against you.
_-_
Good formulation, there. My daughter said to me the other day, "They've rediscovered original sin, but they know nothing about grace " That kid's gonna turn out all right.
There. Fixed it.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 19, 2026 10:15 PM (iP/HW)
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