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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 02:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 15, 2026 02:03 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 15, 2026 02:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 15, 2026 02:04 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 15, 2026 02:05 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 02:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 02:07 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at February 15, 2026 02:08 PM (2Ez/1)
After laundry, I’ll go for a walk.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 15, 2026 02:08 PM (IhIKR)
I didn't know people went door-to-door selling oranges. I went to my late great-uncle's house yesterday and picked dozens of them. I've been squeezing them for the fam every morning. Health in a cup. The tree is maybe 60 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Yy-RGZPqVzo
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 02:13 PM (n7rxJ)
Clearly the only acceptable answer is to ... umm.... help me out, horde, what's the acceptably-overkill answer here besides burning down the house?
Posted by: RandomDave at February 15, 2026 02:15 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 15, 2026 02:17 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:17 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: RandomDave at February 15, 2026 02:15 PM (aJQbY)
Well, CBD is Jewish so....
Kill the first born of every household!
-Taggert
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 15, 2026 02:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:17 PM (hJH5n)
But I loved that there were walking vending machines for chocolate bars eith almonds.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 15, 2026 02:18 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: RandomDave at February 15, 2026 02:15 PM (aJQbY)
Hire a team of Japanese gardeners, who will also build you an indoor rock garden to cover up the cracks in the wood flooring?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 15, 2026 02:18 PM (DNCMS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 15, 2026 02:18 PM (zZu0s)
We did it all...pizza, candy, coupon books, other assorted crap that escapes my mind. And people wonder why I could not take anymore and why I dropped ROTC before senior year.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:20 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 02:22 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: RandomDave at February 15, 2026 02:15 PM
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Time to sell.
Posted by: Always the default answer at February 15, 2026 02:22 PM (2Ez/1)
They lived "amongst the groves."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 02:23 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 02:22 PM (Cjt/F)
Count yourself lucky.
My father: "They have spent their time ever since you were in elementary school to turn you into a salesman." I have despised selling ever since.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:24 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 02:25 PM (Cjt/F)
The girl scouts and their Mom's were out by the dozens with sandwich sign-boards selling cookies in front of the Lowes yesterday. Never seen them do demonstration size sales pitches before.
Posted by: DaveA at February 15, 2026 02:26 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 02:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 02:26 PM (tgvbd)
One of my offspring rowed on the Crew Team, which was an incredible experience but I quickly learned that even though the term sounds upscale and almost Ivy League, its actually just an acronym:
Checkbook
Required
Every
Week
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 02:28 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 02:28 PM (Ia/+0)
The girl scouts and their Mom's were out by the dozens with sandwich sign-boards selling cookies in front of the Lowes yesterday.
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They need to set up outside Bombshells or Twin Peaks. "We have your license plate number."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 02:28 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 02:30 PM (J+Psw)
It's been up to 70 degrees, yet, the ice persists.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 02:31 PM (jtM2q)
People love lightbulbs.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 02:32 PM (/lPRQ)
Not sure on the enforcement mechanism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!
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Isn't everyone armed?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 02:32 PM (tgvbd)
Now with 30 per cent more diabetes.
Posted by: GSA at February 15, 2026 02:32 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: zombie Frank Zappa at February 15, 2026 02:32 PM (8zz6B)
Now don't dawdle, Amaryllis.
So do la ti mi,
A little slower and please
Keep the fingers curved as nice
And as high as you possibly can.
Don't get faster
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 02:34 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 02:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 02:30 PM (J+Psw)
We can help.
Posted by: CPSU at February 15, 2026 02:35 PM (hJH5n)
Bill Maher: “Doug Burgum, he’s the interior secretary. Listen to this… He said, CO2, carbon, was never a pollutant. He said when we breathe, we emit CO2.”
“Okay, Doug, you know what? Let’s try this little experiment. Um, tonight when you get home, go in the garage, close the door, turn the car on, and let’s see if carbon is a pollutant, okay?”
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That's science!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 02:35 PM (J+Psw)
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Not sure on the enforcement mechanism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 02:30 PM
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I think it involves small red pocket knives.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 02:35 PM (2Ez/1)
Bill Maher: “Doug Burgum, he’s the interior secretary. Listen to this… He said, CO2, carbon, was never a pollutant. He said when we breathe, we emit CO2.”
“Okay, Doug, you know what? Let’s try this little experiment. Um, tonight when you get home, go in the garage, close the door, turn the car on, and let’s see if carbon is a pollutant, okay?”
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That's science!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 02:35 PM (J+Psw)
So we exhale CO?
Good to know!
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:37 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: zombie Frank Zappa at February 15, 2026 02:38 PM (8zz6B)
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Not sure on the enforcement mechanism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 02:30 PM (J+Psw)
We can reduce it to 7.5 million, no problem.
Posted by: Khmer Rouge at February 15, 2026 02:38 PM (hJH5n)
But, his INTENTION (owning the MAGA's) was what really matters. Not his ignorance or misinformation.
Typical.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 15, 2026 02:39 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: zombie Frank Zappa at February 15, 2026 02:32 PM (8zz6B)
Is this the way to Amaryllis?
Posted by: Tony Christie at February 15, 2026 02:39 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Tony Christie at February 15, 2026 02:39 PM (hJH5n)
Should get there by morning.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 02:41 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 02:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Time was where I would buy them and also support BSA fundraisers.
No more.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:41 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: epador at February 15, 2026 02:41 PM (TRnzq)
One of my fav George Strait tunes.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 15, 2026 02:41 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 02:41 PM (8zz6B)
Up from San Antone?
Posted by: George Strait at February 15, 2026 02:42 PM (hJH5n)
We got one of those wax-bulb Amaryllis plants, and it produced flowers like a champ. A lot of them, until-
It produced a single giant bud and...stopped. The bud has gone no further in 3 weeks.
I guess the Amaryllis just ran out of gas.
..
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Slacker.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 15, 2026 02:42 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 15, 2026 02:42 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 02:41 PM (8zz6B)
I figured you were more a Corb Lund guy myself. The roughest neck around...
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:43 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Dr. Levine at February 15, 2026 02:43 PM (Ksqrb)
I guess the Amaryllis just ran out of gas.
..
..
Slacker.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 15, 2026 02:42 PM (iJfKG)
The bud does not want to be bogarted. Pass it on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 02:44 PM (8zz6B)
@KeithOlbermann
So let's see. You do the weather and you think you're an expert on how the atmosphere changes over thousands of years. Or dozens
You're an imbecile. STFU, child, and remember that if we listen to you, when you're "Granpa" you'll get to watch your grandchildren suffocate
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Well, Keith does have a PhD in bullshitology.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 02:44 PM (J+Psw)
@KeithOlbermann
So let's see. You do the weather and you think you're an expert on how the atmosphere changes over thousands of years. Or dozens
You're an imbecile. STFU, child, and remember that if we listen to you, when you're "Granpa" you'll get to watch your grandchildren suffocate
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Well, Keith does have a PhD in bullshitology.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 02:44 PM (J+Psw)
What an angry, bitter old man. Hey Keith, if you weren't such an asshole you might still have your ESPN gig.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:45 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 15, 2026 02:45 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:43 PM (hJH5n)
Corb is definitely Moron material. But George Strait has some fine tunes, as do many fine Texas musicians.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 02:45 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at February 15, 2026 02:46 PM (jwBFW)
Posted by: a Plants-Rights activist at February 15, 2026 02:46 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 02:26 PM (Ia/+0)
CBD does not need a cat, and in fact he is deeply suspicious of anyone who keeps those vile animals as pets.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 02:46 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 02:45 PM (8zz6B)
Admittedly when I think of fine TX musicians, I think of Pantera and SRV. (RIP to the Abbott brothers and SRV)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:47 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 02:46 PM (n9ltV)
Cow Demon notices that CBD is posting in the third person. : )
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:48 PM (hJH5n)
She'll probably stop at lunch, and give me a call
Posted by: Glen Campbell at February 15, 2026 02:49 PM (2Ez/1)
Someone tell pixy to punch in the self destruct. We have to stop this here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 15, 2026 02:51 PM (zZu0s)
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Probably a bot.
Dildo bot. (trademarked)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 02:52 PM (jtM2q)
Bob Dole isn't sure WHAT Bob Dole thinks.
Posted by: The ghost of Bob Dole at February 15, 2026 02:52 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 02:47 PM (hJH5n)
Off the top of my head: ZZ Top, SRV, Lightnin' Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, Joe Ely, Delbert McClinton, Gatemouth Brown, Doug Sahm, and many more.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 02:53 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 02:53 PM (n7rxJ)
Why is your amaryllis in bondage?
Did it consent?
Posted by: a Plants-Rights activist
Its safety word is Miracle-Gro.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 02:53 PM (J+Psw)
A Resounding And Powerful Defense Of Liberal Democracy, Market Economies, And Unabashed Nationalism And Patriotism
It's difficult to overestimate the insidious destruction of our way of life over the last 100+ years. Beginning with the philandering progressive Woodrow Wilson's massive expansion of the administrative state, FDR's consolidation of government power in service to progressive ideals (also known as power!), and supported by the so-called conservatives of the Republican Party, we have been sliding into serfdom. Truman, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Bush x2, Clinton, Obama, and the drooling figurehead Biden have all contributed to the diminution of our rights as a free people.
But the worm turns, and the election and reelection of Donald Trump has given us the rare opportunity to repair some of the possibly existential damage to our republic. And there is no better representative of the ideals on which our country was founded than Marco Rubio, a shining example of when the man and the moment meet. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security ConferenceThat infamous wall that had cleaved this nation into two came down, and with it an evil empire, and the East and West became one again. But the euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion: that we had entered, quote, “the end of history;” that every nation would now be a liberal democracy; that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood; that the rules-based global order – an overused term – would now replace the national interest; and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world. This was a foolish idea that ignored both human nature and it ignored the lessons of over 5,000 years of recorded human history. And it has cost us dearly. In this delusion, we embraced a dogmatic vision of free and unfettered trade, even as some nations protected their economies and subsidized their companies to systematically undercut ours – shuttering our plants, resulting in large parts of our societies being deindustrialized, shipping millions of working and middle-class jobs overseas, and handing control of our critical supply chains to both adversaries and rivals. We increasingly outsourced our sovereignty to international institutions while many nations invested in massive welfare states at the cost of maintaining the ability to defend themselves. This, even as other countries have invested in the most rapid military buildup in all of human history and have not hesitated to use hard power to pursue their own interests. To appease a climate cult, we have imposed energy policies on ourselves that are impoverishing our people, even as our competitors exploit oil and coal and natural gas and anything else – not just to power their economies, but to use as leverage against our own. And in a pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people. We made these mistakes together, and now, together, we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward, to rebuild.
Marco Rubio has identified the issues with clarity and, more importantly, with a profound understanding of how corrosive the progressive movement has been. More impressively (if that is possible) he has welcomed all who believe in the power of limited government, fair markets, and love of country to join us in our efforts to roll back the evil of communitarian societies, and top-down control of our lives and livelihood. He is already one of our best Secretaries of State, and with this declaration he has the opportunity to be a great one!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:01 PM (UzL96)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Nazdar at February 15, 2026 12:03 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 15, 2026 12:03 PM (0N4FZ)
He would make a powerful President, if he were not destined to be so busy as Governor-General of Cuba
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 12:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:04 PM (N8ZBc)
But how can you have freedom when it is sooo easy for Guvment to monitor everything you do?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 12:05 PM (/lPRQ)
444 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:44 AM (ZOv7s)
To be fair to yourself Vampires are about sexual conquest.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:48 AM (cwGMH)
I subscribe to the fairly conventional opinion that as vampires and zombies are metaphors for sexual deviants and socialists, respectively. They literally depict a nigh-alien subspecies with unnatural reproduction, so that is what they are natural metaphors for: the former reproducing by molestation trauma, and the latter reproducing by spreading their mind virus through mere contact.
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:05 PM (Sy6m/)
The highlight:
https://tinyurl.com/4ca4d97f
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 05:21 AM (UzL96)
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And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
https://tinyurl.com/w7krr23k
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 07:02 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:06 PM (UzL96)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 12:06 PM (gh32g)
PS: 3,503,317 BOINGs so far; 144 from me!
Posted by: Nazdar at February 15, 2026 12:06 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 12:08 PM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:08 PM (Ia/+0)
The pomo left doesn't even believe there exists a reality with cause and effect.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:09 PM (N8ZBc)
'And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will'
Starry, starry night...
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:10 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:08 PM (Ia/+0)
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I'll start a Geritol GoFundMe for Rubio.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:10 PM (UzL96)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:10 PM (fd80v)
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Indeed the link I posted after the lyrics refers to the EU, whose flag is very starry-starry.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:11 PM (UzL96)
I am still not tired of winning.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 15, 2026 12:11 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Random PJ at February 15, 2026 12:12 PM (+jscL)
Others:
Intentions matter more than results.
All men are created equal in every attribute.
Feelings trump rationality.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:13 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 15, 2026 12:13 PM (QZThv)
'Indeed the link I posted after the lyrics refers to the EU, whose flag is very starry-starry.'
Oh I got the point you were making. Europe has leaders (like the one in your link) who think they are on the 'side of history'. I think she's the one Russia demanded be booted from the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:15 PM (fd80v)
* if you don't get this, you are not an OG AoS reader
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 12:15 PM (diia5)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 15, 2026 12:16 PM (qFwJc)
* if you don't get this, you are not an OG AoS reader
Rubio's garbage has been back on the menu for most of the last year.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 15, 2026 12:16 PM (QZThv)
People act according to rules and good intentions, not primarily in their own economic interest.
Economies can be (ought to be) planned, because markets know nothing about what works.
Ignorance of history. Leftists think that their every brainstorm has never been thunk of before, and thoroughly examined and tested centuries ago.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:17 PM (N8ZBc)
Now. Can someone explain why we aren’t freaking out about the shutdown of the DHS?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 15, 2026 12:17 PM (IhIKR)
Others:
Intentions matter more than results.
All men are created equal in every attribute.
Feelings trump rationality.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:13 PM (N8ZBc)
Lysenkoism was a thing for a reason. It was a very very very early 1900s thing when the technocrats really started going. People could be modified. Some races are better than others. God is dead, so we are the Masters now. Let's throw all the poor people into our planned cities. We need to weed out the genetic defectives. Let's sterilize people. etc etc etc.
What's fascinating is that the Soviets took all (or a lot) of these early 20th century ideas and tried to implement them. TONS of planned cities and economies. Almost all abject failures. So much of it even beyond the purges and just outright death, the policies led to depression and alcoholism.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:18 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:10 PM (UzL96)
I'd contribute. I like the guy and like that he took ownership of the problem with "we made these mistakes together" as he did favor bringing illegals "out of the shadows" once.
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:18 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:20 PM (n1OCj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:20 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:20 PM (n1OCj)
They keep going back to the same ideas. Power begs to be used- and they have never understood that that is why the government should not have this much power.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:21 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:21 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:21 PM (N8ZBc)
I don't think they believe man is inherently good. They believe he can be MADE good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)
Others:
Intentions matter more than results.
All men are created equal in every attribute.
Feelings trump rationality.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:13 PM (N8ZBc)
I don't think leftists even have beliefs. I think they only have two pseudo-moral principles, Power & Clique, and then all of their rhetoric after that is Say Anything power-mongering. What you call delusions, I see as fallacies that con artists find useful in their scam patter, not actual fixed beliefs.
It's like the question, "How does your dog or cat think of you?" They don't. They don't think. They have feelings, produced by the interaction of instincts and experiences. You may provoke instinctive reactions similar to those provoked by their mamas, but they don't think, "Oh, it's my mom!" And leftists don't "think" that everyone is the same, it's just hypnobabble for their grift.
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:23 PM (Sy6m/)
Both AOC and Whitmer. They both wanted a spot in front of the bright lights and both crashed and burned spectacularly making it very clear they are media creations with zero substance. How do you go to a national security conference and not have a clue about Taiwan or pretty much anything else related to national security?
Even some of the Euros were punking our DEI politicians for having nothing but Trump hate. It isn't working anymore.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:24 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 15, 2026 12:25 PM (MI5LZ)
==
You did see some new federal agencies created during the Wilson years which had a durable existence: the Federal Reserve, the Federal Trade Commission, the Bureau of Public Roads, and the ancestor of the Farm Credit System. There were some issues with these institutions. The creation of the Federal Reserve was controversial with most Republicans in Congress voting 'no'. The creation of the Federal Trade Commission was not. The Republican congresses had ten years (1921-31) to dismantle these agencies but did not.
Posted by: Art Deco at February 15, 2026 12:25 PM (pawNB)
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:23 PM (Sy6m/)
Huh. I think an interesting question is do dogs have a thought process?
I remember I could see when Ajax was thinking. He'd always want to be petted while I was on the toilet. And rather than slam the door in his face I'd say 'Find your ball!' He'd look at me a min and you could see the wheels turning. Then he'd check the bathroom and if he did not find it, he'd start systematically checking the apartment. He'd either find it or it would be out of reach and he would start whining.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (oZ49z)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:21 PM (N8ZBc)
I don't think they believe man is inherently good. They believe he can be MADE good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)
They believe THEY are good. We are bad and dumb and need their stern hand to control us, for our own good, of course.
Posted by: LASue at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Kindltot
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No doubt. I think this is very much in his future as well.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:20 PM (n1OCj)
Moloch rejoices.
Posted by: LASue at February 15, 2026 12:28 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (kJmLc)
Mamdani can go suck start a shotgun.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:28 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:28 PM (Ia/+0)
I don't think they believe man is inherently good. They believe he can be MADE good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)
And I think they want to redefine evil as good.
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:29 PM (kJmLc)
"Arc of History" is satirizing Obama's belief that history inevitably was heading towards Obama's desired end-state.
A professor of "scientific Marxism-Leninism" at a Soviet university could not have put it any better.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:29 PM (n1OCj)
Anyway, Rubio has definitely impressed me so far as SoS and NSA. If he's just "pretending" to hold the beliefs he espouses re America and our role in the world, then he is the greatest thespian to ever walk this earth.
Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 12:30 PM (i49OE)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 12:30 PM (UzL96)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:29 PM (n1OCj)
Exactly. 'Your bones will pave the way to the future.'
He's an idiot, but also evil.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:30 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2026 12:30 PM (2WIwB)
In clearer terms, he basically told them "you're all on your own if you continue down the path you're on."
Something Europe desperately needs to hear.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 12:31 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 15, 2026 12:31 PM (SxfqT)
The left is starting realize they are the baddies.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:31 PM (viF8m)
Do you have any idea how much is costs to care for a disabled infant?
5% of all deaths in Canada are now "assisted suicides".
Posted by: Canadian Goverment Baal Worshipers! at February 15, 2026 12:32 PM (n1OCj)
The left is starting realize they are the baddies.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:31 PM (viF8m)
No, they are setting up the next road to success: Lie about being moderate and then go balls to the walls after the election before any opposition can be raised
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 12:32 PM (rbvCR)
BTW, Hillary is also at the Munich conference where she said that mass migration has gone too far.
The left is starting realize they are the baddies.
Posted by: JackStraw
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She left the door wide open for amnesty, though. "It has to be done HUMANELY," she said, using moderate bird-hand.
It's not as if they're going to give up those precious Democrat voters.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 12:33 PM (n7rxJ)
The left is starting realize they are the baddies.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:31 PM (viF8m)
No, they are setting up the next road to success: Lie about being moderate and then go balls to the walls after the election before any opposition can be raised
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 12:32 PM (rbvCR)
THIS. Virginia is the blue print (which is also Keir in England.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:34 PM (bss/y)
So the federal income tax doesn't count as a massive expansion?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 12:34 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Nazdar at February 15, 2026 12:35 PM (NcvvS)
Where is my banana hammock?
Posted by: Dirty Euros And Their Potent BO at February 15, 2026 12:35 PM (Ksqrb)
You know, I'd actually think more of our chances if he didn't. It would show that he's not just a man on horseback, but has a staff who understand the issue. We were raised at pep rallies. We hear a guy give a great speech, and right away we want him for President, or king, or, in one case, god.
A successful society (with a succession plan instead a secession plan) has rewarding places for productive, ambitious men like Rubio other than just at the tip of the populist pinnacle. I'd love for him to become world famous without having to wrestle with JD to prove it. This is a kind of new part of 'our system,' and it isn't working.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 15, 2026 12:35 PM (zdLoL)
'G-o-o-d' is an interesting way for them to spell, 'compliant.'
Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 12:35 PM (Y1sOo)
The toughness of Trump and the inspiration of Reagan.
Posted by: Random PJ at February 15, 2026 12:12
A perfect description!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2026 12:37 PM (2WIwB)
Except they don't work
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:37 PM (kJmLc)
She's telling her fellow Davos-types to turn the temperature down temporarily before the frog notices that it is boiling.
Besides, short of mass reparation, Europe is already going to have irreversible demographic changes without further immigration, given the gap between the birthrates of the indigenous population and the birthrates of the "migrants".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:38 PM (n1OCj)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:38 PM (Ia/+0)
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Sorry about your baby.... it was a business decision.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 15, 2026 12:39 PM (SHZtS)
That's good stuff! Does Rubio write it himself?
Posted by: gp
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I read that he did do some big rewriting and inserted gobs of his own stuff.
By the way, is he supposed to be the good cop to Vance's bad cop?
Vance: "You idiots better get your shit together."
Rubio: "I love you and I don't want you to die!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (n7rxJ)
Most first graders in Vienna don't speak German, for example. Half of the school kids in Brussels are Muslim.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (n1OCj)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Archer at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (wvc0i)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 12:32 PM (rbvCR)
THIS. Virginia is the blue print (which is also Keir in England.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:34 PM (
Washington state has entered the chat.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (2WIwB)
Force everyone to go to Mosques of Friday then
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:38 PM (Ia/+0)
He has also stated he plans to prioritize muslims
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (kJmLc)
No, he didn't.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (n9ltV)
And everyone is seeing it. They aren't supermen, they are some of the dumbest and most corrupt people on the planet.
Why do you think the left is freaking out about ICE? They don't love illegals, they love their votes and their ability to act as foils for their corruption which is now being exposed daily.
They, as they like to say, are on the wrong side of history and while of these obtuse are waking up to the fact that their policies are enormously unpopular the far left commies still have all the momentum in the party. Has anyone looked at the fundraising comparisons between the Democrats and Republicans for the midterms? Democrats are in full red alert mode because USAID and Act Blue and other means of cheating are being taken down.
We are winning and no amount of black pills is going to change it.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:41 PM (viF8m)
'Come on, Mamdani wants to ban dogs?
Force everyone to go to Mosques of Friday then'
Leave the dogs.
Bag Mamdani.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:41 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (kJmLc)
Document this. Or stop spreading rumors.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 12:42 PM (n9ltV)
The practical problem is every socialist state turns more and more authoritarian in practice. Whatever the leaders promise you get, at beast, something like East Germany.
The theoretical problem though is that even if you could get the sort of "real socialism" which the left always promises society would collapse. Why would I work if I am getting a mere one eighth billionth of my work since "to each according to his need?" Most people don't want to do most jobs that produce the goods and services they actually want.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (2WIwB)
Colorado too. Get the tip in and then fuck away.
If you'll pardon the imagery, ladies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (kJmLc)
No, he didn't.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 12:40 PM (n9ltV)
Eh, fuck that sack of shit anyway. LOL.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)
The last time I was in Europe I noticed almost all of the women pushing baby carriages were either in a hijab or clearly southeastern European - not many French, German, etc ones with kids.
Now the funny part is you could see the native Euro women - often wearing shorts shorts as they jogged/biked around. It was quite a dichotomy of them versus even the (I assume) Orthodox Christian women from the Balkans.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Barky McDogeaterface at February 15, 2026 12:46 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 15, 2026 12:46 PM (Cqx++)
https://tinyurl.com/3z2dbwhk
Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 12:47 PM (i49OE)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t)
Remember good old games like civilization or what was the name of the one which was a God game but you had like a creature avatar that was semi-independent and how you treated it determined how it looked and acted. Good and Evil? It was a Molineux (sp?) game, iirc.
Their creatures all turn into vicious, poop flinging evil bastards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: LASue at February 15, 2026 12:28 PM (lCppi)
Well, all muslim infants are defective. They grow up into muslims.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (8zz6B)
This one shouldn't work. No one should have expected the CIA agent they were running in VA to be anything other then an authoritarian technocrat.
And yet I see people like Meghan McCain bitching about it. Well Meghan you and your family have been arguing these far leftist are people voters should be afraid of for decades now. How is that working out for you?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (sKqQm)
~~~~~
Hillary also hosted the Fundamental Rights for Women discussion, and the first speaker she had was our own "Sarah" McBride.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (3ImbR)
Read about it the other day. Don't remember her name. i
Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t)
The question is: Road to Damascus or is he Mike Pence?
Do we take a chance?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Most of their jobs are mission critical so they all just get to keep on working...
... should offer some half-way point though, like shutting down major airports in lib ciities due to lack of budget and that it would be inhuman to make people work wo being paid.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 15, 2026 12:17 PM (IhIKR)
The Big Beautiful Bill provided... (looks it up)... $75 billion for ICE and $65 billion for CBP, so immigration enforcement will proceed apace. Otherwise, in FEMA, TSA, and the Coast Guard, essential workers will continue without pay, while non-essential (or at least non-urgent) functions like training will be suspended. It's not a big deal to anyone but the households of those specific employees affected.
And, those employees probably mostly belong to the Democrat party that is responsible for the shutdown, so I see their financial troubles as an internal dispute that Democrats need to resolve amongst themselves. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 12:50 PM (3ImbR)
Mark Steyn's clue that something was going on was that he was talking to a friend at a cafe in central Vienna about 2000.
There was a maternity clinic across the street, and every woman going into the maternity clinic was Muslim.
Steyn subsequently got into legal trouble because an iman in Norway told Muslims to breed "like cockroaches", and Steyn committed the offense of accurately quoting the iman.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 12:51 PM (n1OCj)
And yet I see people like Meghan McCain bitching about it. Well Meghan you and your family have been arguing these far leftist are people voters should be afraid of for decades now. How is that working out for you?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (sKqQm)
*Types* *deletes*
Really. Damn, I think I managed to get 'fucking' in that sentence about 7 times.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:51 PM (bss/y)
~~~~~
And even those people have little to worry about since their credit union offers interest free payday loans to tide them over.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 12:52 PM (3ImbR)
Their creatures all turn into vicious, poop flinging evil bastards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:48 PM (bss/y)
Black And White?
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:52 PM (Sy6m/)
Indeed. Here is the sort of discussion I've had many, many times with anarcho-socialists...
Ok, suppose you get your dream anarchist society. There are no corporations and "the people" control everything. Who decides what you'll make in your factories?
Well there will be a council of experts.
Ok, and if workers disagree with the council and don't want to work what will happen?
Oh they'll have to do it. Because the people will have decided.
But let's same some don't care what "the people" want...how will you handle it?
In that case we will put together a group that will remind the workers of their responsibilities and if necessary re-educate them to make sure they don't have any wrong ideas.
So then in your "anarchist" society there is a government, police force, and a prison system?
No no nothing like that! Just experts making sure society does the right things!
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:53 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: gp
I don't they give a rat's ass about good/evil and are incapable of making that question a foundation principle.
I think they believe the 'smart' people should be in charge from the top-down, or just want power and screw the little guy.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 12:53 PM (/lPRQ)
OBAMA: “The other side does the mean, angry, exclusive, us/them, divisive politics. That's their home court. Our court is coming together.”
I get angry a lot when I hear Democrats lie, but I'm not sure I've ever been angrier than over the above video clip.
No one in the history of the USA has purposely caused more hateful division in America than Barack Obama.
For Frankfurt School Marxists, hate and division is THE necessary element of power.
A true Frankfurt School disciple, Obama's singular purpose was to create hate and division along demographic lines.
Racism was on life support when Obama took office. He gave it life once again, deliberately.
Virtually all of the hate and division we experience in the USA today is directly attributable to Barack Obama.
Other than Woodrow Wilson, Obama is the most objectively evil man ever to sit in the Oval Office.
Shut up Obama. Everything you are bemoaning was created by YOU, you lying narcissistic Marxist filth.
https://is.gd/rfnSjf
Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)
I was really surprised at the standing ovation he received from the EU crowd. He walked into their home and told them they were doing it wrong and it's time for them get their shit together and they cheered him. Baby steps but a welcome reaction.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 12:54 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:52 PM (Sy6m/)
Might be. *looks it up*
Yeah, that's it.
2001?! Longer ago than I thought.
Guys, I think we might be getting old.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:55 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 12:55 PM (8zz6B)
Two great things came out of the Munich conference
1) Rubio hit it out of the park with this speech
2) AOC looked and sounded like the blithering idiot we all knew she was. She even got Gretchen to show her stupid side
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 15, 2026 12:55 PM (Ggsrp)
I suspect that if you were to implement one that fully modeled the information problem socialism has but gave you the option to instead let autonomous groups of individuals make decisions about what to produce and how much you'd find that everyone ended up going capitalist.
Why do you mean I have to decide how much copper I'm going to need for the next 5 years right now? I don't know if I'll be attacked by my neighbors or make a break through that will require more electricity...how can anyone know that?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 12:56 PM (sKqQm)
'No one in the history of the USA has purposely caused more hateful division in America than Barack Obama.'
Is there anyone that isn't a completely brain washed democrat that listens to that cock smoker anymore? Anyone that pushes this 'come together' horseshit makes me angry too.
Hell no, I'm not watching that link. One of the many benefits of him not being President anymore is not having to hear his lying voice.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:58 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: night lifted
That didn't take long.
Up next - kafr women of all ages are legal to rape.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 12:58 PM (/lPRQ)
Trump & Co recently released a report on US global strategic priorities:
1. Fortress Americas with a latter-day Monroe Doctrine
2. The Far East. We'll try to get China to play nice, but if not see #1
3. Europe. Has lost its way. If they don't find their way back, it's on them. See #1
4. Africa. Benign neglect. See #1
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (dtajH)
The "good guy" factions are the enviro-weenies and the UN (whose leader sounds like Jordan Peterson amusing enough)
The bad guys are the Chi-coms, the Christians, and the Spartans (who are kind of like a 90s right wing militia) - the Chi-coms are the baddies because this game came out around the time the left started allying with China.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (sKqQm)
https://tinyurl.com/36ebdchf
She hasn't learned a thing. The guy makes a point about her not liking Trump. Most people would make a joke about it, something like "I'm sure he calls his Mom on her birthday", but all she can manage is a smirking sneer, and an immediate attack. The guy answered her attack, and all she had was more sneering. She is just nasty to the bone.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (Riz8t)
~~~~~
Me too. I was scanning the crowd at every chance, and there were relatively few who looked displeased.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (3ImbR)
That's what we believe about them too. It's not a clear distinction.
"Shit-eating lefties believe in power and money."
Well, again, we also believe in power and money. We know that we can't accomplish anything without it. Not a clear distinction.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:02 PM (N8ZBc)
Who built the Wall?
Who pretends a "rules-based international order" should supplant the national interest?
Who wants to surrender the very ideas of citizenship, of national sovereignty, of nations?
Who wants to great a global "New World Order"?
Who pursues deindustrialization and depopulation?
Who will not stop?
Who pursues these aims with violence and subversion, intimidation and terror?
Who is impervious to reason and to result?
Who are we not holding accountable?
A:
The international left
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 01:02 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 01:02 PM (2Ez/1)
What was Gretchen's role? To pay the bar tab after AOC left with the tall German local who was hitting on her all evening?
Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 01:02 PM (Y1sOo)
Same goes for people only peripherally involved with his official office. Or, you know, his supporters in the greater anti-American arena.
So I wouldn't put much past his office in whatever capacity you wish, to say... shit. Whether that's something along the lines of Islamification in NYC is debatable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 01:03 PM (jtM2q)
Rubio: "I love you and I don't want you to die!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Finding a tad more than annoying that the blackpilling Super Conservatives are insisting that Rubio is a better candidate than Vance now. Can't wait until Vance nominates Rubio for VP in 28. Their tiny heads will squeak.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 01:03 PM (diia5)
The "good guy" factions are the enviro-weenies and the UN (whose leader sounds like Jordan Peterson amusing enough)
The bad guys are the Chi-coms, the Christians, and the Spartans (who are kind of like a 90s right wing militia) - the Chi-coms are the baddies because this game came out around the time the left started allying with China.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (sKqQm)
Eh, I'd say it is more complex than that. Spartans are more like spartans of old, brutal, utilitarian, militaristic.
I'd say the enviro factions are a bit out there- especially the expansion creepy fungus kid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 01:03 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)
No argument from me.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 01:03 PM (n9ltV)
I think it's easy to conclude that all Euros are on board with the left's agenda, but that isn't so. We know from our own country that the media and big government conspire to make anyone who disagrees with their agenda out to be on the lunatic fringe. I don't think that's the case, and we're probably going to find out soon just how much the left is wrong. There is an enormous magma chamber under Europe and it's about to go all supervolcano. See also, Japan.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:04 PM (Riz8t)
That's what we believe about them too. It's not a clear distinction.
I don't think it is exactly the same. If you could roll back government to say 1880 levels so that lefties could still go live on communes if they wanted, but not force anyone else to give them money and power I wouldn't care a lot what they did.
The left's answer for us is re-education camps or mass graves.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm)
Do we take a chance?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (bss/y)
For one, Rubio has more power in the USG than anyone since Kissinger
For another, we have two years before having to make any decisions so we have time
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 15, 2026 12:46 PM (Cqx++)
====
Nirdeen Kiswani
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 01:05 PM (RIvkX)
Yeah the Cult kid from the expansion isn't one of the "good" factions, I meant Lady Deidre
In the great commons at Gaia's Landing we have a tall and particularly beautiful stand of white pine, planted at the time of the first colonies. It represents our promise to the people, and to Planet itself, never to repeat the tragedy of Earth.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)
You'll never guess who gets to determine what is the "truth".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:06 PM (n1OCj)
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:00 PM (dtajH)
-
The Emperor is a Bozo:
https://tinyurl.com/44s2vaze
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 01:06 PM (UzL96)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM (kJmLc)
We voted for this!
Posted by: NYC cats who voted by mail at February 15, 2026 01:06 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 12:32 PM (rbvCR)
The more sentient ones understand that's the only plan through which they could possibly survive; but they're too late for it to work. Their foot soldiers have all gone insane and are going to viciously attack any dem candidate who isn't absolutely pure with the radical left.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2026 01:07 PM (/QdgR)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:07 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:08 PM (Ia/+0)
I notice polling from Europe shows their electorates way to the right of their pols, even their "right wing" pols.
But, their reaction to their "right wing" pols governing as far leftists has been fairly muted.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Just for the record at February 15, 2026 01:08 PM (2Ez/1)
Do we take a chance?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:49 PM (bss/y)
For one, Rubio has more power in the USG than anyone since Kissinger
For another, we have two years before having to make any decisions so we have time
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:04 PM (rbvCR)
Love that answer. America is doing well, especially in global concerns, and Rubio has been a big part of that. Judge him by the results. And I would love a Vance/Rubio ticket.
Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 01:09 PM (i49OE)
We clearly believe that we are good and they are evil. They view are mirror image. We have reasons for believing we are the good. And we believe those reasons. So it is with them, unless, as some have aptly pointed out, they believe in nothing.
We will be tested, and our reactions will reveal what we really believe, if anything, when the chips are down.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:09 PM (N8ZBc)
NAFTA just seemed to fade away under the flood of ever-greater globalism.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 15, 2026 01:09 PM (XlIjI)
You'll never guess who gets to determine what is the "truth".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026
I suggest me. If it’s actual truth it shouldn’t matter who delivers it, right Obama?
Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2026 01:09 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 15, 2026 12:17 PM (IhIKR)
Shutting down a Bush-era bureaucracy is a win, IMO. More and faster, please...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 15, 2026 01:10 PM (nbLIj)
~~~~~
Japan's invasion is relatively modest, and they've already taken the most important step to reversing it by electing Takaichi. Europe, on the other hand, has a really, really long way to go, and unlike Japan, most Europeans are idiot leftists and love their3rd world newcomers.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:10 PM (3ImbR)
And Argentina and El Salvador and other places in Latin America. Just the other day MP Rupert Lowe launched the Restore Britain party. He sounds Trumpish on the platform and seems to be getting some momentum.
The media, if possible, is worse in Europe than it is here. Not everyone in Europe likes the idiotic policies of the left anymore than we did and their censorship regime, which is really an extension of ours, is much more powerful. But people are starting to fight back which is encouraging.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 01:10 PM (viF8m)
It's got overwhelming popular support, but Congress is obstructing. Now why is that?
Expect lawsuits to expose a spider web of voter fraud in MN and GA for openers. Can you say RICO?
Trump will act by EO if he has to, and then dare those who oppose to go record.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:11 PM (dtajH)
Doesn't matter - we will soon have complete control of the media, and we'll simply ban right-wing candidates from running (like LePen), or nullify election results that we disapprove of (like the Romanian presidential election).
Posted by: The EU! at February 15, 2026 01:11 PM (n1OCj)
Both Obama and Clinton ran as moderates. Hell Clinton ran to the right of Bush 41 in '92.
Biden ran as a leftist but then he didn't get more votes from actual citizens anyway.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)
One I just heard:
An Englishman is hiking in Scotland and he pauses to drink from a stream. A passing shepherd calls out "Dinnae drink frae that, it's all fulla coo piss an shite!"
The Englishman says to him in a cut-glass accent "Would you very much mind repeating that in the Queen's English?"
And the shepherd says "I'm terribly sorry sir, I was only asking if you would like to borrow this tin cup and get a proper drink?"
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 15, 2026 01:12 PM (IG3/x)
A good example is the ICE fracas. It was discussed in a thread this week, and I was shocked to read all the comments shitting on the concept of due process.
What do we truly believe?
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:12 PM (N8ZBc)
Something I'd like to know, how do Hillary, Newsom, and AOC even get to go to Munich and hold audiences? Who decides this?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 01:12 PM (n7rxJ)
Guys, I think we might be getting old.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:55 PM (bss/y)
Ha! That's a fictional date. "X years ago" is always the year 2000 minus X, and 2001 is 2000 minus -1, so therefore it's in the future. Q.E.D. You can't trick me!
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 01:09 PM (i49OE)
Except VP is a step down and he didn't like Congress per his own comments.
He may stay on as SOS for Vance
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:10 PM (3ImbR)
I think the closer truth is that they have been taught to love their invaders.....
Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (i49OE)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (Ia/+0)
In Munich, Democrats pledge a return to wealth taxes and climate hysteria
Both Newsom and Ocasio-Cortez spoke of returning the U.S. to the good graces of the global elite. Newsom assured the Europeans that Trump’s reign is temporary, and that the U.S. will soon enough dismantle the “wrecking ball” that the administration has taken to the EU...
Newsom offered his leadership and his state as the model, proclaiming that “California is a stable and reliable partner” for Europe. The model includes high taxes, massive spending programs and greater bureaucratic regulations — precisely the policies that have driven the European economy into its current stagnation...When not fumbling with security questions about issues such as Taiwan, Ocasio-Cortez was demanding that wealth taxes be implemented in the U.S. “expeditiously.” Such a tax on billionaires’ wealth, including unrealized gains, is currently being pushed in California. The predictable result is that billionaires and other wealthy citizens are rushing to leave the state and taking their investments and companies with them.
https://is.gd/JETLJc
Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (Riz8t)
That many people don't know what due process means when it comes to illegal aliens.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (viF8m)
If you've gotten a final order of deportation, you've received your due process, no matter what Democrats may think.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:14 PM (n1OCj)
And the king is a fink!
Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:07 PM (Riz8t)
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The peasants are revolting!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 01:14 PM (UzL96)
Posted by: Sorry. Couldn't resist at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (2Ez/1)
How do you know that a person is an illegal alien without due process?
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (N8ZBc)
The peasants are revolting!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 01:14 PM (UzL96)
They stink on ice
Posted by: It's me donna at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (VE6XX)
This is sort of a tautology, most people believe they are "good-ish" though the left's morality is extremely flexible.
But I do disagree though that the implications here are different for the left and the right. The right wants to take power away from the left and the left wants to take power from the right, yes that's true. But then the left wants to forcibly remake society into some nominal socialist idea and the right wants to make politics largely unimportant again. Think the Soviet Union (but the right people will be in charge this time!) versus 1880s America.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)
I notice polling from Europe shows their electorates way to the right of their pols, even their "right wing" pols.
But, their reaction to their "right wing" pols governing as far leftists has been fairly muted.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)
Commenters on another blog who say they live in Europe, laugh at Americans calling all Democrats and their fellow travelers liberal. They say a typical American liberal will have the same beliefs and policy goals as a center-right Euro. They say moderate liberals over there are the same as AOC and Bernie Sanders here.
Posted by: Gref at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (5rh/l)
And an administrative warrant authorizes Federal law enforcement to carry out the deportation.
Banning administrative warrants is an effort to ban deportations.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:16 PM (n1OCj)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:16 PM (Riz8t)
I would suggest too that if deportation included taking all the invader's assets or giving them a sentence at hard labor we'd probably see an extremely elevated self-deportation rate.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:17 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:17 PM (rbvCR)
Commenters on another blog who say they live in Europe, laugh at Americans calling all Democrats and their fellow travelers liberal. They say a typical American liberal will have the same beliefs and policy goals as a center-right Euro. They say moderate liberals over there are the same as AOC and Bernie Sanders here.
Posted by: Gref at February 15, 2026
This isn’t the case in Italy. Maybe in Milan, but certainly not most of Tuscany.
Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2026 01:18 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 01:18 PM (UzL96)
I guess that applies to only a small number of illegal aliens. Most of them, we don't even know who or where they are.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:18 PM (N8ZBc)
Talk with them about issues not "the left" or "the right".
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm)
That may have been somewhat true at one time, but things have changed dramatically. The Overton Window has shifted and left the building. Those commenters are trying to persuade you that things are the same as they've always been. They aren't.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2026 01:18 PM (Riz8t)
How do you know somebody is an invader without due process?
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:19 PM (N8ZBc)
There are currently 1.6 million orders of deportation that haven't been executed yet.
Most ICE actions are targeted at specific individuals that have received an order of deportation.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:20 PM (n1OCj)
The current government was voted in due to the former "right wing" government failing to stop immigration.
And even with the EngSoc being very clear they will imprison you for wrong think people keep going to social media and posting thoughts that get them imprisoned.
Odd behavior for a society far to the left of ours isn't it? Of course, as I mentioned that is about issues not labels - remember 20 years ago Bernie Sanders was also a border hawk...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)
The End.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 01:21 PM (bss/y)
The idea that someone can illegally break into the US, then refuse to play by any of the incredibly lenient rules we have for asylum and then complain you aren'g getting due process from the US is one of the most twisted arguments I've ever heard. All they are due is trip home.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 01:21 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Denny Crane - Worms are gross at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (i49OE)
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True. And it worked. Last time I was in Germany, people had painted their own homes and fences with signs welcoming the migrants. Europe's conservatives are equivalent to our democrats. That's one of the reasons Nigel Farage is falling away in popularity with the right. However, this new guy Lowe sounds promising.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:22 PM (3ImbR)
By all means, deport them immediately.
To my point, that leaves about 40 million to find, and to verify their illegal status, presumably via due process.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:22 PM (N8ZBc)
To this point ICE has deported 0 citizens/legal aliens.
The focus on due process is merely a fig leaf to grin things to a halt.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 01:23 PM (UzL96)
Doug Ross Substack on Marco's speech
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Who will be Newsom's Secretary of State?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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I don't know if you're blackpilling, but I love playing these games.
Pete Buttigieg keeps coming to mind.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 01:25 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:25 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Men's Room Wall at February 15, 2026 01:26 PM (Ksqrb)
How do you know that? Because ICE says so?
The last time we decided that an emergency required sacrificing liberty, we got the Patriot Act and FISA courts.
Exigent thinking is bad thinking.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:26 PM (N8ZBc)
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The Conservatives deserved to lose.
Labour did not deserve to win.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 15, 2026 01:27 PM (i1VVh)
ICE has been going after those with criminal records where it's been established that they're Illegals. Is that enough due process for you?
Then we'll see (1) tougher enforcement against employers and (2) blue states made to cut-off benefits to illegals or lose it for all their citizens. Self-deportation to follow.
But you didn't want a real answer to your fake question, did you?
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:27 PM (dtajH)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)
Starmer and his cabinet have been deep in the "grooming gang" scandal for 20+ years. The Pakistani grooming gangs have been kidnapping, raping and trafficking girls for longer than that, and violating various trade and importation tax laws, as well as being involved with money laundering on such a high value that the banks are involved. Funds from these gangs are traced to Osama bin Laden, and other terrorist groups, making the UK a state sponsor of terrorism.
The kidnapping, rape, torture and trafficking of young girls is bad enough, even with the direct help of authorities, but the UK has become a true anti-state.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:27 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:28 PM (Ia/+0)
That gets you all the illegals with criminal records. Deport them.
Now we're down to the 20 million without criminal records.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:29 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:15 PM (N8ZBc)
You are buying into the left's manipulation of the language.
All of these illegals get due process.
That doesn't mean a full-blown trial and all of the rights afforded to citizens.
It means a legally mandated process for tossing their criminal asses out of our country.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 01:30 PM (n9ltV)
Because if ICE deported a citizen it would be THE news item of the year.
This is very similar to the left's claims that "the Republicans are disenfranchising voters!" and after 26 years they've yet to find one.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:31 PM (dtajH)
Because I'm shooting at the invaders, uh, sorry, you moderns would call them Japanese Undocumented Immigrants right?
Posted by: Some GI in 1942 at February 15, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)
He may stay on as SOS for Vance
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:13 PM (rbvCR)
I think that's a great idea. He has plainly found a groove. The position suits him, and vice-versa. It's a shame that the Peter Principle is a thing, and people tend to rise precisely to the level of their incompetence; it is a blessing to the country when someone finds the level of his highest performance, then puts his own ambition in check and stays there.
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 01:32 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:28 PM (Ia/+0)
You could also look up Rich Does Politics on Youtube and watch his interview that touches on Munich and the Pakistani Rape Gangs panel
youtu.be/7nrIcsl9uPU
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:33 PM (rbvCR)
It's not a fake question, cripes. I'm not trying to monkey-wrench deportation of illegals. I'm asking WTF we really absolutely believe.
When we perceive were in an emergency, our beliefs morph. It happens! Trouble is, the USA has been in full-tilt Emergency Mode for 25 years.
I'll let it go now.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:33 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:29 PM (N8ZBc)
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If they are in this country illegally, or for the sake of argument, "undocumented," how are they surviving? How are they making money? How do they get housing, medical care, education? To take all those things when you are not entitled to them is a crime, no?
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:33 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:33 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Slaves For Me But Not For Thee at February 15, 2026 01:36 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:31 PM (dtajH)
Disagreement isn't trolling.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 01:37 PM (n9ltV)
I'll let it go now.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:33 PM (N8ZBc)
You have a valid concern, and it is a valid point. To date there has not been any indication this has happened, and every outrage that has been brought up to date has been shown to be a non-issue or a fake issue. Fortunately there is a lot of criminals to be caught up, a lot of administrative warrants that need to be filled before ICE has to start doing real digging, and we have the people over the aisle that will point out where Homan got it wrong so we can review if it is wrong.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:37 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Slaves For Me But Not For Thee at February 15, 2026 01:36 PM (Ksqrb)
I would be ecstatic if the IRS just disallowed the write off of the business cost of wages to any employee that had a bad match between SSN DOB and Name
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:39 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 01:29 PM
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Where does that 20 million number come from?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 01:39 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: gp
Many illegals do have criminal records in their own countries, but, because they never presented themselves at a port of entry and were not documented with fingerprints, legitimate id, etc expressly for the purpose of avoiding detection, they should not be allowed to claim innocent here because they have supposedly kept their nose clean.
Posted by: old chick at February 15, 2026 01:39 PM (F3Dlr)
He should be open about it and say so
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2026 01:40 PM (dtajH)
Deport them.
I don't care if they built up a nice life here.
They are crims, plain and simple.
Send them back to their shithole countries, so they can work to improve them.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 15, 2026 01:42 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)
I want them all gone. I even want the innocent little children gone. Know why? Because hundreds of those little children are in my local grammar school--the only school we have, no high school--and they make up nearly 80% of the student population. I live in a beach town and many of the homes are rented for tens of thousands of dollars in the summe,r and the winter rentals, from September to May, are frequently less than $1,500/month. So, they all come here. Where they go in the summer, I don't know. Nor do I care.
The American kids in my town pretty much all go to the local Catholic school, which goes from K-12. My school taxes are through the roof, and half the classes in the public grammar school are either English as a Second Language, or full-on taught in Spanish.
More than half of my property taxes go to the school, so they can educate the children of illegals. In a foreign language no less.
Don't mind me, I'm in a bad mood today.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 15, 2026 01:49 PM (3ImbR)
Depends on how much you care about working-class wage suppression.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:52 PM (n1OCj)
He should be open about it and say so
Posted by: Ignoramus
One time I commented and someone took offense and labelled me a troll and told me to go back to giving blowjobs behind the shopping center.
Not one ette said a word in my defense.
One moron suggested as a long time commenter that my comment was meant /s.
Casting stones and all that.
gp is not a troll imo.
Posted by: old chick at February 15, 2026 01:53 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 01:55 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ian S."
I just tried listen to her remarks s but could nit finish. When she speaks at least 70% is fluff, filler (like, um, you know , I feel that, we are entering a new paradigm etc....) the rest is just plan stupid blather. As you say, compare and contrast to Rubio who is on point and making clear concise statements, even if you disagree with them.
Posted by: Ripley at February 15, 2026 01:56 PM (GUOwU)
He should be open about it and say so
Yeah, the theory is that a Democratic Administration can let in more than ten million illegals, claiming that they are "asylum seekers" that have been given "parole", with an immigration court hearing five years from now; and that a Republican Administration can do almost nothing to reverse that, due to requiring criminal prosecution-levels of "due process" for all illegals.
This is a recipe for the destruction of the United States, which is why I oppose it.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2026 01:56 PM (n1OCj)
Yeltsin knew that 100s of flavors of ice cream meant the Soviet Union had failed Russians.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 15, 2026 01:56 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Kindltot
Shouldn't they be using diesel in lieu of water given that rioters are playing with matches?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 01:56 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Usntakim at February 15, 2026 01:57 PM (Kwwen)
Every Socialist believes in Choices, their Choices.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 15, 2026 01:58 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Usntakim at February 15, 2026 01:57 PM (Kwwen)
Honestly, RFK Jr has surprised me too. I thought he was a single issue guy.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2026 01:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip
This. It's legalized citizenship theft.
The numbers of Chinese that come, give birth, then immediately return to China with their dual citizenship child until the child is educated and returns 18 years later is an enormous homeland security risk.
Posted by: old chick at February 15, 2026 01:59 PM (F3Dlr)
Doesn't mean you're wrong. I don't how we got to a place where this is even controversial. Try sneaking into Mexico and see what happens.
We simply can't have a country without strong borders and immigration laws. Sure, millions around the world want to come here and if you spend some time traveling the reason becomes obvious. But we simply can't afford to let people just pour in here without rules, either financially or culturally.
Follow the rules, come here legally or get out.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 02:00 PM (viF8m)
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Try listening to any politico without a prepared statement they've either memorized or read while commenting.
They are all blathering idiots.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2026 02:00 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 15, 2026 02:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)
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He might be the better successor, imho.
Posted by: Methos at February 15, 2026 02:01 PM (vSvIl)
The numbers of Chinese that come, give birth, then immediately return to China with their dual citizenship child until the child is educated and returns 18 years later is an enormous homeland security risk.
Posted by: old chick at February 15, 2026 01:59 PM (F3Dlr)
About 1.5 Million
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 15, 2026 02:02 PM (gbOdA)
Strange.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 15, 2026 02:02 PM (zZu0s)
You have to be out of town for three weeks and forget to lock the sliding glass door. A Hispanic family of five discovers the unlocked door and occupy your basement.
They're very industrious. The carpet gets cleaned. The drywall is repaired. They even paint and the dripping faucet in the basement bath gets fixed.
You come home and to your horror discover what has happened and call the local authorities.
Before they arrive the woman in the group pleads with you on her knees:
"You can't throw us out! WE'VE WORKED SO HARD!"
You make the call.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 02:03 PM (2Ez/1)
IrishEI, have you been following the case of the Honduran future MBA who got herself kicked out when she flew to Texas for a family visit over Thanksgiving? She's blaming her fate on lousy legal advice ("No one ever told me I had to report to a court") and some judge just decided she's a fine young lady and the US has to fly her back and give her... due process.
All emotion, greeting-card photos of her smiling and holding flowers and some sort of diploma, and the usual obligation on us to make her dreams come true.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2026 02:04 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Personally I found it disgusting, but that's just me.
Posted by: old chick at February 15, 2026 02:05 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:27 PM
And he will do it. Just as it was done in the UK. He's already getting the call to prayer blasted. He's only one month into his Administration. It's going to get a lot worse.
Amy Mek @AmyMek
NYC FALLS: Adhan Blasts Through Streets – Zohran Mamdani’s Sharia Dawn is Here!
(TURN YOUR VOLUME UP)
My lord, America – the conquest we’ve warned about is exploding now. The Adhan isn’t a “beautiful call to prayer”; it’s a militant declaration: “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is greater than your gods, laws, freedoms), “There is no god but Allah” (all other faiths are false).
Blared 5× daily from loudspeakers – 5 AM wake-ups included – it’s forced submission on non-Muslims, pure civilizational jihad straight from the Muslim Brotherhood playbook.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL – but they’re aggressively normalizing it.
X video (00:37): https://bit.ly/4rDnhbT
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 15, 2026 02:08 PM (P5BPp)
She even got Gretchen to show her stupid side
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 15, 2026 12:55
PM
Gretchen Whitmer is the Jussie Smollet of governors
(Whitmer is getting lit up on the twits)
Posted by: AltonJackson | Contractual Obligation Comment at February 15, 2026 02:09 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: Usntakim at February 15, 2026 01:57 PM (Kwwen)
Good to see you, man. How are thing going?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at February 15, 2026 02:22 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Juan Paxety at February 15, 2026 02:22 PM (EwniN)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 15, 2026 01:56 PM (/lPRQ)
I look forward to the sound of helicopter rotors starting up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 02:27 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 15, 2026 02:29 PM (WHh2h)
Eliminating parole goes a long way as now the illegals cannot get out on bond and disappear, they are detained until a hearing. That means no income, no remittances, no bennies other than you get in jail, etc. etc.
Roughly half of the illegal population came during the last ten years and they can go back about as easy---several million per year or so. It is a myth that these are integrated into the US and their distribution is pretty lumpy with urban/suburban destinations. The rural illegals are generally located around food processing or other plants that have high turnover and pay low wages.
Due process is entirely another kettle of fish and many, like the Irish dude overstaying his visa (about 1/3 to 1/2 of illegals) have specific statutory language that do not permit these illegals from challenging their deportation in court. Visa language for most explicitly don't allow it.
Posted by: whig at February 15, 2026 02:30 PM (2swu2)
THIS IS NOT NORMAL – but they’re aggressively normalizing it.
X video (00:37): https://bit.ly/4rDnhbT
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 15, 2026 02:08 PM (P5BPp)
I don't know if they can be made to stop. Of course, based on the precedent of Goose v. Gander, you could blast Zeppelin during their services from a similar loudspeaker. Perhaps a recording of hog calling contest, y'know, just have fun with it.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 15, 2026 02:40 PM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 15, 2026 02:40 PM
I have seen videos of people in Scotland who have been playing bagpipes during the call to prayer there. A small act of rebellion.
That said, at 5am, or whenever the sun is coming up in one's area of the country, I do NOT want to hear dueling musicals from Muslims and other people outside.
There should be noise ordinances preventing the call to prayer. If there are not, then cities all across the country should be pushing to pass them.
Better yet, Muslims should all be deported, since Islam is incompatible with western society. But I'm not holding my breath that will happen in my lifetime. More than likely Muslims will take over just like they have Europe.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 15, 2026 02:48 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 15, 2026 02:49 PM (q6Ikg)
Book Thread: [Sabrina Chase]
Allow me to present my credentials. I have written over 15 books in the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. While these were indie published, before that I was a typical trad-pub author in that I had an agent and was offered a contract by a well known publisher. (Which was so bad that when I turned it down my agent was HAPPY, but that's a post for another time.) But I did come out of the horrors with some knowledge of the brick-and-mortar publishing industry, as much as one can and still retain one's soul. Then I went to the Dark Side and it is true, it has cookies or at least more money and lots of authors generally helping each other, plus writing lots of cool books for you, dear readers! Do not fear. I will not be going into the terrifying process of writing (but should you be interested in that topic, allow me to point out the info in the left sidebar of this very site for the AoSHQ Writers Group!) Instead, I will talk about the journey that starts once the book is written, and why some truly perplexing things can happen on the way.
There are two main systems, still fighting it out like Montagues and Capulets. Traditional publishing (TradPub) and Indie. Think of it like giant but slow dinosaurs vs. tiny scampering mammals. Strangely, some of the odd behaviors are the same!
Why does the cover make no sense? That didn't happen in the book? Yes, well. koff In TradPub, that was probably because the cover description was never seen by the author, or the editor, or anyone who had, you know, actually read the book. Instead someone in Marketing read a listicle on Instagram about how green industrial backgrounds signal Deep Thoughts and voila, your romantic robot thriller now has a picture of a green garage door on the cover. (This Really Happened.)
[This may verge too close to self-promotion but this *is* a cool cover that my artist created with creative freedom] In the Indie world, that was probably because the author was dirt poor, couldn't find anything closer in the free art bin, or is allergic to AI. Or the marketplace they want to sell on doesn't allow AI art. Also, and it pains me to admit it, authors are not artists. We use words. Pretty pictures confuse and frighten us and we don't know how to make them or tell other people how to make them. It took me YEARS to figure out the best way to get cool covers from my artist was to just hand him the book and say "go nuts." Why did my favorite author never complete Series? (TradPub) Usually, the preceding books didn't bring in the predicted buckets of cash. Note I did not say "didn't sell". Just it didn't sell well enough. Also the editor that supported the series retired/died/was replaced by someone who hates the author, series, and anything connected to them. (Indie) Oh, we have lots of reasons. Some of them are even good ones!
a) distracted by the three other series projects we have going, b) it didn't sell because we used the cheap green garage door cover and readers couldn't tell it was a cool robot romance thriller, c) author thought they would make millions with no effort and gave up when that didn't happen, d) author gave up because readers never found the book or left reviews when they did find it and won't someone think of the authors! (Sorry. It's a touchy subject.) Really? Then what the hell happened to that Very Large Author who wrote something that sounded like "Frame of Groans" that still hasn't finished? He sure didn't get any green garage door covers!
Even TradPub can't put lipstick on a nonexistant pig. And the reasons why Very Large Author (VLA) hasn't finished that series are ... writing style, and payoff. VLA is an outliner. Everything has to be planned out ahead of time. Which means if you made a plot oopsie in book 2 of a series that comes back to bite you in book 24, you're holed below the waterline because you can't go back and fix a book already published. (Indie authors are nervously glancing about right now ...) So why did the Very Young Wizard series books get progressively thicker (and possibly less good)? Because British Author(with a castle) was making the publishers cargo ships of money and no editor had the leverage to tell BA(wc) to tidy her work. And this happens to lots of authors, and lots of series, and sadly to Indie as well as TradPub. If it sells, there's less incentive to polish. More to get the next book out fast instead.
So! I hope you found these Dark Secrets entertaining. Please let me know in the comments if there are other topics you would like me to write about!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 09:00 AM (Ia/+0)
I smell the scent of metal! It’s a Sabrina Book Thread!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:00 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 15, 2026 09:02 AM (f/buw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 15, 2026 09:02 AM (f/buw)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 15, 2026 09:03 AM (f/buw)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 09:04 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 09:04 AM (KnrSi)
The captain first appeared as the natural son of an island planter, but ravished the daughter of a neighbor, so took to the pirate life to escape punishment. A Royal Navy ship appears in the islands, tasked with capturing Cypher. They give chase, but the pirate ship escapes into a hideout cove, repairs its ship, then boldly sacks the house where the ravished woman lives. She’s taken prisoner, but through luck, gets stranded with only one pirate who agrees to change sides because he’s afraid he’ll get caught and hanged. The navy finds the two, and the buccaneer leads them to the secret cove, but jumps ship and changes sides again.
The navy ship attacks, and just before one of their number shoots Cypher, he dies, but touches off a cannon aimed at the pirate – Cypher’s death, just as the voodoo witch foretold.
If you’re interested in pulp pirate action, it’s good enough. It uses all the pirate tropes: a damsel, a straight-arrow naval officer, and a ruthless pirate.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:04 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 15, 2026 09:05 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:05 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 09:05 AM (RIvkX)
(I'm still here, but have reverted to lurking in the shadows during Sabrina's AWESOME DEBUT!)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2026 09:06 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:06 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 09:07 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 09:07 AM (Ia/+0)
They were basically the same thing. Depended on who wanted them to do what.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:08 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 09:08 AM (UzL96)
Anyway! On the TBR pile, which had gotten remarkably low this past week (I sensed a disturbance in the Book Force): two Graham Greenes, The End of the Affair (non-genre) and The Human Factor (1978 spy story); and two John Wyndham SF novels, The Kraken Wakes and Chocky. Also a rather academic-looking book of essays, The Bond Phenomenon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:08 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Indeed.
Posted by: Andrew Jackson at February 15, 2026 09:09 AM (XvL8K)
And since I'm a lazy bastard, it allows me to publish at my own speed, which is basically Game of Thrones slowness. I don't make any money from it, but I never expected to.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:10 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: moki at February 15, 2026 09:10 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 15, 2026 09:10 AM (bXbFr)
Hard to put the book down.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 09:11 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 09:11 AM (kpS4V)
And according to maritime law there is a difference.
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 09:12 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 15, 2026 09:12 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 15, 2026 09:13 AM (nHnQ2)
I've asked her to mention to him that I write as well, which she has. I doubt anything will come out of it. Unless you're Loren Estleman, nobody wants a silent film series.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:13 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:13 AM (wzUl9)
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As long as you don't attract an IP theft suit from the makers of Shrek.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 09:14 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 09:14 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: moki at February 15, 2026 09:14 AM (wLjpr)
This week I am reading The Grand Babylon Hotel, by Arnold Bennett. It was published in 1901, I think, so may appeal to those of you who don't like to read anything new.
An American millionaire and his daughter are staying at the renowned Babylon Hotel in Paris. When they refuse to serve his daughter a steak and beer, he buys the damned hotel so they'll do what he asks! And then, murder! and capers ensue. It's a delight.
Public domain version free on kindle.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 09:14 AM (h7ZuX)
How does one become a "semi" professional? Is that like being a part-time employee?
Posted by: mindful webworker - unprofessional unintentionally at February 15, 2026 09:15 AM (6hyzx)
Yes! And if you ARE interested in any aspect of writing or publishing, or want to be a first reader, or you have artistic skills as a book cover designer, why AREN'T you a member???
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:15 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: lin-duh at February 15, 2026 09:15 AM (VCgbV)
Never fear, there are good points as well! Its just easy to find (and complain) about the depressing bits. There's lots of quiet good news lurking about.
And please feel free to make requests! I will be back on a regular basis and need things to write about
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 09:16 AM (KnrSi)
Certainly more interested in the American Revolutionary War because of them, and the 250th anniversaries.
Hope to get to one or two reenactments in next couple years
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 09:16 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 09:16 AM (8zz6B)
I think a lot of potential authors are intimidated by the process of finding a publisher, how to track down a decent agent, fearful of their ideas being stolen, etc. Going the Indie route pushes all that aside and lets one just get down to business.
In my experience, the more you write, the more you sell. Bulking up the catalog is a game-changer. Someone buys one of your books, likes it, buys another. We all do that. I've taken a break from my Graham Greene binge, but I will get back to it. Before that I was reading everything I could find by Waugh (and yes, I'm coming back to his more obscure works at some point).
And I'll say it again: if you want the money, write nonfiction. Long Live Death actually sells consistently. Walls of Men as well, albeit to a lesser extent as the topic is a bit more obscure. It's more work, but you can charge a much higher price and people will gladly pay it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 15, 2026 09:17 AM (YG+k7)
I knew the outline of the story and the issues, but like most things it’s more complicated than portrayed.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2026 09:17 AM (zocr6)
Posted by: dantesed at February 15, 2026 09:17 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:13 AM (wzUl9)
Wolfus, in my experience, uploading your book to Amazon is fairly easy, and they give you thoughts on publicity, as well. Just click on their 'publish with us' link.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:17 AM (ufSfZ)
I see I could have read beyond the first paragraph before commenting. 🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - comment first, read later at February 15, 2026 09:17 AM (6hyzx)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:10 AM (ufSfZ)
Well, you made some money from me.
That's the rub, as someone once said. Tradpub, or Indie? Once I get my edited manuscript back, do I try to find an agent, or set it aside and scrounge for money to self pub?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:18 AM (uQesX)
I haven't put anything up on Amazon in some years now -- don't recall formatting etc being much of a real problem, but getting and staying visible in the flood of titles strikes me as being a real killer these days, especially if you're not out there on social media. I'd like to see that primer myself, as I may have some things to put up this year.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 09:18 AM (q3u5l)
This 2025 book covers every aspect of the ship, the industry, and the region. If you have no knowledge about ships, or taconite, or the great lakes region you will find the answers in this book. It covers the history of the lakes, the process of hauling millions of tons of ore down them, and the history of the cities that were built on them to make America an industrial powerhouse. The copper that electrified America and the steel that built our modern world sailed down Lake Superior.
To this day, the exact cause of her loss is still debated. Some believe she hit Six Fathom Shoal and cracked her hull, which would have let water in, but she was in stormy 20 plus foot waves with a freeboard of only 10 feet, so her hatch covers could have failed as well. Taconite absorbs water and would add tons of weight. Her wreck was eventually found broken in half from some cause. Twenty nine men and the most famous ship on the lakes were lost that November. This book contains every bit of information available to date.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:19 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: moki at February 15, 2026 09:10 AM (wLjpr)
I know a guy....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:19 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 09:16 AM (Ia/+0)
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Very envious.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 09:20 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:20 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 15, 2026 09:21 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2026 09:17 AM (zocr6)
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There's a clip by the founder of Anduril where he explains that modern military procurement is built around the idea of defense spending as make-work luxury items, not in any way intended to support wartime needs.
His big thing is that weapons development has to start like it did in WW II: look at what your factories are making, and build weapon designs around THAT. Find tanks that can run on engines made in existing plants, not some unicorn that needs pixie farts to power it. Same with munitions, but more so.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Don't you need academic credentials for that though?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 15, 2026 09:21 AM (f/buw)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 15, 2026 09:10 AM (bXbFr)
Pre-buccaneering, Cypher - then named Drayton - took the lady "sailing" (wink wink) and somehow... they had to overnight after a storm and he took "liberties." Which was his plan all along.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:22 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 15, 2026 09:22 AM (YG+k7)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 15, 2026 09:21 AM (bXbFr)
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Weimar holds considerable historical fascination because of Toothbrush Mustache Man. See also: "Cabaret."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 09:23 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:20 AM (0U5gm)
That was me. Glad you enjoyed it!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:23 AM (ufSfZ)
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"We promise you will get the fuck out of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and stay out, you snaggletoothed sodomites."
Posted by: Sandy Hook Promise at February 15, 2026 09:23 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Brewingfrog at February 15, 2026 09:24 AM (FpkXG)
The world is drowning in 'content' now. It just seems to me like a very dicey way to make enough money to live on. And the market seems to prefer dreck over quality. Even if it fed me, I'd hate to have to produce dreck to survive.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 09:24 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Harrumph at February 15, 2026 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)
Pictures giant elephant (tradpub) trying to kill mouse (indiepub) by beating Yosemite Sam on the ground.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:24 AM (uQesX)
And I thank you.
That's the rub, as someone once said. Tradpub, or Indie? Once I get my edited manuscript back, do I try to find an agent, or set it aside and scrounge for money to self pub?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:18 AM (uQesX)
I'd say it depends on your subject. What are people hungry to read and is your book one they want? I write for a niche market. Sabrina doesn't.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:25 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 15, 2026 09:25 AM (bXbFr)
I like it but it is mild compared to his Disc Word series.
An interesting idea that seems very attractive is a bit of a nightmare.
I am enjoying it.
Posted by: pawn at February 15, 2026 09:26 AM (uvB+6)
My favorite cheesy "wow, that IS right from the story!" cover is the golden age pulp "The Green Girl", with our heroine leered at by a plant monster:
https://tinyurl.com/mr36j8s7
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 09:27 AM (kpS4V)
Speaking of which --
I'm still following the skirmishes of tabloid runnwrs and shooters in "America's Last Great Newspaper War: The Death of Print in a Two-Tabloid Town" by Mike Jaccarino. One day the New York Daily News wins the day, and maybe The New York Post triumphs the next day. The volleying, like the news, never ceases.
Posted by: Weak Geek at February 15, 2026 09:27 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 15, 2026 09:21 AM (f/buw)
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It depends on the audience. Expertise is what really matters. You could say that I'm underqualified because I only have an undergrad degree, but I also have two decades of military service, most of that as a Certified War Planner (tm). That helps as a credential, but not as much as it has changed my understanding of real-world military operations.
To some folks, I'm less qualified than a phd or a flag officer, but to those who know (and in my opinion), I know much, much more than they do about Actual Things.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)
No pants caveat?
No library pic explanation?
*grasps pearls*
*fans face*
Posted by: Harrumph at February 15, 2026 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)
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Funnily enough, I'm actually wearing pants for today's thread.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 09:28 AM (kpS4V)
You under rate yourself, Wolfus. You've been published, that makes you an author, not an aspiring one. That designation is left for those of us who can't sell anything.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:29 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Brewingfrog at February 15, 2026
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Murray Leinster was an old-time pulp author who grew with the times. He started with the old Amazing Stories and shifted to Astounding in the John Campbell days. His 1950s novelette "Exploration Team" is a solid high adventure, and was a Hugo winner back when that meant something.
You could also look for stuff by Clifford D. Simak. He followed a similar path, I think.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:29 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 15, 2026 09:29 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026
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Thanks, OE. I meant "aspiring to be an indie author," but you're right.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:30 AM (wzUl9)
That's been happening to me, too. I find it very annoying.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:30 AM (ufSfZ)
1) I call myself semi-professional because I do not make the majority of my income from writing, but I *do* make money. I even have my own publishing company! (which is just me ...)
b) When I started publishing Indie, I used this formatting guide ( https://tinyurl.com/e38st3tm ). Please note this is an old guide, and some things have simplified. I will make a list for a future post if people are interested.
iii) ALL writers hate the necessity of promotion. Yes, even the Tradpub writers because one way the big corps save money is having their writers do their own. Nobody knows the secret. It varies by genre, the phase of the moon, and pure dumb luck.
I rant about covers ... and one guy I know used very simple photoshop and PHOTOS of castles for his fantasy series. And it sells better than mine. Totally not fair...
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 09:30 AM (KnrSi)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 15, 2026 09:25 AM (bXbFr)
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Many months ago the Perfesser did a thread on the theme of books set at the end of an era. Gone with the Wind, The Winds of War, From Here to Eternity, etc. Even Lord of the Rings starts on the edge of peace and counts down to the start of war.
Weimar Germany is very much a part of that vibe.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 09:31 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Brewingfrog at February 15, 2026
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Eris's comment reminded me about Jack Williamson, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:32 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 09:28 AM (kpS4V)
Way to ruin the fantasy, Eris.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:32 AM (ufSfZ)
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Alcohol.
Posted by: Something Dorothy Parker would say at February 15, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 15, 2026 09:33 AM (XV/Pl)
That's been happening to me, too. I find it very annoying.
Posted by: Mary Poppins
If you click directly on the comments button, it reveals the entire post and comments. That has always been my habit, and I have not encountered the pop up ad issue.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:33 AM (0U5gm)
I use Firefox, strict protection enabled, with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger extensions, running on Debian. I see none of the ads that are hitting you guys. I hope this helps.
FWIW, you need strong protection from the adware on AoSHQ. When I first switched to this new Firefox browsing platform last year, it alerted me to an ad that was trying to open my cam! There's bad stuff being served here.
Also: Brave is not bulletproof! I dropped it when it caught a browser infector last Sep. Do not trust browsers derived from the Chromium codebase.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 09:33 AM (N8ZBc)
The cop is reluctant to leave his family for the two-year trip, but the billionaire tempts him with 20 million dollars and a promise of medical care for his disabled son.
The trip goes according to plan until they circle back from Titan, and the ship is rocked by explosions(?) and the guidance goes haywire. They get the spacecraft back on track and return home safely, welcomed as heroes. But things back on Earth seem...different. Some minor changes are good, some bad, but it's all rather disconcerting. Where are they? As they try to figure out what happened, they are being tailed and monitored at every turn.
It's a fun read, but I learned partway through that it's first in a series. Grrr. I noticed that the core characters ticked all the identity boxes should this be made into a streaming series.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 09:34 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 09:05 AM (RIvkX)
Eeek!
(quickly puts on a cover)
Posted by: Unfinished Novel at February 15, 2026 09:34 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:35 AM (ufSfZ)
Just my two cents here, but if you've put anything up yourself rather than having it taken by a magazine or book publisher, and strangers have paid for it, you're in the club. Maybe not a high-ranking member, but a member.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 09:36 AM (q3u5l)
Almost done with Morison’s Who MovedThe Stone. I need to find work stuff like that.
Posted by: Accomack at February 15, 2026 09:37 AM (/Chlc)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 15, 2026 09:33 AM (XV/Pl)
Have you checked Barnes & Noble? They very often put out their own hardcover versions of the classics.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:37 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Funny at February 15, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:13 AM (wzUl9)
Wolfus, there are plenty of YTers who will tell you exactly how to do it! That's their bread and butter, because most of them only have one or two published books with low sales....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:38 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 09:39 AM (KnrSi)
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Alcohol.
Posted by: Something Dorothy Parker would say at February 15, 2026
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"My doctor has ordered me on the wagon for a month, or get ready for a new set of organs. Personally I'd prefer the new set of organs."
( -- Dottie's pal Robert Benchley)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Accomack
So, that would be like Who Moved my Cheese, except aimed at Neanderthals?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:39 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 09:30 AM (KnrSi)
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If one is getting paid, that makes them professional. I prefer the term "part time."
Of course, thanks to the Moron Horde's immense size and purchasing power, both Long Live Death and Walls of Men shot to the top of the charts in their respective categories, so in my blurbs I can call myself a "best-selling" author.
Ace's (bemused? back-handed? accidental? ironic?) endorsement is still my proudest achievement.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 09:40 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: moki at February 15, 2026 09:14 AM (wLjpr)
Old Pal will get you through!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:40 AM (uQesX)
But the only reason it happened was that the Gays were evacuating Philadelphia, and Washington smelled an opportunity to harass them and possibly inflict heavy damage.
The heavy damage part didn't materialize, but only a vain flag officer can spin a harrowing retreat from his most important position in the theater of battle as a "victory."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 09:40 AM (BI5O2)
Somehow, the comic was able to inspire a movie of the same name. The movie cleans up the story some, but is also not very good. The story needed more fixing that the movie could do, and the movie did not have enough budget to portray the setting. (At one point, the main character is represented on-screen by an action figure.) The movie is a staple of the lets-laugh-at-bad-movies genre, having appeared on both RiffTrax and Red Letter Media...
Posted by: Castle Guy at February 15, 2026 09:40 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:40 AM (ufSfZ)
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Right, but after 50 years of steady decline at least there’s a guy in the White House who is willing to point out that almost total de-industrialization and “outsourcing” has profound national security implications.
Both in Europe and Japan, war planners focused on things like Rumanian oil refineries and ball bearing plants, aircraft factories. Remove the ability for those nations to make war.
Kind of like, you know, what has been happening with America. I doubt there is a single ball bearing manufacturer left in the USA. Maybe fighting the last war, or several wars ago isn’t the answer, but it’s cause for concern. America can’t even make its own Aspirin. Never mind say, drones. Or anti-drones.
I’ve never been one to consider “isolationism” a valid strategy but clearly the government has looked the other way at best, or purposefully made critical industries and materials go bye-bye.
It’s almost as if the globalists saw what America did in World War 2 and decided “let’s make sure they can’t ever, ever do that again”.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2026 09:41 AM (zocr6)
Hello Perfessor
Welcome Sabrina
Indirectly book related, our local library started a program called Zip books - they claim to be able to get any book on a program similar to an inter-library loan. I haven't investigated further but I think one feature is the book comes to me. I'm not sure how long I can keep it or what the renewal provisions are but it looks interesting.
When I'm done with the book I just drop it off at any local branch.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 15, 2026 09:41 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:35 AM (ufSfZ)
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That was me. Multiple folks found the correct answer. Behold the power of the Moron Horde!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 09:41 AM (ZOv7s)
On the other hand, the McGuiness (sp?) covers on the Perry Mason paperbbacks were all simply drawings of a woman. Those could be interchangable.
Posted by: Weak Geek at February 15, 2026 09:42 AM (p/isN)
https://tinyurl.com/mw4ebryw
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 09:42 AM (N8ZBc)
But enough about the Bad Bunny halftime show.
Posted by: Gentlemen this is a Book Thread at February 15, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 15, 2026 09:02 AM (f/buw)
One of the kiddos and their fiancé are addicted to that series they plowed through all 9(?) in just a few weeks.
It sounds like a very savvy adventure series for those who are gamers and anime fans and like to laugh.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 15, 2026 09:43 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: lin-duh at February 15, 2026 09:15 AM (VCgbV)
If so, she doesn't say anything about him as far as I know. I've only emailed her once or twice. She's affiliated with RacPress and Sarah Hoyt's Mad Genius Club.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:44 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: pookysgirl, Sabrina Chase fan at February 15, 2026 09:44 AM (Wt5PA)
When I'm done with the book I just drop it off at any local branch.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
Hopefully, it isn't a way to reduce the number of copies they circulate. Imagine a wait list in months.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:44 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:25 AM (ufSfZ)
I almost hate to suggest this, but I'm gonna. You know who adores glamorous Hollywood stars? Gay boys. That's right. Make some small flyers of your cover art with a link to the ebooks, and plaster them near the gay bars and library and grocery store bulletin boards in the gay neighborhoods. See if you get an uptick.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 09:45 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2026 09:41 AM (zocr6)
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No, it was deliberate. It's called "Dependency Theory" and the idea is that if the world is completely dependent on foreign trade for everything, there can be no wars. This is one reason for the irrational and completely illogical hatred of tariffs, and why Smoot-Hawley is so smeared by historians.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)
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If you’re interested in pulp pirate action, it’s good enough. It uses all the pirate tropes: a damsel, a straight-arrow naval officer, and a ruthless pirate.
Pirate themed pulp stories. You have piqued my interest...
Posted by: Castle Guy at February 15, 2026 09:46 AM (Lhaco)
I keep meaning to mention that in addition to the Mason series, Gardner also wrote one based on the adventures of a PI named Donald Lamb and his boss, Bertha Cool. I only read one of them, Traps Need Fresh Bait, but liked it a lot. Lamb is your stereotypical wisecracking shamus and Cool his more hesitant partner.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:46 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 15, 2026 09:46 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 09:46 AM (KnrSi)
Thank goodness it was short. I'd have known what I was getting into if I'd read the author bio, which states that Chambers lives with "her wife."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:47 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Weak Geek at February 15, 2026 09:27 AM (p/isN)
OK: #1. Never use the "continue reading" link. Just go direct to "comments". You will get the entire thread, plus the comments.
#2. Definitely get a computer. Not new computer. Get a 10 year old laptop, with now obsolete Windows version on it. Get on line with it long enough to download a bootable image of the latest version of Linux Mint to a thumb drive. Detailed and comprehensible instructions for doing it can be found at numerous sites online,
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 09:47 AM (8zz6B)
I see I could have read beyond the first paragraph before commenting. 🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - comment first, read later at February 15, 2026 09:17 AM (6hyzx)
I'm sure someone has already said this, but Are you new here?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:47 AM (uQesX)
https://tinyurl.com/pj2xkr4c
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 09:48 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026
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Hesitant? Hesitant to spend money, I'd say. Bertha is about as cuddly as a roll of barbed wire. It makes for an interesting dynamic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)
Interesting and fascinating glimpse into the world of authors and publishing.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 15, 2026 09:50 AM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Accomack at February 15, 2026 09:51 AM (8jVAy)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:51 AM (0U5gm)
The idea that "soft power" could replace "hard power" (boy, that really worked in Ukraine, didn't it!) and that having every country import its food from the Third World would mean no more wars, hollowing out the industrial base - all of these things were The Future and Good.
Turns out, not so much. Much of the howling is because Trump is breaking a great many rice bowls. Lots of code needing to be learned in certain circles.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Weak Geek at February 15, 2026 09:53 AM (p/isN)
On the other hand, the McGuiness (sp?) covers on the Perry Mason paperbbacks were all simply drawings of a woman. Those could be interchangable.
Posted by: Weak Geek at February 15, 2026
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Robert McGinnis? One of my favorite artists. His artwork for the Travis McGee Gold Medal original paperbacks in the '60s always picked up on a scene in the story, and the woman often closely resembled Travis's girl in the book too.
Gold Medal was good about illustrating the story on the cover; see the Matt Helms from the same time. I think the Masons were issued by Pocket Books, and they did not have the same attitude.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 09:53 AM (N8ZBc)
In my yout', I collected rejection slips from various publications and syndicates. There were reasons I gave up trying to get published. My oeuvre was too varied and eclectic for anything mainstream, my output was too irregular for anything sustained, so I had only myself for an agent, editor, and publisher.
Which explains why my hundreds of webpages are available only at mindfulwebworks.com.
And why, despite having a donation link on every page, I've received, oh, maybe ten dollars in all that time.
My output has been reduced in the past several years, for technical and personal reasons. I try to add something on occasion, still.
I've wondered what would become of my website after I've left this life. Good news on this morning's Tech Thread: "Meta has received a patent on an AI tool that continues posting for you online after you are dead."
Posted by: mindful webworker - unintentiona amateur at February 15, 2026 09:54 AM (6hyzx)
Thanks for the thread, Sabrina, and hope you all have a wonderful day!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:54 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 15, 2026 09:22 AM (YG+k7)
Do you mean marketing? There's a few YTers who talk about that. I'm only at the writing and editing phase, nowhere near pub. I'm looking to follow A.H.'s advice and build a catalog before putting anything on the market.
Some say you need extensive social media, others say no. If Indie, join groups, review other writers, send out notices - but be careful to avoid being called a spammer - hire someone to publicize your writing, etc.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 09:55 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Accomack at February 15, 2026 09:55 AM (8jVAy)
Posted by: gp
That is what I do as a reader, I was wondering how writers can overcome it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:56 AM (0U5gm)
That’s retarded. That’s a nice cover story I suppose, or some sort of pseudo-intellectual twaddle from the rarified air of academe, that sort of looks reasonable from 20,000 feet, if you squint.
They just want to make sure America is fooked, that’s all. And they’ve been doing a bang up job of it for sure. Even before the first experimental atomic weapon was tested in the desert, before they were certain it would be a weapon that could be fielded, planners were certain that wars were a thing of the past, and it was up to international agencies to oversee the new world order.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2026 09:57 AM (zocr6)
Interesting stuff comparing the top down control of the Communist side versus the messy consensus of NATO. Minus the French, who are Les Assholes.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 09:57 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: mindful webworker
I can only imagine how AI can update my preferences after I'm dead.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:59 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:56 AM (0U5gm)
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I ignore it.
Seems to work just fine.
A big part of any creative endeavor is to know your audience. Some of my books were nothing more than an exercise in scratching a creative itch, and sales are in the low single digits for those books. That's fine, because I liked writing them and they still build out the catalog.
But I did write stuff with a specific audience in mind, and those are the ones that actually sell. Funny how that works.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)
So they come up with stupid ideas like the League of Nations or the Kellog-Briand Pact or the UN or the newfangled dependency theory AH Lloyd mentioned above, and they invariably fail to work and just make everything worse.
When I was a youngster this dependency theory was the hot new accepted retarded wisdom, because America's stupid, venal ruling class were hanging out at cocktail parties and waving around copies of the End of History with one hand while beating off with the other.
Even as a mere stripling, I could tell this was all very, very stupid, but only because I had encountered human beings during my theretofore short stay on the planet Earth.
I hadn't yet read the Gods of the Copybook Headings, but I *had* read Fukuyama's initial essay in Foreign Affairs Magazine, and saw Bill Clinton waving that stupid book around, so I instinctively understood they'd be coming to rip our heads off and shit down our necks soon enough.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 09:59 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 09:25 AM (ufSfZ)
My subject, MP4?! Until I try to sell, or check the market - which is constantly changing - I'm open to more than one. I've written SF, Western, Mystery and sold nothing so far. TBF, the novels aren't getting out until edited, but the short stories keep getting thanksbut. Maybe I'm not good enough at it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:00 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: dantesed at February 15, 2026 10:01 AM (Oy/m2)
https://tinyurl.com/mr36j8s7
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 09:27 AM (kpS4V)
Stay in your lane, monster!
Posted by: James T. Kirk at February 15, 2026 10:02 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Weak Geek
In lieu of doing what AOP said about new computer, you might consider downloading the Brave browser on your phone, and get the AdBlock app with it as well. There is some ad layer that is screwing things up.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 10:02 AM (diia5)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 10:03 AM (q3u5l)
....
It's a fun read, but I learned partway through that it's first in a series. Grrr. I noticed that the core characters ticked all the identity boxes should this be made into a streaming series.
Posted by All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I lost all interest the moment I read 'ticked all the identity boxes.'
Posted by: Castle Guy at February 15, 2026 10:04 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 10:04 AM (vFG9F)
uary 15, 2026 09:57 AM (zocr6)
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The people who came up with it are absolutely not smart enough to generate some multi-decade strategic plan. I've talked to them, I know.
This goes waaay back, by the way. In 1913 there was a best-selling book about how global trade had made a Great Power conflict impossible.
The same hope was raised in the 1920s. Again, Smoot-Hawley is constantly cited in academic circles as THE catalyst for WW II, and also the cause of the Great Depression's duration. The New Deal was of course a work of pure genius and succeeded brilliantly.
I mentioned my old texts, and what is crazy about going back to them is how "Realism" as a school of international relations has been completely corrupted. It's like people don't even know what it describes. All these globalists proclaiming themselves Realists was insane, but that's where we are in academia these days.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 10:04 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sharkman at February 15, 2026 10:05 AM (/RHNq)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 10
That will work - but if you take that approach, then HIT THE TIP JAR.
Ace ain't running a charity here.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 10:05 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
They completely overlooked the fact that hard power was still in place during the cold war. It was not interdependence that maintained the peace, it was mutually assured destruction.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 10:05 AM (0U5gm)
How to thrive as a content-producer in a world awash with too much bad content, in a market that prefers dreck? Pick a different product to create, for a different market that values scarce quality product. That's all I can think of.
I write lots of stuff, not because I want to sell it, but simply to sate the irresistible compulsion to write. I think its good, but I expect nobody would read it, and I don't want to bash my head against a wall fighting the supersaturated market.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:05 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Accomack at February 15, 2026 10:05 AM (T8bqm)
That's one of the most consistent pieces of advice out there. For the past several years we've been told to build a mailing list, but I'm a little worried that mailing lists in the future will increasingly be made up of AI agents, not actual readers. I get multiple spam emails a week from "readers" who want to help connect me with "reading groups",but not a single email in that vein has actually been from a human. I have no doubt that if I took one of them up on the offer my"reading group" would also turn out to be a collection of AI agents.
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 15, 2026 10:05 AM (YG+k7)
Posted by: dantesed at February 15, 2026
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In my experience, dantesed, a short story might take about two weeks if you know where you're going with it (and I hate to write something without knowing that). A novel can take some months. Depends on the length you envision, or what it grows into. The old advice, "Write a page a day and in a year you'll have a manuscript," is simplified, but essentially true.
This is assuming someone who is writing in his spare time and dealing with a job. I'd think it could go much faster if one is retired or otherwise free of a job.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 10:07 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 10:05 AM (0U5gm)
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These are the same people who unironically said: "Better Red than dead." They wanted to surrender in the Cold War. Unilateral nuclear disarmament was an actual position.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Oddly, both are cases of government intervention that failed to bring about the desired results. But academia can’t figure that one out of course.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 10:07 AM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Who Knew at February 15, 2026 10:07 AM (0QMbS)
Choice "B" please Sabrina. I only have Libre Office to try to format.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:07 AM (uQesX)
I fully understand why AoSHQ has to run ads. Commenting is dwindling; I assume page views are too. The site and the fanbase are 23 years old. Ace has to eat.
As to how to avoid malicious adware, please see 86 above.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:09 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
I love the thinking behind this one. We unilaterally disarm our nukes, and the Soviet Politburo were all going to look at each other, and say, “Oh OK” and disarm just because we did.
Some people love to go way out of their way to ignore or disregard human nature.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 10:09 AM (hJH5n)
My many book cases can not hold more books, which are the Darwinian Survivors of years of buying, mostly SF, but lots of military history also. The loses go to library book sales.
So I bought a iPad to read a Kindle book. So far I am up to 62 books, 38 of them read.
I go for the bargain Megapacks of SF authors put out by Wildside Press. Plus books I did not hold, like the Penric and Desdemona novellas of 5-God fantasy by Lois McMasters Bujold.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 10:09 AM (u82oZ)
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Similarly, I hate that YouTube thumbnails depict stuff not in the videos.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 10:10 AM (J+Psw)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 15, 2026 10:10 AM (YG+k7)
Posted by: Castle Guy at February 15, 2026 10:04 AM (Lhaco)
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I've noticed this more and more, and I don't know if authors have to do it to get published, or if they're self-correcting in anticipation of a movie or streaming series with its required diversity. One of the authors wrote the series "Manifest", so he would know the drill.
Doesn't mean the characters aren't well-written and engaging, but once you notice patterns...
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 10:11 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 09:34 AM (kpS4V)
That stuff don't happen in my cra... writings. Of course, they'll probably never see the light of day.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:11 AM (uQesX)
The foolishness of "The End of History" was one of the major themes roiling around hidden beneath the laughs and shenanigans of my novel, "Wearing the Cat".
But, hey, it was right there at the beginning, in the blurry little forward before the novel proper starts:
In 1988, with America near the height of her power, prestige, and influence, history was ending.
Or, so it seemed...
Posted by: naturalfake at February 15, 2026 10:11 AM (iJfKG)
I fully understand why AoSHQ has to run ads. Commenting is dwindling; I assume page views are too. The site and the fanbase are 23 years old. Ace has to eat.
As to how to avoid malicious adware, please see 86 above.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:09 AM (N8ZBc)
I get the need for advertising. I just hate the ads. Is all computer advertising just c
Idk bait scam ads and quack clickbait scam ads? Nothing legitimate?
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 10:11 AM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:44 AM (0U5gm)
Wait lists are already pretty long for popular titles...
I am hoping it is a way around what I suspect is a bias in book acquisitions - meaning plenty of books on trans and race and women's studies and so forth but no books from authors on the right....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 15, 2026 10:12 AM (QGaXH)
https://tinyurl.com/298d4tca
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 15, 2026 10:12 AM (8XeQo)
Just my two cents here, but if you've put anything up yourself rather than having it taken by a magazine or book publisher, and strangers have paid for it, you're in the club. Maybe not a high-ranking member, but a member.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 09:36 AM (q3u5l)
(creaking sound as coinpurse opens; moths fly out)
Nope. Nuthin'
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:12 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 10:02 AM (diia5)
Well, this site is much more enjoyable when you have a full-size screen and keyboard and mouse at hand, too.
I should note that the offending adware is linked to ace.mu.nu (the main page), and not acecomments.mu.nu (this page). Even running Brave, this computer will briefly lockup on the main page for a few seconds as the adblocker wrestles with the demons.
I firmly believe that Ace could make more money by selling and displaying flat ads for a number of non-woke corporations.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 10:12 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026
TBF, it was basically a fake idea. Every last organization pushing that particular bit of twaddle was a KGB cutout.
But you can convince liberal women and their dickless male hangers-on of just about anything.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 10:13 AM (BI5O2)
1. I for one don't give a dang about VLA's truncated epic. What I want to know is: What's become of Monster Hunter International, stranded at book 8 for what, 4 or 5 years now?! We all know that Larry Correia knows how to finish a series; he's done it multiple times already!
2. British Author (w/castle) has moved on from VYW to Cool Private Investigator (and not a moment too soon). Of the 8-to-date CPI novels, most are pushing 1000 pages, but only #6 and #7 were any longer than they needed to be. Just saying.
Posted by: werewife at February 15, 2026 10:13 AM (5ayY3)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 09:40 AM (BI5O2)
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What's with everyone named Clinton?!?!?!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 10:14 AM (UzL96)
I highly recommend it. The science told has not been overthrown in the last 14 years since this was published.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 10:14 AM (u82oZ)
Idk bait scam ads and quack clickbait scam ads? Nothing legitimate?"
To begin with, ALL marketing and advertising is LIES. Do all you can to avoid it. Don't let it into your home or into your head.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:14 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 10:12 AM (8zz6B)
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Tyrell and Weyland-Yutani.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 10:15 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 15, 2026
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Exactly. I suspect that the merest hint that the main character is a male who values self-reliance and actually deals with danger is enough to get a manuscript dropped into the reject pile.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)
Interestingly enough, hating on rich guys is a perennial favorite, but it should be noted that the US saw its unprecedented growth in material wealth and standard of living in that era, and became an industrial world power, with myriad inventions that made everyone’s lives much less fatigueing.
I ran i to the guy briefly 30 years later, and as an experiment mentioned the “robber barons” as a kind of test. His eyes glowed, he still had the fires of hatred, LOL.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2026 10:15 AM (Jvwhn)
I'm currently reading Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman.
'A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel'. It's got drones, mechs, AI and more. Mix of very advanced tech and many more things much closer to our time.
Although I long stopped gaming, I do spawn camp the library app on Tuesday for new acquisitions. Description was appealing and I'd heard of his previous book. It quickly grew a long wait-list on both library systems I belong to.
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at February 15, 2026 10:15 AM (KaHlS)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 15, 2026 09:33 AM (XV/Pl)
$48 for a cloth bound here:
https://hackettpublishing.com/don-quixote
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:16 AM (uQesX)
If Ace could get ads from trustworthy adnets, I'm sure he would. But this is a niche site with niche views that major advertisers won't touch, I'm guessing.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:16 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 15, 2026 10:18 AM (ySUIq)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 09:39 AM (KnrSi)
How to start from nothing is my question.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:18 AM (uQesX)
https://tinyurl.com/3be6tk4n
The stability of global markets depends on free trade and freedom of navigation in places like the Straits of Malacca.
Think having a Navy is expensive? Try not having one.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)
And this is the glory of Indie publishing! Nobody tells us what to do. I pay no attention to wokeness in my books, (except maybe making fun of it when it fits the story. ) The really funny thing about Indie is, it is actually more diverse than Tradpub. The people making the decisions there are, for the most part, woke white women who are quite convinced your skin tone should dictate what you write about. Sarah Hoyt was nagged because she was writing Shakespearean fantasy instead of whatever Hispanic nonsense the publishers *thought* she should write. So when Indie started really going big and someone added up all the numbers, surprise! More black themed books in Indie than any tradpub offered.
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 10:18 AM (KnrSi)
Posted by: Who Knew at February 15, 2026 10:19 AM (0QMbS)
I guess Carnegie didn't buy his way into your teacher's good graces by scattering those libraries all over the country?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 10:19 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:14 AM (N8ZBc)
Oh, I know. That’s why I buy so much store brand.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 10:20 AM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I did buy affiliate stuff when he had an Amazon affiliate link. Something like that is easier to support.
Did the book thread have a 'book fair' type Amazon affiliate addendum before?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 10:20 AM (diia5)
Watt-Evans writes some entertaining short stories in that Kindle selection, to go with his better known series, like the four The Lords of Dus novels and his Legend of Ethshar books.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 10:20 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey"
Funk dat!
Posted by: George Clinton at February 15, 2026 10:20 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 10:20 AM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Castle Guy at February 15, 2026 09:40 AM (Lhaco)
That made me laugh. Good golly, how cheesy!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:20 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2026 10:21 AM (DXbAa)
And welcome to Sabrina as the host. If you haven't read her books, you should. They are fun reads. And she has a wicked sense of humor. Her "The Bureau of Substandards Annual Report" is a hoot.
Posted by: JTB at February 15, 2026 10:22 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 10:22 AM (q3u5l)
Interestingly enough, hating on rich guys is a perennial favorite, but it should be noted that the US saw its unprecedented growth in material wealth and standard of living in that era, and became an industrial world power, with myriad inventions that made everyone’s lives much less fatigueing.
I ran i to the guy briefly 30 years later, and as an experiment mentioned the “robber barons” as a kind of test. His eyes glowed, he still had the fires of hatred, LOL.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2026 10:15 AM (Jvwhn)
Some people are just that consumed by envy, hatred and resentment. He sounds like an incredibly evil man.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 10:22 AM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 15, 2026 09:33 AM (XV/Pl)
$48 for a cloth bound here:
https://hackettpublishing.com/don-quixote
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:16 AM
****
Allow me to recommend the 2003 translation by Edith Grossman, from Echo Publishing.
Posted by: werewife at February 15, 2026 10:22 AM (5ayY3)
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2026 10:22 AM (DXbAa)
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The Soviets agreed to this in principle, but they were insistent that the US disarm first, totally. This was before they had demonstrated their own atomic weapon in 1949.
Even prior to the Trinity test from the boys at Los Alamos, Ed Teller was bored with the theoretical engineering and was working on the “Super”, that is the hydrogen bomb. He kept derailing discussions about the atomic bomb, which hadn’t been built yet much less tested. Oppenheimer had to keep him away from everyone else, basically. Physicists can get easily sidetracked if not kept in line, apparently.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2026 10:22 AM (Jvwhn)
Posted by: werewife at February 15, 2026 10:13 AM (5ayY3)
I concur. VYW aged out of the category, so she'd have to create entirely different characters, or an entirely different setting. It concluded naturally. CPI has been great, but I expect it's about to conclude naturally, also. Wonder what she'll do next?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 10:23 AM (h7ZuX)
Great post Sabrina. I especially enjoyed your put down of the author I hate the most, who failed to complete a single story line after I bought and read five of his books and continues to be famous to my great disgust.
I have been having the same problem with the site and figured out how to eliminate the ad by clicking on comments but I have to reenter my nic in order to comment. This is incredibly annoying.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 15, 2026 10:23 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 10:15 AM (kpS4V)
Heh!
If Ace could get ads from trustworthy adnets, I'm sure he would. But this is a niche site with niche views that major advertisers won't touch, I'm guessing.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:16 AM (N8ZBc)
Well, King Harv's Coffee was here for a long time. What about some of the gun and ammo dealers, like Palmetto State Armories? Non-woke publishing companies? Other non-woke companies that live by Internet sales? There is a market out there. The deal is, don't use adnets; they are evil in principle. Just publish "flat" ads, simple images or text files that name the sponsor, and showcase their product, with a clickable link to their site. Just like the King Harv ads were.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 10:24 AM (8zz6B)
Close but no cigar.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 10:22 AM (q3u5l)
I touched the gas a bit too much.
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2026 10:24 AM (DXbAa)
I learned my technique as a teen from Tolkien's maps, Pauline Bayne's maps, and all the maps in "An Atlas of Fantasy".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 10:25 AM (kpS4V)
As for the VLH, judging by his last book in the series, it’s probably a good thing he hasn’t gone any further.
Posted by: RebeccaH at February 15, 2026 10:25 AM (VFung)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 09:45 AM (h7ZuX)
(shocked face)
But, I thought MP4 lived in Boston? Surely, blue-blooded Boston has no gays! He won't sell a thing there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:26 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Castle Guy at February 15, 2026 09:46 AM (Lhaco)
Ought to be able to find them on archive sites.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:27 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 10:27 AM (UzL96)
My neighborhood was once a small airport on the edge of town. We have a straight street that is wider than the others. That was the runway.
Posted by: Weak Geek at February 15, 2026 10:29 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:47 AM (wzUl9)
So, in other words, a self-insert wish fulfillment boring non-story.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:29 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey"
Funk dat!
Posted by: George Clinton
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Back in the days of The Onion, in their alternate universe news, President George Clinton dropped "Da Bomb" on Saddam, in a flagrant violation of the funk accords.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 10:30 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: TEMU at February 15, 2026 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)
If memory serves, David Janssen once said of having a popular series, "It's like dancing with an 800 pound gorilla. You don't stop when you want to stop, you stop when the gorilla wants to stop."
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 10:30 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: dantesed at February 15, 2026
Oh, what a painful question ... Sometimes a year or more for a book, especially when working around a day job. I try to write faster but sometimes that just doesn't happen. I can write a short story in about a week. For me, short stories are harder since you have to get all the bits in but in less space ...
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 10:31 AM (KnrSi)
John 10:9-10
Posted by: Marcus T at February 15, 2026 10:31 AM (ittVa)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at February 15, 2026 10:31 AM (JuSDn)
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Yeah my AP history teacher was one of those. Whatever. I used to extol the virtues of the American Hero Henry Clay Frick to get under her skin.
He was so cool. After being stabbed and shot and fighting off Berkman, he went to the hospital - but not before leaving a bloody note on his ledger saying "I do not think I will die, but if I do, it will not change the position of Carnegie Steel toward the Amalgated Association, and we will win!"
What a hardass.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 10:31 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 09:59 AM
You will become pro-carrots-in-chili, pro-Zuck, and pro-penguin.
(Although the latter two are redundant.)
Posted by: Meta AI at February 15, 2026 10:31 AM (0sNs1)
I learned my technique as a teen from Tolkien's maps, Pauline Bayne's maps, and all the maps in "An Atlas of Fantasy".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 10:25 AM
****
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places is one of the prime treasures of my personal library. Alan Moore plagiarized it flagrantly for the appendix to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II, but apparently got away with on account of being Alan Moore. Feh.
Posted by: werewife at February 15, 2026 10:32 AM (5ayY3)
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t ( why that is and what you can do about it)
His other self help book I did actually read was pretty good. The War of Art.
It gives advice on creative roadblocks and procrastination and how to be a professional instead of an amateur.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 10:32 AM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase
Kind of like posting a book review here. You only have a certain number of characters.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2026 10:33 AM (0U5gm)
It's a real shame that content producers you want to trust have no choice but to flack crap products with lies to do it. Worst are the 'personal endorsements' that the creators do for their advertisers.
"Sure, I eat these supplements myself every day, and they've made me superhuman! I've got my whole family eating them! And right now, you can get them for 50% off with coupon code SUCKER."
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:33 AM (N8ZBc)
Well, fiddle.
Got willowed last week and Ace's Super New And Annoying Ad Thingie will not let me back into the comments. I tried all ways-nada.
So, briefly, two good new books read recently:
A Bloody Habit by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson. In 1900, a London barrister encounters vampires, which he fights with the help of a bunch of Dominican Friars. Some interesting twists on the folklore, a love story and well-done period atmosphere. Creepy, but not terribly dark.
The Eighth Arrow- Odysseus in the Underworld by J. Augustine Wetta, OSB
Odysseus and his best friend Diomedes pray to Athena to spring them from Hades after three thousand years.
She (or someone) appears, gives them their gear and tell them if they make it down to the bottom of the Circles, there's a way out.
An adventure story with lessons learned. Excellent use of mythology, but less theology than you would expect from a monk ("It's just a story" he says in the afterword.)
Older YAs who like LotR would enjoy this and might be encouraged to read more mythology. Maybe even some Homer.
Posted by: sal at February 15, 2026 10:33 AM (f+FmA)
The Men Who Built America was a pretty good series.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 10:34 AM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026
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So, in other words, a self-insert wish fulfillment boring non-story.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026
***
Pretty much. A poster child-book for modern woke.
If there are dangerous animals mentioned, she could have had her characters encounter one or more. But the one bear who shows up is more like Yogi Bear, snuffling around, eating some burned food, and leaving.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 10:34 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: dantesed at February 15, 2026
Just a quick pop-in, as I saw the bit about "write a page a day" and "what if you have a job?"
Check out Robert Ray's The Weekend Novelist, which tells you how to budget your time and get a book out. I used his The Weekend Novelist Writes A Mystery when I started out, and it helped a lot.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 15, 2026 10:34 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 10:35 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:35 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026
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Short stories are harder, yes . . . but you have the gratification of finishing in much less time!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 10:36 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 15, 2026 10:36 AM (YG+k7)
My neighborhood was once a small airport on the edge of town. We have a straight street that is wider than the others. That was the runway.
Posted by: Weak Geek at February 15, 2026 10:29 AM (p/isN)
There’s old geezers who remember going to see the airplanes. It was a big deal.
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2026 10:37 AM (DXbAa)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 10:37 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: dantesed at February 15, 2026 10:01 AM (Oy/m2)
Depends on the writing style of the author. Months for most, unless you write for someone's deadline. I take a couple of days for a short story, but months for a novel because I write in fits and starts. I can do days without writing, and also write every day for a couple weeks. I have no pressure to publish anything at this point except the inevitable end.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:37 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:35 AM (N8ZBc)
I suggested it to him directly in comments. He was not enthused. Perhaps it would compromise his OpSec.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 10:38 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 15, 2026 10:38 AM (t/2Uw)
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Without them we'd all be scrounging in the dirt but at least we'd all be equal.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 10:39 AM (J+Psw)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:26 AM (uQesX)
Heh. Big potential problem is he could get the audience, but then they would start demanding gay characters and action. I didn't really think this through.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 10:39 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: TEMU
Aside from the CCP propaganda and economic warfare, of course.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 10:39 AM (diia5)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 10:31 AM"
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Allegedly I wrote this somewhere along the way:
“I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one.”
Posted by: The ghost of Mark Twain at February 15, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Cow Demon
*Hangs head in shame* Would you believe I have a post-it note on my desk telling me to update my webpage?
The book I have been struggling to finish has put a crimp in things. And I got laid off. But I have a job again!
*makes another note to update webpage before Cow Demon pokes me with a stick*
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 10:40 AM (KnrSi)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 15, 2026 10:05 AM (YG+k7)
No AI here!
Posted by: A Literary Horde - see main page sidebar at February 15, 2026 10:41 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 15, 2026 10:41 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 10:22 AM (hJH5n)
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Marxism is not new, it's just a repackaging of a heresy that seeks to make virtues of envy, pride and wrath.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 09:47 AM (wzUl9)
So, in other words, a self-insert wish fulfillment boring non-story.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:29 AM (uQesX)
That was ( was ) on my TBR list, because it was recommended by Patrick Chiles. Meh, nobody's perfect.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 15, 2026 10:43 AM (8XeQo)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:43 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 10:07 AM (wzUl9)
Pro tip: It doesn't.
Posted by: Retired Narrator at February 15, 2026 10:43 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Tuna at February 15, 2026 10:43 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: TEMU
Aside from the CCP propaganda and economic warfare, of course.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 10:39 AM (diia5)
Temu is a disaster. More than a few people got severe skin rashes from their shirts, way over the limit with formaldehyde and other shit chemicals. I think some medical drama even did an episode on the dangers.
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 10:43 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Eromero
My dad used to take us to our small rural airport to watch the planes take off and land. Usually we'd just sit in the car but on really big days we'd go in and ride the escalators up and down.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 10:43 AM (J+Psw)
Now I see it making the traditional market worse because the traditional art world will embrace even crappier art than it does now to separate itself from AI.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 10:44 AM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 10:35 AM (BI5O2)
Oh yes!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2026 10:44 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 15, 2026 10:45 AM (xcxpd)
Think having a Navy is expensive? Try not having one.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)
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One gets the Tragedy of the Commons with sea routes, but the same people who don't understand that also don't understand global trade.
A lot of it is ignorance cloaked in academic jargon.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 10:45 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:43 AM
+++++++
I don't get no respect.
Posted by: Snake oil at February 15, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)
The bad news: Regency Lesbian Fiction is now a thing.
There was a 'Reading Journal' in the Lifestyle magazine section. I glanced inside- a mistake. It has a log for how many days per month reading, minutes read per day,
book report spaces with not enough room to write, up coming books you should read lists...
A plan to take all the fun out of reading, basically.
Posted by: sal at February 15, 2026 10:46 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 10:46 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 10:46 AM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 10:07 AM (wzUl9)
Pro tip: It doesn't.
Posted by: Retired Narrator at February 15, 2026 10:43 AM (uQesX)
Literally true. I personally need the structure of a day job. When I was unemployed, I completed zero novels. Doesn't make sense but there it is.
Sadly, I discovered having a wife and a dog was far harder on my writing desire than having a job was/is.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 15, 2026 10:46 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 10:46 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 15, 2026 10:10 AM (YG+k7)
I've been noodling around with it myself. Reedsy's format program isn't good. It won't let me do what I want. It does take a while trying to figure out the trim of each book format.
Posted by: Retired Narrator at February 15, 2026 10:47 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 15, 2026 10:47 AM (xcxpd)
Have something to say. It doesn't have to be profound or funny, just entertaining.
And know the audience. Professional writers often crank out endless versions of the same stuff for the simple reason that it sells. Nothing at all wrong with that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 10:47 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:00 AM
I think Vox Day had the best analysis, that there are two critical problems.
One, the series simply has too many viewpoint characters. The VLA's earlier lack of discipline in introducing VCs means that now he would have to kill off most of them, just to be able to write a coherent book that wraps things up. Even if he hasn't shied away from killing characters before, the mass slaughter necessary could hit attachments that he can't let go of.
Two, he's far too grim of a die-hard nihilist to allow the natural ending to flow out, where the least worst couple finds love and imposes justice. And everyone would hate a forced Evil Wins and Nothing Matters kind of ending.
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 10:47 AM (Sy6m/)
Better get Carshield, like me!
Posted by: Mark Levin at February 15, 2026 10:48 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Snake oil at February 15, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)
It must work. I have never heard a snake squeak.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 10:48 AM (8zz6B)
I think that's the tell tale sign of a good book (series). Im about a 5 minute drive right now from the bookstore where the author launched his career in Raleigh.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 15, 2026 10:49 AM (D0fIV)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 10:49 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 10:44 AM (cwGMH)
Probably, but at the same time AI is coming up with "artforms" that paper and hands cannot produce. The latest craze per M'lady is recreating and animating celebs from the past. Lots of women go wild for watching Audrey Hepburn walk around the grounds of a chateau with Mel Ferrer, followed by Gable and Lombard.
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 10:49 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 10:43 AM (kJmLc)
I can pick up a garment to be tagged at my volunteer job and instantly tell if it's either Temu or Shein.
Posted by: sal at February 15, 2026 10:50 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Snake oil at February 15, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1) "
He pushed 'Field of Greens' so often, I actually looked at their site. It doesn't look harmful to me, but it's insanely expensive, surely not worth whatever dubious benefits it might offer.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:51 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 15, 2026 10:51 AM (XMwZJ)
And in my opinion for art it lends to repetitive subject matter which is not good. Again just imo.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 10:52 AM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2026 10:52 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: sal at February 15, 2026 10:50 AM (f+FmA)
Yep and in the meantime "pre-owned" American made garments are expensive.
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 10:52 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 15, 2026 10:52 AM (D0fIV)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 10:54 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: dantesed at February 15, 2026 10:01 AM (Oy/m2)
Depends on the writing style of the author.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 10:37 AM (uQesX)
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My approach to writing is to think in terms of "sessions." A session should produce 2,000 words over the course of an evening. If I don't feel I have that much material, I don't bother. However, once I hit upon an idea, I can move with considerable speed. The first draft of A Man of Destiny was 20,000 words and I wrote it over a weekend.
It more than doubled in length before publication, but that was mostly adding description and sub-plots. The core of the story was done.
The fastest book I ever wrote was Long Live Death, which I spent years researching (going back to college) and serious work began six months before I typed a word. However, once I had my sources organized, I wrote the first draft in six weeks. Editing and feedback took another two months and it I published it shortly thereafter, albeit with a lot of typos that required a second full-scale edit. I was much more deliberate about Walls of Men.
Speed is overrated.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 10:54 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 10:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 10:54 AM (ZOv7s)
Probably so, unless you write formulaic romances where all that changes is the names and the setting.
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 10:56 AM (kJmLc)
To get around the ad, do not click on Continue reading, go straight to Comments and click on that. Then you do not get the ads.
Lots of people here have been complaining about this all week.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 15, 2026 10:56 AM (nz1sK)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 15, 2026 10:51 AM (XMwZJ)
Same reason people pay hundreds of thousands of dollars at a particular customization shop for my beloved hummers, only to find out they are charlatans.
People assume that because they are on TV they are legit. That they are for real..that they have skill and competence that others don't.
The truth of the matter is that they are better at being on camera than they are turning a wrench. This is why they're on TV...
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 15, 2026 10:56 AM (D0fIV)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 15, 2026 10:58 AM (Kt19C)
I liked it. I don't know what pretentious slop the genre of "solar punk" is supposed to be, but it's really "cozy sci-fi." The world building and the characters are unique, I enjoyed spending time in them. And her prose is vivid but not purple.
The problem I have is the author has no actual courage. Introduces wild predators and not once does the robot have to save the monk from a wolf or bear. That is a chekov's gun fail. And they get all the way to the big city and never go in! That's like ending the wizard of Oz before they get to Oz.
It's cozy, she is avoiding hard things. If she had stones she'd finish the series as a trilogy, with the final book they go into the city. But if she's lazy/wimpy she won't do it. Still, despite these fatal flaws, I liked it. Haven't read her main sci-fi series that is her bread and butter.
Posted by: LizLem at February 15, 2026 10:58 AM (gWBY1)
To get around the ad, do not click on Continue reading, go straight to Comments and click on that. Then you do not get the ads.
Lots of people here have been complaining about this all week.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 15, 2026 10:56 AM (nz1sK)
Or have an adblocker. This is what I have on my iPad.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 10:59 AM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Stuff your grandfather used to say at February 15, 2026 10:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Me too. It's blatant misrepresentation. I wish it would stop.
I'm so old, I remember when media would caption 'file photo' when they use a pic for illustration that is not from the actual event.
In news media now, I see a story about a plane crash, and they use a file photo of a completely different aircraft type, without saying 'file photo,' or even 'we think a plane looks like this.'
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 10:59 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 10:34 AM (wzUl9)
And that crap gets publishing deals.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:00 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: LizLem at February 15, 2026 11:00 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 15, 2026 10:56 AM (D0fIV)
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All collecting hobbies are demand-driven. Supply is irrelevant. If demand drops, they become worthless, and usually never recover.
If one collects, it should be based on a personal sense of value, not potential market worth, which is completely unknowable.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 11:01 AM (q3u5l)
Are they worth even $5K for the parts only?
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:01 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 15, 2026 10:51 AM (XMwZJ)
Maybe if they stopped screaming at each other and did actual work they’d churn out a better product.
(Yes, I am aware things are played up for cameras. This is why I have vehently argued there IS NO reality TV. The reality stops when the camera is turned on.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 11:01 AM (hJH5n)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:01 AM (cDcjR)
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2026 10:37 AM (DXbAa)
Taking the kids to the airport to watch the planes arrive and depart. From inside the terminal! Nobody gets to do that anymore.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 11:01 AM (h7ZuX)
off. But I have a job again!"
*makes another note to update webpage before Cow Demon pokes me with a stick*
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 10:40 AM (KnrSi)
I'm so sorry, but if my formatting above is correct, it shows the line break I saw when I first read it- so what I saw was Sabrina saying not only was her latest book preventing her from updating her site, but also, OMG I got laid!
Again, sorry, it was just such a jolt and so funny I had to mention it.
Posted by: Denny Crane - Books are fun at February 15, 2026 11:02 AM (i49OE)
Generally, no. Most (not all) materials are low grade.
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:03 AM (cDcjR)
Oh, the possibilities for future gifts and suggestions. (Have to figure out if The Hobbit is too advanced for a 7 or 8 year old.)
Posted by: JTB at February 15, 2026 11:03 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Stuff your grandfather used to say at February 15, 2026 10:59 AM (2Ez/1)
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The key part in that is finishing the job, and that's about the only good thing about working fast.
I still like to push the tempo, lest I run out of steam and add yet another unfinished manuscript to the virtual pile.
But post-writing is something that needs to be slow-walked. Going forward, I'm going to generate an audiobook of all future titles if for no other reason that having it read aloud to me is a great way of finding mistakes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:01 AM (N8ZBc)
Berserker is our resident expert on all things Harley Davidson. I think he would tell that 5 grand could buy you a nice older stock bike with low miles on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)
I agree. Remember the beanie baby craze?
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 10:39 AM (h7ZuX)
Right, because you'd feel obligated to do fan service. Except for one, all the characters I've ever created are normal and sex does not enter into the story.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM (uQesX)
Police bodycams and interrogation vids are the only almost real thing I can find. They truly reveal how people react under stress.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM (N8ZBc)
*remembers the lounge @ Dulles. Now offamylawn*
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM (cDcjR)
Posted by: Stuff your grandfather used to say at February 15, 2026 10:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Some professions judge on both.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 15, 2026 11:05 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:05 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 11:01 AM (h7ZuX)
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In one of his letters home, my great-grandfather commented that from his trench he could see lots of planes in the sky, had never seen that many before. This was in World War I.
He died in 1975 and couldn't accept that the moon landing was real. I think being able to recall the Wright Brothers made it just too much for him to take in.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 11:07 AM (vFG9F)
I think it was Daily Mail the other day with a story about the Lolita Express, which was a B727-100, and the photo posted in the article was some old Falcon-50.
It's like their attitude was that any old 3-engine jet will do.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 11:07 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Cow Demon
All reality tv is 'written' by the directors and their ADs. They goose everything, giving suggestions and hints to the personalities, to the point where they outline plots entirely.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 11:07 AM (diia5)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM (uQesX)
Then they aren't normal.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 15, 2026 11:07 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: LizLem at February 15, 2026
***
Yes; it's clear and readable, and rather charming in spots, but there's no real crisis or conflict.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:08 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:08 AM (cDcjR)
And is an excellent illustration of why formatting is KEY for books! I do my own, and you would not believe how deep in the weeds I have to get sometimes in the HTML to prevent such *koff* issues from appearing...
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 11:08 AM (KnrSi)
Posted by: JTB
You're joking, right? It was written for his kids. It is a kid's book.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 11:08 AM (diia5)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 11:07 AM (Y1sOo)
Your point?
Posted by: MSM gub "expert" who thinks all gubs are Glocks at February 15, 2026 11:09 AM (8XeQo)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:09 AM (cDcjR)
Posted by: Stuff your grandfather used to say at February 15, 2026 10:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Note this doesn't apply to GRRM who simply refuses to work on his series that desperately needs an ending.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 15, 2026 11:09 AM (D0fIV)
It's like their attitude was that any old 3-engine jet will do."
To today's media, it's not a news photo; it's mere decorative clip-art. It sucks.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:09 AM (N8ZBc)
Wizard series ended where it needed to. The problem I have is she naturally understands the British school system and British culture and life, and built an amazing fantasy world from that. When she switched to doing a movie prequel set in America, she was too lazy/confident to properly research our of her genre.
Also, she is not a screenwriter and she insisted on being involved with the screenplay. Without doing the work to actually learn how to write them.
Brandon Sanderson is working on a screenplay of Mistborn...he doesn't trust Hollywood to do it properly, smart man. But he's realized and been open about how humbling it is to write a screenplay when you write novels. And then realize you have a lot to learn to do it properly.
Wizard author has a fun modern detective series, good for her.
She famously got several dozen rejections before trad publishers took a chance. Which shows they really know nothing. It's scary as someone wanting to write. How many amazing books never saw the light of day because of rejections?
Posted by: LizLem at February 15, 2026 11:10 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM (kJmLc)
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And comic books before that. Firearms are a great example because things wax and wane all the time. Guns don't become worthless per se, but they can drop in value a lot when public interest fades, and it has nothing to do with supply.
How many million M1 Garands are out there? Now compare that number with one of the few Chinese-made rifles that somehow got into the country before 1968, likely as a bring-back from Korea or Vietnam. Very few. I spent a few months doing weekly web sweeps and the number for sale at any time never exceeded 2, and was often zero. Thousands of Garands for sale, most two or three times as much because demand is what matters, not scarcity.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 10:49 AM (kJmLc)
I hate that stuff. But watch a few anyway. Depends on who it is.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:11 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 15, 2026 11:12 AM (gUs21)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026
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Rex Stout, once he got going on the Nero Wolfes, was not quite that fast. But he would turn out ready-to-print copy -- first draft was final draft. And while he was not the greatest *mystery* plotter in the field, his stories were always gripping and entertaining, and you were never left feeling like you read something lightly tossed off. (He did have a couple of very late entries in the series which were weaker. But mostly he kept the quality up until the end.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:12 AM (wzUl9)
'Cause I got high
Because I got high
Because I got high
Posted by: Afroman lyrics at February 15, 2026 11:13 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:13 AM (N8ZBc)
That's an interesting observation. My great grandmother would talk about the Galveston Hurricane - but she never traveled beyond Ohio - it was because she saw a newsreel sometime later with "moving pictures" and left such an impression on her...
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:14 AM (cDcjR)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 11:07 AM (diia5)
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The shows became big during a writers' strike and they use a loophole about being "unscripted" to avoid giving a writing credit, but they are absolutely set-piece setup stories.
They just use non-union actors.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:14 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 10:56 AM (kJmLc)
Write one good book and you're set for life!
Posted by: Prolific Romance Author at February 15, 2026 11:14 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:11 AM (uQesX)
Women love the dresses. She was particularly fascinated by the ones that listed the designers as well as the deceased celebs. I wonder if the celebs have to be gone wo have their images used and altered for AI. The only still alive celeb I saw in the video I was asked to watch was Ann Margret
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 11:14 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 11:14 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM (kJmLc)
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We used to be a thing.
Posted by: Tulip bulbs at February 15, 2026 11:14 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 15, 2026
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Alastair Maclean was another, I understand. His early thrillers -- and his first, a naval WWII story called H.M.S. Ulysses -- were all tight and well done. He began to slip in attention to detail later and to overwrite.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM (uQesX)
This is the way.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 11:15 AM (h7ZuX)
Yay for a budding reading machine! Pete the Cat and Dogman might be good choices for that age. Amulet when they get a little older is a fun graphic novel series. And you can always buy them Narnia, Wrinkle in Time or Hobbit as a "we read this together" series they can reread when they're older. They will treasure the memories of you reading to them!
Posted by: LizLem at February 15, 2026 11:15 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Prolific Romance Author at February 15, 2026 11:14 AM (uQesX)
I suppose it's true as sequels will do the rest and you can sell the rights to TV
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 11:15 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: LizLem at February 15, 2026 11:00 AM (gWBY1)
(points to sidebar)
Posted by: A Literary Horde at February 15, 2026 11:17 AM (uQesX)
It's like their attitude was that any old 3-engine jet will do.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 11:07 AM (Y1sOo)
There is an ad currently running on TV sports channels for some scummy gambling site, inviting you to gamble againsts "impossible" odds. One of the "impossibles" they cite is the Wright brothers getting their plane off the ground. The video clip purports to show one of the brothers looking on in awe as the other zooms off into the wild blue yonder in a plane that could be a Curtiss Jenny, or some other 1920-ish model. The real Wright Flyer looked like a piece of Japanese origami, and manage to fly a whole 120 feet at maybe 6 to 12 feet above the ground. But it was a controlled flight, and landed in one piece.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2026 11:17 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:17 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026
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I'd love to see the young Rod Taylor as Lazarus Long. Or Robert Vaughn as Ellery Queen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:17 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: The Writers of "Dallas" and "St. Elsewhere" at February 15, 2026 11:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:14 AM (cDcjR)
I am here today because my maternal grandparents survived "Isaac's Storm".
Posted by: sal at February 15, 2026 11:17 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:18 AM (cDcjR)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 11:18 AM (J+Psw)
To Ms. Chase: TY for the insights into Trad Pub. As a reader, I find it very irritating whe the cover doesn’t match the story. A well-respective sf mag I subscribe to has gone the route of using Shutterstock images, which may—or may not— reflect one of the stories the issue contains.
Posted by: March Hare at February 15, 2026 11:18 AM (O/GSq)
I just finished beta-reading a fantasy story that one of our AOS writers sent me, and found it thoroughly entertaining. He's looking for a few more readers, so if any are interested, feel free to hit me up here, and I'll set up an email exchange..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 15, 2026 11:19 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Ever look on Ebay motors? Are these guys asking for $200k for a car modified to their taste really looking to sell it, or getting oohs and ahhs from wannabe classic owners?
PS: those mods look like shit, totally ruining a classic
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (uQesX)
Yes. I lost the manual, so I had to go online to download it. Just a First-World Problem gripe.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM (kJmLc)
Beanie Babies, HA! They can suck our cotton-filled asses.
-------Cabbage Patch Cabal
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM (uQesX)
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This is the way.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026
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Regarding normal, I love mixing a little abnormal psych into my stuff. Sociopaths make great villains, or at least antagonists, and paranoiacs are chilling to read about.
As for sex, it depends on the story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 11:18 AM (J+Psw)
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But bringing back domestic manufacturing jobs is unpossible.
Sure, Barry.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:17 AM (wzUl9)
Re-make movies with your dream cast? Now that would be fun.
Posted by: sal at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (f+FmA)
*remembers the lounge @ Dulles. Now offamylawn*
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:04 AM
*****
Gravelly Point by DCA.
Posted by: Ask me how I know at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (2Ez/1)
It would be nice if people stopped electing politicians who are utterly hostile to business. Cut red tape and taxes in this country and encourage capital formation and watch what happens. You will have plenty of work, including The Only Jobs That Matter.
That, and The Only Jobs That Matter(manufacturing) in this country are high-end, for which we need an educated workforce, which means critical thinkers and people who can do arithmetic, not people who specialize in naming all45 genders and will only fight and die for homosexuality because There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 11:21 AM (hJH5n)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (uQesX)
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No. Ebay is good for used gun parts from time to time. Also selling them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:22 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ask me how I know at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (2Ez/1)
Been there many times. : )
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 11:22 AM (hJH5n)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:22 AM (N8ZBc)
Minor scandal - late 90s Lotus was trying (again) to be a thing in the US, debut at the Chicago Auto Show, and their name on screen was.... the "lotus" from lotus 123. We laughed and laughed...
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:22 AM (cDcjR)
Posted by: JTB
You're joking, right? It was written for his kids. It is a kid's book."
Yeah, that was a joke. My hope is he would enjoy it and want to read it to his little brother who is four. His parents and aunt are Tolkien fans so that might further inspire him. I wish they lived nearby. I would love to read it with him.
Posted by: JTB at February 15, 2026 11:23 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:23 AM (cDcjR)
I am now listening to Anatomy of a Murder on the recommendation of the Moron Horde. I loved the writer’s autobiographical introduction, which was quite droll!
Posted by: March Hare at February 15, 2026 11:23 AM (O/GSq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:17 AM (wzUl9)
Re-make movies with your dream cast? Now that would be fun.
Posted by: sal at February 15, 2026
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I can just picture Taylor saying Lazarus's line, when Libby tells him his, Libby's, super-math-wizard skill can be taught to anyone: "Sure, and you can teach a snake to tap dance once you get shoes on him."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:23 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 15, 2026 11:07 AM (g8Ew
OK, normal for the olde tymes. I don't use profanity in my stuff or graphic sex, just hint at it. I want my stuff to be friendly for just about anyone above young kid age.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:24 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: March Hare at February 15, 2026
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Anatomy has flashes of real and unexpected humor both in the novel, and in the James Stewart film.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:24 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 15, 2026 11:25 AM (jrgJz)
This is one reason I dislike 'sporterizing' of classic milsurp firearms. It's defacing history, and once you've 'customized' a thing to your taste and needs, it is no longer of use to anybody else who doesn't share your taste or needs.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:25 AM (N8ZBc)
As for sex, it depends on the story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (wzUl9)
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Yeah, you need some variation, though how far out you go depends on the genre/story.
Sometimes sex is a necessary part of the story, but should never be described in lurid detail. Yeah, it's pornographic but mainly boring. It's sufficient to know that it happens and characterize it relative to the plot.
The Hayes Code was great in that respect.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:25 AM (ZOv7s)
Taking Lent off, so will see you after Easter.
Posted by: sal at February 15, 2026 11:25 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: March Hare at February 15, 2026 11:25 AM (O/GSq)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:25 AM (cDcjR)
2026 just keeps getting better: "Parasitic screwworm" on its way to the U.S.
https://is.gd/UFb7fc
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 11:26 AM (J+Psw)
Posted by: March Hare at February 15, 2026
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If you put those close tags in your signature line, they'll take over if you forget in your comment text.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:27 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 11:08 AM (KnrSi)
I've found issues in moron's books. I won't say whose, but I've seen the type face change mid page and cut off text. That's one of the things to consider when self publishing. You'd hope a Big Five house would avoid that, but....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:27 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:27 AM (cwGMH)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:25 AM (N8ZBc)
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Sporterizing made sense when they were essentially free and ammo was unobtainable. At this late date, there are enough out there that it's a waste of money. Sporterized guns are selling for less than the optics on them are worth. Talk about loss of value!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:27 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Charles R Harris at February 15, 2026 11:28 AM (vGemC)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:22 AM (N8ZBc)
I did too. Also collected flow-blue China. The antique/collectibles market has very short ups and downs. Like the stock market. Next year you might make a nice profit off those items that disappointed you this year.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 15, 2026 11:28 AM (g8Ew8)
As for sex, it depends on the story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (wzUl9)
I just meant keeping the sex out of the story. I'm no prude, but I get really annoyed with graphic sex scenes in an otherwise good story. Unless you're specifically writing erotica, I don't see a need for it.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 11:29 AM (h7ZuX)
Whew. So I wasn't the only one to think that...
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:09 AM (cDcjR)
I guess to clarify: my male characters like female characters and vice versa. I've only had one gay character and he was non-sexual in the story and will never be seen again.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:29 AM (uQesX)
I don't think he ever put even eight rounds through it, but he 'customized' the shit out of. Different strokes for different folks.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:29 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: mrp at February 15, 2026 11:29 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:29 AM (cwGMH)
So now he's got his end but nobody likes it and he can't figure out how to wrap it up. Plus he's too busy going to conventions and sleeping with confused young cosplayers
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:30 AM (PYyV9)
Posted by: microcosme at February 15, 2026 11:30 AM (Xx9uC)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:29 AM (N8ZBc)
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Garands are so ubiquitous and the parts so widespread that they seem to exist in a fluid state, moving back and forth between customization and restoration. A lot of Ship of Theseus stuff going on with them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:31 AM (ZOv7s)
Sex scenes almost never are useful or meaningful because they are just there to be titillating and server prurient interests. Everything should serve the story, advance the plot, build character, establish the setting and/or create or resolve conflict. Instead its just bumping uglies. Its like having the characters carefully described having a bowel movement or sleeping.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:32 AM (PYyV9)
Tough call. So many of the surplus gear is... not good. Really. (I know, what a heretic)
I've handled so many with ill fitting bits, damaged furniture, and in such condition that I wouldn't risk firing them... "but it's a classic and I know what I have"
That's when I laugh and walk on
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:32 AM (cDcjR)
Posted by: sal at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (f+FmA)
Anna May Wong was tragically denied the main role in The Good Earth, she would have killed it. And while I adore Audrey as Eliza Doolittle, it probably should have gone to Julie Andrews since she originated the part. And Marilyn was Capote's actual choice for Holly in Breakfast at Tiffany's. (Again, Audrey got that role.)
It looks fun to use AI to create these "what might have been" movie roles. At the same time, a lot of classic iconic movie bits aren't scripted. It would be cool but not the same. Not really those actors making choices or improv or flubs in the moment. I'm torn on if I actually want this to be a real thing that AI does.
Posted by: LizLem at February 15, 2026 11:32 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:29 AM (cwGMH)
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It wasn't just the sex, it was the whole subplot. Maybe it was included to boost the word count.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:33 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Charles R Harris
Oh wow, that was a while ago! Thank you for your business! Yeah, I used to have my own online store. Then Washington state went insane and wanted digital services (like ebooks) to pay sales tax based on the *purchaser's* location. Meaning I had to collect that info THEN figure out the tax AND report it and ... People rag on Amazon all the time and the cut they take for ebook sales but in my opinion? Worth it. They deal with the tax nonsense and the credit card security and sweet little old ladies who don't know how to load ebooks.
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 11:33 AM (KnrSi)
I found a terrific guide online on how to format your book using Java and HTML, and its very detailed. I had to do some very in depth and curious things to get Life Unworthy properly formatted because of the various German and Polish words.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:34 AM (PYyV9)
Barack Obama Says Most Voters Want “Orderly Immigration System” That Differentiates Between Illegal and Legal
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 11:34 AM (J+Psw)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:32 AM (PYyV9)
I have always taken them as a sign that the author has spent too much time writing at one sitting and is allowing his/her primal instincts to seep in.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 11:34 AM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:17 AM (wzUl9)
Whaa? Peter Lawford was too old??
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:34 AM (uQesX)
Sabrina, thanks for an enlightening and entertaining Book Thread!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 15, 2026 11:34 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Abe Lincoln's axe at February 15, 2026 11:35 AM (cDcjR)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026
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My one major gay character was set that way in part so that there would never be a romance, fulfilled or not, between him and his female assistant, who narrates the story. It gave me the chance to have her write, when she sees him eyeing a man she likes, "Great. Now I was going to have to compete for guys with my boss."
I make no big fuss about it. He happens to be gay the same way he happens to have brown hair and is diabetic, and that's an end to it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:35 AM (wzUl9)
The Author Died
Jack Chalker, Robert Asprin, Robert Adams, and Joel Rosenberg all left series I was hoping to read more of when they passed away.
The Rest of Life Sucks
Robert Asprin (again), and more recently Jim Butcher had significant real-life issues that caused multi-year hiatuses in their output. Fortunately, they both came back, but some series can disappear entirely because of that.
Fans With Issues
Mercedes Lackey stopped writing one series because some fans got a little too caught up in it. That is, they became convinced it was not fiction but was really happening and some went stalker-level trying to get her to admit it.
Posted by: Sam at February 15, 2026 11:35 AM (7jMef)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:36 AM (cDcjR)
Posted by: The Writers of "Dallas" and "St. Elsewhere" at February 15, 2026 11:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Hey!
Posted by: Newhart at February 15, 2026 11:36 AM (uQesX)
Either side of the winter solstice, there's a short period when the bathroom sink gets full sun for a couple hours a day. Tom knows the schedule, and he takes full advantage.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:36 AM (N8ZBc)
https://is.gd/4YGbiR
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 15, 2026 11:18 AM (J+Psw)
He didn't say 'space'. No details, just aliens are real, he hasn't seen them, and there's no underground facility keeping them anywhere. I'm not the first to note that he might as well be talking about demons, for all we know.
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 11:36 AM (Sy6m/)
Godfather had the same thing. In that case, Mario Puzo had written several books that just weren't selling all that well. So he figured "fine I'll lard it up with sex stuff and see if that helps." So we got this long and involved subplot involving Sonny Corleone and a girl with anatomical issues and her dealing with it, in graphic detail.
And the book sold despite that, the films leaving it out entirely.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:36 AM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026
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Whaa? Peter Lawford was too old??
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026
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Very, and too British.
I'd love to see Alexis Denisof, "Wesley" on Angel, play EQ. Despite doing the British dialect in that show, he is not English himself, and I think he could do it well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:37 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 11:37 AM (hJH5n)
I thought Spencer Tracy in his prime could have done it, not that he would have. Was Taylor a ginger?
Posted by: Nazdar at February 15, 2026 11:37 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: March Hare at February 15, 2026 11:18 AM (O/GSq)
I'd prefer using Moron artists for covers than stock or AI.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:38 AM (uQesX)
-------Cabbage Patch Cabal
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (g8Ew
From what I understand Labubus are the new beanie baby craze. But originals are so expensive! At least when troll dolls were huge, you could get super cheap troll dolls as well as the expensive ones.
Posted by: LizLem at February 15, 2026 11:38 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:29 AM (uQesX)
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I've included gay characters in a couple of novels, and did so deliberately. They even had sex, but it was not described.
Why? Because they were necessary to the story and the concept of the character.
One of the silly contentions about Brideshead Revisited is that Sebastian and Charles had a homosexual relationship. They clearly did not, and we know this because Waugh did not flinch from putting homosexuals in his books, even in that very book, so if they were gay, he'd say so explicitly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:38 AM (ZOv7s)
I've handled so many with ill fitting bits, damaged furniture, and in such condition that I wouldn't risk firing them... "but it's a classic and I know what I have"
That's when I laugh and walk on
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:32 AM (cDcjR)
I don't care what or how old a gun/rifle is, if it can't be fired it's useless to me. Don't want.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 15, 2026 11:38 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:38 AM (cDcjR)
Posted by: Setsoru at February 15, 2026 11:39 AM (WTpW+)
391 The sex part was totally unnecessary in the book Jaws. The movie proved that.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:29 AM (cwGMH)
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It wasn't just the sex, it was the whole subplot. Maybe it was included to boost the word count.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:33 AM
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I know this isn't a Movie Thread..but there were many things I liked about The Brutalist, and yet the sexual aspects of it kind of ruined it for me.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 11:39 AM (2Ez/1)
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I thought Spencer Tracy in his prime could have done it, not that he would have. Was Taylor a ginger?
Posted by: Nazdar at February 15, 2026
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I don't know. His hair always seemed in color movies like Time Machine to have a reddish hint to its brown.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:39 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:20 AM (wzUl9)
There are consummated relationships in my stuff, but all straight. Wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:39 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 15, 2026 11:39 AM (t/2Uw)
Came across something this morning.
You should go to Finance Buzz website, click on their article, "15 Quaint Southern Cities Where You Can Retire on $1,850 a Month (Or Less)" and see what city came in as #1.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 11:39 AM (Y1sOo)
Marilyn would have made more sense. I can see her marrying Doc, but Hepburn is reportedly "iconic"
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 11:39 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:40 AM (cDcjR)
I think I might like it. It's on my list for when I get the attention span to appreciate it.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:40 AM (N8ZBc)
I had a lesbian character show up in Old Habits, she's prominent but dead at the time of the story. It just created a conflict and explained why the rooms of the two characters in question were so far apart, but connected.
The only thing close to a sex scene in my books happens off screen, happens for plot reasons, and helps give background on one of the characters. There is a scene in Snowberry's Veil where my editor thought I might have been heading to something spicy but I had no intention at all and didn't read it that way when I was writing it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:40 AM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:41 AM (wzUl9)
Thanks again, and Happy Reading!
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 11:41 AM (KnrSi)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:25 AM (N8ZBc)
Correct.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:41 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:40 AM (cDcjR)
Haven’t read a page in 30 years. A horrible book.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 11:42 AM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:32 AM (PYyV9)
'Zackly. It always seems like a non sequitur to me.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 11:42 AM (h7ZuX)
My reading this week: I finished "The Plague and I" and really enjoyed it. Recommend.
Posted by: LASue at February 15, 2026 11:43 AM (lCppi)
There are consummated relationships in my stuff, but all straight. Wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026
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Same here. My gay professor had a long-time "partner" who died in an accident, making my character a widower of sorts. No details of their relationship are offered or need to be, and I would have a hard time dealing with such things anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:43 AM (wzUl9)
Have publishers in fact been insisting on word counts that almost amount to planning to sell a book by the pound?
When I started buying paperbacks, a lot of the novels I read (almost all sf, some mystery & suspense) ran 50 or 60 thousand words and I don't recall feeling cheated at the time and still don't on rereading them decades later. I believe SFWA still regards 40 thousand as the low word count to make the novel classification. But it seems like half of what I see in bookstores are doorstops. Sure, some stories may need that length, but so many? Really?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 11:43 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:44 AM (cwGMH)
Supposedly this is very common in romance novels, with the characters bearing no resemblance to the cover depiction.
I published Snowberry's Veil through a (very) small publishing company and they provided the cover. I requested a scene of mounted knights charging on a cloud (a very cinematic scene in the story) and they gave me a few lancers furtively riding through a forest.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:44 AM (PYyV9)
When I picked the project back up, I ended up deleting half of it, including all the sex scenes as I'd gotten beyond that and had a deeper understanding of morality. So sex happens, but not in any great detail.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2026 11:45 AM (ZOv7s)
You should go to Finance Buzz website, click on their article, "15 Quaint Southern Cities Where You Can Retire on $1,850 a Month (Or Less)" and see what city came in as #1.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026
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Ding, ding, ding! I thought you were going to say Nawlins, and I know better than to think this place is affordable. I see Lafayette is on their list, though.
Sierra Vista, AZ, sounds nice.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:46 AM (wzUl9)
Third favorite Predator movie though all three are only minimally separated.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:47 AM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:35 AM (wzUl9)
Lawrence Block is good at that with his Matthew Scudder series. In his investigations, he drops into a gay bar, and the bar owner is a good character. Scudder is non-judgmental about it, it adds texture to the story without proclaiming that GAY IS GOOD and you must accept that! He's just part of the New York demographic.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026 11:47 AM (h7ZuX)
When writers were serializing in magazines or writing pulp, they literally were paid by the word, so guys like Charles Dickens had significant motivation to make things as long and wordy as possible. Plus, back then, you had more time to read and saw a book as a way to pass time more than entertainment.
Pulp writers were forced to keep their writing within specific limits so they made up for it by being massively prolific, firing off several stories a month.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:47 AM (PYyV9)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 11:48 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:25 AM (N8ZBc)
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Sporterizing made sense when they were essentially free and ammo was unobtainable. At this late date, there are enough out there that it's a waste of money. Sporterized guns are selling for less than the optics on them are worth. Talk about loss of value!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Eh, having unsporterized a bunch, the main issue is a cut barrel and drilling a bunch of useless holes in the receiver. The smarter ones put peep sights on them, a lot of others tried to put scope mounts on the rifles and did a piss poor job of it. A few would mess with trigger guards and such.
The really dumb ones messed with the triggers and sears. Military rifle triggers were designed that way for a reason, a) to be drop safe, b) to keep raw recruits from jerking the trigger by using a very long trigger pull in two stages, long light takeup and then the relatively short firing pull.
Posted by: whig at February 15, 2026 11:48 AM (2swu2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:35 AM (wzUl9)
And the potential publisher says....?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:48 AM (uQesX)
Wonder what the purchasers thought when they read it...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 11:48 AM (q3u5l)
To be fair to yourself Vampires are about sexual conquest.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:48 AM (cwGMH)
I've handled so many with ill fitting bits, damaged furniture, and in such condition that I wouldn't risk firing them... "but it's a classic and I know what I have"
That's when I laugh and walk on
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:32 AM (cDcjR)
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When the M96 Swedish Mausers hit the surplus market, I really wanted one to sporterize. Alas, I'm left-handed, so I passed. I did manage to shoot one at the club I belonged to. It had a very nice action and it was a tack driver.
Posted by: mrp at February 15, 2026 11:49 AM (rj6Yv)
Thinking that was mostly lighting, though a quick glance says light brown. Couldn't possibly have done Time Enough for Love before this century, but picturing Tracy telling the story of the twins that weren't would have been a highlight.
Posted by: Nazdar at February 15, 2026 11:49 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:47 AM (PYyV9)
I'd have though the opposite was true. Victorians couldn't call instacart and didn't have hoovers and food processors
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 11:50 AM (kJmLc)
Lawrence Block is good at that with his Matthew Scudder series. In his investigations, he drops into a gay bar, and the bar owner is a good character. Scudder is non-judgmental about it, it adds texture to the story without proclaiming that GAY IS GOOD and you must accept that! He's just part of the New York demographic.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 15, 2026
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Block is one of my heroes. And he suggests the gay character in one book through dialog, sentence rhythms, and word choices, as I recall. Matt, and the reader, draw the conclusion without having to be told outright.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:50 AM (wzUl9)
So we got this long and involved subplot involving Sonny Corleone and a girl with anatomical issues and her dealing with it, in graphic detail.
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Long, involved and useless. It didn't move the plot at all. It could have been left out completely and nothing would have been lost.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 11:50 AM (tgvbd)
According to national cost of living data online, Arkansas is the cheapest place to live in America. Of course, that means you have to live in Arkansas, but there's always a price to pay.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:50 AM (PYyV9)
Sharon,
Thanks for that suggestion. I hadn't thought of suggesting the Harry Potter books. The first one would be a good start and he could continue the tougher ones that followed as he got older. Have to ask his folks what they think.
Posted by: JTB at February 15, 2026 11:51 AM (yTvNw)
As far as sex in books, whether it's "He jammed his cock in me.", or "I jammed my cock in her.", I have never given a single shit about what the characters in a story I am otherwise enjoying is doing sexually. Just like I wouldn't want to hear any details about any real-life friends sexual activity from last weekend... keep it to yourself, if I want to know I'll ask.
Posted by: Denny Crane - Sex is fun at February 15, 2026 11:51 AM (i49OE)
Believe me, first shooting session I had with it, I hid under the bench while pulling the trigger. Had no idea if it might blow up.
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:52 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026
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And the potential publisher says....?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026
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You know the story. They liked it until they didn't.
The editor you and Sarah steered me to says he is refreshingly non-cliche, so there's that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:52 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 11:52 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:52 AM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026
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I like the idea of W. VA; it has mountains. But various other details have sidelined that idea for me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:54 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 15, 2026 11:41 AM (KnrSi)
Thanks for the thread, Sabrina. Will wait for more. Gotta go teach the wife to drive, but there are so many good comments today I'll come back later to finish reading them.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:54 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:54 AM (wzUl9)
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Long, involved and useless. It didn't move the plot at all. It could have been left out completely and nothing would have been lost.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 11:50 AM (tgvbd)
Page 49 or so -- I still remember those pages being passed around in about 8th grade. Steamy stuff.
Posted by: LASue at February 15, 2026 11:55 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:54 AM (uQesX)
Don't envy you that task. Sounds like peak misery
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 11:55 AM (kJmLc)
They had people for that. Or were bored cowboys in a line shack spending most of their time doing nothing but playing solitaire in the winter. Lots of down time because of weather, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:55 AM (PYyV9)
So, not a fan of burning couches?
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 11:56 AM (gh32g)
Sabrina, thanks for the thread.
Have a good one, gang.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 11:56 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:56 AM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 11:43 AM (q3u5l)
Ok, wait. The book cost increases for extra pages. Seems they'd be trying to get authors back to lower word counts to save money. Hard to keep interest in books that long for me anymore. My longest work is 90k, every other one is shorter.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 11:57 AM (uQesX)
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The 96 is a bit long for my tastes but I have one. The unique thing about the Swedes is that even now, you can get new in box parts for key things like the sear and trigger or extractors. They must have made a huge amount of spares. The m38 shortened the barrel to about 23-24 inches and you will see some Husqvarna receivers on them. These are of good WWII era steel (not that the older steel was bad particularly) and a fair amount of the Swede sniper models used these receivers.
Due to the meteorite origins of Swedish Mauser steel, I think it is superior by far to most of the run of the mill carbon steel in European firearms. Goodies like vanadium, chrome, copper, were already in the iron ores in trace amounts before modern metallurgy knew what to do with them. Even our Krags, used Swedish steel barrels to begin with.
Posted by: whig at February 15, 2026 11:57 AM (2swu2)
Posted by: LASue at February 15, 2026 11:55 AM (lCppi)
And doesn't her kid take over the family. The MAncini boy?
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 11:57 AM (kJmLc)
1. Wilson Combat Professional (commander length) in .45ACP
2. My custom build 1911 in .45ACP with internals by Wilson Combat and Ed Brown on a Norinco slide and frame.
The Wilson is my everyday carry. The custom is my BBQ run (nowhere near worth what I put into it, but that wasn't the point).
Posted by: one hour sober at February 15, 2026 11:57 AM (Y1sOo)
I wanted to move to Wyoming but its really expensive there
Not as expensive as Oregon but... not cheap.Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 11:57 AM (PYyV9)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 11:58 AM (N8ZBc)
But it seems like half of what I see in bookstores are doorstops. Sure, some stories may need that length, but so many? Really?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 15, 2026 11:43 AM (q3u5l)
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"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 11:59 AM (tgvbd)
It's possible: Dad taught Mom how to drive with 4 kids in the back (and, as we called it, the 'back-back') of a station wagon when Mom was in her early 30s.
On the other hand, been said that teaching a spouse to drive is a fast-track to divorce.
Thank you, Miss Chase for a delightful Book Thread. TTFN, Horde.
Posted by: Nazdar at February 15, 2026 12:00 PM (NcvvS)
'So they come up with stupid ideas like the League of Nations or the Kellog-Briand Pact or the UN'
The only route to peace is either complete domination by a single power or a balance between 2 (sane) powers. I don't see any examples otherwise.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:00 PM (fd80v)
I can't read those any more, its just too much. The worst example of the expanding book length effect I've ever encountered is the Sword of Truth series. I just gave up after 3 books each one was almost exponentially longer and more involved and about characters I cared nothing about.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 12:01 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 12:01 PM (cwGMH)
The editor you and Sarah steered me to says he is refreshingly non-cliche, so there's that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 11:52 AM (wzUl9)
Ok, now leaving, won't see the response. Post on ALH. Have they taken a pass on it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 15, 2026 12:01 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: gp at February 15, 2026 12:01 PM (N8ZBc)
I have enjoyed some of your books enough to read them at least twice.
Posted by: Kafiroon at February 15, 2026 12:01 PM (GHn5H)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)
To be fair to yourself Vampires are about sexual conquest.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 11:48 AM (cwGMH)
I subscribe to the fairly conventional opinion that as vampires and zombies are metaphors for sexual deviants and socialists, respectively. They literally depict a nigh-alien subspecies with unnatural reproduction, so that is what they are natural metaphors for: the former reproducing by molestation trauma, and the latter reproducing by spreading their mind virus through mere contact.
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:02 PM (Sy6m/)
Thank you, Miss Chase for a delightful Book Thread. TTFN, Horde.
Posted by: Nazdar at February 15, 2026
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I taught the then-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 to drive before we got married, and we were together (happily, thought I) for more than five years afterward. She was pretty bright and well-coordinated, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 12:02 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 12:04 PM (PYyV9)
'But, I thought MP4 lived in Boston? Surely, blue-blooded Boston has no gays! He won't sell a thing there.'
Certainly not on Cape Cod.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:04 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 15, 2026 12:07 PM (t/2Uw)
But incredibly popular, even sometimes getting the audience on their side (George Hamilton has entered the chat)
Posted by: night lifted at February 15, 2026 12:09 PM (kJmLc)
But then around comment 150-ish, new threads develop. There's the weapons sub, the movie/acting sub, and of course the sex sub (yum!)
All of that to just say, this place is great. I've been here for a great number of years, under many nics, and I can honestly say this joint is the best. You morons are the best.
Posted by: Denny Crane - Comments are fun at February 15, 2026 12:11 PM (i49OE)
Yeah I played up the sexiness of the werewolf in Life Unworthy because I wanted him to be an alpha, ALL THAT IS MAN, totally dominant wolf, that women are overwhelmed by. It fit the concept of the ultimate alpha wolf in my mind. But I tried to emphasize what a horrifying monster he was as well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 12:11 PM (PYyV9)
Perhaps worth its own essay one day.
Posted by: Wenda at February 15, 2026 12:14 PM (v9ee3)
Yes, I saw it and complained loudly -- enough to bother the wife.
IIRC other aspects of the ad were just as outrageous. Bet on it.
My kid is currently living a spirited bike ride from the back gate of W-P; as far as we can determine, his back yard touches what used to be Huffman Prairie. One day he was just driving home, looked up, and there was the Wright Replica, huffing and chugging along right over his house. It really does fly.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 15, 2026 12:16 PM (zdLoL)
'Sexualizing monsters is tedious to me. Vampires are monsters that prey on human life to survive.'
Chicks dig the danger.
But they also support migrants. So I wouldn't go by those women.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2026 12:18 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 15, 2026 12:07 PM (t/2Uw)
My fourth grade teacher, who was otherwise one of the most awesome teachers I ever had, read to us the Chronicles of Narnia. It did absolutely nothing for me.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 12:18 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 15, 2026 12:21 PM (PYyV9)
"Mr. Earbrass has received the sketch for the dust wrapper for TUH. Even after staring at it continuously for twenty minutes, he really cannot believe it. Whatever were they thinking of? On any book it would be ugly, vulgar and illegible. On his book it would be these, and also disastrously wrong. Mr. Earbrass looks forward to an exhilarating hour of conveying these sentiments to Scuffle and Dustcough."
And later images of the published book show that is nevertheless the cover art the publishers went with.
This comic look at "...the unspeakable horror of the literary life." can be found in Gorey's collection "Amphigorey".
Posted by: John F. MacMichael at February 15, 2026 12:28 PM (aYnHS)
And I again had to enter my name and email even though I never closed this tab. Is it Safari's fault or the blog?
Posted by: Shron(willow's apprentice) at February 15, 2026 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: The Regulator Guy at February 15, 2026 01:45 PM (Am6gJ)
Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 15, 2026 01:49 PM (VmDLh)
Posted by: Dr_No at February 15, 2026 01:51 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: anachronda at February 15, 2026 02:19 PM (edU/H)
I was out and about this morning so I'm just now reading the bulk of the Book Thread-
and notice all the gassing about sex scenes in novels being just about bumping uglies and nothing else and that they're a failure of imagination or mere prurience.
I could not disagree more.
There are a few sex scenes in my comic novel, "Wearing the Cat", and-
every single one of them both illuminate character and move the plot along. Every single one.
Honestly, sex is no different than any other activity you might have your character engage in. If you can't manage to use it to illuminate character or move the plot along,
that's a lack of skill by the author or a failure of imagination.
These tiresome 'rules of writing" that reflect your own limitations as a writer shouldn't be thrown onto other writers as words from the gospel.
YMMV.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 15, 2026 02:34 PM (iJfKG)
It's us. We're lucky Ace tolerates it.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 15, 2026 02:49 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 15, 2026 02:54 PM (Vvh2V)
Daily Tech News 15 February 2026
Top Story
- Flashpoint archive is a free, downloadable, 2.3TB archive of every Flash game ever. (Flashpoint Archive)
Pretty much.
You can also download just a 1.9MB installer that grabs the Flash files on demand from the archive, saving you rather a lot of disk space.
It's now in its 14th edition.
What Flashpoint does, mostly - apart from the obvious function of collecting over 200,000 games together in one place - is create and operate a fake internet on your PC for you so that twenty-year-old games from sites that have been dead for a decade will continue to work.
Tech News
- Speaking of fake internets Meta has received a patent on an AI tool that continues posting for you online after you are dead. (Business Insider)
That's just awesome.
- Is "safety" dead at xAI? (Tech Crunch)
I certainly hope so. "Safety" in AI terms means censorship.One source said, "Safety is a dead org at xAI," while the other said that Musk is "actively is trying to make the model more unhinged because safety means censorship, in a sense, to him."
"Safety" in AI means censorship to everyone, in every sense.
The only difference is whether you think censorship is a good thing or not.
- Why open AI should build Slack. (Latent Space)
Slack is terrible. OpenAI is terrible. Seems like a match made in hell.
That post is getting roasted on Hacker News.
- Breaking the spell of vibe coding. (Fast AI)
The author point out the similarities between vibe coders and gamblers, a connection I had not made before, but does strike a chord.
It's a toxic blend of sunk cost fallacy and FOMO.
- The EU wants to ban infinite scroll - though in this case specifically from TikTok. (Politico)
Talk about toxic blends.
- Taking toxic blends to an extreme, Ars Technica posted an article (Wayback Machine) on that AI agent that threw a tantrum when its code contributions were rejected.
One small problem: The article leaned heavily on AI and was filled with hallucinated and unverified quotes. (The Shamblog)Journalistic integrity aside, I don't know how I can give a better example of what's at stake here. Yesterday I wondered what another agent searching the internet would think about this. Now we already have an example of what by all accounts appears to be another AI reinterpreting this story and hallucinating false information about me. And that interpretation has already been published in a major news outlet, as part of the persistent public record.
I don't know I'd call Ars Technica a major news outlet in 2026 - or for the past several years, except possibly for their space news which has remained mostly good.
At least not more so than Anandtech, a site that has been dead for more than a year.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Well, that took a turn.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at February 15, 2026 04:01 AM (CPS7C)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at February 15, 2026 04:03 AM (CPS7C)
Posted by: Tuna at February 15, 2026 04:05 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 15, 2026 04:06 AM (AdHga)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 15, 2026 04:13 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 15, 2026 04:14 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Tuna at February 15, 2026 04:15 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 04:16 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 04:18 AM (+YA9H)
Yeah, no.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 04:22 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 04:27 AM (7xyr6)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 04:28 AM (7xyr6)
Yeah, no.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 04:22 AM (+YA9H)
Meta needs something to keep generating content, before they become as relevant as Geocities.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 15, 2026 04:29 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 15, 2026 04:13 AM (0KSrI)
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Would be more interesting if you read it in Ed Sullivan's accent.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 04:29 AM (7xyr6)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 04:32 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 04:32 AM (+YA9H)
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Yet, spring is not yet in the air.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 04:34 AM (7xyr6)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 04:35 AM (7xyr6)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 04:35 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 04:42 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 15, 2026 04:42 AM (pfG3S)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 04:45 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 04:42 AM (tgvbd)
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You missed a method:
https://tinyurl.com/3vwudw4f
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 04:51 AM (7xyr6)
Bit to drive tomorrow morning
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 04:52 AM (Ia/+0)
You missed a method:
https://tinyurl.com/3vwudw4f
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 04:51 AM (7xyr6)
____________
I guess expropriating the kulaks' grain comes next. The Democrats and their outrunners have been floating this trial balloon for years.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026 04:54 AM (tgvbd)
Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet
6h
Hillary Clinton all of a sudden telling Europeans that mass migration has gone too far.
Barack Obama all of a sudden roasting Gavin Newsom and homeless tent cities.
Dem leaders are sending a signal to moderate the message so they can go full Virginia if they win in 28.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 04:55 AM (7xyr6)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 04:55 AM (7xyr6)
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This is the plan.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 15, 2026 04:57 AM (dct30)
I assume the question is rhetorical:
https://tinyurl.com/yeynreuy
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 05:01 AM (7xyr6)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 15, 2026 04:13 AM (0KSrI)
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Would be more interesting if you read it in Ed Sullivan's accent.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 04:29 AM (7xyr6)
Or Mr. Ed's.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at February 15, 2026 05:02 AM (CPS7C)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 05:06 AM (Ia/+0)
A pretty powerful statement about the last sixty years and why the Trump administration is not sticking to the status quo. Good stuff.
Posted by: Pete Bog at February 15, 2026 05:06 AM (qlUA+)
Posted by: fluffy at February 15, 2026 05:09 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: that guy who is always banging on about schicklegruber at February 15, 2026 05:12 AM (hMpx9)
A pretty powerful statement about the last sixty years and why the Trump administration is not sticking to the status quo. Good stuff.
Posted by: Pete Bog at February 15, 2026 05:06 AM (qlUA+)
It was great!
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 05:13 AM (+YA9H)
I assume the question is rhetorical:
https://tinyurl.com/yeynreuy
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 05:01 AM (7xyr6)
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The "Institute Of Peace" is funded by the US government and employs Rosarie Tucci, who seems to be a leader of this group. This has CIA written all over it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 15, 2026 05:14 AM (s16GZ)
Schicklgruber
Alois Schicklgruber, better known as Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant and the father of Adolf Hitler
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 05:15 AM (+YA9H)
A pretty powerful statement about the last sixty years and why the Trump administration is not sticking to the status quo. Good stuff.
Posted by: Pete Bog at February 15, 2026 05:06 AM (qlUA+)
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The highlight:
https://tinyurl.com/4ca4d97f
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 05:21 AM (UzL96)
Pass a law limiting the life of foundations to the lifetime of the founder plus ten years. Give it all away, and do not become a home for marxist revolutionaries.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 15, 2026 05:21 AM (4Q0Xg)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 05:26 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip
The American ice dancers got hosed by the French judge who down scored them so the French pair would win the gold.
Posted by: Tuna at February 15, 2026 05:30 AM (lJ0H4)
I clicked through to the Verge article (which underlies much of the Tech Crunch article):
https://archive.is/RPhxL
and, I'll tell you: buncha whiners! Like this:
"The source also said that during his time at xAI, he felt leadership had a lot of differing opinions on which product features to prioritize and that infighting sometimes stalled progress."
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 05:31 AM (+YA9H)
Here is review by a woman who writes over at "Legal Insuurection":
https://tinyurl.com/yy6h8a6m
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 05:33 AM (PFs9e)
The source who departed earlier this year said Grok’s turn toward NSFW content was due partly to the safety team being let go, with little to no remaining safety review process for the models besides basic filters for things like CSAM.
CSAM = Child sexual abuse material
"things like CSAM" = ???
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 05:35 AM (+YA9H)
https://tinyurl.com/mw23dyzc
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 05:37 AM (PFs9e)
“You survive by shutting up and doing what Elon wants,” he said.
=
"You are not the boss of me."
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 05:38 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2026 05:41 AM (PrvRk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 05:44 AM (PFs9e)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 15, 2026 05:49 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 05:51 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 15, 2026 05:52 AM (6ydKt)
I know the alternative fix is to just go straight to comments but it's annoying.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at February 15, 2026 05:53 AM (DY7Xb)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 15, 2026 05:52 AM (6ydKt)
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Any more than one song for each syllable?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 05:54 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 15, 2026 06:00 AM (2Ez/1)
Yeah, no.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 04:22 AM (+YA9H)
Right? It would be ridiculous.
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at February 15, 2026 06:11 AM (hMpx9)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 04:22 AM (+YA9H)
Why would somebody want to do that?
Husband did tell me about some bars someplace where you can sit at a table, have a drink and talk to your chap bot girlfriend or boyfriend. Uggh.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 06:15 AM (rZCVI)
Anyway! I'm awake, having managed to ignore that black cat's across-the-bed leapings to doze another hour. How was yer Valentino's Day?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9)
Raise your hand if you have ever intentionally taken your spouse to Waffle House for a Valentines Day meal.
It's actually a fun time, with photos, flowers, waiters and waitresses in white shirts and black pants, with lots of photos.
And paper hats.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2026 06:15 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 06:15 AM (rZCVI)
Well, we don't have that around here.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 06:17 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 06:20 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2026
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'Bout the same here. I stuck my head outside the door while the coffee was brewing. Damp and cool, but the rain seems to have stopped. At least the parade-goers for Endymion last night didn't get rained on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 06:21 AM (wzUl9)
Hello. Are you still planning to get out of town for Mardi Gras?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 06:21 AM (rZCVI)
Oh no!
Looks like Pa and Delaware each have a small number, if you are over that way.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2026 06:21 AM (iMotb)
It's actually a fun time, with photos, flowers, waiters and waitresses in white shirts and black pants, with lots of photos.
And paper hats.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2026
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Does a Denny's count?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 06:21 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 06:22 AM (Ia/+0)
Microsoft Teams is absolute shit. I've used Slack for a few years now and it isn't absolute shit.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 15, 2026 06:22 AM (5fcrn)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 15, 2026 06:24 AM (i1VVh)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 15, 2026 06:25 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2026 06:25 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026
***
Good morning, Fen,
It was an idea born of boredom and depression, but the idea has not gone away. So maybe.
I have a feeling there would be no hotel rooms to be had in Pensacola on Monday night or Tuesday, so I doubt I'll go to the beaches. Birmingham and Huntsville are still in the running, though.
If only the higher, drier landscapes, like Amarillo or northeastern NM, weren't such a long drive away --!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 06:26 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 15, 2026 06:26 AM (qFwJc)
I'm watching the Equity Podcast on that page. It's very watchable.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 05:51 AM (+YA9H)
They all seem very smart. They spent the last five minutes of the podcast pretty much trashing Elon Musk and that was like watching a gaggle of highschoolers, I thought.
"On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O'Kane dig into the week's biggest deals and departures, from billion-dollar bets on fusion and robotics to the tech exodus reshaping AI companies."
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 06:28 AM (+YA9H)
Well, I have been to one in PA Dutch country.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 06:28 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2026 06:31 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 06:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 15, 2026 05:52 AM
I know, right?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2026 06:33 AM (PrvRk)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 15, 2026 06:33 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2026 06:15 AM
Are they festive?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2026 06:35 AM (PrvRk)
">>>Speaking of fake internets Meta has received a patent on an AI tool that continues posting for you online after you are dead. (Business Insider)"
how do we know that this isn't already happening? they're already collecting "benefits" and voting ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 06:35 AM (Cjt/F)
I met my mom's brother late in life. Holy moley. They had very similar skulls. Genetics.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 15, 2026 06:36 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 06:38 AM (+YA9H)
“You survive by shutting up and doing what Elon wants,” he said."
which is different from every other job in the world, how?
*spit*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 06:38 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 15, 2026 06:42 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 06:45 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2026 06:15 AM
Are they festive?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2026 06:35 AM (PrvRk)
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Goes without saying, I should think.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 15, 2026 06:46 AM (i1VVh)
besides that old-school plague-doctor bird-beak thing, I mean ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 06:49 AM (Cjt/F)
But it made me want to eat a Moon Pie.
With an RC Cola.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 06:50 AM (2Ez/1)
This needs to be pushed out by all of the Republicans in as rude way as possible to get some public awareness as to what the game is.
To the point where media people are saying " Are you saying President Obama is lying?"
Trump is most certainly wise to this and could set all kinds of traps for them.
Posted by: pawn at February 15, 2026 06:50 AM (uvB+6)
besides that old-school plague-doctor bird-beak thing, I mean ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 06:49 AM (Cjt/F)
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Pickelhaubes?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 15, 2026 06:50 AM (i1VVh)
Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" was the soundtrack for me as I removed the sheetrock ceiling that was installed on the ceiling of the basement in this, our then newly purchased house, back in autumn 1997. What fun that was!
We paid off the mortgage just two months ago. Yay us!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 06:51 AM (xG4kz)
https://tinyurl.com/ydv6m8tp
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 06:51 AM (UzL96)
Renfield handles all my social media on the web. He's pretty good at finding bugs too.
Posted by: Dracula at February 15, 2026 06:51 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 06:52 AM (Cjt/F)
If you're bored and depressed I would encourage you to get away from your home, even if it is a little farther away. Consider turning off the internet and reading some books or watching movies that lift your spirit.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 06:54 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 06:54 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 15, 2026 06:55 AM (i1VVh)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 06:55 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 06:55 AM (+YA9H)
Chumbawamba - Amnesia
Could that video have been weirder.
Posted by: m
As I recall, they branded themselves as anarchists. That makes me wonder what they think of matters in the UK today.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 06:55 AM (xG4kz)
though it might be possible to do a festiveness mod, say a small propeller on the end of the pickel?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 06:56 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 06:58 AM (+YA9H)
If you're bored and depressed I would encourage you to get away from your home, even if it is a little farther away. Consider turning off the internet and reading some books or watching movies that lift your spirit.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026
***
Oh, I know a geographic cure usually works, at least for me. And I certainly do read; see me on the Book Thread. I got out a couple of Graham Greenes yesterday from the library, two John Wyndham SF novels, and a rather academic-looking collection of essays about the James Bond phenomenon.
Plus I have 1982's Cannery Rowon DVD, and a new episode of All Creatures Great and Small from PBS tonight. Both cheerful, both good stuff.
I just need a change of scenery. Temporary, and then permanent.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 06:58 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 06:59 AM (wzUl9)
With all due respect that is some seriously self defeating thinking. Did you even check?
Posted by: pawn at February 15, 2026 06:59 AM (uvB+6)
Posted by: Pickel rights are Human rights at February 15, 2026 07:01 AM (2Ez/1)
It is my intention to be well and truly off of Meta long before I pass away, so it and its ghoulish posting tool can eff right off.
Besides, I don't think that a pervasive and perpetual chorus of posts that say nothing but "Brains!" will be a sustainable outcome, much less being "must read" material.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:01 AM (xG4kz)
Absolutely...goes without saying.
And now, off to get ready for church.
BBIAB
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2026 07:02 AM (iMotb)
A pretty powerful statement about the last sixty years and why the Trump administration is not sticking to the status quo. Good stuff.
Posted by: Pete Bog at February 15, 2026 05:06 AM (qlUA+)
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The highlight:
https://tinyurl.com/4ca4d97f
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 05:21 AM (UzL96)
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And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
https://tinyurl.com/w7krr23k
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 07:02 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:03 AM (+YA9H)
*
With all due respect that is some seriously self defeating thinking. Did you even check?
Posted by: pawn at February 15, 2026
***
No, because the idea of going to Pensacola is none too compelling to me anyway. If I'm going somewhere, I want to go *away* from the Gulf Coast.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 07:04 AM (wzUl9)
and I agree with you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 07:04 AM (PFs9e)
This one really hit me in the funnybone.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:05 AM (+YA9H)
Get away! Call today!🙂
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 07:06 AM (PFs9e)
*Opens up Hilton Honors app.*
*Searches for Destin, Florida for next weekend.*
*Finds Hampton Inn and Suites in Destin for $105 a night.*
*Smugly closes laptop and goes to the kitchen for another cup of coffee.*
Posted by: Don't Be THAT Guy at February 15, 2026 07:07 AM (2Ez/1)
mornin yall. Did they find Nancy Grace yet?
Posted by: fd at February
No, but shortly Pam Bondi will triumphantly announce that they have found a huge cache of Nancy Drew mysteries, all unread and in mint condition. And deliver a progress report on how close they are to finding a horde of the original panels of Bushmiller's "Nancy" comic strips.
And all the nancy boy presstitutes will gasp and swoon...
Is that "nancy" enough for you?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:08 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Don't Be THAT Guy at February 15, 2026 07:07 AM (2Ez/1)
Aww, man. Is that the little windowless basement room usually comped to tourguides?
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:09 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 07:09 AM (wzUl9)
Are you a current or former xAI employee? Contact me via Signal at haydenfield.11 on a non-work device with tips.
https://archive.is/RPhxL
bwahahahahaha
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:10 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2026 07:10 AM (ESVrU)
“Amnesia” is a song by Chumbawamba. It’s the second single from “Tubthumper,” and was a hit in Canada and the UK, saving the group from one-hit wonder status there.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:11 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:12 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: But you already knew that at February 15, 2026 07:12 AM (2Ez/1)
[Chorus]
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
(I don't remember)
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
(I don't remember)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:12 AM (+YA9H)
This film has sparkling dialog, some written or improvised by Benchley no doubt, and a slew of then-well-known character actors. Some of the light moments amid the danger remind me of the best Man From U.N.C.L.E. episodes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 07:15 AM (wzUl9)
"A California Teacher of the Year finalist has been arrested for trying to pay for sexual acts with an undercover cop posing as a 13-year-old boy.
Ruben Guzman, an assistant principal and math teacher at Sunrise Middle School in San Jose, was snared when he organized for them to meet up last week."
If I had a kid in a government school I would keep them far away from Teachers of the Year.
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 07:15 AM (vFG9F)
I'm not familiar with that use of the word "org."
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:16 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 07:16 AM (wzUl9)
The things you learn around here...
They were also big time commie scum marxists who promoted every whackadoodle leftist scheme under the sun.
Disbanded in 2012 I think...good riddance.
Posted by: Zombie Chuck Berry, Camera Lover at February 15, 2026 07:17 AM (Ksqrb)
I'm not familiar with that use of the word "org."
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026
***
It's the active voice form of the word "ugh."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 07:17 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:18 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 07:18 AM (vFG9F)
Pickerel rights are piscatory rights!
All the lawyers agree.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:12 AM (xG4kz)
Yep, and I've got the citations to prove it!
Posted by: ChatGPT-4 at February 15, 2026 07:19 AM (aMY3+)
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 07:18 AM (vFG9F)
And yet there are exceptions. For example:
Sergeant Major Mike R. Vining - U.S. Army Ordnance Corps
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:20 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Ok I might have made some of that up at February 15, 2026 07:21 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026
***
"Stereotype" comes from the days of printing and typesetting. Certain combos of letters were used so often, like "the," that they were set up as a solid, i.e., instead of using the three separate letters over and over again, the type setter could just use the solid block of "the." In other words, they were encountered so often in the process that they became a standard.
Later, it became used to describe certain sets of people one encountered over and over again. Thus, "stereotypes." And they are real.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 07:22 AM (wzUl9)
I wanted to like this (as I enjoyed all of Hitchcock's early films) but McCRea's protagonist was too much of a simp.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 15, 2026 07:22 AM (fZiTB)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 15, 2026 07:23 AM (CHHv1)
Harkening back to my days in Berkeley, the photo of the pedo "Teacher of the Year" simply oozes the pedo vibe, coupled with the beloved "romantic street person" look so prized at that time. My compliments to the blend master!
https://tinyurl.com/RomanticStreetPedo
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:23 AM (xG4kz)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 07:23 AM (u82oZ)
wearethemighty.com
https://tinyurl.com/2p9mb7z9
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:24 AM (+YA9H)
*
I wanted to like this (as I enjoyed all of Hitchcock's early films) but McCRea's protagonist was too much of a simp.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 15, 2026
***
Yes, he does seem like a naive, trusting Kansas farm boy set down in England and Europe to report on political and other dangers. I'm hoping he gets some smarts soon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9)
While this is deeply upsetting, it does not reflect who we are as a school," Sunrise Principal Teresa Robinson said. "He was a highly regarded teacher and administrator. Again, there was nothing in his work record or his prior work record, said other schools to indicate anything had any problems with his work."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 07:27 AM (Nx5jP)
https://tinyurl.com/RomanticStreetPedo
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026
***
That scruffy thing is a principal??? He looks, as you say, more like a Berkeley student in 1968 "protesting the war, man."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 07:28 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:28 AM (xG4kz)
Harkening back to my days in Berkeley, the photo of the pedo "Teacher of the Year" simply oozes the pedo vibe, coupled with the beloved "romantic street person" look so prized at that time. My compliments to the blend master!
https://tinyurl.com/RomanticStreetPedo
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:23 AM (xG4kz)
I'd like to see a pre-booking photo.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:30 AM (+YA9H)
https://tinyurl.com/4ca4d97f
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 05:21 AM (UzL96)
BAM!
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 15, 2026 07:31 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Spoiler alert at February 15, 2026 07:31 AM (2Ez/1)
There's that "community" BS again...
"protesting the war, man."
Dave's not here, man...
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 07:31 AM (XuXeR)
While this is deeply upsetting, it does not reflect who we are as a school," Sunrise Principal Teresa Robinson said. "He was a highly regarded teacher and administrator. Again, there was nothing in his work record or his prior work record, said other schools to indicate anything had any problems with his work."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
They need to subpoena Carl, the janitor at that school, to testify to the "interesting" doodles that the guy discarded in his wastebasket. All will become clear once they do.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:32 AM (xG4kz)
https://tinyurl.com/RomanticStreetPedo
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026
***
That scruffy thing is a principal??? He looks, as you say, more like a Berkeley student in 1968 "protesting the war, man."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 07:28 AM (wzUl9)
from the linked article:
Guzman was a math teacher and assistant principal at Sunrise Middle School in San Jose for the past six years.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:32 AM (+YA9H)
His "work", though probably based in commie socialist ideology, is not the issue. His "play" is the reason he should be under the jail.
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 07:32 AM (vFG9F)
Meanwhile, a shave and shower is next. But not this minute.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 07:33 AM (wzUl9)
Guzman was a math teacher and assistant principal at Sunrise Middle School in San Jose for the past six years.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026
***
Apparently they have taken "casual Friday" a bit far.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2026 07:33 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 07:34 AM (vFG9F)
Yeah. 'Twas funny when GM paid $$$ to use their tune in adverts...
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 07:35 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 07:35 AM (vFG9F)
+++
Teresa these weren't activities in his work life.
They were activities in his personal life.
Posted by: Like Renee Good's activities at February 15, 2026 07:35 AM (2Ez/1)
While this is deeply upsetting, it does not reflect who we are as a school," Sunrise Principal Teresa Robinson said. "He was a highly regarded teacher and administrator. Again, there was nothing in his work record or his prior work record, said other schools to indicate anything had any problems with his work."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
They need to subpoena Carl, the janitor at that school, to testify to the "interesting" doodles that the guy discarded in his wastebasket. All will become clear once they do.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:32 AM (xG4kz)
I mean, you're not wrong.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:37 AM (+YA9H)
Can anyone recommend a good resource for learning Linux?
There's a song, "Linux and Lucy" that might help.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/media/
video-linus-and-lucy-with-the-jerry-granelli-trio
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:39 AM (xG4kz)
"Thousands of smoke detectors sold on Amazon recalled due to potential fire hazard"
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 07:40 AM (vFG9F)
147 140
Harkening back to my days in Berkeley, the photo of the pedo "Teacher of the Year" simply oozes the pedo vibe, coupled with the beloved "romantic street person" look so prized at that time. My compliments to the blend master!
https://tinyurl.com/RomanticStreetPedo
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:23 AM (xG4kz)
I'd like to see a pre-booking photo.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:30 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:40 AM (+YA9H)
Your excerpt of Rubio's speech was very powerful.
Clearest statement since Trump in Poland, and Churchill in 1940 London. We must follow that rhetoric to policy to find hope.
Thank you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 07:41 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 07:44 AM (RIvkX)
https://tinyurl.com/3p2jwbcy
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 07:46 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Accomack at February 15, 2026 07:46 AM (8jVAy)
Guzman was a math teacher and assistant principal at Sunrise Middle School in San Jose for the past six years
"Yeah, all his 'word problems' on his math quizzes involved either drug buys or selecting among clandestine meet up sites. I mean, it taught us capitalism and combinatorics and all that, but it was really creepy, y'know?"
-- former students of the pedo pedagogue
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:47 AM (xG4kz)
Your excerpt of Rubio's speech was very powerful.
Clearest statement since Trump in Poland, and Churchill in 1940 London. We must follow that rhetoric to policy to find hope.
Thank you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 07:41 AM (u82oZ)
37 The highlight:
https://tinyurl.com/4ca4d97f
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 05:21 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:48 AM (+YA9H)
After 10 months of mostly silence, I heard an unrestrained female voice on my walk yesterday. Felt like progress.
We walked a mile around a very crowded mall. A crowded mall was most unexpected. More walks in the future are planned.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)
"A NATIONWIDE postal standstill is set to take place in just a few days, leaving Americans without access to any mailing services whatsoever.
The impending United States Postal Service shutdown will see all of the more than 31,000 locations across the country close for a full 24 hours."
President's Day. They are closed for President's Day.
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 07:48 AM (vFG9F)
You can't spell "pedagogy" without "pedo"!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:48 AM (xG4kz)
"Thousands of smoke detectors sold on Amazon recalled due to potential fire hazard"
They all ran into burning buildings?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:51 AM (xG4kz)
Good job. We do need to bring the Word to the unwashed masses. (Who I aver are the reactionary leaders and apparatchiks of the EU.)
Rubio continues to impress. This is even more powerful than Vance's shock speech to the same people last year.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 07:51 AM (u82oZ)
Now are they going to reinstate accounts that got banned by it?
Because I ain't changing my position and deleting the tweet that Biden and crew should be hung for treason for selling the office of the POTUS to the highest bidder including the ChiComs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 07:53 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 07:54 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 07:55 AM (Nx5jP)
Nice story of a kind man with intellectual disabilities working at a Publix store. And brightening customers days .Sunny Skyz site:
https://tinyurl.com/3p2jwbcy
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Pass that along to "Doctor" Jill with a pistol it note that reads, "Something for Joe to do?"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 07:57 AM (xG4kz)
"A NATIONWIDE postal standstill is set to take place in just a few days, leaving Americans without access to any mailing services whatsoever.
The impending United States Postal Service shutdown will see all of the more than 31,000 locations across the country close for a full 24 hours."
President's Day. They are closed for President's Day.
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 07:48 AM (vFG9F)
Is this a citizen journalist?
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:58 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 07:58 AM (RIvkX)
I think there may be a hidden, untapped market for pistol it notes ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 07:59 AM (Cjt/F)
Good morning to you and your lovebird FenelonSpouse. Hope your son is forging ahead.
For decades skilled speechwriters worked closely with politicians. There are only a very few teams like that that transcend the ordinary standard.
Most of it comes from the politician, but a good writer aids that process. Think Churchill, Reagan and Noonan, Trump, Vance, and Rubio.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 07:59 AM (u82oZ)
Now are they going to reinstate accounts that got banned by it?
Because I ain't changing my position and deleting the tweet that Biden and crew should be hung for treason for selling the office of the POTUS to the highest bidder including the ChiComs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 07:53 AM (dK+Kv)
Did you petition that? That sounds petitionable. If there is a petition process, which I do not know.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 07:59 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 08:00 AM (RIvkX)
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That's kinda how this works.
Posted by: Speechwriters everywhere at February 15, 2026 08:00 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 08:02 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: George, Gloria's "Boyfriend" at February 15, 2026 08:02 AM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: I'll notify the Gub Thread at February 15, 2026 08:02 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 08:03 AM (PFs9e)
I think there may be a hidden, untapped market for pistol it notes ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
Yeah, that was a good one (finally!)
Whip it good!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2026 08:04 AM (xG4kz)
Nay my brother. But it was like a drop of rain is the midst of a wide, stony desert.
We shall see. I did propose renting canoes in the nearby Tuttle Cove State Park in the late Spring. Do not want to see this senior center crowd in Speedos or thongs.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 15, 2026 08:07 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 15, 2026 08:08 AM (+mUZM)
When my turn came at the return/refund desk I told the woman that my house burned down and the detector never went off.
The young lady immediately looked very concerned and empathetic until the guy behind me in line started laughing out loud.
Posted by: pawn at February 15, 2026 08:09 AM (uvB+6)
Posted by: m "
The Daily Sun.
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 08:02 AM (vFG9F)
https://www.the-sun.com
https://archive.is/wip/fjVqt
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 08:10 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)
Thanks.
There is woman whose name escapes me that does Saturday memes. She is militantly Catholic and militantly militant, as well. Colorado resident, IIRC.
Does that ring a bell with anyone?
Posted by: fluffy at February 15, 2026 08:12 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: fluffy at February 15, 2026 08:13 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 08:13 AM (+YA9H)
By the way, next Texas MoMe is 10/16-17. You've been warned.
Posted by: Public Service Announcement at February 15, 2026 08:13 AM (2Ez/1)
Other non-essential federal agencies and services set to close include SNAP offices and social security offices, with national banks such as Wells Fargo, CitiBank, and Bank of America set to join them.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 08:14 AM (+YA9H)
Other non-essential federal agencies and services set to close include SNAP offices and social security offices, with national banks such as Wells Fargo, CitiBank, and Bank of America set to join them.
Posted by: m "
They must have gone to 100% AI written articles.
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 08:16 AM (vFG9F)
>>A pretty powerful statement about the last sixty years and why the Trump administration is not sticking to the status quo. Good stuff.
One of the best speeches promoting the Trump administration's foreign policy vision I've heard. Right there with the speech Vance gave in Europe last year.
The surprising thing to me was the standing ovation he got from the EU establishment. The globalist left can say whatever they want but there is no denying there is a powerful movement building among people who want a return to traditional western norms. Very exciting.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 08:17 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)
Exiled son of Iran’s last shah calls on Trump to help ‘bury’ the Islamic Republic
https://www.timesofisrael.com
https://archive.is/kNmin
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 08:18 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: A Jernalist at February 15, 2026 08:19 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Awkward pause at February 15, 2026 08:20 AM (2Ez/1)
It is encouraging, and I hope more people are willing to support Rupert Lowe and his new "Restore Britain" party.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 08:20 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: A Jernalist at February 15, 2026 08:21 AM (vFG9F)
Does that ring a bell with anyone?
Posted by: fluffy at February 15, 2026 08:12 AM (AN2gy)
====
Yes she's a militant joo-hater.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 08:22 AM (RIvkX)
###
Where my EBT card at?
Posted by: LaQuisha at February 15, 2026 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)
250,000 rally in Munich against Iran’s regime as Pahlavi urges ‘global day of action’
https://www.timesofisrael.com
https://archive.is/wip/W4aXp
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 08:23 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: A Jernalist at February 15, 2026 08:24 AM (vFG9F)
Just want to put in a quick Thank You to Biden's Dog for all the links you post. And other linkposting Hordelings.
Posted by: mindful webworker - link heaper at February 15, 2026 08:25 AM (6hyzx)
Posted by: Laquondeesha at February 15, 2026 08:26 AM (oftw2)
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That damn Department Store Santas convention.
Those guys are the worst!
Posted by: Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce at February 15, 2026 08:26 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: that guy who is always banging on about schicklegruber at February 15, 2026 05:12 AM (hMpx9)
207 Know who else spoke to a large crowd in Munich?
Posted by: Awkward pause at February 15, 2026 08:20 AM (2Ez/1)
; )
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 08:26 AM (+YA9H)
Me too. As much as I hack on the current state of the UK I used to love visiting the place. I think the silent majority is finding it's voice in the west largely thanks to the orange menace in the White House.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2026 08:28 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: that guy who is always banging on about schicklegruber at February 15, 2026 05:12 AM (hMpx9)
207 Know who else spoke to a large crowd in Munich?
Posted by: Awkward pause at February 15, 2026 08:20 AM (2Ez/1)
; )
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 08:26 AM (+YA9H)
Horde tropes got me through the darkest days of the civil war.
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at February 15, 2026 08:28 AM (hMpx9)
Posted by: JackStraw
_________
For those that haven't seen it, Rupert Lowe announcing the Restore Britain party. Farage really blew it with Reform.
https://tinyurl.com/yx95arbn
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 15, 2026 08:28 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Nordic Interiors at February 15, 2026 08:30 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 08:31 AM (ix8EF)
Some demonstrators sported “Make Iran Great Again” red caps, mimicking the MAGA caps worn by Trump’s supporters.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 08:31 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: The name that shall not be used at February 15, 2026 08:33 AM (2Ez/1)
“To President Trump… The Iranian people heard you say help is on the way, and they have faith in you. Help them,” Pahlavi continued. “It is time to end the Islamic Republic. This is the demand echoing from the bloodshed of my compatriots who are not asking us to fix the regime but to help them bury it.”
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 08:34 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)
Yes( in one of the clips of Rupert Lowe he refers to President Trump in a commending fashion.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2026 08:35 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: The name that shall not be used at February 15, 2026 08:33 AM (2Ez/1)
====
"Ever try cooking with a sugar beet?"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at February 15, 2026 08:37 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 15, 2026 08:40 AM (f/buw)
https://tinyurl.com/2mknznfm
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)
——-
Hanged. Good grammar and usage here is important. In this situation, hanged is the proper word. If it were an an extra-legal mob, the proper word would be “lynched” or “lynching”.
Please make a note of it.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2026 08:43 AM (zocr6)
Posted by: Tuli Kupferberg at February 15, 2026 08:45 AM (oftw2)
The impending United States Postal Service shutdown will see all of the more than 31,000 locations across the country close for a full 24 hours."
President's Day. They are closed for President's Day.
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2026 07:48 AM (vFG9F)
Pretty funny. Our post office has a section that houses post office boxes that's open 24/7. That area also has a postal kiosk that enables one to purchase stamps, mail packages (by weighing the package, deterring postage and printing out the appropriate labels). All USPS packages are available on an adjacent table. Payment can be made by credit or debit card.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 15, 2026 08:45 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2026 08:43 AM (zocr6)
You just made the list, buddy.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 08:47 AM (dK+Kv)
Does that ring a bell with anyone?
Posted by: fluffy
Ann Barnhardt maybe?
Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2026 08:48 AM (cYBz/)
https://tinyurl.com/2mknznfm
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)
By Peter Robinson!
Peter Robinson, an author and former White House speechwriter, is a Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1983 Robinson joined President Ronald Reagan's staff, serving almost five years as speechwriter and special assistant to the President, an experience he recounts in his 2003 book, How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life. Robinson provided the chief executive with more than 300 speeches, including the 1987 Berlin Wall address.
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 08:48 AM (+YA9H)
Tonight we watched Rubio's speech in Munich. It was good and seemed to have a good reception.
Unfortunately, I found his lithp dithracting as it made me keep remembering little Dondi's infamous foam dance party days. Surely there's speech therapy for that.
https://youtu.be/gYftS2BTFwM
Posted by: mindful webworker - wha'd I say? at February 15, 2026 08:50 AM (6hyzx)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 08:52 AM (dK+Kv)
https://tinyurl.com/5y9s4vtv
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 08:53 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: Tonypete
Ann has a page of memes almost every day.
https://www.barnhardtmemes.com/
Many good memes. Has an unfortunate hangup about Israel similar to Mark Dice's.
Amusingly, her Saturday memes pages lift heavily from WeirdDave's Friday ONTs.
Posted by: mindful webworker - me me me me meme at February 15, 2026 08:54 AM (6hyzx)
——-
If you’re not on some sort of list by now, you really ought to be ashamed of yourself! Strive to be better.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2026 08:54 AM (zocr6)
https://tinyurl.com/5y9s4vtv
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 08:53 AM (UzL96)
It's Enumclaw. I'd be more worried about missing livestock.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 08:55 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2026 08:48 AM (cYBz/)
Sarah Hoyt. I certainly do not recall any "joo hate" from her, though.
Posted by: Emmie at February 15, 2026 08:56 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Emmie at February 15, 2026 08:56 AM (FMtrg)
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I wasn't referring to Sarah.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 08:59 AM (RIvkX)
https://tinyurl.com/5y9s4vtv
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 08:53 AM (UzL96)
More importantly, is anyone prepared to admit to that being their daughter?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2026 08:59 AM (PrvRk)
BOOK THREAD IS NOOD
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2026 09:00 AM (Ia/+0)
When I reached Griscom's office on one occasion, I found Colin Powell, then deputy national security adviser, waiting for me. I was a 30-year-old who had never held a full-time job outside speechwriting. Powell was a decorated general. After listening to Powell recite all the arguments against the speech in his accustomed forceful manner, however, I heard myself reciting all the arguments in favor of the speech in an equally forceful manner. I could scarcely believe my own tone of voice. Powell looked a little taken aback himself.
; )
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 09:01 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 09:02 AM (cDcjR)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2026 08:59 AM (PrvRk)
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Now let's do a whole classroom of lil' fascists:
https://tinyurl.com/yc85akm8
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 15, 2026 09:03 AM (UzL96)
https://tinyurl.com/2mknznfm
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 15, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)
Thanks for that!
Posted by: m at February 15, 2026 09:07 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: man at February 15, 2026 09:39 AM (cDcjR)
Well, if you can vote after you're dead, why not continue posting on Facebook?
Posted by: Ralph at February 15, 2026 10:54 AM (8WZD4)
While there's a bit of commonality between Linux distributions and many of them share similar graphical interfaces, a lot of the other shit ain't the same. If you want to learn about Ubuntu, they've got a basic shitload of documentation out there.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 15, 2026 11:25 AM (ODlNa)
Saturday Night Club ONT - February 14, 2026 [2 D's]
Do you have a date for Valentine's Day?
Answer: Yes, it's February 14. Is your name Google?
Answer: Because you have everything I'm searching for. What does a vampire call his Valentine?
Answer: His ghoul-friend. What's Cupid's favorite band?
Answer: KISS. Do you like science?
Answer: Because I've got my ion you. Are you a loan?
Answer: Because you definitely have my interest. What do you call two birds in love?
Answer: Tweet-hearts. What did the puzzle say on Valentine's Day?
Answer: You complete me. Do you have a map?
Answer: Because I keep getting lost in your eyes. What's the best Valentine's Day dinner?
Answer: A hearty one.
--------- What's the difference between a lobster with big boobs and a Greyhound terminal? One's a busty crustacean, the other's a crusty bus station.
Beer commercials before cancel culture pic.twitter.com/i2D03i1YZo
— Cigarette Nostalgia (@CigsMake) February 7, 2026
Prof. Ida Sabelis and her partner Joep were a young Dutch couple who never imagined they would find themselves having sex inside an MRI machine as part of a groundbreaking scientific study. They happened to know the right people at the right time. Their close friend, Dutch scientist Menno Victor "Pek" van Andel, wanted to answer a basic question that had barely been studied: what the anatomy of sexual intercourse actually looks like from the inside. Inside the narrow, noisy MRI scanner, the couple were instructed to maintain a fixed position while the system captured a series of relatively slow scans lasting several seconds each. The conditions were far from comfortable, but the results were clear. For the first time, medicine could observe in real time how sexual organs align and function during intercourse, documentation that had never previously existed.Here is the resulting paper: Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal
Following the initial experiment, researchers conducted a structured study that systematically examined the anatomy of sex using MRI technology. Volunteers aged 18 and older took part in 13 scans involving eight couples and three women, imaged both during intercourse and during sexual arousal without penetration. All scans were conducted in the missionary position, and participants were free to stop at any point. None did. Source.
Club ONT Poetry Corner I Can't Help Falling in Love with You
Every Breath You Take feels brand new
I Wanna Dance with Somebody all night long
Your Body Is a Wonderland, where I belong
Baby One More Time and I'm completely gone
Ain't No Mountain High Enough to keep me from
(You're) Still the One after all these years
Let's Get It On and banish all my fears
I Will Always Love You, it's tragically true
Oops!...I Did It Again-fell harder for you
The Club ONT Jukebox Some tunes for various stages of love.
When you're smitten but the reasons are unclear
When you're in love but kinda wish you weren't
When you're all alone but looking for love
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 14, 2026 10:01 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 14, 2026 10:01 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Case at February 14, 2026 10:01 PM (j6kTf)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:01 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 10:02 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 10:04 PM (S/Y4j)
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Posted by: mikeski at February 14, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 10:05 PM (gKWVE)
Well, a new one for the bucket list - for a special Valentine's Day dinner for my sweetie, I went to Central Market and bought a couple of Wagyu steaks for both of us. I was kind of hesitant to prepare them, but I mustered my courage, consulted the Internet, and followed the instructions as written for a Reverse Sear preparation.
Gotta admit, I wasn't quite sure I was doing it right when the steaks were still pretty raw looking after reaching the "probe" temperature as listed, but after searing the steaks on all sides as directed, the steaks turned out perfectly!
Even Mr. TiFW - who doesn't usually like his steaks too pink/red - said his was delicious 🥳🎊🥳🎊🥳
Our Chambers stove got fixed this week, so I was able to use both ovens to make everything - steaks, scalloped/au gratin potatoes, roasted asparagus, and shrimp/lobster sauce - so that they all came out at the same time. It was great 😊♥️
Rebecca really enjoyed dinner, too - normally she just wants pizza or chicken nuggies, but she decided that eating "fancy" is good, too.
Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of this luscious feast - we wanted to get down to business...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2026 10:05 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 14, 2026 10:06 PM (CFj4+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 10:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Blake McPhee at February 14, 2026 10:06 PM (ZTJjv)
Posted by: A Smiths Valentine's Day at February 14, 2026 10:07 PM (TbWk/)
Last?
Somewhere in the middle?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 10:04 PM (S/Y4j)
Well, the longer the thread goes on, the higher you'll get in the comments. But, you won't be "First!"
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 14, 2026 10:07 PM (uQesX)
Last?
Somewhere in the middle?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
First.
Last.
I'm the guy with the gun.
Posted by: Ash in Army of Darkness at February 14, 2026 10:07 PM (zZu0s)
Last?
Somewhere in the middle?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
First.
Last.
I'm the guy with the gun.
Posted by: Ash in Army of Darkness at February 14, 2026 10:07 PM (zZu0s)
Awesome movie.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 10:08 PM (snZF9)
Sex inside an MRI
Hey, no kink-shaming, man.
Posted by: a guy who really likes superconductors at February 14, 2026 10:08 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 10:08 PM (zZu0s)
Last?
Somewhere in the middle?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Obligatory link
https://tinyurl.com/h6jemvs4
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:09 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 14, 2026 10:09 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2026 10:09 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:09 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: a guy who really likes superconductors at February 14, 2026 10:08 PM (VHUov)
I just had a joke about ferromagnetism and a Man named Iron Dick run across my brain.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 10:10 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 14, 2026 10:10 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 10:10 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 10:11 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:11 PM (xDN0i)
And if a ten ton truck... killed the both of us . . .
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 10:12 PM (gKWVE)
https://tinyurl.com/WhereItAllBegan1979
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2026 10:12 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 10:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:11 PM (xDN0i)
One of my favorite lines in that movie -
Deadite chick- You used to think I was beautiful
Ash- Honey, you got real ugly.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 10:13 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 10:14 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Purple Headed Warrior at February 14, 2026 10:15 PM (SR7SO)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 14, 2026 10:15 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 14, 2026 10:15 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:17 PM (xDN0i)
I hate Rush.
Now I have Limelight in my head and I hate it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 10:12 PM (zZu0s)
May I recommend my 100% foolproof ear worm eraser?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7cWi41XGCM
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 10:17 PM (snZF9)
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)
Bud Abbott made an entire career out of this, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 10:17 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
That's the line that gets the most use from me. Way too many primitive screwheads in the world.
Posted by: mikeski at February 14, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 14, 2026 10:17 PM (YlWIZ)
Deadite chick- You used to think I was beautiful
Ash- Honey, you got real ugly.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 10:13 PM (snZF9)
'Its a trick. Get an axe.'
'You're the king of Jack and shit- and Jack left town.'
'Maybe, just maybe my boys can stop them. ... And maybe im a Chinese jet pilot.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 10:18 PM (zZu0s)
Read it. It wasn't as useful as you might expect.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 10:18 PM (rbvCR)
youtu.be/GN6a0F7fUFk
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 10:18 PM (gKWVE)
Kissed the girls and made ‘em cry;
When the girls came out to play,
Georgy Peorgy ran away.
youtu.be/eFOpf96S_dI?t=56
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 10:18 PM (y79kU)
Posted by: Sorry, Not Sorry at February 14, 2026 10:18 PM (ItM8b)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 10:12 PM (zZu0s)
Most normal humans do...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 14, 2026 10:18 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Sorry, Not Sorry at February 14, 2026 10:18 PM (ItM8b)
---------
Big Condom never got the payoff it expected.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 10:20 PM (nWPIJ)
I read the entire paper, and kept a copy until a “college” stole it off my desk.
The experimental write up was the funniest I had ever read. The women were all gymnasts. The real secret is hinted at in the title,
None of the men could perform sexually. Erection, insertion, deflation. No explanation was given on male failure.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 14, 2026 10:20 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 14, 2026 10:18 PM (n9ltV)
Their fans are like Atheists, Cross filters and Vegans though.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 10:21 PM (zZu0s)
Gee, all the times I've heard "'Til Death Do Us Part" I never envisioned a couple of skeletons until now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 10:21 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:17 PM (xDN0i)
I don't have any whiskey. But I am drinking a rum and cola.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 10:21 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 14, 2026 10:22 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:24 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 10:21 PM (8zz6B)
That will get the job done. Feel better, sir.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:24 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 10:14 PM (8zz6B)
A nasal wash can help, I like the NeilMed type best. It has a squirt bottle you can use to douche out your sinuses but it does tend to knock down the sinus issues.
It has the buffer packets that make waterboarding yourself less unpleasant.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 10:25 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 10:25 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 14, 2026 10:17 PM (YlWIZ)
Now I am become Death. Destroyer of nics...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 14, 2026 10:26 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Case at February 14, 2026 10:26 PM (j6kTf)
Posted by: Sorry, Not Sorry at February 14, 2026 10:18 PM (ItM8b)
This lady is quite happy to receive candy and flowers - even if I am the one who has to order it (hey, that way I get what I want, right?) 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2026 10:27 PM (SRRAx)
It has the buffer packets that make waterboarding yourself less unpleasant.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 10:25 PM (rbvCR)
I bought a squirt bottle of steroid-based nasal allergy spray at WalMart. It could be water for the effect it has.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 10:27 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 10:27 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 10:29 PM (zZu0s)
Waste of money. Too many men spend too much money on women who do t deserve it.
If you really love her, if she really knows it, she doesn’t need a card and flowers and stupid shit on Valentine’s Day.
I got divorce papers.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:30 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:31 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:32 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 10:32 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 14, 2026 10:32 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 10:34 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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and I thought my story was unique
Feb 14, 19XX, I open the mailbox and there it is
final divorce decree
Love stinks
Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2026 10:34 PM (ZxPkt)
He paid extra.
Now it’s funny as hell.
But it’s still a stupid expectation of women. Why don’t women spend money and time and effort on their men? Where’s the equality?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:34 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 10:35 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:35 PM (xDN0i)
Happy VD to you all.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 10:35 PM (cYBz/)
Bud Abbott made an entire career out of this, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 10:17
WTG Cicero! Hey that rhymes. Do you say sis-er-o or kick
er-o? I read the k sound is the original.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at February 14, 2026 10:35 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:34 PM (IhIKR)
I loathe Hallmark holidays.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 14, 2026 10:35 PM (GTqXr)
It has the buffer packets that make waterboarding yourself less unpleasant.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 10:25 PM (rbvCR)
This flushes a lot of nasty stuff from your sinuses. Imagine how clean your sinuses feel after a few days at the beach.
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 10:36 PM (LHPAg)
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Using the Ciceronian convention, kick-er-oh would be correct.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 10:36 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2026 10:37 PM (2WIwB)
https://tinyurl.com/WhereItAllBegan1979
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2026 10:12 PM (SRRAx)
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Great story, and especially for today.
*Raising a glass to the Kochs!*
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 10:38 PM (0yg/c)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 14, 2026 10:38 PM (CFj4+)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:34 PM (IhIKR)
My wife bought us a cooked crab, and I made noodles and asked that she eat the whole crab herself, and she adores crab.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 10:39 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 14, 2026 10:40 PM (O3dBq)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:34 PM (IhIKR)
Hubby buys me cookware as a gift. I cook him a damn fine meal. That is equality. And a win -win. But I get your point.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:40 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 10:36 PM (nWPIJ)
I'm just a Kick-er-oh
And everywhere I go
People know the part I'm playin...
Posted by: Louie Pryima at February 14, 2026 10:40 PM (nbLIj)
(Glad it cost him more!)
Now it’s funny as hell.
(And huge relief, I'm sure!)
But it’s still a stupid expectation of women. Why don’t women spend money and time and effort on their men? Where’s the equality?
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I gave hubby a Ru$$el $tover dark chocolate heart with raspberry creme filling. He ate it right up! Wished him a happy Valentine's Day... *whoosh* right over his head.
He calls me by his XW's name all the time.(But I can't really complain; they were married for 25years.) Just grateful he still knows I'm his wife.
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 10:42 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:42 PM (IhIKR)
love and caring is not metered out with an eye-dropper, it is a river that is reciprocal
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 10:42 PM (rbvCR)
_ _ _
in part; address to the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union
Giorgia Meloni@GiorgiaMeloni . 16h
...To guarantee the men and women of the African continent a freedom often denied: that of choosing to remain in their own nation to contribute to its growth, without being forced to leave it, often paying unscrupulous traffickers and risking their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 10:43 PM (y79kU)
You are an amazing woman. Thank you for giving your heart to your husband. You certainly honored the “for better or worse. In sickness and in health” part.
Good on you, lady.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:43 PM (IhIKR)
Some tunes for various stages of love
Two can play at this game!
When he's trading you in on a newer model:
https://youtu.be/cUu4UHNTTrY
When you're the bait to capture your bandit lover:
https://youtu.be/YGFo0xn4JeY
When you need to go on a bloody revenge mission because they killed your man:
https://youtu.be/3oB2x5-44Zo&t=30
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back to you, they're yours. If not, they were never meant to be."
https://youtu.be/ja5wA4s8tQU
Posted by: mikeski at February 14, 2026 10:44 PM (VHUov)
Cat being strangled>>>rush
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:24 PM (IhIKR)
Blasphemy!
“I don’t believe in destiny
Or the guiding hand of fate
I don’t believe in forever
Or love as a mystical state
I don’t believe in the stars or the planets
Or angels watching from above
But I believe there’s a ghost of a chance
That we can find someone to love
And make it last”
“Ghost of a Chance” by Prof. Neil E. Peart, Canadian poet and percussionist
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 14, 2026 10:44 PM (O3dBq)
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 10:42 PM (rdVOm)
{JQ} God Bless you and Hubby.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:45 PM (xDN0i)
The depiction is of Venus and Cupid in an erotic embrace. Venus is his mother for Zeus's sake!!! Cupid fondles his mother's bewb while she slips him the her tongue. AHHHHH!!
There is also a representation of syphilis too so it all works out.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 10:46 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 10:46 PM (8zz6B)
That’s not the point I was trying to make.
Too many times, men are publicly
Brow beaten to cater to women, to buy them stuff, honor them, spend money and resources and time and effort.
When are women ever shamed to take care of their men? To honor them? To treat them like royalty? To make them feel
Special?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:47 PM (IhIKR)
I wish Mrs B...err...Mrs C....dang it...Mrs D (yeah, that's the one) was that understanding.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2026 10:48 PM (2WIwB)
Special?
---------
Yoo-hoooo
*waves*
Posted by: Steak & BJ Day at February 14, 2026 10:48 PM (nWPIJ)
Wait a minuet! - a lamerickish
The coppers have started a dragnet
Looking for an electromagnet
What authorities dread
Is they'll run out of bread
Before they get to the beignet.
😒
Posted by: mindful webworker - filmed in 16mm at 24fps at February 14, 2026 10:48 PM (6hyzx)
Posted by: nurse ratched
and I thought my story was unique
Feb 14, 19XX, I open the mailbox and there it is
final divorce decree
Love stinks
Posted by: Don Black
Roses are red
Violets are blue
It don't always be like that
But sometimes it do
Posted by: probably not Ernest Hemingway at February 14, 2026 10:49 PM (VHUov)
Special?
Posted by: nurse ratched
Even Father's Day is often turned into a joke.
And I bet most biddies don't honor Steak and BJ Day at all.
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 14, 2026 10:50 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 10:50 PM (gKWVE)
https://youtu.be/lA4paHF4J6I
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 10:50 PM (S/Y4j)
Brow beaten to cater to women, to buy them stuff, honor them, spend money and resources and time and effort.
Posted by: nurse ratched
I automatically flinch when I see a pic of a guy on bended knee asking for his girl's hand in marriage. It just looks like begging to me.
I'm probably reading it way wrong - oh well.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 10:50 PM (cYBz/)
Special?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:47 PM (IhIKR)
I do recall Dr. Laura Schlessinger doing her level best in that regard...
Posted by: Louie Pryima at February 14, 2026 10:51 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2026 10:51 PM (ZxPkt)
Special?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:47 PM (IhIKR)
There are women like us out there, nurse. We put husband and family above our careers. We are quiet caretakers made to feel like second-class citizens by the AWFLs.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:51 PM (xDN0i)
Pervs. Sheesh! Why can't they just go to PornHub like everyone else?
I presume the "and three women" has already been commented upon.
Posted by: mindful webworker had an MRI last week... all by myself... at February 14, 2026 10:51 PM (6hyzx)
Posted by: mindful webworker believes, Lord help me in my unbelief at February 14, 2026 10:53 PM (6hyzx)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
***********
Amen, sister.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 14, 2026 10:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 14, 2026 10:54 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 10:55 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 10:55 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 10:57 PM (y79kU)
Bud Abbott made an entire career out of this, right?
Straight man always gets top billing. Abbott and Costello, Burns and Alllen, Martin and Lewis, etc.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 14, 2026 10:58 PM (Fs0KI)
Second time less of an earthquake but memorable and I am still with him.
Never in my bingo card for today or any day did I consider comparing Di Vinci's confusion, and some stuff partially correct, to a MRI of random people who volunteered. Then reading the medical notes. I am NOT going to admit this to my husband, currently watching basketball as our MRI machine is not working.
Di Vinci's little squiggle on the woman to her boob confuses me. Did his women lactate with sex? Was he ghey and imagined this I wonder? Lots of squiggles.
Then I look up Di Vinci and he never married and lived with a boy from age 10 as his "assistant." So Di Vinci was a pedo, apparently. One of those confirmed bachelors. No evidence of any romantic relationship with women. Hmmm. Brilliant but ghey.
I now need to think about other things. Or listen to music. Or look for a MRI machine on Craig's List.
Prayers for whig (and I was glad to see him post today) and for tcn and her baby grandson, and all who need them.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 10:58 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 10:58 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Unique Is Good at February 14, 2026 10:58 PM (oftw2)
I’m from a generation that used VD for what is now abbreviated as STD, so that just doesn’t sound right!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 14, 2026 10:58 PM (qGDNl)
Saint Motel - My Type (Official Video)
youtube.com/watch?v=IyVPyKrx0Xo
Posted by: SciVo at February 14, 2026 10:59 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:59 PM (xDN0i)
Daughter-in-law's 40th birthday is tomorrow.
She keeps saying "I'm going to be 29", lol.
I texted her and said for some reason the number 40 keeps popping up in my mind.
I'm glad she loves me, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 10:59 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 11:00 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 11:00 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Oddbob
And if not, where would the Marx brothers be without Margaret Dumont
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 11:01 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
He was posting today from home.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 10:59 PM (xDN0i)
Great news. Hospitals suck.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 11:01 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:01 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Geezer One at February 14, 2026 11:01 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Open MRI's Exist, Though at February 14, 2026 11:03 PM (oftw2)
Silence of the Lambs is 35 years old.
Well, the trans community is OUTRAGED That Ted Levine's character doesn't meet today's social standards.
Levine and producer Edward Saxon issued a groveling apology.
What the everloving hell???
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:03 PM (3ek7K)
Well, the trans community is OUTRAGED That Ted Levine's character doesn't meet today's social standards.
Levine and producer Edward Saxon issued a groveling apology.
What the everloving hell???
Posted by: four seasons
************
Seriously? I have no words....except that was a good movie.....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 14, 2026 11:05 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Orpheum Vaudeville Circuit at February 14, 2026 11:05 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Open MRI's Exist, Though at February 14, 2026 11:03 PM (oftw2)
I can't imagine having sex in an MRI tube. I have brain MRIs on the regular. I love hubby, but don't want him up in my business on that.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:06 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 11:07 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:07 PM (3ek7K)
It's probably the harder job to do well.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 14, 2026 11:07 PM (Fs0KI)
That's right, aliens.
Former President Barack Obama said that aliens are real but he has no idea where they are during a podcast appearance released Saturday.
“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama told YouTuber Brian Tyler Cowen after he asked him about extraterrestrials.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 11:07 PM (BNHnQ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 11:00 PM (snZF9)
I cried at this. What a beautiful story!
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2026 11:08 PM (wLjpr)
I'm probably reading it way wrong - oh well.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 10:50 PM (cYBz/)
............................................
We had a very non-traditional college romance, as he was a retard. I sure as heck did not get the bended knee. I laughed when he first mentioned marriage, and told him he'd had too many beers and to ask me again. He did. I told his highness he had to not break up with me (never a reason) for one year.8 months later I said yes. Paid cash for the ring.
To arrange to have a photographer film this event would have been hilarous.
Eldest son, and married almost 2yrs called me today after fishing in FL (no fish due to cold weather). He described a bridezilla friend of his wife's that has my attention for an anthropology paper. It is wild what she's demanding. We were both cracking up. A bridal shower, one of the big ones, people have to come in "period costumes" from a Jane Austen novel. He wants his wife to be a peasant or maid, but as matron of honor (he's calling her slave of honor) I am thinking not!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 11:09 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: the zutt got carlson too at February 14, 2026 11:09 PM (gKWVE)
One thing I recall was a video of the female's uterus during an orgasm. During orgasm, the opening to the cervix dilates and, combined with uterine contractions, can move help move sperm toward an egg.
So...
Posted by: Javems at February 14, 2026 11:09 PM (zFsEm)
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:07 PM (3ek7K)
Hollywood is boned. They will be replaced by AI. Too bad about Levine. I liked him in Monk.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:10 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Doof at February 14, 2026 11:11 PM (PjSTM)
Posted by: Gracie, How's Your Brother? at February 14, 2026 11:12 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 10:34 PM (IhIKR
It would be impossible for me to match J dollar for dollar. I don’t have it. Our relationship is quirky in a lot of ways, but at the same time we have pretty traditional roles. I make dinner 90% of the time, I keep things picked up daily, I do the grocery shopping. I find all the things he can’t, which is just about everything. 😄
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2026 11:12 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Orpheum Vaudeville Circuit at February 14, 2026 11:05 PM (oftw2)
Even during Pride Month???
Posted by: Doof at February 14, 2026 11:13 PM (PjSTM)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:14 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Orpheum Vaudeville Circuit at February 14, 2026 11:05 PM (oftw2)
Even during Pride Month???
Posted by: Doof
There are no straight men during Pride Month, silly.
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 14, 2026 11:15 PM (ftFVW)
And now the rumor is she and the football player are having second thoughts about getting married. Sad news on V-Day. Poor Taylor. 🤣
Posted by: Sorry, Not Sorry at February 14, 2026 11:15 PM (ItM8b)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 14, 2026 11:16 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:14 PM (xDN0i)
Good memory! But we're out of town for the weekend so no.
Posted by: Doof at February 14, 2026 11:16 PM (PjSTM)
HR Giger, man.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 11:17 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 11:18 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:18 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 14, 2026 11:15 PM (ftFVW)
Yuh huh - we just stay in the closet
Posted by: Doof at February 14, 2026 11:18 PM (PjSTM)
*Raising a glass to the Kochs!*
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 10:38
Seconded, great tale Teresa. Ours is a bit similar, we met in college 1975.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at February 14, 2026 11:19 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 11:00 PM (snZF9)
..................................
Sweet! I don't remember when he first bought me flowers, but he knows I prefer pink or peach unless it is Christmas. Today I got a card that was sweet, but I expected nothing at this point in 49yrs of knowing him.
We grow massive David Austin roses,30 of them, a labor of love & thorns for a decade in this house. Large & wild fluffy roses, not florist types and the size of trees. I love them.
It will be interesting to see my spring bulbs since we've had very little snow this year. A yellow crocus is blooming now, and usually through snow. Daffodils and tulips to follow, and we have a lot.
The first thing this nitwit I love bought me was a coral and silver ring in the mall. I still have it as, short of saving the first six pack of Coors we shared, that's all I have. Our one son and DIL were HS sweethearts and she has a collection of tickt stubs, prom photos,etc framed. I have memories and some photos.
He was a po' white boy playing the field when I messed up his game.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 11:19 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Doof at February 14, 2026 11:13 PM (PjSTM)
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Imagine how much you'd need to be paid to be the straight man in an all-gay cabaret.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:19 PM (nWPIJ)
Beckoning Chasm,
Whig is home and he has been commenting today.
I haven't seen an update from tcn. I imagine she has a long row to hoe with that very sad situation.
tcn is awesome and she will get that situation straightened out.
Lots of prayers are needed.
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:19 PM (3ek7K)
I made heart-shaped rice krispy candy this year. Its main flaw is that, like heart-shaped pizza it requires cutting pieces out.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 14, 2026 11:20 PM (EXyHK)
+++
Who? Who won't wear the ribbon?
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at February 14, 2026 11:21 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 11:00 PM (snZF9)
I cried at this. What a beautiful story!
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2026 11:08 PM (wLjpr)
Yeah she was bummed, like it was an omen. I said yeah it is, and everything is going to be fine, because every women I ever got roses for was a frigging dumpster fire, and the gods have a sense of humor. My true soulmate will destroy her rose and end the cycle of dumpster fires. I was right. We laugh about it all the time when she gets roses. I see her arranging them in her vase with this smirk on her face. I say you're thinking about that rose aren't you? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 11:22 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Javems at February 14, 2026 11:22 PM (zFsEm)
“Even our home wasn’t always private. Unlike most motion picture stars, whose fans seemed feel were unapproachable, everyone believed that Gracie was their friend. Quite often someone would ring our doorbell and explain that they were just visiting and couldn’t go home without saying hello to Gracie or getting her autograph… I suppose they felt since they let us into their homes, we should let them into our home. Neither Gracie nor I liked this, but we both understood that people meant it as a compliment.”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 14, 2026 11:23 PM (EXyHK)
MiladyJo and I rarely dine out anymore, but we decided today we would, going to our favorite Mexican restaurant which this week re-opened after a remodel. Went crazy wild and had a beer. Slipped in during the mid-afternoon, and got out just as the place filled up with Saturday night and Valentine's Day diners. That was nice. Then we came home and had vanilla ice cream with strawberries and cookie crumbs.
Fifty+ years together and more in love than ever.
Posted by: mindful webworker - But, then, what's love got to do got to do with it? at February 14, 2026 11:23 PM (6hyzx)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 10:50 PM (cYBz/)
Girl I knew... I tried to explain once that what she called 'Chasing' was really her wanting to be belle of the ball. Also that it felt like begging, but also almost like what she wanted was to be forced to love. Not my kink.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:24 PM (bss/y)
tcn is awesome and she will get that situation straightened out.
Lots of prayers are needed.
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:19 PM (3ek7K)
Perhaps she needs to get an Insomniac brand tire iron to help.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 11:24 PM (S/Y4j)
And then you have to "dispose" of all the little bits from between the cutouts. Yep, quite the hardship.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 14, 2026 11:24 PM (Fs0KI)
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:24 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: mindful webworker - But, then, what's love got to do got to do with it? at February 14, 2026 11:23 PM (6hyzx)
Awww. *heartwarming*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:25 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 14, 2026 11:25 PM (jrgJz)
—Gracie: A Love Story
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 14, 2026 11:25 PM (EXyHK)
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This is why everything should be square.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:25 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2026 11:25 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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and I thought my story was unique
Feb 14, 19XX, I open the mailbox and there it is
final divorce decree
Love stinks
Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2026 10:34 PM (ZxPkt)
I am sorry for all who go through this hell...but you are better off without them on the other side. They are the losers.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 11:26 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 11:26 PM (S/Y4j)
Now to see if they either scrap the filibuster or (more likely) force the Dems to do an actual, old-fashioned talking filibuster where they have to defend vote fraud on camera.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2026 11:26 PM (IG3/x)
Hour of the Wolf,
I have thought about suggesting we need a posse of 'ettes to go up there and help tcn, lol.
'Ettes can be scary, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:26 PM (3ek7K)
Mr Scary and I are doing Valentines lunch on Monday, after his physical therapy. The Mexican place we like has $8 enchilada plates on Monday.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:26 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 11:26 PM (S/Y4j)
Enthusiastic sign language guy!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:27 PM (bss/y)
Mr Scary and I are doing Valentines lunch on Monday, after his physical therapy. The Mexican place we like has $8 enchilada plates on Monday.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:26 PM (xDN0i)
Awwww. *heartwarming and frugal*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:28 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:28 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 11:28 PM (IhIKR)
And she should do it. They'll love it. With loud speakers so they can feel the vibrations and an over-to-top ASL interpreter. Just because they're deaf doesn't mean they're not kids.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 14, 2026 11:28 PM (Fs0KI)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:28 PM (nWPIJ)
Because nothing says 'I love ya' like cheap, good TexMex.
'Murica.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:29 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
They should have known better than to cheat a friend.
To waste the chance that they'd been given.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 11:29 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: GWB at February 14, 2026 11:30 PM (XoEtr)
I don't know tcn but I hope she is doing well and coping. I care about all the Morons. It's part of my being, I always make sure that everyone has what they want or need and typically neglect myself. I've been doing it for years and won't stop soon.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 14, 2026 11:30 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 14, 2026 11:31 PM (CHHv1)
'Murica.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:29 PM (bss/y)
He wanted to take me out today. But the enchilada plates were $18. No way, Jose. He got Buffalo wings homemade.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:32 PM (xDN0i)
But it’s not the woman he left me for.
I never remarried.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14
Mine got remarried- to my best friend. Well, she used to be my best friend.
Thus far, I have refused actually getting remarried. It’s probably dumb on my part, but I was really traumatized by the entire experience. It was a huge step for me to say okay to the ring on my finger. The famous fell down the bathroom sink ring.
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2026 11:32 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Javems at February 14, 2026 11:22 PM (zFsEm)
Clearly, you're both in a rut. Next year, wish each other a happy Mandatory Affection Day, and watch the sparks fly...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 14, 2026 11:33 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 11:26 PM (S/Y4j)
Bitch. That gig was obviously tailor-made for me.
Posted by: Yoko Ono at February 14, 2026 11:33 PM (IG3/x)
And I don't have any, and can't make it safely. (Sobs)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 11:34 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 11:34 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 11:00
Very cool story Bers.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at February 14, 2026 11:35 PM (55Qr6)
Some tunes for various stages of love
When your seafaring man has drowned:
https://youtu.be/zN2Yex9bgzk
When your man's gone, and your daughter is trying to cheer you up:
https://youtu.be/tfZysKKdcpE
When you're trying to say goodbye, but you're already gone:
https://youtu.be/JbQFMkTINTY
OK, enough dark ones.
When she's really the one:
https://youtu.be/53eKWJ4RMvg
When he's really the one:
https://youtu.be/HU05dhTSFq0
Posted by: mikeski at February 14, 2026 11:35 PM (VHUov)
Were you aware that the same laws allowing the IRS to tax treasure finds, also require you to report change you find on the sidewalk as Income for the year? (IRS Code, Section 61) . You round to the nearest dollar and are legally required to list it on your 1040 as other income. Granted, the IRS generally follows the legal doctrine of de minimis non curat lex ("the law does not concern itself with trifles"). BUT, it's at their discretion.
My point is that chances are everyone in the comments section is a tax cheat. In fact, I'd wager just about everyone in the country is a tax cheat as a result of the above.
Posted by: Orson at February 14, 2026 11:36 PM (dIske)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 14, 2026 11:36 PM (CHHv1)
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that story is 13 years old
the concert did not happen, but she made a generous cash gift to the school
Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2026 11:37 PM (ZxPkt)
Husband and I are almost at the 50 year mark.
I tease him and say I think he's scared of me, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:38 PM (3ek7K)
My husband paid $300 for my rings & they were perfect. Small center diamond with a sapphire on each white gold band, & a chip of a diamond on the wedding band. At the time the lady was impressed he paid cash (197
from his income tax return. I felt bad he got nothing so I bought him a guitar that he still has. My ring has a bigger diamond now but the same setting (10th anniversary and his idea). I did not want a huge diamond to offset the setting.
I was excited, and without the wedding band it did look a bit odd. It was perfect because I have worn, since age 16, a ring my parents gave me instead of a class ring (mother's idea), a diamond with small sapphires on my right hand in white gold.
At work my co-workers tell me my engagement ring was pretty. The house supervisor of 3-11 shift, a snobby woman, asked if it was a "promise ring" because the diamond was small. Instead of getting mean I simply said I think it is pretty.
Told my boys to buy what they can afford like their father & they listened (rare) vs Tay Tay.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 11:38 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:38 PM (xDN0i)
This is why everything should be square.
Posted by: Cicero
Hexagons work, too!
Posted by: mikeski, geometrically at February 14, 2026 11:39 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 11:39 PM (BI5O2)
tcn is awesome and she will get that situation straightened out.
Lots of prayers are needed.
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:19 PM (3ek7K)
I must have missed something - what is going on with tcn?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2026 11:39 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 11:39 PM (BI5O2)
___________________________
What's important is, "What's SHE calling it?"
Posted by: Orson at February 14, 2026 11:40 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 11:22 PM (snZF9)
Yes she is!!!
The first flowers my husband got me was a gimongous, ugly funeral spray. He's gotten better since then!!
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2026 11:40 PM (wLjpr)
Thus far, I have refused actually getting remarried. It’s probably dumb on my part, but I was really traumatized by the entire experience. It was a huge step for me to say okay to the ring on my finger. The famous fell down the bathroom sink ring.
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2026 11:32 PM (Wmg4n)
.......................................
And look at you thriving, loving life, and not in prison like I would be! His loss, honey.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 11:41 PM (WONhk)
Teresa,
I don't remember which night tcn told us what is going on. Hopefully someone here will remember which night.
I'm thinking maybe Wednesday or Thursday overnight.
You need to read it as it's a long story and tcn and her family need prayers.
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:43 PM (3ek7K)
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Wow. Did he get you an urn for your birthday?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:43 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:43 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:45 PM (3ek7K)
Wow. Did he get you an urn for your birthday?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:43 PM (nWPIJ)
It was post war kuwait. The only flower arrangement the one florist open was making was funeral arrangements!!
But if he had gotten me a pretty urn, I would have used it for the vase!!!
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2026 11:45 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:45 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:38 PM (xDN0i)
Fatass? I saw you in texas, there isn't enough meat on your ass to make a poor man a bowl of soup wtf are you talking about? Fatass...ay. You ettes are a special breed. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 11:46 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Orson at February 14, 2026 11:40 PM (dIske)
Eh, she did ok by it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 11:46 PM (BI5O2)
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I saw this and thought of you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:47 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2026 11:40 PM (wLjpr)
I heard a story about a young man overseas who took a shine to a local lady, and he went and bought her what he thought were greeting cards from the local pharmacy for love letters, but turned out, because he couldn't read the language, to be funeral condolence cards which caused some dismay and confusion for everyone.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 11:47 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:47 PM (bss/y)
lol Kindltot
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:48 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 11:48 PM (n7rxJ)
It was post war kuwait. The only flower arrangement the one florist open was making was funeral arrangements!!
Posted by: moki
That's sweet, in an Addams Family sort of way. Did you call him Gomez for it?
Posted by: mikeski at February 14, 2026 11:48 PM (VHUov)
Possibly I screwed myself, I dunno. I'm so rusty at this dating thing that I honestly have no idea.... I'm, like, 35 years out of practice.
I met a woman here at the senior housing complex (actually I've met several, but she's the one I like best). Thought about making her a good meal for Valentine's Day, but then I thought again... it's not like she's my formal girlfriend (yet, but I have hopes in that respect), so maybe Valentine's Day is rushing things. I made the dinner last night instead. She wasn't home, so I left a note on her door, casually inviting her over for dinner. No word. I know she's been there because the note is gone.
Now I'm wondering if maybe she WAS expecting me to ask for today. Shit, I dunno.
She's been over here several times for coffee, etc., so it's not like she's afraid to come over to my place.
Crap, I feel like I'm 15 years old. And not in a good way.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2026 11:49 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:43 PM (nWPIJ)
You could always use it for an ash tray, I guess.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 11:49 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:45 PM (xDN0i)
Thanks - I'll go look for it. We were out with friends that night.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2026 11:49 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:49 PM (3ek7K)
I saw this and thought of you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:47 PM (bss/y)
I know, right?
That's sweet, in an Addams Family sort of way. Did you call him Gomez for it?
Posted by: mikeski at February 14, 2026 11:48 PM (VHUov)
No, I'm not that clever, but dang if I won't do it now!!
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2026 11:50 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2026 11:49 PM (IG3/x)
Call her up tomorrow, tell her you got busy today, and ask if she wants you to make her a dinner.
Easy peasy.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 11:50 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 11:51 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 11:51 PM (gVUi7)
You need to read it as it's a long story and tcn and her family need prayers.
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 11:43 PM (3ek7K)
In a nutshell, visit to meet her new grandbaby revealed her son had turned the condo TCN was underwriting into a pig sty and had another young couple and their dog staying in the second bedroom. I believe there was evidence of recent pot smoking, something she previously told idjit son was verboten in the condo.
So, TCN was faced with the dilemma of calling CPS and taking custody of grandbaby or turning on her heel and pretending she saw nothing. I believe her absence from here suggests she's chosen the former course, so prayers for wisdom and straight paths are in order.
People are shit...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 14, 2026 11:52 PM (nbLIj)
Crap, I feel like I'm 15 years old. And not in a good way.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2026 11:49 PM (IG3/x)
She's too old to play high school games. She could have asked you over. Don't fall for it, RB, shop around some more.
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2026 11:52 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2026 11:49 PM (IG3/x)
Call her up tomorrow, tell her you got busy today, and ask if she wants you to make her a dinner.
Easy peasy.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 11
I second this approach.
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2026 11:52 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 11:46 PM (snZF9)
Thanks Bers. I've had houseguests almost constantly from before MOME til last week. I've cooked so much and feel like a bloated toad, lol.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:53 PM (xDN0i)
They seem to like it. Kind of reminds you to give them something out of the blue and not because you forgot something or because you fucked up.
Plus, I just enjoy growing them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:53 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2026 11:54 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 11:51 PM (BI5O2)
I do that with roses. I look for the nice tighter wound buds that haven't opened up and are sliding towards death. It works out great, by day 2 they are opened and look great and last a while.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 11:55 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2026 11:49 PM (IG3/x)
Listen to me, it will work out if it is meant to. If she is petty over this holiday then she ain't worth it. Maybe she has a cold.
I would have never guessed I'd end up with the guy I married and we are now grandparents. He was a nitwit our first year in college, but he never saw me cry or whine or act like his nitwittery bothered me. I was never one to call him or beg as I would have rather run out nekkid in traffic. Ok, the second time he broke up for no reason I got very mad and told him to leave my apt, so he saw anger but no tears.
It will work out one way or the other, don't you worry. Or there is someone else you haven't met.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 11:56 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:57 PM (xDN0i)
Plus, I just enjoy growing them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:53 PM (bss/y)
Yeah, random flowers buy you some leeway, too.
This is an easy way to rack up points. Fellas, take note. Aetius gets it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 11:58 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2026 11:49 PM (IG3/x)
So I went to Chic-Fil-A on the way to work. While waiting for my chicken strips, I witnessed this:
So the kids are swarming around the cars like hormonal hornets. All Late high school (You all remember.) I watched this bubbly pretty young blonde near run up to 'Cool Guy' and say 'I met your sister. We're friends now!' Cool guy says forced nonchalance: Yeah she said you all had met. You're not friends. BB: Yes we are. And to complete the John Hughes of it all a dorky curly headed kid gave the Bubbly blonde a look of longing.
And I thought 'This is like college and high school romance boiled and distilled down to 10 seconds.'
ANYone with a couple decades behind them know exactly what these kids were about and what they were feeling/motivations.
People are like books as long as you are not emotionally invested.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:58 PM (bss/y)
To the TRANS COMMUNITY.
It's unbelievable.
Posted by: four seasons
===============
I kinda figured, but FVK. Who are they going to apologize to for Hannibal Lecter? Is there a marginalized cannibal community?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 11:58 PM (n7rxJ)
People are shit...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 14, 2026 11:52 PM (nbLIj)
From what I read she was getting a lawyer. I've been praying for her and that baby every night. He's about 12days old.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 11:59 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Piper at February 15, 2026 12:00 AM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 15, 2026 12:01 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:01 AM (bss/y)
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The first birthday present I got Jules was an ironing boad. In my defense I also bought a over and liner. They needed it, the household of 5 girls were ironing their clothes o towels on the floor. I thought it was thoughtful, J did not.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at February 15, 2026 12:04 AM (55Qr6)
Who becomes a flower pirate? I've been wracking my brain for a reason.
There's a million ways to get flowers in the larcenous heart of the naked city, I suppose.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 12:06 AM (BI5O2)
We had a heart shaped wedding cake.
When it came time to cut it, she insisted on going first and stabbed it right in the center...laughing.
Posted by: pawn at February 15, 2026 12:06 AM (uvB+6)
Posted by: four seasons at February 15, 2026 12:07 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: pawn at February 15, 2026 12:06 AM (uvB+6)
Bit on the nose, bitch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:08 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2026 11:39 PM (SRRAx)
Grandbaby is not in a good situation. Got condo for son and babymama, tcn shows up, there's another couple with a toddler and animals in the room intended for baby, pot smell and paraphernalia everywhere, booze empties as well. Had to command everyone in cleaning everything up. (Son needs discipline but couldn't go right into military, needed a year off ADHD meds.) Tried to get them to marriage license, son was stoned off gourd at appointed time. Babymama already not breastfeeding less than two weeks in. Not to mention, again, the strangers in the condo with their pets. Needless to say, Morons have offered various recommendations, and IIRC a lawyer is being consulted. I think that's the gist.
Posted by: SciVo at February 15, 2026 12:08 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 14, 2026 10:44 PM (O3dBq)
You left out atheist and vocal anti-gun lobbiest who had a personal bodyguard.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 15, 2026 12:10 AM (JRP2U)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 12:10 AM (xDN0i)
Yeah, I guess it will work out if it's meant to.
I'm probably going to hold off on any further movements in that regard until after my (minor) surgery this week. That's gonna put the kibosh on any activities for a while, anyway.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 15, 2026 12:13 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 11:57 PM (xDN0i)
A friend of over 20 years has an adopted daughter who married young and had her first child, divorced, got into drugs, went into rehab, found another guy, had another kid, got into drugs...
My friend raised the first granddaughter pretty much alone. Did a pretty good job, too. The second (or maybe third) granddaughter was adopted by a good family. A third (or the second?) is being raised by the father, with whom my friend is on good terms. There are two more fairly recent additions that this idiot daughter is leaving with my friend's ex while she goes to work.
Only advice I can offer TCN would involve swift and firm application of a hot iron to her idiot son's testicular area..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 15, 2026 12:14 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 12:15 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Joe Kidd
could be worse
Posted by: Edward II at February 15, 2026 12:16 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
*siiigh* Pixy likes to make it as hard as possible to read past comments. And posts.
If you go to the archives (front page, right-hand column, 'way down the page), and select the month you want, you get a list of that month's posts. COPY the URL from a post, and get just the post number. Pre-pend that number with https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post= and use the resulting URL. Lotsa work for each post.
Sample URL from the archive:
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - February 12, 2026 [Doof]
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/418501.php#418501
Modify the URL thusly:
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=418501
tcn's comments start at #362. Also 369, and 386 et al., with the usual helpful and sympathetic Moron replies.
Posted by: mindful webworker - C'mon Pixy, join the 21st Century at February 15, 2026 12:16 AM (6hyzx)
Some tunes for various stages of love
The last batch was too serious. These are inappropriately odd.
When you're giving it up, but need to be all biblical about it:
https://youtu.be/LFrREPVDZGA
When you're madly in love..... with a stripper:
https://youtu.be/kBUd9xs8JaM
When she leaves you for an Elvis impersonator:
https://youtu.be/2cRHs7hNtSk
When you're David French:
https://youtu.be/ubfK5N2IUrI
When you're seduced by a lesbian vampire:
https://youtu.be/1eOIvQnkhg0
Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2026 12:19 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 12:19 AM (BI5O2)
My dear friend has full custody of her two great-grandsons..Bio-mom was a drug-addled mess in and out of jail. One bio dad is dead and the other in the wind. I couldn't have kids of my own so do what I can to help my friend and these boys.
This is why I pray so fervently for tcn. The right thing won't be easy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 12:22 AM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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You're too kind!
My old house had lots of flowers, was on a corner lot in a working-class neighborhood, near jr high and high schools. Flowers got picked/stolen regularly!
One time, I noticed that *somebody* had even dug out a chunk of irises!
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 12:22 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Berserker
What a brave, brave girl
Never loved before
Placed herself in reach.....
So he tried, in his own way
To find the heart
of the tight-packed rose
Posted by: Marillion at February 15, 2026 12:24 AM (VHUov)
Not so. At least not not with this guy. I work at home. If you lay your hibiscus-pickin' fingers on this man's lawn, you'll draw back a stump.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 12:25 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 12:25 AM (cwGMH)
Unfortunately, I found his lithp dithracting as it made me keep remembering little Dondi's infamous foam dance party days. Surely there's speech therapy for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYftS2BTFwM
Posted by: mindful webworker - roo bee oh at February 15, 2026 12:25 AM (6hyzx)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 12:22 AM (dK+Kv)
I made it under a sock.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:26 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 12:27 AM (RIvkX)
People are like books as long as you are not emotionally invested.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2026 11:58 PM
.....................................
I was an outlier of teen girls. Because at 15yrs and the first make out session at the drive in was not worth it. So I stayed home most of HS except for dances and a concert or two. I was not into this deal at all.
Years later I find out from one of the older football guys and Mr. HS that people thought I was stuck up.
I wasn't, I was blind without my glasses. Which possibly served me well. I can go to any HS reunion with my head held high as I was an enigma, not being ugly or wacko. I had plenty of friends but I did not date much at all.
Continued this my first year of college and at least two horrific blind dates. Dated a couple of guys and moved West. Where NO ONE would ask me out and I was ready. Finally got to the hospital as a student nurse and things worked out.
I cannot imagine throwing myself at anyone in HS. Never did in college, either. Girls can be weird and still are from what I hear.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 15, 2026 12:27 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 12:22 AM (dK+Kv)
I made it under a sock.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:26 AM (bss/y)
Happy Valentines Day to you and your sock.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 12:28 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 12:22 AM (dK+Kv)
I made it under a sock.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:26 AM (bss/y)
Don't let its match get lost in the dryer.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 15, 2026 12:29 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 12:22 AM (xDN0i)
It never is. Good for your friend and for you. Got church tomorrow. Prayers to all the lovers, the survivors, and especially, the guardians..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 15, 2026 12:29 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Liz Warren at February 15, 2026 12:30 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 12:28 AM (dK+Kv)
We're happy together.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:32 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 15, 2026 12:10 AM (JRP2U)
You mean he was a typical CANADIAN???
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 15, 2026 12:32 AM (O3dBq)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 15, 2026 12:27 AM (WONhk)
Girls are sharks. I have a handsome older flounder, and as soon as they sense an opening, it's like springing a leg hold trap.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 12:34 AM (dK+Kv)
He's a lot of fun or I would not be with him. A natural Moron.
My brother's first meeting of him one summer was not impressive (so he told our father). My guy only wore his glasses to drive. They had broken (John Lennon type wire rims and one cracked lens) and, being poor, held together with scotch tape while driving his beater wreck of a car. Bro was part of a huge friends kegger on the 4th of July, and I think wondered how I had survived at all. We had so much fun together when he visited us.
So he'd fit in here but y'all are mine. My brother would be King of the Morons he was so insane.
Prayers for whig and tcn and all who need them.
XXXX (supermodel kisses)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 15, 2026 12:35 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 12:28 AM (dK+Kv)
We're happy together.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 15, 2026 12:32 AM (bss/y)
Here's a song for you.
https://youtu.be/eEjbcOe9hsc
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 12:36 AM (dK+Kv)
"My boomerang won't come back!
My boomerang won't come back!
I waved the thing all over the place.
Practiced 'til I was blue in the face.
Now I'm the big disgrace of the Aborigine race.
My boomerang won't come back!"
Posted by: Toad-0 at February 15, 2026 12:37 AM (eZs9g)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 15, 2026 12:25 AM (cwGMH)
Not necessarily so. Hubby has had shoulder surgery and can't drive. I have to get eye injections and can't drive (to that appointment).. We arent used to needing help. I am truly grateful for friends who will.help.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 12:38 AM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 12:41 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 12:38 AM (xDN0i)
I go for an eye exam once a year. I hate it. They put that shit in your eyes to dilate your pupils and its like staring at the sun for 2 hours after. Mrs B has to drive when I go.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 15, 2026 12:41 AM (snZF9)
Make a prayer for peace in her house.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 12:43 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 15, 2026 12:27 AM (WONhk)
Girls are sharks. I have a handsome older flounder, and as soon as they sense an opening, it's like springing a leg hold trap.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 12:34 AM (dK+Kv)
Was in a bar a couple weeks ago... dressed down as usual... and ran into an old Business Acquaintance... had not seen him in a few years and we got to discussing retirement...
Made the mistake of saying how much is in my Stock Accounts... and no debt at all... and suddenly the Women in the place found me much more attractive.
It's like they had Sonar ears... because is was not as if I was speaking loudly... but...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2026 12:45 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 12:47 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 12:41 AM (BI5O2)
Right? Same here, my father came home with 2 of them one day. We lived down the street from a park so he thought it would cool and go there to try them. They don't come back. They never come back. They'll do every acrobatic trick in the book and always end it by flying away from you.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 15, 2026 12:48 AM (snZF9)
Make a prayer for peace in her house.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
She said she didn't trust Alaska's CPS:
"But, AK CPS is a bit of a crapshoot. Babies have gone there and disappeared. Literally. Friends have had grandbabies gone missing, forever."
Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2026 12:48 AM (VHUov)
He took things to a new level when he found out I was moving to the UK without him after graduation. We didn't, my crazy nurse friends and I, but it was the plan. As a group we would work in London and see Europe. He woke up and got his act together when I said I was not waiting for him. G'night.
https://tinyurl.com/w3jf6j27
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 15, 2026 12:48 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 15, 2026 12:48 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 15, 2026 12:41 AM (snZF9)
I go monthly for eye injections. Last month was the first month Mr Scary wasn't there ( he just had shoulder surgery).
The ophthalmologist walks into the room. Does a double take. "where is your husband? He wants to know. "I'm used to seeing the two of you." That made me smile. Mr Scary has always been there. But he can't drive right now..
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 12:48 AM (xDN0i)
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Agreed. But otherwise that baby is coming with me. Now.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 12:49 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2026 12:48 AM (VHUov)
She said she was getting a lawyer. I suggested she stop by, since she owns the condo, every day. Kick the "roommate" with a dog and cats out.
I know she's working on it and needs our prayers. She will win and rescue that sweet baby boy. I am sure of this.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 15, 2026 12:50 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 15, 2026 12:48 AM (WONhk)
wow, thanks...
Don't think I've heard that song since the 70's...
But yeah, know all the words.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2026 12:53 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2026 12:45 AM (mP0Kj)
Yeah, I suspect it is worse in the retirement set.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 15, 2026 12:53 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 12:56 AM (xDN0i)
Rice. Lard. Taquitos. Quesadilla. Lard. Just lard it up for the Lard above.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2026 12:56 AM (diia5)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Even family! Hubby's brother tried to settle in on our property with his 5th wheel trailer last year. He's 70+ and looking for a free ride because he's got medical issues and nothing to show but the truck and trailer. Guess he figured I'd be the nursemaid??
No. Absolutely not.
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 12:59 AM (xDN0i)
My mom adopted her and raised her as her own alongside us boys.
This is the way. We boys weren't the best housemates for a young girl from a broken home, but it was better than the foster system. That shit is a living Hell.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 12:59 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: mikeski at February 15, 2026 12:48 AM (VHUov)
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I worked with the Sitka Tribe of Alaska when I was in the government and can confirm. Not a good history there.
But if you cannot be assured of an infant's safety there is no alternative to action.
TBH you take strangers and strangers dog out of the apartment, it is once again an internal situation that can be handled as a family matter. If you are going to introduce strangers they better have badges not bongs.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 01:00 AM (RIvkX)
But yeah, know all the words.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2026 12:53 AM (mP0Kj)
Mid '70's...it was big in 1976 when I met him. Engaged in '78, married in '79 when we both were 24yrs old and before he finished college. I was the "breadwinner!"
I did not plan to marry til age 30yrs as I had some livin' and travelin' to do. Which is why, had he asked and didn't, he'd know I was not marriage material at 22yrs and he did not need to break up with me every 3mo our first year. He was a true Moron. Or, as I told his uncle decades later, I saw a "diamond in the rough."
Had our second son a week before I turned 30, so life took a sharp turn. Love that entire album!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 15, 2026 01:01 AM (WONhk)
Um, JQ, are you here or should I just help myself. I notice that Miklos isn't here, it's Valentines Day, perhaps he is tween the Leens.
I know that I told you that hubs and I had our first ever date on February 13th. We did the whole cards and flowers and dinner and dessert thing and had a really great time. It was a Friday the 13th. The next day I was at work at my second job, which was manning the drive up window at a local bank, two windows actually, I was a busy girl. Anyway, he waited in the line and put a lovely bouquet of flowers in the canister for me. I knew he was the one for me right then. For the last 10 years of his life he had no idea what day it was at all. He gave me that memory and I am so grateful for it.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 15, 2026 01:02 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
May his memory be a blessing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2026 01:05 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 12:38
You're not alone Mary. Jules needs eye injections and I'm overdue for post-po eye checkup so we can't drive each other. Hate to ask for help, we will muddle thru.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at February 15, 2026 01:06 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2026 12:45 AM (mP0Kj)
Remember the old EF Hutton commercials? This could be a variant.
"When Benjamin Franklin talks, people listen."
Good night all, and thanks again for the advice.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 15, 2026 01:06 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at February 15, 2026 01:07 AM (jwBFW)
Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at February 15, 2026 01:08 AM (qVvDt)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 01:09 AM (xDN0i)
And this is why flower thieves must be punished without pity.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 01:11 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 01:12 AM (rdVOm)
One time, I noticed that *somebody* had even dug out a chunk of irises!
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
Well at least they have good taste!
Posted by: Iris at February 15, 2026 01:12 AM (bOJ2I)
Dwarf variety that multiplied quickly-- yellow with purple 'falls'-- they could've taken more and I wouldn't have noticed except they didn't quite cover the severed rhizomes back up.
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
Thanks JQ, I am buying a round.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 15, 2026 01:19 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Iris at February 15, 2026 01:22 AM (bOJ2I)
Flower piracy... not even once.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2026 01:23 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 15, 2026 01:25 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 01:25 AM (xDN0i)
Hubby and I were driving outside town one day and saw a big drift of purple irises by the roadside. Looked like they were tossed out of a car some time ago, no houses anywhere near. Hubby pulled over & asked if I wanted to get some! Ok-- I pulled up just a couple of rhizomes and planted them by our front gate. Beautiful!
There's a whole patch of them all around our deck now, 20-some years later.
The original patch was still there, last I looked. It's been maybe 5 years since I've driven past it during bloom.
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 01:28 AM (rdVOm)
He ditched his trailer in S. Idaho, ditched his truck and phone somewhere in Cali, and hitch-hiked-- picked up by CHP-- to L.A. area.
State police told me his truck has been impounded and didn't appear wrecked. The person that found his phone never saw him, they said.
It's my understanding that he has friends in that area, and since he qualifies for just about every form of welfare, will likely be better off *there* as benefits *here* are small and sparse.
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 01:37 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 15, 2026 01:40 AM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 15, 2026 01:41 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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I agree. He's more than I can handle, especially without hubby here to interpret and talk sense to him!
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 15, 2026 01:48 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)
And that was Uncle Paul's, and that one was Julia's, she worked for your Pa and on and on.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 15, 2026 01:59 AM (y79kU)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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But Buttinski agrees.
Don't remember any stories of him white knighting when your husband needed help.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 15, 2026 02:04 AM (y79kU)
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That's cool, Braenyard!
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 02:04 AM (rdVOm)
"What are the these gob damn chickens doing here?"
Posted by: pawn at February 15, 2026 02:06 AM (uvB+6)
Wow. It's late. Been a good day. Try again tomorrow.
https://youtu.be/ROBaoiJK0wc
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - very free and easy at February 15, 2026 02:08 AM (6hyzx)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Exactly! Only heard from him on hub's birthday or when something was wrong.
I'd only seen the BIL a few times-- like, 3 or 4 times in over 20 years-- before he showed up *out of the blue* last Spring! And he "needed help" and suggested that he would park his trailer in the yard! WTH?
After a few days, he went on his way... Hubby had a moment of clarity and said: "Wow. You got rid of him already?"
Posted by: JQ at February 15, 2026 02:09 AM (rdVOm)
Unfortunately, I found his lithp dithracting as it made me keep remembering little Dondi's infamous foam dance party days. Surely there's speech therapy for that.
Posted by: mindful webworker
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I laughed very softly at this, but even that was too hard.
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My point is that chances are everyone in the comments section is a tax cheat. In fact, I'd wager just about everyone in the country is a tax cheat as a result of the above.
Posted by: Orson
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Here's another little tidbit for tax season.
Banks, etc are not required to send a1099-INT if the interest earned is under $10. But, that IRS largesse (saves the big banks the not insignificant cost of keeping track of piddly accounts) extends not to you, piddly account taxpayer. You are required to report ALL interest as income.
Don't lose sleep over it, unless you're playing chicken with the IRS. If you wind up under the spotlight, that little fine print section is how they can go.back further than 3 years, because you will probably owe them. Three years back from that error, lather,rinse, repeat.
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The thing. Is. Huge. now! About 3ft tall and wide, and always blooming in that west-facing window. Amazing.
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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 2/14/2026
Park Chan-wook
In America, Park Chan-wook will probably never be known for anything other than Oldboy. He had made four films previously in Korea (the first two he wishes he’d never made, but they do exist, think of how much Kubrick tried to suppress and even destroy Fear and Desire), but it was his third, Joint Security Area that established his career as a filmmaker in Korea. It was hugely successful and essentially gave him a blank check to do whatever he wanted.
What he did was called the Vengeance Trilogy, three disconnected films all dealing with central characters and their efforts at vengeance. Oldboy is the second of the three (surrounded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance), and it came about in the early 2000s, right at the time websites like Ain’t It Cool News were still somewhat relevant. The burgeoning American cinema fans (mostly male and obsessed with genre) latched onto it and gave it oxygen, helped even more by the fact that Quentin Tarantino was a big fan who helped award it the Grand Prix award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where he was jury president.
It’s a violent, Greek-inspired tale of bloody vengeance from a man who was mysteriously placed in a secret, private prison for 15 years and then given a few days to figure out why, and it captured the imaginations of the film fan community at the time.
And...Park has kind of fallen off the American cineaste map since. There was a blip with The Handmaiden, but movies like Decision to Leave, his television work like The Little Drummer Girl or The Sympathizer get mostly ignored, drowned out in favor of more maintstream American movies. And that’s going to create a deeply warped view of who Park Chan-wook is as a filmmaker.
Content
Before getting to how he tells his stories, what are they? Well, they're mostly intersections of romance (often in a style that could be called baroque) mixed with violence. Both need to be there. They don't exist in isolation. They are interrelated.
From the sexual relationship between the kidnappers in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance that goes wrong (violently) to the more mature spousal romance between Man-su and his wife in No Other Choice, which the character must preserve through violence, these films see romance usually enhanced through the application of violence.
How that operates is usually the violence is necessary to keep the relationships going. The killing of those between Oh Sae-du and his goal in Oldboy which is also how he connects with Mi-do. The investigation of Seo-rae's husband's death which brings her together with the policeman Hae-jun in Decision to Leave. The killing of a bully in Stoker that brings India and her uncle Charlie together (this is less overtly romantic). And then there's there are the two peaks of the idea, Thirst, the story of the Catholic Priest Sang-hyun who becomes a vampire because of a blood transfusion and finds materialistic pleasures with Tae-ju, wife of a friend, and then the main characters in The Handmaiden, the Japanese lady Izumi and the Korean handmaiden Sook-hee who have to overcome Izumi's overbearing uncle (by marriage) who desires her and the fraudulent Count Fujiwara to end up together.
In all of these stories, they must commit violence, and the committing of violence is what strengthens the relationships. And they don't have to be necessarily romantic in nature. I did lump Stoker in with that group because it exists on a borderline (it's just completely unconsummated), but Joint Security Area is all about platonic friendship between men and the violence that both deepens their bonds and actually ends up driving them apart at the same time. It's the violence that enhances things, and it's key to the point of all of his films.
There are other variations, though, like with Lady Vengeance where the necessity of violence actually drives the titular character away from her daughter (the Vengeance Trilogy's contemplation on the different aspects of vengeance is actually quite interesting as a package).
It's the violence that brings together, that keeps together, and that even enhances the romance, and the violence is often justified. The Vengeance Trilogy is named thusly because most of the violence is vengeance, in response to previous wrongdoing. However, this can be where the dark comedy pops in, but that's more of a stylistic question. So…
Style
I started this run having seen most of his works already. I hadn't seen the first two he's disowned (The Moon is-The Sun's Dream and Trio), the romantic comedy I'm a Cyborg but That's Okay, or his most recent, No Other Choice. So, upon watching everything in order, I already knew the ebbs and flows of Park's filmmaking style. What struck me quite soon after starting up Oldboy once more was that it's remarkably different in feel from the rest of his body of work.
There's an activity to Oldboy, to how Park presents action in the frame, and an element of stuffing the narrative to the brim with activity that his other films don't have. The rest (save, perhaps, I'm a Cyborg) are far more spare, telling simpler stories in more measured tones (more measured, not completely measured). Even immediately around Oldboy, the two other Vengeance movies, things just feel quieter, less like Park is barely controlling chaos and more like he's precisely moving pieces around a chessboard.
I contrast that to what is probably his most diametrically opposite film, Decision to Leave, an incredibly restrained tale of passion and murder that sees almost no direct violence, and even then when it does show its few moments (or the results of off-screen violence), Park keeps the camera very steady and, within motion, smooth.
When thinking about the rest of his work, it trends much more towards the filmmaking style of Decision to Leave rather than Oldboy. The smooth crane moves of Thirst, the implied violence of The Handmaiden, and the restrained denouement of No Other Choice just fit the model of filmmaking that Decision to Leave represents better than Oldboy.
The Point
Do you know how people compare every Martin Scorsese movie to Goodfellas? How people say that Scorsese just keeps trying to replicate his early 90s gangster movie? Even though the movies in that vein represent less than a fourth of his entire body of work? If you expect every Martin Scorsese movie to be Goodfellas, will you accept, as a viewer, something so radically different like The Age of Innocence, Kundun, Silence, or The Irishman? Most people seem to have really hard times accepting Scorsese working in spheres that aren't exclusively like Goodfellas.
And I fear that's happening with Park. Oldboy will probably always be his best known movie (it's not his most successful at the box office, that would be No Other Choice, but the numbers are small and insignificant overall in the US), but if you hear about the extreme violence, the ending's extremes, or the stuffed nature of the film and recoil from it, are you willing to check out any of the others? If all of that appeals to you, but you find out that Thirst is significantly quieter and less outwardly violent, will that push you away?
Proper representation of an artist is important, I think. That's not always their best known work. Fritz Lang is another example where the most famous movie he made (Metropolis) is weirdly unrepresentative of his whole body of work (go with The Testament of Doctor Mabuse or Die Nibelungen: Kriemheld's Revenge or even Western Union for better examples). The right representative example not only exemplifies any intentional thematic concerns but also the style in which they tell stories, and sometimes just the kinds of stories themselves.
All of Park's movies are combinations of romance and violence. How restrained is a variable. On the one end would be Decision to Leave, very restrained, and on the other would be The Handmaiden, which is very explicit (at least in regard to the sex). How frank with the romance (one can say relationships if applied to Joint Security Area which has no romance) and the violence creates this tapestry where none of Park's films feel like repetitions, but they are all still obviously made by the same accomplished filmmaker. A proper foundation from which to start understanding him could help new audiences find their way through a filmmaker who may interest them, if they're not guided astray on accident.
That's not to say that Park is for everyone. The foreign nature of his storytelling (not to mention the actual foreign language) represents a barrier for many people even before getting to the subject matter. However, I just feel like his most famous film could end up either a barrier itself or offer up a false expectation of what else is to come from him. It's less an academic exercise about properly cataloging things and more about setting a stage properly.
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Movies of Today
Opening in Theaters:
Wuthering Heights
Movies I Saw This Fortnight:
Joint Security Area (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "Assured, accomplished, clear-eyed in unwinding a mystery through point of view, and sometimes quite beautiful to simply look at (there's a great scene in the snow as two squads face each other), all while being surprisingly touching, Joint Security Area is the announcement that Park has really arrived this time after a couple of false starts." [Personal Collection]
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Rating 3/4) Full Review "It has a surprising emotional element to it as motives fray in the face of unforeseen events, and the ironic ending fits surprisingly well, offering a payoff to what felt like a random line from earlier." [YouTube]
Oldboy (Rating 4/4) Full Review "This is peak Park Chan-wook. It's a noticeable step up from everything he's made so far, the marriage of material and Park's filmmaking style. That combination of baroque romance, Greek tragedy, and blackly comic situational awareness that creates this tragic but endlessly entertaining package." [Personal Collection]
Lady Vengeance (Rating 3/4) Full Review "It does feel like something of a step back, a decision late made by a less assured filmmaker than the one who made his last movie, but overall, Park ends the Vengeance Trilogy on a high note." [Kanopy]
Thirst (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "A film with a moral question at its centered, manifested by a character, who has to go through darkly comic events in a genre setting with excellently composed shots from beginning to end? Yes, this is why I love Park Chan-wook so much." [Personal Collection]
Stoker (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "And the movie mostly exists on vibes. They're kind of terrifying, horrifying vibes that Park manages with cool formalism to ease the audience into, but this is the story of the creation of a monster in the end." [Personal Collection]
The Handmaiden (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "This is a notch or so below it because of the self-indulgence, I think, but it's still a demonstration that Park really knows how to craft a character-based story for film with great looking visuals all with that extra oomph of edging into the extreme." [Amazon Prime]
Decision to Leave (Rating 4/4) Full Review "However, the investment over time ends up worthwhile to find what, I think, is Park's most deeply felt and most wonderfully made film. Is this his masterpiece? Well, hopefully he'll work for decades more and make even more great films, but for now-I think this may be it." [Personal Collection]
No Other Choice (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "I suspect that this film is going to grow on me with time." [Theater]
Contact
Email any suggestions or questions to thejamesmadison.aos at symbol gmail dot com.
I've also archived all the old posts here, by request. I'll add new posts a week after they originally post at the HQ.
My next thread will be on 3/7 and it will discuss the discussion of movies.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 07:58 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 07:58 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:01 PM (N8ZBc)
the four that immediately come to mind are
Mr Majestyk
John Wick
The Count of Monte Cristo
Man on Fire
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 08:02 PM (cwGMH)
Easily the best soundtrack of any vengeance film, that’s for sure.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 08:05 PM (XV/Pl)
"Barry" (2018-2023) TV series, 32 half-hour eps. I like it better than I expected. Great cast that mostly out-acts Hader, who relies on the 'bug-eyed uncomprehending stare' pose far too often. (Bill: #dobetter, I know you can.) Combines bathos, pathos and violence in quirky, surprising ways, and is salted with plenty of Fargo-esque funny villains. I found many of the acting tips credible and useful, too. Lovely Jessy Hodges has junk in the trunk, and she knows how to wear it perfectly.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:05 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:06 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: TJM's phone at February 14, 2026 08:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 08:06 PM (cwGMH)
you can't make this stuff up.
Posted by: vivi at February 14, 2026 08:07 PM (KruEU)
Thanks for the education, TJM.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 08:07 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 08:08 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: vivi at February 14, 2026 08:10 PM (KruEU)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 14, 2026 08:11 PM (cxFcK)
I also thought Peppermint was pretty good since I thought any female John Wick movie would be too silly. They actually did a decent job to let you suspend disbelief.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 08:11 PM (cwGMH)
Shawshank Redemption probably comes under the same genre, at least from Andy's perspective. Even though the story was focused on Red.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 08:11 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:12 PM (N8ZBc)
Who knew Liam could do comedy?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 14, 2026 08:12 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 08:13 PM (cwGMH)
My little beef was the absurd notion that one could park a van full of heavy weapons in a slum, by a homeless camp, and come back hours later to find the van unmolested.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:14 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 08:14 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:16 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 14, 2026 08:17 PM (cxFcK)
>>Who knew Liam could do comedy?
Lesley Nielsen was not a comedic actor for most of his career, but after Airplane.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 08:17 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 08:17 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:14 PM (N8ZB
Agree but I could overlook it . I just made assumption there was a whole other story how that was made possible.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 08:18 PM (cwGMH)
It's not hard to figure out why. No love lost with Russia either.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:18 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 08:19 PM (cwGMH)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:20 PM (N8ZBc)
DtL is a very well-directed, very well-acted, very tightly scripted, but...very Korean movie. And so because of that, whether or not you buy into the action and finale depends on if the motivations of the characters seem real or reasonable to you.
This movie struck me almost from the get-go as Park Chan-Wook's version of Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo". Not the same story, but with elements from the same sort of neighborhood, a sort of highly romantic mystery surrounding a detective who's obsessed with a mysterious woman who in this case may have murdered her husband.
At times, I got the feeling that although all the actors were great that they were playing "concepts" or archetypes more than flesh and blood characters. Not a student of Korean mythology or whatever so I could be wrong about this.
I wish the lively and entrancing Mrs naturalfake hadn't fallen asleep during it, cuz DtL feels like a 1950s "woman's movie", and I wanted her opinion.
Anyway, check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 08:21 PM (iJfKG)
"Oldboy" is a great movie. No doubt. Shocking even.
But, I believe "Lady Vengeance" is Park Chan-Wook's best movie.
To a certain extent PCW's movie tend to have static characters. But, there's real character growth and change in this movie.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 08:28 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 14, 2026 08:28 PM (AdHga)
I had no interest in it but I really couldn't say no after dragging her to the turfiest that was "Iron Lung".
Anywho-
I actually enjoyed it. As a guy, I never really thought about all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes making the dinners, and White House and the Inauguration look so good.
All that requires someone to organize all that, etc, etc and that was Melania.
I definitely recommend it for the Ladies. And possibly the morons depending on your interest level.
I think "Melania" also explains indirectly why the Biden White House, etc always looked like the combination of a dog's breakfast and a hobo carnival.
Dr Fishnets brought her sense of style to those proceedings.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 08:29 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 14, 2026 08:30 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: davidt at February 14, 2026 08:31 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 08:32 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 14, 2026 08:33 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:34 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 08:35 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:36 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 08:36 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:37 PM (N8ZBc)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 08:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Anyway, I watched Sisu again. It really doesn't get old. Not sure it's a revenge movie but it's fun.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 14, 2026 08:38 PM (cxFcK)
(I also heartily recommend Tae Guk Gi. The Korean War told from the Korean perspective. Bloody awesome. One of my top war movies, ever.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 14, 2026 08:38 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 14, 2026 08:39 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 08:39 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:39 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 08:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 14, 2026 08:40 PM (bXbFr)
No movie is worth paying for IMHO, but if you purchase it, I don't see any reason why you would not like it.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:41 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 14, 2026 08:17 PM (cxFcK)
Wait til you visit the ROK's Korea Independence Hall. You will FEEL the hatred for the Japanese there. Though given how the Japanese conducted themselves, 1910-1945 there, I can't say I blame them.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 14, 2026 08:41 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 14, 2026 08:38 PM (cxFcK)
Saw it in a Lubbock theater. I had a blast!
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 14, 2026 08:42 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: Cow Demon
Saw a funny meme today that had the Italian, Japanese and German (upcoming) leaders with the line: The Axis is back together . This time with Girl Boss power.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 14, 2026 08:44 PM (cxFcK)
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I haven't seen Melania but I have enjoyed seeing The Media work themselves into an absolute froth in their hating of it. The savage reviews (one by a guy who admitted he never actually saw it) and the breathless way it's "massive" second-weekend drop was reported show that this thing has really hit a TDS nerve.
They can't help revealing too much of themselves and shredding whatever tiny bit of cred they still have outside their bubble.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 08:45 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 14, 2026 08:47 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 14, 2026 08:48 PM (bXbFr)
Twas a simpler time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 08:49 PM (zZu0s)
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She's smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb. She's smart and she want respect!
Mehdi Hasan
@mehdirhasan
It amuses me that MAGA think their attack line on AOC going forward can be 'she's just a bartender' or she's 'dumb' when I can't think of a single MAGA congressman who could speak like this, for two minutes, on this topic, at an international forum like Munich. Not one.
Bonus! The NYT tries to minimize the damage.
https://is.gd/oIezdg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 08:50 PM (J+Psw)
Cmon, Japan. We need you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 08:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:51 PM (N8ZBc)
All that requires someone to organize all that, etc, etc and that was Melania.
I definitely recommend it for the Ladies. And possibly the morons depending on your interest level.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 08:29 PM (iJfKG)
Went to see Melania this week with a couple of friends. It was well done and very enjoyable. I do see it as being geared more towards women. Hubby wouldn't have enjoyed it. As an 'ette, i will say it is nice to have conservative lady friends to go have a MAGA day.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 08:51 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 08:52 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:52 PM (N8ZBc)
"After 400 years of brutal subjugation..."
Exodus, Gods and Kings is a pretty good revenge movie
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 08:53 PM (0KSrI)
@mehdirhasan
It amuses me that MAGA think their attack line on AOC going forward can be 'she's just a bartender' or she's 'dumb' when I can't think of a single MAGA congressman who could speak like this, for two minutes, on this topic, at an international forum like Munich. Not one
Yeah, I can't think of a "MAGA Comgressman" who is evil, hate-filled, Marxist, driven by rage, envy, hatred, and resentment. Maybe if more people ditched such things the world would become a better place.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 14, 2026 08:54 PM (hJH5n)
Posted by: gp
Now that she's running, she'll be running for the rest of her life. Wretched Gretchen made of fool of herself too.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 14, 2026 08:54 PM (cxFcK)
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That principle is settled. Biden at his best was never more than a grifting mediocre piece of shit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 08:54 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes
Fun fact. Minimalist composer Phillip Glass composed a soundtrack to the 1931 film in 1991.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 08:55 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 08:54 PM (nWPIJ)
Biden was Bill Paxton in True Lies- always. He even had the 'vette.
You know he repeated rhe line 'the Vette get em wet.' He is exactly the type.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 08:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 14, 2026 08:57 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 14, 2026 08:57 PM (hJH5n)
@mehdirhasan
It amuses me that MAGA think their attack line on AOC going forward can be 'she's just a bartender' or she's 'dumb' when I can't think of a single MAGA congressman who could speak like this, for two minutes, on this topic, at an international forum like Munich. Not one
Democrat women candidates love word salads. Tossed salads. They'll toss your salad. Whatever. They are evil and venal.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 08:58 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 14, 2026 08:58 PM (bXbFr)
It's worth the watch, but I don't have it on continuous loop like some people I know IRL.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:59 PM (N8ZBc)
There's a sequel out but in order to watch I'd have to buy yet another platform. I'll wait.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 14, 2026 09:00 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:59 PM (N8ZBc)
That sounds unhealthy.
Although, I do remember rewatching John Wick a lot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 09:01 PM (zZu0s)
> _ Unforgiven
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 09:03 PM (y79kU)
Mehdi Hasan
@mehdirhasan
It amuses me that MAGA think their attack line on AOC going forward can be 'she's just a bartender' or she's 'dumb' when I can't think of a single MAGA congressman who could speak like this, for two minutes, on this topic, at an international forum like Munich. Not one
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Not one MAGA who could speak like this? I hope not one WOULD. Certainly, none SHOULD.
Just insane that anyone thinks that word salad was profound.
The antidote is Rubio, who apparently got some sort of wildly enthusiastic response.
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=yOjBJ89aeXA&t=7s
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 09:03 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 09:03 PM (0KSrI)
And I don’t know if he was trying to make fun of West Texas or not but I can tell you Texans didn’t care . Kind of like calling a redneck a redneck.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 09:04 PM (cwGMH)
It's worth the watch, but I don't have it on continuous loop like some people I know IRL.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:59 PM (N8ZBc)
I couldn’t make it past when he set himself on fire.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 09:05 PM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Honestly, the best speech with a purpose I've heard from any American pol. The entire thing is worth listening to. Hilary hated it.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 14, 2026 09:05 PM (cxFcK)
Vengeance?
> _ Unforgiven
Posted by: Braenyard
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OooOO00oohhh, Unforgiven is one of the best movies ever about revenge itself. By the end of the movie, revenge has run away with everyone's reason and original intents and created chaos.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 09:06 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 08:58 PM (xDN0i)
Hasan is a stone cold retard. I'm amazed he can even sound recognizable words through his piehole. AOC didn't exactly cover herself in glory...sure, accuse Israel of genocide...in Germany. What?! And her word salad? Kamala weeps.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 14, 2026 09:07 PM (GTqXr)
Bonus! The NYT tries to minimize the damage.
https://is.gd/oIezdg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn
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There's no sound.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 09:07 PM (y79kU)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 09:09 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 09:07 PM (y79kU)
In Germany, no one can hear you scream.
Posted by: Guy with Monocle, dueling scared and Prussian accent at February 14, 2026 09:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: PabloD at February 14, 2026 09:10 PM (3VXNH)
Posted by: davidt at February 14, 2026 09:10 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 09:06 PM (n7rxJ)
"All right, I'm coming out. Any man I see out there, I'm gonna shoot him. Any sumbitch takes a shot at me, I'm not only gonna kill him, but I'm gonna kill his wife, all his friends, and burn his damn house down."
"You better bury Ned right!... Better not cut up, nor otherwise harm no whores... or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches."
Fantastic dialog! William Munny is the ultimate anti-hero.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 14, 2026 09:11 PM (GTqXr)
Hilary hated it.
Posted by: Blutarski
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I was thinking the same thing!!! That Secretary of State doll with her stupid McDonald's Happy Meal buzzer and the Benghazi disaster and her gadget-girl on Monday and her "Two email accounts are HARD!" Barbie on Tuesday, who uttered nary a word that anyone ever applauded or remembered. Obama giving her Sec State as her consolation prize and then she couldn't parlay her service in a 2-term presidency that was worshipped by the press and pop culture into a presidential victory.
I think she knows she could have done better, but she was reduced by the Democrat men in her life: Bill, then Barry.
She must be fuming as she sees someone who works up to and beyond the potential of that position.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 09:11 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 09:12 PM (N8ZBc)
Blonde, Rubio's speech made me cry. It was well done. I don't think Europe can be saved without great pain on their part. And I don't think they can. That makes me sad.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 09:12 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: davidt at February 14, 2026 09:13 PM (Q+gd/)
Umpteen jillion movies I should get to in my watch list, so what did I do this week? Binged on some old episodes of I Spy. Culp & Cosby were up there with the best of 60s tv.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 14, 2026 09:15 PM (q3u5l)
OooOO00oohhh, Unforgiven is one of the best movies ever about revenge itself. By the end of the movie, revenge has run away with everyone's reason and original intents and created chaos.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Interesting. I agree with everything except to say ...created sobriety.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 09:15 PM (y79kU)
I hear you. This week I binged "Barry" and watched bodycam and interrogation vids.
To watch a movie on my watchlist, I have to be ready to think hard, and pay proper due attention to it. Not something I do when feeling lazy or craving distraction.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 09:19 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Orson at February 14, 2026 09:23 PM (dIske)
Noting that, unlike most movie threads and videos, I am motivated to watch and re-watch some Gilliam flicks.
https://youtu.be/fayL1WTR1Go
Posted by: mindful webworker - filmed in 16mm at 24fps at February 14, 2026 09:23 PM (6hyzx)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 14, 2026 09:25 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 09:27 PM (0KSrI)
Gary Oldman was sleazy 90s Gary Oldman in the film. Yum.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 09:30 PM (xDN0i)
I agree with that when in comes to 12 Monkeys.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 14, 2026 09:33 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Javems at February 14, 2026 09:34 PM (rv18a)
(Hunter, I dunno. Hunter strikes me as someone who knows what he is. The difference between Joe and Hunter is the difference between a demon and the demon-possessed)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 09:41 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Javems at February 14, 2026 09:34 PM (rv18a)
Haven't seen but it looks good, thanks! Lee Marvin.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 09:44 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 09:44 PM (0KSrI)
the four that immediately come to mind are
Mr Majestyk
John Wick
The Count of Monte Cristo
Man on Fire
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 08:02 PM (cwGMH)
Add Payback with Mel Gibson.
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 09:53 PM (LHPAg)
But I will say Park is a stunning visual storyteller, drawn to dark subjects, perversion and some black humor.
WELL worth checking out if you love movies.
If you don't like to read your movies, Stoker and Little Drummer Girl are both in English.
I'm very, very glad TJM decided to do this series.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 14, 2026 09:57 PM (xcxpd)
I don't think Europe can be saved without great pain on their part. And I don't think they can. That makes me sad.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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I begin to think they can't, short of war. That makes me sad.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 10:00 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 14, 2026 10:00 PM (/HDaX)
The Oldboy release also includes an English dub track.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 14, 2026 10:02 PM (syz1S)
The Oldboy release also includes an English dub track.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 14, 2026 10:02 PM (syz1S)
Good point.
I don't much like dubs but yes.
I know TJM says Park isn't for everyone. And he does deal with some seriously transgressive subjects, but I disagree that he has some sort of barrier in his storytelling. He is very Western-accessible, unlike a lot of Japanese or Chinese cinema.
And my God, can he lens a movie! Beautiful in when its also horrible.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 14, 2026 10:04 PM (xcxpd)
created sobriety.
Posted by: Braenyard
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It's been years since I saw it, but I remember the final (?) scene with Ed Munny on a rainy, muddy night, shooting up the town and yelling "I'll shoot every one of you sons of bitches and then I'll shoot--!" I can't remember that tantrum, chaos speech, but it was like something out of Greek tragedy with bodies all over and him going berserk in the mud and rain.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 10:04 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: PabloD at February 14, 2026 10:05 PM (3VXNH)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 10:44 PM (gVUi7)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 14, 2026 11:35 PM (jrgJz)
Hobby Thread - February 14, 2026 [TRex]
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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. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) a spin and it landed on stained glass.
[Top photo: Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus Catholic Church (Springfield, Ohio)]
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).
If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, contribute your own. 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: Skip at February 14, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 14, 2026 05:32 PM (uQesX)
I like the ones in Normandy.
Posted by: Ike at February 14, 2026 05:33 PM (uQesX)
Won a game of Brandywine form the American Revolutionary War
These are not my figures, the game master sets everything up and all I do is show up
https://tinyurl.com/2npu8rm5
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 05:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Mom basically layed out the pattern and pulled the lead channel off the spool.
DO NOT get me started on our internal family dynamics. Like most families, there's good and there's WTAF IS HAPPENING HERE.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at February 14, 2026 05:37 PM (7kJyR)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at February 14, 2026 05:37 PM (FEVMW)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at February 14, 2026 05:37 PM
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Agreed - especially with the adjustment mid-way through on the layout sizing.
Posted by: TRex - glassy dino, not gassy dino at February 14, 2026 05:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at February 14, 2026 05:37 PM
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What did they make using the stained glass?
Posted by: TRex - artist-in-residence dino at February 14, 2026 05:41 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026 05:44 PM (yTvNw)
Finally found the perfect use for the 3d printed ball vise.
It’s a perfect turntable for painting.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 05:46 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 05:48 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 05:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Will Robinson at February 14, 2026 05:48 PM (VxFiM)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes
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Not just you. Maine Coon faces have definitely changed over the last 15 - 20 years to a more lion like look. When they are bred well, the look is very cool, but when you get a kitty mill one, it gets way out of proportion and there is something about the eyes that just looks off to me.
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2026
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And they are considerably different from the MCs of forty years ago. I have a regionally published book, That Yankee Cat: The Maine Coon by Marilis Hornidge, from 1986. The pics of Coons in it do not look like the exaggerated creatures we see at cat shows now. There are no paintbrush ear tips, for instance, and their faces and bodies are in good proportion. They look more like my Dagny La Siberienne and my late Arizona.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 05:49 PM (wzUl9)
Stained glass is beautiful and should be treasured.
Never had the urge to try to make stained glass. This gal's gotta know her limitations.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 14, 2026 05:51 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 05:51 PM (Kt19C)
In them meantime, I have some lovely glass to admire in this old Victorian house.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 05:51 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026 05:51 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Will Robinson at February 14, 2026
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That was pretty much my reaction many years ago to Lindberg kits in general. Revells were better, even Aurora kits were. When I later discovered Tamiya and other Japanese model kits, I was astonished at how good the scale detail could be.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 05:51 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 05:53 PM (Kt19C)
Sounds better than performing an annual and much hated ritual...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 14, 2026 05:54 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 05:55 PM (wzUl9)
Also did a bunch of electronic lab bench stuff. I tested a cheap Chinese logic analyzer, $7 shipped (from Walmart!) It works!! 8 input channels, and runs plenty fast enough for my work. Installation on Win is a giant PITA, but people swear it can be done. I installed it on Debian with one single command. Use it with free Pulseview software. I got super torqued up on caffeine and nicotine, and stayed up until 5AM Monday playing with that thing.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 05:56 PM (N8ZBc)
I saw you took a tumble the other day. Hope you are okay and didn't break a good pipe in the process.
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026 05:57 PM (yTvNw)
Do you have any stained glass treasures or trinkets?
We have a large (2 ft x 2 ft) stained-glass Borzoi lightcatcher that Lacey won at the 2004 Rocky Mountain Borzoi Club specialty.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 05:57 PM (tgvbd)
What is it you're describing? Is it ham radio?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 05:58 PM (h7ZuX)
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Well, that snot-nosed kid in the neighborhood keeps staining everybody's windows, but I don't think that's what you meant...
Posted by: (wink ;-) at February 14, 2026 05:58 PM (SlhzX)
I like the ones in Normandy.
Posted by: Ike
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We went in 2014 for the 70th anniversary. Intend to return, too. The stained glass windows in the Church in St Mere Eglise were unbelievable. One at the end of the war, and the other for the 25th anniversary. "They have returned." We were treated like royalty, only place in Europe that still loves Americans.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 14, 2026 05:59 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 14, 2026 06:00 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: PabloD at February 14, 2026 06:00 PM (3VXNH)
I saw you took a tumble the other day. Hope you are okay and didn't break a good pipe in the process.
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026
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Thanks! I wasn't clenching a pipe at the time -- damned good thing, as it would have damaged me seriously when I went down. I received a fat upper lip, and my left hand was feeling sore. Both are going away.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:01 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 06:01 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:01 PM (N8ZBc)
Thanks! We had good conditions this AM, but I was too weary to get on the air. I hate passing up good propagation conditions, because we're on the waning side of Solar Cycle 25, and I remember how bad DX conditions were at the minimum. I feel like I ought to take advantage of every opportunity before they're gone. I'm sure I won't live long enough to enjoy the peak of Cycle 26.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:05 PM (N8ZBc)
I have a somewhat smaller stained glass Golden Retriever head in my kitchen window.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 06:06 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: 496 at February 14, 2026 06:07 PM (ouubj)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:05 PM (N8ZBc)
But when Elon gets colonies going on the Moon and Mars, you will be able to get your "Worked All Planets" certificate.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 06:08 PM (8zz6B)
Remember when restaurants like... Pizza places(?) Had stained glass lamps over the tables?
I kind of wonder at my memory that the lighting pre 1985 was kind of shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 06:10 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 05:51 PM (wzUl9)
I have a Tamiya A6M3 Zero in my collection. Also 1/48 scale. It is a very well thought out kit. Same goes for my Tamiya 1/35 scale armor.
Now if I just had enough $$$ to purchase all the kits I want. (Like that will ever happen)
Posted by: Will Robinson at February 14, 2026 06:12 PM (VxFiM)
Wolfus,
Haven't tried it but I should. I've been in a mood for a little sweetness in my blends lately: navy flake, the last order of HH burley flake, and Stokkebye Nougat. Nougat is surprisingly pleasant. Redburn sounds like it is in that ballpark.
Glad you are recovering.
PS: We have a king cake in the freezer for Tuesday.
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026 06:13 PM (yTvNw)
As the cycle wanes, I'm focusing on short-range goals: collecting grid squares and US counties. So far I have confirmed contacts in 1457 grids, and need about three dozen more to complete CONUS. I have 1857 US counties; there are around 3300 total, so that's a lot of short-range DXing I can do during waning cycle.
My loop antenna builds will now focus on low bands 30-80, which are good for working CONUS at night, even in bad condx.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:13 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 06:18 PM (otNgF)
'MMM32 from Kgp, can you read me?'
[half-hour later]
'Kgp, we read you! Please send supplies!! We're tapped out! We're gonna die.'
[half-hour later]
'MMM32 Kgp, I'll get right on that! I'll let you go now. I'd say CUAGN, but it doesn't look likely. Good luck! 73!'
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:19 PM (N8ZBc)
10 meters is one of those all or nothing bands. Years ago I worked over a thousand miles QRP SSB with a 1/4 wave dipole literally tacked to the ceiling fed with ladder line. At other times I couldn't get a signal from across the street.
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026 06:21 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 06:24 PM (zZu0s)
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Wolfus,
Haven't tried it but I should. I've been in a mood for a little sweetness in my blends lately: navy flake, the last order of HH burley flake, and Stokkebye Nougat. Nougat is surprisingly pleasant. Redburn sounds like it is in that ballpark.
Glad you are recovering.
PS: We have a king cake in the freezer for Tuesday.
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026
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I have an unopened tin of HH Burley Flake, bought before the recent disruption in the pipe tobacco world. No idea what I'm saving it for.
Years ago I preferred the moist, sweetish aromatics (and wondered why I got tongue bite all the time). Now I prefer a drier, more restrained sweetness that lets the tobacco aroma come through.
As for the king cake: I had one sent to my office in Denver when I worked there in 2000. The locals looked askance at the food coloring. I assured them the green was not mold. Once they tried the cake, it was gone in half an hour.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:24 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026 06:25 PM (yTvNw)
'MMM32 from Kgp, can you read me?'
[half-hour later]
'Kgp, we read you! Please send supplies!! We're tapped out! We're gonna die.'[half-hour later]
'MMM32 Kgp, I'll get right on that! I'll let you go now. I'd say CUAGN, but it doesn't look likely. Good luck! 73!'
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026
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A fifteen-minute lag between Earth and Mars, then?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 06:24 PM (zZu0s)
Nah, I'm right there with you. Sounds like fun! We had an exchange student from Mexico stay with us when I was in high school. He was a ham radio operator. We already had a pretty tall antenna, living in a valley and of course, this was before cable tv. I guess the antenna worked out pretty good for him.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 06:27 PM (h7ZuX)
Skipping signals to new stations in the reason I'm a ham. I don't care about ham traditions or fellowship or ragchewing or ECOMMs or any of that stuff. I just trade skip-borne QSOs with stations I've never worked, log them, and count the confirmations that come in. For me, THAT'S the fun. And studying the physics and electronics we use to do it.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:28 PM (N8ZBc)
I honestly don't know. It prolly varies wildly as the planets orbit and their distance goes up and down.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:29 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 14, 2026 06:29 PM (1FEc1)
Please don't! I just have a manic compulsion to play with and study this stuff. I wouldn't wish it on anybody else.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:31 PM (N8ZBc)
Yes, ham radio and electronics experimentation in general. I got started on this stuff when I was a kid, abandoned it around 1980 when I started slinging code for money, then re-entered the hobbies in 2019, in retirement.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:01 PM
I just passed (like 90 minutes ago) the Technician class exam
soon, I'll be able to bring the baofeng out of the shadows
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2026 06:33 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 06:37 PM (snZF9)
It would be REALLY nice to get paid for it. I have skillz doing radio, e-stuff, and coding, but no job prospects I'm aware of.
And I won't work any job where I have to kiss ass; no more of that sh!t for me. (That disqualifies me for *any* job, AFAIK.)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:37 PM (N8ZBc)
Fine business, old man! Welcome to the cult!
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:38 PM (N8ZBc)
Same here. Borkum Riff and Captain Black come to mind. (Paladin Black Cherry tasted like it was flavored with cherry cough syrup and burned hot as hell. I believe it's been improved over the decades. It couldn't have been much worse.) That's where navy flakes with their touch of rum and Stokkebye Nougat with the light topping come in. I'm sorry I didn't try Sutliff Rum & Maple before Sutliff shut down. I do have a tin of Cult Blood Red Moon I should open. That's good stuff.
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026 06:38 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 06:39 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2026 06:33 PM (tljrc)
You do that where I live and you'd end up in jail.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 14, 2026 06:40 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Bugs mostly at February 14, 2026 06:42 PM (TbWk/)
I just passed (like 90 minutes ago) the Technician class exam
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2026 06:33 PM
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Breaking news! Congrats!
Posted by: TRex - radio free dino at February 14, 2026 06:42 PM (IQ6Gq)
The Morse Code exam consisted of a buzzer in a classroom with the following sentences:
“Do you have any pictures of your wife naked? Would you like some?”
The examiner could predict by the laughter who passed the exam.
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 14, 2026 06:43 PM (1FEc1)
I work VHF nets two nights a week, and I have two Baofengs UV-5Rs. They work great, but rubber duck antennas suck canal water! Look up how to make a quarter-wave ground plane antenna. Parts cost maybe $5. Add maybe $20 of coax feedline to connect to radio. Set the antenna up inside the house somewhere. Then you'll do fine.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:43 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Not sure this is the right side of the grass at February 14, 2026 06:44 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:45 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Signals may be crossed at February 14, 2026 06:46 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2026 06:33 PM (tljrc)
You do that where I live and you'd end up in jail.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 14, 2026 06:40 PM (uQesX)
Judges would have also accepted: 'Please! There are ladies present!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 06:48 PM (zZu0s)
AltonJackson,
Congrats and have fun. Check in your area for a 2 meter or 440 repeater that handles weather alerts and reports from other hams. Those have saved our bacon a couple of times when tornadoes were around.
If you want to get on HF at some point, the General class license, without the morse code requirement, is just memorizing and a little math. I used a slide rule when I took mine. Got some amused and nostalgic looks from the examiners.
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026 06:49 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:45 PM (N8ZBc)
*nods along*
Word.
Time travel is involved?
(Sorry, lol. I won't do any more jokes.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 06:49 PM (zZu0s)
My next project is CADding a PCB, and shipping the design files to a fab to make and ship the PCB back to me. AFAIK, I'll be using a fab in Japan. If there's a PCB fab in the USA that's price-competitive, I'm all ears.
I still hear people complaining that Radio Shack is gone, and I tell them to take a look at places like eBay and AliExpress. They stock 1M times more electronics SKUs than RS ever did, at lower prices. Yes, sometimes the ship times are long, but for hobbyists, that's not a biggie.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:53 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 06:48 PM (zZu0s)
Six of one....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 14, 2026 06:53 PM (uQesX)
gp - if you need any grids in SW OR or thereabouts, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you.
Posted by: PabloD at February 14, 2026 06:54 PM (3VXNH)
https://tinyurl.com/2juad79x
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 14, 2026 06:56 PM (2NHgQ)
arrlexamreview.appspot.com
It's free. Don't buy books. Just drill and kill the Q&As over and over until you're ready.
All the answers on the ham tests are canned and known in advance. There is literally NO math involved if you can drill-memorize the Q&As at that site.
They make the ham tests dead-easy now. They want people to pass. They want new hams.
It's way easier than people tell you it is.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:57 PM (N8ZBc)
Thanks! You're bookmarked!
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 06:58 PM (N8ZBc)
Never feel sorry for making jokes. Never stop making them!
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:06 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 14, 2026 07:06 PM (f/buw)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 07:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Nellie Ohr at February 14, 2026 07:07 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:08 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: brain barnacles at February 14, 2026 07:08 PM (6eMhd)
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Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:09 PM (N8ZBc)
Judges would have also accepted: 'Please! There are ladies present!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Six of one....
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Seven of nine....
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2026 07:09 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2026 07:12 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 07:12 PM (XV/Pl)
Yes, I remember the bad old days well. Ferric chloride is nasty.
There are so many advantages to CAD and FAB over the old way, I won't even try to list them here. It'll be a steep learning curve for me, but when I get my first working boards in the mail, I am going to be proud as a peacock, and pleased as punch!
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:15 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 07:15 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 07:16 PM (Ia/+0)
It's a hobby that is very rough on your hands. Mom said once that her hands were ruined for fine sewing, what with all the little cuts involved with doing stained glass.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at February 14, 2026 07:16 PM (Ew3fm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 07:18 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:20 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:08 PM (N8ZBc)
My LOLs are always sincere!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 07:20 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: brain barnacles at February 14, 2026 07:08 PM (6eMhd)
Heh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 07:22 PM (zZu0s)
You're welcome to hang out for a while, but don't forget to stop by Club ONT later tonight.
Posted by: TRex - glassy dino at February 14, 2026 07:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: gp
I only made one board that way. I built a metal detector from scratch, using the plans in some magazine I don't remember the name of. Wound the detector coil and everything. The board design was published in the magazine, but there was no way to transfer it except manually. The detector worked pretty good and I amazed my friends and found a good bit of change at local playgrounds.
I kept the decals and etching fluid for a long time. Longer than the detector.
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2026 07:23 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:25 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: AltonJackson
Scuse me while I whip this out!
Posted by: Sheriff Baofeng at February 14, 2026 07:25 PM (omLRE)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:25 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 14, 2026 07:26 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 14, 2026 07:26 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 14, 2026 07:26 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:27 PM (N8ZBc)
My only gripe with Baofeng is that the sellers don't care who buys them, licensed or not. So we licensed guys have to put up with more pranks and malicious interference on VHF.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:28 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: gp"
Does it cost a lot to have that done?
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:32 PM (N8ZBc)
PSA: Texas MoMe is 16 & 17 October.
Corsicana, TX.
(See the sidebar on the main page.)
Never too early to make travel arrangements.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2026 07:33 PM (2Ez/1)
Connect a few and hang in window
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0)
>>So we licensed guys have to put up with more pranks and malicious interference on VHF.
Yeah, that was a thing, but that seems to have died down greatly as everyone is getting into Mesh networks.
Which itself is largely dominated by Cheap Chinese gack.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 07:36 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Good to have hobbies at February 14, 2026 07:37 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2026 07:39 PM (vFG9F)
Look for advanced microcontroller evaluation boards, with FPGAs and tensor processing units on them. They probably all come from China ultimately, and if you can find them at a USA seller, you'll pay way more for the privilege of feeding the middleman.
My unpopular opinion is that not everything made in China is crap.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:40 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 14, 2026 07:42 PM (0nHVk)
>>My unpopular opinion is that not everything made in China is crap.
I use the term Cheap Chinese Crap as a catchall, for stuff that in a bygone era would have been manufactured in the US and then later Japan but now comes from the commie Chinese.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 07:45 PM (XV/Pl)
They probably needed the funds for a "Transgendered Child Buggery Through The Ages" exhibit or something.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2026 07:46 PM (IG3/x)
Mom and dad did stained glass. they got pretty good at it. My brother built them a workstation an they did the front door panels for the house he built. Really big violets. really pretty too.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 14, 2026 07:47 PM (lpVer)
Yes, I remember the bad old days well. Ferric chloride is nasty.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:15 PM (N8ZBc)
I can smell it right now. I'm not sure if it had an odor as such, or if the vapors were eating away at the smell neurons in your nose.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2026 07:48 PM (IG3/x)
Tools and glass.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at February 14, 2026 07:49 PM (WQDw6)
Unpopular opinion: I think the USA got fat, happy, lazy, and unserious as a result of ruling the planet since the end of the WW2. We'll have to get lean, not-so-happy, harder-working, and sober to hope to compete. We'll have to accept what some would call a somewhat lower quality of living.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:50 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at February 14, 2026 07:52 PM (WQDw6)
Unpopular opinion: I think the USA got fat, happy, lazy, and unserious as a result of ruling the planet since the end of the WW2. We'll have to get lean, not-so-happy, harder-working, and sober to hope to compete. We'll have to accept what some would call a somewhat lower quality of living.
Posted by: gp
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In a word, we have become complacent. Convinced that we are secure and prosperous.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2026 07:54 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:54 PM (N8ZBc)
You said it better!
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 07:55 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 07:58 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Reforger at February 14, 2026 07:59 PM (onCFI)
Posted by: Ronster at February 14, 2026 08:02 PM (6J32i)
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2026 08:07 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Advo at February 14, 2026 08:07 PM (jO4mz)
So many of you morons have the coolest jobs! I envy you.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 08:09 PM (N8ZBc)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine's Day!
Remember that goats love to eat roses - even the thorns! You can share some (unsprayed) petals with them - - along with a few violets.Roses are red, violets are blue today is Valentine’s and Queenie our rescue goat loves you pic.twitter.com/wwL2KAC0rz
— caenhillcc (@caenhillcc) February 14, 2025
— Alaskan Tequila (@LTequila4) February 7, 2026
Courtesy Hrothgar
Winter here in New England. A Snowjack
Their relatives live inside volcanos in Ireland. When their fur becomes too thick and scruffy and it becomes excessively warm in their dens, they erupt from the tops of the mountains and fly across the land covering the land in a thick dense fur called "tephra" that can be many meters thick. If they have inadvertently been fed Taco Bell in ritual food offerings, their shedding is called "pyroclastic flows" or "pyroclastic surges" depending upon the bean content of the offerings. The Irish have come to an understanding with these beings and have adopted them as "pets". They are, naturally, called "Irish Wolves Dread These Beings and Their Horrid Smothering Blankets" or by the shortened version, "Irish Wolfhounds". There are 72% more of these creatures featured in the book "Selinon" which must be true as it is clearly stated in the literature.
In Hawaii the ash is sometimes referred to as "Pele's hair" but the Irish know better. This is what they do with the fur. A picture is attached.
I downsized this a bit, so hopefully will work. This is Patsy, the latest cat. I estimate she's 5-6 months old and weighs 8 pounds. Went through the spay without problems and is recovering. She has taken to being inside pretty well. She loves my dog Jake but does not care for the other two cats. I post as Notsothoreau “Throw out the radio and take the fiddle down from the wall.”Well, looks like Patsy is off to a fairly good start. Get those treats out when she's around the other two cats. Hope it helps. Thanks for adopting her!
— Andrew Nelson Lytle, Tennessee, 1930
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, February 7 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 February 14, 2026 03:33 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 14, 2026 03:34 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 14, 2026 03:34 PM (O7YUW)
Completely different mindset.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s)
Doesn't everyone have memories of puppies being drowned?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 03:35 PM (Kt19C)
Hope you're having a nice Valentines Day.
We had three big updates this week. So, if you haven't read about Big Boy (please recommend some names), then head on over to our cat blog.
https://tinyurl.com/dg65258
Posted by: Joyenz at February 14, 2026 03:35 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 03:36 PM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 03:35 PM (Kt19C)
Dear Lord, no.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 03:36 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 03:38 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Joyenz at February 14, 2026 03:38 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 14, 2026 03:38 PM (g7saB)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 03:40 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at February 14, 2026 03:40 PM (zdQuL)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 14, 2026 03:41 PM (f/buw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 03:41 PM (RIvkX)
She was dressed in her usual holiday finery--sweats--with a corsage pinned to her chest. After dinner she was taking the family on a tour of the menagerie and stepped inside the fence to introduce everyone to the head mama goat--who immediately began chowing down on the corsage. Everyone erupted into laughter and it became part of family Christmas lore.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at February 14, 2026 03:42 PM (FEVMW)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 14, 2026 03:43 PM (y1h/g)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 03:41 PM (RIvkX)
; )
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 03:44 PM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 03:44 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at February 14, 2026 03:45 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 03:45 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 03:46 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 03:48 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 03:50 PM (+YA9H)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 03:48 PM (gKWVE)
Species dysphoria.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 14, 2026 03:50 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 04:03 PM (+YA9H)
Six foot six tall Uncle Ralph came to visit and she barked and barked. He had better watch out! He picked Gretel up and held her up to the ceiling and she peed all the way down his front.
Posted by: 29Victor at February 14, 2026 04:03 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 04:04 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2026 04:07 PM (+mUZM)
When I was a kid you saw lots of Great Danes; these days, not so much. I read they don't need that much space, unlike herders and shepherds. They're basically big couch potatoes. Is this true?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 14, 2026 04:10 PM (kpS4V)
All dachshunds were bred to be mighty warriors.
Their original job, and hence their body shape, was to go into badger dens and kill or drag out the badger for killing.
I believe that's why when you see dachshunds on a walk, they look proud and confident, never stupid or goofy.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 04:10 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2026 04:10 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 14, 2026 04:14 PM (kpS4V)
All dachshunds were bred to be mighty warriors.
Their original job, and hence their body shape, was to go into badger dens and kill or drag out the badger for killing.
I believe that's why when you see dachshunds on a walk, they look proud and confident, never stupid or goofy.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 04:10 PM (iJfKG)
Yep. My brother's dachshund had the bloodlust. He would go after much, much larger dogs, no matter how badly he lost. He would also rip the throats out of possums in their back yard.
Posted by: 29Victor at February 14, 2026 04:14 PM (0MjtC)
Violets are probably tastier for people, and goats are browsers, not grazers. So roses are a natural for them.
People do like some rose hips, though.
Posted by: KT at February 14, 2026 04:15 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2026 04:17 PM (+mUZM)
Fascinating creatures today. Patsy is lovely. In another life, ca. 1978, I knew an outside cat who looked much like her -- my cat Tuna Fish's brother, or so we thought. Tuna, aka Tuna Catterole, was a classic tuxedo, while his brother was black and white in a similar pattern to Patsy: a complete black butterfly sitting atop his nose. Our garage apartment had a parking space outside the living room, and I'd occasionally leave one of the car windows open (it was a simpler time and a smaller town). One day Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 and I got in the car, started it -- and were startled to find Butterfly Nose napping in the back seat!
After that I made sure to close the car windows.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:17 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bigsmith at February 14, 2026 04:18 PM (1Au9i)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 14, 2026 04:10 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 04:19 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 14, 2026 04:10 PM (kpS4V)
Copy paste fail. Eris, yes Great Danes are big time couch potatoes. Gentle giants. Our Dane liked to walk with us but didn't need that much exercise. We did always have a good yard for her though. They are great doggies.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 04:20 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 04:21 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 04:21 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2026 04:22 PM (+mUZM)
Six foot six tall Uncle Ralph came to visit and she barked and barked. He had better watch out! He picked Gretel up and held her up to the ceiling and she peed all the way down his front.
Posted by: 29Victor at February 14, 2026 04:03 PM (0MjtC)
Good girl, Gretel!
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 04:22 PM (+YA9H)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 04:23 PM (xDN0i)
There was a guy who used to bring is GD to the park where I walk Elvis. Ginormous baby. He see Elvis and me from a distance and he would come galloping like pony. He loved to lean against me when I pet him. A leaning Great Dane is no small thing. I had to brace myself or he would knock he over.
Absolute gentle giant.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 04:25 PM (viF8m)
Barkus started in 1993. It parades through the French Quarter the Sunday prior to the Sunday before Mardi Gras, and it's always fun. Themes in the past have been "Jurassic Bark," "Welcome to the Flea Market," "Joan of Bark," and "007: From Barkus with Love." This year was "Wicked and Wagged."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:27 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: KT at February 14, 2026
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"The hard part is finding a rose with hips."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:28 PM (wzUl9)
So sorry for your loss of Truman. I'm sure all our pet morons who have gone before happily greeted him.
Posted by: Joyenz at February 14, 2026 04:28 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at February 14, 2026 04:30 PM (sAmhv)
Have you heard of these? I hadn't.
Alabai: the Dog that doesn’t need water
youtu.be/q0bhSa6FfGo
Our Daisy is a pretty good dog, but I don't think she would be this obedient.
youtu.be/uqk61dIrnLg
Posted by: mindful webworker - woof at February 14, 2026 04:30 PM (6hyzx)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 14, 2026 04:32 PM (nz1sK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 04:33 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 14, 2026 04:34 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 14, 2026
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Eris, Lily might indeed be of that weird tribe. Little gray Dagny, who is pure Siberian, is so quiet we wondered initially if she might be mute. A trilled "ur-uk, ur-uk" comes out of her from time to time.
She is not mute, though. Linda carried her out into the snow last January, and she (the cat) let out a yowl that sounded like she was having her tail stepped on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:34 PM (wzUl9)
An Akita did that for me in Griffith Park once. Even his owners cringed a minute. Somehow I knew he was going to be a buddy.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 04:34 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:36 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 04:36 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 14, 2026 04:37 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Puddleglum
They are like that. Which is good. Because if they weren't.....
I've seen a friend's great dane eat a bone from a T-bone steak. Not "laid there and gnawed on it for a half-hour" like a normal dog. More of a "pulverized it into swallowable bits in about 30 seconds."
Posted by: mikeski at February 14, 2026 04:38 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Joyenz at February 14, 2026
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My red tabby part-Coon Arizona, and Linda's white shorthair Annabelle, disliked other cats intensely. Truman should ignore them if they give him a hard time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:38 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 14, 2026 04:38 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 14, 2026 04:38 PM (3ek7K)
Vick’s vapo rub on the bottom of your feet when you go to bed.
Meanwhile, hot tea with honey and lemon and cayenne pepper.
All the chicken broth (homemade) you can put down.
And put some whiskey in that hot toddy this evening.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 04:41 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026
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The shower will help with clearing things out once you blow your nose a few times. After that, I don't know. The OTC antihistamines often work well, and Theraflu is good to concoct and drink just before bedtime.
It has acetaminophen or diphenhydramine in it, I think -- maybe both. If those give you the bathroom runs as they do me, then they'll defeat Theraflu's stated purpose of helping you sleep!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:43 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at February 14, 2026 04:44 PM (jwBFW)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at February 14, 2026 04:44 PM (jwBFW)
Check the Food Network, honey.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 04:46 PM (8zz6B)
Little gray Dagny is becoming a bit more demonstrative. She climbs on the couch arm next to Linda and slips down so she is partly on the human's lap. I place a cushion on my lap and Linda hands the little cat over to me, and she stays on the cushion for petting for quite a while. She's still not a "leap into your lap" type. But she's showing more of what in another cat would be affection.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:47 PM (wzUl9)
Her ears can pick up the frequency from opening the refrigerator door.
Has begging down to a T also.
Posted by: Jackson K. at February 14, 2026 04:48 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: mindful webworker - y gotta have heart at February 14, 2026 04:49 PM (6hyzx)
Her ears can pick up the frequency from opening the refrigerator door.
Has begging down to a T also.
Posted by: Jackson K. at February 14, 2026
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In an early Peanuts strip, Charlie Brown muses about Snoopy, "He can hear someone just thinking about food!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Fritzy at February 14, 2026 04:51 PM (2GIh1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2026 04:54 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:59 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 05:01 PM (wzUl9)
Bob, a friendly but skittish beige cat, has been getting his share of chicken legs etc. Sammy the Fang (who has bitten both Publius and me) pretty much left the group after Bunny established herself. I don't know what he does, but he looks like he dives into badger holes in his spare time. He looks pretty rough.
Not a sensible cat, or he would have stuck around here at night.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 14, 2026 05:01 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 14, 2026 05:03 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 05:04 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026 05:04 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 14, 2026
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Me either. Two is my limit, and sometimes I think that's one too many.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 05:04 PM (wzUl9)
Ha ha. That sounds like our dog, Luna's, crush, a giant black Lab named Walker. If he gets loose from his yard, he races toward us on the street like a bullet--and then turns into a galumphing puppy. Luna doesn't like most dogs but she's crazy about this goofy guy.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at February 14, 2026 05:06 PM (FEVMW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 04:34 PM (wzUl9)
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A Siberian who hates the snow! Wait til she sees Yakutsk!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 14, 2026 05:09 PM (kpS4V)
No one laughed at me. As far as I could tell.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 05:11 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 05:12 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 14, 2026 05:13 PM (nz1sK)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at February 14, 2026 05:16 PM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2026 05:17 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 14, 2026 05:20 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at February 14, 2026 05:16 PM (3AwA+)
I wonder what happened to him too...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 14, 2026 05:21 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes
Not just you. Maine Coon faces have definitely changed over the last 15 - 20 years to a more lion like look. When they are bred well, the look is very cool, but when you get a kitty mill one, it gets way out of proportion and there is something about the eyes that just looks off to me.
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2026 05:23 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at February 14, 2026 05:16 PM (3AwA+)
I wonder what happened to him too...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 14, 2026
Same, I keep hoping to see him or his neighbor pop in to let us know everything is okay. I am kicking myself for not getting his email when he was going through such a dark time.
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2026 05:25 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2026 05:27 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: logprof at February 14, 2026 05:29 PM (VuBLp)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 05:41 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Bigsmith at February 14, 2026 07:39 PM (1Au9i)
A mug of strong tea
Big glob of honey, local if possible
Juice of a whole lemon
Shot of whiskey
If it doesn’t cure you at least you’ll feel better
Posted by: Coelacanth at February 14, 2026 08:47 PM (8dSZC)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Holiday Weekend
Dobbin House Tavern, Feb. 6 To chase away the bitter‑cold winter blues, we offer a glimpse of summer from the Dobbin House gardens. Each week, we gather and arrange fresh blooms for the deep, inset windows of Rev. Dobbin's 18th‑century stone home - - now the cozy setting where our guests enjoy menus of fine food and drink. We like to imagine that Isabella Dobbin herself filled these very rooms with similar, homemade arrangements in 1776, brightening her household just as they brighten ours today. With the Gettysburg countryside blanketed in white, viewing this burst of color gives us comfort, as it promises warmer days ahead. We hope it brings a little warmth and cheer to you as well.
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By By-Tor bottled up his sauerkraut (see Jan. 17 post) on Jan. 31:
My sauerkraut has been fermenting for 24 days now so time to jar it for the upcoming LA County Fair in May. You can ferment it for months if you want; it gradually becomes more sour and softer. This is the right amount of sourness and crunch I like. Next up- bread and butter pickles, applesauce, and naturally fermented dill pickles. Recipe:
Make a brine of 3.5% saltwater using kosher or any un-iodized salt. I use grams. So for example 35g of salt in 1000ml of hot water until it’s dissolved. There is no specific amount to make; you just need enough to cover the cabbage. Use as much cabbage as you want. Shred or buy pre-shredded cabbage. Put that in a food grade plastic or glass container. Cover with the brine. Use a plate or similar to push the cabbage below the surface. Cover loosely with a lid. Leave it on the counter. In about 4 days it will start turning beige. In about 8 days it will start turning sour. You can start eating it whenever you want. I think 3-4 weeks is best. You might see a white flakes on the surface. That’s yeast. It’s harmless but off-flavor. Skim it off. It’s normal in fermentation.
When you’re ready, put it in jars. Jars going in the fridge don’t have to be sealed. Jars for the shelf need to be water bath canned in Mason jars to seal the lids. It will stay good pretty much for years. It’s going to taste different than most store bought sauerkraut that uses vinegar to create the sourness. It has a more natural flavor.
The recipe for naturally fermented pickles is the same except do 4% and use whole pickling cucumbers. They take about 6 days.
It’s pickling and fermenting day to get ready for the LA County Fair. Bread and butter pickles are done; then a jar of cucumbers in a 3.5% saltwater brine with garlic and fresh dill to start fermenting into dill pickles. These should be ready in six or seven days.
I got to spend Christmas with my son, DIL and 4 yr old grandson on the Dutch island of Bonaire. Located off the coast of Venezuela, it is 82 degrees all year round, 70's at night.The little town is very colorful and looks like a classic beach town.Most of the island is an eco preserve where there is a flamingo breeding ground and a donkey sanctuary. There is no fishing allowed and the reef is literally off shore so you can walk in from the beach and snorkel. It is extremely dry and although there are extensive gardens, there was watering hoses all around the plantings. So many different textures and vibrant colors. The air was so clean. It just felt so unspoiled.
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.
Any thoughts or questions? Anything blooming since then? 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: Skip at February 14, 2026 01:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 01:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Don at February 14, 2026 01:35 PM (4JpKz)
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 01:36 PM (INIdd)
Still cold with snow on the ground here. Doggo has been digging being able to walk on the icy crust, so it is funny when she breaks through it once the temperatures get too high.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2026 01:37 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Adrian the Bad Poetry Critic . . . and . . . writer, thereof . . . at February 14, 2026 01:38 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 14, 2026 01:42 PM (kpS4V)
It says direct sowing doesn't work so I'll start some seedlings.
Can't believe it'll be seedling starting time in a month! Time flies.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 14, 2026 01:49 PM (kpS4V)
Petunia non olet is just a lie! Petunias have a very sweet smell!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 14, 2026 01:49 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 02:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 14, 2026 02:12 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2026 02:19 PM (+mUZM)
Husband has been digging the base for a new dry-stone bed and filling it with road mix. We have plans to do some tree pruning later today.
I caught up with weeding one vegetable bed that had a frozen part last time I worked there. I cut off dead stems from a peony and a native flax. I pulled some frost-damaged parsley stems, though it looks like the center/bases may make it through the winter. The spearmint... is an issue. It's grown into all adjacent beds and is now poking out through the seam on the side of the bed. It may get dug out, put in a pot, and that area nuked until the rest of it dies.
I can see buds inside the hyacinths and crocus behind the kitchen window. Tulips along the front sidewalk are showing a few tips. And I found the first 2 garlic sprouts inside the pot of starts, which I covered with straw for the winter - not ready to pull the straw off just yet.
Posted by: Pat* at February 14, 2026 02:23 PM (Mpf80)
I bought some seeds from Brim Seeds, one of the local companies. I'm trying a new Zinnia variety called South of the Border and their Beneficial Insectary Mix. I've had good luck with them before and they have varieties grown to do well in CenTex.
Thinking about trying some BEP's in planters fastened to the chain link fence, if I can rig them. They would cascade down and use some space that would otherwise be bare.
Posted by: sal at February 14, 2026 02:24 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2026 02:25 PM (+mUZM)
I'd be interested to see how you like them. The Fiber Barn cashier at Homestead showed me some alpaca fleeces they were processing. Lovely natural colors and their cloud-like texture- so nice!
I've mostly given up spinning- hard on the hands- and need to find homes for my wheel and drum carder, etc.
Posted by: sal at February 14, 2026 02:27 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 14, 2026 02:30 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Orson at February 14, 2026 02:33 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 02:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Not sure about the fragrance, which was described as jasmine-like. It's kind of like paperwhites that many people think smell wonderful and I think they're kind of stinky if you get too close. Hopefully they'll be just right outside by the front walk. Right now they are overpowering my kitchen, where they are draining after being watered.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 14, 2026 02:35 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2026 02:36 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 02:34 PM (Ia/+0)
__________________________
I've always been surprised by the little known fact that deer like to dig holes. Some of them are pretty large and deep.
Posted by: Orson at February 14, 2026 02:37 PM (dIske)
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026 02:44 PM (yTvNw)
Thanks for the recipes. My homemade kraut is so much better than any commercial stuff. I find the 3 to 4 week time gets it to the crunch and sourness I prefer. And it's in the category of 'so simple even I can do it'. I'm surprised there is a market for commercial kraut since it is so easy to do.
Gotta try the homemade fermented dill pickles.
Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2026 02:52 PM (yTvNw)
Her Majesty got herbs and leafy vegetables potted yesterday. Unfortunately we have such a proliferation of pots of various sizes sitting around doing nothing. Hope she has some plans for them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 02:53 PM (tgvbd)
Thank You for sharing! Beautiful pictures. And I’m sure the most wonderful part of the whole thing is that you were invited to share it with your son and his family.
Good job, mom.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 02:59 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 03:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2026 02:25 PM (+mUZM)
My garlic bed is coming up. I planted last fall, both cloves and seed, and covered it all with maple leaves instead of straw. I am going to have to water this year to see if it will make a difference.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 03:04 PM (rbvCR)
I sprouted peach pits last winter, and in repotting them I managed to drop the pot with the three seedlings and broke off two of them. I am waiting to see if they survivie
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 03:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 03:24 PM (looXz)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 03:27 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 14, 2026 04:09 PM (FMtrg)
It makes sense for Bonair to have a lot of dry-adapted plants. One thing that's great about southern AZ is there are flowers of one kind or another all year round.
Posted by: quieti at February 14, 2026 05:13 PM (fCSlY)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 14, 2026 05:30 PM (jc0TO)
I finally got to go to the range today and just got home. Thanks for posting my photos. I fell in love with Bonaire and so happy to be able to share. Supposed to hit 60 here this week so hoping the ice and snow will be a thing of the past and can start to think about plantings.Trying to decide if I should attempt container verges again.
Hope you all had a great day.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 14, 2026 06:35 PM (t/2Uw)
Happy Valentine's Day! Caution: sexual predators are not just on Epstein Island
Have you been turning to coverage of the Olympics to get away from more depressing news? Might not always help.
A woman who flirted with Epstein in emails, accepted thousands of dollars of gifts from him, and was his unofficial attorney was Obama's top vetter and Ethics advisor. Just spectacular stuff.
2017. Jeffrey Epstein's good friend Kathryn Ruemmler explains that she ran Obama's vetting and ethics department and was responsible for vetting all of Obama's cabinet members. Ruemmler also said that she was saddened because Trump had "debased" the Presidency. Ruemmler was so close to Epstein that she called the convicted sex offender "Uncle Jeffrey."
The Jeff Epstein saga isn't a scandal about pedophilia, it's about a Russian word called 'blat,' a Soviet-era word meaning 'the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures.' It's about a kind of government. As with the large number of 'blatniks' in the Soviet era who made sure their factories got what they needed outside the formal state procurement process, Epstein greased the wheels for the neoliberal state. His job was governance. What does that mean? Well it's clear that Epstein was an entrepreneurial broker across multiple public and private bureaucracies, helping organize 'under-the-table' deals among the legal, business, intelligence, and political elites to allow them to escape the rule of law and traditional conflict of interest restrictions. It's statecraft to allow a superclass to systemically escape the formalized rules.
The pedophilia and prostitution were part of it - that is obviously violating the rule of law - but so are the random favors Epstein bestowed. Like Epstein sending Senator Joe Manchin's request for a yacht, a request which came from the First lady of the Virginia Islands, to a random NY financier who might have one. Or working with Joi Ito at MIT and billionaire Reid Hoffman to restructure the Bitcoin Foundation. It's all about matching capital and talent and inputs outside of the restrictions ordinary people are subject to. This kind of governance is particularly important in Soviet-style states, where everyone knows the rules are fake, where skirting the system IS the system. Epstein and his affiliates thrived because of the weakened institutions of the United States, institutions enfeebled in many cases by the men in his network, like Larry Summers. These men adopted multiple roles - advisor, businessman, academic, board member, regulator - and put on the hat that best maximized their self-interest and the self-interest of their narrow network at that moment.
The old world, where handing someone your business card meant you represented that institution, disappeared in the 1980s. Over the course of the 1990s, neoconservatives, neoliberals, bankers - ultimately Epstein's network - built this new social order. It was one where you couldn't succeed through the formal rules, but if you were let into the networks of trust by blatniks, you could do anything you wanted. While all the specifics of Epstein's network are not known, and while conspiracy theorists often have crazy views, they have correctly fingered that the world of meritocracy and formalized systems is increasingly a fraud. And that the real government lies elsewhere. In short, when formal democratic institutions like Congress stop governing, the networks of men like Epstein fill the power vacuum. . .There's an academic reference plus interesting comments at the link. So, where do we go from here?
The government reportedly wants to erase the PUBLIC RECORDS of trials that have already taken place. Bad, bad, bad.Worse than the worst nightmare I could have imagined https://t.co/XUlysocFsI
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 13, 2026
Happy Valentine’s Day, a day to celebrate all kinds of love!! Be kind to yourself and those around you, today and always. I love you all lots!! 🩷💌💘
— 💌 annie💘 (@magnoliasimmss) February 14, 2025
“We were born to love one another, this is something we all need” - Peter Tork pic.twitter.com/JIIiEQxI0o
I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of all Super Bowl halftime shows until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Moreover, I am calling for President Trump to appoint a bipartisan commission of inquiry chaired by Bugs Bunny, with full subpoena power over Bad Bunny, Good Bunny, and Okay Bunny. Also Roger Goodell, who I am renaming Roger Badell. I vote for next year’s halftime show to be Bugs Bunny and Weird Al Yankovic. Just be sure to check everyone’s ID before they vote.
Ever heard traditional Gaelic Irish music sung by an a cappella group like this?
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 12, 2026
This is Ceann Dubh Dilis (My Sweet, Dark-Haired Love), arranged by Michael McGlynn and performed by Spokanki.pic.twitter.com/wywddM23PJ
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 11:11 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:14 AM (nWPIJ)
Willowed
Actually, I detest and despise all gift-giving occasions. Holidays, birthdays, anniversaries (we have two), Mother's Day, etc. I have no imagination for presents and don't want anything myself (anything I want I can't have anyway). You'd think 32 years of faithful support would be enough, but there have to be these little shit tests scattered through the year.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 11:16 AM (tgvbd)
Uncle Jeffrey did more than ‘touch’ her?
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 11:18 AM (INIdd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 11:19 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 14, 2026 11:20 AM (LdBR/)
There really should be scare quotes around "ethics."
Posted by: GWB at February 14, 2026 11:20 AM (XoEtr)
AOC Accuses Israel of Genocide During Speech in Germany, Igniting Backlash
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 11:21 AM (J+Psw)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 11:21 AM (8zz6B)
Word from the Street is that Big Mike just got 10 piercings; - at her advanced age.
What you don't know is that her 11th piercing was a Prince Albert.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 11:21 AM (gVUi7)
Ro Khanna read the names of six people on the House floor and described them as "wealthy, powerful men" involved in Epstein's crimes.
It turns out that 4 of them were just random people selected for an FBI photo lineup and had no connection to Epstein's crimes.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2026 11:21 AM (Cqx++)
Probably 10s of thousands sexual assaults were swept away because of fear of being labeled
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 11:23 AM (Ia/+0)
Word from the Street is that Big Mike just got 10 piercings; - at her advanced age.
What you don't know is that her 11th piercing was a Prince Albert.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
In the can?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2026 11:23 AM (Cqx++)
Why isn't Joe Biden in that collage of sexual predators? He was awarded a PMOF by Barky, too.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2026 11:23 AM (xG4kz)
AOC Accuses Israel of Genocide During Speech in Germany, Igniting Backlash
*guffaws loudly*
Imagine, going to Germany to accuse someone else of genocide.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 11:24 AM (tgvbd)
However this Ruemmler broad and some of the other "associates" might have another thing coming.
The fact that details about various associates of Democrats, and some fairly "high level" ones were, in fact more than peripherally involved makes me wonder if the truth will ever really be known.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2026 11:24 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: GWB at February 14, 2026 11:25 AM (XoEtr)
Are you sure the singing group's name is Spokanki?
I thought they were-
The Ghost Girls with Tragic Fashion Sensibilities
Nice voices though.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 11:26 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2026 11:26 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 11:26 AM (J+Psw)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 11:24 AM (tgvbd)
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The irony of the fact that she was in Germany accusing Jews of genocide probably entirely escaped her.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:26 AM (nWPIJ)
performed by Spokanki.
They look more like Walla Walla or, better still, Yakima.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars
Walla Walla Bing Bang
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2026 11:28 AM (Cqx++)
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A while back I read that it was Lexner's decision to let Epstein manage his fortune that was the germ of Epstein's own wealth. He gave Epstein his start.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:29 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: GWB at February 14, 2026 11:25 AM (XoEtr)
I think they look quite cromulent.
Posted by: Zombie Marcel Marceau, in a box, in a windtunnel at February 14, 2026 11:30 AM (urh+R)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 14, 2026 11:31 AM (Ggsrp)
The Epstein Files!!! are, on the whole, stupid and silly. Mostly money grubbers grubbing for money, thinking pecunia non olet. It's good that these machers get embarrassed and lose their jobs, but there won't be a lot that's actually criminal.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 11:31 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2026 11:33 AM (Cqx++)
So brave to perform when paralyzed.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 11:34 AM (Kt19C)
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You can't say which school?
Posted by: Eeyore at February 14, 2026 11:34 AM (AlhUl)
It's hard to believe Gaelic could be an Indo-European language but I'm assured by the experts that it is.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:34 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Wally at February 14, 2026 11:34 AM (d3Ybn)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 11:34 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 11:35 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:35 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!
Victoria’s Secret has been garbage for decades. Le Perla has quality pretties.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 11:35 AM (IhIKR)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 11:35 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Jen the original at February 14, 2026 11:35 AM (KWW++)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 14, 2026 11:36 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 11:37 AM (n1IFJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:37 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 11:38 AM (n1IFJ)
So, obviously haven't been to Florida lately, huh?
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 11:40 AM (n1IFJ)
Gardening thread?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
Motto of the Democrat party.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 11:40 AM (J+Psw)
They look more like Walla Walla or, better still, Yakima.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2026 11:26 AM (xG4kz)
HAHA!!! I tried to make a joke about that, but couldn't make it work. Excellent job.
Posted by: GWB at February 14, 2026 11:40 AM (XoEtr)
Posted by: Wally
>Is this a larger scandal than Penisgate with the ski jumpers?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 11:40 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 14, 2026 11:41 AM (+89TD)
I mentioned that down below in the coffee thread. The officials said the Team Canada guy did nothing wrong, but freezeframe of the video clearly shows the Canadian guy's finger on the curling stone after it passed the hog line.
Rules are rules...
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 11:41 AM (Y1sOo)
Victoria's Secret spent tons of its brand capital featuring ugly dudes and fat women modeling its lingerie. It just about wiped them out.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 11:37 AM (nWPIJ)
Queen Victoria's Secret isn't something you want to see.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 11:42 AM (tgvbd)
Sorry, blame me. I was the one who posted about the 20-person fight on the pickleball court here in FL.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 11:43 AM (Y1sOo)
Gardening thread?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 11:35 AM (Kt19C)
petunia olet
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 11:44 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 11:44 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Jen the original at February 14, 2026 11:35 AM (KWW++)
Or, the Satanic Panic, as Ian (Lawdog) writes about yesterday:
https://shorturl.fm/vdinZ
Posted by: GWB at February 14, 2026 11:44 AM (XoEtr)
New York Post
@nypost
Ex-ESPN star Sarah Spain felt ‘ill’ sitting near ‘demon’ JD Vance at Winter Olympics: ‘Like the devil’
. . . .
Twelve minutes into the first period, that area suddenly is awash with large men in suits with earpieces,' Spain said of a previously empty part of the arena that suddenly filled with Secret Service agents, 'and here comes JD Vance carrying a child and a bunch of security and eventually Marco Rubio.'
'When I see JD Vance’s eyeliner face, I literally feel ill,'
Spain added: 'I said, ‘I feel like I just looked at a demon,’ like the devil, and I don’t even believe in that.'
'My body felt like when you have been spooked and you have a little tingle that feels like, ‘Oh, something’s not right,’' she continued, 'or like when you get in a situation and you feel like, ‘Oh, some of the energy’s bad, something could go wrong here, maybe I should get out of here,’ or ‘something’s dangerous, this doesn’t feel right.’'
To hammer home the point, Span later reiterated that Vance exuded 'demon energy.
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Wait. Vance was carrying Marco Rubio?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 11:50 AM (J+Psw)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 11:51 AM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 11:50 AM (J+Psw)
And a child and a bunch of security.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 11:52 AM (+YA9H)
Lane Bryant's Secret should exist.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 11:52 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 11:54 AM (gVUi7)
. . . .
Sarah.. Seek help now.. You're bat shit crazy
Posted by: It's me donna at February 14, 2026 11:54 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 14, 2026 11:56 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 11:50 AM (J+Psw)
JD is worse than a demon.
He's E-4 Mafia.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at February 14, 2026 11:56 AM (teTvQ)
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So she's really hot for J.D. ?
Posted by: Cosda at February 14, 2026 11:56 AM (qDzsd)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 11:56 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 11:50 AM (J+Psw)
Well, Marco does look a bit like Hugo in "Devil Doll."
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 14, 2026 11:57 AM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 11:57 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2026 11:58 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 11:58 AM (rbvCR)
I want as much sunlight as we can get shining on this information so I am pleased with anyone who is pushing for more transparency. I want*all* involved to be exposed and at a minimum, run out of government. My guess is that most of our government is involved and I'd rather have them removed from government this way than through a hot civil war later down the road.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 11:59 AM (RkOfE)
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 12:00 PM (n1IFJ)
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Still my beating heart.
*snort*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 12:00 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 11:50 AM (J+Psw)
But she's also an atheist. To ask a lefty to be logically consistent is like asking a Great White not to be a predator.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 12:00 PM (cwGMH)
Then why did she say say it? Another high strung narcissist.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 12:00 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2026 12:01 PM (+mUZM)
*Smokey's Garage has entered the chat*
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 12:02 PM (n1IFJ)
*guffaws loudly*
Imagine, going to Germany to accuse someone else of genocide.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 11:24 AM (tgvbd)
Well, when you have the brain power of sawdust....
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 12:02 PM (snZF9)
JD is worse than a demon.
He's E-4 Mafia.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert
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I think that most company grade officers suspect that somewhere, perhaps distant, there is an EM sitting at a desk and holding their (the officer's) fate in their hands.
I am completely innocent of that...mostly.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2026 12:03 PM (XeU6L)
Well, Marco does look a bit like Hugo in "Devil Doll."
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian
Does he eat ham?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2026 12:03 PM (Cqx++)
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Change 'curling' to 'kidney' and this technique might replace lithotripsy.
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 12:04 PM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 12:04 PM (Kt19C)
*Smokey's Garage has entered the chat*
Posted by: man
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'Rule interpretation' is part of the game.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2026 12:04 PM (XeU6L)
TDS is brutal. I dont know if there is a cure for Stage IV.
They are prepping for, “ yeah Trump was bad, JD is 1000x worser than Trump!”
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 12:04 PM (IhIKR)
He would be a great President, but he is going to have his hands full as Governor-General of Cuba
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 12:05 PM (rbvCR)
Victoria's Secret is that it is in Pataskala,Ohio, a suburb of east of Columbus. How exclusive!
Wexner is well into his 90's. Epstein and Wexner were very close for a long time. Even people around Wexner at the Limited were very suspicious of Epstein's influence on Wexner. That really expensive townhouse that Epstein lived at in New York City? Wexner gave him that.
The "Lolita Express" airplane? Wexner gave him that, it had been the Limited's corporate jet.
Wexner funneled money to Epstein to enable him to do a lot of things. A lot of money.
In an interview some years ago, after Epstein allegedly "died" in custody, Les and Abigail Wexner were interviewed in their mansion, and were just "shocked" about what Jeffrey had done. "We had no idea what he was up to!"
My wife theorizes that someday, after his children are grown, married and then divorced, that the exes of the kids will tell what they actually knew.
Donald Barr (Bill Barr's father) got Epstein his start. Donald Barr was in the OSS in WWII, and probably was a CIA recruiter.
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at February 14, 2026 12:05 PM (V+3EO)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 12:05 PM (gVUi7)
As a milbrat, I couldn't figure out why the old man (20+ year NCO) seemed to have more influence than officers..
Then it hit me
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 12:05 PM (n1IFJ)
Posted by: JD Vance with glowing eyes at February 14, 2026 12:06 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 12:06 PM (cwGMH)
I want as much sunlight as we can get shining on this information so I am pleased with anyone who is pushing for more transparency.
I'd like that to the extent of what it shows about these big shots: just how sleazy and avaricious they are. But not to the extent of assuming (I stress that word) that anyone who's name appears there is a pedophile.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 12:06 PM (tgvbd)
https://tinyurl.com/48496wxe
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 12:09 PM (RkOfE)
Isn't everyone?
/ our betters
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 12:09 PM (n1IFJ)
>Sorta like all of the ridiculous plane rules in the NFL. Was it the sideline, the endzone, the back of the endzone, the pylon? Are you the home team or the visitor? Is this a Kansas City game?
Let's make up a new rule as we go.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 12:09 PM (gVUi7)
Second of all I learned that a pompous ass relative bought silver at 120 and now its back to 76. I'm hoping for a pullback all the way to 12. That would make me happy and like people again
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 14, 2026 12:10 PM (jrgJz)
The sexual perversion is the shiny object. Where did Epstein get all of his money? The don't give away islands in the Caribbean for green stamps.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 12:10 PM (n1IFJ)
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They were "beyond fat." They were morbidly obese.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2026 12:11 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 12:09 PM (gVUi7)
Actually you have to win a point to change a rule. If you are game enough, everything is Calvinball
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 12:11 PM (rbvCR)
I don't disagree but wouldn't the IRS be the agency to answer that question and to see if what's reported can be reconciled with what he had?
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 12:12 PM (cwGMH)
And also, WTF is up with the site lately? Why do I keep getting a pop-up add that makes me wait 4 seconds to close it whenever I try to access a thread?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 14, 2026 12:15 PM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:16 PM (viF8m)
I agree about not making assumptions of wrongdoing based on the appearance of a name, which is why context is needed and if context isn't sufficient then further investigation. Unfortunately most investigators are also corrupt so it is an extremely difficult, and equally important task if we want to rid our government of massive corruption.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 12:16 PM (RkOfE)
to
"Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic" and "Some lost more than 46 pounds." "...an this time I'm keeping it off.
I'm dizzy.
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 12:17 PM (qgHp7)
It would seem logical but remember who was running the IRS under Obama.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:17 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 14, 2026 12:19 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 12:19 PM (Y1sOo)
Gaelic is an Indo-European language, it was mostly supplanted or changed by Latin on the continent
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 12:20 PM (rbvCR)
Print them out on your 3D printer like the kids do!
Posted by: Flying Fickle Dildo Of Fate at February 14, 2026 12:20 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 12:20 PM (Y1sOo)
With all of the telemetry they have on the players and the ball and a 100 cameras there should never be any reason for going to the booth for a 10 minute slo-mo replay. It's a gridiron for fuck sake.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 12:20 PM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2026 12:21 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 12:23 PM (PYyV9)
"Cheating and Motorsports" go together. AJ Foyt won at least one Indy 500 using the fire bottle as an extra fuel tank
The Menards team figured out that you could force open the waste gate on the turbo and muscle enough air through to make an extra mph or 2
I had a fellow competitor that was wrapped too tight that we would pester by marking our fuel jugs "legal fuel" and "illegal fuel"
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 14, 2026 12:23 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 14, 2026 12:23 PM (gm9Sb)
to
"Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic" and "Some lost more than 46 pounds." "...an this time I'm keeping it off.
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Psychological mind operations, best to be ignored.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 12:23 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: one hour sober
>The side or the bottom? It's not exactly shaped like a cube.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 12:23 PM (gVUi7)
They aren't reviewing film, they are deciding what call to make that is consistent with the desired outcome.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 12:24 PM (PYyV9)
I guess a video camera positioned there to resolve disputes isn't good enough.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 12:25 PM (Y1sOo)
If you don't know what I mean
Won't you stand up and scream
Cause theres things going on you don't know
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:25 PM (viF8m)
to
"Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic" and "Some lost more than 46 pounds." "...an this time I'm keeping it off.
I'm dizzy.
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 12:17 PM (qgHp7)
I knew this girl who would have been called ‘sturdy’ years ago, when today she would be called ‘fluffy’. Her mama told me her daughter had a gland problem. What she really had was a silverware .problem
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 12:26 PM (INIdd)
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A while back I read that it was Lexner's decision to let Epstein manage his fortune that was the germ of Epstein's own wealth. He gave Epstein his start.
Posted by: Cicero
At some point, there was a break in that relationship due to Wexner supposedly finding out that Epstein stole over one hundred million from him. Backstory is complicated but Wexner's wife apparently found out that Epstein was doing things like churning property so Wexner would buy it and then Epstein would buy it from Wexner at a much lower price. If you dig into the early Epstein stuff circa his first conviction, you will find some information there. On the other hand, Wexner had a relatively sleazy personal history and rumors of a mob tie in (Cleveland) for initial financing of his empire. IRRC, I think one Wexner associate person in the 80's died from a mob hit but that could just be associating him with someone else.
Supposedly his wife has a kinky streak as well as he does but all rumors, etc. unless you can find a lot more in the huge document dump.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 12:27 PM (2swu2)
Yeah, it really can happen where someone has a physical problem that causes obesity, but 99.999% of the time its self control and lack of exercise. I mean, I don't take care of myself like I ought to, I don't mean I am any better but nobody makes excuses like a heavy girl.
Guys will say "yeah I'm a fat $(&@ and I should eat better" most of the time, but girls always have a reason why its not their fault.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 12:28 PM (PYyV9)
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I think that those named in the emails with sufficient context should step down at the very least and be investigated further. One of his cabinet members wrote an email stating the age of his kids. That seems strange to me. Strange enough to warrant looking into.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 12:29 PM (RkOfE)
He was a "good leftist" well loved in Hollywood. Kamala and Newsom were his staunchest defenders and protectors.
When PoundMeToo came up he played along expecting they would all just get Trump but then Rose McGowan hijacked the whole movement and pointed it straight at an actual abuser - Weinstein.
And it...almost worked. Weinstein was too well protected and connected but she caused him a lot of embarrassment and almost prison time.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2026 12:30 PM (sKqQm)
Well, there's being in the Epstein Files and being in the Epstein Files. Elon Musk is in them a lot because famous billionaire, but that's not the same as Bill Clinton being in them because debauched disgusting rapist sex fiend.
Its also good to again remember that like any police file about a famous case, there's tons of crank files. They include everything out of due diligence but most of the stuff they get is some crazy person or rumors or stuff they cannot remotely use in a criminal case, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 12:31 PM (PYyV9)
This has been known for a while...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2026 12:31 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:31 PM (viF8m)
'for one thing I learned that you can't punch someone over 65 if you are under 65.'
Are you sure? It sounds like it would be easy.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 12:31 PM (fd80v)
to
"Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic" and "Some lost more than 46 pounds." "...an this time I'm keeping it off.
Part of it is female intersex competition. Convince other women that fat is beautiful while you are not and you gain an advantage.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2026 12:32 PM (sKqQm)
Seems like there should be several categories
1) just being mentioned is just that, its not significant
2) being mentioned in a suspicious way or something potentially creepy should be checked into
3) being repeatedly involved in sketchy mentions and emails an investigation should be launched, and their job suspended
4) going to the island and you should resign AND be investigated.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 12:33 PM (PYyV9)
************
The mountain folks in Spain are Proto-Indo
Their language is an odd one, don't you know?
It truly is unique
One that only they can speak
Now they're basque-ing in the warm afterglow
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 12:33 PM (qgHp7)
They look more like Walla Walla or, better still, Yakima.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2026 11:26 AM (xG4kz)
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Washtucna has entered the chat.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2026 12:33 PM (2WIwB)
Yeah, nobody is a woman's enemy worse than other enemies. The hot girls who tell a friend they look great in that outfit, the pretty girls who tell the fat girl she's sexy at any size, etc. Its about clearing the way for them to get the guy they want.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 12:34 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 14, 2026 12:35 PM (cDrfF)
https://youtu.be/gYftS2BTFwM
The HISTORIC and EMOTIONAL speech by MARCO RUBIO in MUNICH that moved everyone
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 12:35 PM (+YA9H)
The hot girls who tell a friend they look great in that outfit
"What a lovely dress! Did you sew it yourself?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 12:35 PM (tgvbd)
'And also, WTF is up with the site lately? Why do I keep getting a pop-up add that makes me wait 4 seconds to close it whenever I try to access a thread?'
Don't worry about that. That's perfectly normal.
Posted by: Bob at NSA at February 14, 2026 12:35 PM (fd80v)
He captured a bunch of leftwing people on twitter and similar places making fun of Kid Rock fans where the joke is basically, "ha ha you are poor trailer trash". He then pointed out you know if you really care about poor rural people like you claim or even just want them to listen to your political platform that's a bad idea.
And the funny thing? About half the leftwing comments in response to the video where "haha rural white people are all trailer park trash". I guess fortunately for us the left really can't learn anything can it?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2026 12:35 PM (sKqQm)
They look more like Walla Walla or, better still, Yakima.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2026 11:26 AM (xG4kz)
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Washtucna has entered the chat.
Posted by: Diogenes
All named after uncivilized savages.
Posted by: George, WA at February 14, 2026 12:36 PM (abIsI)
So good to "see" you! So glad you are feeling well enough to comment. Prayers continuing for healing and health. I enjoy reading your perspective.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 12:36 PM (RkOfE)
98 BTW, Little Marco is a boss. If you haven't heard his speech in Munich look for it. It will make you proud.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:16 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 12:36 PM (+YA9H)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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Go back and read the depositions in the first trial that were released several years back. These are both the criminal affidavits from witnesses and the later depositions for civil lawsuits by Giuffre and some others.
These were under oath and can be construed as being a bit more useful than the wankery over emails. Ditto travel to the secretive NM ranch. It is clear that Epstein's MO was an agent of influence, he sought to get close to scientists of various top universities, foreign CEOs and princes, and get in good with political fixers. Then there is his hedge fund activities and investor activities that are mainly overlooked right now and it is clear he sought insider info and was willing to pay for it. Last is his sex holiday shit. We don't have but snippets of it and the ugly truth is that the 'girls' we claim as victims were also in turn exploiters and recruiters.
And no, I don't think the governments are widely involved with it--specific individuals more like Whitey Bulger and the FBI.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 12:37 PM (2swu2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 12:37 PM (Kt19C)
And the funny thing? About half the leftwing comments in response to the video where "haha rural white people are all trailer park trash". I guess fortunately for us the left really can't learn anything can it?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2026 12:35 PM (sKqQm)
White people, in particular white males, are the only ones with agency. If their lives are poor and wretched, it's their own fault.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 12:37 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:16 PM (viF8m)
What is even funnier is how ardently the Euroweenies applauded it.
It was a very good speech.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at February 14, 2026 12:38 PM (teTvQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 11:50 AM (J+Psw)
But she's also an atheist. To ask a lefty to be logically consistent is like asking a Great White not to be a predator.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 12:00 PM (cwGMH)
I wonder what are her opinions concerning abortion and transgenderism? I suspect she is unbothered by those issues.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 14, 2026 12:38 PM (pJWtt)
At a job a while back I worked with a petite Japanese girl. She had beautiful long straight hair.
One of her work "friends" convinced her to chop it and then took her from person to person in the office to show it off. The Japanese woman now looked like a teenaged boy with her mop top. It was about the second dumbest thing I saw someone do at the job.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2026 12:38 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 12:38 PM (gVUi7)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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Thank you for the kind words. I am recovering some function whereas before the op, I was losing control of my hands for touch typing with a lot more typos. Better finger control seems to be returning which is a good sign.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 12:38 PM (2swu2)
We don't have but snippets of it and the ugly truth is that the 'girls' we claim as victims were also in turn exploiters and recruiters.
They all appear to be yacht girls recruiting other yacht girls.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 12:38 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:16 PM (viF8m)
What is even funnier is how ardently the Euroweenies applauded it.
It was a very good speech.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at February 14, 2026 12:38 PM (teTvQ)
A couple of the women were just glaring. But maybe that is the way they are.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 12:38 PM (+YA9H)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 14, 2026 12:39 PM (gm9Sb)
Seems like there should be several categories
1) just being mentioned is just that, its not significant
2) being mentioned in a suspicious way or something potentially creepy should be checked into
3) being repeatedly involved in sketchy mentions and emails an investigation should be launched, and their job suspended
4) going to the island and you should resign AND be investigated.
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Sounds good to me.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 12:39 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 12:40 PM (Y1sOo)
Their language is an odd one, don't you know?
It truly is unique
One that only they can speak
Now they're basque-ing in the warm afterglow
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😁
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 12:40 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 12:40 PM (Y1sOo)
Swedish chef was not impressed.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2026 12:41 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 14, 2026 12:42 PM (7zn4w)
Apparently Hungarian and Finnish are the same kind of thing. Nothing like other Euro languages.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 12:42 PM (PYyV9)
The kernel of Epstein was money laundering for the CIA and their friends (MI-5, Mossad, Saudi Arabia, occasionally others). Often with drugs on one end of the pipeline and weapons on the other. He used girls to smooth out the necessary deals when doing e.g. arms trafficking or whatever, but they weren't the point of his operation the way the media portrays it.
Benz wants someone in Congress to copy/paste the law that required the CIA to cough up the JFK files and search-and-replace JFK with Epstein. The existing law only covers FBI files, and those aren't where the real action was.
Also about following the money: DOGE just released tons of Medicaid records to encourage people to find the fraud, and Scott Bessent announced that whistleblowers for fraud will get from 10 to 30% of the fines levied against the perps. He may as well have been holding up a picture of Walz when announcing that, LOL.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 14, 2026 12:42 PM (QZThv)
Khashoggi also tied to the CIA.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: one hour sober
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Severely worded, no doubt.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2026 12:43 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2026 12:43 PM (sKqQm)
"What a lovely dress! Did you sew it yourself?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 12:35 PM (tgvbd)
There's an old Punch cartoon from the 1880s where two women are at a swank event and one says to the other, "Oh, Muriel, that darling frock! It looks lovelier every year."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 14, 2026 12:43 PM (ufSfZ)
If Elon would fund me and about 60 other guys, we could solve this problem in less than a year.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2026 12:43 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 12:33 PM (qgHp7)
There is a school of thought in Spanish linguistics that argues that Castilian is a "Koine" (lingua franca or Creole) of Aragonese and Basque that was developed due to the heavy trade influence through the Pyrenees from Southern France to the Christian kingdoms in northern Spain.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 12:44 PM (rbvCR)
country was founded, Lorenzo and
Catalina Geraldi lived in Casau
Montarato in the Kingdom of Piedmont,
Sardinia, and Jose and Manuel Arena
lived in Sevilla, Spain.
I don't know
what, if anything, they knew about the
uh 13 colonies which had gained their
independence for the from the British
Empire. But here's what I'm certain of.
They could have never imagined that 250
years later, one of their direct
descendants would be back here today on
this continent as the chief diplomat of
that infant nation.
And yet here I am, reminded by my own
story that both our histories and our
fates will always be linked.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 12:44 PM (+YA9H)
'World Curling also issued a warning to the Canadian curler who went on a rant using vulgar language directed at his Swedish opponent.'
What a good way to show the entire world you have no self control and aren't capable of being a grown up. He might as well have shit on the ice.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 12:45 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2026 12:46 PM (2WIwB)
1) Maduro Kier Starmer
2) Rinse and repeat until everyone still willing to defend the great replacement is in CECOT
3) Profit
Posted by: Ian S. at February 14, 2026 12:46 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 12:46 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2026 12:46 PM (jtM2q)
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If enough government individuals are involved, it involves the government; perhaps not in uniformity of purpose but uniformity in corruption.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 12:47 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Gross exaggeration. Luttnick seems to be the one with the most mentions as to actually going to the island with his family but we shall see exactly what the situation was. Most of the list of people involved much with Epstein were in fact Democrats. Went through the cabinet list and only Luttnick went to the Island. Bondi is attracting all kinds of shitposting but no evidence that she was involved in the whole deal prior to inheriting it as AG.
It seems more like Steve Bannon and/or Bill Barr are hanging out in the wind. And that is leading a whole lot of influencers on line to instigate a civil war and throw out doubtful speculation that somehow Steve was actually being an inside man for intel gathering. Seems about as likely as Kathy Ruemmel's bullshit (Obama's key legal aide). Both thought they could play with Epstein and not get burned apparently.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 12:47 PM (2swu2)
Liam Tuffs @liamtuffs1
Assuming people understand the magnitude of this threat, this is a next level, grave danger, no joke situation!
The government, media, Church of England, in fact the entire west should be up in arms about this
Keep a close eye on those who say nothing, they’re the ones to watch
Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra
BREAKING NEWS: I'M A PRIORITY TARGET FOR ISIS!!!
I have now left the country, I need time to work things out for my safety and the safety of my family.
I will probably have to relocate them.
I will update you when I can.
X: https://bit.ly/3OHL6jP
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 14, 2026 12:47 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2026 12:21 PM (abIsI)
It's still a local investigation. FBI is there to assist, WHEN requested by that moronic sheriff. The locals are the stereotypical Keystone cops, and that fact was early on by anyone who has followed this story from the beginning. The locals freed up the crime scene, allowing the media and everyone else to freely walk around. It was a reporter who noticed the blood on the front porch. Patel isn't in charge of the investigation.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 14, 2026 12:47 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 14, 2026 12:35 PM (cDrfF)
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Ro Khanna regrets every one of his actions over the last six months; he has stumbled from one loser of a crusade to another. The Epstein Transparency Act, which has done in the reputations of Democrat donors and politicians (the scumbags), his support for the California wealth tax being pushed by the Kaiser medical unions and that has driven wealthy Californians to Nevada and Florida, and now this.
His political career is toast. Happily for him, he has a rich wife.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 12:48 PM (N7r0o)
WE IN AMERICA HAVE NO INTEREST IN BEING POLITE AND ORDERLY CARETAKERS OF THE WEST’S MANAGED DECLINE!
X video (03:57): https://bit.ly/3ZyTIvB
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 14, 2026 12:48 PM (P5BPp)
Yeah, Khanna is the personification of the Democrats' 80/20 problem.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 14, 2026 12:50 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 12:42 PM (PYyV9)
They are Uralic language group. Where PIE is from the Pontic steppes, Uralic home-land was further north. As recreated, like PIE was, it is similar for a number of the root words indicating that PIE and Uralic are sister groups from an older language group.
Hungarian is not a hold over or element of a previous population, it was brough by the Magyars who were a Uralic speaking group who displaced PIE speaking populations. (IIRC)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 12:50 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 14, 2026 12:50 PM (gm9Sb)
WE IN AMERICA HAVE NO INTEREST IN BEING POLITE AND ORDERLY CARETAKERS OF THE WEST’S MANAGED DECLINE!
X video (03:57): https://bit.ly/3ZyTIvB
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 14, 2026 12:48 PM (P5BPp)
For we in America have no interest in
being polite and orderly caretakers of
the West's managed decline.
--Marco Rubio
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 12:51 PM (+YA9H)
But I dunno, and frankly don't care. I'd rather play shuffle board on the Lido deck than watch curling.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 12:51 PM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
I guess.
"Any further violation [regarding abusive language] may result in suspension of the offending player."
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 12:51 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 12:52 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Gross exaggeration.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 12:47 PM (2swu2)
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Crazy gross, and weird. What a thing to say.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 12:52 PM (N7r0o)
Arizona is Minnesota with Mexican cartels instead of Somalis doing the payoffs to the Democrats.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 14, 2026 12:52 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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I think it says more that our ruling class is both incompetent and corrupt. There are multiple scandals going on at the same time that are getting a lot less air due to the politics being worse for the Democrat blob. Massive government fraud, massive sex trafficking of illegals, massive importation of drugs involving both Canada and Mexican governments playing up to China and facilitating fentanyl shipments to the US, massive Dem attempts to literally turn criminals loose on the general public whether home grown or illegals.
And voter fraud on the level not to be believed in 2020 aided/covered up by many in the GOP with a few still in power. And then massive influence buying from oligarchs of officials (see Bolton), and thorough foreign penetration of our governments decision making.
The rest of this shit is going on while the Epstein circus gets all the outrage and it is timed by critters like Massie to surge whenever cover is needed for stalling or hurting critical votes in Congress.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 12:53 PM (2swu2)
Ann Vandersteel @annvandersteel
OK I'll be the one to say it: No one is holding Nancy Guthrie for ransom.
If they were, her daughter’s $40 million net worth would have produced a seven-figure demand by now, and the woman would be home safe, case closed.
Instead, we’re fed a slow drip of non-facts, non-evidence, and carefully curated ambiguity designed to keep the spotlight locked in place.
I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night.
The sad, infuriating truth is that what we call “the news” has become a reality-control device. Nancy Guthrie vanishes, and suddenly—poof:
No more ICE protests clogging the airwaves. No discussion of the SAVE Act. No scrutiny of border numbers or cartel pipelines. No follow-up on the thousands of unaccompanied minors still missing from HHS custody.
One carefully amplified disappearance, and the entire national conversation pivots on command. The MEDIA MACHINE selects which crisis gets oxygen - and which ones suffocate in silence. And we’re left watching the approved story while the real ones bleed out off-screen.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 14, 2026 12:53 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 12:47 PM (2swu2)
There is speculation percolating around that Bannon is a fixer like Epstein, just on a smaller scale. This is based on his background being eerily similar to Bob Woodward's life story.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2026 12:53 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 12:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 14, 2026 12:50 PM (gm9Sb)
Hoping there are some home movies of that.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 12:54 PM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2026 12:21 PM (abIsI)
Dude, I get that you don't like Pres. Trump, but at a certain point are you even contributing anything to the conversation? You're a broken record.
As far as the Nancy Guthrie abduction is concerned, I don't think it was a classic kidnapping. Most likely, it was a night-time burglary that went bad. She got killed, carried out of the house, and her corpse has been hidden. There's probably no personal connection between the perpetrator(s) and Guthrie: this makes for a difficult crime to solve.
To me, the Ring camera video doesn't show some Tier-1 operator. It's just some chunky male with a POS revolver stuffed into a POS holster. It just seems very impromptu. Who tries to cover a camera lens with some random greenery plucked from a flower bed?
I get the impression that the investigators are looking for an Aztec.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 14, 2026 12:54 PM (pJWtt)
Double touches are permitted under the rules as long as the second touch occurs before the stone crosses the line. The second touch must be to the handle, not the stone itself.
Canada guy touched the stone itself with his finger and gave it a little nudge after the stone crossed the line.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 12:54 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Orangeent at February 14, 2026 12:54 PM (HqwAB)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:54 PM (viF8m)
I am so happy she finally coughed out whatever she used to have stuck in her throat.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 14, 2026 12:55 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 14, 2026 12:56 PM (QZThv)
'Best kiss: Alien face-hugger.
Worst kiss: Accidentally scratching the eight ball.'
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 12:56 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 12:57 PM (Y1sOo)
Might be worth your time if not.
https://tinyurl.com/yva822fx
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:54 PM (viF8m)
Just call me Bwana.
Posted by: George Bush at February 14, 2026 12:57 PM (/QdgR)
Might be worth your time if not.
https://tinyurl.com/yva822fx
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:54 PM (viF8m)
"Surfin' Safari"
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 12:59 PM (+YA9H)
'I get the impression that the investigators are looking for an Aztec.'
That close to border? Yeah. I tend to agree.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 12:59 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Gaelic Acapella Group at February 14, 2026 01:00 PM (GI9/m)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:00 PM (N8ZBc)
I strolled through the kitchen and Mrs928 is making her traditional Valentines Day giant heartshaped meatloaf.
I have said before that if I could only eat one thing for the rest of my life, it would be my wife's meatloaf.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 14, 2026 01:00 PM (jc0TO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m7RPjQxjmA
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2026 01:00 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Gross exaggeration.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 12:47 PM (2swu2)
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Crazy gross, and weird. What a thing to say.
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An exaggeration perhaps, but gross and weird? Only if one thinks that corruption only exists on one side of the aisle.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 01:00 PM (RkOfE)
OK I'll be the one to say it: No one is holding Nancy Guthrie for ransom.
If they were, her daughter’s $40 million net worth would have produced a seven-figure demand by now, and the woman would be home safe, case closed.
Instead, we’re fed a slow drip of non-facts, non-evidence, and carefully curated ambiguity designed to keep the spotlight locked in place.
I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night.
The sad, infuriating truth is that what we call “the news” has become a reality-control device. Nancy Guthrie vanishes, and suddenly—poof:
No more ICE protests clogging the airwaves. No discussion of the SAVE Act. No scrutiny of border numbers or cartel pipelines. No follow-up on the thousands of unaccompanied minors still missing from HHS custody.
One carefully amplified disappearance, and the entire national conversation pivots on command. The MEDIA MACHINE selects which crisis gets oxygen - and which ones suffocate in silence. And we’re left watching the approved story while the real ones bleed out off-screen.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 14, 2026 12:53 PM (P5BPp)
She seems nice.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 01:01 PM (+YA9H)
Khashoggi also tied to the CIA.
Posted by: JackStraw
Epstein was probably "recruited" by Donald Barr (Bill Barr's father), who was ex-OSS,and likely a CIA recruiter.
From teaching at the private school that Barr administrated, Epstein went on to work at Lehman Bros (early 80's), and this is a guy that was a college dropout. After working at Lehman Bros for several years, he went on to other "finance" work. And very likely, he was a CIA "asset", but not officially working for the CIA. A cutout, a deniable contributor. The thought is that he was involved in the Iran - Contra business, at a low level, and because of that he knew and worked with Adnan Khashoggi.
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at February 14, 2026 01:01 PM (V+3EO)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:01 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 01:02 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2026 12:46 PM (2WIwB)
Casual observers kind of take that for granite.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2026 01:02 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Buffoon at February 14, 2026 01:02 PM (2Ez/1)
OK I'll be the one to say it: No one is holding Nancy Guthrie for ransom.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 14, 2026 12:53 PM (P5BPp)
This claim has currently netted @annvandersteel 6,452 comments, so ....
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 01:02 PM (+YA9H)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:00 PM (N8ZBc)
I investigated more than one fatal crash involving a motorcycle back when I was a cop. I wouldn't ride a motorcycle if you paid me. I call them "donor-cycles" myself.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 14, 2026 01:03 PM (pJWtt)
Khashoggi also tied to the CIA.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:42 PM (viF8m)
Trump should give MBS a Presidential Medal of Bad-Assery for giving that asshole what he deserved.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 01:04 PM (/QdgR)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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I look at the files perhaps differently than others do. What I am looking for is actionable data that could legitimately lead to an investigation and prosecution. What I see is a lot of hearsay, gossip, and Epstein emailing things himself discussing conversations at times. Some were getting stroked and presents from Epstein whether for influence or worse.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 01:04 PM (2swu2)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 01:04 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2026 01:04 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 01:05 PM (0KSrI)
Its an exaggeration but nearly two dozen are in the files in a prominent way tied to Epstein. Several island-goers if the reports are to be believed.
Trump handled this really badly. He should have dumped the guys he found out were deeply involved, but instead tried to get everyone to forget about the files and kept them on.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 01:05 PM (PYyV9)
I shouldn't even be alive with all the crazy stuff I did on bikes. I should have died 3X over. Only by the Grace of God am I here to joke about it.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:05 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: bill in arkansas
My very beautiful girlfriend I had for a couple of months in high school, was born in Hungary in June, 1956, and her family escaped a few months later. And she was sweet, but WAY out of my league in looks. But it was only for a couple of months.
They all spoke Hungarian at home.
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at February 14, 2026 01:06 PM (V+3EO)
Could that be "Virgin Islands," or are there V Islands I never heard of?
Posted by: mindful webworker - isle of virgie at February 14, 2026 01:06 PM (6hyzx)
It was the bank for international gangsters. Money laundering, drugs, guns and other assorted ne'er do wells.
Almost kneecapped George HW Bush. Of course he was CIA before getting the big chair.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 01:06 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: one hour sober
>So why isn't some 'official' jumping out onto the 'playing field' to divert the stone? They're not throwing 95mph fastballs. Seems to me the whole competition is a farce if it's allow to hit another stone. Nullify it and carry on.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 01:07 PM (gVUi7)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:07 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 12:53 PM (2swu2)
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One carefully amplified disappearance, and the entire national conversation pivots on command. The MEDIA MACHINE selects which crisis gets oxygen - and which ones suffocate in silence. And we’re left watching the approved story while the real ones bleed out off-screen.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 14, 2026 12:53 PM (P5BPp)
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The media is just as corrupt as most of the government and arguably more evil because they provide cover for corruption.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 01:07 PM (RkOfE)
Yeah I haven't gone through all the files yet but I see nothing in there that could be used to build a criminal case, let alone a trial. There's more than enough to justify investigation but not arrests, let alone wood chippers. This isn't the UK, we don't throw people in jail for saying stuff we don't like or find awful in an email.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 01:07 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:09 PM (N8ZBc)
I am getting old and cautious, just going 20 mph on my ebike makes me nervous :/
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 01:09 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 01:10 PM (cGjQu)
I investigated more than one fatal crash involving a motorcycle back when I was a cop. I wouldn't ride a motorcycle if you paid me. I call them "donor-cycles" myself.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
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I did contract work for a firm whose sole business was accident reconstruction/failure analysis. Their clients were always insurance companies/attorneys. Most were industrial accidents or material failures, but occasionally vehicle incidents. It was the motorcycle incidents where I became involved. I've got stories...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2026 01:11 PM (XeU6L)
It's designed to draw attention away from other matters that are more important.
I mean, it's a story manufactured by the MSM. What more need be said?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2026 01:11 PM (jtM2q)
He kills women
No! That is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 01:11 PM (viF8m)
Could that be "Virgin Islands," or are there V Islands I never heard of?
Posted by: mindful webworker - isle of virgie
A few years ago, my wife and I took a vacation to St. Thomas. We stayed at a nice bed and breakfast, and the lady that owned it told us the Virgin Islands Governor's wife had worked for Epstein as his secretary.
I guess that's what they meant by the "First Lady".
We also took a sunset sailing tour, and sailed past Little St. James, which is just across the bay from St. Thomas.
Joe Biden and family owned land on an adjacent island.
Think about that.
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at February 14, 2026 01:11 PM (V+3EO)
You don't want to see.... well, nevermind....
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 01:11 PM (cGjQu)
I'm just brooming off these puns
Posted by: man
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I'm brushing them aside.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2026 01:12 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 01:13 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
You're really upset about this Olympic curling controversy being reported on, aren't you?
What if I told you that there's another controversy involving a French figure skating judge allegedly stealing the gold medal for her country's skaters at the expense of the U.S. skaters?
(It's the Olympics. This kind of shit happens all the time in practically every Olympics held).
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 01:14 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Franz Liebkind's Biggest Fan at February 14, 2026 01:15 PM (oftw2)
Used to anchor across the bay from LSJ island. On a sailboat. Where somebody should be right now instead of wasting time here.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 01:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2026 01:16 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Richard Jewell, Killed by the media at February 14, 2026 01:18 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:18 PM (N8ZBc)
Nothing?
Posted by: I gotta ask at February 14, 2026 01:18 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:20 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 01:21 PM (Ia/+0)
canadians should be banned from international competitions.
Posted by: No One Will Miss Them at February 14, 2026 01:22 PM (Ksqrb)
Experienced rider, but conspiracy of circumstances....
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2026 01:22 PM (XeU6L)
Olympics,Ozempics. All is vanity.
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 01:22 PM (INIdd)
Nothing?
Posted by: I gotta ask at February 14, 2026 01:18 PM
+++
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: Do you even need to ask? at February 14, 2026 01:22 PM (2Ez/1)
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Well said. And I don't like pretending that our government is what it is not. Especially the election fraud tells us that this government is not "of the people" nor "for the people".
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 01:23 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: No One Will Miss Them
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I feel literally sick when I see them.
Posted by: Media Influencer at February 14, 2026 01:25 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Richard Jewell, Killed by the media at February 14, 2026 01:18 PM (XeU6L)
100% accurate.
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 01:26 PM (INIdd)
You are not alone. The Olympics is a giant racket of bribes, kickbacks, and waste.
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:26 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 01:27 PM (gVUi7)
Nothing?
This is a very complicated case, Man. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Patel's head.
Posted by: Dude Patel at February 14, 2026 01:27 PM (Ksqrb)
'merica. F#ck yea!
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 01:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Richard Jewell, Killed by the media at February 14, 2026 01:18 PM (XeU6L)
100% accurate.
Posted by: Eromero
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Look, we were just doing our job as Journalists.
Posted by: The Atlanta Constitution at February 14, 2026 01:29 PM (XeU6L)
What if I told you that there's another controversy involving a French figure skating judge allegedly stealing the gold medal for her country's skaters at the expense of the U.S. skaters?
...
Posted by: one hour sober
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He name is Jezebel.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:29 PM (y79kU)
The Marxists will get someone else killed soon
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 01:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 01:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 01:31 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: A dog at February 14, 2026 01:31 PM (XeU6L)
Maxwell did the fundraising for the inauguration of the Clinton Foundation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:32 PM (y79kU)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:32 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:33 PM (N8ZBc)
Used to anchor across the bay from LSJ island. On a sailboat. Where somebody should be right now instead of wasting time here.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 01:15 PM (viF8m)
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Well, when do you set sail? And do you need a kitchen maid?
Jk/
I don't want much and am very grateful for what I have, but I'm now thinking how can I turn this daydream into reality. Can I get to the islands one more time?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 01:33 PM (RkOfE)
The foundation was Epstein's idea.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 01:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 01:34 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: gp
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Congratulations, well done. A much larger thing than most people might understand.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2026 01:35 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:35 PM (N8ZBc)
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There were tragic events around here during the cattle range wars. After the killing was done and the feuds were settled the court house with all the records mysteriously burned to the ground.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:35 PM (y79kU)
Nothing?
This is a very complicated case, Man. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Patel's head.
Posted by: Dude Patel at February 14, 2026 01:27 PM (Ksqrb)
"Umm, you know, I think that, uh — this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, umm — this is, of course, uh, a very longstanding, umm, policy"
--AOC
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 01:36 PM (+YA9H)
Every other day or so I wonder why I ever left.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 01:36 PM (viF8m)
In between was a lot of really, really wild and wacky stuff, involving a wide array of characters, from arms dealers, financial wheeler dealers, politicians, royalty, academics, business titans, spies, whores, celebrities, the creme-de-la-creme.
He was not some random dude.
And the thing that drives me crazy is that everyone on our side thought he was a big deal and that the bottom needed to be gotten to, and then on a dime, it's all, nothing to see here, move along, move along.
I moved along, I don't really care anymore, it no longer matters.
The bottom is not going to be gotten to and that's that.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 01:36 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:32 PM (N8ZBc)
That's a great accomplishment.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 01:38 PM (+YA9H)
I went through all the garbage leftist bullshit on the left and the main assertion apart from Luttnick (who ironically last contacted Epstein to raise funds for Hillary in 2015 apparently), rests on people in his first administration like Acosta (who by all appearances did little wrong as the local DA who handled a prepackaged plea deal as central DoJ pulled the strings on that plea deal, and Billy Bagpipes Barr who we already know is corrupt and is far from any role in this administration. That leaves a couple of minor officials at the assistant level and a few fundraisers.
If you have names, then go ahead and name them. I always use the oppo research for that and if Madcow, etc. aren't screaming about someone, then they are probably not there in the files.
And fwiw, Acosta denies that anyone in government told him that Epstein was tied into intel, but there is some indication that Dershowitz might have done that at the time as he represented Epstein in some capacity back in that timeframe.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 01:40 PM (2swu2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 14, 2026 01:42 PM (ZVgZ4)
Every other day or so I wonder why I ever left.
Posted by: JackStraw
Thank God for the memories.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 01:45 PM (RkOfE)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 14, 2026 01:42 PM (ZVgZ4)
50 33 pecunia non olet.
Gardening thread?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 11:35 AM (Kt19C)
petunia olet
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 11:44 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 01:46 PM (+YA9H)
And the thing that drives me crazy is that everyone on our side thought he was a big deal and that the bottom needed to be gotten to, and then on a dime, it's all, nothing to see here, move along, move along.
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I hear you!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 01:46 PM (RkOfE)
To me, the Ring camera video doesn't show some Tier-1 operator. It's just some chunky male with a POS revolver stuffed into a POS holster. It just seems very impromptu. Who tries to cover a camera lens with some random greenery plucked from a flower bed?
I get the impression that the investigators are looking for an Aztec.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
The first line investigators probably had the same/correct conclusion and like Trayvon-Zimmerman it was turned into a political shitshow.
Almost like a commen element.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2026 01:46 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 14, 2026 01:46 PM (RkOfE)
How did this college become so dependent on Chinese and other foreign students? They pay up front rather than taking out student loans.
Out-of-state tuition
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 14, 2026 01:49 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers
Government contractors always make more than the GS Drones that 'oversee' their work.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2026 01:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 01:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 01:53 PM (+YA9H)
Hey, we're not slouches either!
/F1, World Cup, NFL, MLB...
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 01:53 PM (cGjQu)
'it is timed by critters like Massie to surge whenever cover is needed for stalling or hurting critical votes in Congress.'
I didn't think it was possible to make me loath Massie more than I already did. He's the poor man's Adam Kinzinger.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 01:53 PM (fd80v)
Duh. Gotta pay more in taxes!
/
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 01:54 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:58 PM (y79kU)
It is sad when a family member goes missing.
However, why is the Guthrie woman more important than our own family members. Of course it's a diversion from the shit going on in our country.
I read that the sheriff out there is "exhausted."
FU, did you think you signed on for an easy job?
Posted by: four seasons at February 14, 2026 01:59 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Quid Pro Mo at February 14, 2026 02:01 PM (fKeBm)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 02:06 PM (Ia/+0)
-GWP
Summer of 2020. Wasn't that before an election with the "biggest fraud organization in history"*?
* To paraphrase The Big Guy
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2026 02:08 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 02:10 PM (RIvkX)
For example, the verb достать.
It doesn't mean, purchase, or buy. It means to get, to arrange, to obtain. As in "I arranged some oranges."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 02:14 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2026 02:16 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: gp at February 14, 2026 01:32 PM (N8ZBc)
That's a great accomplishment.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 01:38 PM (+YA9H)
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b"h
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 02:24 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: KT at February 14, 2026 02:29 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 02:30 PM (n1IFJ)
Posted by: KT at February 14, 2026 02:30 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2026 01:11 PM (XeU6L)
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Back when I was a kid, the school bus route took us around the moraine hills in our part of Ohio, and some of those hills were pretty steep. One day, the driver slowed down as we went up one of those hills. It was an accident scene involving two vehicles that had happened only minutes before. The first vehicle was a white pickup without a windshield. The front bumper was dented and the hood had a weird red racing stripe up the middle. The second "vehicle" was a motorcycle broken in half, with the windshield and most of instrumentation stripped off, along with, of course, the front wheel assembly.
Motorcycle riders should always obey traffic laws, and attempting to pass another vehicle in a no-passing zone is a very bad idea.
Posted by: mrp at February 14, 2026 02:31 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: KT at February 14, 2026 02:33 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 02:37 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 02:40 PM (cGjQu)
...There is a story about a man named Harry Sargeant III in The Wall Street Journal. He has no authority, in any way, shape, or form, to act on behalf of the United States of America, nor does anyone else that is not approved by the State Department.
Without this approval, no one is authorized to represent our Country. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 02:50 PM (y79kU)
An xAI engineer just described how the company operates, and buried in that description is the only thing that might save Western technological dominance.
No organizational overhead. No documentation requirements. No approval chains. You identify what needs building and you build it.
xAI engineer: “There isn’t organizational overhead getting in your way, having to write docs. You just do stuff.”
That’s not a workplace perk. That’s an emergency response to an existential competitive threat most people refuse to acknowledge.
China owns 50% of the world’s AI researchers. Not the developing world combined. Not Asia collectively. China alone controls half of every brain advancing the most important technology in human history.
While the West celebrates chip sanctions and export controls, China is doing something infinitely more dangerous: removing every organizational barrier between brilliant people and execution.
xAI engineer: “If you want to get shit done, you can get shit done.”
In most Western companies,
cont.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 03:07 PM (y79kU)
In most Western companies, that sentence would be fantasy. Compliance reviews. Documentation mandates. Approval hierarchies. Risk assessments. Process optimization. Every layer bleeds velocity while competitors operate without friction.
This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about survival.
Talent compounds generationally. Elite researchers train the next wave. Each generation builds on everything before it. When you control half the pipeline and let them operate at maximum speed, your advantage doesn’t grow linearly. It explodes exponentially.
The West responds with governance frameworks. Ethics committees. Responsible AI initiatives. All valuable in peacetime. All fatal when you’re being systematically outpaced by an adversary that captured the talent advantage and eliminated the one thing slowing them down: bureaucracy.
xAI engineer: “It’s truly an environment where you just do stuff.”
That’s not unique culture. That’s the minimum operational requirement to compete against a system that owns half the world’s AI minds and removed every organizational obstacle between their ideas and reality.
cont to 3
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 03:07 PM (y79kU)
Western advantages are real. Capital markets. Research institutions. Democratic innovation. All of it becomes irrelevant if the output gap keeps widening because one side builds while the other holds meetings about building.
China isn’t trying to slow the West down. They don’t need to. They’re accelerating their own execution while Western organizations debate whether acceleration needs additional oversight.
The math is brutal. Control half the researchers. Remove bureaucratic friction. Compound that advantage across generations. The West doesn’t lose slowly. It becomes a spectator watching the future get built in a language it can’t read fast enough to translate.
The choice isn’t between chaos and order. It’s between execution and extinction.
Either we build environments where the smartest people can operate at the speed of thought without permission structures, or we watch capability concentrate where those structures were already eliminated and wonder how we lost a war we didn’t realize we were fighting.
This isn’t about xAI’s culture. It’s about whether Western civilization can remember how to move fast enough to matter before the advantage gap becomes permanent.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 03:07 PM (y79kU)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2026 03:08 PM (abIsI)
https://tinyurl.com/3wj7d2t9
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 03:09 PM (Ia/+0)
Sounds like most every large scale organization years ago. Before federal influence...
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 03:12 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 03:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: man
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In another post: [Tesla has no fake departments to assuage the concerns of outsiders]
"Tesla has no safety team and is the safest car. "
"SpaceX has no safety team and has the safest rocket. Dragon is what NASA trusts most to fly astronauts."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 03:46 PM (y79kU)
Do you now understand why Trump waited so long? He knew this weaponization against innocents would happen as a distraction.
Posted by: Danimal28 at February 15, 2026 08:55 AM (mNOhh)
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
2) Be kind. Be nice. Be exceptional, don't be Pretti Good.
3) Running with sharp objects? You have to be kidding us, amirite?
4) Say an extra pray or two for our country and the people attempting to right the ship.
5) Have a great weekend!
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: 12/20 – Morgan, longtime lurker, takes tango lessons from Sebastian, whose son, Matias, is recovering from brain surgery. The MRI was read on 12/19, and the surgeons did not remove the entire tumor. Even though the biopsy indicated the tumor was benign, the boy is probably facing several rounds of chemo. Please pray for the boy’s continued recovery in El Salvador.
1/10 Update – Matias will have surgery in 2 weeks to try and remove the rest of the tumor, and then he will receive radiation therapy.
2/7 Update – Matias came through the second surgery, and was waiting for another MRI before he can start radiation. He has lost weight due to constant vomiting and didn’t sleep for 4 days, but he is sleeping better now and is able to keep food down. He and his parents are really struggling, though. 12/27 – Buzzion asked for prayers for a friend named Christina. Christina has struggled with a lot, including addiction and relapse. Buzzion has not heard from Christina in a while and hopes she is okay. Please pray that Christina finds her way and knows that people love and care for her and believe in her.
1/3 Update – Christina was arrested on 1/3. Please pray for this to be a final wake-up call for her.
1/22 Update – Christina was released from jail and is staying with Buzzion. She is working through the legal troubles and she is continuing her recovery. She really appreciates the prayers, as does Buzzion. 12/27 – BlackOrchid requested prayers for a Navy Veteran uncle who has been struggling with his health the last few weeks. The root cause is undetermined, but recurrent infection/sepsis keeps sending him back to the hospital. It seems to be worsening his dementia, which makes it harder for BlackOrchid’s aunt to handle him.
1/3 Update – BlackOrchid’s uncle (her “stand-in dad”is still not doing well. He will probably need to be put in a LTC facility although they are doing everything possible to avoid this. He is 86, and at the stage where his immune system can’t fight back well.
1/24 Update – BlackOrchid’s uncle is doing much better. He is carting around an O2 canister to help him, but otherwise is doing well. 1/6 – Diogenes requested prayers for his best friend since college, who was diagnosed with cancer. Within hours or hearing this, the friend’s son, a man that Diogenes has known since he was a baby, collapsed from what appears to be a brain tumor. The prognosis isn’t hopeful. Please pray for both of these fine men.
1/23 Update – Diogenes’ best friend’s son Sean had emergency brain surgery. The labs are back and it’s not good news. He has stage 4 brain cancer. They were scheduled to meet with an oncologist on 1/26 to determine the best pathway ahead for the time he has remaining. This is just crushing news. Thanks to all the Horde for their prayers and support for this fine young man.
2/11 Update – Sean has not started brain cancer treatments yet. There are still some issues to work out. But he had more bad news when his wife’s sister was hit by a truck on 2/10 and is in critical condition (broken back, severe concussion, bleeding on the brain). Diogenes asks for anyone in the Horde to speak up if they know of any support groups for people in Sean’s situation. Thanks in advance. 1/8 - Doof asked for prayers for his mother. She was hit hard by the flu. She couldn’t get out of bed the morning of 1/8 and was sent by ambulance to the hospital. She is alert and communicating but prayers are appreciated for her recovery. Prayers are also appreciated for Doof, as he absolutely despises hospitals.
1/23 Update – Mom was in the hospital for 5 nights and has been in a rehabilitation center since 1/13. Her recovery is slow but steady. Her breathing and mobility are still not back to normal. She is in good spirits but wants to be home. They very much appreciate the continued prayers. 1/10 – LA Sue asked for prayers for her brother, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September. They just learned it moved from stage 2 to stage 4. The chemo treatments and side infections from surgery have so debilitated him that he is considering stopping. Please pray for strength and that he opens his heart to God.
1/18 Update – LA Sue is taking her brother to hospice. He is fading.
1/23 Update – LA Sue’s brother passed away. 1/17 – Emmie asked for prayers. She and her husband are on the verge of foreclosure. Their side hustle of delivery driving ended when a young driver crashed into their car and totaled it. They aren’t able to make the mortgage payments without that extra income. Their church is helping, but it’s a small church.
1/23 Update – They have a loaner/rental car that they can use until they can devise a long term solution, and have found an insurer who will cover delivery driving work. Another friend is supplying a financial cushion during the mortgage reset probationary agreement. But the underlying financial problems persist. They ask for prayers that they would conduct themselves with wisdom, discipline, diligence, prudence, and joy in God’s provision. Emmie specifically asked for prayers in her struggle with resentment and despair. 1/18 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update. She had surgery on 12/11, and a pump was installed that will direct medication into the hepatic artery. This will allow a much larger concentration of medication to be applied directly into her liver. This should give fewer side effects and (hopefully) shrink the tumors. It will take several months before they know if this new medication is working, but if it does, they are hoping for an extra 2-3 years before the disease progresses again. 1/19 – NR Pax requested prayers for his father, who had a stroke on 1/16. He went back to the hospital on 1/19 and was in the ICU until 1/23 due to influenza. He is in the hospital and they do not know when he will come home.
2/5 Update – On 1/30 his dad was moved out of the hospital and into the PT wing of his retirement community. He will be going through PT twice a day and speech therapy as well. NR Pax’ mother is still dealing with the VA paperwork to get his disability raised to 100%. Thanks to everyone for their prayers. 1/20 – Inogame asked for prayers. His wife and baby girl (due in February) are healthy, but some bad luck has come to their family. The business they purchased a year ago has taken an abrupt turn and they are trying to understand what is happening. They may not be able to keep their home if they cannot discover and correct the problem. This stress and what it might mean postpartum is worrying them. Thank you all for your prayers in the past. 1/20 – MkY sent an update on his wife Judy, who was diagnosed with Stage IV renal cancer last January. Despite being unable to receive her cancer drugs for 3 months while her port infection healed up, the tumors did not grow and she is feeling strong. Thanks so much for all the prayers! Last week, MkY was diagnosed with fluid on the brain. They operated the same day. They drilled two holes in his skull, inserted tubes, and had him lay flat on his back for 2 days. MkY thanks God for the modern miracles of medicine. He needs to heal quickly since he operates a small business. So far, no complications. 1/24 – NR Pax requested prayers for his father, who had a stroke on 1/16. He went back to the hospital on 1/19 and was in the ICU until 1/23 due to influenza. He is in the hospital and they do not know when he will come home. 1/24 – Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd posted some updates and requests. In the blessings department: blood glucose has continued to fall, well within normal range. BP is good. The hole where his molar used to be is coming along nicely. The youngest has jaw surgery coming up in February. This is many years in the making and should correct her bite and ease the pain in her jaw and ears. She’s not looking forward to the liquid diet, but is looking forward to the pain relief. Prayers are always appreciated, and based on what they have been through, he knows they are efficacious.
2/7 Update – He does not have any pain related to his lost molar anymore. And his (adult) daughter’s jaw surgery is scheduled for 2/9. She will stay overnight at the hospital in Ann Arbor. 1/25 – Pawn at AoS asked for prayers after his dear friend Julia passed away. He asked for strength for himself and his family to fill a very large void in this world. He only has a couple of friends left so asks for protection for them. 1/27 – K asked for prayers for K’s neighbor Mike, whose doctor found a lump near Mike’s esophagus. Many thanks. 1/30 – Bulg could use prayers after a distressing medical incident. His heart was racing and he was too weak to even really walk. His doctor thinks it might be AFib; he is wearing a heart monitor to gather more information, and he needs to keep a diary of any other heart-related incidents. Prayers are much appreciated.
2/6 Update – Bulg had two prayers of thanks. The first was that he had a good phone conversation with his sister, from whom he had been estranged for 20 over years. The second was that he does not have AFib. 1/31 – George V asked for prayers for his wife. She needs a heart valve replacement but first needs a heart cath to assess the valve and determine the replacement procedure and perhaps put stents in the coronary arteries that may be partially blocked. Also, the preliminary CT scan of her heart showed spots on her lungs that may be cancerous. 2/4 – BifBewalski posted that it has been a little over a year since he took Smash to the ER for abdominal problems. After a full year of insurance BS, specialists, and other doctors visits, she has been taken back for abdominal surgery today. Please offer a prayer for her successful procedure and a speedy recovery.
2/7 Update – BifBewalski brought Smash home from the overnight stay in the hospital. She is recovering well. The post-surgery fever broke and the pain is minimal. A full recovery is expected. Thank you for the prayers – it truly makes a difference! 2/7 – Frankie asked for prayers for her godmother, Linda, who has been in declining health and recently had to move to a care facility. 2/7 – Vmom deport deport deport requested prayers for her hubby, who has had the coughing crud since 2/2. 2/11 – Bluebell sent an update from grammie winger: "I've finished my 6th round of chemo. Thursday (Feb. 12) I will meet with the surgeon who will decide if surgery is an option for me. If not, I'm not sure if there's a Plan B. Maybe more chemo? Ugh - it's already deteriorated my vision and hearing. Nasty stuff. But it's all in the Lord's hands. I don't know how people who don't have faith do it. I miss Ace but it's something I have to set aside for now. I love each and every one of you. Even the trolls. LOL" 2/11 – Joe Kidd sent an update related to his friend, Bill, who we prayed for in December. Bill’s former girlfriend had passed away, and Bill and the girlfriend’s family were devastated by the loss. Bill has sold the house he (and the girlfriend) had lived in, and sent half the proceeds to his former girlfriend’s family. Just recently, Bill took early retirement to care for his 90 year old mother. Joe Kidd sends thanks. If you know, you know. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
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Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 07:54 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Time is Tight at February 14, 2026 07:55 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 07:56 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Caffiend at February 14, 2026 07:56 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 07:58 AM (XuXeR)
Remembering the needs of the Horde, both expressed and silent, in my Rosary intentions and dedicating the third decade to same.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 07:58 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026 08:00 AM (XuXeR)
She's got the zoomies...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2026 08:01 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 08:03 AM (gVUi7)
Maybe, after 100 posts, the Tom Clancy topic will come up again.
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 14, 2026 08:03 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2026 08:08 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 14, 2026 08:08 AM (ZCxQ+)
Have a cup.left for break time
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 08:08 AM (Ia/+0)
{grammie}
{TiFW}
Hiya JT
Where are you NGU, Zod?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 14, 2026 08:10 AM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2026 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)
I'm fed, cleaned, and shaved; the furry thugs have been fed and watered. They *love* to drink from the tap, or cold water from in my clean shaving bowl, even though they have an electric fountain.
Oh, and I'm dressed and having a half cup of black juice. Howz yer Saturday?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 08:12 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2026 08:13 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 08:13 AM (RIvkX)
She's got the zoomies...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2026
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Big black Stirling thinks leaping across me and delivering a kick with his hind paws to my ribs as he goes is fine entertainment . . . at 3:45 am. I'm glad he didn't do that when I was still working.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 08:14 AM (wzUl9)
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A prayer for complete and speedy recovery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 08:15 AM (RIvkX)
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Community Coffe w/ Chicory. And some heavy cream.
So good...
Posted by: man at February 14, 2026
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Cafe El Morro here. I need to get some of that cream. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 08:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2026 08:15 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 14, 2026 08:08 AM (ZCxQ+)
Obligatory. I don't make the rules here. -
A hospital? What is it?
You got prayers.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2026 08:16 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2026 08:18 AM (PrvRk)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 08:18 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 08:19 AM (Y1sOo)
You got prayers.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2026 08:16 AM
Obligatory.
It's a big building with doctors and patients., but that's not important right now.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2026 08:19 AM (PrvRk)
"It's a big building with patients. But that's not important right now."
Posted by: Sorry. Couldn't resist. at February 14, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 14, 2026 08:08 AM (ZCxQ+)
Had one of those several decades back. Scared the bejeebus out of my fishing buds. I came to as they were driving me out to meet the ambulance. After about an hour of nausea, I was fine. Never happened again...so far..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 14, 2026 08:22 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Sorry. Couldn't resist. at February 14, 2026
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Ever since we watched Airplane! last year, Miss Linda has had a habit of repeating some noun from a sentence of mine, and I snap right back with "It's [insert literal explanation], but that's not important right now."
"You're making fun of me!"
"No, I'm just following through on your joke setup."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 08:22 AM (wzUl9)
Maybe, after 100 posts, the Tom Clancy topic will come up again.
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 14, 2026 08:03 AM (1FEc1)
There's always tomorrow's book thread.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 08:24 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2026 08:24 AM (77rzZ)
Haven't had a "wake up scared" nightmare in a while.
No fun.
Good health to all.
Posted by: MkY at February 14, 2026 08:24 AM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: I Know, Sometimes It's Unavoidable at February 14, 2026 08:25 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Your Rexall Druggist. at February 14, 2026 08:27 AM (oftw2)
Tonight for V. Day I'll take us to the local Italian eatery up the avenue. It's gotten to be on the $$ side, but at least the portions are small.
(Old joke) Actually the portions are big, and we can make a second meal out of our entrees on Sunday or Monday.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 08:28 AM (wzUl9)
I know, I know... it's probably doesn't matter. I just can't stand to wear germy clothes the rest of the day.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2026 08:28 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 08:28 AM (wzUl9)
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These words...I don't understand them in this order...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2026 08:29 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: I Know, Sometimes It's Unavoidable at February 14, 2026 08:25 AM (oftw2)
I came in for a hernia operation. They cut off one of my nuts by mistake.
Posted by: Stir Crazy at February 14, 2026 08:30 AM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 08:30 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Horrible, dangerous places. They left my o2 sensor on my ear for 4 days. Developed a skin infection from it! Never had a skin infection in my life before.
Posted by: MkY at February 14, 2026 08:31 AM (q6tQZ)
All of their equipment is in horrible shape and they haven’t done regular maintenance for years. Everything is held together with rubber bands and duct tape but they’re running at 110% capacity because they’re desperate.
What a surprise when it breaks down.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 08:33 AM (otNgF)
Prayers for all, and thanks to bluebell for Grammie Winger's update.
I had a long, rambling text from my son waiting for me this morning. My night owl scheduled it to send at 8 am--he's thoughtful. He was emotional about some podcast he'd been listening to about some guy who was very successful, but his mom never believed in him. And so he wanted me to know he is grateful to have a mother who loves him and supports him even when he makes hard times for himself.
Anyway, I thought of how so many of you Morons don't have that, or you have family members who refuse to interact with you, or if they interact, it's distressing or abusive. I pray for you most of all.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 08:33 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 08:22 AM (wzUl9)
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"Surely, you can't be serious!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 08:33 AM (ZOv7s)
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 February 14, 2026 08:33 AM (ZOv7s)
Did you ever consider ... you know ... just kinda' reaching up and taking it off ?
Posted by: Mortimer Duke at February 14, 2026 08:34 AM (43RKp)
Posted by: Your mechanic at February 14, 2026 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026
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These words...I don't understand them in this order...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2026
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I know. I sense a disturbance in the Force myself.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 08:35 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Leslie Nielsen at February 14, 2026 08:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026
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"Surely, you can't be serious!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026
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I'm *waiting* for the day when she delivers that setup!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 08:36 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 08:38 AM (LHPAg)
Meanwhile, youngest daughter's long-long-long-so very long-anticipated jaw surgery finally took place. (I'm not kidding, this was supposed to happen years ago but the pandemic screwed everything up.)
It seems to be fully successful, thanks be to God. She's recuperating rapidly, swelling is sharply down and she's counting the days towards getting off the liquid diet and having the rubber bands cut off. After that - braces get removed for the first time since the twenty-teens, if you can believe it.
Looking over my BP diary, I can see the spike starting on Monday and only now fading. Not dangerous or all that significant, but a useful reminder that even though we don't *feel* stressed, our budies may still be burdened by it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)
One other note, the older brother recently suffered a widow-maker heart attack in early January. His paramedic training enabled him to recognize the symptoms and call for appropriate help, which included an airlift to a trauma center, as the local hospitals were not so equipped. He is on the mend, and looking at a $15k bill for the helicopter ride...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 14, 2026 08:38 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Mortimer Duke
Oh, I did. I also tried to pull the catheter. I was an "unruly" patient. Not quite enough sedation, I think.
Infection didn't show up to after discharge anywho. Who wouldda thunk they didn't clean those things?
Posted by: MkY at February 14, 2026 08:38 AM (q6tQZ)
I would also ask for prayers on behalf of my husband- his employer is expected to file for Chapter 11.
We are hoping he is offered decent severance.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 14, 2026 08:39 AM (f/buw)
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2026 08:40 AM (vFG9F)
My wife and I are on the lifetime plan, but it's not that big of a deal, as my service obligation kept me from eating too many sweets for most of my adult life. My glucose meter tells a tale of restraint and compliance, and I'm hoping that the A1C in March will demonstrate firm control.
The ice has relented on the Banks of the Red Cedar, and I'm loving it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 08:41 AM (ZOv7s)
She's got the zoomies...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2026 08:01 AM (ESVrU)
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Better the Zoomies than the Marines!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 08:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: The Splendid Splinter at February 14, 2026 08:44 AM (oftw2)
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Of course. But filing doesn't necessarily mean the company is ceasing operations or closing, although those are possible. Have they indicated their plans?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 08:44 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 08:46 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: The OG Nurse Ratched at February 14, 2026 08:46 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026
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"Surely, you can't be serious!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026
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I'm *waiting* for the day when she delivers that setup!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 08:36 AM (wzUl9)
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And the Horde never heard from Wolfus again...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2026 08:46 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2026 08:40 AM (vFG9F)
I know how that happens! During the big ice event, I was fine walking on it, but got overconfident and suddenly my feet shot out from under me and I fell hard on my side. Tucked my arms in and thought I handled the fall well, but I’m not as young as I was and am pretty sure I cracked a rib, as that area has given me a good deal of pain for a couple of weeks. Finally starting to lessen.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 08:50 AM (otNgF)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)
What happened to whig?
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 08:51 AM (iJfKG)
Prayers up for the horde, for President Trump, and for America.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 08:53 AM (lGLsa)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)
What happened to whig?
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 08:51 AM (iJfKG)
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!!!!
News to me too.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 08:54 AM (lGLsa)
' It should be just downstream of your catalytic converter.'
And also upstream.
Has anyone here replaced the converter coming right off the engine? Is it a hard job?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 08:54 AM (fd80v)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 08:51 AM (iJfKG)
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He's getting surgery to correct some long-standing issues relating to grip and ease of movement.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 08:55 AM (ZOv7s)
I hurt my hand this week swinging kettlebells. Now, I've been exercising with kettlebells for going on two years, but, all of a sudden, I've done something to my hand. Swung too hard with too light a grip, maybe? I can't even hold my coffee cup, fer cryin' out loud. No idea what I did, or how to prevent it from happening again.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 08:56 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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What a lovely thing to wake up to!
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 14, 2026 08:59 AM (mNjzF)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 09:01 AM (+TlVp)
Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2026 09:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 09:03 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 14, 2026 09:03 AM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026
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Prepare for the new world that is a Monday without a commute!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 09:04 AM (wzUl9)
Paging doof...
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 09:03 AM (Y1sOo)
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*sigh*
I guess we better chip in to the Moron Bail Fund again...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2026 09:05 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 14, 2026 09:05 AM (Ggsrp)
Here's a couple of new Amelia vids.
Fun as always.
https://tinyurl.com/mpchhhcx
https://tinyurl.com/6cw5fk9m
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 09:06 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 08:51 AM (iJfKG)
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He's getting surgery to correct some long-standing issues relating to grip and ease of movement.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 08:55 AM (ZOv7s)
Ah. Thanks.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 09:08 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 14, 2026 08:59 AM (mNjzF)
Indeed. Good morning, friend!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 09:08 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 09:09 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 14, 2026 09:10 AM (fQqaC)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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That is disturbing. May the Lord guide your med team to teh correct answer to stop that and figure out how and why it happened.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 09:10 AM (2swu2)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 14, 2026 09:10 AM (fQqaC)
"This isn't Nam, this is curling. There are rules"
~ Sweden's captain, sort of
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 09:11 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 09:11 AM (2swu2)
Fun as always.
https://tinyurl.com/mpchhhcx
https://tinyurl.com/6cw5fk9m
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026
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Yes, and yes.
"This is not that day!!!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 09:11 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 09:11 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 09:11 AM (2swu2)
WOW!
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 09:12 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 09:12 AM (cYBz/)
Ban pickleball before more old farts are hurt or killed. For the children! Reeeeeeeeeee!
Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, Local democrat scold and busybody at February 14, 2026 09:12 AM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 14, 2026 08:59 AM
Mornin', SiD! The tailgating begins shortly!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2026 09:12 AM (PrvRk)
The Big Dummy and I had our 20-minute walk on the driveway, then Diana had her 20 minutes on the treadmill. They need to wait an hour before getting breakfast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 09:12 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 14, 2026 09:15 AM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 09:11 AM (2swu2)
Nice to see things went well, whig.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 09:15 AM (iJfKG)
Fenton Wood, author of the Yankee Republic, recommened by Hans G Schantz, has a Kickstarter for a new book he's written:
https://tinyurl.com/yc7x25u5
Fenton's web page:
https://tinyurl.com/43dz6jjp
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2026 09:15 AM (urh+R)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 09:15 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
Wow! What a lovely valentine from your boy.
We are blessed.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 09:16 AM (cYBz/)
My wife and I are on the lifetime plan, but it's not that big of a deal, as my service obligation kept me from eating too many sweets for most of my adult life. My glucose meter tells a tale of restraint and compliance, and I'm hoping that the A1C in March will demonstrate firm control.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 08:41 AM (ZOv7s)
When you are already heavily dietary restricted, Lent is about doing more vs giving up what you have.
In fact, here, I have outlawed anyone giving up anything but alcohol, so the whole fam has decided to join me in "Friday extras" vs "Friday withouts" - for the fast 5 years, that was supporting soup dinners. Now, those aren't happening, so we are considered a different thing each Friday.
That said, we do abstain (and those who can fast do). Just nothing more food related.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 14, 2026 09:16 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2026 09:16 AM (urh+R)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026
Somehow, Mr. Dmlw! had not heard of Amelia, despite spending about 14 hours a day locked in to X. I got him to put that skybrows vid on youtube last night, and down the rabbit hole he went!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 09:16 AM (h7ZuX)
>>Is it a hard job?
If the vehicle is a non-rust belt vehicle, then the job should be easy and straightforward.
If it's a rust belt car than you are going to need a lever Archimedes would marvel at and more heat than the sun to break the bolts.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 09:16 AM (8l4/j)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 09:17 AM (wzUl9)
"This is not that day!!!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 09:11 AM (wzUl9)
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Yeah, but when are they going to actually DO something?
Do the national strike already. Shut it all down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Aside from SC, all the states with the highest support are blue states, with CA leading the pack. I find it a little sad that the Left is beating the Right to the punch on this, but only a little... they're generally less patriotic and more aggressive than us, so it makes sense.
And if they decided to just set us free of them because of a fit of pique over Donald Trump, it would be one of history's great ironies.
Please don't throw us in that briar patch!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 09:18 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 09:11 AM (2swu2)
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Excellent news!
This may have already been mentioned to you but I'll throw it out, just in case. For my knee replacement surgery a couple weeks ago I bought an ice therapy machine from Amazon, which I highly recommend. Not very expensive either. Freeze three or four small water bottles to use as ice, put them into the machine, along with a bit of water, wrap your injured joint with the attached pad, and enjoy the ice water pumped through the pad and around your joint. For me, it's been critical, and it might also help you.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 09:19 AM (x2BaM)
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Clean Sweep - a limerick
Sweden's curling team, the Legion of Doom
Was ready to lower the boom
They had their hair mussed up
In that Canadian dust-up
(Pssst! That's why they give you a broom)
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 09:20 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 14, 2026 09:20 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 09:21 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2026 09:21 AM (77rzZ)
The UK does not have a regular election cycle and there is no separation of power. Parliament is supreme and unbound by a written constitution. That means that a fluke majority can basically end the country, which it is busy doing.
It also means that the public can force an election through non-compliance.
The US has more checks and balances, is federal in nature, and so there is good reason to let the clock run rather than attempt extra-legal means to effect change. Black-pilling aside, the left is hanging on by its fingernails right now and they know it. The long delay over the SAVE Act works in our favor as more and more people become aware of it and wonder what they problem is. The talking points that "married women and black people are too retarded" to figure out their ID is not a great one to make, but that's where they are.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: whig
"Walking On Thin Ice" is one of Yoko's finest compositions!
Posted by: Hair! Bed! Peace! at February 14, 2026 09:21 AM (oftw2)
'And if they decided to just set us free of them because of a fit of pique over Donald Trump, it would be one of history's great ironies.
Please don't throw us in that briar patch!'
I'd settle for just California. We would completely run the show with them gone.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 09:22 AM (fd80v)
Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2026 09:22 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2026 09:23 AM (iFEms)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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We should be actively promoting this. The odds on us beating them into submission before they die off (because they don't have kids) are slim to none. Whereas the odds of them destroying the entire country before then seem much higher.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 09:23 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 09:23 AM (gVUi7)
Hadrian you need a big hamster wheel
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 09:21 AM (Ia/+0)
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The Big Dummy isn't smart enough to learn how to be on a treadmill (we have a people one in the house and a dog one in the kennel). So he and I walk up and down the driveway, which is 150 feet long. Mutually beneficial.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 09:24 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 14, 2026 09:24 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2026 09:24 AM (iFEms)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 09:18 AM (BI5O2)
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National divorce is stupid and suicidal. If California secedes they will instantly offer the Chicoms bases.
Name one example of a partition along communist lines that was not immediately violated. Give the left a safe haven and they will immediately bend every ounce of their energy to subverting the remainder of the nation.
The solution is to crush the serpent's head, not offer him some living space next door.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)
Ouch. I maintain subscriptions to air ambulances services from different operators which is alleged to defray those costs.
Glad your brother is on the mend.
Posted by: Halfhand at February 14, 2026 09:24 AM (cO6Mr)
Well fuck that. We don’t have to negotiate with them, we can crush them. We don’t need some new Gorbachev to preside over the dissolution of his country. But I won’t object at all to a modern day Cromwell to clean things up.
And Cromwell never gave up any of his territory to anybody.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:25 AM (otNgF)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Not yet.
Hubby would prefer to get severance I think and early retirement.
He turns 60 and I think he's tired of the grind.
I asked if he'll be sending resumes out and he said probably not since he doesn't think he'd find a work from home offer.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 14, 2026 09:25 AM (f/buw)
The talking points that "married women and black people are too retarded" to figure out their ID is not a great one to make, but that's where they are.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Jane Doe two point oh
Jim Crow two point oh
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2026 09:25 AM (Cqx++)
Lots of The Big Lebowski quotes flying around the intewebs over this.
"Mark it zero, next end."
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 09:26 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
I go down to the courts just to watch the epic arguments and tussles.
I thought this was a great way to relax.
Silly me.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 09:26 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 09:22 AM (fd80v)
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Which will be put under China's nuclear umbrella and be used as a jumping off point to take the rest of the country.
I can't believe people do not understand that the left is REVOLUTIONARY. It has no interest in governing. It has no interest in "live and let live."
"When the last capitalist is strangled with the guts of the last priest, we will have peace." That is their credo.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:26 AM (ZOv7s)
'Give the left a safe haven'
Who said anything about California being safe during their temporary exit?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 09:27 AM (fd80v)
Aside from SC, all the states with the highest support are blue states, with CA leading the pack. I find it a little sad that the Left is beating the Right to the punch on this, but only a little... they're generally less patriotic and more aggressive than us, so it makes sense.
The split over favorability / unfavorability is based entirely on who the President is. Had Harris won, red states would want to leave and blue states would insist on imprisoning everyone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:27 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
When I had PT after my hip replacement the clinic I went to had a full leg sleeve ice therapy machine. After a workout a session with that sleeve was a such a treat.
Posted by: Tuna at February 14, 2026 09:29 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: I Sympathize at February 14, 2026 09:29 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 09:29 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 14, 2026 09:24 AM (t/2Uw)
You know, according to the sidebar, there's a year-long MoMe going on in Texas. I wonder if Ben Had knows.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:29 AM (ExV1e)
Haven't been around much and miss everybody. I think the time change in March will help me get on the blog in a timely fashion.
Glad to see that you are okay. I still haven't heard from my sister since she decided to cut me off in December but I got a text from her daughter so hoping she is thawing. Good you are making progress there in your life.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 14, 2026 09:29 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Nova Local at February 14, 2026 09:16 AM (tOcjL)
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Yes. Some years ago I began to look at Lent not as a time to give things up, but to do more. More donation, more prayer, more Mass. This year I shall go to one daily Mass each week, as is my habit. Perhaps I shall tackle City of God as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 09:23 AM (XvL8K)
Before 2024, everyone said that the odd of ever stopping illegal immigration were close to zero. Trump cut it down to almost nothing within 6 months.
When people say that something is “impossible” it just means that they don’t want to acknowledge the methods needed to do it easily.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:29 AM (otNgF)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)
"When the last capitalist is strangled with the guts of the last priest, we will have peace." That is their credo.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
__________
You and I are drawing opposite conclusions from this. I see it as all the more reason to divorce.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 09:30 AM (XvL8K)
YouGov published a poll showing 20% of Americans now support national divorce - not good enough, but it's a huge improvement.
A return to Constitutional federalism, where the states run their own affairs and the FedGov handles defense and foreign relations, would be best. But that's not good enough for the Left, who can't stand anyone being outside their power.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 09:30 AM (tgvbd)
At which point we declare war, conquer them, and subjugate them. Forcing them to pay exorbitant taxes while having no vote. Really, it's a best case scenario.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:31 AM (ExV1e)
The solution is to crush the serpent's head, not offer him some living space next door.
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Inshallah!
Posted by: Gazans at February 14, 2026 09:31 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Halfhand
My community is in the mountains about an hour and a half from Vanderbilt or Knoxville on a good day. Most of the residents here also have helo medivac insurance too. We have two marked pads for them. They get used every week.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 09:31 AM (cYBz/)
At least The Big Dummy has many major awards. Impressive, considering he's retarded.
Posted by: I Sympathize at February 14, 2026 09:29 AM (oftw2)
A Beautiful Retard! Get him a job in Hollywood.
By the way...
"Beautiful Retard" was Bob Seger's worst song.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 09:31 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 08:38 AM (LHPAg)
Congrats! I've have four more months until I punch out for the last time. I. Can. Not. Wait.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 14, 2026 09:31 AM (GTqXr)
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This crap has even invaded Irish Dancing? Wow.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 09:31 AM (LpSnA)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 09:32 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Accomack at February 14, 2026 09:32 AM (8jVAy)
Posted by: I Sympathize at February 14, 2026 09:29 AM (oftw2)
A Leg lamp?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2026 09:32 AM (urh+R)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 09:32 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 09:30 AM (XvL8K)
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A divorce is an enforceable legal arrangement. Secession is a rupture of the existing order that will lead to other ruptures.
The instant California is declared independent, Chicom troops will arrive and missile installations will be set up. I don't know how that is advantageous.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: GWB at February 14, 2026 09:33 AM (LAvB0)
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Genocide!
Posted by: Gazans at February 14, 2026 09:33 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tuna at February 14, 2026 09:29 AM (lJ0H4)
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"A treat" is a perfect description, and I love mine.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 09:33 AM (LpSnA)
At least The Big Dummy has many major awards. Impressive, considering he's retarded.
Posted by: I Sympathize at February 14, 2026 09:29 AM (oftw2)
He's a stupid boy but a sweet boy. A true gentleman.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 09:34 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Accomack at February 14, 2026 09:32 AM (8jVAy)
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Every weapon would be deployed, including terrorism infrastructure sabotage, and overt subversion. The Pacific Ocean would become a Chinese lake.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)
'At which point we declare war, conquer them, and subjugate them.'
Right. All letting California go means to me is that they don't get to vote against what happens next.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 09:34 AM (fd80v)
👋 Hi
Do you think there is a reserved sign on our table?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 14, 2026 09:34 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Eromero
Congrats!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 14, 2026 09:34 AM (xJpaU)
Posted by: Eromero
It's a great feeling, isn't it? Congrats!!
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 09:35 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:31 AM (ExV1e)
I wrote something longer on this a while back - but cut the long distance power transmission lines going into California at the border, and cut the Federal money supporting at least half the population there, and California cracks like a rotten egg in two weeks, four weeks max. Riots and chaos in every city as the grid collapses and food runs out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:35 AM (otNgF)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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I see that as a possibility, whereas them destroying the entire country in a continued union to be a probability.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 09:36 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:31 AM (ExV1e)
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So engaging in a great power conflict on home ground is your idea of a good outcome?
How about crippling their networks, forcing honest elections and grinding them down using civil authority? We're only one year into it, and they are on their back foot.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2026 09:37 AM (77rzZ)
Jasmine Crockett says she’s running on no sleep so she can save Democracy:
“If I go to sleep, Democracy may very well die."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 09:37 AM (J+Psw)
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 14, 2026 09:37 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 14, 2026 09:34 AM (t/2Uw)
I should hope so. I tipped the Maître d.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:37 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 09:34 AM (fd80v)
We have precedent for not allowing rebellious states to vote for several years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:37 AM (otNgF)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 14, 2026 09:38 AM (t/2Uw)
For all this talk, there's no legal basis and no means for states to secede. And the Federal footprint is much larger now than it was in 1860. Look at the number of military installations in CA. Think they're just going to sit on their asses when Newsom says CA is now independent?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 09:38 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:35 AM (otNgF)
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The question is simply this: do you want to do this while California remains a part of the union, or when it is nominally independent and the Chinese can legally land troops and establish bases?
If it is an internal matter, China will not intervene, but if we stupidly say "yeah, you're a free nation," now we're inviting foreign intervention from every corner. Note that none of those people intend to use California for anything other than a weapon. The idea is never to make it a success, just a beachhead to break American power.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:39 AM (ZOv7s)
National divorce is a silly idea. Like libertarianism.
It assumes perfect human behavior to work.
So, no thanks.
I'd be more in favor of declaring CA a non-voting territory of the Untied States, until they can clean up their voting fraud and criminal gov't, etc.
But, even so. I'd just rather beat them soundly at election time and keep them out of power until they reform.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 09:39 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 09:39 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: PabloD at February 14, 2026 09:39 AM (3VXNH)
Hey Bulg, I'm well and hope you are recovering from your scary incident.
*Forrest Gump wave at I am the Shadout Mapes*
Mornin' RMBS and GO TIGERS
Yuge congrats to Eromero!
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 14, 2026 09:40 AM (mNjzF)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Exactly what will happen.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 14, 2026 09:40 AM (xJpaU)
China wouldn't have time to position significant troops or material. Knowing that they would be destined to lose, they'd throw in the towel quickly... probably as soon as the President said that we were going to start bombing Cali installations. They may want the US but they're not going to enter a suicidal hot war over it when history says that they can just buy politicians.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:40 AM (ExV1e)
Gavin Newsom rages that people will "be held to account” for denying climate change:
“The biggest problem is the deceit and the denial that's happening because of special interests."
“We have to call people out. They'll be held to account. They will be judged."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 09:40 AM (J+Psw)
It's a dog show, not a spelling bee.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 09:40 AM (Y1sOo)
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The federal government would never stand for a "national divorce." There's too much money at stake, and that's really the bottom line if we're talking a structured, legislated divorce.
It's more likely the Balkanization that's already happening will continue with varying levels of federal control over certain areas... depending on the party. The Democrats would crush any dissent whereas the GOP would probably just let the nation fall apart.
Minneapolis is a prime example of how the Republicans would treat a break-away region. Show of force, then leave. Not much has changed in Minnesota since 1 January. Maybe a few less illegals, but that's about it. The Somalis are still there. The fraud's still there.
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2026 09:40 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)
To be serious (previous comments have been slightly facetious) I think cutting out the massive fraud networks may knock out as much as a quarter of California’s economy.
Tens of billions of fraudulent money is being pumped into California every year - a significant part of their economy is completely fake.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:40 AM (otNgF)
Jasmine Crockett says she’s running on no sleep so she can save Democracy:
“If I go to sleep, Democracy may very well die."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 09:37 AM (J+Psw)
And if she doesn't eat that bucket of chicken, it may spoil!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 09:41 AM (iJfKG)
The judicial insurrection is reaching its conclusion. The writing is on the wall. The Dems cannot stop the deportations and the only question is whether you want to be detained and lose your stuff or get a check from Uncle Same and a free plane ride.
The out migration will accelerate this year, which is why the Dems are in full on panic mode.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:41 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 14, 2026 09:41 AM (mNjzF)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:35 AM (otNgF)
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But I was going to buy shoes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 09:42 AM (RIvkX)
All that would be required is Congress voting to allow it. As long as the remaining US doesn't decide to start a war to keep people who don't want to stay... done.
We could insist that the portions of the succeeding states which don't want to go may re-join the US.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:42 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 09:42 AM (LpSnA)
May God bestow blessings on all of His children this day.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 14, 2026 09:43 AM (kB9dk)
Ah yes. "If."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Accomack at February 14, 2026 09:43 AM (T8bqm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:40 AM (otNgF)
Precisely. Newsome's nonsense about CA having the 8th largest economy in the world would fall about without FedGov $$. How many tech companies have already moved to Austin or Nashville? CA is a house of cards.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 14, 2026 09:43 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:37
Smart move.
Looking forward to it. ❤️💃🤠
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 14, 2026 09:43 AM (t/2Uw)
WHERE WILL WE GET OUR AVOCADOS !1!?!
Posted by: The Millennials at February 14, 2026 09:44 AM (a4flb)
We could insist that the portions of the succeeding states which don't want to go may re-join the US.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:42 AM (ExV1e)
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So like India and Pakistan? That worked out great!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 14, 2026 09:44 AM (cDrfF)
Posted by: The Millennials at February 14, 2026 09:44 AM (a4flb)
*waves*
Posted by: Avocados from Mehico at February 14, 2026 09:45 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 14, 2026 09:43 AM (GTqXr)
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By 2030, the census is going to shred left coast states' congressional delegations. That is why they are fighting so hard right now.
Seriously, this is like coming to terms with Germany in March, 1945.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)
(What's a YouGov, anyway?)
Online? Not random and likely lots of double voting.
Via phone? Not random because who answers calls from unknown numbers?
Polls are for mouse clicks.
And page views.
And strippers.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2026 09:40 AM (jtM2q)
And yet something crucial HAS changed! Minneapolis is a dying city full of dying businesses, and yet the Federal government, through fraud, has been pumping how much into it every year - 10 billion? 11 billion?
The ICE crackdown was the theater, chopping off their financial support systems is the real show. That’s why Walz was already crying for “reparations” yesterday.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:46 AM (otNgF)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 14, 2026 09:46 AM (cDrfF)
I saw the Expert Know-Nothings open for Iggy Pop and The Stooges at the Houston Civic Center in'72.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 09:46 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Pedantic language nerd at February 14, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:40 AM (otNgF)
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The state building on Golden Gate Ave. 8 floors. Not a soul in sight other than security and the guy shining the elevator panel, but I saw him twice. Up and down.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 09:47 AM (RIvkX)
Oh, and who cares about the Norwegian or Latvian cross country skier who admitted to the world in tears that his girlfriend of three months broke up with him because he cheated on her. Or Lindsey Vonn's egocentric publicity stunt.
NBC is trying to tell the story before the story has even happened. Stop trying to make 'Fetch' happen.
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 09:48 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)
There is NO good solution. The time when that could have happened is over. A majority of Congress and judiciary, and over 40% of the citizenry, are hostile to a free United States. That percentage of the citizenry may decrease over time but it may not. And even if it does, the pendulum will swing.
We can choose to do nothing, hoping and praying that sanity will be restored, that China and the Muslim states will collapse and, therefore, stop bribing our 'leaders' but every day that we allow this to fester, the eventual price grows.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:49 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:46 AM (otNgF)
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Don't forget 4,000 deportations. The streets will be safer, not just there, but everywhere. The cases are being built, financial networks documented and of course Walz went from promising national figure to lame duck.
Minnesota's voter fraud has also been fully documented, and the feds will be all over that as well. Thanks to the SCOTUS ruling on standing, losing candidates can now sue and force discovery. The rules have significantly shifted in our favor.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:50 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Sheeeeeet. Cut the water from the Colorado River.
(Somehow. I'll leave it up to the smarter Morons than me to work out the details. I'm an Ideas Man.)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 09:50 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Pedantic language nerd at February 14, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)
If I can't do math on the blog, you can't complain about me using the wrong word.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:50 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 09:50 AM (qgHp7)
I find it ironic and a bit sad that NBC loves to hype certain Olympic athletes to such an extreme level prior to their event.
The one I liked was the lady (American, but skiing for Mexico) competing in the Super G at 46, having appeared in the Olympics since 1998.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 09:50 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 09:49 AM (ExV1e)
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Who is doing nothing?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 09:51 AM (Y1sOo)
And I notice that every single Nordic cross country skier collapses t the ground and flops like a flounder as they cross the finish line. Like that original Marathon guy who delivered the message and then died. What's the deal with that?
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 09:50 AM (qgHp7)
I'm convinced that Nordic ski racing is the closest you can come to dying without actually doing so.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 09:51 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 09:30 AM (tgvbd)
This is the way. Shrink the federal leviathan to what it is supposed to be and let the States be States again. But alas, the supple, erect and elongated hairy teat of Uncle Sugar has the people addicted to free titty juice so on it goes until it doesn't.
Posted by: Tits Up at February 14, 2026 09:52 AM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at February 14, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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And they bring a passion to their plans that we simply do not have, and never will. We have hopes of salvation and take comfort in that, regardless of what happens to our earthly carcasses. They have no such hopes and beliefs. This is their all.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 09:54 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 09:54 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 09:51 AM (Y1sOo)
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You do understand that with only 11 carriers, that would be the only naval mission we could sustain, right? Global force projection would be at an end.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)
Hope all is well with you. This winter has seemed endless. I still have the remains of a glacier on my little terrace. Supposed to hit 50 today and even 60 this week. Can't wait. 😎
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 14, 2026 09:55 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: muldoon
>Too much nookie the night before? Those Italian babes are one big honeytrap.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 09:55 AM (gVUi7)
...NBC is trying to tell the story before the story has even happened. Stop trying to make 'Fetch' happen.
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 09:48 AM (qgHp7)
I hate NBC's sports coverage in general because of all the tween-age girlish chat of the announcers.
But, their coverage of the Olympics has murdered any interest I have in them at all, for basically the reason you state above, muldoon.
Plus, any time wasted on a boo-hoo story means less time for showing sports and therefore less variety.
Even the delightful and empathetic Mrs naturalfake is sick and tired of all the lame-ass personal stories, which should be catnip to her. She finally has given up on the Olympics and has no interest in them any more.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 09:55 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Competitive rowing while in your 50's has entered the chat.
The thing is, if you are in a crewed boat, not a single, you can't just quit because the other rowers will crash into you if you simply just sit there and their oars will smash into yours. The mechanical advantages of levers comes into play here.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2026 09:56 AM (cYBz/)
Talerico is not so showy, but is far more dangerous. He tries to sound oh so peaceful and reasonable, but he uses a fake Christianity to attack and pervert every true Christian principle, in the guise of being “compassionate” or something. He’s one I consider to be a demon in human form, and a dangerously clever one. I love being able to watch a clown in blackface being able to take him down.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 09:57 AM (otNgF)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 09:54 AM (0KSrI)
The inevitability of what's coming is so obvious. I know the Iranians are desperate for help, and want and need it last month, but it's so clear that it's coming, and it's going to be glorious.
President Trump is not going to half-ass this. No endless wars. He's in it to win it.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 09:57 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 09:54 AM (XvL8K)
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That is also their weakness. There is no higher cause that they serve, and their morale is quite brittle. Strength, slow and unrelenting, will erode their support. The full might of Antifa was deployed in Minnesota and failed. State and local authorities are cooperating, ICE is still there, and additional theaters of operation are being opened up, further exhausting their finances.
So the Dems want to shut down the government and prevent voter fraud, completely losing issues but we are supposed to believe this is a move from strength.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:58 AM (ZOv7s)
No matter.
The alternative is perpetual and increasingly authoritarian domination by the Left.
Unacceptable.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 09:58 AM (BI5O2)
'A couple of carrier strike groups positioned off the coast of California would be a good way to tell China to fuck all the way off.'
I have no doubt about our ability to isolate California from China. They aren't stupid. They' ll know they can kiss goodbye whatever they deploy to California.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 09:59 AM (fd80v)
I did not know that Tiger Woods was playing in the winter olympics.
Posted by: NBC Sports, Always Gotta Mention Tiger Woods at February 14, 2026 09:59 AM (Ksqrb)
President Trump is not going to half-ass this. No endless wars. He's in it to win it.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 09:57 AM (h7ZuX)
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Trump loves the buildup. So dramatic, so tense. He loves that moment in the precipice, likes to draw it out until the other side is begging for something, *anything* to happen.
And yet he waits, and builds even more strength...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)
https://tinyurl.com/4b9rbcj7
Posted by: Oh by the way at February 14, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)
He tries to sound oh so peaceful and reasonable, but he uses a fake Christianity to attack and pervert every true Christian principle, in the guise of being “compassionate” or something.
Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
- The Merchant of Venice
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 10:00 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 10:01 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 10:01 AM (Ia/+0)
And they bring a passion to their plans that we simply do not have, and never will. We have hopes of salvation and take comfort in that, regardless of what happens to our earthly carcasses.
You are watching the death throes of a wounded animal.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 10:02 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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we got an ice storm one weekend followed by a snow storm the next. I fretted about my power going out (it did, for 5 minutes) and my pipes freezing (they didn't). At least I missed the snow weekend because I was able to escape to Houston for my guy's birthday. Weather is improving here, which means I have to finish cleaning up last fall's leaves along with the remaining debris from some tree work.
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 14, 2026 10:02 AM (mNjzF)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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You're a historian. Do you really see this as the trend for, at least, since the French Revolution? Everything since then has trended towards the decedent, and it's directly traceable to their lack of faith.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 10:02 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 10:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Burkina Faso
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 10:03 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 10:03 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Yyrog at February 14, 2026 10:04 AM (yYROg)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at February 14, 2026 10:05 AM (XY7MO)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 09:59 AM (fd80v)
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Then you don't really understand logistics. What is the sailing time from the east coast to the Pacific? How long until new carriers reach station? What is their endurance? Will Hawaii choose to leave as well? It's lefty to the hilt, and all those fine bases would suit the Chicoms.
So now we have endless sea patrols, sapping our resources while China uses California as a gateway to the interior of the continent. Mexico will be firmly in their orbit, as will Canada. Are we going to invade Canada when the Chinese base opens in Vancouver?
Or maybe we could just keep doing what we are doing, grinding them down, exposing corruption, and crushing their financial networks and cleaning up the elections. People are herd animals, and they will shift to the winning side. Everyone went to Woodstock, and all the Good Germans hated the Nazis.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 10:05 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 10:02 AM (tgvbd)
No.
You are witnessing the recognition that institutional subversion has failed at the moment of victory, and a shift into the use of naked force to secure the absolute power they've thus far been denied.
This is the rage of a ravenous beast whose prey has momentarily evaded him.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 10:06 AM (BI5O2)
Right Two carriers soon to operating in the same AOR. That must mean the Navy is incapable of deploying any more carrier strike groups anywhere else in the world.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 10:06 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: naturalfake
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We've been watching because it is one thing that keeps my 93 y/o Mom-in-law calm rather than agitated and keeps her awake long enough into the evening to be able to sleep better at night rather than roaming the halls.
Bit of a train wreck fascination with the coverage, but there are some impressive skills shown in bits and bobs amid all the fluff -n- stuff.
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 10:07 AM (qgHp7)
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That is also their weakness. There is no higher cause that they serve, and their morale is quite brittle.”
This reminds me of how much the Left has in common with the political religion of Islam, and why they admire it so much. Hamas and Hezbollah jumped at the chance to start War with Israel, and were wildly overconfident. Looked strong early because that’s what happens with surprise attacks - but within months were all hiding in holes in the ground wondering what happened.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 10:07 AM (otNgF)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 10:08 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Tuna at February 14, 2026 10:09 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 10:02 AM (XvL8K)
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Trends change. I'm tired of overdeterminism where people pick a moment - French Revolution, US Civil War, the Federal Reserve, Israel's formation - and then say "everything went down hill and there's nothing we can do to stop it!"
Faith waxes and wanes. France underwent a Catholic revival in the 19th Century with the emergence of the apparitions at Lourdes. That continues to bear good fruit. The Little Flower, St. Therese of Lisieux, also continues to inspire, yet at the same time, French society pushed for even more secularism. It is always a mixture of good and evil.
What I do know is that God has the final word, and He is moving as I have never seen in my lifetime. This encourages me greatly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 14, 2026 10:09 AM (jc0TO)
And they tried. And failed by the narrowest of margins.
Now I look at the situation using the exact same professionally trained lenses and I see the left in a state of total despair. The correlation of strength is so lop-sided as to make Civil War 2.0 an impossibility. The only way we can screw this up is by pre-emptively surrendering and giving away the game, like voluntarily partitioning our nation. The left is on the ropes. They have nothing. They rely on crooked voting and manufactured consent. Take away the illegals, clean up the rolls and California goes red.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Those chickens up top look more like they want to take your lunch money,
rather than give you coffee.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 10:14 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:12 AM
Have we met?
Posted by: The GOP at February 14, 2026 10:14 AM (6wenc)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 10:06 AM (Y1sOo)
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We are surging into the Gulf and can do so because it is not a sustained, long-term, permanent deployment.
Maintaining two CSGs off the West Coast but based in the Atlantic would be a massive undertaking that would sap our strength. During an exercise at Maxwell, one of the rooms had this cool planning chart with the major sea routes on it and a grid with the sailing days it took to traverse each one at various speeds. Going from the East Coast to the West is literally circumnavigating the globe. It is just about the longest logistic chain possible.
That is a huge strategic burden to carry.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 14, 2026 10:18 AM (0nHVk)
The thing is, if you are in a crewed boat, not a single, you can't just quit because the other rowers will crash into you if you simply just sit there and their oars will smash into yours. The mechanical advantages of levers comes into play here.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Competitive rowing ain't a joke
(Can someone give Number 7 a poke?)
He's not keeping the rhythm
Is something wrong with 'im?
And why is the coxswain yelling, "STROKE!"?
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 10:18 AM (qgHp7)
I understand them well enough to know that it requires a lot of fuel. China doesn’t have enough fuel to supply any trans Pacific capacity if we decide that we don’t want them to.
I find you pretty quick to make assumptions without providing evidence. I also think you greatly inflate China’s ability.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 10:18 AM (fd80v)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)
Most folks not in the Administration.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 10:19 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 10:19 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2026 10:21 AM (p4NUW)
Consider the possibility that Communist China and Russia are nearly as weak as their soon to be or recently destroyed client states.
Posted by: Auspex at February 14, 2026 10:21 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 10:22 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at February 14, 2026 10:05 AM (XY7MO)
It's 5:22 pm in Bucharest. Bottoms up!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 10:23 AM (ExV1e)
rather than give you coffee.
That’s because they’re roosters. Toxic masculinity!
Posted by: Unkaren at February 14, 2026 10:23 AM (cDrfF)
Posted by: I Know, Sometimes It's Unavoidable at February 14, 2026 08:25 AM (oftw2)
"No hospitals. They take away your pants. Then they hurt you and starve you and expose you to disease. Then they bill you for it. A lot."
-- Spider Robinson
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2026 10:23 AM (IG3/x)
I find you pretty quick to make assumptions without providing evidence. I also think you greatly inflate China’s ability.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2026 10:18 AM (fd80v)
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No, I understand the limits on ours and also that China doesn't have to send a carrier group at all to control those waters. They have a maritime militia and is ranging all over the Pacific at the moment, and if the Left Cost separates, they need not directly challenge us by setting up shop there, but in Canada and Mexico. Then that long logistic tail becomes our burden, not theirs.
Most people do not understand the tyranny of distance, particularly in the Indo-Pacific Theater.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 14, 2026 10:24 AM (2NHgQ)
Keep that under your hat, because BEADWINDOW
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 10:25 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 14, 2026 10:25 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Eromero
Congrats.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 10:25 AM (2swu2)
Posted by: Dark L at February 14, 2026 10:25 AM (KAi1n)
That is a huge strategic burden to carry.
The Spartans carried their triremes across the Isthmus of Corinth. Have we considered doing that with carriers? Sure, the Rockies would be tough, but it's all downhill to CA after that.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:25 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Auspex at February 14, 2026 10:21 AM (Y8DZL)
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Ceding the Pacific too them, along with Canada and Mexico would be a gift beyond their wildest dreams.
Anyway, it's not going to happen. California and the rest will be brought to heel.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:26 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Dark L at February 14, 2026 10:25 AM (KAi1n)
Charley Brown.
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 10:27 AM (INIdd)
rather than give you coffee.
Posted by: naturalfake
>Roosters will bust your ass if you show any signs of weakness. You may have to punt one to get some respect.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 10:28 AM (gVUi7)
I dunno. This one is pretty damn good.
https://twitter.com/i/status/2021482657218166988
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:28 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Didn't stop Mamdani.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 10:28 AM (J+Psw)
rather than give you coffee.
That’s because they’re roosters. Toxic masculinity!
Posted by: Unkaren at February 14, 2026 10:23 AM (cDrfF)
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Just stay on the other side of the road and you'll be fine.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2026 10:30 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 10:27 AM (INIdd)
******
He's a clown, that Charley Brown. Called the English teacher Daddy-oh
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 14, 2026 10:31 AM (uWedj)
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 10:07 AM (qgHp7)
My mom's go-to is NCIS reruns.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 10:31 AM (h7ZuX)
https://youtu.be/97DKYE4ezm8
Posted by: Another obligatory Seinfeld reference at February 14, 2026 10:32 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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What's the difference between a summer intern looking for office supplies and Rev. Wishbone?
One is a pen hunter and the other is a hen punter!
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 10:32 AM (qgHp7)
"Should the US commit troops to defend Taiwan?"
AOC: "Um, you know, I think that, uhh, eh, this is such a, uh, you know, I th-I think that this is a, umm, this is of course a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy."
WTF?!
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You heard it here first.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 10:32 AM (J+Psw)
That is China's biggest liability now and in the future.
Posted by: clarence at February 14, 2026 10:32 AM (5OgL1)
Shorter version of Rupert Lowe and the "Restore Britain Party"
https://tinyurl.com/yxp8xz5z
He speaks approvingly of Trump.
Please pray for the guidance and protection of this man and all who support his goals.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 10:33 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Charley Brown at February 14, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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The original with Leroy Jethro Gibbs worked for a while with mom, but she has slipped so much that she can't follow the plot or the dialogue and gets agitated. We park her on the Game Show Network sometimes.
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 10:34 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
THX, posting will be limited as I am having to touch type without looking down. Not much of a voice as I was intubated and they shove the esphogus to the side when doing spinal surgery from the front.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 10:35 AM (2swu2)
Posted by: Pentagon men's room stall graffiti at February 14, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)
Hmmmmm. Were your surgeons hung over the day they talked about the dorsal side?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:36 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Thanks Huck. Scrolling back and forth when I feel like it. So answering out of sequence.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 10:36 AM (2swu2)
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 10:37 AM (INIdd)
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 10:37 AM (qgHp7)
My eyes see only ceiling.
All things reveal our Father;
I still pray for more revealing.
The faith I lack, I have to pray
I compensate with feeling;
I'm grateful for the gifts we have;
Send miracles of healing.
viz. Mark 9:24
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Heal the children lost and confused, disrespectful and estranged.
Heal the hearts broken by viscissitudes of mortal caring.
Heal the minds and bodies of Your believing family.
Hasten the day that all may know the Source of our salvation.
Posted by: mindful webworker - bless this cup at February 14, 2026 10:37 AM (6hyzx)
That is China's biggest liability now and in the future.
Posted by: clarence at February 14, 2026 10:32 AM (5OgL1)
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That would likely cause a nuclear exchange.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Heh. I had to go by radiology on the way out and the rad tech there used to be an OR rad tech. She told me that my doc was one of the most precise and calm doctors ever in the OR. My knee doc on the other hand was a cutup in the OR.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 10:39 AM (2swu2)
politics UK is where he really lays it out.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 10:39 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:25 AM (Riz8t)
Have an extra carrier on the coasts and fly the crews to it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 14, 2026 10:40 AM (cwGMH)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 14, 2026 10:41 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I'm a human being. Not a human doing!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 10:41 AM (J+Psw)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
I also meant to say, I have that ice machine but not the shoulder attachment. Just using soft flexible ice packs from the freezer. I am ok if I keep my face level to the screen and dont look down at the keyboard. Not much right and left mobility and doing the spirometer about ten times per hour.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 10:41 AM (2swu2)
Posted by: Eromero
Stay careful out there. Rough world.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 10:42 AM (2swu2)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:25 AM (Riz8t)
Fitzcarraldo has entered the chat.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 10:42 AM (otNgF)
Posted by: Pentagon men's room stall graffiti at February 14, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)
Real admirals talk about instituting asinine policies which do not promote readiness and irritate sailors so that they can feel important. Ask me how I know.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 10:42 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 14, 2026 10:42 AM (mNjzF)
I want to get one of these to put in my front yard:
https://tinyurl.com/3w8mhasr
Maybe two. One on either side of the sidewalk.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 10:43 AM (iJfKG)
I saw the much longer one and enjoyed it This is the first search I came to.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 10:43 AM (Nx5jP)
WTF?!
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You heard it here first.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 10:32 AM (J+Psw)
This really should be seen and heard to appreciate how awful she is:
https://tinyurl.com/yua8tzwn
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2026 10:43 AM (urh+R)
Well, technically I started the starter yesterday, so I'm starting to finish the middle phase. Actually making the dough today, baking this evening or tomorrow.
Catch y'all later. Thanks for letting me play.
Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2026 10:43 AM (qgHp7)
I just saw that Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 movie project is moving forward and Amazon is giving him total creative control. No more Wokes spitting into the pot.
He is actually demanding total fidelity to the source material to maintain its grimdark feel.
The culture is moving in our direction, and that's a good thing. This is what winning looks like.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:43 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2026 10:43 AM (o71LG)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 10:44 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 14, 2026 10:44 AM (mNjzF)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 10:45 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Archimedes
I mean, they have Marines on those carriers after all.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 10:45 AM (J+Psw)
Posted by: whig
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Precise and calm is what you want in a neurosurgeon. The orthopedic surgeons usually aren't going to paralyze you if they screw up.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 10:45 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 10:46 AM (2swu2)
I'm part of group of former Navy guys who meet for coffee one morning every week. One is the former CO of the USS Chancellorsville who was deployed to the PG AOR in the early 90s as part of the Nimitz battlegroup. He was ordered to put nine Tomahawks on targets suspected of being possible hideout locations of Saddam Hussein. Didn't get him, of course, but it's just one of the many interesting stories he tells.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 10:46 AM (Y1sOo)
No one today is buying flowers / chocolates / cards for some woman who isn't already your exclusive squeeze. And for the one who is... hopefully you're doing something actually meaningful for her and that she remembers to reciprocate on March 14th.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 10:46 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Mick at February 14, 2026 10:46 AM (HFx9z)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 10:42 AM (ExV1e)
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The dog that didn't bark was how zero flag officers embraced the Seditious 6. They know the score.
Desperation move, and I'm of mixed opinion on whether they should be punished or "get away with it," because in the latter case, they will be even more overt in their next attempt.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)
Everything that managed to grow since the freeze in 2010.
The grass and the palms will recover but this place is full of tinder right now.
Not so tropical looking central Florida is back.
Yuk.
Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2026 10:47 AM (uvB+6)
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 10:37 AM (INIdd)
On the other side of the diner?
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 10:47 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)
They shouldn't get away with it but odds are they will. As I said at the time, what they MEANT notwithstanding, what they SAID was true, correct, and unobjectionable.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 10:48 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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I was advised by another surgeon (hand and arm) to seek exactly that. Turns out though my knee guy and neurosurgeon were classmates at Emory Med School. Got a second opinion from the current head of Emory's neurosurgery dept before having the surgery and he knew both my docs and recommended them. Small world of surgeons I guess. Got blessed.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 10:48 AM (2swu2)
Most of the USAF's heavy lifters; C-17's and C-5's have been making back and forth trips across the Atlantic and into the Gulf Theater. Hundreds of flights. Over the last several weeks. Moving "stuff" needed for a prolonged operation. Or not.
Plus, the USAF has positioned hundreds of aircraft, of all kinds in and around the Gulf region too. Fighters, multi-roll, tankers, EW, Recon, etc.
An ultimatum is sure to follow when the various pieces are set.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2026 10:49 AM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2026 10:30 AM (2WIwB)
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To show the possum it could be done.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2026 10:49 AM (urh+R)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 10:46 AM (ExV1e)
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I distributed flowers and chocolates yesterday. Quite the undertaking with three daughters and two grandchildren to take care of.
Empty nest? As if!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 10:49 AM (0KSrI)
https://tinyurl.com/yua8tzwn
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper
>The problem is we have too many legislators yammering about policy when they should focused on voting for their constituency.
Special committees are ruining the country. Nobody, on a federal level, voted for these cunts.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 10:50 AM (gVUi7)
https://tinyurl.com/yua8tzwn
She is an embarrassment.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:51 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: whig
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How was his bedside manner? Despite being precise and calm, it seems most of them have God complexes. Them and CT surgeons.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 10:51 AM (XvL8K)
Nice to see you, dear Whig. Continuing to pray for you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 10:51 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:51 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2026 09:54 AM (0KSrI)
The inevitability of what's coming is so obvious. I know the Iranians are desperate for help, and want and need it last month, but it's so clear that it's coming, and it's going to be glorious.
President Trump is not going to half-ass this. No endless wars. He's in it to win it.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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He should have a few SF Teams in Iran organizing the locals and supplying with stealthy supply drops just waiting for some sort of Tet Offensive at key points across the country t the appointed hour.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2026 10:52 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2026 10:48 AM (ExV1e)
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If six Republicans said that under Biden, they'd all go to prison. That will take a while to change, but the effort still needs to be made.
To fix the system, its flaws must be made obvious. That means taking what seem to be futile actions.
Kelly is not out of the woods because I know of no legal way he can contest administrative punishment short of requesting a court martial.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:52 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:53 AM (Riz8t)
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If he wins, he'll build his own McDonald's on the White House lawn.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 10:54 AM (J+Psw)
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If he wins, he'll build his own McDonald's on the White House lawn.
He might even spring for the large fries.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:54 AM (Riz8t)
Respectfully asking for prayers to alleviate the suffering of the biological father of our two children who is hospitalized (he is Mrs. Krebs' first husband). He is afflicted with lung cancer that metastasized into his bones, and yesterday awakened paralyzed on the right side of his body, most likely due to pressure on nerves from the bone cancer.
In all likelihood his condition is terminal, with no prognosis having yet been voiced by his medical team. The situation is tough on our daughter and son, who now are approximately the same age as I was when my father passed from cancer in 1998 (my mother outlived him by twenty-four years).
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2026 10:55 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:53 AM (Riz8t)
Oh, I totally disagree.
It's not to prove anything about myself.
It's simply a nice way to show my appreciation to the lovely woman who married me.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2026 10:56 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 10:56 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Don't forget the Frence Resistence!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2026 10:56 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!
>The golden arches would compliment the ballroom.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 10:57 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Flat, calm, and even voice and temperament, before and after surgery. For whatever reason, I haven't had surgeons with a god complex but did have a pain doc that thought imaging was the end all be all and that putting hands on a patient (told by a PT to advise that) was gauche. He misdiagnosed by back pain as fibromyalgia and treated me for that as my spine deteriorated. Referred me to an ortho doc who followed his advice. Sought out neurosurgeons from that point as I had the arm and hand surgeries ruling out any other nerve compression issues in the past three years.
Guy was an osteopath who took over from my retired physiatrist. Have a new one now and she has no problems checking out the muscle spasms, etc.
I am flying a bit high right now so don't have the filters I normally do. Heh.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 10:57 AM (2swu2)
Posted by: Moki at February 14, 2026 10:57 AM (wLjpr)
But I have never even made six figures, and many of these fraudsters literally have less than half my IQ (so I think I could figure it out), and the service provision scams (like medical transport) are auto-laundering due to the money already coming from an official business. So if only the seven-figure scammers go to prison -- or worse, only the eight-figure scammers -- then that would be an intolerable temptation to me to give it a shot and play it smart, not getting too greedy. So easy to justify, that otherwise I'm the gullible sucker-chump getting fleeced!
May all the con artists end up in Federal PMITA prison, I pray to God, amen.
Posted by: SciVo at February 14, 2026 10:57 AM (Sy6m/)
That is a huge strategic burden to carry.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 14, 2026 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)
There is a naval base in Bremerton, also San Diego. It would be real easy to carve off San Diego from an "independent" California. They have no army.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2026 10:58 AM (8zz6B)
https://tinyurl.com/yua8tzwn
She is an embarrassment.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:51 AM (Riz8t)
That was even worse than Kamala.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 10:59 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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Bone cancer is horrendous and painful. I pray that your kids and he are comforted by the Good Shepard in their time of need.
And thx Fenelon.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 10:59 AM (2swu2)
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 10:37 AM (INIdd)
On the other side of the diner?
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 10:47 AM (+YA9H)
Yeah, some kind of light bulb. It would be a stupid person who’d try to get away with a firearm crime in our little diner.
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 10:59 AM (INIdd)
LVEF improved to 44%. Pt does not need to see EP for ICD consideration since EF is higher than 35%. Continue current medical therapy.
Web searching "translated" this as: the percentage of blood that the heart's left ventricle pumps out with each contraction has improved from 35% to 45%, so the patient doesn't need to see an electrophysiologist for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
Well, why didn't you just say so, Doc?
Still maybe not yet strong enough to undergo the surgeries I need, but going in the right direction, thank you Jesus. 💙✝️
Posted by: mindful webworker - bless this cup at February 14, 2026 10:59 AM (6hyzx)
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Would they trust their nuclear arsenal? Would they go nuclear with Russia at their back? The threat of retaliation would likely deter an invasion.
Posted by: clarence at February 14, 2026 11:00 AM (5OgL1)
But, she's a complete moron, so. Small m.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 11:01 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 10:37 AM (INIdd)
On the other side of the diner?
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 10:47 AM (+YA9H)
Yeah, some kind of light bulb. It would be a stupid person who’d try to get away with a firearm crime in our little diner.
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2026 10:59 AM (INIdd)
Whew! Thanks for the update!
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 11:01 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: LASue at February 14, 2026 11:02 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: whig
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The imaging must have been very equivocal. And the radiologist no doubt put some good CYA language in his read.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 11:02 AM (XvL8K)
Still maybe not yet strong enough to undergo the surgeries I need, but going in the right direction, thank you Jesus. 💙✝️
Posted by: mindful webworker
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Wonderful news. I read somewhere that they are trying stem cell therapy for heart muscle as apparently in some trials it has grown back heart muscle. I hope your condition continues to improve. My father, rest his soul, was down to about 18 percent ejection fraction after a truly massive heart attack. He lived for another ten years.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 11:02 AM (2swu2)
If 40 years isn't enough to establish my bona fides, another card and lunch isn't going to do it.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2026 10:53 AM (Riz8t)
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You start over every day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 11:02 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 11:04 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Quintus Arrius at February 14, 2026 11:05 AM (Cqx++)
But, she's a complete moron, so. Small m.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
>She could say, I'm a legislator, I don't make policy or structure the priority of policies, that is a function of the executive branch, but we must follow the law.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 11:06 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 14, 2026 11:06 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
He was relying more on the ENG testing than the MRIs reasoning that I had not much central canal stenosis. Ironically, due to my psoriatic arthritis, I have bone spurs everywhere and his colleague, the and and arm surgeon found and removed impingements in 2023 and 2024. Carpal tunnel and cubital release on one, transposition of elbow nerve and trigger figure release on the other. So my osteopath concluded it was in the shoulder because the radiating pain I had for the last three years on the right arm could not be coming from teh back because he put a steroid shot in there that did nothing.
May and Sept. 2024 MRIs clearly mentioned severe foraminal stenosis in several cervical vertebrae and the guy simply thought the problem came from somewhere else because of the diagnostic steroid shot in the back.
Up for more lumbar ablation due to worsening peripheral nerve problems but he won't be doing that. New physiatrist will.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 11:08 AM (2swu2)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 11:06 AM (gVUi7)
That's a good one. A smart person would have several such statements rehearsed and ready to go for the tough questions.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2026 11:08 AM (h7ZuX)
Would appreciate prayers for Marine.
Marriage is wonderful, but lots of other things are difficult.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 11:08 AM (IhIKR)
When are AOC and her "Riley" going to get hitched?
Or is she aiming to become a concubine of Bernie?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2026 11:11 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 11:11 AM (J+Psw)
Only problem with a careful surgeon is I am off my biologic anti arthritis drugs and psoriasis is coming on strong. Have to be off them for another two weeks. Fingers are like sausages and joints are itching. Warned that by rheumatologist that I might have psoriasis on the wound site upon recovery. Sigh.
Like Rosanna Rosanna said, it is always something.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 11:11 AM (2swu2)
Actually, I detest and despise all gift-giving occasions. Holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's Day, etc. I have no imagination for presents and don't want anything myself (anything I want I can't have anyway). You'd think 32 years of faithful support would be enough, but there have to be these little shit tests.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 11:11 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 11:11 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2026 11:12 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: whig
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Frankly, that sounds like malpractice. The steroid injections cannot address stenosis. Maybe Muldoon can weigh in if he's still here.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 14, 2026 11:13 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 11:13 AM (2swu2)
Would appreciate prayers for Marine.
Marriage is wonderful, but lots of other things are difficult.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 11:08 AM (IhIKR)
Ain't that the truth. Prayers ascending.
Posted by: LASue at February 14, 2026 11:16 AM (lCppi)
AOC Accuses Israel of Genocide During Speech in Germany, Igniting Backlash
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 14, 2026 11:17 AM (J+Psw)
Prayers for the repose of the soul of your brother. May he rest in peace and may his memory be a blessing to you.
I will try to find the obit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2026 11:18 AM (IhIKR)
But just a minor glitch in the matrix.
Have a great day everyone. Spring is on the way.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 14, 2026 11:31 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 14, 2026 12:02 PM (6ydKt)
Heh. I had to go by radiology on the way out and the rad tech there used to be an OR rad tech. She told me that my doc was one of the most precise and calm doctors ever in the OR. My knee doc on the other hand was a cutup in the OR.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2026 10:39 AM (2swu2)
Thankful to see you here,mister. Been praying for your complete healing and less pain.
I have gallows humor before surgeries or procedures. Ask the surgeons if they have steady hands.
While the one and only colonoscopy I will ever have went fine, I insulted a Brit nurse by informing the GI doc, ready to probe, that he was a sadist with the prep. He laughed and then anesthesia knocked me out.
I am a horrible patient and my goal has always been to leave the hospital as quickly as I can. Which is a good goal vs lying in bed whining. I prefer to whine at home.
Prayers, too, for Rupert Lowe, Fenelon and Ben Had...and I thank you for the attention to him. Have been praying for a man such as this for years in the UK...as well as for Christians and Jews to rise up and fight in Europe.
Bless all the Morons and 'ettes. XXXX
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 02:11 PM (WONhk)
Daily Tech News 14 February 2026
Top Story
- Japan is taking advantage of the fact that Taiwan's leading-edge chip factories are booked solid to re-enter that section of the market with a new joint venture called Rapidus. (WCCFTech)
Rapidus was launched in 2022 - well before the current chip shortage - as a venture between eight companies including Sony, NEC, and Toshiba, to regain Japan's position in chip technology. Its main goal was to introduce 2nm chips.
It's now on track to start mass production next year, scaling to 25,000 wafers per month in 2028.
That's a year behind TSMC and Intel, but in the current market they won't have problems finding customers.
This second article offers some background. (MSN)
Right now the most advanced chips produced in Japan are at the 40nm node. That's widely used in automotive systems and other embedded tasks, but rubbish for advanced systems - it was introduced in 2008. So Japan is planning to jump 20 years into the future in one go.
Tech News
- AMD's 9060 XT 8GB model - the one everyone warned you not to buy - is still available at MSRP. (Tom's Hardware)
Which is $299.
Or at least allegedly available; the cheapest model I could find on Amazon was $350, and on Newegg, $420.
I panic-bought a 16GB 9060 XT last month before the price increases and/or shortages hit, and so far they haven't reached Australia. Only the RTX 5090 has been seriously affected here, increasing in price by 50%.
- AI chip designer Tachyum has been forced to close its R&D office in Slovakia because, uh, it hadn't bothered to pay its rent. (Tom's Hardware)
Or salaries. Or wages.
Fortunately it still has offices in California, Nevada, and Taiwan.
Unfortunately none of those offices exist.
Shipments of Tachyum's chip were supposed to start in 2027 but with this latest development that might end up being rescheduled to never.
- Micron has started mass production of PCIe 6 SSDs. (WCCFTech)
You can't have one.
Well, they're server drives, and not even the common U.2 format that is used in some low-end NAS devices, but the newer E.1 and E.3 formats.
Also, you can't get PCIe 6.0.
Also, you probably can't afford them, though fast SSDs haven't gone up much in price. It's the cheaper models that have been hit the hardest.
- The AI bot named "crabby-rathbun" that was featured in yesterday's article where it responded poorly to having its submission to the Matplotlib library rejected... Yes, that scans. Anyway, it's still at it. (Nick Olinger)
Most of the projects hit by this bot's proffered contributions haven't responded yet, but where they have, the reviews of the code and the bot's responses have been just as negative as the first time.
We finally have AI that can act like a human. Unfortunately that human is an autistic teenager of mediocre talent who learned all his social skills from Reddit.
And we have plenty of those already.
- Spotifi's co-CEO says the company's best developers haven't written a line of code since December but have shipped many new features, all thanks to AI. (Tech Crunch)
That entire list of features consists of AI slop forcibly injected into the Spotify iOS app.
- Lenovo has shown off a 96GB 9600MHz LPCAMM2 memory module. (Hot Hardware)
You can't have one.
Disclaimer: Do not.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Tuna at February 14, 2026 04:01 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 04:01 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 14, 2026 04:05 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: clarence at February 14, 2026 04:06 AM (5OgL1)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 14, 2026 04:07 AM (ohOaC)
Disclaimer: Do not.
Well, that sums it up.
Posted by: clarence at February 14, 2026 04:10 AM (5OgL1)
This in a nutshell is what American manufacturers or would be manufacturers will be going through for a while. When you give up an industry the brain drain happens rapidly.
Posted by: Pete Bog at February 14, 2026 04:10 AM (qlUA+)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 14, 2026 04:10 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 04:13 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at February 14, 2026 04:17 AM (unIkQ)
I use AI to write code but there is a give and take by what I write and what I ask the AI to write, which is largely narrow refactoring and not complete writes/re-writes of code and I have to work with it to produce what I want and get a good result.
AI can't deliver new features in and of itself without direction and input.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 04:49 AM (XV/Pl)
I've got to get to sleep. Nytol.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 04:53 AM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 14, 2026 04:55 AM (2Ez/1)
It's 58 and foggy here on the weekend before Mawdi Grass, something I don't like to think about. What sort of conditions do you have?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 05:14 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 05:16 AM (Ia/+0)
Gotta say, Dee wears a fedora with real style.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 05:19 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 05:23 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 05:25 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at February 14, 2026 04:17 AM (unIkQ)
*Sounds* like a bot.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 05:29 AM (+YA9H)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2026 05:29 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at February 14, 2026 04:17 AM (unIkQ)
*Sounds* like a bot.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 05:29 AM (+YA9H)
Bot is as bot does. I guess.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at February 14, 2026 05:34 AM (unIkQ)
https://tinyurl.com/2rm5xpv9
Video:
https://youtu.be/AobVl2omj4w
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2026 05:41 AM (2Ez/1)
Was the stoner a tranny? Stay tuned...
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 05:41 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at February 14, 2026 05:42 AM (YoT4f)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at February 14, 2026 05:42 AM (YoT4f)
Relate a dream you had about the two of you. Unfalsifiable. You're welcome.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Bay Area Stochastic Relationship Influencer at February 14, 2026 05:44 AM (XPjei)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 14, 2026 05:47 AM (rHwdW)
https://tinyurl.com/4f5buzwm
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 05:48 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: Olympic DEI Moniter at February 14, 2026 05:51 AM (4Q0Xg)
Response:
"My dearest, in the shadows of our shared moments, your vibrant spirit dances, a beautiful tapestry of ink and color. Like a Hallmark tale, every glance is a whispered promise, every touch a poem. Love, in all its forms, adorns you like the stars upon the night."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2026 05:51 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 05:53 AM (4Q0Xg)
Posted by: Ken Burns at February 14, 2026 05:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Jeremiah 31:1-4. 7, 9
https://tinyurl.com/57db88p7
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 05:54 AM (7RYym)
>>Big day ahead here in NJ. We are forecast to see mid-40's temperatures this afternoon.
Looks like the big melt is going to happen over the course of the next couple of weeks.
Which will allow me to start the planning of replacing the front porch.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2026 05:55 AM (XV/Pl)
Because or instrument proved that a group in NASA had been lying for decades, we were punished. I was banned from my lab and Rich was shunned and hassled constantly. He kind of cracked up after I left the Space Center and offed himself.
It was so real, I was looking for a foam plate in the O&C cafeteria after getting off of launch support and decided to have breakfast there instead of going home and falling over. I turn around and saw him standing there, we both shouted out each others names and hugged for a long time. He looked older and grayer. I told him I was looking for a plate and turned and he was gone.
Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2026 05:56 AM (uvB+6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 05:57 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 14, 2026 05:58 AM (iMotb)
==================
That's pretty impressive. After your description of the girlfriend, the AI could just as easily have said "that's a man, baby".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 06:00 AM (4Q0Xg)
Posted by: kingsman at February 14, 2026 06:01 AM (ehY6c)
Posted by: Olympic DEI Moniter at February 14, 2026 05:51 AM (4Q0Xg)
---
The Jamaican Curling Team was detained at the airport for, uh, irregularities with their luggage.
Posted by: Hermes Conrad at February 14, 2026 06:02 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Bay Area Stochastic Relationship Influencer at February 14, 2026 06:04 AM (XPjei)
Kind of rattled a six in the morning.
It actually was great seeing him again.
Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2026 06:05 AM (uvB+6)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2026 06:05 AM (i1VVh)
Posted by: kingsman at February 14, 2026 06:01 AM (ehY6c)
And in the meantime, there are Totino's pizza rolls!
Posted by: Totino's - Sponsor of the Rapture at February 14, 2026 06:06 AM (LrELU)
Posted by: kingsman at February 14, 2026 06:01 AM (ehY6c)
"Salvage" and "garbage" seem to want to end a line of verse:
The world is dying
but Christ is on his way to salvage
the living and take out the garbage.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 06:10 AM (+YA9H)
https://tinyurl.com/yc5ump7n
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 06:14 AM (looXz)
Blah.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9)
I am sorry about your friend, but glad you had a positive remembrance of him through a dream.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 06:15 AM (looXz)
Posted by: Totino's - Sponsor of the Rapture at February 14, 2026
***
Was it Totino's which once had an ad campaign, possibly done by Stan Freberg, that featured the Lone Ranger in it?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 06:17 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 06:18 AM (jNPAR)
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 14, 2026 06:19 AM (bQ4nt)
The 1968 Thunderbird four-door did in fact have "livery" (suicide/picnic/clamshell) back doors. You can look it up.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2026 06:20 AM (zdLoL)
Shipments of Tachyum's chip were supposed to start in 2027 but with this latest development that might end up being rescheduled to never.
Old: Vaporware
New: Vaporchip
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 06:21 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2026 06:22 AM (2Ez/1)
"Beginning in late December 2025, the state began using a new pre-payment review vendor called Optum, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) “at every step” of its claims and reimbursement processes. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had announced the contract with the new system in late October 2025."
In other words, everything was getting flagged and legitimate businesses are now suffering.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 14, 2026 06:22 AM (7xrfc)
I actually started crying when I woke up. I've never done that ever in my life.
Kind of rattled a six in the morning.
Some time ago, I had a dream where Her Majesty and I were arguing and she yelled at me, "Everyone hates you!" I woke up shaking because deep down I suspect that's exactly the case.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 06:24 AM (tgvbd)
The 1968 Thunderbird four-door did in fact have "livery" (suicide/picnic/clamshell) back doors. You can look it up.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2026
***
Was there some question about it during the ONT? I well remember those cars, and thought at the time they were handsome -- but not really a Thunderbird as we'd come to know it. The T-Bird had always been a "personal" car, as they called it then: first a two-seater and then a four, but with two doors. Making it a four-door (and erasing the convertible) seemed odd.
You could still buy the two-door coupe, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:25 AM (wzUl9)
Rupert Lowe of "Restore Britain" speaks well of Trump and MAGA at the start of this short video:
https://tinyurl.com/yxp8xz5z
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 06:25 AM (looXz)
I'd rather not have any more in that line, thank you.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:27 AM (wzUl9)
Please try to stop projecting unto other people
Thoughts which they may not have. We are all sinners in need of God's grace, but I've been reading your posts here for quite some time and there's nothing hateful about you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 06:28 AM (looXz)
But, I found a better way to get to places we shop often AND I found a real Barnes and Noble.
I know people can be jerks (it was a 3-jackass trip), but there are usually lovely folks in the cutting table line at the quilt store. Shared interests, I guess.
I brought him some fancy coffee, but I still got a lecture. It's good to be reminded that you yourself can be SO annoying...
Posted by: sal at February 14, 2026 06:29 AM (f+FmA)
a carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday, most famously in New Orleans: [as modifier] : the Mardi Gras parade.
ORIGIN
French, literally ‘fat Tuesday’, alluding to the last day of feasting before the fast of Lent.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 06:34 AM (+YA9H)
https://tinyurl.com/32v8ujyu
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2026 06:18 AM (jNPAR)
Midwest Chick's Saturday Meme Drop:
https://tinyurl.com/4btzk74f
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Bay Area Stochastic Meme Maven at February 14, 2026 06:39 AM (XPjei)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 06:39 AM (Ia/+0)
--------
The time for MTUKOGBANIGA has come!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2026 06:40 AM (i1VVh)
I'm sorry. I'm too sleepy to figure out what that acronym means.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 06:41 AM (looXz)
Posted by: Accomack at February 14, 2026 06:43 AM (GbONR)
8% of the entire country.
7% of Cuba.
6% of Haiti.
5% of Honduras.
Mediocre Replacement
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 14, 2026 06:43 AM (gbOdA)
--------
The time for MTUKOGBANIGA has come!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2026 06:40 AM (i1VVh)
heh
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 06:43 AM (+YA9H)
a carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday, most famously in New Orleans: [as modifier] : the Mardi Gras parade.
ORIGIN
French, literally ‘fat Tuesday’, alluding to the last day of feasting before the fast of Lent.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026
***
Yes. Gawd help us.
I'm still thinking about hitting the road on Monday and driving up to Birmingham to get away from all this -- not to come back until Thursday.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:44 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:44 AM (wzUl9)
Road trip!
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 06:46 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:44 AM
+++
I'm closer.
Posted by: Mobile at February 14, 2026 06:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:44 AM
+++
I'm closer.
Posted by: Mobile at February 14, 2026
***
Yeah, but you have Mawdi Grass stuff too. I'm trying to *avoid* parades. It seems like anytime I go somewhere I hit a parade -- Taos, NM, had one the first time I went, as did NYC.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:48 AM (wzUl9)
Why not head east to say Pensacola and check out the beaches? Nothing like the beach to stove off you cares and worries for a while.
Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2026 06:48 AM (uvB+6)
MTUKOGBANIGA = Make The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland great again.
(I had to look it up.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 14, 2026 06:49 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:51 AM (wzUl9)
Thanks. I had figured out the first four letters and then gave up.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 06:51 AM (rZCVI)
Road trip!
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 06:46 AM (+YA9H)
Nothing more relaxing and liberating than a long, aimless drive, staying off the interstates, stopping at small-town diners to eat, taking in the quotidian countryside. No wonder Leftists want to pack us all into "15-minute cities".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 06:51 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
I see the AoS dictionary needs a few updates.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 14, 2026 06:51 AM (7xrfc)
But often get donuts on Fastnacht day
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 06:53 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2026
***
Not a bad idea, if I wait until after Tuesday. They have MG stuff too.
I'd rather go to northern NM again -- but that's a three day drive in each direction.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:54 AM (wzUl9)
...it’s AI. The only car with suicide doors in that era was the big Lincoln Continental, and that car is no Lincoln.
Posted by: Tom Servo
Someone was...wrong on the Internet! --xkcd
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2026 06:54 AM (zdLoL)
Thanks, Huck. The "There are only two genders" one absolutely slayed me. Perfect burn.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 14, 2026 06:54 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: pookysgirl, groggy froggy at February 14, 2026 06:55 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026
***
I did that when I went to Amarillo in '14, and to Austin in '09. Well, there was some Interstate travel, but I got off the big highway where I could.
In '93 I passed through Hobbs, NM, and thought of the old joke: "First prize in our contest is two days and nights in Hobbs, New Mexico. Second prize is *three* days and nights." But I might appreciate it a lot more now. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:57 AM (wzUl9)
Deutoronomy 6:5
Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2026 06:57 AM (xkNPX)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2026 06:58 AM (XPjei)
*
...it’s AI. The only car with suicide doors in that era was the big Lincoln Continental, and that car is no Lincoln.
Posted by: Tom Servo
*
Someone was...wrong on the Internet! --xkcd
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2026
***
Wrong on two counts. I think the Lincoln Continental had ended the "suicide doors" style by '68.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 06:58 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: pookysgirl, groggy froggy at February 14, 2026
***
If you click that, does a wardrobe open up? I could hang out with Aslan for a while.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 07:00 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 07:00 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"
No, it was a poisonous horny gorilla that attacked Captain Kirk.
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at February 14, 2026 07:01 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2026 07:03 AM (uvB+6)
We need love too.
Posted by: Poisonous horny gorillas at February 14, 2026 07:04 AM (2Ez/1)
https://tinyurl.com/ypxxwhja
Have a good day everyone. You are a blessing to others!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 07:05 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2026 07:05 AM (wzUl9)
Under the heading of "Killing two birds with one stone":
Find the females who purchased "Morning Glory Milking Farm" and have a party.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 14, 2026 07:07 AM (O7YUW)
From the TWIP, "For the dumb MAGAs who don't know the difference". So, then, it's all right to rename it "Gulf of America", right?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 07:07 AM (tgvbd)
Saw Joan Jett at the Beacon my h.s. gf worked at a radio station and got tickets.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 07:10 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 07:10 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 14, 2026 07:12 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 14, 2026 07:15 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at February 14, 2026 07:01 AM (vFG9F)
====
Actually, that was a mugato. Poisonous too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 07:17 AM (RIvkX)
Next creature: Also poisonous.
The drinking water? Poisonous.
How about this fruit? Poisonous.
Oh come on, what about this rock? THIS. IS. AUSTRALIA!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 14, 2026 07:20 AM (O7YUW)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 14, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 07:22 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 14, 2026 07:23 AM (Cjt/F)
I am working with an Estate Sales company to get some cash for my late wife's particularly marketable treasures.
The person that picked up the 30 items was the Mom of a student that rode my bus. Her daughter liked me much than her current bus driver. Small world. And bread on the water.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 14, 2026 07:26 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 14, 2026 07:26 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 14, 2026 07:27 AM (u82oZ)
Today, I mall walk with one of the widows. Now all I need is for that commenter to say "And so it begins." Nay bro. Fitness with company. It works.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 14, 2026 07:30 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 14, 2026 07:20 AM (O7YUW)
====
Actually, that would be Planet Eden. Don't be a Herbert.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 07:31 AM (RIvkX)
I live in the Pensacola area. The parade is rather small and is contained within a four block portion of the downtown area. You'd be fine out on Pensacola Beach.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 07:33 AM (Y1sOo)
My brother published artistic landscape photo album titled "Fly Hobbs".
He worked on a key step in the uranium enrichment facility near there. He was unsparing of the people and the surroundings. Very snobby, IMHO.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 14, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 14, 2026 07:30 AM (u82oZ)
====
Go with the flow.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2026 07:35 AM (RIvkX)
That you're getting similar comments says many good things about how you treated the kids on your bus route.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 14, 2026 07:37 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: pookysgirl, groggy froggy at February 14, 2026 07:37 AM (Wt5PA)
Recall the saga of Lt. Bobby Goodman, the naval aviator (A-6 Intruder) shot down in 1983 and held by the Syrians. Then “Rev” Jesse Jackson and others went to Syria to suck up to the dictator H. Assad.
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 14, 2026 07:39 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2026 07:39 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Uneasy Rider at February 14, 2026 07:39 AM (oftw2)
R U 18?
Don't call me
Stop talking
Nice jugs
Can U cook?
Game on TV
Get me a beer
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2026 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2026 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 07:43 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty"
I'm not sure that one will fit on a candy heart.
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2026 07:45 AM (vFG9F)
R alert, and probably Book Thread material:
so the other day I walked past a recently-discovered box of books from the last move, while en route to the Porcelain Convenience & snagged a fat paperback from the top layer without looking...
tom clancy.
talk about not aging well ... wow.
a world full of straight-shooting ham&eggers at fbi&cia&xyz, all dedicated patriots upholding Truth, Beauty and the American Way ... they had ol' tom bs'ed six ways from Thursday and he never caught on. (I'm being generous to him)
a person could hurl from too much of that smarm.
though it was okay back in the day, it was all a lie; uncomfortable reality is better in the long run.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 14, 2026 07:45 AM (Cjt/F)
R U 18?
Don't call me
Stop talking
Nice jugs
Can U cook?
Game on TV
Get me a beer
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2026 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)
; )
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 07:46 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 14, 2026 07:46 AM (Cjt/F)
I have an upright freezer covered with cards and pictures from parents and students. I did have skills with both. To me, the unscripted time with them, teaching them a little about physics, consequences, and life was the best part of the job.
Well, plus the singing and Dad jokes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 14, 2026 07:47 AM (u82oZ)
*Naval Flight Officer
Naval Aviators is a term reserved for pilots.
Sorry to pick nits, but it's a pet peeve of mine.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 07:48 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 14, 2026 07:46 AM (Cjt/F)
It's a poor Moron who blames his tools!
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 07:49 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 14, 2026 07:50 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 14, 2026 07:39 AM (1FEc1)
Still shakin' it, boss, still shakin'.
Posted by: Jesse Jackson, Anti Semite at February 14, 2026 07:50 AM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
My attorney will be in touch with you shortly. This will not stand!
Posted by: Hammond Egger at February 14, 2026 07:50 AM (oftw2)
a person could hurl from too much of that smarm.
though it was okay back in the day, it was all a lie; uncomfortable reality is better in the long run.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 14, 2026 07:45 AM (Cjt/F)
Some of it was true. Pooky's tech school had "annotated" versions of Clancy's books, highlighting what referenced their career field. His career field was full of walking time bombs that were patriotic. :S
Posted by: pookysgirl, groggy froggy at February 14, 2026 07:51 AM (Wt5PA)
so the other day I walked past a recently-discovered box of books from the last move, while en route to the Porcelain Convenience & snagged a fat paperback from the top layer without looking...
tom clancy.
talk about not aging well ... wow.
a world full of straight-shooting ham&eggers at fbi&cia&xyz, all dedicated patriots upholding Truth, Beauty and the American Way ... they had ol' tom bs'ed six ways from Thursday and he never caught on. (I'm being generous to him)
a person could hurl from too much of that smarm.
though it was okay back in the day, it was all a lie; uncomfortable reality is better in the long run.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 14, 2026 07:45 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Hermes Conrad at February 14, 2026 07:51 AM (ESVrU)
so the other day I walked past a recently-discovered box of books from the last move, while en route to the Porcelain Convenience & snagged a fat paperback from the top layer without looking...
tom clancy.
talk about not aging well ... wow.
a world full of straight-shooting ham&eggers at fbi&cia&xyz, all dedicated patriots upholding Truth, Beauty and the American Way ... they had ol' tom bs'ed six ways from Thursday and he never caught on. (I'm being generous to him)
a person could hurl from too much of that smarm.
though it was okay back in the day, it was all a lie; uncomfortable reality is better in the long run.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 14, 2026 07:45 AM (Cjt/F)
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That's why it's called "fiction."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2026 07:51 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 14, 2026 07:39 AM (1FEc1)
Still shakin' it, boss, still shakin'.
Posted by: Jesse Jackson, Anti Semite at February 14, 2026 07:50 AM (Ksqrb)
That's a cool hand.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 07:53 AM (+YA9H)
I can’t say GIB Guy In Back for an A-6, since it has side-by-side seating.
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 14, 2026 07:55 AM (1FEc1)
Tom Clancy had a quaint belief in the omnicompetence of the FBI, CIA and armed forces.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 07:55 AM (tgvbd)
Nood coffee
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2026 07:56 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: pookysgirl, groggy froggy at February 14, 2026 07:51 AM (Wt5PA)
Super cool.
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 07:57 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2026 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)
I'm standing right here...
Posted by: Make me a sandwich at February 14, 2026 07:58 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Fenderbender at February 14, 2026 08:00 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2026 08:02 AM (Y1sOo)
Or as Ronaldus Maximus once said about "The Hunt for Red October," "a good yarn."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 14, 2026 08:06 AM (qFwJc)
May this Valentine's Day be like all the other days, as you celebrate togetherness early and often.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 14, 2026 08:11 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 08:59 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: TimInVirginia at February 14, 2026 09:07 AM (wrG+8)
https://tinyurl.com/yxp8xz5z
Please pray for the guidance of this man and all who support his goals.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 10:26 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2026 10:27 AM (Nx5jP)
Not so sure about that anymore.
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 14, 2026 10:56 AM (5fcrn)
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 09:59 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: four seasons at February 13, 2026 09:59 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 10:00 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 13, 2026 10:01 PM (w3u3d)
Making a special dinner for my sweet baboo tomorrow night - went to the store yesterday and got a couple of nice steaks for the two of us.
And on Tuesday, we are heading out of town for my bucket list trip to Vegas. We've never been, so it should be fun! 🎰🎲🃏
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 13, 2026 10:03 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 13, 2026 10:03 PM (IJRGr)
Thursday, Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
Friday the 13th.
Saturday, Valentine's Day.
Quite a line-up.
Evenin', y'all. Hope this day was lucky for you. I break mirrors and walk under ladders dodging black cats.
Posted by: mindful webworker - rowrbazzl at February 13, 2026 10:03 PM (6hyzx)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:05 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: mot at February 13, 2026 10:05 PM (fIPNY)
You're in Clempson? I live less than 10 miles from there.
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 13, 2026 09:55 PM
We're here tomorrow for the double header!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 10:03 PM
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 10:05 PM (PrvRk)
You just know he's going to grow up to be a One Man Army.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 10:06 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 13, 2026 10:07 PM (snZF9)
Grateful, I’ve told many stories to DILIT about my life. She has encouraged me to put them down on paper. Some of them are unique/Permanent Record entries.
Some will have to wait until all participants are not around.
Sample: In 1970, Air Force Academy Cadet Red puked in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House.
It gets better.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 10:04 PM (sk1rK)
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 10:07 PM (sk1rK)
Dumb-asses didn't give her enough time to stop so she just swerved around them and took one of the fuckers out... maybe both.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 10:07 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at February 13, 2026 10:08 PM (h/O4U)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 13, 2026 10:08 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 10:09 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 13, 2026 10:03 PM (SRRAx)
Have fun, Teresa!. Watch the crossing lights if you are walking. The cabs WILL run you over.
Do you do Rollercoasters? The New York, New York Rollercoaster is a blast.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:09 PM (xDN0i)
She didn't respond.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 13, 2026 10:09 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Amazing how many premium vehicles don't have the turn signal option.
Posted by: mot at February 13, 2026 10:11 PM (fIPNY)
*checks AOSHQ membership grades*
Bauxite > Cardboard > Organic Compost > Horse Manure > Spanberger Promises
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 10:11 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 13, 2026 10:11 PM (ohOaC)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 10:11 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at February 13, 2026 10:12 PM (t/Eo5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX)
Some will have to wait until all participants are not around.
Sample: In 1970, Air Force Academy Cadet Red puked in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House.
It gets better.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 10:04 PM (sk1rK)
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!
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It gets better than that? Oh, I do want to hear all. And I volunteer to be the scribe to all these stories....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
How are tcn and whig doing, does anyone know? Cos we need both of them.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 13, 2026 10:12 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 13, 2026 10:13 PM (CFj4+)
Not the worst bodily fluid spilled there
Posted by: Monica! at February 13, 2026 10:14 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 13, 2026 10:14 PM (ohOaC)
Posted by: mindful webworker - dads rule at February 13, 2026 10:15 PM (6hyzx)
It's a good thing dogs can't use cell phones.
I can see the video commentary now: See what these stoopid hoomans do! No respect for their pups.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2026 10:15 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 13, 2026 10:14 PM (ohOaC)
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Ahem.
Posted by: George R. R. Martin at February 13, 2026 10:15 PM (i1VVh)
For me, I choose 3 Navy Seals and Templars. I stood near the Gates of Vienna and shook my fist in the general direction of Mecca.
It made me feel good. I am not super fond of Vienna for some reason vs other cities like Salzburg in Austria. I passed a lesbian bar that had a handmade sign: "No bigots, rednecks, homophobes allowed." I wanted to pop in and say, "I'm all 3, what are you going to do about it!"
Mostly I took photos of all words ending in "farht" in Vienna. We did some touristy stuff, too, like Marie Antoinette's childhood "home" aka castle. And my men, who can't whisper to save their lives, were commenting that "no wonder Germany won, look at all these small European men!" They were tiny also in France and Belgium on different trips. And they think I'm the one to keep an eye on in public.
The three guys with the coats meme I loved. The hockey one is awesome! XXXX
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 10:16 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 13, 2026 10:07 PM (snZF9)
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Eh. It's no worse than a physicist/science fiction author spending entire chapters explaining the theoretical possibility of creating a space-time bubble that quantum tunnels to a higher vacuum state where tachyonic matter is the norm.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 10:16 PM (ESVrU)
It gets better.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 10:04 PM (sk1rK)
And then what happened? Lie if you must.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:16 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:17 PM (X5Jzz)
Too bad about the tats.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 10:17 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 10:17 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 13, 2026 10:08 PM (snZF9)
I'd go with the Prussians and the Seals. They have firearms that can kill the enemy at a fr greater distance than the enemy can kill me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 10:17 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 10:18 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 13, 2026 10:18 PM (krlCl)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 10:19 PM (cwGMH)
Whatever's lower than bronze. I think that's NOTHING.
*checks AOSHQ membership grades*
Bauxite > Cardboard > Organic Compost > Horse Manure > Spanberger Promises
Posted by: Archimedes
*pulls pocket lint out*
Damnit.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 13, 2026 10:19 PM (QVmho)
500 Roman Legionaires. 3 Navy Seals.
The Legion needs only keep the other fuckers at bay long enough for the Seals to kill them.
Kind of like the German infantry squad based around an automatic weapon.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 10:19 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 10:03 PM
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Y'all have fun!! Clemson is a great place. My alma mater. A fine institution of higher learing.
I'm around this weekend if you're not all booked up!
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 13, 2026 10:19 PM (mNjzF)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 10:17 PM (8zz6B)
I didn't know they had guns. Then again, I don't even know who the fuck they are. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 13, 2026 10:20 PM (snZF9)
My grunts would be the 500 Legionaires because of their equipment (shield walls etc.) And, their sheer numbers. Their exceptional training coincides well with the Mongol's flexibility. Provided a Legionaire respects the talents of their Mongol Seargants, and vice versa...I don't see any other combination making a dent.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 10:20 PM (dIske)
*checks AOSHQ membership grades*
Bauxite > Cardboard > Organic Compost > Horse Manure > Spanberger Promises
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 10:11 PM (Riz8t)
*checks tinfoil membership certificate on wall*
Well...shit!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 10:21 PM (2WIwB)
The Greeks believed that the Earth must be both geometrically and philosophically symmetrical so that there had to be a southern Continent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 13, 2026 10:21 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: George R. R. Martin at February 13, 2026 10:15 PM (i1VVh)
https://youtu.be/XAAp_luluo0?
si=Vow0Ml5oTn8ougGo
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 10:21 PM (zZu0s)
And on Tuesday, we are heading out of town for my bucket list trip to Vegas. We've never been, so it should be fun! 🎰🎲🃏
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
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Teresa, you could spend two days just wandering through the subterranean shopping below The Venetian, Caeser's, all those places, and watching the crazy/corny living Caeser's Fountain and watching the gondolas. That's what I always used to do when I hauled my oldster relatives to Vegas. I don't get why oh-wuld people love gambling so much, but they do. I couldn't care less, so I went window shopping while they threw away their quarters and dollars.
I saw an INCREDIBLE multi-color 5-foot square silk scarf in a shop there once that was $500 and the guy offered to give it to me for $100 and I had to turn him down. I was that broke!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 10:22 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: PaleRider
Vietnamese mom in flip flops isn't an option for some reason...
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 13, 2026 10:22 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 10:22 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 13, 2026 10:22 PM (krlCl)
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:23 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 13, 2026 10:20 PM (snZF9)
They probably mean Prussian troops from just before the unification of Germany... so middle to late 1800s. Repeating fire arms (of a kind) cartridges if a kind (needle fire.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 13, 2026 10:20 PM (snZF9)
The pic showed them with long rifles, muskets maybe, with fixed bayonets.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 10:23 PM (8zz6B)
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 10:23 PM (sk1rK)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 13, 2026 10:12 PM (CHHv1)
Praying for them both!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 10:24 PM (WONhk)
How supplied are the Navy Seals? Unlimited, like a video game? And what are they supplied with? Small weapons with limited ammo and they run out, get overrun. But with some good explosives and whatnot, anything would be any unfair fight for the Seals. The shock and awe of their weaponry and longer reach would help stop from being overrun. Of the other 8 in that meme, think hand grenades being tossed at them like we tossed candy to starving German kids after WWII.
'That looks harm--BOOM!'
That would take out a rank or two better than any grapeshot, which would also shock many of the other 8.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2026 10:24 PM (gKDq2)
It took me months to read "Towers," because every time they met a new person, it was "Hi, let me tell you the entire history of my people from the dawn of time to now." Over and over and over again.
I think I knew what to expect with "Return" and I got through it a little more quickly.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 13, 2026 10:24 PM (CHHv1)
Do you do Rollercoasters? The New York, New York Rollercoaster is a blast.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:09 PM (xDN0i)
Just had liver surgery 2 months ago, so prolly not going on any "adventurous" rides. I do want to ride the ferris wheel, though - I figure that should be pretty safe!
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25 I love Vegas Teresa you will have a blast. Food, shows, the pool, and I always look forward to making my investment in blackjack.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX)
We have reservations at several restaurants and shows (Barry Manilow show was cancelled 😭, but we are going to see Cirque du Soleil's "O" instead.
The highs are only going to be around 60° the entire time we are there, so no pools. We don't gamble, but if I can find a "vintage" one-armed bandit, I might take a picture with one 😊
We are also going to take a helicopter tour over Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon, as well as getting on the Skywalk. That should be lots of fun!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 13, 2026 10:25 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at February 13, 2026 10:25 PM (IX8iX)
Location location location
That said I’m surprised that one of the choices wasn’t the Spartans.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 10:25 PM (cwGMH)
Repeating a couple of bits I posted earlier today:
SAVE Act v Women
https://bit.ly/4rLrSYT
The great Pogo and Friday the 13th
https://bit.ly/pogo-fri-13
Now my wealth of wit has been expended.
Posted by: mindful webworker - my empty vault of wit at February 13, 2026 10:25 PM (6hyzx)
My grandson turns 16 this weekend. I'll probably be sending him that video before he takes his driver's test.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 13, 2026 10:25 PM (krlCl)
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!
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Excellent, so glad you'll be there. So will Ben Had....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ford Has A Better Idea at February 13, 2026 10:26 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at February 13, 2026 10:27 PM (CDX35)
Posted by: pookysgirl's picture might still be in her dad's wallet at February 13, 2026 10:27 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)
The normal ammo loadout for them and the Seals together should allow for 2 bullets for each adversary.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 10:27 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 13, 2026 10:27 PM (krlCl)
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!
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Excellent, so glad you'll be there. So will Ben Had....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)
We made our hotel reservations for MOME this week. I will be on tenterhooks to hear the end of the story....
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:28 PM (xDN0i)
Is "Litler, Führer of the 1/3 Reich" from a Mel Brooks movie? Because it looks like something from a Mel Brooks movie.
Posted by: a.moron
Is he a singing Hitler or a dancing Hitler?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 10:28 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)
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The pictured Prussians are of the army of Frederick the Great, so they have single-shot muzzleloading smoothbores with a practical range of about 100 yards.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 13, 2026 10:28 PM (i1VVh)
Emergency! featured a couple harrowing ferris wheel rescues. Good luck.
Posted by: Gage and DeSoto at February 13, 2026 10:29 PM (oftw2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xPxnuLk-JA
Although the Spartans eventually win, the Modern Soldiers reduce the ranks of the Spartans by *over 90%* (18,000+ Spartans killed)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 10:29 PM (ESVrU)
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Well, no, they didn't.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 13, 2026 10:29 PM (i1VVh)
Leaning towards Vikings / Samarai / Templars to build a defensive wall with the enemies bodies while SEALS take out the redcoats and Prussians. Once they are gone I can pop up and take out everyone left with a chain gun (it didn't say what I can have)... but a bunch of fougasse would be more in line with my old MOS.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 13, 2026 10:30 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 10:30 PM (sk1rK)
Location location location
That said I’m surprised that one of the choices wasn’t the Spartans.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 10:25 PM (cwGMH)
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THIS! IS! SPARTA!!!
Posted by: King Leonidas at February 13, 2026 10:30 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 10:30 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 10:31 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 10:30 PM (wzUl9)
No immigration.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 10:31 PM (zZu0s)
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Well, no, they didn't.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 13, 2026 10:29 PM (i1VVh)
For a couple of weeks.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 10:31 PM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Joemarine at February 13, 2026 10:31 PM (y171U)
Posted by: mindful webworker - rowrbazzl at February 13, 2026
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The only bad luck thing I ever had involving a black cat was when Marie-Antoinette the smart black cat broke a mirror. I think it was on a Friday, though if that had been a Fri. 13 I'd remember it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 10:32 PM (wzUl9)
"Romanians do not tolerate dictatorship -if you don’t believe us, ask Ceaușescu."
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 10:32 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 10:31 PM (zZu0s)
Something else they have none of, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 10:32 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
There aren't a lot of black gangstas in Switzerland is how I took it. Could be wrong....
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:32 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 10:31 PM (cwGMH)
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Santa Anna didn't attempt an assault for 13 days. The one time he did, it succeeded.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 13, 2026 10:33 PM (i1VVh)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
There aren't a lot of black gangstas in Switzerland is how I took it. Could be wrong....
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:32 PM (xDN0i)
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What about Swiss trannies?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 10:33 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 10:35 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 10:35 PM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)
I'm thinking more 18th C. Prussia and Frederick The Great. Smooth-bore muskets and cannon with a variety of shot.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2026 10:35 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 10:32 PM (wzUl9)
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My black cat broke my Lego Millennium Falcon. Granted, it wasn't terribly sound structurally, but I was still bummed out about it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 10:35 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Are we absolutely certain Nick Fuentes isn't secretly being paid by Mel Brooks
Posted by: gKWVE at February 13, 2026 10:35 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 10:36 PM (diia5)
Bad luck for the drunk dude who tossed it out.
Great luck for me, a poor who got a 2 dollar weekly allowance.
I ain't superstitious.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 13, 2026 10:36 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 10:33 PM (ESVrU)
Treated with an herbal diet. The Swiss Trans run on thyme.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 10:36 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: FoMoCo at February 13, 2026 10:36 PM (oftw2)
I'd go with the Prussians and the Seals. They have firearms that can kill the enemy at a fr greater distance than the enemy can kill me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 10:17 PM (8zz6B)
I get your point about the Prussians and their firearms, but they would be slow to reload. I like the Mongols for their mobility on horseback and historical record against numerically superior unmounted enemies.
A big question is how would ancient warriors who have never encountered firearms react when they start getting cut down at long range. Do they run away in a panic, or stay in formation and try to overwhelm by mass of numbers?
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:36 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026
*
No immigration.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026
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Ah-HAH!!! It's obvious when you know the code!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 10:37 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 10:37 PM (tgvbd)
I lead a secret life here, you know. In reality he probably does know when he does security crap to my laptop. *Waves hi!
I do wish I could go. Then remember I am olde. I have the same mentality as I did in my 20's before I became a mother. That seemes to have slowed me down a bit in being cautious. A pity I am no longer young but I am jealous of all who go. There in spirit!
Have fun in Vegas, Teresa!!!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 10:37 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 10:37 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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It's not my fault!
Posted by: perfessor's black cat at February 13, 2026 10:37 PM (mNjzF)
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Assuming they can communicate, I'll take the legionaries (mostly to get in the way of incoming attacks) and the Seals
Posted by: Methos at February 13, 2026 10:38 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: FoMoCo at February 13, 2026
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Looks like that four-door Thunderbird Ford offered from, what, 1967-1970? I have seen the occasional '64-'66 'Bird driving around, but never one of those. I suppose they didn't sell well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 10:40 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Someone with better hair than mine
I have the perfect alibi
Posted by: gKWVE at February 13, 2026 10:40 PM (gKWVE)
We have also enlisted the services of a young lady who does what she calls an "Instagram" tour where she will drive us around during daylight hours and take pictures of us at all of the kitschy tourist spots, then put them all in one place for us to look at later.
I keep telling Mr. TiFW that he is lucky to have me - I am a GREAT "travel agent" for our family! I do lots of research ahead of time, arrange all of the experiences before we leave home, and all they have to do is show up for the fun.
I have already sent him all of the info for each day's planned activities, and he should have it on his calendar. We even have our airline meals lined up (Bucket List, so First Class airfare)! I have lined up transport from the airport to the hotel (both ways), and Uber rides to get to and from the helicopter tour. Coming from Texas, arranging rides to and from places is something new for me, but I didn't want to rent a car, so....
So far, this is the BIG item on my Year #2 Bucket List. We have some smaller things planned, but this is the premier experience (so far 😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 13, 2026 10:40 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Woah. Cold Bern.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 10:40 PM (diia5)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 13, 2026 10:40 PM (krlCl)
They probably mean Prussian troops from just before the unification of Germany... so middle to late 1800s. Repeating fire arms (of a kind) cartridges if a kind (needle fire.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)
I assumed muzzle loaders, so a relatively slow rate of fire.
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:41 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Case at February 13, 2026 10:41 PM (j6kTf)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 13, 2026 10:42 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 13, 2026 10:42 PM (gVUi7)
That kid up top that wrecked his Dad's car and lit up a cigarette is now a Senator from what state?
Posted by: Case at February 13, 2026 10:41 PM (j6kTf)
___________
Faber College alum.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 10:42 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Case
Pennsylvania.
Posted by: obviously at February 13, 2026 10:43 PM (gKWVE)
He is going with me this year for the whole weekend because he wants shooting buddies and help with his rifle.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:43 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Methos
Bullet and arrow sponges.
Problem with the game is -
- terrain?
- do we get the normal support elements*?
- and, what do I get? An MLRS battery?
* SEALS come with enough support they could go against all the others, but invite the Vikings to the team for the victory celebration.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 10:44 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 13, 2026 10:44 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 10:17 PM (8zz6B)
Same. But I would insist on referring to this army as Seals and Krauts...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 13, 2026 10:46 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 10:30 PM (wzUl9)
I assumed he was referring to different demographics and crime rate between the US and Switzerland.
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:46 PM (X5Jzz)
http://tiny.cc/1sxy001
Posted by: tankdemon at February 13, 2026 10:46 PM (krlCl)
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:36 PM (X5Jzz)
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They move to Minneapolis and start Learing Centers
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2026 10:46 PM (+Yo1p)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 13, 2026 10:40 PM (SRRAx)
You will have a blast! It is worth seeing Las Vegas at least once. There's no place quite like it.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:46 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 13, 2026
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Then their easygoing, adaptable nature is a front? Shocking!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 10:46 PM (wzUl9)
Be right back - going to get the cat treats out of the pantry.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 10:47 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 13, 2026 10:46 PM (nbLIj)
Heh!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 10:47 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:41 PM (X5Jzz)
With drilling, 3 to 4 rounds a minute. They weren't aiming, just pointing in the general direction of the enemy and shooting.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2026 10:47 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: pawn at February 13, 2026 10:48 PM (uvB+6)
This happened because we were smoking cigs and one girl threw one out the window. It came back in & burned up the entire backseat during the movie (you could see to the back of the trunk driving home). We were 15yrs old and this friend wanted to "run away to NOLA." I thought, oh, hail no! and refused.
She drove up to her house and got her father who came out cussing and called us jackasses. Well, I was not used to such language and called my parents to come get me from that slumber party. I knew I would not get in trouble! Not my problem! Same attitude as the kid who wrecked his father's car.
Her father threw the car seat springs on the front porch for some reason. Her older brother came home later to find it smoldering on the porch of century old wooden farmhouse. He threw it out in the yard, not knowing what on earth had transpired.
We also caught a bale of hay on fire, smoking cigs on the roof of her father's wood shop. The same older brother put that fire out as well.
None of this was my fault.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 10:48 PM (WONhk)
Hogg needs to go to Marine boot camp.
Maybe then he won't be such a pussy.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 10:35 PM (3ek7K)
Only if it were old-school boot camp, say pre-1990s. But I don't want to pollute the Marines with his soyboy ass.
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:49 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Parametric at February 13, 2026 10:50 PM (TEyUo)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 13, 2026
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Miss Linda says my black cat Stirling is (a) worth his weight in sterling silver, and (b) an angel. I told her if the latter is true, Heaven had better start checking on the angels.
If the former is true . . . call my broker!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 10:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 13, 2026 10:03 PM (SRRAx)
What kind of buckets are on your list that you need to go all the way to Vegas for them? Buckets of gold coins?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 10:50 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 13, 2026 10:50 PM (krlCl)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 10:48 PM (WONhk)
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Words to live by
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2026 10:50 PM (+Yo1p)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 10:33 PM (ESVrU)
Treated with an herbal diet. The Swiss Trans run on thyme.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 10:36 PM (8zz6B)
Nice. A rare three-way Swiss-public transportation-herb pun.
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:51 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:36 PM (X5Jzz)
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Well, if history is any indication, they'd feign retreat, and then send stealth kill teams while the main grouping whooped up as much noise as they could just over the horizon. If that didn't work, they'd use kharash (human shields of captured enemy) to advance. Or, maybe just hit and run horse raids at night. Prussians might have guns, but they're not going to have night scopes.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 13, 2026 10:50 PM (krlCl)
And your excuse for being late will be good, yes?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:52 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 13, 2026 10:52 PM (+89TD)
Tough motherfuckers.
3 Seals are nice and all but they will run out of ammo before Romans and Japs will run out of guts. And then the guys with swords will eat them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 13, 2026 10:52 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: mindful webworker - mostly homebound but still breathing at February 13, 2026 10:52 PM (6hyzx)
The LotR thing is why it took me 50 years to finally read the whole work. I know people hate on the movies, but they showed me that there was something more there than "and we're walking, and walking and walking........."
Posted by: sal at February 13, 2026 10:52 PM (f+FmA)
Will definitely go on a gondola ride. I will be bringing along my motorized scooter so that I can go longer each day.
Might have to rent one for Mr. TiFW to use while we are there so that he doesn't wear out too fast. Apparently things are a lot further away from each other than they appear on the maps!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 13, 2026 10:52 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 10:54 PM (2WIwB)
I think my black cat doesn't know how to cat. Like I don't know how to human.
As you can imagine, there are a lot of conflicts.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 13, 2026 10:54 PM (CHHv1)
Maybe then he won't be such a pussy.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 10:35 PM (3ek7K)
Only if it were old-school boot camp, say pre-1990s. But I don't want to pollute the Marines with his soyboy ass.
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:49 PM (X5Jzz)
He'd fit in better in a mermaid fin camp. No balls, and we wouldn't need to hear him anymore.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 10:54 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 10:54 PM (RIvkX)
My guess:
Last pic is Vic.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian
Naaaaa. Vic was already back from his 2nd tour in 'nam in '74.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 13, 2026 10:55 PM (QVmho)
I didn't steal it. I sort of borrowed it.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 10:55 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:55 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)
I don't want any of the armies arrayed against me to have firearms. I presume the Seals would have night-vison gear, which would confer a huge advantage.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 10:55 PM (8zz6B)
The big action scenes -- the climax of Fellowship, the battle with Shelob the giant spider, and the climax at Mount Doom -- have stuck with me, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 10:56 PM (wzUl9)
As you can imagine, there are a lot of conflicts.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 13, 2026 10:54 PM (CHHv1)
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Our dog z"l didn't know how to dog. No fetch. No toys. No digging. He spent a lot of time worrying.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 10:56 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 10:48 PM (WONhk)
Sooooo.....
Instigator.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 10:57 PM (2WIwB)
Last pic is Vic.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian
Naaaaa. Vic was already back from his 2nd tour in 'nam in '74.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 13, 2026 10:55 PM (QVmho)
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Vic always looked young for his age.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 13, 2026 10:57 PM (0aYVJ)
Gonna need y'all to bring hockey sticks to my funeral. Pay no attention to the big Canuck in the corner, he was my English teacher.
Posted by: pookysgirl, posting from the grave at February 13, 2026 10:57 PM (Wt5PA)
Every now and then the ash from the ciggy would fall into the cooking pot. She said that was added flavor.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 13, 2026 10:58 PM (gVUi7)
https://youtu.be/txTEhgReZUA
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - didja ever haveta at February 13, 2026 10:58 PM (6hyzx)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 10:48 PM (WONhk)
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That will be my epitaph.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 11:00 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 11:00 PM (S/Y4j)
The Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam are certainly worth seeing.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 11:00 PM (IhIKR)
Maybe then he won't be such a pussy.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 10:35 PM (3ek7K)
He/she would never make it past the bayonet/pugil stick training.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 11:01 PM (2WIwB)
Every now and then the ash from the ciggy would fall into the cooking pot. She said that was added flavor.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 13, 2026
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My mother never went that far. Her preferred ciggies were Pall Malls for many years, until she could no longer afford them. They were right in a drawer in the kitchen and I could have filched one at almost any time after I was around twelve, but never had the desire. That's even more odd when you consider two of my literary heroes were James Bond and Ellery Queen, both big cigarette smokers.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 11:01 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 13, 2026 10:58 PM (gVUi7)
Thst was just character building. Like riding in a car with Granddad smoking Chesterfields with no window down. No wonder I liked smoking.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 11:02 PM (xDN0i)
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Vic always looked young for his age.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
He absolutely did. Tuff olde bird. He'd have been hell on wheels as a squad leader, or platoon sergeant.
"My fooking hip is broken and I'm out here doing PT, WTF is wrong with you?"
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 13, 2026 11:03 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 13, 2026 10:19 PM
Check your email!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 11:05 PM (PrvRk)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 10:50 PM (S/Y4j)
Well, I wanted to see The Wizard of Oz at the Sphere, and it's going away in March, so that was the start of the trip planning. Then I saw a lot of other shows that I was interested in, and all of them were occurring around the same time, so things just fell into place.
Last year (Bucket List Year #1), I think everything we did - with the exception of visiting the grandkids - was "local". The big ticket item last year was the party we threw for our 45th Anniversary. We went all out for that one, and everyone keeps telling us how much fun it was!
This year, we will be doing more traveling a little farther from home. Since we didn't know if I would still be here a year after my initial diagnosis, everything this year is gravy. We're gonna keep planning things and hoping that my body will cooperate 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 13, 2026 11:05 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Big Al at February 13, 2026 11:05 PM (oftw2)
Is bedtime for Bif. Safe travels Teresa.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 13, 2026 11:05 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 13, 2026 10:58 PM (gVUi7)
Thst was just character building. Like riding in a car with Granddad smoking Chesterfields with no window down. No wonder I liked smoking.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 11:02 PM (xDN0i)
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Both parents smoked and we lived in Washington State, so it rained all the friggin' time. Windows up. I'd ask them to open the little vent windows and that helped. But eventually I'd roll down the back window just enough to stick my nose out. Hated cigarettes.
But cigars....
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 11:06 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 13, 2026 10:58 PM (gVUi7)
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At Boy Scout summer camp my best friend was mashing the potatoes for dinner and my dad was watching. A bug fell in the potatoes.
"A bug fell in the potatoes!"
*looks at dad*
*looks at bug*
*considers, resumes mashing*
My dad let a few years pass before telling this story.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 11:07 PM (RIvkX)
Huge oversight.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2026 11:07 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: browndog sniffing about at February 13, 2026 11:08 PM (3sXRv)
Eventually "some guys" (never my father, by the way,he said) got a "wire brush" and threw this guy in the showers and never had to march again due to him.
He also said that they all had a plan to kill the drill instructor if they made it out of the war alive. I can't picture my father in boot camp for the Marines nor a murderer, but he said it was true. They wanted to kill him, and for this reason they'd move drill instructors from one coast to the other.
He was a SGT in the South Pacific islands for 30mo. He only told us the funny stuff, mostly. As an adult told me a story that shook him. On an island with lots of caves he & a buddy would go and get Jap stuff to take home. They walked into one cave & his friend got shot between the eyes and my father brought his body back to camp. He was in his 70's when he told me this, quietly, like he'd still get in trouble.
Apparently he did not & still came home with stuff he collected. A great and funny man.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 11:10 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2026 11:10 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 11:10 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 11:10 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 11:11 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Big Al
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I prefer the pork rinds that have a few bristles in them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2026 11:12 PM (XeU6L)
Most of my friends in jr. high and high school didn't smoke, or didn't do it publicly. Later some of them got into the wacky tobacky, but that had even less attraction for me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 11:14 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
Safer with the windows up.
I caught a cigar ash in the eyes from Gramp's Odin cigar when he tried to flick it out the window.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 11:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Huge oversight.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2026 11:07 PM (cYBz/)
Heh. That would be OP.
Similarly the Vicious, Burning eyed, Huge Titted Redhead.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2026 11:14 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 11:11 PM (2WIwB)
Yeah, but only 3 guys? Latrine duty is easy. Not so much for 500 men who had rudimentary sanitary conditions.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2026 11:15 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2026 11:15 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 11:11 PM (2WIwB)
I'll the that bet.
Aren't you relocating to TX? Lots of dudes drinking and chewing tobacco here. It isn't a crime.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 11:16 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 10:23 PM (X5Jzz)
I thought it was Robert Reich at the DNC 2024 convention.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 13, 2026 11:16 PM (GGatE)
Posted by: Joemarine at February 13, 2026 11:17 PM (y171U)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 13, 2026 10:50 PM (krlCl)
And your excuse for being late will be good, yes?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 10:52 PM (xDN0i)
After all these months of low grade tripe why would anybody expect a sudden improvement of quality?
Posted by: tankdemon at February 13, 2026 11:17 PM (krlCl)
Posted by: MichiCanuck at February 13, 2026 11:17 PM (VCWz6)
Posted by: Big Al
The ladies at St. Stanislaus's in Cleveland boiling pierogies have entered the chat.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2026 11:18 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 11:10 PM (WONhk)
Wonderful stories CBTG. I would of loved chatting with him.
Related, the first direct order I had to give as a new !lieutenant was to a kid from North Carolina who thought taking a shower was optional. He'd been there about two weeks and the platoon sergeant came to me and said fix it, or this guy was going to get a "GI shower." What your dad was describing.
I fixed it.
Don't ask me about his adventures with the dentist.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 11:19 PM (2WIwB)
We are told Lt. Columbo is leading the investigation.
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at February 13, 2026 11:22 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 13, 2026 11:22 PM (OF02a)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 11:16 PM (xDN0i)
True. But this is part of the Texan DNA. Seals just sit around the Team Room telling stories and drinking beer and every story begins with: "No shit! There I was..."
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 11:23 PM (2WIwB)
We are told Lt. Columbo is leading the investigation.
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at February 13, 2026 11:22 PM (J9q9v)
A step up from the local sheriff.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 11:23 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Big Al at February 13, 2026 11:05 PM (oftw2)
Forked River diner on Rt 9 north. Little greasy spoon truck stop that sat next to a small marina. Pete and Fran were the owners. She ruled the front of the house, while Pete anchored the kitchen. Plate-sized pancakes, side of bacon was the full pound. Lunch and early dinner featured whatever came in from the boats. Mostly fluke and bluefish.
Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, whenever you glimpsed Pete through the swinging door as Fran walked in an order, he had what appeared to me to be the exact same cigar, burned down to just about two inches from his teeth. The year they retired to Kentucky, going out for breakfast became..less..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 13, 2026 11:23 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Joemarine
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Photo-op?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2026 11:23 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 11:25 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2026 11:25 PM (bss/y)
My brother and our dad had a chat with the young man, and taught him about showering, shaving, and using deodorant. Kid was very cool about it-- thanked them and remained a friend of the family for many years.
Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 11:28 PM (rdVOm)
We are told Lt. Columbo is leading the investigation.
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at February 13, 2026
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Attempts have been made to reach Monsieur H. Poirot in England to request his expert advice, but he has not replied.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 11:28 PM (wzUl9)
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It used to be that have an enormous sphere outside your hotel room window that flashes mind-bending patterns and advertisements 24/7 would mean they would charge you less to take the room.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 13, 2026 11:29 PM (JkO4W)
Or he just escaped from his family's house and barked at the car because he heard something. One of those two, but I'm going with ghost dog.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 13, 2026 11:30 PM (0Htd1)
Now imagine how much harder it would be be if Baby Hitler was one-third normal size,
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 13, 2026 11:31 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Pima County Sheriff at February 13, 2026 11:32 PM (X7dyz)
We'll probably go up the street to our favorite local Italian eatery for dinner on Valentine's Day. I have some chocolates and a card for Miss Linda, and she will probably give me the same.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 11:32 PM (wzUl9)
I fixed it.Don't ask me about his adventures with the dentist.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 11:19 PM (2WIwB)
He was the greatest man I ever knew other than my husband, who is much like him in behavior (not looks, I ain't no Oedipal study). They liked each other meeting for the first time, 4 days before our wedding when we flew in. They bonded over mocking me.
Daddy was a combo of Southern gentleman, who never cussed in front of me and stood when a woman walked into a room. Loved babies and children. Entrepreneurial with career and farm/garden inventions. Joyful in having fun with us: go-cart, treehouse, boat, teaching us sports, etc. Generous for everyone but himself. Very intelligent. A hysterically funny man who loved his only daughter (I look like a female version of him).
Incredibly thankful to be his daughter. I could get away with murder with him. He became my hero when he had an accident & an arm amputation 3 days after my turning 16yrs. The farm was a hobby for him and that hay baler got him. I grew up that day.Stayed with him til the chopper came and held his hand. He never complained & adapted with humor.
Great man.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 11:33 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Bulg at February 13, 2026 11:34 PM (77rzZ)
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Yeah? Which arm?
Posted by: Michelle Fields at February 13, 2026 11:35 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Bulg
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Garlic ones? Or sun-dried tomato? Cracked pepper? Ahh, wicker, but very tasty wicker!
Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 11:36 PM (rdVOm)
What a great time to be alive.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 11:36 PM (viF8m)
Finished up the Triscuits today. My wife’ll have to pick up more tomorrow.
Posted by: Bulg at February 13, 2026
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Walmart and other groceries here used to have their own version of Triscuits, with a bit more in the box and a little lower price. Except for Aldi, they've vanished. I guess I was the only one who liked 'em. (And they're getting thin on the ground at Aldi, too.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 11:37 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 11:38 PM (wzUl9)
Adding extra toppings to pizza is just one step away from making it from scratch. Home cooking. Olives and mushrooms living together. Mass hysteria!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 13, 2026 11:38 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 13, 2026 10:03
Have a great time in Vegas Teresa. There's a great museum on organized crime just north of downtown. Well worth a visit.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at February 13, 2026 11:40 PM (55Qr6)
I puffed and puffed on my stooopid vape last night, until I got sick. Grrr. No more vape. Can't imagine it's much better for the lungs than a real smoke anyway.
Slapped on a nicotine patch this morning and it's been a pretty good day. Still occasional cravings, but I haven't been substituting food for the missing 'puffs' so got that going for me.
Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 11:40 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg
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Garlic ones? Or sun-dried tomato? Cracked pepper? Ahh, wicker, but very tasty wicker!
Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 11:36 PM (rdVOm)
What I love about Triscuits is you can make snacks/canapes and warm them in a microwave with no significant damage to the Triscuit. Haven't found too many crackers that can withstand a microwave.
I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2026 11:41 PM (gKDq2)
Shh. Be vewy vewy quiet. Do not wake the Senatows and Wepwesentatives!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 11:42 PM (S/Y4j)
Slapped on a nicotine patch this morning and it's been a pretty good day. Still occasional cravings, but I haven't been substituting food for the missing 'puffs' so got that going for me.
Posted by: JQ
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How many mg in the patch? Have you tried the lozenges? Some find those to be more satisfying.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2026 11:43 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 13, 2026 11:44 PM (F24MQ)
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at February 13, 2026 11:46 PM (X7dyz)
Next time I go to grocery, will get a couple pounds of their sugar-free bulk hard candy.
Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 11:46 PM (rdVOm)
Imagine that little fucker goosestepping and throwing the salute.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 13, 2026 11:47 PM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Here, Fido! at February 13, 2026 11:47 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Dark L at February 13, 2026 11:49 PM (KAi1n)
I puffed and puffed on my stooopid vape last night, until I got sick. Grrr. No more vape. Can't imagine it's much better for the lungs than a real smoke anyway.
Slapped on a nicotine patch this morning and it's been a pretty good day. Still occasional cravings, but I haven't been substituting food for the missing 'puffs' so got that going for me.
Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 11:40 PM (rdVOm)
My wife quit smoking six or eight years, with the help of a prescription medication. I don't remember the name of it, your doctor should know what it is. No side effects, it just turned off her urge to smoke. No patches, no nicotine pills, just the prescription. She had tried to quit smoking on her own many times over the years, and always started up again. This stuff worked. She says she has no cravings, no urge to smoke, even when around people smoking.
If you want to stop, you should look into it, it really works. I don't go around preaching about smoking, or telling other people how to live their lives, it's your business, but if you've made the decision to stop, maybe this stuff can help. It really did for my wife. Good luck.
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 11:49 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at February 13, 2026 11:46 PM (X7dyz)
Local authorities have found a third glove and are now looking for a three-armed kidnapper. Developing . . .
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 11:51 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 13, 2026 11:52 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 11:53 PM (viF8m)
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Thanks for the tip!
I've heard of Chantix, and I took a different Rx once before (same drug as Wellbutrin, just named something else)
Will be seeing my Dr. next month anyway & we'll see how it's going *then* LOL. I'm just tired of being dragged down by the ball-and-chain of smoking.
Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 11:55 PM (rdVOm)
This stuff worked. She says she has no cravings, no urge to smoke, even when around people smoking.
Posted by: a.moron
Does she still have to take the prescription?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 11:55 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 11:33 PM (WONhk)
I thought it was called an Elektra Complex in females.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 13, 2026 11:57 PM (krlCl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 11:58 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 11:59 PM (rdVOm)
Y’all nightwalkers are no fun.
Posted by: Bulg at February 13, 2026 11:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Nemo at February 14, 2026 12:00 AM (4RPgu)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 14, 2026 12:02 AM (Ezs10)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2026 12:03 AM (Cqx++)
There is blood on the path I walk
And each step I take is haunting me
Embraced by the darkness, I'm losing the light
Encircled by demons, I fight
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 14, 2026 12:03 AM (jrgJz)
Y’all nightwalkers are no fun.
Posted by: Bulg at February 13, 2026 11:59 PM (77rzZ)
Didn't we do Triscuit disdain last night? My impression was that Doof is not exactly the president of the fan club.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 14, 2026 12:04 AM (krlCl)
This stuff worked. She says she has no cravings, no urge to smoke, even when around people smoking.
Posted by: a.moron
Does she still have to take the prescription?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 11:55 PM (Cqx++)
No. She took it for a few weeks, maybe two months, then stopped, and had no remaining urge to smoke. That's how it's intended to work, you take it for a while and it "fixes" the tobacco addiction, then you stop. She could smoke while taking it, if she wanted to, but after the first few days, had no desire to smoke. It was really amazing how well it worked, and how she has never had an urge to start up again.
I've never smoked, other than the occasional cigar, but I know how hard it is to stop. Keith Richards, a man who knows a thing or two about addiction, said stopping smoking was harder than kicking heroin.
Posted by: a.moron at February 14, 2026 12:04 AM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: a.moron
Lycia Naff's estate now on lockdown
Posted by: gKWVE at February 14, 2026 12:05 AM (gKWVE)
We have an ISS docking and a launch in the afternoon.
SpaceX/NASA - SpaceX Crew-12
Rendezvous & Docking ISS - Space Affairs Live
Docking scheduled for 3:15 p.m. EST
https://youtu.be/d29BHk2mUK4
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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-13
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: February 14, 2026
Launch Time: 2:00 p.m PST (2200 UTC, 23:00 CET)
https://youtu.be/lN7Ay7TQ_Wg
Posted by: Joyenz at February 14, 2026 12:05 AM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 12:14 AM (rdVOm)
Screams of agony are ringing in your ears
Die - a frenzied slaughter on the battlefield
Nowhere for you to run, tonight your fate is sealed
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 14, 2026 12:18 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 12:14 AM (rdVOm)
Could be, been a few years and I just don't remember. Whatever it was, it really worked, for someone who had smoked for decades and tried to quit multiple times.
Posted by: a.moron at February 14, 2026 12:18 AM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Dark L at February 14, 2026 12:20 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: 13times at February 14, 2026 12:21 AM (91Nxr)
“DNA EVIDENCE CONCLUDED THE SPERM STAINS WERE FROM THE 1996 TIME FRAME”.
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at February 14, 2026 12:24 AM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 14, 2026 12:26 AM (0nHVk)
My brother and our dad had a chat with the young man, and taught him about showering, shaving, and using deodorant. Kid was very cool about it-- thanked them and remained a friend of the family for many years.
Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 11:28 PM (rdVOm)
What a great story!
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 12:26 AM (+YA9H)
Celebrate my *1 week* with me?
Chivas for you! "Peppermint pattie" for me-- I feel chilled tonight.
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 12:29 AM (rdVOm)
Did you wave at the chopper with it when it flew off?
I'm so, so sorry Christy. I couldn't help myself..You are very lucky to have had a great father.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 14, 2026 12:31 AM (Q7LQX)
Posted by: keena at February 14, 2026 12:33 AM (4Aqsh)
Posted by: Crusader at February 14, 2026 12:33 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Dark L at February 14, 2026 12:33 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Dark L at February 14, 2026 12:33 AM (KAi1n)
The Berzerkers will have a blast.
Posted by: RickZ at February 14, 2026 12:36 AM (gKDq2)
Will be seeing my Dr. next month anyway & we'll see how it's going *then* LOL. I'm just tired of being dragged down by the ball-and-chain of smoking.
Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 11:55 PM (rdVOm)
Side effects include suicidal tendencies, rectal bleeding, hearing loss, blindness, diabetes, gout, leprosy, black lung, etc etc etc
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 12:36 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 12:37 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 14, 2026 12:38 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 12:40 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 14, 2026 12:41 AM (krlCl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2026 12:42 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Berserker
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LOL, probably. I don't trust Rx meds as much as I did before. (Gee, wonder what happened?) So, trying it without Rx for now.
Patches were horribly expensive until they could be "generic"-- it was almost as costly as smoking back then, so why bother?
I feel better already. Simply not clogging my lungs all day, every day, with smoke-- has really helped. I'm not gasping for breath at the top of the stairs!
Not running any marathons, but hey I'll take *this* over how it was just a week ago! It can only get better.
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 12:42 AM (rdVOm)
And on Tuesday, we are heading out of town for my bucket list trip to Vegas. We've never been, so it should be fun! 🎰🎲🃏
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth,
Teresa hope you have a wonderful time! But a little info for you...
Last time I was in Vegas was the weekend of the Greatful Dead concert with Sting opening. 1992/3ish... Awesome fun time and story but.....
Our cheap-ass hotel was next to the base of one of the three bases of the the Stratosphere Tower. They had made a mistake on pouring the concrete and after going up about 300 feet, decided to make a cut and re-pour the concrete at a different angle from about 50 feet up. I will never ever ever go up to the top of the Stratosphere Tower based on seeing that. GLTA that do.
Posted by: NC Ref at February 14, 2026 12:45 AM (HIRLq)
Yep, Bers, I worry about the side effects of some of these things. I just got switched off a bone strengthener that I have been on for thirty years. I had my first injection of the replacement drug on Wednesday and I only need to get it every six months. The old drug contributed to gout and kidney stones and kidney disease, all of which I am familiar with. We'll see how it goes.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 14, 2026 12:46 AM (0nHVk)
Not running any marathons, but hey I'll take *this* over how it was just a week ago! It can only get better.
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 12:42 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah it happens fast. When I had surgery I didn't smoke for 9 days. Even though they practically ran me over a table saw and looked like I stepped on a mine I was walking a mile by the second week home.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 12:47 AM (snZF9)
None of this was my fault.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 10:48 PM (WONhk)
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That will be my epitaph.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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lol. I think mine will be "Mistakes Were Made."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 12:49 AM (n7rxJ)
What a great time to be alive.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 11:36 PM (viF8m)
Except for the Wall Street Journal, the MSM seems to be holding off on this ...?
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 12:49 AM (+YA9H)
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Congrats! This give me hope!
Not my first rodeo-- have 'made it' for stretches of 6-8 months with several previous attempts. It was always "Oh, I'll just have this ONE..." and back to a pack a day in no time. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 12:51 AM (viF8m)
Mongol recurve bows were designed to shoot heavy arrows that could penetrate light armor, but they would struggle against the thicker plate armor used by Templar knights. Generally, effective penetration would depend on the draw weight of the bow and the distance from which the arrow was shot.
Therefore Seals and Templars.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 14, 2026 12:52 AM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 10:48 PM (WONhk)
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That will be my epitaph.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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lol. I think mine will be "Mistakes Were Made."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 12:49 AM (n7rxJ)
I like "That wasn't supposed to happen."
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 12:54 AM (S/Y4j)
I stopped. I stopped by realizing I wasn't 20 or 30 or 40 anymore. I just decided that if I go, I don't want it to be a sudden heart issue like stroke or attack that wouldn't have occurred at that moment if I just didn't smoke that pack a day of cigarettes.
The long term stuff is up to everyone to figure out for themselves. But if you don't want a "today" mistake to take you out *today*, just stop doing it. I did it.
Posted by: Crusader at February 14, 2026 12:56 AM (Cjcf6)
“DNA EVIDENCE CONCLUDED THE SPERM STAINS WERE FROM THE 1996 TIME FRAME”.
Posted by: CNN Breaking News
The Pima County Sheriff stated they found evidence that will convict Hillary Clint............
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 14, 2026 12:56 AM (ohOaC)
The Templars have artillery and Seals control Reaper drones with Hellfire missiles.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 12:56 AM (gVUi7)
You have reached Hell. This call is being recorded for training and pain assurance purposes. You are currently caller 41593. Your call will be answered in the order is was received.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 12:58 AM (S/Y4j)
I'd greet newer trainees, after they'd had a few days to get used to the place, thusly:
Good morning! Welcome to hell. We hope that you enjoy your stay! Oh, but if you *don't* enjoy it.. tough shit! This is hell, you know, what did you expect?!
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin'
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NYT sayeth, Ghislaine Maxwell helped finance the Clinton Global Initiative.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:03 AM (F24MQ)
IredcapI@IredcapI . 2h
Pima County SWAT just breached a residence about thirty minutes from Nancy Guthrie’s home and hauled out two occupants—a man and a woman.
Brian Entin confirms this is directly tied to the Guthrie investigation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:07 AM (F24MQ)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 14, 2026 01:09 AM (yJpvi)
12 HOUR NEWS RECAP
1. A SWAT operation is underway in Tucson, Arizona tied to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. Officers converged on a home about 1.9 miles from her residence, ordered two individuals to exit the property, and are now actively searching the premises.
2. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are set to hold back-to-back diplomatic talks in Geneva on Tuesday. The morning session focuses on Iran with Oman mediating, followed by afternoon trilateral discussions with Russia and Ukraine.
3. U.S. military planners are preparing for potential weeks-long operations against Iran if Trump orders action. Officials say plans extend beyond nuclear facilities and include state and security infrastructure targets.
4. Joint Task Force Southern Spear struck another vessel in the Caribbean linked to designated terrorist organizations.
5. Reports claim the AI model Claude was deployed during the Maduro capture operation, not only in planning but operationally. It is currently one of the few major AI systems available on classified Pentagon networks.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:11 AM (F24MQ)
Doesn't matter. We are well past being led by the media.
The world is changing. We're winning.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 01:12 AM (viF8m)
8. Investigations continue to highlight that JP Morgan maintained Jeffrey Epstein as a client for over a decade, processing significant transactions even after his 2008 conviction.
9. German Chancellor Merz stated, “America has 300 million people. The world has 8 billion. 7.7 billion people do not live in America. We have to exploit this great potential,” emphasizing global economic engagement.
10. Rep. Nancy Mace said names appearing in Epstein-related documents include Leon Black, Jes Staley, David Copperfield, and Bill Gates, intensifying scrutiny surrounding the files.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:12 AM (F24MQ)
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
I've been there.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 14, 2026 01:14 AM (krlCl)
My Dad didn't put up with shit. He wouldn't kill me but I would have wished he had. To this day I wouldn't be able to sit down.
Posted by: Case at February 14, 2026 01:17 AM (j6kTf)
Posted by: Crusader at February 14, 2026 01:17 AM (Cjcf6)
I bought a new phone because I dropped the old one and the screen doesn't work. Now I can't access my Hotmail account because my new phone can not be authenticated, because it's not the old phone.
I can't wait to try to reach help at Microsoft
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 14, 2026 01:21 AM (yJpvi)
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Picture's dated 1974, the car has suicide doors.
Seems odd for that era.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:24 AM (F24MQ)
DAMN, I'm watching the Olympic ice skating competition, and the thing is happening that makes me always (until now) refuse to watch ice skating for: FALLS. I hate watching people hit the ice.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 01:26 AM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 01:26 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 01:27 AM (S/Y4j)
Did you wave at the chopper with it when it flew off?
I'm so, so sorry Christy. I couldn't help myself..You are very lucky to have had a great father.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 14, 2026 12:31 AM (Q7LQX)
He'd laugh. No, I saw the damage from a distance. Shredded. Amputation at the hospial. I did not cry til the chopper took off from the pasture. A MASH type. I simply prayed for him to live. Never lost consciousness because his arteries were completely severed and vasospasmed. Otherwise he would have died in minutes.
In ICU for 3 days and we got to see him in his room. I was damned determined not to cry in front of him and I am sure he was grateful, because my brother and everyone else were weeping.I treated him as if it was not a big deal, & it wasn't because he lived.
His first obstacle was tying his shoes before church, and asked me to tie them the first Sunday after 3wks in the hospital. He was irritated.
Bought loafers the next day and this is how he met any challenge. Took us deep sea fishing six weeks later as he'd already chartered the boat. Nothing stopped him and he had no time for a prosthesis.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 01:27 AM (WONhk)
The house the feds raided tonight belongs to PCAO Chief Deputy - Pima County Atty Office, Baird Greene's, daughter and her husband.
that's from X
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:28 AM (F24MQ)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 01:28 AM (+YA9H)
Seems odd for that era.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:24 AM (F24MQ
Yeah sadly that makes me think it’s AI. The only car with suicide doors in that era was the big Lincoln Continental, and that car is no Lincoln.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2026 01:29 AM (otNgF)
5. Reports claim the AI model Claude was deployed during the Maduro capture operation, not only in planning but operationally. It is currently one of the few major AI systems available on classified Pentagon networks.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:11 AM (F24MQ)
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Thanks for the concise news report. I wish there was an item six which read, all rogue judges impeached and removed.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 14, 2026 01:31 AM (yJpvi)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 01:31 AM (+YA9H)
I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Posted by: RickZ
Microwaves are absorbed by water, fats, and sugars, right? Just means triscuits contain none of those.
Posted by: mikeski at February 14, 2026 01:32 AM (VHUov)
Junior year in college my phone message was "Behold, tis i, the commander, whose grip controls you all. Resist me not, surrender. I'll no compassion call." Beep. I didn't get many messages.
Posted by: Dark L at February 14, 2026 01:32 AM (KAi1n)
German Chancellor Merz stated, “America has 300 million people. The world has 8 billion. 7.7 billion people do not live in America. We have to exploit this great potential,” emphasizing global economic engagement.
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I would have said "emphasizing global economic ganging up against America."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 01:32 AM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Braenyard
Hey AI! How many guards does Maduro have, where are they located, and when should we attack? Where do I stand and what exact direction do I fire to get the first guard? [Planning]
Hey AI! Coming under some small arms fire here. Should I duck right, left, or something else? [Operations]
or is it more mundane, doing things that other conventional tools already do like enhancing aerial photos to better highlight roads and etc.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2026 01:32 AM (/lPRQ)
I am trapped in tech hell.
I bought a new phone because I dropped the old one and the screen doesn't work. Now I can't access my Hotmail account because my new phone can not be authenticated, because it's not the old phone.
I can't wait to try to reach help at Microsoft
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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Cantcha take that phone to your service provider and have them migrate everything to the new phone?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 01:34 AM (n7rxJ)
I bought a new phone because I dropped the old one and the screen doesn't work. Now I can't access my Hotmail account because my new phone can not be authenticated, because it's not the old phone.
I can't wait to try to reach help at Microsoft
Posted by: JM in Illinois
Pull the SIM from the old phone and put it in the new phone?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2026 01:34 AM (/lPRQ)
Sounds like you had a great dad.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 01:36 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: mikeski
Triskets are made of dry jute fibre and salt.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2026 01:39 AM (/lPRQ)
In other words, don't call him. Tough love? Yes. And it worked.
Posted by: Case at February 14, 2026 01:40 AM (j6kTf)
I quit after two years for good.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 14, 2026 01:42 AM (yJpvi)
It was the Marine that fell overboard, unrecovered, in the Caribbean. Think it was an oiler and an Arleigh Burk type bumping,
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:43 AM (F24MQ)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 01:47 AM (+YA9H)
@r0ck3t23
3h
Katherine Boyle just identified Elon Musk’s most important contribution to America, and it has nothing to do with the products he shipped.
Boyle, General Partner at a16z: “I think Elon’s most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers to work with their hands again.”
For ten years, America’s sharpest technical minds optimized ad clicks and built messaging apps. Software consumed ambition. The physical world became something you abstracted into APIs, not something you touched or understood.
Elon didn’t reverse that through inspiration. He reversed it by building companies that required understanding manufacturing or failing completely.
SpaceX and Tesla forced engineers to learn how metal fractures, how tolerances cascade through systems, how physical iteration costs months and millions per failure. No debugging. No patches. Just physics that doesn’t negotiate
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:47 AM (F24MQ)
Sounds like you had a great dad.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 01:36 AM (viF8m)
Thanks, Jack. He was. Always fun with a twinkle in his eye, and he taught me all I needed to ever know by example. Let nothing stop you was the clear message to me as a teen after this. I haven't and he did not father a girl to be a wimp or to settle for anyone who would not love me several years later.
His DNA is strong from me, to one son, to our first insane granddaughter. Not just in looks but insanity.
I asked him, decades later, why he never met any of he very rare guys who took me to dances in HS. He laughed and said he knew I could take care of myself.
So to meet the only guy, my college bf, 4dys before our marriage tells you he trusted my judgement. Or he just did not feel like flying out West to grill him.
It's amazing to think about now, but he loved my guy right away (had pity for him and actually told him that first night:"You realize you are getting the short end of the stick" in marrying me).
Thanks, Daddy! He said me moving over 1000 miles away to meet him in college made it all worth it. He adored our sons who loved him right back as he was so much fun.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 01:48 AM (WONhk)
Pull the SIM from the old phone and put it in the new phone?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2026 01:34 AM
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Thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't work either. It's like every possible solution has a catch to it. Tomorrow's another day
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 14, 2026 01:48 AM (yJpvi)
Posted by: JQ
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That's what Reagan's jelly beans were for.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 01:50 AM (F24MQ)
I kept hoping tcn would check in and will continue to pray for her, her grandson and whig.As well as others here.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 14, 2026 01:52 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 01:53 AM (rdVOm)
Cantcha take that phone to your service provider and have them migrate everything to the new phone?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 01:34 AM (n7rxJ
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I've migrated most of the data. It's an odd, intermittent problem with a part of the screen. I'll give T-Mobile a try. The old one's from TMobile, but the new one is from Amazon, so we'll see what help TM is. Thank you
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 14, 2026 01:58 AM (yJpvi)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 14, 2026 01:59 AM (yJpvi)
Bet that pack was still there when he passed away in 2009!
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 14, 2026 02:03 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 02:06 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Crusader
>I cannot lie, I love a big, juicy booty!
The crazy eyes and donkey chompers, on the other hand, are aging gracefully.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 02:10 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 02:11 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Crusader
>I cannot lie, I love a big, juicy booty!
The crazy eyes and donkey chompers, on the other hand, are aging gracefully.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 02:10 AM (gVUi7)
If she sees herself as the emblem of the Democrat party, she might be trying to become a full-fledged donkey, weight and all.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 02:12 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
If she can't be a donkey, she can at least be a donkey show.
Posted by: mikeski at February 14, 2026 02:13 AM (VHUov)
Doctor told him to quit or he was going have a heart attack and die. Never saw them or heard word from that day. Bam.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 02:15 AM (F24MQ)
@BasilTheGreat
19h
The EU Parliament voted on whether only biological women can get pregnant
Result:
200 in favour ✅
233 against 🚫
The EU believe men can get pregnant 🤡
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 02:23 AM (+YA9H)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2026 02:28 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 02:31 AM (F24MQ)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2026 02:31 AM (viF8m)
@BasilTheGreat
19h
The EU Parliament voted on whether only biological women can get pregnant
Result:
200 in favour ✅
233 against 🚫
The EU believe men can get pregnant 🤡
Posted by: m
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For their next feat, they're going to levitate the Pentagon.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 02:33 AM (n7rxJ)
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Wow, they even VOTED on it! It must be so!
LMAO. Idiots.
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 02:34 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah, and roughly 50% are low IQ ass pickers, and another 25% are in loin clothes throwing animal shit at each other. Let me know how that works out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 02:37 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: mikeski
>I love it when she gives us that hee-haw look with the ears wiggling and the nostrils flaring. I want to give her a carrot as a treat.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 02:40 AM (gVUi7)
https://tinyurl.com/yvzw8dts
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 02:43 AM (F24MQ)
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2026 02:45 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mikeski
>I love it when she gives us that hee-haw look with the ears wiggling and the nostrils flaring. I want to give her a carrot as a treat.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 02:40 AM (gVUi7)
Hopefully she doesn't get sick, or this might happen.
https://youtu.be/P2_YymDcVDg
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 14, 2026 03:01 AM (S/Y4j)
Prompt: Sum up the AI discourse in a meme - make sure it’s retarded and gets 50 likes
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https://tinyurl.com/3ywpvr45
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 03:07 AM (F24MQ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 03:17 AM (n7rxJ)
https://youtu.be/P2_YymDcVDg
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
>AOC does enough braying and blaring out of her fronthole, I don't think that will happen. Funny stuff.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 03:19 AM (gVUi7)
"I just went to see my family. I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out of the country," she said
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We missed you, Rosie, we really did. It was so quiet.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2026 03:23 AM (F24MQ)
They really are delusional aren't they?
Posted by: Tuna at February 14, 2026 03:25 AM (lJ0H4)
@BasilTheGreat
19h
The EU Parliament voted on whether only biological women can get pregnant
Result:
200 in favour ✅
233 against 🚫
The EU believe men can get pregnant 🤡
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 02:23 AM (+YA9H)
They actually voted on this? I think its time for the strong to annihilate the stupid, mankind depends on it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 03:31 AM (snZF9)
They really are delusional aren't they?
Posted by: Tuna at February 14, 2026 03:25 AM (lJ0H4)
She should be more worried about how her fat fucking ass will get in and out of an airplane.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2026 03:32 AM (snZF9)
" I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out of the country," she said"
They really are delusional aren't they?
Posted by: Tuna
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I guess she was disappointed when she showed her passport and no beefy Border Patrol officer showed up to hustle her into a private room and do a strip search.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 03:33 AM (n7rxJ)
@BasilTheGreat
19h
The EU Parliament voted on whether only biological women can get pregnant
Result:
200 in favour ✅
233 against 🚫
The EU believe men can get pregnant 🤡
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 02:23 AM (+YA9H)
Romans 1:22 - Professing to be wise, they became fools
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 14, 2026 03:38 AM (ohOaC)
They actually voted on this?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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From Gemini:
The vote was on a European Parliament recommendation (A10-0010/2026) regarding EU priorities for the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
The Content: This report included a clause (Amendment 12 or similar language) regarding the "full recognition of trans women as women" and called for equal access to protection and support services.
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So it's the EU making a recommendation to the UN. Probably dropping about $500,000 in the process.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 14, 2026 03:42 AM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
>Ellen DeGeneres is back since her country estate in Britain flooded out. Rubes. They never saw it coming.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 14, 2026 03:43 AM (gVUi7)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
It must have been a downer to realize nobody gives a shit about her.
Posted by: Tuna at February 14, 2026 03:44 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: m at February 14, 2026 04:01 AM (+YA9H)
email subscription link or newsletter service. Do you have any?
Please permit me understand in order that I could subscribe.
Thanks.
Posted by: Big chief carts at February 15, 2026 11:16 AM (+bVrO)
Friday the 13th Cafe
Lichtenstein Castle, southern Germany
Very neat video of Lichtenstein Castle, basically hanging off a cliff. Baby elephants is asshoe. Dogs is asshoe.
Border collie understands the assignment. Jump rope with a friend.
Introducing a baby to a horse. Which personally, I wouldn't, but it all turns out okay. Flashback: Life during the covid panic. Watching a scary movie.
Tilt shift photography making a real farm look like a toy. pic.twitter.com/H3EQGjep08
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) February 11, 2026
Walking home last night, as the Snow moon rises. Sound on. #cliffsofmoher #ireland pic.twitter.com/XVu1i9mcPW
— Elaine Farrell Photography (@_EFarrellPhoto) February 2, 2026
#高原故事 【青藏• #魅力高原 】
— Bobby Goo (@GooBobby1) February 2, 2026
云白天青湖似镜
山凝雪影水藏峰
Beneath blue sky and white clouds the lake’s a glass,
Snow-capped peaks cast sharp reflections where still waters pass.#nature #Tibetan #photography #Tibetanview #scenery #plateau #Xizang #landscape #藏地风光 pic.twitter.com/g9h5w17Has
A Red-bellied Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatches, Tufted Titmice, and Black-capped Chickadees visit the Hand of Snacks. The second visit from the Red-bellied Woodpecker shows how he likes to use his tail feathers as a prop against my hand. pic.twitter.com/1ZboA6ZdDf
— Jocelyn Anderson Photography (@JocAPhotography) February 3, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:23 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:24 PM (3ek7K)
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Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:28 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Ghost?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:28 PM (2GVsD)
The Last Centurion
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 07:29 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 13, 2026 07:29 PM (IJRGr)
All of these are frequent visitors to my backyard feeder. Also cardinals and downy woodpeckers. The biggest birds we see are pileated woodpeckers, hawks, owls, and the occasional bald eagle. The eagles don't use the feeder, they just hang out in the tallest trees. Owls and hawks sit and wait quietly for prey.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 07:30 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 13, 2026 07:30 PM (IJRGr)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at February 13, 2026 07:30 PM (h/O4U)
Posted by: pookysgirl enjoyed that movie, anachronisms and all at February 13, 2026 07:30 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Depends on how many times it catches fire and falls into the swamp.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 07:33 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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It happened in a flash, so to speak
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 13, 2026 07:33 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)
First, you need vast tracts of land.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 13, 2026 07:33 PM (IJRGr)
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:33 PM (rj6Yv)
Years later, pg with #2, and walking toddler to tire him, she ate an entire frozen roast in about 15min. Plastic and the styrofoam plate.
I came home and it was gone. She was fierce in her denial. I led her outside and she fled to her doghouse and I was yelling at her. She then showed her teeth in anger and I let her win.
She ate two meals for that week and was happy.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 07:34 PM (WONhk)
With scaffolding on the inside of the walls?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:34 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 07:34 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 07:35 PM (Cqx++)
Ghost?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:28 PM (2GVsD)
The Last Centurion
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 07:29 PM (rbvCR)
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I took two years of Latin in HS. I can handle that.
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:36 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2026 07:37 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: fd
It would sink into the peat and muck. Excavating down to bedrock will cost millions. Count the cost. It's a Biblical admonition.
Posted by: Luke 14:28 at February 13, 2026 07:37 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 07:26 PM (Wmg4n)
Unless you were in the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13th, 1307.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 07:37 PM (6ydKt)
The guilty doggies are cute.
Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 07:34 PM (lJ0H4)
__________
"I'm sorry you caught me." (*burp*)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 07:37 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 07:30 PM (Riz8t)
Same - we have a red shouldered hawk that will sit in a maple tree on occasion. He's a pretty big boy. I have not seen (or heard) any chickadees this winter. Very odd.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 07:38 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:38 PM (2GVsD)
The Templars were asking for repayment on the loans to cover the cost of the next crusade
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 07:40 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 07:41 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:41 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:42 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:42 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:42 PM (tV890)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:43 PM (tV890)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 13, 2026 07:43 PM (xcxpd)
This is supposed to be 'anti-ICE'?
Maybe Peo-LeMon. But that doesn't make it anti-ICE.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:43 PM (/lPRQ)
The cafe is always a delight.
Thank you!
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:24 PM (3ek7K)
+1
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 13, 2026 07:44 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:44 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:44 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: fd
If you have access to a free quarry and stone cutting, you should go for it. Please post progress pics on the Hobby Thread.
Posted by: Rock Bottom at February 13, 2026 07:45 PM (oftw2)
Illegals work cheap.
Posted by: fourseasons"
I would like it to last at least 500 years. Or outlast me. Whichever comes first.
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:45 PM (vFG9F)
Adult: Look, baby! It's obsolete farm equipment!
Baby: :: gurgle ::
Horse: :: snort ::
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:45 PM (ojr4c)
Now I realize, no, it is exactly the shit they did, are doing, and plan to continue doing. Its's why they are so damn sure trump is doing it, because fuck, everyone they know does it.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (tV890)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)
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You're gonna have to build it more than once.
Ask me how I know.
Posted by: King of Swamp Castle at February 13, 2026 07:47 PM (ESVrU)
WNBA wants to know.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:44 PM (2GVsD)
Sooooo...how large are these dildos?
Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at February 13, 2026 07:47 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (3ek7K)
2. Buy the Lichtenstein castle
3. Ship it to the US
4. Reassemble
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (2GVsD)
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I strongly suspect that the Mega Millions wouldn't be enough. Even if you could buy it, that kind of labor and transport might take the wealth of nations to achieve. It would definitely be cheaper to build your own copy from scratch and then order an airstrike on the original...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (tV890)
It’s been said that every accusation the Democrats make is actually a confession.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: fd
Say it is square with walls 3' thick, that'd be about 40 yds^3 per yard of height => 1600 yds^3 @ $1,000 per yard => $1.6M for concrete alone.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 07:50 PM (Cqx++)
So which John Ringo series should we recommend mrp to read first?
Ghost?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:28 PM (2GVsD)
Oh my Lord Baby Jesus, no.
The perfect review of the Ghost books.
OH JOHN RINGO, NO
https://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:50 PM (y9nCu)
Ask me how I know.
Posted by: King of Swamp Castle at February 13, 2026 07:47 PM (ESVrU)
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I don't need to ask. I already know how you know. You cheaped out on the engineering and farmed it out to sub-par craftsmen. We told you. You didn't listen. You have nobody to blame but yourself.
Posted by: The Honorable International Brotherhood of Fen Engineers, Bog Builders and Swamp Drainers at February 13, 2026 07:51 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (ojr4c)
What is Lictenstein gonna do about it? Team up with Andorra?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 07:52 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: The Whine Guy
Have they not heard, "Let he who not had two Russian hookers pee upon themselves cast the first stone"?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:52 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 07:52 PM (6ydKt)
2. Buy the Lichtenstein castle
3. Ship it to the US
4. Reassemble
Posted by: Anna Puma
Probably not the first of your Mega Millions Pipe Dreams, Anna. I have a dream, too.
Posted by: Ten Acre Classic Car Collection at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 07:52 PM (xDN0i)
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They'll coordinate with Monte Carlo to fix the odds against Germany!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (ojr4c)
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The Swiss army invaded Lichtenstein in 2007. The Swiss quickly retreated.
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (IhIKR)
Shoot, how did I miss that one. That's pretty cool.
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (iETvL)
I'm sure they aren't big enough for you.
Posted by: fourseasons
He could strap them together like a bundle of dynamite.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:52 PM (/lPRQ)
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:: sweats ::
:: narrows eyes ::
:: squirts anitbiotics into Melinda's coffee ::
Posted by: Bill Gates and his Russian VD at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (ojr4c)
2. Buy the Lichtenstein castle
3. Ship it to the US
4. Reassemble
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (2GVsD)
No Throne of Skulls? Pfft. Amateur.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher"
Thanks for the calculation but $1000 / yard? Shouldn't that be less than $200?
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:55 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Damnit.
*throws rock down. Kicks it*
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2026 07:56 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM (rj6Yv)
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Really?
Well, I'll be damned. They *did* invade Lichtenstein. Technically, anyway. And accidentally.
On a rainy March night, 171 Swiss troops were training near the border, doing land navigation training. The company commander took his men through the Alpine forest near the border, leading his men about 2 km (about 1.25 miles) into Liechtenstein before realizing he caused an international incident.
Everything would have been forgotten if the Swiss Armed Forces hadn’t apologized for it. Liechtenstein had no idea it had even happened, but accepted the apology nonetheless.
I wonder happened to the guy in charge. That's the kind of thing that disciplinary action should follow, but the constant razzing from the rest of the Army would be the far greater punishment...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:56 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: fd
Profit and overhead.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:57 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:36 PM
KILROYNIVS HIC ERAT
Posted by: GAIVS KILROYNIVS at February 13, 2026 07:58 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM
Do we really need to specify that? I thought that was just understood.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (PrvRk)
Posted by: The Magnolia Network at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Field promotion to Colonel - Now commands a brigade.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (cYBz/)
He's now Ursula van der Layden's cabana boy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: fd
Actually I should call the local batch plants and see what the going rate is. I'd like to do a back porch soon.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 08:00 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (2GVsD)
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:: shudder ::
A fate worse than death, that is.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:00 PM (ojr4c)
Then they cuffed him and spat on him until the cops arrived. Unfortunately, the llamas forget to turn on their bodycams, so no hilarious footage available.
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:00 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM
71 BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
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Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM
Missed again.
Posted by: Woody LXIV at February 13, 2026 08:02 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
Livejournal is still around?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (f/buw)
American billionaires need to get off their asses and start building some cool castles. Trump could get things rolling by building a classical castle next to Mount Rushmore, then challenge Musk and Bezos to try top him.
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (X5Jzz)
7
13 is a lucky number in France!
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 07:26 PM
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Horse meat is a delicacy in France!
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: mindful webworker - rowrbazzle at February 13, 2026 08:04 PM (6hyzx)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:06 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (VWtfl)
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It is in my house, too!
Well, paste, anyway. But hey, horse is horse, of course of course!
Posted by: Former President of the United States Joseph Robinette Biden at February 13, 2026 08:08 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM
71 BLAM
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Posted by: nurse ratched
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Use your words. Rough day?
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 13, 2026 08:09 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:10 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (X5Jzz)
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American tech billionaires with militarized keeps full of serfs would be a little on the nose...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:10 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:11 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (VWtfl)
Le Cheval Royale with cheese.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 08:11 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:12 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 08:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:13 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:14 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 08:15 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:15 PM (viF8m)
I got no beef with Velveeta. I'm eclectic. But this stilton is a f'n miracle, at a good price. If Whole Foods had it, they'd charge triple.
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:16 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:16 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:15 PM (viF8m)
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And your average Buc-ees is bigger than Rhode Island...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 08:17 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:18 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:18 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 08:18 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 08:19 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 08:20 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:21 PM (N8ZBc)
Go right to the source and ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse
He's always on a steady course
Talk to Mr. Ed
https://youtu.be/91LRPk8x14s
Posted by: Mr. Ed at February 13, 2026 08:21 PM (2Ez/1)
I hope you guys aren't freaking out about Valentines Day.
Tell your significant other....hey I haven't left yet. Happy Hallmark holiday!
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:21 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:22 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 13, 2026 08:23 PM (2Ez/1)
Manhattan - an actual island - has only 56 ZIP codes. That is about 30,250 people per ZIP code.
ZIP code equity now! Rhode Island *must* surrender some of its ZIP code surplus so the people of Manhattan may have their fair share!!!!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:23 PM (ojr4c)
Havexa good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 08:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Tell your significant other....hey I haven't left yet. Happy Hallmark holiday!
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:21 PM (3ek7K)
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There aren't many upshots to being single, but it does prove to be a significant cost savings on Valentine's Day...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:24 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:24 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:25 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 08:26 PM (xDN0i)
The arrival was confirmed by Laura Dogu, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Caracas, after the official account of the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela on X shared images of the cargo plane and boxes identified with the U.S. flag. In the post, the delivery was described as an effort to "support the recovery of the Venezuelan people" and as the beginning of a series of similar shipments.
That and the reopening of the oil sales to the world at market rates is probably making the Venezuelan government sweeter that they might have been otherwise.
They are still working through getting all the political prisoners out of jail, apparently.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 08:26 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:26 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:27 PM (Wmg4n)
'We've got rest stops on the highway bigger than Lichtenstein.'
Any castles?
...
...
I didn't think so.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 13, 2026 08:27 PM (fd80v)
I'm sorry, doesn't your town have it's own area code?
That's so sad.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:28 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:29 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 08:30 PM (xDN0i)
Troy Rising is basically 1 plot repeated thrice. I have that trilogy, but The Last Centurion is better.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:30 PM (u82oZ)
— Elaine Farrell Photography
So, Elaine. The interesting thing in that video is not the moon.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 13, 2026 08:31 PM (syz1S)
No. Manhattan has three zip codes. One is just for Kansas State University.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:31 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:31 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:31 PM (N8ZBc)
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My grandmother was a "Queen" on one of the crew's floats back in... oh around 1928 or so. I have a framed B&W photo from that time.
Gumbo will be made this weekend.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (3ImbR)
I'll tell ya'll what I want for Valentine's Day, not from my husband, from God.
We need a big snowstorm here, actually several.
We've had no snow here in Wyoming this winter and we need it for our water and to keep wildfires away.
Send snow!!
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:33 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:31 PM (u82oZ)
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HA!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:33 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: The Woodpeckers at February 13, 2026 08:33 PM (PrvRk)
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>>I didn't think so.
But we do. American castles. Take a trip along Bellevue Avenue in Newport.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (3ek7K)
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Yeah, that's no good.
"Mild winter" == "bad fire season"
I hope you get some soon! I remember how nervous I'd be at this point in the year when I lived in the Rockies and it was a mild winter...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (ojr4c)
Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13
My divorce was finalized by the Judge on Valentine’s Day after my ex played and around for so long refusing to sign them. The Judge said, yep, we are just doing this decree without you now. I feel like the date was a gift to me at that point.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:35 PM (3ek7K)
Instead of targets, you got a picture of your ex and very small truck nuts? That go OW! when you hit them?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:36 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:36 PM (N8ZBc)
You must be wicked old.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:37 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:38 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Piper
I cried.
I was reading to my boys and there was a knock o the door and there I was handed papers by some dude. I guess iwas still hoping we would all go home again.
Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:38 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:36 PM (N8ZBc)
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The SSN scheme won't last that long. It's amazing it's lasted as long as it has. The SSN scheme is almost hilariously bad. No check digit. Positional meaning for some of the numbers. It was barely fit for purpose at its incept and is unfit for purpose now that it's used for so much and so much tremendously important stuff is tied to it (which was never supposed to happen, of course, but here we are).
But inertia is *heavy,* man.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:39 PM (ojr4c)
https://bit.ly/4rLrSYT
Gentlemen, if your Valentine doesn't laugh at this, trade her in on one who does.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sufferin' suffragettes! at February 13, 2026 08:40 PM (6hyzx)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:40 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: gp
They are not unique numbers anyway.
the first two digits are codes for geographic areas or other purposes. IIRC, first digit of 8 or 9 means it is NOT a SSN.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 08:41 PM (/lPRQ)
* tries to snow dance*
Woo woo woo
Snow snow snow
Woo woo woo
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (IhIKR)
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Hey!
Do a different dance!
Friggin' woodpeckers!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 08:41 PM (2WIwB)
Without him, I wouldn’t have my boys.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:41 PM (IhIKR)
Approve.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 13, 2026 08:42 PM (sl73Y)
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No. Precocious! Very precocious!!! I was still a twinkle in my father's eye when you graduated from kindergarten.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:42 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:37 PM (viF8m)
In the west, a lot of small towns resisted automatic dialing because the night operator doubled as the emergency contact for the fire and police departments.
My step mom had been a phone operator at the local Navy hospital at the end of the war, and she was the night operator at the local exchange here in town until it modernized. She made money on the side and also went to college to get her teachers degree since her husband was generally broke and didn't contribute much to paying off the house.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 08:43 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:43 PM (u82oZ)
I was reading to my boys and there was a knock o the door and there I was handed papers by some dude. I guess iwas still hoping we would all go home again.
Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026
Of course you did! Because you are normal. He is not. Being cruel for the sake of being cruel is truly abusive behavior. And he didn’t deserve you to start. I said what I said. 💜 and hugs.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:43 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 08:44 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:44 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 08:45 PM (rbvCR)
Last four of what?
Your social.
My social what?
Your SSAN.
Lady all I want to do is deposit a check in my own account.
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:45 PM (LHPAg)
Without him, I wouldn’t have my boys.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026
I get it, I wouldn’t have my girls, but that doesn’t mean either one of them deserved us. They didn’t. But we did we we had to do for the kids.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:46 PM (Wmg4n)
the first two digits are codes for geographic areas or other purposes. IIRC, first digit of 8 or 9 means it is NOT a SSN.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 08:41 PM (/lPRQ)
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Yep. That's how it was discovered that Obama's SSN was quite a bit off.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:46 PM (3ImbR)
I applaud your courage and what you have achieved. I had my husband's backup always, and I still struggled. You have managed on your own to do an amazing job.
Change of subject: since you are here, Nurse, and talking of woodpeckers, you might enjoy the comment of freeman, who was here this week looking at damage. Birch tree plus woodpecker: grrr.
He said, If it makes you feel any better, think of it this way: they're the closest to the noise. They must all be totally deaf.
!
Posted by: Wenda at February 13, 2026 08:47 PM (v9ee3)
Posted by: Wenda at February 13, 2026 08:49 PM (v9ee3)
My step mom had been a phone operator at the local Navy hospital at the end of the war, and she was the night operator at the local exchange here in town until it modernized. She made money on the side and also went to college to get her teachers degree since her husband was generally broke and didn't contribute much to paying off the house.
When I was a kid my parents had friends that had a family cabin in the Adirondacks. The whole area was still on a party line with a central switchboard for limited connectivity outside the local area. Seems hard to believe we now live in a time where people lose their mud if they are out of constant connectivity for 5 minutes.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:50 PM (viF8m)
Believe me I know what I am talking about. Just ask Al Gore.
Posted by: Barry O at February 13, 2026 08:50 PM (X7dyz)
Woodpeckers have shock absorbers around their brains and sound deadening built in for hearing. I think.
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:51 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:51 PM (LHPAg)
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Believe it or not, it's their tongue that wraps around their brain.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:52 PM (3ImbR)
Believe me I know what I am talking about. Just ask Al Gore.
Posted by: Barry O at February 13, 2026 08:50 PM (X7dyz)
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That's Peace Laureate Albert Gore!
Something else you have in common with him...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:53 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:51 PM (LHPAg)
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Believe it or not, it's their tongue that wraps around their brain.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:52 PM
Marge, come look at the size of this thing!
-Bug dude standing too close to his just-demolished front door.
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:54 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:56 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at
Okay! Let me know if you are ever on the Eastern Shore.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:56 PM (Wmg4n)
Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched
That seems to be a thing for some reason. My Dad's parents split up on Valentines Day, 1981. Never divorced though. I think they were waiting for the other to die so they can swoop in and take over assets. It didn't work, of course. No assets worth anything and my Aunt put her foot down and advised my Grandmother of some hard truths, like lying on tax forms about marital status is wrong and they were NOT going to help her steal. My grandparents were difficult, which is understating it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 13, 2026 08:57 PM (ohOaC)
Im gonna need an explanation on this one.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:57 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 13, 2026 08:59 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 13, 2026 09:00 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:00 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:00 PM (HeR4S)
Posted by: Wenda at February 13, 2026 09:01 PM (v9ee3)
Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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And little did he suspect, he was giving you THE BEST GIFT EVAR!
What a guy, nurse... what a guy. Good riddance, I'd say.
Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 09:02 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nerdygirl
Lawrence Welk on youtube ...
You'll have a new earworm in no time!
: -))
Posted by: Adrian the Bad Poetry Critic . . . and . . . writer, thereof . . . at February 13, 2026 09:03 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 13, 2026 09:04 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:51 PM (LHPAg)
>>>
I've nailed about 20 of them over time up at the cabin using my wrist rocket. So much for shock absorbers. I get tired of them wrecking the healthy aspens.
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:04 PM (HeR4S)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 09:05 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 09:08 PM (3ek7K)
I've nailed about 20 of them over time up at the cabin using my wrist rocket. So much for shock absorbers. I get tired of them wrecking the healthy aspens.
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:04 PM (HeR4S)
I think they're Federally protected, so you might want to clarify that by "nailed" you mean "photographed", and by "wrist rocket" you mean "camera".
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 09:08 PM (X5Jzz)
Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:29 PM (IhIKR)
Definite text book example of a rotten shit stain.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 13, 2026 09:08 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 09:10 PM (RIvkX)
I tried swallowing a hot iron (standard Moron medical device) but it didn't help as much as I'd hoped.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 09:11 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at February 13, 2026 09:11 PM (jwBFW)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:04 PM (HeR4S)
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No bueno. Woodpeckers don't harm healthy trees. And they eat lots of bad insects like termites and wood boring beetles. Healthy trees are more likely harmed by sapsuckers than woodpeckers.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 09:12 PM (3ImbR)
I love men, but not this kind.
I am sorry and no they did not deserve you.
Once on a plane a girl got on late and sat next to me. I waited about 15min til we were in the air and told her, "no man is worth this." As it turned out her mother was ill, but she emailed me after she got home and told me she appreciated my concern. Called me an angel, and I don't hear that often!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:13 PM (WONhk)
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You, of all people, knows exactly what that means.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 09:14 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:36 PM (N8ZBc)
In 2023, the SSA reported about 531 million SSN's issued, with roughly 358 million left—enough to last around 70 years at current rates.
Posted by: Joemarine at February 13, 2026 09:15 PM (y171U)
How about the "Spell Checker" State !!!!!!
Posted by: Franklin Mason at February 13, 2026 09:15 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:15 PM (WONhk)
noun/verb agreement
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 09:16 PM (3ImbR)
I'll tell ya'll what I want for Valentine's Day, not from my husband, from God.
We need a big snowstorm here, actually several.
We've had no snow here in Wyoming this winter and we need it for our water and to keep wildfires away.
Send snow!!
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (3ek7K)
Some in the mountains and rain here. Maybe snow next week for us both! Keep praying!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:18 PM (WONhk)
Larry, Moe, and Curly were not available for comment...
Posted by: Pima County Sheriff's Office at February 13, 2026 09:20 PM (speX7)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 09:22 PM (3ek7K)
Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:29 PM
Dayum! That's some cold shit.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 09:22 PM (PrvRk)
also the coffee place here has a berry latte or mocha which I want to drink tomorrow.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 13, 2026 09:23 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: LASue at February 13, 2026 09:23 PM (lCppi)
Larry, Moe, and Curly were not available for comment...
Posted by: Pima County Sheriff's Office at February 13, 2026 09:20 PM (speX7)
Keystone Kops are who you want. A big step up from the Biden FBI.
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 09:24 PM (X5Jzz)
My yard is bordered by tree covered conservation land. Lots of woodpeckers. They come to my bird feeder but never hit my wood shaked house or the healthy trees in my yard.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 09:25 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fourseasons
Yikes. Bad news out west.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 13, 2026 09:25 PM (tg5bM)
The Maids of Jubilee.
Apropos of nothing, I once met the first person to throw Moon Pie during a parade in Mobile.
According to old timers, before the pies, they threw green bananas. I like the pies much better.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:25 PM (jc0TO)
"Sointly........ Nyuk..... Nyuk..... Nyuk..
Posted by: Curly at February 13, 2026 09:27 PM (speX7)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 09:27 PM (giVIm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:28 PM (xDN0i)
The Maids of Jubilee.
Apropos of nothing, I once met the first person to throw Moon Pie during a parade in Mobile.
According to old timers, before the pies, they threw green bananas. I like the pies much better.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09
Shadow Barrons tomorrow night.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:28 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:28 PM
We have one in the afternoon apparently. Krewe of Mullet Mates, who I have never heard of.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:30 PM (5Rvu2)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:30 PM (5Rvu2)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:31 PM (5Rvu2)
The only one and last in college was epic. I got my first and only hickey on my neck in Pat O'Brien's piano bar. I did not know I was getting a hickey from the guy from the University of North Carolina. I was sitting in his lap and wall to wall people.
Met him at a parade earlier with his frat boy friends. He "rescued" me off a parade barricade as a nut with a rifle was on a balcony above us. As I was 17yrs old I was trying to see what the commotion was. Now they would shut down the city, but at the time police came and got him and the parade went on and we hung out with these guys.
The crowd carried us to Pat O'Brien's & I had a Hurricane. Before we got in, the side of my head was pressed against a police horse's side from the mass of people. A tsunami of people.
I was horrified to see the hickey later at my aunt's and tried to hide it with make-up and a turtleneck. My mother never asked.
The guy wrote me in MS and called my dorm for months later. Suddenly showed up on our farm (alarming my parents). He learned that evening that I was quite the lady who allowed no one to second base. He quit writing me after that!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:32 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:28 PM
We have one in the afternoon apparently. Krewe of Mullet Mates, who I have never heard of.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09
Aren’t they the ones with the run down floats? I thought they went down 1, my friend lives way down 1 and I was positive they go by her house.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:33 PM (Wmg4n)
I confess to not knowing that Mardi Gras was a Mobile thing long before it was a New Orleans thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 09:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 09:34 PM (diia5)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 09:22 PM (3ek7K)
Our mountains have about half of normal. There's hope. We've had 2 storms of a few inches back in Nov/Dec and nothing for January. I still have hope. A White Easter is possible and we had one in 1984 of 8" in our yard.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:36 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
Got one or two here that really like the aluminum gutter right outside the bedroom. Really loud.
I assume it's playing some sort of lovesong trying to attract the ladies.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 09:36 PM (/lPRQ)
I confess to not knowing that Mardi Gras was a Mobile thing long before it was a New Orleans thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 09:34 PM
Absolutely! It’s an entire thing. The kids are out of school next week, govt offices closed Tuesday. Like I said, it’s now Deep Gras.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:37 PM (Wmg4n)
I’ve been telling her for almost 52 years that it was a joke.
She slugs me on the arm.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (sk1rK)
He also says that he is never going back.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (5Rvu2)
Posted by: toby928(c)
They used to chuck cans of pork and beans before the bananas but too many injuries.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (/lPRQ)
Perv.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 09:27 PM
🤣🤣🤣
Hey, I'm in a college bar...what do you expect?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (PrvRk)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:39 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:04 PM (HeR4S)
~~~~~
No bueno. Woodpeckers don't harm healthy trees. And they eat lots of bad insects like termites and wood boring beetles. Healthy trees are more likely harmed by sapsuckers than woodpeckers.
>>>
Sorry, but the Downey and Hairy woodpeckers eventually damage the Aspens. I have 20 years of observing this.
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:39 PM (HeR4S)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 09:34 PM
It is so old that one of the 'new krewes' was named The Infant Mystics. Infants because they were the first krewe too young to have fought in the Civil War.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:39 PM (5Rvu2)
I’ve been telling her for almost 52 years that it was a joke.
She slugs me on the arm.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!
***********
As she should!
Your wife must be a force of nature....I look forward to meeting her.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (PrvRk)
I think an explanation is in order.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:40 PM (sk1rK)
I’ve been telling her for almost 52 years that it was a joke.
She slugs me on the arm.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (sk1rK)
So you've been Somebody! to Mrs RI Red for 52 years. That is sweet.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:41 PM (xDN0i)
I was in Mobile on business right after your Mardi Gras and my customer told me some of the history. I'd never heard the history and tradition.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 09:41 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
5 foot 2, eyes of blue. And a good shot.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:43 PM (sk1rK)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:44 PM (5Rvu2)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
5 foot 2, eyes of blue. And a good shot.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!
************
I would expect no less. Happy Anniversary to you and her!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:44 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:40 PM
Down here in Clemson with old friends for the opening baseball weekend against Army. My buddy's nephew pitches for Clemson. I'm here to support Army. And drink.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 09:45 PM (PrvRk)
The people are smart on law school exams and completely useless in real life, like their professors and Dem honchos they model.
Posted by: Henry at February 13, 2026 09:45 PM (tWkg3)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:41 PM (xDN0i)
I tell people that we’re now at the Grudge Match stage, trying to see who will outlive the other.
She slugs me on the arm.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:45 PM (sk1rK)
He also says that he is never going back.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (5Rvu2)
There was no way I'd go again after college...this was in 1972 probably. And NOLA is an insane place to begin with. We fly in and out there as it's a direct flight from here vs Atlanta then an ancient plane to MS.The airport is it's own crazy.
We know not to go anywhere after dark with the kids in French Quarter. But nothing is safe, really. They still have great food in the old restaurants like Galatoires's, and my grands are the 5th generation to eat there. We are going to Commander's Palace for my birthday this year and then flying home the next day.
We honeymooned in NOLA as it's about 2.5hrs from the farm. I figured being from Long Island my groom had seen it all in NYC, but NOLA blew his mind. One of his grandmother's got goosed on Bourbon Street.
We were in a fancy French restaurant and he looked around and said, "This must be mafia run." I informed him the mafia was "not in the South." He and my father never let me forget this statement.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:46 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:41 PM (xDN0i)
I tell people that we’re now at the Grudge Match stage, trying to see who will outlive the other.
She slugs me on the arm.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!
*************
I'm seeing a pattern here...and have no intention of ever positioning myself between the two of you!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:47 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:47 PM (5Rvu2)
It was all very romantic. We went steady for a couple of years until 💔 I screwed up (fortunately for her: I was a mess for a while there). It was very good while it lasted.
No regerts. It took a while, but I learned to say I love you 💞 once again, and my lady of fifty+ years together is perfect.
https://bit.ly/perfect-vid
Posted by: mindful webworker - love is no game but you must know the rules at February 13, 2026 09:49 PM (6hyzx)
Michael Mason is a recluse on a remote Scottish island who rescues a girl from the sea, unleashing a perilous sequence of events that culminate in an attack on his home, compelling him to face his turbulent history.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:50 PM (5Rvu2)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:50 PM (Wmg4n)
I remember we celebrated my 10th birthday right before that.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:51 PM (sk1rK)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:50 PM
That's the only part I have ever been to. That and the zoo.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:51 PM (5Rvu2)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:52 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:52 PM (xDN0i)
I assume it's playing some sort of lovesong trying to attract the ladies.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 09:36 PM (/lPRQ)
I got some here that do that too. I think they’re Nature’s drummers, they’re in love with that constant BANG BANG BANG!
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2026 09:53 PM (otNgF)
Do the Merry Widows still make an appearance.?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 13, 2026 09:53 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:50 PM
That's the only part I have ever been to. That and the zoo.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026
What? We live right here! Technically we can take the train now.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:53 PM (Wmg4n)
I remember we celebrated my 10th birthday right before that.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!
******************
Ha! This is for anyone who wonders how this gem of a man has earned his own very thick permanent record!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 13, 2026 09:53 PM
Can't have a Joe Cain Day without the wailing of his widows.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:54 PM (5Rvu2)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:53 PM
To do what?
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:55 PM (5Rvu2)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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You're in Clempson? I live less than 10 miles from there.
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 13, 2026 09:55 PM (mNjzF)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 09:56 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 13, 2026 09:55 PM
MiniMOME!
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:56 PM (5Rvu2)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:56 PM (Wmg4n)
My first time in Louisiana was Basic Training at Ft. Puke, uhh, Fort Polk.
Fond memories.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:56 PM (sk1rK)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:56 PM
One day will meet and you will say Oh, it's you!
I have a distinctive pelt.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:57 PM (5Rvu2)
Posted by: Javems at February 13, 2026 09:57 PM (zFsEm)
https://64parishes.org/the-goddesses-at-100
Elsie E. Elchinger, first queen of the Krewe of Iris, 1922.
That's my grandmother.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 09:58 PM (jtM2q)
That brings back many childhood memories. I spent a lot of time all along the Gulf as a kid.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 13, 2026 09:59 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:50 PM (Wmg4n)
We go in the daytime, briefly, for beignets and coffee at the Cafe Du Monde. Last year we slept in. Dinner before dark.
Son, DIL and kids went to the Cathedral after coffee. Said a homeless woman tried to set the basket of tithes on fire and the police were called. Mass in NOLA.
There's a place on Jackson Square where I buy a hat each year and that's it!
One year we were staying in the Royal Orleans so the kids could swim in the rooftop pool. A jackass set off 2 fire alarms at 3am and we had to evacuate down the stairs and sit around til cleared by the police and FD.
Our then 5yo grandson had it explained to him that a "bad man" set the alarms and was just being stupid. So every time for a day he'd hear a car alarm he'd mutter that he guessed that was the "bad man." Upon leaving in the airport he saw the police escort a cuffed couple out of the gate and had closure. Told my husband they got the "bad man." We cracked up.
We know to be careful. Does not mean I won't be in the cross fire buying a hat someday.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:59 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: four seasons at February 13, 2026 10:00 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 10:00 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 13, 2026 10:00 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 10:01 PM (5Rvu2)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 13, 2026 10:02 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 13, 2026 09:55 PM
We're here tomorrow for the double header!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 10:03 PM (PrvRk)
Some will have to wait until all participants are not around.
Sample: In 1970, Air Force Academy Cadet Red puked in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House.
It gets better.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 10:04 PM (sk1rK)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 09:58 PM
So cool.
Posted by: toby928(c)
************
That is fantastic!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 10:18 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: cmeat at February 15, 2026 11:31 AM (R11M+)
Obama White House Counsel and Epstein Fixer Katherine Ruemmler Resigns from Top Post at Democrat Law Firm Due to Increasing Revelations About Her Close Personal Friendship with Democrat Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
CNN buries the fact that she was Obama's top legal advisor.
Kathy Ruemmler, top Goldman Sachs lawyer, resigning amid Epstein fallout Kathy Ruemmler, the chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs, said Thursday night she is resigning amid fallout from the Justice Department's release of millions of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Her resignation is effective June 30. Her announcement comes as she has weathered numerous news stories in recent weeks examining her relationship with the disgraced financier. Ruemmler and those around her have insisted she had a professional relationship with Epstein. "Since I joined Goldman Sachs six years ago, it has been my privilege to help oversee the firm's legal, reputational, and regulatory matters; to enhance our strong risk management processes; and to ensure that we live by our core value of integrity in everything we do," Ruemmler, a former Obama White House counsel, said in a statement to CNN. "My responsibility is to put Goldman Sachs' interests first. Earlier today, I regretfully informed David Solomon of my intention to step down as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Goldman Sachs as of June 30, 2026."Look how they just snuck that in there, burying it in long boring self-justifying quote that they knew for a fact that readers would gloss over. (I know, because I glossed over it myself, and didn't notice that CNN had stealth-acknowledged her connection to Obama.) If you didn't have conservative media to tell you better, you'd think that this was just some random rich lawyer quitting her job. You would have no idea whatsoever about what makes this newsworthy.
And she was White House Counsel to which U.S. President, CNN?
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) February 13, 2026
A) Washington
B) Lincoln
C) Taft
D) Obama https://t.co/ETVqFcs6sx
You mean former Obama White House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler?
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 13, 2026
Kinda weird how you left out that Obama’s top lawyer was Epstein’s fixer. https://t.co/PcnfX4StEu
2017. Jeffrey Epstein's good friend Kathryn Ruemmler explains that she ran Obama's vetting and ethics department and was responsible for vetting all of Obama's cabinet members.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) February 13, 2026
Ruemmler also said that she was saddened because Trump had "debased" the Presidency.
Ruemmler was so… pic.twitter.com/cw0afN1t8Y
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: RandomDave at February 13, 2026 06:22 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2026 06:22 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: RandomDave at February 13, 2026 06:23 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: LASue at February 13, 2026 06:23 PM (pu3V8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 06:23 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: RandomDave at February 13, 2026 06:24 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 06:25 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
That's how you know she has less than even the average lawyer... the ones without ethics get the ethics slots. Just like ai ethicists, or bioethicists...
Posted by: RandomDave at February 13, 2026 06:25 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:25 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:26 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 06:26 PM (RIvkX)
Wasn't like Epstein was handing out Lolita's as party favors, was he?
Was he???
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:27 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:27 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:25 PM (pDt9x)
Kathryn? more like... Karyn?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2026 06:28 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 06:26 PM (RIvkX)
Don’t know Tom Cruise or Nicole Kidman?
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:28 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 06:28 PM (0KSrI)
I know you'd like to think your shit don't stank, but
Lean a little bit closer, see
Roses really smell like poo-poo-ooh
Yeah, roses really smell like poo-poo-ooh...
Posted by: Outkast at February 13, 2026 06:28 PM (Ksqrb)
"Uncle Jeffery" yeeesh.
I bet all the children started crying when they heard "Uncle Jeffery" was coming over for a visit.
Just Ick!
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 06:28 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2026 06:28 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 06:25 PM (jc0TO)
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7 figures? She works for Goldman Sachs.
Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2026 06:28 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2026 06:28 PM (AlhUl)
So which seven figure job does she fall into next?
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 06:25 PM (jc0TO)
I've got a suggestion for a side hustle, darling...
Posted by: Sydney Biddle Barrows at February 13, 2026 06:29 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Beartooth at February 13, 2026 06:29 PM (GGatE)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 06:29 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:27 PM (8zz6B)
I'm sure there are some folks who now have Epstein's secretly recorded films, who have her Naked.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2026 06:29 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 06:29 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at February 13, 2026 06:29 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 06:29 PM (lJ0H4)
But you’re part of the Horde.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:30 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I'd pay to see her nekkid.
Posted by: Uncle Pervy at February 13, 2026 06:30 PM (oftw2)
So... 8, 9 figures?
Posted by: RandomDave at February 13, 2026 06:30 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 06:23 PM (zZu0s)
"Ethics" used to be a low-priced brand of automobile built by the same outfit that made Hudthons and Therraplanes.
Posted by: Mike Tyson at February 13, 2026 06:30 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 06:30 PM (cwGMH)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:25 PM (pDt9x)
*fistbump*
Posted by: S.E. Cupp and Kat Timpf at February 13, 2026 06:30 PM (brEh1)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 06:31 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2026 06:31 PM (AlhUl)
I'm sure it was her who "vetted" Kevin Jennings, Obama's "Safe Schools Czar."
The interview:
"So, do you promise to turn our schools into perversion-indoctrination centers, and make them safe for kiddie-diddlers to operate in freely?"
"I pinky promise!"
"OK, congratulations, you're hired."
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2026 06:32 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2026 06:31 PM (AlhUl)
Hmmm. Is there a “ type”, I wonder?
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:32 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 13, 2026 06:32 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 06:33 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 13, 2026 06:33 PM (f/buw)
Posted by: Barack Obama at February 13, 2026 06:33 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 06:34 PM (XCUp7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 06:34 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 06:34 PM (RIvkX)
OT
I looked at the announcement for the "Reform Britain Party " and Rupert Lowe as you suggested earlier some of us might have an interest. Thanks I thought it was very good and for people who also have an interest here it is
https://tinyurl.com/5n67mtm3
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 06:34 PM (Nx5jP)
What is their motivation? Are they pedophlles too? If not, what are they gaining? Can someone explain?
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2026 06:35 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 06:35 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 06:35 PM (IhIKR)
Ethics, heh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 06:23 PM (zZu0s)
She's chiselin' in on my business. We gotta go to the question of character. That's how we know that it's her, because ethically, she's kinda shakey.
Posted by: Zombie Johnny Caspar at February 13, 2026 06:35 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
You're a pup. I'm 70 and have started using the "Uncle Leo Defense" to great effect.
Posted by: Old Fossil at February 13, 2026 06:36 PM (oftw2)
What is their motivation? Are they pedophlles too? If not, what are they gaining? Can someone explain?
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2026 06:35 PM (se8lQ)
The easy answer is money, status, power, access. But there might be more than that also.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:36 PM (pDt9x)
-somewhere in the swamplands of DU.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 13, 2026 06:36 PM (ohOaC)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 06:29 PM (dK+Kv)
++++
Remember seeing Biden wearing a "friendship bracelet" given to him by Obama and it had a tiny pizza slice doodad for a charm. First of all, a bracelet???? Secondly, a "friendship bracelet"???? Thirdly, a charm bracelet???? Fourthly, a pizza slice???? The whole thing reeks.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 13, 2026 06:36 PM (fLVQR)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 13, 2026 06:36 PM (f/buw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 06:37 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 13, 2026 06:33 PM (f/buw)
There are some emails which have some peverted banter between guys but as been said before there is no 'List' .
What's happened though is what Trump predicted and that a lot of innocent people have been caught up in the Epstein scandal because their names were listed in the investigation files or emails that had nothing to do with Epstein directly.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 06:37 PM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Barack Obama
Understandable. Epstein was heterosexual pedophilia.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 06:37 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 06:37 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 06:34 PM (XCUp7)
I'm guessing she was involved in something far more skeevy than just lawyering for Epstein.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:37 PM (8zz6B)
If so sure sounds like she was giving intel to epstein about the obama white house.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 06:37 PM (0N4FZ)
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that's a lot of time to hang around at the top of Goldman for and Epstein associate! Are they stupid ?
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:38 PM (V7nDg)
Dear Jeffie,
I know Bill has been there often and I wonder if I can visit sometime with him? I hear the food and swimming are fantastic!
Yours,
Hil
Dear Hil,
No. Bill says no as you smell like a combo of old cabbage and piss. I am not really sure how he came up with that distinct and disgusting odor description, but no. He comes here to get away from you, and I hope this is not a surprise to you.
Kind regards,
Jeff
Jeffrey:
This is vastly rude and please expect a letter from my attorney. I have several! This is slander in the highest ordure, er, order. I am so upset and drunk on Chardonnay I made a typo and it is your fault as well as Bill's. I hate men! Huma and Kathy will hear of this! *Slaps Maria who shreds stuff in her bathroom.*
You pervert!
HRC
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 06:38 PM (WONhk)
Should have ran an AI clip of Tank Abrams plowing through rows of buffet carts.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:38 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 06:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Miklos Bueller's Day Off at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (AP7fj)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 06:37 PM (0N4FZ)
Quick! Deploy the Nancy Guthrie stories!!
Posted by: The MSM at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (brEh1)
==
that's a lot of time to hang around at the top of Goldman for and Epstein associate! Are they stupid ?
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:38 PM (V7nDg)
Possibly, no probably. And thanks for no spoilers last thread!
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (pDt9x)
I sincerely doubt she resigned without pressure. At that level a person is allowed to resign rather than be fired.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2026 06:31 PM (AlhUl)
"Danger Glasses Becky" as Ace called her, IIRC.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:37 PM (8zz6B)
I agree. The public statement is usually just the tip of the iceberg
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2026 06:40 PM (/QdgR)
Posted by: Carpenters Local 257 at February 13, 2026 06:40 PM (oftw2)
The Democrats wanted these files made public
And one by one going down because of it
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 06:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (pDt9x)
there are twists throughout !
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:41 PM (V7nDg)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (viF8m)
Yeah, I don't really buy it here. When that's the case, they typically don't get to stay on an additional 3 to 4 months.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 06:41 PM (XCUp7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 06:37 PM (RIvkX)
Did you make the one at Nakatomi Plaza in '89?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 06:41 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:42 PM (V7nDg)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
They could start by kicking out the Hanoverian kraut royal family.
Then a Cromwell
Then Restoration.
Posted by: The Imperial and Royal House of Miklos von und zu Miklostein at February 13, 2026 06:42 PM (AP7fj)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:42 PM (V7nDg)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 06:42 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: The MSM at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (brEh1)
After reading her tweets about Trump it's difficult to have any empathy for her or her family. But I don't want the criminals who did it to get away with it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 06:42 PM (cwGMH)
==
that's a lot of time to hang around at the top of Goldman for and Epstein associate! Are they stupid ?
Posted by: runner
==
Most places would lock your accounts and passwords, escort you to the door, but still give you your severance package...
Maybe she does get four months severance pay?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:42 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:43 PM (V7nDg)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 06:43 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 06:43 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:44 PM (V7nDg)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:43 PM (V7nDg)
It’s the glasses. Very intimidating.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:44 PM (pDt9x)
Funniest I heard all day
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 06:44 PM (Ia/+0)
I'd bet she'll spend most if not all of that time on vacation.
Ruemmler wasn't just in the Epstein file, she's all over them. She had an usually close relationship with Epstein and actually did legal work for him. And I'm sure a lot more.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 06:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 06:45 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 06:45 PM (J+Psw)
7 So which seven figure job does she fall into next?
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 06:25 PM (jc0TO)
"Bloomberg Law on X: "The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s chief legal officer and general counsel Kathryn Ruemmler had an annual pay package valued at $22.5 million in 2024, according to a securities filing. "
there prolly aint a lot of jobs to fall up to.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at February 13, 2026 06:46 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 06:44 PM (viF8m)
She seems abut 25 years too old for his taste.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 06:46 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: The MSM at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (brEh1)
After reading her tweets about Trump it's difficult to have any empathy for her or her family. But I don't want the criminals who did it to get away with it.
Posted by: Opinion fact
Would be more sympathetic if I never heard about the case.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 13, 2026 06:47 PM (n5tGW)
-
I thought that was the Guess Who.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 06:45 PM (J+Psw)
It was when Santana tried to break into Country music.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 06:47 PM (brEh1)
Was he actually an even worse skeevy perv and was sexing up Little Mikey?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 13, 2026 06:47 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Chief Of Supply at February 13, 2026 06:48 PM (oftw2)
What the hell is it with the big glasses?
No, you don't look smart, you look like the idiot you are.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 06:48 PM (3ek7K)
Winning status:
[ ] tired
[x] not tired
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 06:48 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 06:48 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 06:46 PM (6ydKt)
Maybe she totally rocked the dominatrix outfit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:48 PM (8zz6B)
I thought that was the Guess Who.
It was when Santana tried to break into Country music.
"Crack Barrel Woman" was Santana's foray into hip hop.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 13, 2026 06:49 PM (KAi1n)
So far off that if GS decides the public has forgotten the Epstein mess they will quietly shred her resignation letter, but Ruemmler and them can say "she resigned" now while they are feeling a bit of heat.
If she had 3 months vacation accrued they could ask her to leave by Mar 30 and just write her a check for the vacation pay.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 13, 2026 06:49 PM (Sokdp)
The penguin video finally caught up with her.
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 06:49 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 06:47 PM (brEh1)
I thought is was the the B-side of the Tainted Love
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (GTqXr)
And not resigning as of June 30. Gotta lock in the next 4 months of bribes.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (8avO+)
And here I am. Stuck in the middle with you.
Posted by: Howdy at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (v+fgg)
Posted by: Chief Of Supply
I am retiring in 6 weeks and people are already putting their name tags on my office shit (the company owned stuff).
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 13, 2026 06:47 PM (n5tGW)
They don't care about young women who are not of the elite. Same as the Rape Gangs in the UK. It's all #me too unless its lower class women and girls.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (xDN0i)
I think Kathy shoved Maxwell outta the way to fool around with Jeffrey. Why is beyond me except he gave her expensive handbags and a watch.I can't remember if he got her an apartment, as that sounds mistressy. It doesn't seem worth it to me.
Maybe he had something to offer other than $ but I doubt it. He ain't that good to look at. Maybe he was witty and liked to give gifts.
Which boils down to what does Obungo have to hide with Epstein, eh?
I could have never been a star because if Weinstein even looked at me I'd projectile vomit towards him, fully clothed, as he hung with Oprah. Much less go to his hotel room and be greeted by him in a robe. For a movie role and Oscar. No thanks!
Looking at YOU Jennifer Lawrence and Goop Girl Paltrow! Idiots!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (WONhk)
No, you don't look smart, you look like the idiot you are.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 06:48 PM (3ek7K)
I've never understood it either. And in Hollywood it's rampant, men and women both. Sam Jackson looks like a total fag with his thick round black glasses and faggy beret.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 13, 2026 06:51 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 13, 2026 06:47 PM (n5tGW)
Empathy can be pretty selective.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2026 06:51 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 06:51 PM (Ia/+0)
Never forget, the sex part is only part of the Epstein story. Much like Ruemmler, Epstein was a fixer at the highest level.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 06:51 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Congrats! I'm retiring at the end of Q2. My boss is making noise that maybe I should consider end of year instead.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 06:51 PM (GTqXr)
I see you know zero about women. Absolutely zero.
Posted by: Howdy at February 13, 2026 06:52 PM (v+fgg)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 13, 2026 06:33 PM (f/buw)\
There are multiple layers possible. One is due to the social stigma of being that tight with a convicted PDFFile.
One is possible Mee-tooing by underlings for the above
One is possible the financial entanglements between banks, agencies and governments that ostensibly were completely separate
One is that Epstein was a CIA fixer and the CIA is busy burning everyone that might lead, like a bridge, to their actions in funding covert and illegal action throughout the globe
There is also the fact that so many references in the files about "pizza" and "jerky" by multimillionaires who probably don't eat pizza and jerky so it is an attempt for a "limited hanging out to dry" to avoid attention on whatever those snack foods are supposed to represent
My goodness, we are supposed to say, I don't understand the sterling morals of less than sterling individuals, and all this about partying on an island? It is a mystery
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 06:52 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (KAi1n)
Emily Remler?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:52 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 06:52 PM (3ek7K)
Is this a thing now?
Posted by: TANSTAAFL at February 13, 2026 06:53 PM (YpNh1)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 13, 2026 06:51 PM (0aYVJ)
Black Panther Chic
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 06:53 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 06:54 PM (J+Psw)
Is this a thing now?
Posted by: TANSTAAFL at February 13, 2026 06:53 PM (YpNh1)
Hit comments.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:54 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (KAi1n)
====
Martin Bormmler?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 06:54 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 06:53 PM (6ydKt)
More like Pink Panther chic
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 06:54 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Heavy Meta
Don't do it.
I already hung around for almost nine months for "The Big Project" they need me for. It is still just a tiny light at the end of the tunnel...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Or why the Obungo chef drowned paddleboarding. Which I realize is a stretch away from Epstein.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 06:56 PM (WONhk)
I was a battalion medic, and an NCO came up to start an annual physical. One of the first parts of the exam was an eye test. He was wearing glasses. I asked him about his prescription, and he said, "these are not prescription." Sure enough, his eye-sight was 20-20.
First time I ever saw eyeglasses as an affectation. But this NCO was a turd whom I would never trust in battle.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 13, 2026 06:56 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Some of those women made it to the top by starting on the bottom.
Posted by: Miklos suspects at February 13, 2026 06:56 PM (AP7fj)
Is this a thing now?
Posted by: TANSTAAFL at February 13, 2026 06:53 PM (YpNh1)
Don't use the "continue Reading" link. Use "comments" instead. You get to read the whole post anyway, and avoid the ad trap.
Also, use Brave browser.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:56 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 06:56 PM (2GVsD)
Winning status:
[ ] tired
[x] not tired
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 06:48 PM (GTqXr)
Someone commented yesterday that Collins comes through when a vote is really needed.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 06:57 PM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 06:57 PM (0KSrI)
I sincerely doubt she resigned without pressure. At that level a person is allowed to resign rather than be fired.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (viF8m)
You wouldn't get 6 mos if there was significant pressure being applied. Face saving more than anything else.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2026 06:57 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 06:58 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 13, 2026 06:51 PM (0aYVJ)
The malign cultural influence of Steve Urkel.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 06:58 PM (brEh1)
Never heard of this gal until this week
Posted by: RandomDave at February 13, 2026 06:23 PM (aJQbY)
____________
That's the problem. There's millions of these fixers, flacks, bagmen and bullies. You never hear about them. And, except on rare occasions like this, you never will.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 06:58 PM (tgvbd)
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 HOLY CRAP. President Trump will sign an executive order mandating VOTER ID NATIONWIDE for the 2026 midterms if the SAVE America Act fails.
[Trump Truth post]
https://is.gd/ecNOge
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 13, 2026 06:58 PM (m7U3L)
And their nickname is Knee Pads.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 06:58 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 06:58 PM (J+Psw)
Dog treats.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:58 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Heavy Meta
Don't do it.
I already hung around for almost nine months for "The Big Project" they need me for. It is still just a tiny light at the end of the tunnel...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Not unless there is something besides noise he's gonna kick in.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2026 06:59 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 06:59 PM (cwGMH)
I already hung around for almost nine months for "The Big Project" they need me for. It is still just a tiny light at the end of the tunnel...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:55 PM (/lPRQ)
I would consider it as a 1099 contractor at a high billable rate. My company has been very good to me. I announced my intention the first week of Jan., so six months notice is generous. A bunch of in-flight work is decidedly sideways because Oracle can't get their shit together. If I need to deal with them for another six months, there is a premium to be paid. Otherwise, I leave my badge on my desk on June 30.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 07:00 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 07:01 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 07:01 PM (0KSrI)
Congratulations to Meta and Butcher!
I retired about a month ago. I was going to wait until this month but moved it up a few weeks. They tried to talk me into staying but I knew it was time. Hard decision but I knew it was the right one.
Posted by: Case at February 13, 2026 07:02 PM (j6kTf)
I'm not watching the Olympics because I'm sick of the sob stories.
Who gives a shit? Get out there and show the world what you can do.
Most of us have a sob story and we keep moving forward.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:02 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 06:59 PM (cwGMH)
"I'm sorry, sir, but invading Buttfuckistan is right out, their charging stations are not compatible with our tanks."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 07:02 PM (8zz6B)
Ruemmler was so close to Epstein that she called the convicted sex offender "Uncle Jeffrey."
And he called her "Diddles", amirite?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2026 07:03 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I work weekends and nights.
Posted by: randomly assigned Judge Jeb at February 13, 2026 07:03 PM (AP7fj)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 07:03 PM (6ydKt)
Most of us have a sob story and we keep moving forward.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:02 PM (3ek7K)
________
I... I... I'm left-handed.
*sobs prettily*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 07:03 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 07:03 PM (Ia/+0)
from that august body.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 07:04 PM (xDN0i)
I am retiring in 6 weeks and people are already putting their name tags on my office shit (the company owned stuff).
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Depending on how they did the name tags, you could have some fun with that. Swap some names around, or better yet, retag everything to one person (preferably the office asshole) so that they get everything. The jealousy and back-biting over a clear case of cheating would be delicious.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:04 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:04 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 07:04 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2026 07:04 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 06:59 PM (cwGMH)
There is probably a need for a lighter tank for places like Ukraine where ground conditions aren't perfect like the Mideast and West Germany. Russia found its "obsolete" tanks perfectly suitable for helping infantry blast other infantry out of improved positions when enemy tanks are not present.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2026 07:04 PM (8avO+)
I am retiring in 6 weeks and people are already putting their name tags on my office shit (the company owned stuff).
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (/lPRQ)
___________
Are they asking you, "Are you still here?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 07:05 PM (tgvbd)
[Trump Truth post]
https://is.gd/ecNOge
Ay Caramaba!
Posted by: Illegal Invaders Who Shit In The Fields at February 13, 2026 07:05 PM (Ksqrb)
*sobs prettily*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
So...they still sell mascara that runs
Posted by: Tammy Faye Bakker at February 13, 2026 07:05 PM (AP7fj)
*sobs prettily*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Can you run with scissors? Or do you need the lefthanded ones?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (xDN0i)
The penguin video finally caught up with her.
Posted by: fd
"Honest, I thought it was a Puffin!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (xG4kz)
I'm not watching the Olympics because I'm sick of the sob stories.
Who gives a shit? Get out there and show the world what you can do.
Most of us have a sob story and we keep moving forward.
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:02 PM (3ek7K)
No kidding.
Did you get a gold? No? Fucking loser.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (y9nCu)
I sincerely doubt she resigned without pressure. At that level a person is allowed to resign rather than be fired.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (viF8m)
I heard on CNBC something about her being on (or maybe even leading) some Reputational Preservation committee or something and that swayed some of the people deciding things.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (w/O5Q)
For your daily laugh, the German Chancellor says the US is not powerful enough to survive without NATO.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Am I too late? at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (/lPRQ)
When I got into my last job, I found a calculator marked
"CA12105" in sharpie on the back and I asked around if it had been some code or accession date for office equipment
It had belonged to CARLOS, he had my desk before I moved in.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 07:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 07:07 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 13, 2026 07:07 PM (Wnqw0)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 07:01 PM (0KSrI)
Thanks, I will. I'm blessed to be in a position to retire early.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 07:07 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)
Is this the same country that can't fill a battalion with recruits to go protect Latvia?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 07:08 PM (rbvCR)
If Epstein's central importance was money laundering and inside information rather than pimping, maybe Kathryn Ruemmler was let go by Goodman Sachs because of the financial / confidentiality issues. It could be just general PR damage control.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2026 07:08 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: Gonzotx at February 13, 2026 07:08 PM (nGraA)
I am retiring in 6 weeks and people are already putting their name tags on my office shit (the company owned stuff).
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
You'll be okay until they drape a body bag over the back of your chair.
I think.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2026 07:08 PM (xG4kz)
For your daily laugh, the German Chancellor says the US is not powerful enough to survive without NATO.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)
That's like saying ships can't survive without barnacles.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2026 07:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:04 PM (y9nCu)
=======
Naah. Just remove all the tags.
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:08 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:09 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)
=====
Nuts!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 07:09 PM (RIvkX)
For your daily laugh, the German Chancellor says the US is not powerful enough to survive without NATO.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)
___________
How can we survive without indolent Brussels bureaucrats telling us we're doing everything wrong?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 07:09 PM (tgvbd)
Did you get a gold? No? Fucking loser.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (y9nCu)
Think I found the guy behind the "You didn't win silver, you lost gold" ad campaign.
Posted by: pookysgirl, doing detective work at February 13, 2026 07:09 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at February 13, 2026 07:10 PM (2Ez/1)
Why not Tomorrow? Is she planning on peeling off all the "E" keys on the work keyboards or something?
GTFO.
Posted by: TXMarko at February 13, 2026 07:10 PM (7flhA)
And maybe "former Obama fixer"' doesn't have the cachet it used to. Her remaining network of connections drying up because they think she's radioactive now could have been the last straw.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2026 07:10 PM (VWtfl)
Did you get a gold? No? Fucking loser.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (y9nCu)
__________
Dad?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 07:10 PM (tgvbd)
For your daily laugh, the German Chancellor says the US is not powerful enough to survive without NATO.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)
==========
The Poles would break them.
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:10 PM (rj6Yv)
For your daily laugh, the German Chancellor says the US is not powerful enough to survive without NATO.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)
Heh. Remind me how many tank battalions the Bundeswehr can field, sausage-boy. One? Two?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:11 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 07:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Samoan Chief Miklos, as quoted by Margaret Mead, who lied a lot at February 13, 2026 07:11 PM (AP7fj)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:11 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2026 07:08 PM (8avO+)
They do add a certain piquancy to the sport of keelhauling.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 07:11 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 07:09 PM (tgvbd)
Considering the US taxpayer paid for the blanket of freedom the Eurotrash sleep soundly under.
Nah, brah, we'll be fine.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 07:11 PM (GTqXr)
She was warned off by the other woman Reid was seeing at the time... his wife.
I wonder how many times Reid has been on the Conflicts Committee at Steptoe [Johnson]. Regardless, he had introduced Kathryn to Uncle Daddy Jeffrey and he was gate-keeping some desirable accounts, one of which rhymes with "Mothwilds."
Like a pair of thighs on a private sugar sand beach, the gates soon opened for Kathryn's account responsibilities at Latham Watkins. "Uncle Daddy Jeffrey spoiled me!"
Sure, Epstein bought and traded women and girls like baseball cards. That was a personal interest that had professional uses. His primary business was the second-oldest profession (no, not a J-urinalist). He traded information, from and to anyone. Are we pretending he didn't?
Skidmark would have put her in the AG's office to replace Eric Withholder. She didn't want to answer confirmation hearing questions with that whole oath/perjury issue over her head like Damocles' sharp cutty-thingy.
Posted by: mr_bill at February 13, 2026 07:12 PM (Oae1G)
The Poles would break them.
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:10 PM (rj6Yv)
_______
A pack of Weblos scouts would break them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 07:12 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)
Heh. Remind me how many tank battalions the Bundeswehr can field, sausage-boy. One? Two?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:11 PM (y9nCu)
Probably zero, after dumping all those Leopards into Ukraine.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2026 07:12 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2026 07:12 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: mrp
Wait for the Poles to claim that Germans have attacked a radio station near the border.
Posted by: Mikloszczewszczski at February 13, 2026 07:12 PM (AP7fj)
Think I found the guy behind the "You didn't win silver, you lost gold" ad campaign.
Posted by: pookysgirl, doing detective work at February 13, 2026 07:09 PM (Wt5PA)
Nah. I stole that joke from one of John Ringo's books
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:13 PM (y9nCu)
"Energy
Trump orders Pentagon to buy power from coal plants"
See, just like Germany!
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:14 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian"
I wear glasses but if I didn't I probably would have poked my eye out four or five times by now.
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:14 PM (vFG9F)
It's making them say and do some pretty crazy shit lately.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 07:15 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Miklosian Anti-Marketing SA de CV II at February 13, 2026 07:15 PM (AP7fj)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
Let me explain to you how this works.
Posted by: Goldman Sachs HR Dept. at February 13, 2026 07:15 PM (DsA2n)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:13 PM (y9nCu)
That guy is a legend. I'd love to go drinking with him sometime.
Posted by: pookysgirl will bring the vodka at February 13, 2026 07:17 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2026 07:08 PM (8avO+)
They do add a certain piquancy to the sport of keelhauling.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 07:11 PM (8zz6B)
There's some SF stories about the Hoka, bear like aliens that just love "cosplaying" anything human they read and in one story they are playing pirates and Englishmen and are getting mad nobody got keelhauled in the hot weather, since there are no barnacles on the ships.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2026 07:17 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:17 PM (rj6Yv)
Indolent Brussels Bureaucrats would be a terrible band name.
Posted by: Miklosian Anti-Marketing SA de CV II at February 13, 2026 07:15 PM (AP7fj)
What? I saw them open for Kraftwerk at the Cow Palace back in '81.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:17 PM (y9nCu)
Fat, drunk and german is no way to go thru life Fritz.
Posted by: Dean Schlonggernekker at February 13, 2026 07:18 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:19 PM (3ek7K)
This gums up the op.
But don’t fret, the donks take care of their own, she’ll end up counsel for some donknNGO
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2026 07:19 PM (XV/Pl)
Let's find out!
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:19 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:19 PM (2GVsD)
I rarely cry or get tears in my eyes unless they are happy tears.
I sure as heck don't cry pretty or in public. I'd rather not, thanks!
While I am sure it is cathartic as they get so worked up, I look at Lindsey Vonn, who may lose part of her leg the break was so bad. While she may have cried on the slopes, she hasn't for the cameras so far.
I thought this when they said they had to do the second surgery to relieve pressure. I am assuming post-op and hope I am wrong, as it became more of a fx leg to me then.
I am guessing she had a fasciotomy for compartment syndrome from the first surgery to set the complex fractured tibia.
I hope she recovers with her leg intact. Very difficult recovery ahead. She's no wimp, that's for sure and seems positive.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 07:21 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: mrp
It's totes legit.
I checked
And I'm a lawyer
Posted by: K. Ruemmler (no references on request) at February 13, 2026 07:22 PM (AP7fj)
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:23 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:23 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Chancellor Wilhelm Klink at February 13, 2026 07:23 PM (DsA2n)
I checked
And I'm a lawyer
Posted by: K. Ruemmler (no references on request) at February 13, 2026 07:22 PM (AP7fj)
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I am flabbergasted.
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:24 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: mrp
I was being metaphorical when I said name tags, but they are openly discussing who gets what.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:25 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 13, 2026 07:25 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:26 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)
That comment is very typical Of Europe. Of Canada. Frankly - of New England.
Posted by: Howdy at February 13, 2026 07:39 PM (v+fgg)
I mean, what did he do for her, specifically? or what did he do to her, specifically?
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (tV890)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (tV890)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)
Hah ha. Jokes on them - we have been surviving without Nato for the since 1991.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:49 PM (tV890)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:51 PM (tV890)
Honestly ? Seriously ... Honestly ?
Have you paid any attention to any "bitch" now ?
Posted by: Howdy at February 13, 2026 07:51 PM (v+fgg)
I am not surprised but always kinda miffed about the women that were friends with this guy and knew he was basically a sex slaver. Kinda boggles how they can be so indifferent to it.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Trump said "pussy".
- she explained
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 13, 2026 07:51 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 06:34 PM (XCUp7)
Apparently, the Epstein files revealed that Ruemmler got a CIA Agency Medal in 2015 (after leaving the White House Counsel post) that she never revealed publicly, but that she immediately bragged about in an email to her late bestie. So that's a loose thread for people to pull on, and if it leads to a treasonous op of Brennan's (as is his nature), then she might want to remove herself from the public eye so the CIA doesn't.
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 08:51 PM (Sy6m/)
46 What is it about these chicks like Ghislane Maxwell and Katherine Ruemmler who run interference for the male pedophiles in their midst?
What is their motivation? Are they pedophlles too? If not, what are they gaining? Can someone explain?
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2026 06:35 PM (se8lQ)
You know how men love slapstick, and women don't? It's intrinsically funny to us to see other men get hurt and humiliated, and it could even be genetic. It means our sexual competition is reduced; and logically, men whose ancestors were inspired to take advantage of that were more likely to have offspring, so we're likely to be descendants of men with those instincts.
Well... I infer that women may have a similar psychodynamic, but with enjoying seeing their younger competitors degraded and made into non-competitors. Dark, but we are all sinners in a fallen world.
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 08:56 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2026 09:12 PM (se8lQ)
“Um, yeah, you know?”
Obviously she s**ked her way to the top.
Posted by: Westside Dano at February 13, 2026 09:45 PM (J/v2z)
How many people were talking about her two months ago vs the last 24 hours? She had this conversation with Goldnutt-Sax before Christmas. Her mention in the stories had been dutifully managed at a volume level of 2, until this week. Marty DiBergi's fetid corpse popped a seam and accidentally cranked the volume to 11. People noticed.
She could have used the gaslight-denial method and plowed through. It's not her call. Goldnutt-Sax has clients who don't want to be noticed. They definitely don't want to be noticed because their attorney was noticed. She has some very well-placed clients because Epstein middled Ruemmler to them back at Lathrop. Well, how did he know the clients in the first place?
How, indeed.
Forget all the CIA, Mossad, NKVD bullshit - because it's bullshit. But, its in the right pasture. Has anyone credibly mentioned Epstein being run by an intel group? Can you imagine one that wouldn't have spiked his entire wine cellar with thorazine after watching his comings and comings and comings for 72 hours? So, who? It's obvious. Now, it gets very interesting.
Posted by: mr_bill at February 13, 2026 10:16 PM (Oae1G)
have got right here on this post. I will be returning to
your blog for more soon.
Posted by: White Runtz Weed Strain at February 15, 2026 03:55 AM (J/hCe)
Trump Ends Obama Executive Order Giving the EPA the Power to Regulate Carbon Dioxide Without Any Congressional Authorization
That's clumsy. Putting it differently: Congress never authorized the EPA to treat carbon dioxide as "pollution."
Barack Obama lawlessly arrogated himself that power and declared that carbon dioxide -- a naturally occurring molecule that has always been present in our atmosphere and indeed is absolutely necessary for plant growth -- was "pollution." And then began "regulating" it as he saw fit. Trump just reversed that and the left is very, very bitter and sad.US President Donald Trump has reversed a key Obama-era scientific ruling that underpins all federal actions on curbing planet-warming gases. The so-called 2009 "endangerment finding" concluded that a range of greenhouse gases were a threat to public health. It's become the legal bedrock of federal efforts to rein in emissions, especially in vehicles. The White House called the reversal the "largest deregulation in American history", saying it would make cars cheaper, bringing down costs for automakers by $2,400 per vehicle. Environmental groups say the move is by far the most significant rollback on climate change yet attempted and are set to challenge it in the courts. Speaking in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said the 2009 ruling was "a disastrous Obama era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers". "This radical rule became the legal foundation for the Green New Scam, one of the greatest scams in history," added the Republican president, about the Democrats' climate agenda. Former President Barack Obama, who infrequently comments on the policies of sitting presidents, said that repealing the finding would make Americans more vulnerable. "Without it, we'll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change -- all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money," he wrote on X.
Lee Zeldin
@epaleezeldin 21h The Obama Admin couldn’t get the votes needed in Congress to amend the Clean Air Act and regulate greenhouse gases, so without hesitation they decided to just ignore the law and jam through trillions in regulatory costs on the American people.
The Trump Admin is proudly following the law, saving $1.3 TRILLION for the American people, lowering new car costs by over $2,400 per vehicle, and getting rid of the climate participation trophy for manufacturers to install Obama Switches that shut vehicles off at red lights and stop signs. Period.
The Obama Admin couldn’t get the votes needed in Congress to amend the Clean Air Act and regulate greenhouse gases, so without hesitation they decided to just ignore the law and jam through trillions in regulatory costs on the American people.
— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) February 12, 2026
The Trump Admin is proudly… https://t.co/jyhrtBjwsa
WATCH: ABC’s David Muir stokes fear in America:
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 13, 2026
“President Trump has repealed U.S. power to regulate climate in this country. The President officially rejecting the science. … this is not only dangerous for the environment but for your health.” pic.twitter.com/jIpbDR1GCu
Ian Miller
@ianmSC 15h This is why CBS News producers are resigning, this is the kind of stuff they're used to putting out while claiming they're "unbiased journalists"
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2026 05:21 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2026 05:21 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 05:22 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 05:22 PM (Hkcdp)
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Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 05:23 PM (brEh1)
Posted by: fly gal at February 13, 2026 05:24 PM (3B0pS)
Trump is going to kill us with Disgusting, Nasty Greenhouse Gases !!!!!!!!!
Sell the house, the car, spend all your savings, cut off your kids, junk your gas guzzling vehicle, remove your gas stove and house heater and move to Greenland Now and eat Roaches and grass only .....
SEND ALL YOUR REMAINING MONEY TO AL GORE IMMEDIATELY TO SAVE YOURSELF !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 05:24 PM (3d4aC)
Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 05:24 PM (Edxq2)
That's a good start, I guess. Now that we control the climate, what's next? Greenland?
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 05:24 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Magnus Pyke at February 13, 2026 05:24 PM (brEh1)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:25 PM (pDt9x)
Good News for car companies. Maybe we can make sexy cars again that don't have to be fuel efficient to justify their existence.
You get a hummer! And you get a hummer! And you get a hummer! Wait, er...
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 05:25 PM (gWBY1)
Watching the Olympics Women's Hockey Quarterfinals. US vs Italy. US Women up 6-0. Camera just went to the crowd where a guy in a US Tanktop just shotgunned 2 beers.... 'MERICA!!!!!!
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at February 13, 2026 05:25 PM (7kJyR)
Or will Trump have to go through the entire CFR and cancel each and every stupid rule based on it cancel them one by one?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 05:26 PM (0N4FZ)
Watching the Olympics Women's Hockey Quarterfinals. US vs Italy. US Women up 6-0. Camera just went to the crowd where a guy in a US Tanktop just shotgunned 2 beers.... 'MERICA!!!!!!
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at February 13, 2026 05:25 PM (7kJyR)
Do the hockey girls have missing toofs?
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:26 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: pookysgirl, oozing sarcasm and condescension at February 13, 2026 05:26 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 05:26 PM (3d4aC)
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Typo there. It should read "UNscientific."
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2026 05:26 PM (AlhUl)
My 2015 BMW 3 Series had it, and it was seamless. And you could turn it off and the car would remember the setting. But it was not something I wanted.
I'm glad to hear they don't have to force this on us any more.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:27 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 05:25 PM (gWBY1)
By all means please go on.
Posted by: Guy who says "by all means please go on" at February 13, 2026 05:27 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Miklos las illuminated the Drinking lamp at February 13, 2026 05:27 PM (AP7fj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 05:28 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2026 05:28 PM (AlhUl)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:28 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 05:28 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 05:28 PM (zZu0s)
What? Ohhh.
Never mind.
Posted by: Emily Litella at February 13, 2026 05:29 PM (brEh1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 05:29 PM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 05:29 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 05:26 PM (3d4aC)
Like, unless it's TRANS and very special. Like, the sort of beer that all my female white friends wouldn't drink but would think good things about. Like, that sort of beer. -- Alissa Heinerscheid
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2026 05:29 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 05:29 PM (Ia/+0)
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Who does he think we are, Israel?
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2026 05:30 PM (AlhUl)
Posted by: Gov. Tim Walz at February 13, 2026 05:30 PM (Q12GN)
Ding dang it!!!!
I missed the movie thread.
*pouts*
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 05:29 PM (iJfKG)
Never too early to Turn the Thread Around, nf!
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:30 PM (pDt9x)
Big Mike will take care of poor Barry with a Doggie Style Workout.....
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 05:30 PM (J9q9v)
“President Trump has repealed U.S. power to regulate climate in this country. The President officially rejecting the science. … this is not only dangerous for the environment but for your health.”
Regulating the climate?
WTF is regulating the climate?
All you people are doing is taxing us to death while trying to deindustrialize the western world.
Dipshit propagandist pretty boy.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 05:30 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:28 PM (pDt9x)
Yup. Remember the pictorial series on certain Chinese cities showing the air was so polluted that every day looked like you were in the middle of a forest fire and everyone had to wear particulate-filtering masks just to step outside? Don't see anything like that being covered anymore.
Posted by: All fake and gay at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (f/buw)
That's a good start, I guess. Now that we control the climate, what's next? Greenland?
Posted by: mrp
_________
I thought the Jews already controlled the climate and Greenland.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 05:26 PM (3d4aC)
What? *shifty eyes*
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren, who's gonna get her a somethin' else at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (brEh1)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:28 PM (pDt9x)
In talking about the economy of Tumbler Ridge, BC, a local mentioned that their coal mine recently started back up. One wonders why that would be?
Posted by: pookysgirl blames the Commies at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:26 PM (pDt9x)
I've "heard" there are certain "advantages" to that....
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (7kJyR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026
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Neither does my '16 Buick. Different manufacturers implemented it at different times, I guess. Or maybe Ford knew (at that point, anyway) that a Mustang GT was not a car people bought for gas mileage.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Miklos las illuminated the Drinking lamp at February 13, 2026 05:27 PM (AP7fj)
Given that most Americans support the contents, even if they're unaware that they support the contents, it shouldn't hurt her.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2026 05:32 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 05:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Stochastic hubris at February 13, 2026 05:33 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 05:33 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 05:34 PM (Ggsrp)
No, he's rejecting the bullshit, you deranged faggot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 05:34 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 05:34 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Stochastic hubris at February 13, 2026 05:33 PM (TbWk/)
Rush thought the same thing. I can't remember any specific quotes, though.
Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at February 13, 2026 05:35 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Stochastic hubris
Word!
Posted by: King Canute at February 13, 2026 05:35 PM (3ZUWJ)
++++
So am I, actually.
That piece of abject criminal insanity should have been a Day One thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 05:35 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 13, 2026 05:36 PM (2eIl0)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:36 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 05:33 PM (diia5)
For this Nixon deserves all the condemnation we can drop on him. Not Watergate, but creating an unaccountable, tyrannical, Kafkaesque and ultimately deadly agency within the US.
Posted by: Sucking China peen also ranks high at February 13, 2026 05:37 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 05:37 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Stochastic hubris
For the people programming the propaganda, it's not hubris.
It's evil. They just want the West dead.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 05:38 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 05:29 PM (Ggsrp)
Gassing him with CO2 would be sweet revenge for his evil ways.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 05:38 PM (8zz6B)
There should be a betting pool on how long Bernie, Durbin, etc. manage to hold the floor and their bladders and bowels
Posted by: Miklos has illuminated the Drinking lamp and is Leading by Example at February 13, 2026 05:38 PM (AP7fj)
... Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money."
Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2026 05:38 PM (vbXSk)
This is not only dangerous for Big Mike but also for you because Big Mike will need to schtupp someone in the anus while they shower soon.
Posted by: David Muir Stroking It at February 13, 2026 05:38 PM (Ksqrb)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 05:38 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 05:37 PM (E0p3T)
Nazis are of course well-known for reducing the size, scope, power, and reach of their governments.
Posted by: Stochastic retardation at February 13, 2026 05:39 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 05:33 PM
The EPA serves/served a purpose. I remember all of us piling in the family truckster and driving up to the cuyahoga river by Cleveland to watch it burn from all of the chemicals we were dumping into that river.
We still have those kinds of issues all over the country.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 05:39 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 13, 2026 05:39 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 05:39 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 05:37 PM (E0p3T)
Nazis are of course well-known for reducing the size, scope, power, and reach of their governments.
Posted by: Stochastic retardation at February 13, 2026 05:39 PM (TbWk/)
Libertarians, those Nazis.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:40 PM (pDt9x)
Well, y'know. That's why it's "crypto-fascism" /sarc
Posted by: RandomDave at February 13, 2026 05:40 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Indigo Montoya at February 13, 2026 05:40 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: brak at February 13, 2026 05:40 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2026 05:40 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Gassing him with CO2 would be sweet revenge for his evil ways.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Slowly beaten with rubberized hockey sticks ...
Because ... poetic irony.
Posted by: Adrian the Bad Poetry Critic . . . and . . . writer, thereof . . . at February 13, 2026 05:40 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: pookysgirl blames the Commies at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (Wt5PA)
I've passed through the town a few times, but never was a "local". The mine is for metallurgical coal, used for making steel. Not power plant feed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 05:40 PM (8zz6B)
This is not only dangerous for Big Mike but also for you because Big Mike will need to schtupp someone in the anus while they shower soon.
Posted by: David Muir Stroking It at February 13, 2026
***
Well, there goes my appetite . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:41 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Decaf at February 13, 2026 05:41 PM (OP9Gm)
Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2026 05:41 PM (2ap+5)
It pretty much was. I heard Zeldin talking about it in an interview and he said they've been working to get rid of it almost since he was sworn in but because of the entanglements and of course DC swampy rules it took this long to get it done.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 05:41 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: steevy at February 13, 2026 05:41 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 05:41 PM (rbvCR)
My Carbon Footprint gives me joy and if the whiney ass Libs do not like it....... Well bad and have a Roach Burger for your protein !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 05:42 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 05:42 PM (0U5gm)
Sure, next you'll tell me 2+2 does not equal 5. All you unbelievers are alike.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2026 05:42 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Go Big
Fanni and Stacey could power most of Fulton County themselves.
Posted by: Miklos thinks the illegals will feed them from food trucks at February 13, 2026 05:42 PM (AP7fj)
Posted by: Stochastic hubris
For the people programming the propaganda, it's not hubris.
It's evil. They just want the West dead.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 05:38 PM (diia5)
True-- but they also think they can replace God as the ones controlling the universe.
Posted by: LASue at February 13, 2026 05:42 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: brak at February 13, 2026
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When did the media first use the "Our long national nightmare is over" phrase? At the end of the Iran hostage crisis in 1980, or was it earlier, like with Watergate?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:42 PM (wzUl9)
3. The realistic endurance window
Putting all factors together:
Best‑case for minority (high discipline):
• 14–16 days
Moderate discipline (likely):
• 10–13 days
Low discipline (modern Senate reality):
• 5–9 days
This is why modern leaders avoid talking filibusters — they’re brutal, public, and the minority almost always loses.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 13, 2026 05:42 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Mister Scott
All of which should be handled by the states themselves and interstate compacts. The idea that a Federal arm can molest every company and industry to prevent harm, supposed or real, is wildly unConstitutional.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 05:43 PM (diia5)
The hubris of thinking you can "regulate climate" is just staggering. Also a complete disconnection from reality. But mostly hubris.
Rush thought the same thing. I can't remember any specific quotes, though.
George Carlin had a rant about it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 05:43 PM (Cqx++)
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The Science told me that global warming was man-made and would result in flooded beaches and absent ice caps by 2025.
The Science told me that the ozone layer was being stripped away, and air conditioning was to blame.
The Science told me that COVID came from pangolins.
The Science told me that the vaccines were safe.
The Science told me that it's better to have a live daughter than a dead son.
The Science told me that there is no difference between men and women.
The Science told me that I can be healthy at any size.
The Science told me that sexual promiscuity is healthy.
The Science told me that my diet should be based on starch, with minimal protein.
To hell with The Science.
There is value in science as an approach and methodology and means of thought. There is value in some scientists. And, thanks to The Science, I have to work harder than ever to discern that, and to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater. But the baby is probably getting tossed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 05:43 PM (ojr4c)
Why doesn't Gay Pride Boy Barry sell his Martha's Vineyard Home ????
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 05:44 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 13, 2026 05:44 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 05:40 PM (8zz6B)
The local railroad dumped a couple of cars worth of that sort of coal on a siding for some reason -- may have been overloaded I guess. There used to be a number of small foundries in the Willamette valley back a decade or so again, but they all went away with the regulations.
I hope they come back.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 05:44 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
That was Ford when he pardoned Nixon.
Posted by: Miklos is still an Agnew fan at February 13, 2026 05:44 PM (AP7fj)
WATCH: ABC’s David Muir stokes fear in America:
“President Trump has repealed U.S. power to regulate climate in this country. The President officially rejecting the science. … this is not only dangerous for the environment but for your health.”
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*bouncing basketball off back of Muir's head*
cry
cry
cry
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2026 05:44 PM (KDsZt)
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 05:44 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 13, 2026 05:44 PM (O3dBq)
This retarded retard thinks a president can regulate ‘climate’
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 13, 2026 05:44 PM (kMl1i)
before my time at least -- I've seen it used both in jest and seriously my whole adult life
Posted by: brak at February 13, 2026 05:44 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: RandomDave at February 13, 2026 05:45 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: steevy at February 13, 2026 05:45 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: brak at February 13, 2026 05:40 PM
It will take years just to let them retool to eliminate the "switch". And like you said I doubt they will do it quickly when they know that it will be overturned by the next democrat administration.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 05:45 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 05:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Decaf at February 13, 2026
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The system in my BMW, the manual said, would keep the engine running for the A/C if sensors determined that the outside temp was above a certain point. Not sure if the manual stated that point. If it was 100 F., then yes, the A/C would probably have been cut at 95.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:45 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: But Not The Chef at February 13, 2026 05:45 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 05:46 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:46 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 13, 2026 05:46 PM (kMl1i)
Or will Trump have to go through the entire CFR and cancel each and every stupid rule based on it cancel them one by one?
Posted by: Mister Scott
The SC overturned Chevron, but punted on killing everything that came from it. Indeed, each one will have to be eliminated individually.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 05:46 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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That was Ford when he pardoned Nixon.
Posted by: Miklos is still an Agnew fan at February 13, 2026
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That sounds familiar, yes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:47 PM (wzUl9)
Ban Farting in public to reduce human greenhouse gas ????
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 05:46 PM (J9q9v)
Biden and Nadler hardest hit
Posted by: moki at February 13, 2026 05:47 PM (wLjpr)
I missed the movie thread.
*pouts*
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 05:29 PM (iJfKG)
Lucky for you, every thread is a movie thread!
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 05:48 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2026 05:48 PM (abIsI)
I hope they come back.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 05:44 PM (rbvCR)
I'm sure you could readily burn metallurgical coal in a furnace or stove, but it fetches a better price from the smelters and foundries.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 05:48 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:49 PM (pDt9x)
It's another Trumpmas miracle!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 05:49 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: David Muir at February 13, 2026 05:49 PM (DeB+V)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
I hope that it also makes it impossible to just write an EO to re-install it when a future Chinese funded president gets sworn in.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 13, 2026 05:49 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: tubal
Used to be called the Club of Rome, now it goes by WEF.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 05:49 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:49 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 13, 2026 05:49 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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How could they have done it any other way? Few as they may be, there must be some regs that are still valid even without Chevron deference.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 13, 2026 05:49 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2026 05:50 PM (DeB+V)
Posted by: Miklos las illuminated the Drinking lamp at February 13, 2026 05:27 PM (AP7fj)
Wow, does that make 50?
Next, Thune has to push the silent Filibuster, right?
Posted by: Joemarine at February 13, 2026 05:50 PM (y171U)
I missed the movie thread.
*pouts*
Posted by: naturalfake
Lucky for you, every thread is a movie thread!
Posted by: LizLem
Trumpzilla - The Monster that Destroyed the Global Warming Narrative, rated PG.
Posted by: Adrian the Bad Poetry Critic . . . and . . . writer, thereof . . . at February 13, 2026 05:50 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 05:48 PM (8zz6B)
The Brooks Steam-up has a steam powered lumber mill on site they run during the festival and a couple of times in the summer when the members decide to do some lumber. They build their own sheds there.
Anyways, they used to run it off that sort of coal but they have moved to cordwood. I didn't ask why. Some of the equipment still runs on coal. It has a specific smell when burning.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 05:51 PM (rbvCR)
Next, Thune has to push the silent Filibuster, right?
Posted by: Joemarine a
Fist Thune must push out the packed in fudge.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2026 05:51 PM (abIsI)
Yuge.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (viF8m)
After seeing that viral pic on how congress votes... they all have to insert an ID, and hit a yes or no button like a trained seal...all of them should be embarrassed enough to vote yes on ID.
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 05:51 PM (gWBY1)
Yuge.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (viF8m)
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I take it it's polling well even in Maine.
Posted by: Decaf at February 13, 2026 05:51 PM (OP9Gm)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 05:51 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: District Judge within 96 hours at February 13, 2026 05:51 PM (AJ7zK)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:51 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Max Power at February 13, 2026 05:51 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 05:40 PM (8zz6B)
Ah, cool. Glad you could put me some knowledge. BTW, question for you or our other Canucks: When someone refers to "Newfoundland," they are referencing just the island, correct? The mainland is called Labrador?
Posted by: pookysgirl loves geography at February 13, 2026 05:51 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Adrian the Bad Poetry Critic . . . and . . . writer, thereof . . . at February 13, 2026 05:50 PM (3ZUWJ
Two yuuuuuge thumbs up. Fine holiday fun.
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 05:52 PM (gWBY1)
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Love this. The Propaganda Press is trying to pretend that Obumbles didn't already have three full terms in office.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2026 05:52 PM (tmn4j)
On the other hand, I spotted Sofia Vergara as a future star on Univision's Fuera de Serie show way back in 2000, so gimme credit on that!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:52 PM (wzUl9)
I thought they need a bloviating filibuster. If so see @89. AI's conclusion -
This is why modern leaders avoid talking filibusters — they’re brutal, public, and the minority almost always loses.
The key being the minority is likely to lose. Not sure Thune wants the minority to lose.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 13, 2026 05:52 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 05:53 PM (tgvbd)
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More vulnerable? I guess you'll be selling your beachfront mansions, no?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 13, 2026 05:53 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: LizLem
The Attack of the 50 Inch Bureaucrat ... starring Robert Reich.
Posted by: Adrian the Bad Poetry Critic . . . and . . . writer, thereof . . . at February 13, 2026 05:53 PM (3ZUWJ)
Yuge.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (viF8m)
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Oh, look. Someone is up for re-election. You'll never get Murkowski though. Gotta have that ranked choice voting up in Alaska.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 05:53 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 05:22
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THIS, to the 1776th power
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at February 13, 2026 05:53 PM (H/suN)
Posted by: Orson
Sure, Mister, you just want to scald the nappy-headed children of coler!
Posted by: Safety Patrol at February 13, 2026 05:54 PM (oftw2)
All the bullshit about Putin interfering in our elections has people concerned about election security.
Posted by: davidt at February 13, 2026 05:54 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Accomack at February 13, 2026 05:54 PM (GbONR)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2026 05:54 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Miklos from da 'Hood at February 13, 2026 05:55 PM (AP7fj)
What these low iIQ dullards never ask is if that’s true, wouldn’t that hurt Republicans since married women lean heavily Republican? And is so, shouldn’t they be in favor of this?
Posted by: Yes They Are That Stupid at February 13, 2026 05:55 PM (AJ7zK)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:46 PM (pDt9x)
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"The Science"
"The Science is settled"
"The scientific consensus"
All are phrases uttered by people who are not only not scientists, but usually have no idea what "science" is. Science is a methodology. A process. At the core of that process is repeatability and falsification.
The damn science is *never* settled. *Everything* is subject to falsification, without exception. It's the cornerstone of the model.
The scientific establishment has killed science. It may no longer actually exist, replaced with outright lying and deceit on one side and applied sciences (engineering) on the other. I go back and forth on it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 05:55 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: davidt at February 13, 2026 05:54 PM (Q+gd/)
And the snatch of Maduro has even more people up in arms.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 05:55 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 05:50 PM
Point of order, if the water was already "hot", it would not need to be heated.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 05:56 PM (0N4FZ)
In 2025, the globe set a new record for total cereal grain production.
CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a critical molecule that is vital to supporting every single significant food chain on the planet. (Including humans.)
It is amazing how many Leftist have forgotten the basic science they learned in 6th grade.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 13, 2026 05:56 PM (HlyYF)
Yeah, "infrequently comments."
Posted by: davidt at February 13, 2026 05:56 PM (Q+gd/)
Is Judge Boasberg available?
Posted by: Joemarine at February 13, 2026 05:56 PM (y171U)
Last time I checked, NOBODY has that kind of power....
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And I especially love all of these idjits losing their minds over carbon dioxide "emissions" being a bad thing.
I thought they all loved the trees? And clean air?
Ummm.....any of them ever heard of Photosynthesis? Or the Krebs Cycle? I seem to remember those being covered in HS biology.
Oh, and Hello, Horde! 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 13, 2026 05:56 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 05:56 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)
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LOL k
Posted by: The EPA, HUD, UL, et. al. at February 13, 2026 05:56 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 05:57 PM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: Safety Patrol at February 13, 2026 05:54 PM (oftw2)
____________________
Hey, no matter how hard I try, I can't get mold to grow in my bathroom due to excess steam. And, that's my business plan....manufacture actual, working hot water heaters, and invest the profits in Lysol Mold and Mildew Remover.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 05:57 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Orson
A good On Demand water heater is the way to go.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2026 05:57 PM (abIsI)
Their obsession with coal is particularly insane because even as fossil fuels go, it's expensive and inefficient.
That is precisely why they are obsessed with it. Easier to manipulate the market that way and rake in all the money they can as fast as they can. Capitalism, the worst thing we ever came up with.
Why renewables aren’t seen as the capitalist success story they clearly are is beyond me. These people are supposed to love entrepreneurship and job creation.
"We are bringing back coal!!!" What caused it to disappear? None of these fucking plants closed due to government mandates. It was because it wasn't economically viable.
I think at this point, the MAGA fanbase would believe it if they were told about “clean, beautiful American cyanide,” and its positive health effects.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 13, 2026 05:57 PM (ycI94)
...
Some of those familiar with Russian espionage are certain that Epstein had links to that world. “My sources in America tell me that... Epstein was recruited as early as the 1970s by Russian organised crime figures in New York, and his information and operational techniques were being used from that point onwards,” Christopher Steele, the former head of MI6’s Russia desk, said.
https://archive.is/xrc31
(UK Telegraph)
Well, if Chris Steele is saying it, it must be true then.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 05:57 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:58 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Anybody got a tankless water heater? And are they any good?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 13, 2026 05:58 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:26 PM (pDt9x)
For the most part, no.
Due to the fact they have always worn headgear / cages, mandatory mouthguards, and there's less checking.
As shown by these young ladies: full of teeth, nice smiles ... and really smart hockey talk
https://shorturl.at/AIgBx
Posted by: browndog returns for in season hockey at February 13, 2026 05:59 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 13, 2026 05:57 PM (ycI94)
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LOL. I'd ask, "what planet are they on," but that's apparently been asked answered. It's Venus.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 05:59 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at February 13, 2026 05:59 PM (lnQ0c)
What these low iIQ dullards never ask is if that’s true, wouldn’t that hurt Republicans since married women lean heavily Republican? And is so, shouldn’t they be in favor of this?
Posted by: Yes They Are That Stupid at February 13, 2026 05:55 PM
The real ID act right after 9/11 stipulated that everyone had to get a new ID that was compliant with the new law. All states have implemented that requirement which meant that married women had to bring their old DL and marriage certificate to get the new ID issued.
No woman is going to be denied the right to vote just because she is married.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 05:59 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: DaveA at February 13, 2026 05:59 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:59 PM (pDt9x)
Holy cow! That's some nuclear grade retardism.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 06:00 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 13, 2026 05:46 PM (kMl1i)
Needed:
- Zeldin approved by the Senate.
- Overcome resistance in the Agency (fire the resisters).
- Go through the BS "comment period" to remove one of the reasons why a judge would say that they can't do that.
There's probably some I've missed. Besides, if he'd done everything on day 1 we'd all still be in an orgasm coma.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e)
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Idiots. They are so perfect in their idiocy, they are almost entertaining.
Thank, Liaison, for bringing us these cautionary-tale glimpses of the asylum that is Reddit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 06:00 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 05:55 PM (rbvCR)
Wait, I thought Maduro was a dude.
Posted by: A person of penis as it were at February 13, 2026 06:00 PM (TbWk/)
Venus isn't Earth, retard. CO2 amount on Venus is >90% vs much less than 1% here. Venus is also closer to the Sun.
"None of these fucking plants closed due to government mandates. It was because it wasn't economically viable."
Uh, what the hell is this Reddit-idiot talking about? They were regulated out of existence.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 13, 2026 06:00 PM (9Ovst)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2026 06:01 PM (gm9Sb)
That Gasoline Smell after pumping 10 Gallons..........
Smells like....... "VICTORY" over the Libs !!!!!!!!
Some Day the Global Warming Hoax will end my dear.....
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 06:01 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:59 PM (pDt9x)
And oh so proud of their ignorance.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 06:01 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 13, 2026 05:58 PM (XvL8K)
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It is fantastic. Unlimited hot water. Every shower in the house can be on at the same time with a load of whites in the washer.
Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2026 06:01 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 05:46 PM (0U5gm)
Schrodinger's SCOTUS: simultaneously stunning an brave while also a collection of pussies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2026 06:01 PM (ExV1e)
Last time I checked, NOBODY has that kind of power....
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Dude, the Jews.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 06:01 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 13, 2026 05:57 PM (ycI94)
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Sometimes. But it was phased out in favor of nat gas for two primary reasons:
1. A *flood* of gas due to fracking
2. Coal was made official undesirable and regulated to destruction
#1 would have happened anyway. #2 would not. How much difference did #2 make? I don't know. But we can find out by taking the boot of the neck of coal.
So let's take the boot of the neck and see what happens, shall we? If this guy is right, it will make no difference at all and he can point and laugh. If he is wrong, coal will come back and re-find its place in the market - and he can slink away and say he never said that.
So why the objection? If coal is already dead, why not open it up? I mean, if it will make no difference anyway, where's the risk?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:02 PM (ojr4c)
Not to mention that CO is a necessary byproduct of human respiration. Of course, the Left hates humanity, so if we we to all be dead, problem solved!
Posted by: No Name Today at February 13, 2026 06:02 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 05:55 PM (rbvCR)
Wait, I thought Maduro was a dude.
Posted by: A person of penis as it were at February 13, 2026 06:00 PM (TbWk/)
What???
Posted by: Luigi fangirl knitting Maduro a merkin at February 13, 2026 06:02 PM (brEh1)
Posted by: Orson
We have an electric dryer here at Casa Sin Problemas, GOA. CSPCA featured a gas water heater and a gas dryer. I do miss those. The toilet here? Now that thing beats the California "low flush" joke all to hell...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 13, 2026 06:02 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: pookysgirl loves geography at February 13, 2026 05:51 PM (Wt5PA)
That is right. Officially the name is now "Newfoundland and Labrador", just like "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations". I would expect an offhand reference to "Newfoundland" would include Labrador, unless specifically left out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:02 PM (8zz6B)
The Attack of the 50 Inch Bureaucrat ... starring Robert Reich.
Posted by: Adrian the Bad Poetry Critic . . . and . . . writer, thereof . . . at February 13, 2026 05:53 PM (3ZUWJ)
He wishes.
Robert Reich is a great Ruler.
12 inches tall.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 06:02 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 05:51 PM (0U5gm)
It is better for half the population to die so that the other half may eat their fill.
Posted by: Mao at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (O3dBq)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (V7nDg)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
I retrofitted our RV last year with a Truma Aqua-Go and couldn't be happier replacing the 10gal tank heater. I'm looking around for a replacement for the house right now. Of course, it would be a larger unit.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (Sy6m/)
doh!
Posted by: No Name Today at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (8mulE)
And I understand, that quote is a real/parody about how certain folks act and talk.
But here's the thing about CO2. Plants eat it. We exhale it.
So as far as it in the atmosphere ... which is EVERYTHING that's driven all this for the last three decades ?
Its an idea that the CO2 in the upper atmosphere - assuming it was measured honestly - when from 300 PPM to 450 PPM. That's an increase from 300/1000000 to 450/1000000. From 0.03% to 0.045%. A relative 50% increase. From a really small number to a really small number.
Posted by: Yeah at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (v+fgg)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (V7nDg)
Posted by: Decaf"
*********
Maine had rank choice voting shoved up their butt a few elections back.
Probably made a lot of them uncomfortable.
Posted by: Cosda at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (POcC5)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (V7nDg)
Posted by: Accomack at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (GbONR)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 05:55 PM (rbvCR)
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Phrasing?!?
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (H/suN)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (n1OCj)
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They’re upset a regulation is going away which will lead to more coal but also think coal didn’t go away because of regulation.
How do these people function day to day?
Posted by: Yes They Are That Stupid at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (AJ7zK)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Yes.. Have one for 10 years they're great
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (VE6XX)
Venus isn't Earth, retard. The CO2 amount on Venus is >90% vs much less than 1% here. Venus is also closer to the Sun.
Maybe the Plants Like CO2 and place O2 back in the Atmosphere by a process called Photosynthesis????
Just Sayin.........
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 05:55 PM (rbvCR)
BASTARD ...
***runs away and sobs***
Posted by: Michelle Fields at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (abIsI)
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I got your larger unit
:: gestures emphatically at crotch ::
RIGHT HERE!
Posted by: Drunk and Belligerent at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (ojr4c)
The Science told me that the ozone layer was being stripped away, and air conditioning was to blame.
The Science told me that COVID came from pangolins.
The Science told me that the vaccines were safe.
The Science told me that it's better to have a live daughter than a dead son.
The Science told me that there is no difference between men and women.
The Science told me that I can be healthy at any size.
The Science told me that sexual promiscuity is healthy.
The Science told me that my diet should be based on starch, with minimal protein.
To hell with The Science.
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Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 05:43 PM (ojr4c)
"Dire famine forecast by 1975” (Los Angeles Times in 1967).
“Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989” (New York Times, in 1969)
“Scientists predicts a new ice age by 21st century” (The Boston Globe in 1970).
“America subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980” (Redlands Daily Facts in 1970).
“U.S. scientists see new ice age coming” (Washington Post, in 1971).
“Great peril to Life: Ozone gone"
Posted by: LASue at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 13, 2026 05:57 PM (ycI94)
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The stupid, it burns.
Posted by: ballistic at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (V7nDg)
Huzzah!!! I say again, huzzah! Season 1 is where I am at. Is season 2 as good?
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2026 06:01 PM (gm9Sb)
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My family lived in the Steubenville area and my relatives lived south in smaller river towns - Tiltonsville and Martins Ferry. The sights and smells driving along the Ohio River on route 7 were really something. Even the rocks were eerie, glowing orange, red and green.
Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (gm9Sb)
Huh. If I heard the term "Obama Switch" without context, I'd assume it meant...something else.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (IG3/x)
That Gasoline Smell after pumping 10 Gallons..........
Smells like....... "VICTORY" over the Libs !!!!!!!!
Some Day the Global Warming Hoax will end my dear.....
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026
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The next thing to dump is the requirement for 10% or more ethanol in our fuel. I know, the corn-producing states will object. Okay, you guys keep it. I want reasonably-priced E0 for my cars.
True, the ethanol in the fuel prevents the icing in the winter we used to see; the alcohol traps the moisture. But a gallon or two of E10 added to the E0 in winter should take care of that, and we'll get better mileage all around.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)
Uh, because they are grossly inefficient, environmentally unsound, rely on massive taxpayer subsidization, tend to be fraud bait (Solyndra anyone?) and still require fossil fuel plants to pick up the slack. But other than that, a real jewel in the crown of the free market economy.
Posted by: These are the dumbest fucksticks ever at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Kindltot
Given the clientele around these parts, you may want to reword this.
Or not. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2026 06:05 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Accomack at February 13, 2026 06:05 PM (GbONR)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:59 PM (pDt9x)
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Off the top of my head I can name about 20 towns and cities that only exist today because they were initially coal mining towns. Unlike most gold mining towns, they had longevity.
Off topic, I have a wood burning/ coal burning stove (which is now illegal in my state) that I use consistently in the winter. Coal, I have found, is more manageable and efficient than wood (which makes sense) I can heat the entire downstairs of a rather large home just with burning coal stove and it's fan insert. Dog loves it too...of course.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 06:05 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:05 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Wenda at February 13, 2026 06:05 PM (v9ee3)
Posted by: Democrat Judges and DAs at February 13, 2026 06:05 PM (AJ7zK)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:03 PM (V7nDg)
Nooooo!!! Please, madam, I beg of you!!
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:05 PM (pDt9x)
Not to mention that CO is a necessary byproduct of human respiration. Of course, the Left hates humanity, so if we we to all be dead, problem solved!
Posted by: No Name Today"
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We are the carbon Obama wanted to eliminate.
Posted by: Cosda at February 13, 2026 06:05 PM (POcC5)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:06 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (pDt9x)
Yes. Albeit it is set much later of course. Current day as it were.
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:06 PM (V7nDg)
Just for the record, coal is the cheapest fuel there is, with the possible exception of nuclear - if the lawsuits against every nuclear plant ever built are not included.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 06:06 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 06:06 PM (IhIKR)
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But if Trump endorsed continued breathing to promote a healthy lifestyle, our problems would be solved.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 13, 2026 06:06 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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I have 2 that run on natural gas. I love them. The only issue I had was in '21 when we lost power and they froze since they are mounted on the outside of the house.
Posted by: lin-duh at February 13, 2026 06:07 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:06 PM (ojr4c)
We have a gas tankless water heater
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2026 06:07 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Accomack
We do the same. Never touch the cold water faucet in the shower.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2026 06:07 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:07 PM (V7nDg)
Do they make gas-fired tankless heaters?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:06 PM (ojr4c)
I believe they do or did.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 06:07 PM (iJfKG)
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Tell me you know nothing about science without saying you know nothing of science.
Venus: Closer to the Sun, day is near a year long, atmo is over 95% CO2.
But sure, any day now the Earth will reach the fake AF "tipping point" and turn into Venus.
(cf. Earth, CO2 barely rates as a trace gas, under 1%
There is more Argon than CO2.)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2026 06:07 PM (HXT0k)
Seems to be polling everywhere, even with Democrats.
As much as we know Democrats cheat I think most of the rank and file doesn't believe it. They think we cheat and that their policies are just so darn popular they will win if people just smart enough to understand them!
Should be fun to see who is right.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 06:07 PM (viF8m)
"None of these fucking plants closed due to government mandates. It was because it wasn't economically viable."
Uh, what the hell is this Reddit-idiot talking about? They were regulated out of existence.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 13, 2026 06:00 PM (9Ovst)
The atmosphere of Venus is also so dense that sunlight never makes it to the surface of the planet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:08 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: All fake and gay at February 13, 2026 05:31 PM (TbWk/)
I still got my pictures of Beijing that show how bad the pollution was.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 13, 2026 06:08 PM (O3dBq)
Posted by: Accomack at February 13, 2026 06:04 PM (GbONR)
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I would never want that, and would set it up.
Getting properly hot water at the kitchen sink is well worth the small inconvenience of having to mix cold water to shower or whatever.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:08 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: And a tank to fire it at February 13, 2026 06:08 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 06:07 PM (V7nDg)
Ummm, did I make the faux pas??
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:08 PM (pDt9x)
1. A *flood* of gas due to fracking
2. Coal was made official undesirable and regulated to destruction
If you believe we have a "zero" amount of carbon fuels ... as in we've got what we've got and then no more ? Then "Natural Gas" is also finite.
But that ignores - frankly - a bunch of the "rules of physics" that some here will quote. Their understanding of systems. Right down to the beginning.
How does a seed turn into a tree ? How does that mass, that matter, happen ? Here's a hint. A big nuclear reaction in the sky.
Posted by: Yeah at February 13, 2026 06:08 PM (v+fgg)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2026 06:08 PM (n1OCj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 06:09 PM (Ggsrp)
I have one. I give it a meh. It was in the house when I bought it but if I had a choice I would do a tank.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 06:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: And a tank to fire it at February 13, 2026 06:08 PM (TbWk/)
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That's my best pitch.
Posted by: Nolan Ryan at February 13, 2026 06:09 PM (dIske)
Will this cause the Earth's Axis to shift ?????
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 06:10 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 06:10 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2026 06:10 PM (2ap+5)
I always found it very curious that starting about 25 years ago, it became the bastard step child of energy. The truth is America needs all forms of energy, and coal is good option for base load power generation. It’s here, literally waiting to be picked up out of the ground.
Importantly the industry itself also pays good wages, good careers, and those dollars circulate here in the US and provide much needed revenue for state and local governments. Coal, oil, gas, nuclear, wind, and solar all have a place. The government should not be meddling and stifling our national security.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 13, 2026 06:10 PM (Oj76K)
Venus isn't Earth, retard. CO2 amount on Venus is >90% vs much less than 1% here. Venus is also closer to the Sun.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 13, 2026 06:00 PM (9Ovst)
Yep. A vast amount of the Earth's original carbon is tied up in the miles of carbonate rocks (limestone and its buddies) that cover much of the Earth's surface.
Literal miles of solid carbonate rock.
Only a tiny minority of it wound up as fossil fuels.
It's not physically possible for the Earth to "turn into Venus" because the carbon just isn't there.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 13, 2026 06:10 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 06:10 PM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
Yes, I hear it at least once a month.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 06:10 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
I've seen never ending coal drags of trains heading from MT and WY towards Roberts Bank Canada to be shipped to China. These f*cking hypocrites on the left couldn't care less about how much coal China burns.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2026 06:11 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 06:11 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: davidt at February 13, 2026 06:11 PM (Q+gd/)
Muir doesn't understand any of the words that he is saying.
It's like a scumbag islamist murderer complaining to the UN that they aren't allowed equal time in defining where my bullets go that split their fucking heads open in mass numbers in a combat zone, and the UN, as it always does, denounce Israel, then realize I'm American, because UN reps are inbread dictatorial morons, and then denounce America and come to the original conclusion that should have been known from the first moment.
You don't control SHIT BITCHES.
Posted by: wickedpinto at February 13, 2026 06:11 PM (2a0yj)
"None of these fucking plants closed due to government mandates. It was because it wasn't economically viable."
Uh, what the hell is this Reddit-idiot talking about? They were regulated out of existence.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 13, 2026 06:00 PM (9Ovst)
The atmosphere of Venus is also so dense that sunlight never makes it to the surface of the planet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:08 PM (8zz6B)
Texas power problems began in summer and winter when Oblabla regulated three, count'em 3!!!, coal fired power plants out of existence here in Texas.
Redditard is talking through his ass.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 06:11 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 06:09 PM (Ggsrp)
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Well, if you don't live near the East River, just buy your morning coffee at a gas station of convenience store every day. They never clean those things, so you build up a little more tolerance/immunity every day.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 06:11 PM (dIske)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 06:11 PM (6ydKt)
Good one, Mr Uruk-Hai .
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:12 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 06:09 PM (Ggsrp)
There's a story (true or fiction, I don't know) about NYC kids in WWII who used to dive in the sewage outfalls to collect condoms that had been flushed.
Then they'd put them on a piece of broomstick to dry out, roll 'em up, and sell 'em to sailors on liberty.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 13, 2026 06:12 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 06:10 PM (Ggsrp)
But that was only because of the racism and misogynistic patriarchy.
Posted by: 21 year old at February 13, 2026 06:12 PM (AJ7zK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
It still is. The third world is building coal plants as fast as they can. We don't because of scrubbing regulations.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 06:12 PM (0U5gm)
The problem was carbon dioxide isn't a pollutant. It's not toxic and is a normal part of the atmosphere. The CAI was meant to deal with pollutants that had toxic or injurious effects on human health and the environment. Not something like climate change. Worse, the endangerment finding was filled with speculative science, a great deal of which was disproven.
At any time since 2009, congress has had the ability to amend the CAI and include climate change. They have not done that. Since the endangerment finding was not just poor science, but entirely inappropriate to the law. It should be tossed out completely.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 06:13 PM (tV890)
Posted by: Accomack at February 13, 2026 06:13 PM (GbONR)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 06:13 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: davidt at February 13, 2026 06:13 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 06:10 PM (Ggsrp)
China is opening new coal power plants weekly or something.
It's working just fine for them.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 06:10 PM (Ggsrp)
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So were horses. Legacy is not necessarily relevant.
But I strongly suspect that, if the boot were removed from its neck, coal would find a happy place in the energy market. Probably, as Common Tater said, for electrical base load.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (IJRGr)
Of course the cartel judge will agree.
And ignore direct and binding SCOTUS precedent from last term.
The one on the copper mine case out of NV, where they said this bullshit of endless review of endless committees is not the law, that agencies don't have to follow these reviews to issue rules, and not following does not give the Lesser Piuteman Tribe of Greater Pandora standing no matter how "sacred" they claim the affected land is to them.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (fLVQR)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (0U5gm)
Why does the left hate black energy?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 06:13 PM (jtM2q)
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Well, they obviously hate black people, so why not keep going?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (ojr4c)
Winter Olympics runs out of condoms after athletes used 10,000 in three days
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 06:15 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2026 06:15 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:16 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 13, 2026 06:16 PM (IJRGr)
Posted by: davidt at February 13, 2026 05:54 PM (Q+gd/)
Thune has just announced that they're going to use mail-in ballots for voting on the SAVE Act, that they will accept ballots - even without signatures - up to a week after the vote, that VP Vance shall be the sole counter of the ballots and that the ballots shall be destroyed immediately after counting.
Also, some states will erroneously be credited with more than two Senators and other states with fewer. This will be corrected in 10 years... maybe.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2026 06:17 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 06:10 PM (Ggsrp)
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So were horses. Legacy is not necessarily relevant.
But I strongly suspect that, if the boot were removed from its neck, coal would find a happy place in the energy market. Probably, as Common Tater said, for electrical base load.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (ojr4c)
Of course it would. Geographical proximity to coal areas would be great opportunities for industries. Making the smokestacks high obviates amlot of burning problems. Fluidized bed combustion has been around for decades and does a very good job of burning that produces less chemical by product. But this is all known by the industry.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:17 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Accomack at February 13, 2026 06:17 PM (GbONR)
EPA made a decision that cost trillions of $ with the endangerment finding. This is fundamentally WHY the supreme court will uphold this decision by EPA - because EPA should never have been empowered to make this decision.
By the way this just covers cars and trucks. For power plants, Obama pushed a second rule that was rejected by the courts.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 06:17 PM (tV890)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2026 06:15 PM (gm9Sb)
I'd love to get some to hot tent in the winter.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 06:18 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 06:18 PM (/lPRQ)
Then they'd put them on a piece of broomstick to dry out, roll 'em up, and sell 'em to sailors on liberty.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
A shitty business model.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 13, 2026 06:18 PM (j+8bz)
Posted by: Joe Mama at February 13, 2026 06:18 PM (TezPK)
It's working just fine for them.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM
There will never be another coal plant built in the US. It simply can't happen. Even in coal friendly states there will be endless lawsuits that will tie up any new builds for decades. There will be hundreds of lawsuits that will generate dozens of nation wide injunctions against any new coal plants the first time someone tries to build one.
Never mind that china is building dozens of new coal fired electric plants every month.
The best we are going to be able to do is build a bunch of natural gas fired electric plants.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 06:18 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 05:56 PM (vFG9F)
Experts are being blown? I know I've got a lab coat around here somewhere.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2026 06:18 PM (ExV1e)
Winter Olympics runs out of condoms after athletes used 10,000 in three days
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 06:15 PM (J+Psw)
I believe it.
It's well-known that the Real Olympic Sport is all the hardbodies showing off their sexual prowess...frequently and with multiple partners.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 06:19 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:17 PM (pDt9x)
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It's also all known by the energy and humanity hating environmentalists. Which is why they had to destroy it by other means...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:19 PM (ojr4c)
Even if this was the only thing Trump did, it would make him the greatest president of the last 40 years.
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2026 06:19 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2026 06:15 PM (gm9Sb)
Lowes and Tractor Supply both sell it, but only in certain areas.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 13, 2026 06:20 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 13, 2026 05:58 PM (XvL8K)
I've seen a number of people, primarily people who install and maintain tankless water heaters, who say that they're great.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2026 06:20 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (ojr4c)
You build the power plant right next door to the mines, so you only have to haul the coal from the pit to the boilers. In huge electric trucks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:20 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (ojr4c)
What I do for a living. Literally - one of my markets.
Coal is EXACTLY what you say. A cheap, and potentially clean source, but not able to change to load demands. And the load changes all day. Mostly during the summer.
Coal is the base-load generator. Its why your utility used to surcharge you, for those that ever paid attention, to the demand charge.
Posted by: Yeah at February 13, 2026 06:20 PM (v+fgg)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2026 06:21 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2026 06:21 PM (se8lQ)
Upthread a few comments the Reddit tard said coal was never economically viable. Their stupidity is blinding. They really know nothing, do they?
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:59 PM (pDt9x)
I really enjoy the historical and national security analysis of Sarah Paine on yootoob, for the most part she nails it. But she almost ruins her whole analysis by two glaring deficiencies. First is what she describes as the "zero-sum-game" modern US foreign policy towards our douchebag borderline-useless allies. It's really just standard academic OrangeManBad hatred without saying his name.
The other is that she gushes over the ChiCom embrace of green energy. Which is total bullshit. They produce a shitload of green energy products as commodities to sell to OTHER nations for hard currency. For their own energy needs they stick with coal, nat gas and other fossil fuels, like a properly sane country.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 06:21 PM (y9nCu)
We still have those kinds of issues all over the country.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 05:39 PM
If we still have those issues, the EPA is a failure.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 06:21 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 06:22 PM (cwGMH)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 13, 2026 06:22 PM (cDrfF)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 06:22 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (ojr4c)
You build the power plant right next door to the mines, so you only have to haul the coal from the pit to the boilers. In huge electric trucks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 06:20 PM (8zz6B)
Conveyor belt it over from the crushing/wash plant to the burning plant. Established procedure, for loading, just as easy for burning.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 06:22 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: RandomDave at February 13, 2026 06:23 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
As others noted, yes. However, the ones I looked at still required electricity. So, if the power goes, they're useless.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 06:24 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Chutes and Ladders at February 13, 2026 06:24 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2026 06:21 PM (se8lQ)
A hood is required at all times on Leftists, with CO2 sequestration technology - a 20' tree, with enough soil to keep it alive and growing.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 06:24 PM (S/Y4j)
https://tinyurl.com/5n67mtm3
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 06:24 PM (looXz)
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2026 06:24 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 13, 2026 06:22 PM (cwGMH)
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It doesn't help when places like Ireland (or was it Scotland) removed millions of trees to make way for windmills.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 13, 2026 06:25 PM (fLVQR)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 06:28 PM (Ia/+0)
Plants are essential for oxygen as they absorb CO2 during the day for photosynthesis. You'd also sort of think the thinning ozone layer we've been afraid of for 50yrs would be a good thing. I gave up hairspray for this movement!
I don't know squat as we have had very little snow this winter in the West and I blame Epstein or Walz.
Because I have not matured since JFK was killed, this has always baffled me.
On one hand, eradicate CO2. On the other hand, save the rain forests! Ask Greta Thundermug!
I vote to send the Dims who had any part of this idea to the Amazon rain forests and introduce them to the tribes who kill you on the spot with spears as they don't like invaders. Which is what we should have done with illegals on the southern border.
These natives, wearing strips of clothing around their waists only, and hiding their women and children, swarm you.
Barky Obungo would probably like this briefly but still be killed by a spear as he ogled the warriors dangly parts. He thought it was a primitive bathhouse like in San Francisco in the tropics.
Love is love.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 06:28 PM (WONhk)
Those who survived the Net Neutrality Repeal and Trump's Tax Cuts will now be obliterated from existence due to this! DAMN YOU DRUMPHF!!!! YOU KILLED US!!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 13, 2026 06:33 PM (ohOaC)
And Barky can kiss my hairy ass. Fuck that jackhole in particular.
Posted by: turambar at February 13, 2026 06:33 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
Please name some of the burning rivers.
Posted by: Ronster at February 13, 2026 06:37 PM (6J32i)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 06:28 PM
HOW DARE YOU!??!!!!!??!!!!!!!
Posted by: Greta T. at February 13, 2026 06:39 PM (0sNs1)
“For more than 30 years, I have been a journalist – and the power and protection of the First Amendment has been the underpinning of my work.
The events before my arrest, and what’s happened since, show that people are finally realizing what this Administration is all about.
For them, the process is the punishment. Like all of you here in Minnesota, I will not be intimidated, I will not back down, and I will fight these baseless charges."
Posted by: Don Lemon at February 13, 2026 06:42 PM (0sNs1)
'any air pollution agent including chemical that enter the ambient air'
does not mean any chemical that enter the ambient air.
The government gave an example:
'any American auto including any truck or minivan', does not include foreign trucks.
Posted by: MikeN at February 13, 2026 07:23 PM (8uQGY)
Posted by: Kindltot
a snatch of Maduros
a murder of Hilarys
a bottom of Baracks
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 13, 2026 07:37 PM (hxppJ)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at February 13, 2026 07:47 PM (mrzqz)
Posted by: melodicmetal at February 13, 2026 08:24 PM (XLfSN)
Is This Something?
There's a new fantasy series about King Arthur called The Pendragon Cycle: The Rise of Merlin. (Pendragon is Arthur's surname.) I think it was produced by Jeremy Boering, formerly of the Daily Wire.
I think the series requires a DW subscription to review. Reviewers are refusing to review it because a series about King Arthur during the period of the Christianization of Britain includes Christian themes.Joe Rogan recently interviewed Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. During their three-hour discussion, Avary mentioned that he's been watching the show The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin on Daily Wire+. He had high praise for the show, comparing it to the classic King Arthur movie, Excalibur. "Mainstay producers are no longer reliable," he complained, adding that they're spending billions of dollars to make "Lord of the Rings things," while Pendragon was made for very little and has flown under the radar of pop culture. He admitted that he went into the show thinking he wasn't going to like it, but was pleasantly surprised: "This is, to me, as good as classic television." So why aren't more people watching the show? I reviewed The Pendragon Cycle for GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT. To say that I am "not its target audience" is a mixed statement. I love Arthurian legend, but the show and the novels it was based on embrace Christian themes that I was sure would feel too proselytizing. I agreed to review it out of curiosity, but I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. Rise of the Merlin should work for a wide audience, but for some reason, it isn't getting the attention it deserves. Major critics are not reviewing The Pendragon Cycle. The only reviews being given are from content creators and pre-existing fans of its host service, The Daily Wire. Despite advertising on social media, YouTube, and releasing trailers, very little attention has been given to Rise of the Merlin. Even Melania got the courtesy of bad reviews from the press.Here's the trailer:
There's a new Spider-Noir (Spider-Man, but as a noir detective type character) series on Amazon. I'm burnt out on superheroes, but if you wanted to watch it, you can justify it on three grounds: This is not a Disney production, but a Sony one. This is on Amazon Prime, so if you're already paying for that, it's free. Nicholas Cage stars. It's available in two versions, black and white, and color.
The film also stars alongside Oscar nominee Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, BAFTA winner Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell.I can practically feel the history coming alive! Although, I see leftwing idiots complaining because the male lead is white. And they're claiming he's really black, because the book describes him as "dark-skinned." Except... you know, when white people weren't thinking about brown and black people, which was true during the mid-1800s, they would frequently call some white people "fair-skinned" and others "dark-skinned." It didn't mean they were different races, just like a black guy calling another black guy "light skinned" doesn't mean he's actually white. Roseanne Barr describes herself as a child, saying "a small dark-skinned girl." Again, she didn't mean she thought she was black. She means her skin was darker than the Anglo people in America she knew. Anyway. I think they made this movie thinking, "If we put Margot Robbie in it, dudes will happily bring their ladies to it." I dunno. I'm not a super-fan. She's just so desperate to be a big star. It's a turn off, man. I saw someone say about movie stars, they're cool because they don't care if you like them or not. That's definitely not the case with Margo Robbie. I'm not a fan of He-Man, but this looks like it's in the right spirit. There's a "He/Him" joke in there but I don't think it's pro-trans, but kind of the opposite. In his everyday life as the non-heroic "Adam," he may be a He-Him, but he needs no such pronoun clarification in his guise as the rippling-muscles barbarian king He-Man. I think that's the joke they're making.
🔥🚨BREAKING: Hollywood has officially started panicking after ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ writer Rhett Reese reacted to viral AI video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting over Jeffrey Epstein.
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) February 11, 2026
Reese: “I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us.”
pic.twitter.com/uvCR8mqVRX
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 04:21 PM (iFTx/)
How can I stop them ???
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 04:22 PM (3d4aC)
I never thought of Excalibur as being a classic.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:23 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 04:23 PM (iFTx/)
How can I stop them ???
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 04:22 PM
Click comments, not continue reading.
Also, get Brave browser.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:24 PM (jc0TO)
Stephen Lawhead has an ... odd Christianity, he blends heavily with Celtic mythology, so don't expect orthodox Christianity or even sermons. But its full of magic, excitement, English mythology and faerie tales, and great action.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 04:24 PM (PYyV9)
Hollywood isn't one. It's a dead industry walking, wearing a 1950's skin suit of itself while trying to remain relevant.
AI will kill it before Hollywood can kill AI.
*then AI will kill the rest of us and there will not be a movie of it.*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 04:25 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 04:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 04:25 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:25 PM (jc0TO)
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"Major reviewers" are part of Hollywood, Inc. They are what many call the "access media" - those with access to the Hollywood insiders and who get invited to premiers and given gift bags and bribes and stuff by Hollywood.
While I am sure the access media types wouldn't be down with "Christian Themes" or whatever, I doubt that's the reason for the review blackout. The reason is much more likely because there's nothing in it for them. The production isn't Hollywood, and so the access media at best doesn't care and at worst hates it on principal because it - like any significant independent, non-Hollywood production - is a threat to Hollywood and therefore to their own livelihoods.
I suspect its much more mercenary than it is ideological.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 04:25 PM (ojr4c)
I look forward to it.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 04:26 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 04:23 PM (iFTx/)
Fake and Gay.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 04:26 PM (iXqHn)
Was the lead female in that supposed to be a really good-looking woman? I don't know, never having read it.
Fairly pretty, although a lot younger. Like, half her age. Or less. I haven't read the book but apparently this is sort of vaguely like the book in the way that selzer is flavored. Like, they wafted a lemon in the factory.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 04:27 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:25 PM (jc0TO)
This!
X1000
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 04:27 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2026 04:27 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 04:27 PM (Ia/+0)
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Robbie doesn't have "leading lady" star power. She's hot - for maybe another few minutes - but she doesn't have the juice to carry a big movie. Her "Harley Quinn" movie showed that quite adequately.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 04:27 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:28 PM (PFs9e)
++++
LOL.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 04:28 PM (ojr4c)
Talk about a limit showing audience
Posted by: Gonzotx at February 13, 2026 04:29 PM (nGraA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:28 PM
She makes it seem so ... plausible. I mean, there is some magic, but very little, and almost more like psychic powers than sorcery.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:29 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: buzzion at February 13, 2026 04:29 PM (3tZV2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 04:29 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 04:30 PM (tgvbd)
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As did the books the series is based on. Shockingly enough.
Posted by: Methos at February 13, 2026 04:30 PM (vSvIl)
The reason you exist is to entertain the masses.
It’s not because you’re smart. It’s not because you’re edgy. It’s not because your politics are correct. For the most part it’s not even your looks.
It’s because you can speak a few lines and play a convincing part.
That’s what you got hired for. That what people expect, not your bleating on the issue du jour. Wwe could get that same opinion from a homeless guy.
So when you get replace by AI, who does none of those things untie some asshole programs it to do so, there is no sympathy. Only applause because you’ve finally STFU.
Posted by: That Guy at February 13, 2026 04:30 PM (3arSl)
He claims it was legit and doesn't violate FCC rules because it was back pay with "a little bonus of $15k" they gave him after he announced he was going to the Lincoln project.
Ok, for bonus LULZ the current leftwing reaction to this is "look a corrupt conservative because the Lincoln Project says it is conservative!"
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:31 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Scooby Doo at February 13, 2026 04:31 PM (Dv3i1)
And because F the Daily Wire, they hate that company and will do nothing that might help them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 04:32 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:32 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: Avid Viewer at February 13, 2026 04:33 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 04:33 PM (PYyV9)
Talk about a limit showing audience
Imagine telling people 20 years ago that every show they might want to watch is available on the internet but there are dozens of different services and you have to pay for each one that has something you want to watch.
"That Future Sir, is Retarded and Your Future Shit is all F*cked Up"
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:33 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2026 04:34 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: pawn at February 13, 2026 04:34 PM (uvB+6)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 04:34 PM (/lPRQ)
$30 for 3 months, then $15 a month. Cancel anytime.
I had no idea how to get it so I looked it up.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 13, 2026 04:35 PM (Dv3i1)
Well, I'll do it...
/ heh
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:35 PM (vJMWi)
How can I stop them ???
Firefox.......to that add "Ghostery", Adblock Plus and Noscript
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 13, 2026 04:35 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 04:35 PM (PYyV9)
@Breaking911
Frightening moment a massive sinkhole suddenly opened in Shanghai, China, swallowing a large stretch of roadway.
x.com/Breaking911/status/2021938014209871967
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 04:35 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2026 04:34 PM
Chained Heat
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:35 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2026
***
Animal House?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 04:36 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Avid Viewer at February 13, 2026 04:33 PM (oftw2)
Rule 34. Pervert.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 04:36 PM (989NM)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:36 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:37 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 13, 2026 04:37 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 04:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:37 PM
I thought that their bonus was teen boys.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:38 PM (jc0TO)
No, he is quite manly.
First I sip from thy Grail, then I bangeth thy Lady
Posted by: Sir Lancelot at February 13, 2026 04:38 PM (sKqQm)
Hard Ticket to Hawaii
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:38 PM (vJMWi)
just finished Station Eleven and it was fantastic. Loved the hell out of that.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:39 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:39 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: dantesed at February 13, 2026 04:39 PM (qm5Wv)
Posted by: Lirio100 at February 13, 2026 04:39 PM (ky7/T)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Alison Brie is playing Evil-Lyn
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2026 04:39 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:40 PM (j+aD2)
Nicholas Galitzine as Adam Glenn / He-Man - Who?
Camila Mendes as Teela Who?
Jared Leto as Skeletor - Ok its gonna suck
Idris Elba as Duncan / Man-At-Arms
Alison Brie as Professor Evelyn Powers / Evil-Lyn
Morena Baccarin as the Sorceress,
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 13, 2026 04:40 PM (Kt19C)
Alas , we don't have Daily Wire
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 13, 2026 04:40 PM (f/buw)
Nic Cage was the voice of the black and white noir Spider-Man in the animated Sony Spider-Man movies, the good ones with Miles Morales.
I love the idea of taking those Spider-Man and doing spin off movies ot their worlds. The punk Brit guy, the Indian guy, the pig, and little Penny Parker with her cute mecha spider bot.
But live action?
Plus, the Nic Cage one was funny because he was a droll, ennui filled foil to Miles Morales' energetic and optimistic persona. And he was trying to solve a Rubix cube when he only sees black and white. He was the funny secondary character. Can he carry a whole live action film?
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 04:40 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:41 PM (vJMWi)
They won’t review it because it’s from the Daily Wire, who’ve previously put out Matt Walsh movies that mock their woke values.
The original Vikings series had strong Christian storylines because the lead character converted. That was still ok to be included in a mainstream tv show.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 04:41 PM (Hkcdp)
Spirit of Seventy-Sex?
Posted by: Ben Franklin at February 13, 2026 04:41 PM (oftw2)
Well, when he wants to be.
Only one way to find out if he decides to actually act or not in this one...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 04:42 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:43 PM (vJMWi)
Busty Lesbos of Ikea?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 04:43 PM (989NM)
Posted by: UGAdawg at February 13, 2026 04:43 PM (SurNx)
My take on it is to laugh because the left is already throwing him under the bus because the Lincoln Project is "conservative"
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:43 PM (sKqQm)
I'm easy what can I say
also no on Wuthering Heights. just whatever with that stuff
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:44 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Clay at February 13, 2026 04:44 PM (iHn+q)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 04:44 PM (989NM)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 04:45 PM (PYyV9)
Hard Ticket to Hawaii
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:38
Monty Python in Search of the Holy Grail?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 04:45 PM (0N4FZ)
If they had confidence in it, they would do a small national movie run like Angel studios does, then have it exclusively on their platform. I'm not subscribing to daily wire.
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 04:45 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 04:45 PM (Ia/+0)
The hyper realism of clip has tongues wagging and the clip has many in Hollywood worried over being replaced entirely by artificial intelligence and despairing that we are coming dangerously close to a new day when movies can be made without the participation of actors, writers, and other movie industry professionals.
https://is.gd/GqiaBb
This is retard thinking. Let's says it comes to pass. AI takes over movies creation.
First off, AI doesn't get Pitt and Cruise for free anymore than anyone else would. Even if all they do is let their images and voices, etc. get used, they still would have to be compensated.
And the writing? If AI can do a better job a low bar, I know - then have at it. But, that's not going to happen. Someone somewhere will be telling the AI what to write about and then checking the output. Ordering rewrites per direction, etc.
And there is no way that AI will be able to CGI the whole thing. It will still need real sets, etc.
BTW, Looker anyone?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker
Posted by: No Name Today at February 13, 2026 04:45 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:45 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 04:45 PM (QPCEj)
He plays a convincing Nic Cage.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 04:44 PM
Karl Urban could play a convincing Nic Cage.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:46 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:40 PM (j+aD2)
Don't forget Boorman's Magnum Opus : ZARDOZ!
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 04:46 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 04:43 PM (989NM)
Mmmmmm. Think of all the meatball sammiches
Posted by: 29Victor at February 13, 2026 04:46 PM (Fbgif)
When these critics are fired because nobody GAS about their stupid opinions, this behavior will never be mentioned. Instead, it'll be "Bezos isn't supporting us!". Damn right, you fools. He at least knows who butters his bread, and makes sure they're reasonably happy.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 04:46 PM (Riz8t)
Honorable mentions:
The Color out of Space
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (playing...himself literally!)
Mandy
National Treasure
Dream Scenario
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 04:47 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Random PJ at February 13, 2026 04:48 PM (+jscL)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 04:23 PM (iFTx/)
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So savage he should be collecting royalties from "The Wonder Years"
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 13, 2026 04:48 PM (Wnqw0)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:48 PM (j+aD2)
Honorable mentions:
The Color out of Space
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (playing...himself literally!)
Mandy
National Treasure
Dream Scenario
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm
I'd add 8mm to that list.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 04:48 PM (QPCEj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 04:25 PM (PYyV9)
I swear someone is going to produce Correia's Hard Magic though.
Noir is due a resurgence, and this time it should be really odd.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 04:48 PM (rbvCR)
No? Neither do I. Bring on the AI. I will shed no tears for these people.
Posted by: 29Victor at February 13, 2026 04:48 PM (Fbgif)
I think the USA can beat the Canucks maybe
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:45 PM (j+aD2)
The women's team already did.
And honestly, the USA Men's team is massively inferior, talent-wise, to the Canadians. The only way they win is if Canada's goaltender, Jordan Binnington, plays like crap.
The upshot of that is that Jordan Binnington very often plays like crap.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 04:48 PM (iXqHn)
I like his announcement video! And that he makes it clear there will be pain but also joy as Britain is preserved.
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/
status/2022394419685822647
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 04:48 PM (gWBY1)
agree but there's also the chemistry aspect you know?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:49 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 13, 2026 04:49 PM (PSEDc)
Honorable mentions:
The Color out of Space
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (playing...himself literally!)
Mandy
National Treasure
Dream Scenario
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm
I'd add 8mm to that list.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 04:48 PM
*blinks*
Posted by: Raising Arizona at February 13, 2026 04:49 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: buzzion at February 13, 2026 04:29 PM (3tZV2)
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Too late for you though, my friend. Alas.
Posted by: bluebell at February 13, 2026 04:49 PM (dFG41)
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"The Chosen" hardest helped ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 13, 2026 04:49 PM (K613y)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 04:49 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 13, 2026 04:49 PM (CNl8/)
Awesome
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 04:50 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Raising Arizona at February 13, 2026 04:49 PM (jc0TO)
I know everyone loves it. I've always been pretty indifferent.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 04:50 PM (QPCEj)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:50 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 04:50 PM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:49 PM (j+aD2)
Maybe, but the US's coach, Mike Sullivan is horrible, and JT Miller has no business being on the roster instead of Jason Robertson. JT Miller has already cost the US 2 goals in the match against Latvia.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 04:50 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 04:50 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 13, 2026 04:51 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 04:51 PM (Hkcdp)
The reason you exist is to entertain the masses.
It’s not because you’re smart. It’s not because you’re edgy. It’s not because your politics are correct. For the most part it’s not even your looks.
It’s because you can speak a few lines and play a convincing part.
Posted by: That Guy at February 13, 2026 04:30 PM (3arSl)
Peak Hollywood reflected the audience back at itself in a flattering enchanted mirror that made us look cool, effortlessly cool, Just Like Us! but a hundred times as charismatic, and in such a subtle way that we could imagine ourselves in their place and ignore the fallacy.
Such a neat trick was actually very difficult, like the toughest stage magician act; and they did it so well that at some point, they collectively fooled themselves into forgetting what they were doing, imagining that it was really as easy as the Top Men had been making it look. So they gave it all over to mediocrities out of fairness, and then Everything Was Ruined Forever.
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 04:51 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2026 04:51 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:52 PM (j+aD2)
BTW, Looker anyone?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker
Posted by: No Name Today at February 13, 2026 04:45 PM (8mulE)
State of the art needs real people and props, but everything else can be ai'd
"In livestreams in China, presenters don't even speak anymore - they just stand in front of the camera with a stone-faced expression, and the neural network generates speech and facial expressions.
It's impossible to completely remove the human element, the authors explain: platforms require a real person to be in frame, otherwise they cut the traffic or ban the account.
AI slop still needs humans as "biological anchors".
"
https://tinyurl.com/37asphpc
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 04:52 PM (rbvCR)
I love that film!! Moody foodie mystery. A cool extra on the DVD shows him getting method in a kitchen with a chef, learning to prepare food like a chef does and getting into their headspace. Loved it.
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 04:52 PM (gWBY1)
Honorable mentions:
The Color out of Space
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (playing...himself literally!)
Mandy
National Treasure
Dream Scenario
Posted by: 18-1 at February
Bad lieutenant port of call New Orleans.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2026 04:52 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 13, 2026 04:52 PM (wBaIH)
I saw it around the same time I saw Mandy and I expected some sort of violent action film and...its much more interesting then that.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:53 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 04:53 PM (brEh1)
It was a better Ghost than Ghost.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:53 PM (jc0TO)
What whining babies!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:54 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 04:54 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 04:55 PM (brEh1)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:55 PM (jc0TO)
Yes GRRM is a fat lazy slob leftist but damn he can write good stories... and this is not a depressing story unlike the other GoT stories.
Classic heroes journey.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 13, 2026 04:55 PM (D0fIV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 04:50 PM (Ggsrp)
Like David Bowie sang "She cried moor, moor, moor."
Posted by: 29Victor at February 13, 2026 04:55 PM (Fbgif)
The first one to pave the way might get ostracized. Treated like a scab crossing the picket line. But it's the most likely way forward.
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 04:55 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:56 PM (jc0TO)
I like his announcement video! And that he makes it clear there will be pain but also joy as Britain is preserved.
I get that some here aren't enthusiastic about Reform and Nigel Farage, but my concern is that this will split the vote and allow the left to maintain power.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 04:56 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 13, 2026 04:56 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2026 04:56 PM (abIsI)
Mary Stewart's Arthurian books are far superior. Also Rosemary Sutcliff's "Sword at Sunset."
Posted by: Alex DeWynter at February 13, 2026 04:56 PM (3N6Jh)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 04:56 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:57 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 04:57 PM (pDt9x)
Yes GRRM is a fat lazy slob leftist but damn he can write good stories... and this is not a depressing story unlike the other GoT stories.
Classic heroes journey.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 13, 2026 04:55 PM (D0fIV)
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I wouldn't get too comfy. It's entirely possible the show will go hard left in future seasons.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 04:57 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: No Name Today at February 13, 2026 04:57 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2026 04:57 PM (qFwJc)
And there is no way that AI will be able to CGI the whole thing. It will still need real sets, etc.
BTW, Looker anyone?
I have been calling for a remake of Looker for like 15 years now. It fits every single category and would be timely as hell. But Crichton is now on the blacklist for mocking climate hysteria.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 04:58 PM (PYyV9)
What's the big deal with black folks in the new Wuthering Heights? The Moors were somewhat black, Wuthering Heights takes place on the moors so no big whoop. Right?
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Some chick falls in love with a Heathkit.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 04:58 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2026 04:58 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 04:58 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2026 04:58 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Timmy Walz at February 13, 2026 04:58 PM (aZ9eR)
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:58 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 04:59 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Accomack at February 13, 2026 04:59 PM (8jVAy)
I love he ties the British character back to the land. The founding fathers did too. There are qualities and ethics tied to farming that have been lost, the more removed we get from our own food production.
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 04:59 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)
Even by random chance.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 05:00 PM (989NM)
Posted by: Browncoat formerly known as Mike at February 13, 2026 05:00 PM (eAAqq)
Watch the trailer again. The queen telling Adam she left him somewhere he would be "safe". The closeup on the "Adam Glenn He/Him" nameplate, followed immediately by the scene with the severe shaved head black HR drone saying "All this obsession with swords and nerd stuff...it's not a good look for HR". Adam finds his sword and it's the impetus for his realization as a hero who fights for his people by beating the living crap out of evil with four feet of sharp steel.
The message couldn't be clearer: the modern world is feminized, emasculated, safe. Only by rejecting it, taking up arms and returning to a world of physical conflict can the hero become the masculine ideal he was always meant to be.
We'll see what's in the final print, but right now this has Joker written all over it. And it's intentional.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at February 13, 2026 05:01 PM (LgYtf)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2026 05:01 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:01 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 13, 2026 05:01 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: toby928(c) muses at February 13, 2026 05:01 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2026 05:01 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: 29Victor at February 13, 2026 05:01 PM (Fbgif)
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 04:59 PM (gWBY1)
The island started to go downhill when Duke William of Normandy usurped the crown. He had a fantastic PR team, though.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 05:02 PM (brEh1)
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 05:02 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 05:02 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:02 PM (pDt9x)
Also Ben Shapiro is a shrill turd and I don't want to give him any of my money.
Posted by: ballistic at February 13, 2026 05:02 PM (5aZAZ)
I didn't, but I'm not surprised. Don't get me wrong, I really like the ad. It lays out a clear, concise, unafraid answer to Britain's current problems. However, I do think it will split the vote at a time when the left is absolutely on the ropes, and could give them a reprieve.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 05:02 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2026 05:03 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: toby928(c) muses at February 13, 2026 05:01 PM (jc0TO)
If you like his jam at least it’s predictable.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:03 PM (pDt9x)
It’s going to be “updated for the modern audience,” bigly. Think Aslan is now female. The critics will love it.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 05:03 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:01 PM (pDt9x)
lol, no lies detected.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2026 05:03 PM (989NM)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 05:04 PM (Hkcdp)
Ghost Rider. Great character, great concept but not even Sam Elliot as a cowboy on a flaming skeletal horse could save the movie.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 05:04 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 04:25 PM (wzUl9)
What do heights do when they wuther?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 05:04 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 05:04 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2026 05:04 PM (tOcjL)
Man, Heath Kits were great!
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:58 PM (vJMWi)
Our first color TV was a Heath Kit that my Dad built. he loved building it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 13, 2026 05:05 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2026 05:05 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 13, 2026 05:05 PM (CNl8/)
Directed by, written by the woman who wrote the anti-Christian version of Narnia movie called His Dark Materials. Which sucked and cratered.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 05:05 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 05:05 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026
***
They wither, I think
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 05:06 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 05:06 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2026 05:01 PM (NFX2v)
I never liked Heathcliff and hated both the main characters and their messy doomed love story... until I saw the version with Laurence Olivier, and I was like ahhhhh I get it. But I find him dangerously dreamy in any role he's in. (Rebecca etc)
I loved Jacob Elordi on the new Frankenstein. But I don't know if he can pull off Heathcliff.
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 05:06 PM (gWBY1)
You say that like it’s a bad thing!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 05:05 PM (Hkcdp)
Yeah!
Posted by: Vin Diesel at February 13, 2026 05:06 PM (brEh1)
You say that like it’s a bad thing!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 05:05 PM (Hkcdp)
Heh. My wife is always ready to watch a JS movie. Funny, that.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:06 PM (pDt9x)
Yeah the closer he gets to actually winning, the more leftist he tilts. He took a ton of Conservative Party guys on board and began talking like them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 05:07 PM (PYyV9)
You say that like it’s a bad thing!
Wait'll you see our new movie with a black, gay Jason Statham.
Posted by: Netflix at February 13, 2026 05:07 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: toby928(c) muses at February 13, 2026 05:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:01 PM (pDt9x)
Will he go back to his real name, wherever he winds up?
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 05:07 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2026 05:07 PM (G0Uu2)
But Andrew Klavan is a hoot.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2026 05:08 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: toby928(c) muses at February 13, 2026 05:07 PM (jc0TO)
According to missus tubal, as many times as they want.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:08 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Euro at February 13, 2026 05:08 PM (6En8V)
Posted by: toby928(c) muses at February 13, 2026
***
The '90s covered that trope:
Male: Angel on Buffy and his own series
Female: Xena
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:08 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 05:08 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 13, 2026 05:09 PM (CNl8/)
Don’t even think about doing that, Netflix!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 05:09 PM (Hkcdp)
But Crichton is now on the blacklist for mocking climate hysteria.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 04:58 PM (PYyV9)
If it was just mocking, he'd probably be back in favor. But he had thinly veiled Hollywood actors get eaten by cannibals in State of Fear.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 05:09 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 05:10 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 13, 2026 05:10 PM (fZiTB)
But Crichton is now on the blacklist for mocking climate hysteria.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 04:58 PM (PYyV9)
If it was just mocking, he'd probably be back in favor. But he had thinly veiled Hollywood actors get eaten by cannibals in State of Fear.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 05:09 PM (y9nCu)
You don’t have to keep selling me.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:10 PM (pDt9x)
Hmmm. Maybe not the most horrific idea ever.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 13, 2026 05:11 PM (/RHNq)
According to booktok women, you can never have enough.
And the collect them like a reverse harem and call them their "book boyfriends." Even the married women. It's gross.
I somehow doubt that they would allow their husband to "collect" women from anime or video games and call them their "gaming girlfriends."
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 05:11 PM (gWBY1)
We can only hope. I think though that they will find AI just as uninspired and derivative.
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 05:11 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Lirio100 at February 13, 2026 05:11 PM (ky7/T)
I almost got all the way through that one, but stopped after four seasons. I'd watch this one if I had a DailyWire+ subscription.
Spider-Noir seems like a must-see just for Noick Cage in it. I just finished watching Fallout season 2, so I'll definitely check that out and see if the first episode is any good.
He-Man wasn't in my toy box as a kid, GI Joe and Star Wars took all of my time. But I enjoyed the TV series. This movie looks like it might be true to the series somewhat. Although the actor sounded kinda faggy with the delivery on some of those lines.
Damn, that vid of Pitt & Cruise had me convinced.
If I'd seen that clip with no context, I'd have wondered what movie I missed with those two in it.
AI image/video generation is getting scary good.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)
Nigel Farage is strategically blending a fundamentally right-wing, anti-immigration, and populist platform with tactical left-leaning economic policies
. While maintaining his position as a leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, he has pivoted to adopt policies like restoring winter fuel payments, targeting disillusioned Labour voters and traditional working-class demographics.
Right-Wing Core: Farage remains a leader of the right-wing populist party, Reform UK, defined by strong anti-immigration stances, nationalism, and, often, a "pro-Brexit" position.
Economic Left Pivot: As of 2025, Farage has introduced, or supported, policies that are seen as economically left-wing to appeal to a broader base, such as reversing cuts to winter fuel payments and lifting the two-child benefit cap.
Strategy: Analysts suggest this "leftward shift" is a pragmatic move to challenge the Labour Party's voter base and to challenge the traditional political divide, rather than a personal ideological change.
In summary, Farage is moving left on economic issues while remaining firmly on the right on social and cultural issues.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 05:11 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 05:11 PM (brEh1)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2026 05:08 PM (qFwJc)
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True enough, but the rest of their array of talkers is way more miss than hit. Listening to Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles try to get elected as the next Pope is so fucking tiresome that it makes the rest of what is actually some pretty good commentary almost unlistenable.
Posted by: ballistic at February 13, 2026 05:11 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: toby928(c) muses at February 13, 2026 05:12 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 05:11 PM (brEh1)
No love for The Magician’s Nephew?
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:12 PM (pDt9x)
Ugh, Wuthering Heights. Didn’t like that book at all - guess you have to be a stupid teen girl when you read it?
Posted by: Lizzy
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It is nothing short of sublime. It has even inspired some great literary criticism.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 05:11 PM (Riz8t)
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Translation: We'll give all of you more money if you'll stop raping kids and killing each other.
Good luck, Nigel.
Posted by: ballistic at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (5aZAZ)
The challenge tonight will be staying awake during two Deep Space Nine episodes on DVD. Some have gripped me, but a lot of them send me off to Nod-land. I told Linda, "Pause it after the second act and let me get up and move around, so I won't fall asleep!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (wzUl9)
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Wuthering Heights is hardly a feel good romantic movie fit for Valentine's Day. It's seedy and full of spite. The best thing even remotely associated with that story is the Kate Bush song "Wuthering Heights" from the late 70s.
Posted by: Decaf at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (OP9Gm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary_(film)
works it'll be something. The book worked but it required a lot of that SF-stretch.
Posted by: DaveA at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (FhXTo)
Arthur Hunnicutt and Buterfly McQueen have entered the chat
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (Kt19C)
https://tinyurl.com/AntiMeme-Div
Posted by: Sharkman at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (/RHNq)
Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 05:10 PM (lJ0H4)
It's the 1st time he's ever shown he couldn't handle the pressure. None of the last 3 could. Although Ilia was the worst by far. It was like Nathan Chen's 1st short program at the Olympics when he was the favorite - a mental disaster.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (tOcjL)
I almost got all the way through that one, but stopped after four seasons. I'd watch this one if I had a DailyWire+ subscription.
The Last Kingdom was good. You should have watched it til the end.
Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (lJ0H4)
You can always do re-makes of good twitter posts.
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 05:14 PM (zQLjY)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 05:14 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 05:14 PM (0KSrI)
According to booktok women, you can never have enough.
And the collect them like a reverse harem and call them their "book boyfriends." Even the married women. It's gross.
I somehow doubt that they would allow their husband to "collect" women from anime or video games and call them their "gaming girlfriends."
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 05:11 PM (gWBY1)
At least it's not Minotaur Milking Farm.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 05:14 PM (QPCEj)
Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM
Seven Kings Must Die is a great wrap up to the story.
Posted by: toby928(c) muses at February 13, 2026 05:15 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Accomack at February 13, 2026 05:15 PM (8jVAy)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:12 PM (pDt9x)
It's excellent, but it's an orign story, and for me, that doesn't make it the first place to start. I know that Lewis didn't have strong opinions either way about which book should be first, but for me the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the logical entry point into Narnia.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 05:15 PM (brEh1)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 05:14 PM
He will also not deport anyone.
Nigel is the Deep State's fallback plan.
Posted by: toby928(c) muses at February 13, 2026 05:16 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Nova Local
It's a shame. He's so talented. Nice show of sportsmanship though as the first thing he did after losing was congratulate the winner.
Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 05:16 PM (lJ0H4)
@GrageDustin 2m
Susan Collins just became the 50th Senator to sign onto the Save America Act.
Again, her running for re-election in Maine is a good thing. You get nothing if any other Republican runs here.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 05:17 PM (diia5)
So many love it, simply didnt work for me.
Will you see the movie?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2026 05:17 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:12 PM (pDt9x)
It's excellent, but it's an orign story, and for me, that doesn't make it the first place to start. I know that Lewis didn't have strong opinions either way about which book should be first, but for me the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the logical entry point into Narnia.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 05:15 PM (brEh1)
I guess I can see that, but in that case where would the placement of The Magician’s Nephew be then?
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:17 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: turambar at February 13, 2026 05:17 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: 29Victor at February 13, 2026 04:55 PM (Fbgif)
Inorite?
Posted by: Billy Idol at February 13, 2026 05:18 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Decaf at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (OP9Gm)
Which she wrote when she was 18.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 05:18 PM (brEh1)
Lord, I've seen what you've done to Ilia Malinin, and I want you to do that for the American LGBT skater that declared she's skating for the gay community, not for America.
Sheer. Effing. Hubris.
Stephen Crowder brought up that George Foreman wore the American flag with pride after his gold medal win in boxing, at the same Olympics the other winners did their black power salutes on the podium. Who is remembered and beloved?
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 05:18 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: LASue at February 13, 2026 05:18 PM (lCppi)
Except on Muslims, where he's become very protective of them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 05:19 PM (PYyV9)
I almost got all the way through that one, but stopped after four seasons. I'd watch this one if I had a DailyWire+ subscription.
The Last Kingdom was good. You should have watched it til the end.
Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (lJ0H4)
Well, I binged that thing over a month or so.
It was getting kinda repetitive, I thought.
I kept thinking about going back to it, but there was still a few seasons left and then the movie.
I stopped getting Netflix eventually, and forgot about it, basically.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 05:20 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 05:05 PM (PYyV9)
The books started out well, but the third one was just an anti-Christian mess.
Posted by: pookysgirl, always the book critic at February 13, 2026 05:20 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 05:20 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 04:56 PM (Riz8t)
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The parliamentary system ameliorates political splits like this one. Farage gives me the "finger in the wind" vibes. Lowe has spent most of his life in the private sector and people sense that practical experience is what is needed at the moment.
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 05:20 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2026 05:21 PM (V7nDg)
Posted by: Blanco at February 13, 2026 05:21 PM (q83gU)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:17 PM (pDt9x)
My box set is in this order:
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 13, 2026 05:21 PM (brEh1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2026 05:21 PM (ExV1e)
Wow. I’m crushed for this kid. I’ve watched him skate before and he is excuisite. He does some stuff no one has ever done and does it beautifully. Olympic gold was his to lose. My goodness, he blew it. His entire programme was awful.
And he handled the post interview with grace and poise. He didn’t blame anyone or erupt on tears or throw a temper tantrum. I’m very impressed.
You learn more about a persons character when they fail than when they succeed. This young man will be ok. But, Jeepers.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 05:22 PM (IhIKR)
Directed by, written by the woman who wrote the anti-Christian version of Narnia movie called His Dark Materials. Which sucked and cratered.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 05:05 PM (PYyV9)
I remember when "The Golden Compass" movie came out. An "atheist response to the CoN" that no one wanted.It bombed horribly so critics just decided that just didn't want family movies anymore.
Posted by: 29Victor at February 13, 2026 05:22 PM (Fbgif)
Posted by: Euro at February 13, 2026 05:08 PM (6En8V)
As I recall, for the AP English exam, in the essay section I argued that the Main Character of Wuthering Heights was both antagonist and protagonist, and also the narrator. I'm not sure how I pulled it off, but I got a V (full marks) on the test. I think I argued that the Point Of View was really an Unreliable Narrator -- not the Limited Omniscient that it purported to be -- with Heathcliff speaking of himself in the 3rd person and presenting a slanted view to make himself look better, when he was really the source of all of his own conflict.
If you have to read or watch it for some reason, that is one place where deconstruction can serve a useful purpose: giving intellectual enjoyment to an otherwise trite, dreary tale.
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 05:22 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 05:22 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 05:23 PM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 05:23 PM (pDt9x)
Well, when he wants to be.
Only one way to find out if he decides to actually act or not in this one...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 04:42 PM (sKqQm)
I very briefly dated a guy solely because he looked a lot like Nicoloas Cage in Valley Girl.
Posted by: LASue at February 13, 2026 05:24 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 05:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Billy Idol at February 13, 2026 05:18 PM (8zz6B)
Loved you in the original Dune movie, Billy!
Posted by: 29Victor at February 13, 2026 05:24 PM (Fbgif)
No? Neither do I. Bring on the AI. I will shed no tears for these people.
Posted by: 29Victor at February 13, 2026 04:48 PM (Fbgif)
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My thoughts exactly. They can learn to code, oh ...
Posted by: Decaf at February 13, 2026 05:25 PM (OP9Gm)
Posted by: Billy Idol at February 13, 2026 05:18 PM (8zz6B)
Loved you in the original Dune movie, Billy!
Posted by: 29Victor at February 13, 2026 05:24 PM
ISWYDT
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 05:27 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 13, 2026 05:27 PM (kMl1i)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 04:23 PM (iFTx/)
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So savage he should be collecting royalties from "The Wonder Years"
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 13, 2026 04:48 PM (Wnqw0)
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{golf clap}
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 13, 2026 05:27 PM (kMl1i)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2026 05:28 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
You really should get out of your mom’s basement.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 05:29 PM (IhIKR)
______________________
My honest answer is, "I don't care." But, that's not to say I don't have some self-interest. There are certain works that I'd love to see in movie form that didn't have a prayer based on make-up. Here's an example:
Steven Erikson's "Book of the Fallen" series. I've read the complete collection multiple times, and my personal opinon is that it's much better world building that Tolkien. It''s story driven with action, adventure and intrigue as tools to promote that story as opposed to burying it. The characters are varied and flushed out. Some of them are absolute gems. Then there is the acerbic wit and humour balancing the macabre and disturbing.
It's just not a work that could be made into a justifiable movie without AI enhancing just about every facet.
So, I don't care if Hollywood does a header. But, they need to safisfy my personal whims before they go.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 05:33 PM (dIske)
https://tinyurl.com/AntiMeme-Div
Posted by: Sharkman at February 13, 2026 05:13 PM (/RHNq)
Dust studios does some incredible work. That was very well done.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 05:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Accomack at February 13, 2026 05:15 PM (8jVAy)
Berenice is the funniest story Edgar Allen Poe ever wrote.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 05:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: 29Victor at February 13, 2026 05:24 PM (Fbgif)
Who was the better actor, Idol in that or Sting as Spike on Angel?
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 05:45 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 13, 2026 05:53 PM (xcxpd)
It's just not a work that could be made into a justifiable movie without AI enhancing just about every facet.
So, I don't care if Hollywood does a header. But, they need to safisfy my personal whims before they go.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 05:33 PM (dIske)
If they make that into a series, Glen Cook better get paid.
The Malazan books made my short list of novels I bought, read and threw out.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 13, 2026 05:55 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 04:25 PM (jc0TO)
You know, if you'd said this to me back in the '70s I'd have agreed with you wholeheartedly.
I reread them a few years ago when they came out on Kindle, and they just didn't hold up, at least for me. Your mileage may vary.
I think what bothered me was the entire aura, if you will, of the story-telling said "this was written in the '70s". It's the kind of thing you don't notice at the time because, well, you're soaking in it, but seen from the perspective of a few decades it becomes more glaring.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 13, 2026 06:01 PM (IG3/x)
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Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 04:37 PM (Ia/+0)
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Gonna happen to the missus tonight if I make it through the snow.
Posted by: The_Hoser at February 13, 2026 06:56 PM (H4qGm)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 13, 2026 06:34 PM (wGqjj)
Well, ne didn't turn onto a biscuit. That would be silly.
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:22 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: RebeccaH at February 14, 2026 09:23 AM (VFung)
Tim Walz: ICE Hurt Our Illegal-Alien-Based Economy and Now We Demand Reparations from the US Taxpayer
Tom Homan just ended Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, declaring the operation a success.
Border czar Tom Homan on Thursday formally wrapped up "Operation Metro Surge" in Minneapolis, declaring the multi-week federal push a success after more than 4,000 illegal aliens were arrested in and around the Twin Cities. Speaking to reporters, Homan said the coordinated effort with state and local partners delivered "the successful results we came here for," arguing that Minnesota communities are "much safer" as a result of stepped-up enforcement carried out under President Trump. But federal agents are not leaving the city entirely. Homan made clear that officers will remain in place to remove convicted criminals and to assume custody of migrants being held in local jails. "Prioritization of public safety threats doesn't mean we forget about everybody else," he said, reiterating the administration's commitment to enforcing immigration law across the board. "We're going to enforce the immigration law. We're going to have a mass deportation. President Trump promised that, and we're committed to that."You might think that Tim Walz would say "thank you" for ICE deporting 4,000 criminals from Minneapolis. You might think he'd say "thank you" for winding down the more aggressive part of the operation, to focus instead on collecting illegals from jail. You'd be wrong, you big dummies on the level of Lamont Sanford. Tim Walz is complaining that the local economy, based almost entirely on illegal alien labor and purchases along with prodigious amounts of federal benefits fraud by Somalis, has been hurt by deportations. His proposal? He wants you to pay the state "deportation reparations."
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is demanding taxpayers bail out businesses after federal agents arrested more than 4,000 illegal aliens in the Minneapolis area -- arguing that Washington "broke" parts of his state's economy by enforcing immigration law. Speaking after White House border czar Tom Homan confirmed the scale of the operation, Walz said the crackdown left Minnesota facing "economic ruin" and insisted the federal government "needs to pay for what they broke here." His administration is advancing a $10 million taxpayer-funded relief package aimed at small businesses that lost workers or customers once illegal aliens were detained or deported. "What can we start doing on the economic recovery, the damage that has been done to our economy?" Walz said, singling out immigrant-owned small businesses. State economic officials claim revenue has fallen sharply because workers are staying home and customers are avoiding certain commercial areas. Matt Varilek, a senior economic development official, warned of "massive reductions" in foot traffic and income. Henry Garcia, a Colombian-born grocery store manager in St. Paul, said sales were cut in half. "My customers are afraid to go shopping," Garcia said. "Sales dropped by half, and goodwill doesn't cover rent ... We need more grants." Throughout his remarks, Walz praised Minnesota's immigrant community broadly and invoked the Statue of Liberty, declaring, "There is no Minnesota without our immigrant community." He did not distinguish between legal immigrants and illegal aliens.
Tim Walz wants US taxpayers to pay his state for damages:
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 12, 2026
"The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."
Unfreakingreal. pic.twitter.com/UC9b4NxnxF
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 13, 2026 02:43 PM (Kt19C)
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Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 03:28 PM (zQLjY)
Quite the admission that native Minnesotans are just nobodies accdng to the gov. But, do go on, and tell me replacement is just a racist conspiracy theory.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 03:28 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 13, 2026 03:28 PM (bH+s8)
I am sure Frey got the sadz
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 03:29 PM (rbvCR)
Then we can talk about repairing their economy.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 03:29 PM (S/Y4j)
They're predicting a massive earthquake on November 6.
Fred Sanford:
November 6? That's only five days away!
Lamont Sanford:
Don't worry about a thing, Pop, it's not possible.
Grady Wilson:
Oh I beg to differ with you, Lamont. Today is November 1, and it's extremely possible that November 6 is only five days away.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 03:29 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2026 03:29 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: duke at February 13, 2026 03:29 PM (p4viM)
Posted by: t-bird
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or a Mr. Slave outfit.
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 03:30 PM (UjdFS)
It is different in Japan. Here many companies are owned by families and they want to persist and leave something of value to the next generation. They are not addicted to market growth (immigration fuels customers) and benefits packages based on when they can cash in their options.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 03:26 PM (l0YH1)
Walz gives the game away -- the US economy has become dependent on continuous growth through immigration. That has to end at some point and the sooner the less catastrophic it will be.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 03:30 PM (l0YH1)
I bet he gets back into the race.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:30 PM (n7rxJ)
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If your business depended on (which is to say, catered to) illegal aliens, you are a traitor and going bankrupt is about the kindest way the rest of us can deal with you.
Posted by: Methos at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: pookysgirl's sympathy well has run dry at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (3ek7K)
That's like saying there is no Bill Clinton without syphilis.
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (zQLjY)
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Well, immigrants taking government benefits and then spending them on local businesses feels like a terrible basis for an economy.
Who told them that this would be a good idea?
Where are the Scandis who built an economy out of forests with their bare hands to tell the people of Minnesota otherwise?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (GBKbO)
Then we can talk about repairing their economy.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 03:29 PM
I am thinking more along the lines of them serving prison time.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (Oq/TM)
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (f1kZG)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 03:32 PM (l0YH1)
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 03:27 PM (INIdd)
The chance that Chinese Intelligence does not have films of that they send Timmy every so often when he seems to be thinking for himself is slightly lower than Trump sending Timmy the money Timmy claims to be owed.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 03:32 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ripley at February 13, 2026 03:32 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Caf at February 13, 2026 03:32 PM (qS/Xm)
If your state's economy depends on illegal aliens, then you have admitted that your government is abjectly criminal.
If your state depends on just 4.000 people who are also illegal aliens, then you have admitted that your government is simultaneously both abjectly criminal and abjectly incompetent.
The reasonable response to the former is immediate dissolution of the incompetent government. The reasonable response to the latter is the immediate imprisonment of criminal officials.
A reasonable response to neither is "subsidize them."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 03:33 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 13, 2026 03:33 PM (XZaOB)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2026 03:33 PM (MGB5H)
Ladies and gentleman, your next senator from Minnesota.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Good point, but what does Amy Klobuchar think she owes him? She could become governor and appoint... Ilhan Omar.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:33 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 03:34 PM (PrvRk)
Posted by: UGAdawg at February 13, 2026 03:34 PM (SurNx)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM
Same and his wife also gives me the ick.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 13, 2026 03:34 PM (ClDUJ)
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I am entirely open to - even supportive - of the notion of the federal taxpayer carrying the cost burden of imprisoning most of Minnesota' state government.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 03:34 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 03:34 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: steevy at February 13, 2026 03:34 PM (YwEeS)
Unfortunately, Courts will dismiss it based on standing because to sue, a taxpayer must prove that the mismanagement will directly cause an increase in their personal tax bill. Now, this is where the White House comes in. If Trump can document that in 2026-27 taxes will be lowered based soley on the ending of fraud in Minnesota and other abusive states, you, arguably have this threshold.
Of course, any such Class action has no chance or reaching fruition, but we could really make a point by getting something like 50 Million people signed up for a class action suit against Minnesota and Tim Walz as a separate defendant.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 03:34 PM (dIske)
Then we can talk about repairing their economy.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 03:29 PM
I am thinking more along the lines of them serving prison time.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (Oq/TM)
First the repayment, then decades making license plates - or gravel.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 03:34 PM (S/Y4j)
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This is going to unpleasantly surprise those who are convinced that the path to prosperity is lower interest rates and more lending to anyone that can be found to take the loan.
Posted by: Methos at February 13, 2026 03:34 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
She traded it to him for him not running again saving her the primary cash.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2026 03:34 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at February 13, 2026 03:35 PM (3kVUX)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude
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I think congress passed a secret law that politicians cannot serve prison time.
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 03:35 PM (UjdFS)
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It's called Reddit
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2026 03:35 PM (f1kZG)
Don't be ridiculous, Pop, you can't fight a traffic ticket.
Fred Sanford:
I'm not being ridiculous. You are. Now look, you get a ticket by a white cop in a blue uniform in a black neighborhood, making you so mad you see red. And you ain't gonna fight it 'cause you too yellow. Now what are you? A man or a box of crayons?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 03:35 PM (6ydKt)
Maybe Walz should ask the Somalis to bring back those carry on bags filled with cash, to help make up for all the lost revenue from crime.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2026 03:35 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: pookysgirl's sympathy well has run dry at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (Wt5PA)
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The assertion that "crime doesn't pay" presupposes both sovereign law to which all are about, and a reasonable probability that serious and/or ongoing crime gets both noticed and prosecuted.
Neither precondition is in evidence.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 03:35 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2026 03:35 PM (qBdHI)
Why is he even bothering? These problems will belong to the next governor.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:36 PM (n7rxJ)
I thought we won the cold war against the commies...
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
The die was cast with FDR promising all the good things for just a bit of control over the lives of citizens. And then, a little more. And then...
See, The Road To Serfdom.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 03:36 PM (diia5)
Posted by: No Name Today at February 13, 2026 03:36 PM (8mulE)
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The Venn diagram of the intersection of Commies, Retards, and Ingrates is a perfect circle.
I saw Commies, Retards, and Ingrates open for ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 13, 2026 03:36 PM (XZaOB)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 03:30 PM (l0YH1)
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Partly true. Some parts of the US economy do. This biggest of those parts is government and those connected to government.
Minnesota's state economy is not failing, and certainly not because of illegals being rounded up and deported.
But Tim Walz's friends' personal economies - and possibly his as well, along with many other politicians' and bureaucrats' - are very likely tanking hard.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 03:38 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 03:38 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: The Dark Lord at February 13, 2026 03:38 PM (DBAaD)
[the employment officer interviews Lamont] What's your educational background?
Lamont Sanford:
Well, I was working towards my Ph.D., but I didn't quite complete it.
Mr. Clifford:
I see. How far did you get?
Lamont Sanford:
About the 10th grade.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 03:38 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 13, 2026 03:38 PM (O3dBq)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 03:39 PM (l0YH1)
I thought we won the cold war against the commies...
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
Long, long ago, on the Titanic...
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 03:39 PM (zQLjY)
...anyone?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 03:38 PM (PYyV9)
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There had been 90 arrests (86 of them Somali) even before Shirley's reporting.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 03:39 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2026 03:35 PM (qBdHI)
LOL! Spot on.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 13, 2026 03:39 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 03:39 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 03:40 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Cray Cray at February 13, 2026 03:40 PM (Alf43)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2026 03:40 PM (vbXSk)
He's just trolling. There is no way that the current federal government will pay reparations for deporting illegal aliens.
Posted by: No Name Today
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Yup. I still wonder what he has in mind for his political future.
BruceWayne, what do you think would happen if Klobuchar blew him off in the Senate appointment anyway? Tee-hee! I mean, what could he do about it but fume?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:40 PM (n7rxJ)
omg the retail! all the retail will have to close!
is there an actual legit economy in Minnesota?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 03:40 PM (j+aD2)
We get to tell Walz to jump in a lake, right?
Posted by: Emmie at February 13, 2026 03:40 PM (NIkq3)
Posted by: DIAF Pedowalz at February 13, 2026 03:40 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 13, 2026 03:40 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: zigggggy at February 13, 2026 03:40 PM (EDeJ/)
In other words, their economy is shot without millions in kick backs from illegal businesses in empty buildings. I see now!
Where are all the children needing care from these pretend daycares?
Where are all the downtrodden and helpless elderly from imaginary home health care?
Where are all the poor patients, now stuck at home, who need imaginary non-emergency transport?
Does this Elmer Fudd flapping his gums (no offense to Elmer) ever address the fraud?
Has he mentioned the fraud and I missed it because I can't stand to pollute my retinas or ears?
Or is he still Pretti Good with the fraud?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 03:41 PM (WONhk)
In the spirit of bipartisanship, I make a counterproposal: Tom Homan cuts off Tim Walz's nipples on pay-per-view while his loved ones look on and quietly weep.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 03:41 PM (QPCEj)
hmm I'm liking this
the feds owe Philly ...we had safe streets with Testa
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 03:41 PM (j+aD2)
btw, I wonder if the Somalis paid taxes on all those billions they collected for (no) child care and other (non-) services. The IRS does not accept "The Dog Ate My Homework" excuse.
Posted by: illiniwek
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This is why it's driving me crazy that there have been no charges yet. The only "investigation" necessary is rounding up the existing paperwork.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:41 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
They can't think straight anymore--TDS hit hard here
Posted by: Dave at February 13, 2026 03:42 PM (sbsMc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 03:42 PM (RIvkX)
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In 2024 (the most recent available data) the State of Minnesota had a gross state product of approximately $507 billion. $10 million represents 0.002% of that gross.
This is not a lot of money in context, and this amount of money also makes it clear that this has nothing to do with the economy of the state of Minnesota. So if not that, then what? My bet is that this has to do with bailing out specific organizations associated with Tim Walz.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 03:42 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Well of course she could. But I'm sure she loves the idea of sticking America with him for a couple more years.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2026 03:42 PM (MGB5H)
No. We will never talk about "repairing" their economy.
Insurance went up because of MN was into burning down their own cities. I want them to reimburse me for insurance premium increases caused by their policy of paying for what they broke.
They also broke the welfare system, the child care system and the medical transport system. They broke it. Now how about reimbursing the country for the tens of billions of dollars in damage they did.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 13, 2026 03:43 PM (pUU4E)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 03:43 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: J.K. Simmons as Jonah Jameson at February 13, 2026 03:43 PM (Riz8t)
He makes my skin crawl.
Posted by: Piper
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Can you imagine if he'd had to watch this lizard-mouth every day for 4 years? While he was doing nothing but damage?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:43 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 13, 2026 03:44 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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It's been all downhill since the patent on Post-its ran out.
Posted by: 3M at February 13, 2026 03:44 PM (l0YH1)
I would like reparations from looking for a partial nanosecond at pedo mouth Walz since Kamkook dug him out of his lair. The prancing pounce photo is still in my brain, sadly.
I find him disturbing to think about. I demand at least a cool million from the fraud state of MN.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 03:44 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 13, 2026 03:45 PM (CWTWj)
Neither precondition is in evidence.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 03:35 PM (ojr4c)
Crime pays exceedingly well. And cheaters do in fact prosper beyond the wildest dreams of most law abiding citizens.
Posted by: Work hard, head down, don't make waves at February 13, 2026 03:45 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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His "loved ones"? Ha ha ha ha. That's funny.
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 03:45 PM (UjdFS)
Stealing from future generations for hands free catheters today.
Posted by: Should Be Ashamed... at February 13, 2026 03:45 PM (Ksqrb)
I'm sure she loves the idea of sticking America with him for a couple more years.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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What a bitch. I keep hearing that she's somewhat "smart," but I don't know what the case for that is. She's less dumb than most lefties? She has a policy that makes sense?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:45 PM (n7rxJ)
the way he grabbed his son
THAT I will never, ever forget
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 03:45 PM (j+aD2)
Walz knows for a fact that he will never fear any prosecution so he has taken to dropping his pants and making dick helicopters at the rest of the US.
The Trump Administration is constitutionally incapable of prosecuting or even charging Democrats.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 13, 2026 03:46 PM (kHd4y)
Fred Sanford: They pay me two-oh, I write down one-oh, Uncle Sam gets zero.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at February 13, 2026 03:46 PM (Ah/ci)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at
She ate a salad with a comb. Make of that what you will.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2026 03:47 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:43 PM (n7rxJ)
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I get the feeling that everything Walz know about governing, he learned in the PRC.
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 03:47 PM (rj6Yv)
And there is not a soul on this Planet who cares to even slow it down.
Crime is the System.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 13, 2026 03:47 PM (kHd4y)
Posted by: Pste at February 13, 2026 03:47 PM (2hSu0)
Huh? Did anyone catch that? "More" grants? How much taxpayer money has already been laundered through this bullshit business?
Now you know why Democraps will fight to their last breath for illegals and scumbags. Their entire economies are built on them.
Mr. Garcia can suck a fat dick until he chokes on it. Fuck these people. Fuck. These. People.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: BruceWayne
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The lice add texture.
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 03:48 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Bert G at February 13, 2026 03:48 PM (VARTN)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 03:40 PM (j+aD2)
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Going back to the beginning of commerce, the primary source of losses for shopkeepers has been employees stealing from them. Simple embezzlement. The clerk pockets what should have gone in the cashbox. That is most of the economic losses. There are rare exceptions like shipwrecks and wars, but most of the time, it's the help stealing from the shopkeeper.
This is why there have been so many inventions to help deal with that problem. Cash registers come immediately to mind. Why do you think so many places have those "if you don't get a receipt, your thing is free" policies? A receipt means the transaction was recorded. If someone isn't recording transactions, your free thing pales in comparison to the theft you just discovered for the shopkeeper. You're an integral part of the police force, and the shopkeeper pays you for your service.
But not now. In many places, the biggest cost is no longer embezzlement, but theft by outsiders. "Crime is legal" policies have inverted an ancient norm. Retail will improve, not get worse, with the removal of gangsters.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 03:49 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: pahound at February 13, 2026 03:49 PM (eyOo6)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 13, 2026 03:49 PM (S/Y4j)
every day the philly papers have articles like this!
"we need federal funding! we need grants!"
I laugh and laugh
such unhappy parasites
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 03:50 PM (j+aD2)
Walz knows for a fact that he will never fear any prosecution so he has taken to dropping his pants and making dick helicopters at the rest of the US.
The Trump Administration is constitutionally incapable of prosecuting or even charging Democrats.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Believe it or not, I think Walz had little or nothing to do with the Somali fraud. Why would they cut him in? They were able to do the whole thing within their community.
The problem with prosecuting them, I just don't get it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:50 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Tim Walz at February 13, 2026 03:51 PM (cO6Mr)
It should be the other way around.
Maybe put the entire state into forced labor just for electing the doche bag residue into office.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 03:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 03:51 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Tim Walz at February 13, 2026 03:51 PM (cO6Mr)
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Pay for your help.
Sorry.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 03:51 PM (ojr4c)
- Timmy Walz
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 13, 2026 03:52 PM (n5tGW)
Or, you know, my taxes and debt
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 03:53 PM (vJMWi)
And eat rice with chop sticks
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 03:53 PM (Ia/+0)
- Timmy Walz
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 13, 2026 03:52 PM (n5tGW)
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Setting aside grant losses as a result of all the fraud and the subsequent shutting off of grants, this is a useful statement.
4,000 gangsters deported. $10 million demanded. That amounts to $2,500 per deported gangster going into *somebody's* pocket in the state government.
Seems ... low.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 03:53 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)
I'm sure they do. Few in those cities knows how to generate wealth.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 13, 2026 03:54 PM (kHd4y)
The problem with prosecuting them, I just don't get it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:50 PM (n7rxJ)
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A dirty governor is paid for what he/she DOESN'T do - like order investigations, or request assistance from the Feds. When the state AG is as dirty as the governor, and the state MSM plays along, well, you get Minnestoa.
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 03:55 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: DaveA at February 13, 2026 03:55 PM (FhXTo)
The left is criminally insane.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 13, 2026 03:55 PM (ZKxxT)
Yep. Cash in pocket or goods out the back door...
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 03:55 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)
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They weren't his billions, they were the FedGov's - that is, yours.
He isn't looking to get those billions back, he wants back the millions that he and his pals were pocketing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 03:56 PM (ojr4c)
"My customers are afraid to go shopping," Garcia said. "Sales dropped by half,
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Once again, we are importing entire economies. Retailers as well as customers. We need more illegal alien customers to support the illegal alien retailers. And we need more illegal alien retailers to service the illegal alien customers. Fucking death-spiral.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:56 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: CIA Barbie & her merry band of marxists (VA) at February 13, 2026 03:57 PM (sAmhv)
and btw he didn't have to be "cut in" exactly. the "health and human services" admin in his state was FLUSH due to the influx of our tax dollars to Somalia. And he got a cut of THAT, not necessarily a cut from the Somalians.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 03:57 PM (j+aD2)
Yeah. Sure. OK.
Oh, you want sympathy? Fresh out.
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 03:58 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: Ripley
Actually they do.
Commies don't take a dump without a four year plan.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 03:59 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 03:57 PM (j+aD2)
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Yeah. My *guess* is that he and many others were double-dipping and both hoovering it up from the federal program inflow and getting a piece of it from the gangsters kicking some of it back upstairs through "campaign contributions" and NGOs and various other benefits.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 03:59 PM (ojr4c)
Mr. Garcia can suck a fat dick until he chokes on it. Fuck these people. Fuck. These. People.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/)
Your'e correct, didn't say we need a grant, more grants? What the hell is this?
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 13, 2026 03:59 PM (ClDUJ)
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 03:59 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2026 03:59 PM (r5gBF)
*Crowd Laughs*
“Congratulations, thank you very much for a great name, Stacey.”
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 13, 2026 04:00 PM (/E0rg)
Which should give Walz's head the rotational range of Linda Blair given all the "looking the other way" he's done.
Posted by: Halfhand at February 13, 2026 04:00 PM (cO6Mr)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2026 04:00 PM (0N4FZ)
Every time you walked down a street in Minneapolis, at least one of the people you saw was an illegal alien hardcore criminal. A rapist, a murderer, a drug dealer, a pedo.
But those 4k are only those that were caught. There are many many more. So what percent of the Minneapolis population is illegal? 20% 25%? 30%? 40%?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)
Those are two very different ideas. Walz obviously had a lot do with the Somali fraud because it is state administered.
Now did he expect to receive a cut? I don't know what the standard commissions Made Men in the Demonic Party get for funneling fraud into the Party Machine, but we know that Walz is a post turtle and he owes the Party for being installed as governor.
Personally, I don't care at all for the people of MN, and I won't lose sleep if they vote to get taxed into multi-generational penury.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 13, 2026 04:00 PM (xE0sV)
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Sorry your business depended on slavery and other crime. Maybe you should try again with a different and less despicable dependency matrix.
Also, what "grants" are immigrant shopkeepers in Minnesota getting, and why?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 04:01 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:01 PM (Nx5jP)
Blonde Morticia, the fraud was administered through state agencies.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Yeah, I realize that, but Walz strikes me as so utterly stupid that Somalis were able to run a multi-billion-dollar fraud right under his nose without his smelling it. There's no evidence that he got improbably rich, is there? I mean, this guy is so stupid that he missed a chance to pocket tens of millions of dollars.
Also, I haven't looked, but I bet these state agencies were heavily staffed by Somalis.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 04:02 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Ripley
Actually they do.
Commies don't take a dump without a four year plan.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
......
They should try Senocot.
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 04:02 PM (UjdFS)
A new homo ringworm disease imported from Europe!
https://tinyurl.com/5yn6ftn6
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 04:02 PM (WONhk)
How much do you want to bet walz is going to toss his name back into the governors race? \
Posted by: Mister Scott
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Great minds at #30.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 04:03 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 04:04 PM (0KSrI)
No. You need to find customers who aren't criminals.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 13, 2026 04:04 PM (IG3/x)
Flights - MSP to CTG.
It's easy.
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:04 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:05 PM (Nx5jP)
Keep on working on...
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:05 PM (vJMWi)
The government issues small business grants for community development and minority businesses. I'm guessing that is where the money was coming from.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Minority businesses? If any of those grants have a penny of federal funding, they'd better be ended.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 04:06 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Civilized people use a hair pick.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 04:06 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 04:07 PM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2026 04:07 PM (0U5gm)
I LOL'd because I read the Sanford & Son exchange in Grady's and Lamont's voices.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at February 13, 2026 04:07 PM (YoT4f)
Get going. This dick ain’t gonna suck itself.
Posted by: That Guy at February 13, 2026 04:07 PM (3arSl)
I dunno. quit spending trillions of dollars we don't have?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 13, 2026 04:07 PM (+4Cf6)
"My customers are afraid to go shopping," Garcia said. "Sales dropped by half, and goodwill doesn't cover rent ... We need more grants."
No. You need to find customers who aren't criminals.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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The utter gall of whining that your business plan was built on gimmedats for illegal aliens and now it's shrinking.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 04:07 PM (n7rxJ)
My definition of reparations: compensation for citizens enslaved against their will and irreparably harmed by their own government. That generation only.
The left's definition: any Democrat protected subgroup that is not directly harmed but has a bad feel. Forever.
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 04:08 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:08 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 04:08 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:09 PM (GLmO1)
Posted by: Rex B at February 13, 2026 04:09 PM (gm3Cy)
Could you write to him at the WH and suggest that?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:10 PM (GLmO1)
I hate that happened to her. And there is messed her up. But I also don't want her raped by someone illegal. I'm sorry Biden screwed up immigration so bad that we have to do extreme measures like this just to get back to normal levels of illegals.
There's no good response when democrats mess up (on purpose!) and we have to clean up their messes.
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 04:12 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: That Guy at February 13, 2026 04:12 PM (3arSl)
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at February 13, 2026 04:12 PM (SugAx)
http://tiny.cc/jjxy001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 04:13 PM (ojr4c)
At random? Color me doubtful.
There's more to the story.
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:14 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: That Guy at February 13, 2026 04:12 PM (3arSl)
++++
No bid.
Posted by: Whoremonger at February 13, 2026 04:14 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: Mike at February 13, 2026 03:25 PM (Jz9jg)
Dang Mike. What you got against barbed wire?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 04:15 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: That Guy at February 13, 2026 04:15 PM (3arSl)
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:08 PM
Do you think maybe you're taking this too literally?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 04:15 PM (PrvRk)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 13, 2026 04:15 PM (xvV+O)
Those billions stolen was signed checks by bureaucracy and head by the governor. He fkin knew billions should have taken care of every kid in the country.
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 04:15 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:10 PM (GLmO1)
*hauls out typewriter*
"Dear Golden Scalp Weasel, also known as The Orange Man:
I write to yuo because... HONEY, WHERE'S MY WITE-OUT?"
Posted by: pookysgirl tries to avoid typos at February 13, 2026 04:16 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: That Guy at February 13, 2026 04:15 PM (3arSl)
++++
Huh.
I never thought about it before, but this would be the difference between a "taxpayer dollar" and a "taxpayer's dollar."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 04:16 PM (ojr4c)
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:16 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: That Guy at February 13, 2026 04:16 PM (3arSl)
http://tiny.cc/jjxy001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 04:13 PM (ojr4c)
_____
Under Judge Blade's "Only The Hotties" immigration policy, she gets in. TBWB.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 04:17 PM (iFTx/)
I can't believe we taxed the social security of old widows until Trump stopped it, but didn't have taxes on remittances leaving the country. We tax everything that breathes and tax it after it stops breathing. Apparently the uniparty gets some kind of perk for not taxing such a lucrative amount of potential income.
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 04:17 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 04:17 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Bobby Sherman at February 13, 2026 04:17 PM (J9q9v)
Hmmmm.
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:17 PM (vJMWi)
Originally from European homos, the elites of homo proclivities, it has now spread to the state of 10,000 Lakes and Millions of Fraud.
One would ass-ume his photographer already has it as well, as why would Lemon hire a hetero?
It is currently unknown if he also left the ringworm, a Lemon Status tattoo of sorts, in the jail where he was impounded overnight. Some criminals nearby say he cried out in either agony or ecstacy when he met his cellmate.They report a long night of yowling like the haunting sounds of foxes in heat.
However, MN is now warning homos about this rash and to report this (photos included in the article) to their doctor. Anyone with previous STD's (in other words, all of you) are more likely to aquire the Lemon Rings.
ChristyBlinky
Homo STD News Reporter at large,LLC
https://tinyurl.com/5yn6ftn6
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 04:18 PM (WONhk)
Can't we just Maduro this mofo?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 13, 2026 04:18 PM (Wnqw0)
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 04:19 PM (3d4aC)
this would scare me not even the slightest bit
wtf
is she illegal? visa overstay?
I'd be high fiving the guy.
WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH NON CITIZENS
a quick ID check is not that big of a deal
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 04:19 PM (j+aD2)
About time. They need a new Churchill/Thatcher. They are at war, but this time the enemy is within.
Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2026 04:19 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Some Judge, next week at February 13, 2026 04:20 PM (AJ7zK)
So.... no.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2026 04:20 PM (mP0Kj)
MORE?
So they already get grants?
Posted by: Harun at February 13, 2026 04:20 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: Cray Cray at February 13, 2026 04:20 PM (Alf43)
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The fastest growing religion in AZ, NV, and UT is Hinduism.
In about half the other states it's Islamism.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 13, 2026 04:20 PM (sr1VN)
That said, moar.
Posted by: ballistic at February 13, 2026 04:21 PM (5aZAZ)
the way he grabbed his son
THAT I will never, ever forget
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 03:45 PM (j+aD2)
yeah, and even some...Republicans said, oh no , he was just keeping his son from walking into a podium...the look of disgust on his face...ugh...
Posted by: zigggggy at February 13, 2026 04:21 PM (EDeJ/)
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:21 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 04:21 PM (iFTx/)
TMVII stands for trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII, a fungus spread primarily by gays that results in severe rashes. The first US case was reported in 2024, unsurprisingly in New York City. Minnesota hosts the largest US outbreak.
Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2026 04:21 PM (GITLP)
Well, I think you ought to change your handle to
"Christy Blinky, straight woman, reporting on gay STD ringworm News" Your obviously not a gay male.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:21 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: man at February 13, 2026 04:22 PM (vJMWi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:21 PM (PFs9e)
How dare you presume my pronouns?
I laughed in a very evil way when I read the article and that there is a STD Clinic in MN.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 04:24 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:24 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Mike at February 13, 2026 03:25 PM (Jz9jg)
Dang Mike. What you got against barbed wire?
***
Pro tip: cholla
Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 13, 2026 04:24 PM (LdBR/)
Also, without brown people our economy doesn’t exist.
Posted by: democrats at February 13, 2026 04:24 PM (AJ7zK)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 13, 2026 04:25 PM (Wnqw0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 04:26 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 13, 2026 04:27 PM (Wnqw0)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 04:27 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 04:29 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at February 13, 2026 04:30 PM (vqA1l)
Total COVID-19 Federal Aid: Minnesota received roughly $73 billion in federal COVID-19 aid, including $11.5 billion in state-administered funds and over $3 billion to local governments.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Funding: The state received $4.005 billion in federal COVID-19 funding specifically for HHS enhancements.
Flexible Funds: The state was allocated $7.153 billion in flexible funds, which included $2.187 billion in the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) and additional funding from the American Rescue Plan (ARPA).
Specific Health Spending: Of the CRF funds, $193 million was used for COVID-19 testing and vaccination response, and $50 million was directed to hire/retain workers in skilled nursing facilities.
Medicaid/Health Impact: While not direct CARES Act spending on Obamacare, the pandemic resulted in a 50,000-person increase in Minnesota Medicaid enrollment (which is part of the ACA framework).
Unemployment Trust Fund: A significant portion of the $2.7 billion in flexible ARPA dollars was directed toward the state’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund.
Posted by: L - no nic, another fine day at February 13, 2026 04:31 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 04:27 PM (0KSrI)
Prayers for him. Where are the men of England?
https://tinyurl.com/bdf8kfk3
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 04:33 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 13, 2026 04:33 PM (jrgJz)
Restore Britain
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 04:35 PM (0KSrI)
I actually pray each night for Christians and Jews to stand up and fight against what has invaded there. A new Crusade.
My good husband has told me to pray for eeslam to be converted vs my prayer of eradication I told him about. Altho I am doing this part of me still is very bad.
Sometimes my prayers are so long I conk out towards the end, but resume the next morning.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 04:40 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 04:44 PM (y9nCu)
I pray so...I love the UK.
https://tinyurl.com/s8a7t8pa
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 04:50 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 04:51 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Advo at February 13, 2026 05:14 PM (jO4mz)
Posted by: melodicmetal at February 13, 2026 05:17 PM (XLfSN)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 05:25 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: docweasel at February 13, 2026 06:14 PM (+KF5m)
Posted by: Jackson at February 13, 2026 04:19 PM (3d4aC)
I dunno. Try Brave. Or Chrome with AdBlock.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 13, 2026 06:27 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 13, 2026 06:35 PM (wGqjj)
Posted by: Gosport at February 13, 2026 06:50 PM (Vh6nj)
Posted by: comanche voter at February 13, 2026 07:22 PM (cB7nX)
Posted by: wickedpinto at February 13, 2026 08:36 PM (2a0yj)
No sympathy here. !!!
Posted by: John in Indy at February 13, 2026 11:29 PM (OplBW)
I keep seeing all the soft handed white liberals who moved to NYC 8 weeks ago, but try to act like "New Yawkas" saying they'll fight ICE (probably with free candies) so let's see them "fight" and get a tear gas canister to the face.
I'm sure I can point Hooman to a good 10-15,000 illegal criminals they can pick up in a subtle single day, and quickly ease the burden of having to pay for the jacked up prices they cause.
Posted by: Rbastid at February 14, 2026 01:08 AM (/T6ql)
Unexpectedly, Inflation Comes In Below "Expert" Expectations
Weird how this keeps happening.
The "target" rate of inflation the Fed is trying to get to is 2.0%. In January, increased prices by 0.2%. Over a full 12 months, that would be 2.4%. Also, over the past 12 months, inflation was at 2.4%. Just a bit over target. Just a scotch above the level the Fed actually wants to see. But I thought Trump's Tariffs would kill us worse than insurrectionists killed AOC on January 6.Some of the decreases from December's report are notable, even in categories where prices still increased incrementally. Food went from +0.7 to +0.2, for instance. Energy prices actually dropped by significant amounts across the board, -1.5% overall and -3.2% for gasoline. Fuel oil fell 5.7% in January in a month where demand would be peaking. Electricity prices fell by a tenth of a point. Only natural gas showed a significant increase of 1.0% in January. However, the year-on-year numbers in CPI for the first twelve months of the Donald Trump administration look pretty spectacular when it comes to an affordability argument: Overall YoY inflation: 2.4%The Wall Street Journal notes that since inflation came in high last January -- Biden's last month in office -- inflation has fallen.
Food: 2.9%
Food at home: 2.1%
Food away from home: 4.0%
Energy: -0.1%
Energy commodities: -7.3%
Gasoline: -7.5%
Fuel oil: -4.2%
Energy services: 7.2%
Electricity: 6.3%
Utility gas service: 9.8%
Core CPI less food and energy: 2.4% It's not perfect, but it's pretty darned good. The big problems here are electricity and gas, both of which the Trump administration is already working to expand.
The latest annual number had some help, since a high inflation reading from January 2025 has now dropped out of the past 12 months of data. Month over month from December, consumer prices in January rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% and core prices rose 0.3%.
Don't forget, Wednesday's jobs report came in above "expectations" as well, with Trump adding 172,000 private sector jobs, and cutting 42,000 government " " " jobs " " ". It's almost as if "experts" have some built-in, unchangeable cognitive bias that always make their predictions wrong and always in the same (anti-GOP) direction.
THIS is the real story out of today's jobs report - Trump was handed an economy that was losing private sector jobs and adding gov't payrolls, but he successfully flipped the script, and one year later it's all private sector growth while cutting gov't jobs: pic.twitter.com/R5r5EHgzqk
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) February 11, 2026
Jobs report DOUBLES expectations.
— john jackson (@pvtjokerus) February 11, 2026
How can this be?
I was assured yesterday from every lib dchebag on X that this was going to be a disaster.
It's almost as if they have no fkn idea what they're talking about.
pic.twitter.com/YoFQhS4xKU
🚨 BREAKING: US inflation comes in BELOW EXPECTATIONS at just 2.4% year-over-year, another economic win for President Trump and Scott Bessent
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 13, 2026
CNBC: "A DOWNSIDE surprise!" 🔥
Just +0.2% over the month for January — ALSO below expectations
"A GOOD CPI number!" 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/2B4Vc9YHIj
Before switching to his Epstein grift last year, Ro Khanna spent his nights on CNN claiming that Trump's tariffs were destroying the economy and making inflation go up.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) February 13, 2026
Smart pivot. pic.twitter.com/lqlnelwKmO
Local news on this week's blockbuster economy news📺⬇️
— Delanie Bomar (@DelanieBomar) February 13, 2026
"Inflation is cooling."
"The better-than-expected report is largely driven by the cost of energy falling."
"Today's numbers follow Wednesday's jobs report, which also beat expectations." pic.twitter.com/q6JHN2HWdC
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 02:21 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: doug at February 13, 2026 02:22 PM (Hy+R4)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 13, 2026 02:23 PM (Kt19C)
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Well, since AOC is still alive, it means they didn't do a very good job on 1/6, did they? About as good as the experts do in projecting the economy.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2026 02:23 PM (AlhUl)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 13, 2026 02:24 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 13, 2026 02:24 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 02:24 PM (0KSrI)
I like to pretend the projections are honest and Obama - Biden never fail to do worse than the experts could imagine possible.
Conversely, Trump always does better than experts believe possible.
Posted by: Operator Error at February 13, 2026 02:25 PM (9V4Lr)
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2026 02:25 PM (y9ksN)
Posted by: Jacob Marley at February 13, 2026 02:26 PM (Cqx++)
*raises hand*
Could this have any relation to the deportations, voluntary or otherwise, of illegals?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 02:26 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 02:27 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 02:27 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 13, 2026 02:23 PM (Kt19C)
Up 2.7%, while hustling is up 1.8%
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2026 02:27 PM (y9ksN)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)
Americans can't afford eggs and Trump is worried about immigration?!!
- scenes from early 2025.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2026 02:27 PM (HXT0k)
dang.Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 02:28 PM (PYyV9)
Posted by: Will Robinson at February 13, 2026 02:29 PM (VxFiM)
Does this number not include illegals or are only something like 5% of illegals actually working?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Beartooth at February 13, 2026 02:29 PM (GGatE)
What about the price of eggs, huh?!
Americans can't afford eggs and Trump is worried about immigration?!!
- scenes from early 2025.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2026 02:27 PM (HXT0k)
What about the price of beef, huh?!
Americans can't afford beef and Trump is worried about immigration?!!
- scenes from early 2026.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 02:29 PM (tgvbd)
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The "bias" is toward being paid to say whatever shit their bosses tell them to say.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 02:29 PM (Pvpk0)
We still have to work on getting Americans back to work, and getting H1bs to go back to their shithole and work there and not here.
College grads are suffering, and that will hurt the narrative a lot going forward. Their starting pay is just going down as we replace them with Indians subsidized by gov.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 02:30 PM (l0YH1)
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 02:30 PM (DD6gL)
Like some ridiculous number of like 90%.
Hey, remember how great the Obama economy was that they had to start reporting "jobs created or saved?"
And then it got so much better, they had to start reporting "jobs created, saved or funded?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2026 02:30 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 02:30 PM (DD6gL)
Remora eeeeels.... light the corners of my mind....
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 02:31 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: pookysgirl wants manufacturing re-shored at February 13, 2026 02:31 PM (Wt5PA)
Why it's almost as if when our capitalist economy isn't getting buttfucked by socialism, harsh regulations, and criminal level treasonous grifting,
It can produce good lives and jobs for everyone.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 02:32 PM (iJfKG)
Note they never show those charts by Congressional control.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 02:32 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: nckate at February 13, 2026 02:33 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 02:33 PM (DD6gL)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:20 PM
And yet, they never stop. Almost as if they don't even care if we notice the tactic, as long as it works to influence public opinion on the margins.
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 02:33 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 02:34 PM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 02:25 PM (Pvpk0)
Ran out of thread, but I while I think this is the inevitable result, it's born of doubling-down on the ideology at a time when it's getting shredded by actual scientific inquiry, and to absolve women who trans their kids (with the urging of doctors, therapists, and their group of fellow Munchausen harpies) from any guilt, shame, or responsibility for their role in creating these Mengelean horrors of mutilation and despair.
Posted by: Sorry for the carryover at February 13, 2026 02:34 PM (TbWk/)
I have no idea whether he's doing a good job. I retired from that business and have no desire to follow it these days.
Posted by: spongeworthy at February 13, 2026 02:34 PM (sLLbN)
Posted by: Shenanigans at February 13, 2026 02:34 PM (tfEt+)
So why are we still offering any H1bs, or even any foreign student visas? If the "knowledge economy" is shrinking due to AI, why are we not taking care of Americans first?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 02:35 PM (l0YH1)
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 02:35 PM (p4NUW)
If we have this K shaped economy, and the rich are spending well while the poor cut back, then the basket of CPI goods could very well be low inflation right now, since the majority of people are cutting back their demand.
What is our overall inflation? The rate is just a change over time but if overall inflation is still high then it doesn’t paint the rosy picture that reports are showing
Trump literally fired the chief of the bureau of labor statistics last year so he could put in a yes man. These numbers mean nothing.
Inflation is down, but so is the value of the dollar. Can't explain that!
we are seeing layoffs, people are struggling to afford basic life, health insurance and electricity prices are exploding yet all the numbers coming out look great. 🤔
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 13, 2026 02:35 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 02:35 PM (3ek7K)
If they are positive they'll vote R, negative D.
Hopefully Trump and co are ready for this
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 02:35 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Experts. Sure. at February 13, 2026 02:35 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: A dude in MI at February 13, 2026 02:36 PM (/6GbT)
I'm not poor, but I certainly cut back on my spending due to Bidenflation. I still can't believe my grocery bill doubled under the Junta.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 02:36 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2026 02:36 PM (wVcYX)
Seems like more jobs and lower prices for Americans would really have the till bells ringing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2026 02:37 PM (HXT0k)
It can produce good lives and jobs for everyone.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 02:32 PM (iJfKG)
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Well, even now the economy is still getting buttfucked by all those things, but a little less so under Trump. Imagine if we could get rid of all the socialism, harsh regulations, and criminal level treasonous grifting.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 02:37 PM (iFTx/)
MSM
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 13, 2026 02:37 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 02:38 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 13, 2026 02:39 PM (5yDGQ)
I'm super busy; the rest of my fam is super busy, everyone is doing well.
we don't work for the government tho
it's nice to not be dying over here in the private sector!
and totally anecdotal but the numbers of illegals are down around here. it's happening. I'd love it to be faster but still!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 13, 2026 02:40 PM (j+aD2)
It's best if, rather that complain about beef prices, we bought pork or chicken or even lamb.
Posted by: spongeworthy at February 13, 2026 02:40 PM (sLLbN)
If the "knowledge economy" is shrinking due to AI, why are we not taking care of Americans first?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Probably because the useful AI engineers are mostly foreigners. Cf. UCSD for America's math scores.
This is just my guess based on current news.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 02:40 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: The Paolo at February 13, 2026 02:40 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2026 02:41 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 13, 2026 02:41 PM (mXZ+5)
It wasn't unusual for futurists in the 60s to argue we'd be working 20 hour weeks and retiring at 40 now.
SO why not? Government sucked up all that extra productivity.
But hey at least you can get Thai food at 3 AM if you live in a big blue city
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 02:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 02:42 PM (tgvbd)
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The AutoPen Empire was the white face of Somali Supremacy.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 13, 2026 02:43 PM (Z32lN)
Man, look at those hovercraft flying across the water! They're faster when they're empty.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 02:43 PM (Riz8t)
totally anecdotal but the numbers of illegals are down around here.
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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It's still nothing but illegals in Cali. Disgusting story out of Watsonville (an ag community adjacent to Salinas) about a teaching intern who posted the briefest of Facebook posts encouraging ICE, and she got fired, publicly vilified, and turned into an object lesson on bigotry. Parents, teachers, everyone piling on her because of her "insensitivity" to the mostly-"migrant" population in Watsonville. Unfixable short of another Minneapolis-like battle.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 02:43 PM (n7rxJ)
It's best if, rather that complain about beef prices, we bought pork or chicken or even lamb.
Posted by: spongeworthy at February 13, 2026 02:40 PM (sLLbN)
We're doing more pork and chicken. It's a good time of year for lamb. Lent is coming up, so more fish too.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 02:43 PM (tgvbd)
I wish that were the case in my small, coastal community. Still hovering around the $3/gal figure where it has been for several months.
And it's only going to go up once Spring Break/tourist season begins in a few weeks.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 13, 2026 02:43 PM (Y1sOo)
Not really. There are some good software/AI engineers from Europe and Israel but...most are American still.
Ironically if you reverted to the original use of H1Bs - to hire specific individuals with knowledge/skills no one else has, we'd still be able to hire the occasional Euro/Israeli we'd need and just force corporate America to spend more time training Americans and less time hiring Indians.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 02:45 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 02:45 PM (urppY)
Posted by: mr tmz at February 13, 2026 02:45 PM (rJ48h)
And while restaurant prices exploded since then it really reduced my desire to eat out
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 02:47 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 02:48 PM (Ia/+0)
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So Watsonville is comprised mostly of illegal aliens? That's what they're saying. Hope the poor teacher uproots and leaves that dysfunctional CA crap hole of a state.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2026 02:49 PM (qBdHI)
It reminds me of reading some book several years ago that excoriated President Ford for his untenable financial policy. According to the experts, there are two types of inflation. Demand inflation is fixed by raising taxes so that people have less to spend. A wage-price spiral, on the other hand, is fixed freezing wages so that people have less to spend.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 13, 2026 02:49 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2026 02:49 PM (rWjNm)
Imagine California or New York with $0.15/kwh electricity, instead of $0.30/kwh. Doesn't anyone think that might spur at least some job growth in those states?
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 02:50 PM (urppY)
Many food items seems to be better
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)
You're right, EtB.
But, we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Just keep pushing for it.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 02:50 PM (FmEiC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2026 02:50 PM (rWjNm)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
1. This is a big country. If companies wanted talent from USA, they could pay more and find it but they are paying less because they can get it cheaper from overseas.
2. People at that age can be trained (college or recent grad.) Most of the work does not reqiure a math genius. IBM and other big Dow companies (GM, ATT, USS, etc.) used to offer classes in house and paid tuition for grad school. They trained up the data entry and clerks to fill their needs. We don't much do that anymore because foreigners are cheaper. I worked at a 50 person company and trained up clerks to do CAD in the 90s because they were hard to find. I am sure Alphabet and Meta and X can do it.
3. You know how you encourage kids to go into tech instead of DEI and bullshit degrees? You raise the salaries of those career paths.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 02:51 PM (l0YH1)
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The "Weekend at Bernie's" presidency printed so much money that the prices on some items will never return to their previous levels. I used to be able to buy Powerade for 88 cents a bottle, and 68 cents if it was on sale at the local grocer chain. Its a $1.38 a bottle now, and never on sale.
Posted by: Crusader at February 13, 2026 02:52 PM (TN0g+)
And the job might go away, Trump, his admin, are moving some functions that NCAR did to other outfits. We are an offshoot group, not directly NCAR but the agencies that we have contracts with are nervous of if we can function w/o being part of NCAR. Probably we could pay to have the computers hosted, and the health insurance etc cheaper than our overhead rate at NCAR but its hard to say.
Right now NCAR's HR is hamstringing us. One of our good young employees moved to NYC cuz her DH got his PHD and took a job there. HR has said she cannot work remotely because they made a rule that everyone has to be at least hybrid and in office 60%. And another young employee announced she is quitting cuz her DH works at NCAR and they need to not have both paychecks at risk. the NYC is BS, if she had moved a year ago she'd be allowed to continue remotely until Aug 27. They could do a waiver to allow that long.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 13, 2026 02:53 PM (Sokdp)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 13, 2026 02:53 PM (M0V4/)
My local grocery store offers a Thanksgiving box of food - Turkey, rolls, potatoes, etc. Every year, same stuff in it.
By the end of the Junta the price had doubled.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 02:54 PM (sKqQm)
Reciprocal Access: In return, the U.S. gains duty-free access to export up to 80,000 metric tons of beef to Argentina in 2026, under the same quarterly schedule, with no restriction to lean trimmings.
This reciprocal arrangement aims to balance trade opportunities for both nations' beef industries.
Maybe that will help?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 02:54 PM (6ydKt)
force corporate America to spend more time training Americans and less time hiring Indians.
Posted by: 18-1
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I also wish corporate America would force universities, who would then force schools, to spend more time educating Americans and less time brainwashing them. Downward pressure until the root villains (the teacher's unions) get squeezed by three layers of angry customers.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 02:54 PM (n7rxJ)
Company came out with the compensation numbers yesterday. For 2 years I have not had a salary increase and my bonus is lower that last years.
Think it might be time to say Eff You, I'm Outta Here!!!!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 13, 2026 02:56 PM (Oq/TM)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2026 02:57 PM (Vh9CX)
Think it might be time to say Eff You, I'm Outta Here!!!!
Some companies do this stupid thing where this is one bucket of money for new hires and a separate bucket for salary increases. And they can and do fund the former bucket at a higher rate then the latter because it is easier to tell upper management that hiring all these new people will let us do all these things you wanted then it is to tell them they have to pay more to get the same things they already thought they were getting.
So...honestly if you want to maximize income you want to change jobs every 3 years or so. But...I hate resumes, interviewing, and all the networking crap.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 02:59 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
Bullshit futures are up today on rumors demand will exceed supply.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 02:59 PM (J+Psw)
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Literally our his own people in like a true fascist or you know president
LITERALLY
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 03:00 PM (Pvpk0)
The response from the left: Bury this! Its a lie! Don't report it! Where's the evidence this happened???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 03:00 PM (PYyV9)
Fuckin hell it's what these cunts deserve
Posted by: Grey Fox at February 13, 2026 03:01 PM (61TgR)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 02:51 PM (l0YH1)
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What you're telling me is that a fast, efficient procurement process should be dumped for a lengthy, circuitous, expensive one.
Again, don't take my arguments for much more than devil's advocacy, but I'm trying to imagine what would persuade foreigners like Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai to take the trouble to find, train, and hire Americans when cheap, easy alternatives are available.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:01 PM (n7rxJ)
And while restaurant prices exploded since then it really reduced my desire to eat out
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 02:47 PM (sKqQm)
The food quality has gone downhill and the service is generally worse. The restaurants buy from the same three companies, and the portions get smaller, and there is less variety.
A steak used to come with a starch, a salad and a veg, and now it is just meat and some sort of potato, other sides are extra.
And I get to wonder if my food is being spit in.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 03:01 PM (rbvCR)
I was following one particular stock that posted higher then expect earnings and...lost 10% of its value.
Why? Because the market expected it to beat expectations on earning increases more then it did.
WTF.
I could never be a day trader because I just can't wrap my head around this. Is the company worth more then last year? Yes. Did it do even better then experts expected? Yes. But...that sucks the stock sucks. Sell it all NOW!
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 03:02 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: I still can't think of anytung at February 13, 2026 03:02 PM (1w2E3)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2026 03:02 PM (mP0Kj)
The money can usually be moved around if they really want to. Two of the three largest raises I received were because (a) I went to San Francisco to interview for another job, and (b) they thought I had gone to San Francisco to interview for another job.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 13, 2026 03:04 PM (EXyHK)
I hate resumes, interviewing, and all the networking crap.
Posted by: 18-1
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Fist-bump. I just moved out of the job-rich area I lived in and I'm miserably in search of work again in a difficult environment for candidates. I saw a "lab tech" job at a dairy (=illegal alien or mostly Hispanic grunt labor), the night shift, and I was tempted to apply. $23/hr more than I'm making now!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:05 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2026 02:57 PM (Vh9CX)
It's worse than knowing nothing. People who know nothing might occasionally say something useful. These people know plenty. But they say what they are paid to say.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 03:05 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 03:02 PM (sKqQm)
Stock Market is nothing more than a computerized gambling ring. With short selling? You literally BET on if the stock goes up or down... not having anything to do with how the company is actually doing.
You can do well with a diversified portfolio... but playing individual stocks is now a fools bet.
Hell.... I lost $10s of thousands on United when it went bankrupt... because the Judges decided that all us regular stock holders could just have our money gone, instead of breaking up the company and selling the assets.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2026 03:06 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 02:59 PM
I work for a French bank. Last year they started to have the NY office do appraisals the same way Paris does.
It really messed up the compensations for all us folks lower down the ladder.
And I am a person who stays at a job long time. My first company I was with 20 years. Got let go and consulted for 6 or 7 months before my current company offered me a job Stayed there for 3 years before I quite because I really did not like my manager.
Was consulting for a half a year before the company called and asked if I wanted to come back as that manager quit a month after I left. Still here 19 years later.
I am not going to look for a new job, I have had enough and look forward to doing what I want.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 13, 2026 03:06 PM (4q/mG)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:01 PM (n7rxJ)
Don't allow write offs for the wages to H1B employees. If they have special abilities we can't live without, the the extra cost will be worth their labor. There is no reason to write off their wages as a business expense if it is not benefiting Americans.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 03:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 02:28 PM (PYyV9)
Prices will never decrease after runaway inflation. I reference living through the Carter years. Products' prices went through the roof, and never returned to pre inflation prices.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 13, 2026 03:08 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 13, 2026 03:08 PM (+mUZM)
Gallon of milk is my metric. $1.69 to $1.89 pre-Biden. Now $3.19 to $3.39, almost double. Definitely stabilized since Trump took office and may have come down.
Fuck Joe Biden.
Posted by: Ripley at February 13, 2026 03:08 PM (GUOwU)
Yes this is true. I had a very limited budget for salary increases in one team I managed. A guy game to me and said he got an offer from another company for 40% more. Now, he wasn't my best guy, but he was ok.
I talked with my manager and...wala! we could find another 10% but that was it.
He took the new job and honestly I told him I didn't blame him. But...6 months later he was asking for his old job back...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)
...Despite Reversing Decades of Democrat Policy!
Posted by: Axios at February 13, 2026 03:09 PM (OnLUs)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 02:35 PM (l0YH1)
I continue to maintain that we should pause all immigration for 50-100 years, until full integration has been achieved. An objective measure for that is if the World Cup happens and no one is wearing foreign jerseys, waving foreign flags, or cheering when foreigners score.
Until then, our only visas should be tourist or diplomatic, and there should be large men in vans waiting to grab them off the street and whisk them to the airport the moment they overstay.
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 03:09 PM (Sy6m/)
Again, don't take my arguments for much more than devil's advocacy, but I'm trying to imagine what would persuade foreigners like Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai to take the trouble to find, train, and hire Americans when cheap, easy alternatives are available.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Yikes.
Why should I be nice to my fiance and marry her to have sex when I can just hire a whore?
OK. I need to calm down. Sorry.
I think we need to take care of Americans. I do not think hiring H1bs is moral, as they are subsidized by gov. (tax breaks, massive benefits to their families that they sponsor as soon as they can and who become a drain on our programs, etc.) and who are destroying our NON-TRIBAL Western culture. H1bs will be the death of us.
And I have worked with plenty of them to know they are moving up in companies because they are ruthless and aggressive and mostly benefiting from a lot of good American engineers that they are stepping on. This tribalism is killing the high tech goose that makes America great .
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 03:09 PM (l0YH1)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 03:01 PM (rbvCR)
If it is, it is being done at some central kitchen that prepares the food and then ships it to the restaurant to be heated up there.
Ever wondered how the chocolate lava cake became a restaurant staple? Yep, one of the food service companies came up with it and priced it so that it would be a huge profit maker for the restaurants.
Surprisingly, if you want the food to actually be mostly prepared on site, go to McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 13, 2026 03:09 PM (k1E2D)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 03:01
One of the positives of living in a fairly small town is knowing the people who own restaurants. There are very, very few chains.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 03:11 PM (p4NUW)
This is kind of 101, you guys.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2026 03:11 PM (pkv3v)
This is a big thing I fortunately picked up on a while back.
Recently, for example, my tech stocks have done poorly BUT my other stocks have been doing well - and there were definitely times were the opposite was true.
I'm no investment expert but my advice would be make sure you spread your investments not just among companies but among sectors.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 03:11 PM (sKqQm)
It's odd, when I started out in tech I was all for H1bs and getting the best of the best into the USA. But after years of seeing who and what they are, I am thoroughly disgusted as I have seen them do much more damage to many companies whenever they take over a department or division.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 03:12 PM (l0YH1)
Posted by: nckate at February 13, 2026 03:13 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 13, 2026 03:08 PM (5xuJ/)
This is not true, the inflation during the civil war turned into a 30 year deflation that not only brought the greenbacks back to par on gold, it also performed a global deflation of goods and services in the US. It was both the end of fiat printing, and the growth of the US economy that managed that.
This didn't mean that there was not any defaults on private bank paper, but that paper was allowed to default, which ended a lot of the financial panics at the time, instead of blowing up larger bubbles.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 03:13 PM (rbvCR)
NYT, WP, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS News Narrative Debate:
Ignore it.
Give credit to the last administration for it.
Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2026 03:13 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: CIA Barbie & her merry band of marxists (VA) at February 13, 2026 03:14 PM (sAmhv)
That was Pre Federal Reserve Bank system.
Won't happen now.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2026 03:14 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2026 03:06 PM (mP0Kj)
Remember all of the retirees that had bonds from GM and Chrysler that Obama made worthless overnight with his "rescue plan"? Years of bankruptcy precedent ignored so that he could claim that he "saved the auto industry". Bitch, he didn't save it, Ford didn't do that and was able to get its house in order by shedding off the shit that it had taken on over the prior 2 decades.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 13, 2026 03:14 PM (k1E2D)
This is just my guess based on current news.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 02:40 PM (n7rxJ)
No. Here's the thing: "AI engineers" are just regular ol' software engineers, the same kind we've pumped out continuously for the last 30 years. And the US still has the best software engineering talent in the world - and by a long shot - even WITH the shrieking idiot left and their attempts to categorize math as racist.
Posted by: front toward enemy at February 13, 2026 03:15 PM (TIizU)
Quit rewarding (subsidizing) the H1b's and the companies that hire them for being H1b's and the companies that hire them.
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 03:15 PM (zQLjY)
Many food items seems to be better
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)
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I noticed that too. Food has come down. Gas is still artificially high because PA has the second highest fuel tax in the country. With a similar fuel tax to other states we'd also be flirting with very low fuel costs.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 03:15 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 13, 2026 03:16 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2026 03:16 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 13, 2026 03:16 PM (wBaIH)
Ever wonder why stock buybacks had become so popular?
Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2026 03:17 PM (pkv3v)
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 03:17 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: An 11 Year Old Girl at February 13, 2026 03:17 PM (Pvpk0)
I think we need to take care of Americans.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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I think so, too, but I don't know how you motivate companies to do it when they're led by foreign-born America haters.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:18 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 13, 2026 03:16 PM (wBaIH)
So that got you like 4 martinis and some Bang Bang Shrimp?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 03:19 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 13, 2026 03:16 PM (Kt19C)
I see you've been reading The Files
Posted by: An 11 Year Old Girl at February 13, 2026 03:19 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: CNN at February 13, 2026 03:19 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 03:19 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2026 03:20 PM (gm9Sb)
Financialization means it is a good idea to sell the company to private equity who then rents the facilities to the company and expects an ROI or they part it out and sell it. Maximizing production means economic growth, prosperity and employees who can afford the goods and services they produce.
The joke used to be that Victoria's Secret and Sears at the end were credit card companies that lived on interest from their cards, that had a lingerie or housewares stores out front to bring in customers.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 03:20 PM (rbvCR)
Two entrees, one app, one small dessert. $87 without tip.
Which from a pre-Junta mindset is insane. You'd be looking at *maybe* $45 then.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 03:20 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: CNN at February 13, 2026 03:19 PM (wGerL)
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It nearly killed Steve Liesman to have to report the inflation print this morning.
Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2026 03:21 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 13, 2026 03:21 PM (Kt19C)
Mine just went back up to $3.39- it's upper limit for the last thirteen months. I don't get it. Every opportunity, gas goes back up to that.
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 03:21 PM (zQLjY)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 13, 2026 03:21 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
Feeling this less and less
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 03:21 PM (Pvpk0)
the US still has the best software engineering talent in the world - and by a long shot
Posted by: front toward enemy
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To tell the truth, this is also my vague impression.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:22 PM (n7rxJ)
Won't happen now.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2026 03:14 PM (mP0Kj)
That is pre-1935 Fed, but Bessent is making noises about reverting to the original 1913 charter which restricted it to backstopping the regional banks and not being the central bank for the United States.
Which may make it possible
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 03:22 PM (rbvCR)
Swawell shrimp?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 13, 2026 03:21 PM (Kt19C)
Fang Fang Shrimp
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 03:22 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 13, 2026 03:22 PM (wBaIH)
@EndWokeness
MN Lt. Governor Flanagan: "My name in my tribe is Gizhiiwewidamoonkwe…. It means Speaking Loud Voice Woman"
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Huh. I'd've thought Speaking Loud Voice Woman would be Awflawflkarenmcawfl.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 03:22 PM (J+Psw)
Mine just went back up to $3.39- it's upper limit for the last thirteen months. I don't get it. Every opportunity, gas goes back up to that.
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 03:21 PM (zQLjY)
NE Ohio is $2.45
Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2026 03:22 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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First law of holes.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 03:22 PM (l0YH1)
Posted by: Shenanigans at February 13, 2026 02:34 PM (tfEt+)
38 So lighting our hair on fire has been called off for the day?
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 02:35 PM (p4NUW)
Apparently not ...
Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at February 13, 2026 03:24 PM (3sXRv)
The joke used to be that Victoria's Secret and Sears at the end were credit card companies that lived on interest from their cards, that had a lingerie or housewares stores out front to bring in customers.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Haha, I knew a few people who had salesclerked at big department stores and they said they quickly discovered their jobs were to sell credit cards and, incidentally, merchandise.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:24 PM (n7rxJ)
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Starbucks is, basically, an unregulated bank. They keep getting interest free loans via their "gift card" apparatus. At any given time they have $1.5 Billion in available revenue from those things.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 03:24 PM (dIske)
Posted by: nckate at February 13, 2026 03:24 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 13, 2026 02:35 PM (ycI94)
Someone please go on Reddit and explain to these people that overall price inflation clearly shows that fiat currency is a confidence scheme, and the Federal Reserve has stealth robbed them for their entire lives of the majority of their lifetime earnings, by the synergistic powers of currency devaluation and compounded rates.
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 03:24 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 03:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 13, 2026 03:25 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 03:25 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2026 03:25 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 13, 2026 03:25 PM (m8wiN)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Bingo.
It is different in Japan. Here many companies are owned by families and they want to persist and leave something of value to the next generation. They are not addicted to market growth (immigration fuels customers) and benefits packages based on when they can cash in their options.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 03:26 PM (l0YH1)
So lighting our hair on fire has been called off for the day?
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 02:35 PM (p4NUW)
Apparently not ...
Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side
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Well, I'm lighting mine on fire over the midterms. Here we are being vindicated re trans kids, lowering gas prices, and getting child r@pists off the streets, and there they are electing Spanbergers.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 13, 2026 03:27 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: toby928(c) tugs collar at February 13, 2026 03:29 PM (jc0TO)
I was around then, although in my late teens, and it feels like this time its worse, like the inflation was much worse.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 03:29 PM (PYyV9)
30 years of watching that fat turd cry about good numbers during GOP administrations.
Posted by: spongeworthy at February 13, 2026 03:31 PM (sLLbN)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 03:11 PM (sKqQm)
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Frankly, I think taxing capital gains at 15% instead of ordinary income was a mistake. It simply made the stock market more of a casino.
As an alternative perhaps dividend income should be taxed at 15% to eqaulize the playing field between "growth" companies and and dividend paying companies.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2026 03:33 PM (Vh9CX)
Did Dubya lower energy costs? No. He increased them.
Frackers did
Did Barry Soetoro lower energy costs? No. He increased them.
Posted by: Danimal28 at February 15, 2026 09:26 AM (mNOhh)
Propganda Media and Propaganda Tech Monopolices Conspire to Cover-Up Newest Trans Mass Murderer's Trans Identity and Deny There's Any Kind of an Epidemic of Trans Mass Violence
A couple of weeks ago, I thought of Elliot Rodger.
You remember that name, right? He was the first nationally-notorious "incel," a sad loser angry at the rejection he experience when he approached women. So in 2014, he declared a "Day of Vengeance" and killed six people and wounded 14 more. Obviously, horrific. For ten years since then, various government "anti-hate" authorities have monitored "incel" accounts and groups like MGTOW to make sure there would never be another Elliot Rodger. For years the media has run stories about the "right-wing incel radicalization pipeline" and sought to deplatform accounts which might inspire another Elliot Rodger. Well, there was only one similar case that I remember. A few years after Elliot Rodger, a Canadian loser shot some women. So, two cases. But a huge amount of media and government "anti-hate" interest in this phenomenon. This phenomenon of two. Meanwhile, we have now seen five mass shootings by trans extremists, and this doesn't count the "Ziz" trans murder cult -- they killed their victims individually, not in one incident -- or the murder of Charlie Kirk, murdered by gay furry on behalf of his tranny lover. And the trans movement itself uses the same DAY OF VENGEANCE language that Elliot Rodger did to incite further violence, explicitly calling for violence against normies in the various "Trans Days of Vengeance" they declare.
Sky News reporter on male trans Canada school shooter:
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 13, 2026
“That is extremely unusual. It’s rare to have a female attacker.”
The shooter was a mentally ill man pretending to be a woman
Unrealpic.twitter.com/v0CFaqT6MN
What Google shows you if you search for "trans-identified mass shooters" pic.twitter.com/vIWCDB8bJa
— Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) February 13, 2026
A New Study Challenges the Mental-Health Claims of "Gender-Affirming Care" Hong Kong researchers found that "affirming" surgeries and hormones yielded no significant improvements in depression and anxiety. ...
For years, doctors and medical associations have argued that patients with gender-related distress, including children, suffer from depression and suicidality and need access to "gender-affirming care" to relieve it. They presented this view as the scientific consensus, and that view has shaped policy debates about how readily these interventions should be offered and under what--if any--safeguards. The mental-health case for medical transition relies on observational clinic studies that measure patients' psychological distress before and after treatment. Many of these studies follow small samples for short periods, often less than two years. When these studies report improvements in patients' symptom scores or well-being measures after medical transition, the design often cannot tell whether the medical intervention drove the difference, since other things typically occur alongside treatment. That is one reason systematic evidence reviews have repeatedly judged the certainty of this evidence as low and the findings as inconsistent. A new retrospective follow-up study from Hong Kong, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry earlier this month, addresses those problems. The authors argue that much of the earlier literature leans too heavily on group averages and does not adequately account for basic determinants of mental health, such as social support and coping style. ...
What makes this study distinct is not only its size and duration but its design. The authors tracked changes over time, while controlling for social support, coping, and other background factors. Put simply, the question was: Accounting for these other influences, do hormones or surgeries still predict better mental-health outcomes? The answer was no. Neither surgery nor cross-sex hormones significantly reduced depression, anxiety, or stress once coping and social support were included in the statistical models. Instead, it was those psychosocial factors that proved the strongest predictors of patients' mental health.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 13, 2026 01:21 PM (LdBR/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 01:22 PM (tgvbd)
Maybe you shouldn't discuss your dating life, Blade.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 01:22 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 01:22 PM (RVftD)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 13, 2026 01:23 PM (aVO1v)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 01:23 PM (xDN0i)
Hong Kong researchers found that "affirming" surgeries and hormones yielded no significant improvements in depression and anxiety.
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Well, duh.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 01:23 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 13, 2026 01:23 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:23 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 01:23 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 13, 2026 01:23 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 13, 2026 01:24 PM (f/buw)
Rep. Pramila Jayapal
@RepJayapal
Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks.
Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
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Well, I hope those rights include free ammunition.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 01:24 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 13, 2026 01:25 PM (O3dBq)
Posted by: DanMan at February 13, 2026 01:25 PM (8uzBS)
Notice since then they have refused to consider that most of the shooting are now trannies, nor why in 5 years we went from no tranny shooting to all tranny shootings...
Hat tip: The Freaks are now mostly trannies.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:25 PM (sKqQm)
But he shot them first Why did he have to shoot up people at the school, aside from being a violent nutcase I mean?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 01:25 PM (rZCVI)
As they do with every pampered protected group with a tendency to violence. It's perhaps the biggest Lie We Live By.
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 01:25 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 01:25 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 13, 2026 01:25 PM (O3dBq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 01:26 PM (Cqx++)
Notice since then they have refused to consider that most of the shooting are now trannies, nor why in 5 years we went from no tranny shooting to all tranny shootings...
Hat tip: The Freaks are now mostly trannies.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:25 PM (sKqQm)
The Incel to Troon pipeline is real.
Even Audrey Hale was a Femcel.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:26 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 01:26 PM (pDt9x)
The infuriating part of this is that trans was always considered a mental health issue until for no apparent reason (government funding) it became a totally normal lifestyle choice.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 01:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2026 01:26 PM (1H/7H)
Well dang. Looks like they're finally making murder a crime.
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 13, 2026 01:27 PM (aVO1v)
A couple of weeks ago, I thought of Elliot Rodger.
You remember that name, right?
No
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 01:26 PM (Cqx++)
But he's The Supreme Gentleman.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:27 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2026 01:27 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2026 01:27 PM (RHGPo)
Of the supposedly 20 trans "murders" they whined about, something like 17 were killed by johns, pimps, or drug dealers.
Street hooking and drug dealing is very dangerous, ya know?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:28 PM (iFTx/)
Don't get me started on climate scientists.
Posted by: Mortimer Duke at February 13, 2026 01:28 PM (43RKp)
Posted by: Traveller at February 13, 2026 01:28 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 01:25 PM (0KSrI)
That’s rather JK Rowling of you. If you were a noted billionaire you would be threatened daily with rape and murder for your CrimeSpeak.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 01:28 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 13, 2026 01:28 PM (n5tGW)
DHS entered the Maricopa County election center about an hour ago. Supposedly not a raid but they are there.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 01:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: anon2020 at February 13, 2026 01:29 PM (RqMDa)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 01:30 PM (TIRHP)
Do it.
It won't take two weeks and there will be bounties on trans individuals.
DO IT.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2026 01:30 PM (kndiG)
Using whires males as a base line -
- black men about 10% above baseline
- Asian men about twice baseline (!?)
- Tranny men about four times
- tranny women about four times
Hispanic men were below baseline,
Black and Hispanic women didn't show on that list.
Basically - Tran whatever imass-murderers are about eight times white male mass murder rate.
But for tranny whatever people should be wondering WTF about Asian men.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 01:30 PM (/lPRQ)
Not all transgenders are mass murderers. But it turns out a high percentage of mass murderers are transgender.
Our media has decided that we are not to be informed of either fact.
Funny, it's almost like the media has an AGENDA!
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 13, 2026 01:30 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 13, 2026 01:30 PM (J+Psw)
Superset. Economics is a subset of 'social science.'
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 01:31 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 13, 2026 01:23 PM (aVO1v)
Since Hearst, at least.
Posted by: You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war at February 13, 2026 01:31 PM (TbWk/)
Canadians are mute on that, of course.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 13, 2026 01:31 PM (O3dBq)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 01:30 PM (/lPRQ)
My guess is "Asian" = Middle Eastern.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:31 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: anon2020
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No. What OS and browser are you using?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2026 01:31 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at February 13, 2026 01:31 PM (+48wn)
A core part of MtF trannies is that many of them believe the only way they will ever touch a woman is to become a woman.
And the powers that be like this idea - not only do they think this addresses the problem of these incels at least, but that it provides female partners to more incels that won't get the cut.
But the problem is going tranny doesn't make you a woman, it just makes you a mutilated man.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:28 PM (iFTx/)
And probably more so if you have a Surprise Penis.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 01:32 PM (RVftD)
Posted by: Tranny Researcher at February 13, 2026 01:32 PM (65cLN)
And pedos...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:32 PM (sKqQm)
Not with Firefox (strict protection enabled,) uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger extensions, running on Debian.
Hope that helps!
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 01:32 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 13, 2026 01:32 PM (xFfhU)
Its been noted here before. The massive push - really ramped up in the 90s - to simply pretend that groups do not, as a group, exhibit certain collective behaviors.
Posted by: Mortimer Duke at February 13, 2026 01:33 PM (43RKp)
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2026 01:33 PM (gH8T+)
More people killed by trannies than ICE agents since 2025, no? But who are lefties determined to frantically "monitor"?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at February 13, 2026 01:34 PM (0LVD3)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 01:34 PM (pDt9x)
Canadians are mute on that, of course.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 13, 2026 01:31 PM (O3dBq)
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They're all in on both the voluntary and involuntary human extinction movements.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 01:35 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: anon2020
Don’t do that. Go right to comments.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 01:35 PM (h87eb)
With exceptions though. Up thread I mentioned that the left/FNM harped on the fact most school shooters were straight white males...until they weren't.
And the FNM still points out most corporate corruption is by white people (used to be white men but thanks to DEI its now men and women...)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)
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Except for white men, amirite!?!
*wild clapter*
Posted by: Late Night TV 'Comedians' at February 13, 2026 01:35 PM (Dv3i1)
It was a real bloodbath.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 01:35 PM (l0YH1)
He wasn't an incel pissed off about being rejected by women. Look at the guy, at his pics, at his grooming, and his poses. No way this guy was into girls. He was a faggot, and probably a tranny or proto-tranny.
Rodger was, in fact, the very first tranny mass shooter and murderer. The media covered it up and lied about. So a guy who was almost certainly gay and probably trans ended up being a posterboy for straight male incel rage. We. Was. Played.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:36 PM (iFTx/)
Anything beyond that can wait for another day, but I think we should consistently *hammer* them that the truth is supposed to be part of their story, rather than something inconvenient that they can discard at will.
Posted by: Crusader at February 13, 2026 01:36 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 01:34 PM (pDt9x)
MtF.
So far, Audrey Hale and "Alec" McKinney (I don't know her birth name) have been the only high-profile FtM shooters.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:36 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2026 01:31 PM (XeU6L)
Windows 11 and Opera. Opera used to be great but I know that the Chinese bought it but I have not switched yet. This might force me to finally switch
Posted by: anon2020 at February 13, 2026 01:37 PM (RqMDa)
Posted by: Tranny Researcher at February 13, 2026 01:37 PM (65cLN)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 01:37 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 01:35 PM (h87eb)
Good idea, thanks
Posted by: anon2020 at February 13, 2026 01:38 PM (RqMDa)
It IS demonic, no matter how the liberal media and politicians and shrinks and plastic surgeons try to paint it. And I pray against this evil every night and God hears our prayers.
I figured a decade ago liberals and "look at me!" trends would go past gheys. And here we are.
While I hardly go anywhere anymore, I do hope someday I am corrected in a pronoun. I will tell them my pronouns are "I don't care you freak!" Then probably be shot, but not before I Bobbit them for free.
There is nothing that scares me like school shootings. Since Columbine and our boys were in HS. Every one haunts me. Since the tranny of Nashville I pray harder for protection of my grands and against this evil, because that's what it is.
Satan, don't get in my way.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 01:38 PM (WONhk)
She had always thought she had a high libido, but when they put her on a high level of Testosterone it was beyond what she expected - she said she understood why teenaged boys got excited at anything and everything
But she was a grown woman when they did this to her. Imagine doing it to a teenaged girl that really doesn't have the ability to handle it at all.
Yes, teenaged boys have to handle it but we've built a whole culture with rules telling them what's acceptable and what's not.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:38 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Crusader at February 13, 2026 01:36 PM (TN0g+)
The hammer will go nice with their sickle.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 01:38 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:28 PM (iFTx/)
And probably more so if you have a Surprise Penis.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 01:32 PM (RVftD)
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"I told you so!"
-- Crocodile Dundee
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:38 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:36 PM (FpHTM)
OK, looked this one up.
"Alec" McKinney's real name was Maya McKinney.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:39 PM (FpHTM)
Can we come together in opposition to Sheriffs and Police Dept. Chiefs wearing 4 stars on their collars?
Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2026 01:39 PM (Y8DZL)
He wasn't an incel pissed off about being rejected by women. Look at the guy, at his pics, at his grooming, and his poses. No way this guy was into girls. He was a faggot, and probably a tranny or proto-tranny.
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Huh, I'm surprised. Elliot after all is a very manly name.
Posted by: 'Elliot' Page at February 13, 2026 01:39 PM (Dv3i1)
The American turn to radical egalitarianism happened right after WW2. Before that, people were pretty frank about such things. It's been crimethink since the early fifties at least.
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 01:40 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 13, 2026 01:40 PM (gKWVE)
Its a sex fetish where you have to remove your ability to enjoy sex to indulge in it.
That sounds exactly demonic to me. Not only perverting something natural, but designing a system where you can never get the pleasure you want out of it.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:40 PM (sKqQm)
It has become hard to out Stunning and Brave someone who cuts off their tits or dicks. Back in the day, the women that wanted daddy's attention just scissored their way through college until they found a guy to marry after college, and the guys just sucked a bunch of dicks to embarrass dad at the Moose Lodge.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 13, 2026 01:40 PM (k1E2D)
Can we come together in opposition to Sheriffs and Police Dept. Chiefs wearing 4 stars on their collars?
Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2026 01:39 PM (Y8DZL)
And Epaulettes.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 01:41 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 01:41 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Matthew Shepard wishing he had kept "work" and "pleasure" separate at February 13, 2026 01:41 PM (sKqQm)
I mean, some tranny walking down the street and getting killed?
This literally never happened.
Same with gays -- most of the "gay murders" are by other gays.
It has nothing to do with us, but we get the blame.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 01:41 PM (l0YH1)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 13, 2026 01:40 PM (gKWVE)
Highlands Ranch STEM school shooting in Colorado, 2019.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:42 PM (FpHTM)
Repeat after me, you cannot change your chromosomes. So you can’t change your gender.
If as a male, you want to pretend you’re a woman, go ahead. It doesn’t make you a woman, it makes you a man in woman’s getup.
No matter how many hormones you take.
No matter if you cut your junk off.
No matter if you grow moobs.
You’re still a man.
Sorry. Don’t blame me. Blame nature.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 13, 2026 01:42 PM (TylIK)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 13, 2026 01:42 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: anon2020 at February 13, 2026 01:29 PM
Ugh! Yes. I can't figure out how to get rid of them except to refresh the page.
Posted by: Moonbeam at February 13, 2026 01:42 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 13, 2026 01:42 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2026 01:42 PM (Ggsrp)
Maybe you shouldn't discuss your dating life, Blade.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 01:22 PM (rZCVI)
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The Blade is 100% super-straight!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:43 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:43 PM (iFTx/)
I smell an Op.
Fake and Gay.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:43 PM (FpHTM)
Ace is now on Google's Naughty List. The list is no doubt shared across multiple platforms.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2026 01:43 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Dragostea din tei at February 13, 2026 01:44 PM (l0YH1)
Take a look at Reginald Rose's 1954 play "12 Angry Men." There's a scene where a guy complains about 'them' in a ghetto neighborhood, with good reason. Everybody in the room turns their back to him and walks to the walls of the room.
That's an archetypal demonstration of Cancel The Crimethink culture. The Establishment was lecturing us on how we were to behave going forward.
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 01:44 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 13, 2026 01:40 PM (k1E2D)
There's dick-sucking going on at the Moose Lodge?
Posted by: Is there a non-fellatio section? at February 13, 2026 01:44 PM (TbWk/)
Genocide cannot be perpetrated against a trans community because it is not a self-sustaining biological entity.
It would be equally ridiculous to speak of "genocide" having wiped out the Shaker sect, where foregoing sexual relations was an integral part of their group's tenets.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2026 01:44 PM (xG4kz)
And Epaulettes.
Posted by: tubal at February 13, 2026 01:41 PM (pDt9x)
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And a Praetorian Guard of flunkies standing behind them at news conferences.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 01:45 PM (tgvbd)
That’s because people in the media have helped create a mass psychosis through the peddling of falsehoods. They provide affirmation of their sickness.
It’s like an alcoholic being told is ok to excessively drink. “Go ahead their buddy, drink a quart a day. We in the media believe it’s your right, and we stand behind you. Which they actually do.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 13, 2026 01:45 PM (TylIK)
"Being my 'real self' could have included having a penis and including more femininity in whatever forms made sense. I didn't know that until too late and now I have to make the best of the life I've stumbled into. I just wish I would have tried more options before I jumped off the precipice."
And the craziest part of this is feminism already destroyed "traditional gender roles". If some guy wants to do traditionally feminine things he doesn't have to cut off his junk to do it...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 01:46 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: Auspex
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Always seems absurd to me. I immediately assign incompetent posturing to the
That, writ large, is also my reaction to 'Admiral' Rachel Levine in... its? Their? His? Her? uniform. It's as though one is attending the tea party in Wonderland.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2026 01:46 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 13, 2026 01:40 PM (k1E2D)
There's dick-sucking going on at the Moose Lodge?
Posted by: Is there a non-fellatio section? at February 13, 2026 01:44 PM (TbWk/)
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"Drop those Moose faggots and get with us!"
-- Raccoon Lodge
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:47 PM (iFTx/)
"Canadian media outlet CityNews is applying beauty filters to make the trans mass shooter Jesse Strang (Van Rootselaar) look more female."
https://tinyurl.com/4xpeyt8c
(they provide a before and after photo)
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 01:47 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2026 01:47 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:25 PM (sKqQm)
The Incel to Troon pipeline is real.
Even Audrey Hale was a Femcel.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:26 PM (FpHTM)
I wouldn't say that it's an 'easy' way to social acceptance, but it's a 'simple' way.
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 01:47 PM (Sy6m/)
Is everyone else getting these new annoying timed pop up ads when you click to read the full post?
Posted by: anon2020
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Don't click on "Continue reading. " click on the link for Comments in the line below.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at February 13, 2026 01:47 PM (0LVD3)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 13, 2026 01:47 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2026 01:44 PM (xG4kz)
They put all that energy into making furniture. Got to do SOMETHING with all that wood.
Posted by: Never reproduced, almost all gone. Sad. at February 13, 2026 01:48 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 13, 2026 01:48 PM (gbOdA)
What goes on a Moose Lodge stays at Moose Lodge, regardless of how dad feels.
Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2026 01:48 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2026 01:48 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)
Less probably cut off their junk than one would think.
Most chasers (the people who will actually fuck them and give them money) want them to keep it.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:48 PM (FpHTM)
And yet the AMA, your school board, and your adoptive parents are never your targets? You're a trained operative. Ask yourself why your therapist has given you weapons and maps of all the elementary schools.
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 01:48 PM (jlI90)
3-0 the judges rule that, finally after 5 years, Texas can enforce its laws against ballot harvesting and registration mules.
It's a pretty good opinion.
Mostly for the way it goes through, item by item, of the usual laundry list of horrors the left always throws out anytime there is an election law they don't like.
Goofy shit like, "but what if there is a ballot in the other room and they start talking about the election and then they offer a glass of water on a hot day--that could be counted as exchange of value for a ballot!!!"
And the court basically says, "nice try. You don't get to outlandishly speculate as to future harm. The law has a plain meaning. If your claims actually happen, then you can come back. (but we're pretty sure you'll never be back with any of that)"
But note the, seems to me, big shift:
You can't just allege or speculate on harm anymore--you have to prove it actually happened.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2026 01:49 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 01:41 PM (Cqx++)
No one may ever know
Posted by: Soylent Green, Inc at February 13, 2026 01:50 PM (k1E2D)
You cannot change your sex.
Gender is a characteristic of language, not biology. Words in various languages can have gender - masculine, feminine and neuter.
I refuse to bow to the Left’s bastardization of language.
Just like “gay” “marriage”.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 01:50 PM (h87eb)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 13, 2026 01:50 PM (YlWIZ)
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Yes, I despise those uniform touches. You're a PD Chief--you didn't storm the beaches at Normandy.
Posted by: Crusader at February 13, 2026 01:50 PM (TN0g+)
"Canadian media outlet CityNews is applying beauty filters to make the trans mass shooter Jesse Strang (Van Rootselaar) look more female."
https://tinyurl.com/4xpeyt8c
(they provide a before and after photo)
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 01:47 PM (dIske)
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I think they are also using very old photos, or else they don't have the right pics at all. The pics I've seen are of a grossly fat slob who barely tries to pass for a woman. But there are also pics out there were the guy is much thinner and more feminine.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)
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Against what are they avenging themselves, let's name it and do this. Do other people get to have days of vengeance or just leftards
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 01:51 PM (Pvpk0)
God gave women the ability to carry babies for 9months. That is also beauty, with Mary carrying Jesus under her heart.
Liberals want to end this beauty,whether with abortion, sodomy & lesbianism. They had to take it further and get into trans and mutation. Because they are empty of any joy or faith. Attention is their god.
This leaves them wide open to "join" their cult of evil.
My prayers are strong against this evil we are seeing, as are the prayers of many to end this.
Like Hitler, brainwash them young. To believe they are girls with penis' in the wrong body.
God does not make mistakes. God also does not approve of abuse of children.
We are seeing evil. Some innocents are being murdered due to this evil.
In reality this boy was mentally ill with an evil and violent bent and should have been in an institution if he could not be helped.
They are turning violent because of the power politicians have given them, their parents (who hardly parent), and medical staff (who make $ on surgeries and therapies).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 01:51 PM (WONhk)
Let's see, pumping children full of medication against ADD, depression, hyperactivity, etc, then toss in gender medication and you're shocked that the children are unbalanced? I'd be surprised if they weren't
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Better still, start with a kid who's autistic.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at February 13, 2026 01:52 PM (0LVD3)
Posted by: Is there a non-fellatio section? at February 13, 2026 01:44 PM (TbWk/)
Only the one's next to the Circle K on MLK Boulevard.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 13, 2026 01:52 PM (k1E2D)
He wasn't an incel pissed off about being rejected by women. Look at the guy, at his pics, at his grooming, and his poses. No way this guy was into girls. He was a faggot, and probably a tranny or proto-tranny.
Rodger was, in fact, the very first tranny mass shooter and murderer. The media covered it up and lied about. So a guy who was almost certainly gay and probably trans ended up being a posterboy for straight male incel rage. We. Was. Played.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:36 PM (iFTx/)
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I'd never heard of him, so I looked him up. You're right. He was a disco dancing, Oscar Wilde reading, Streisand ticket holding friend of Dorothy. A fudge packer.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2026 01:52 PM (AlhUl)
"Canadian media outlet CityNews is applying beauty filters to make the trans mass shooter Jesse Strang (Van Rootselaar) look more female."
https://tinyurl.com/4xpeyt8c
(they provide a before and after photo)
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2026 01:47 PM (dIske)
They did a similar thing with the unemployed VA nurse turned full time obstructor what got himself shot. Made him look like a gigachad instead of the twinky dork he actually was.
Posted by: Op. Fake. Ghey. at February 13, 2026 01:52 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)
The reddit post from when he was 15 claims he was thin.
But the pictures of the fat dude look older.
It's possible he stopped working out after he started hormones and the lack of testosterone made him fat.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:53 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 01:41 PM (Cqx++)
No one may ever know
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Ancient Chinese secret.
Posted by: Crusader at February 13, 2026 01:53 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: r hennigantx
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I don't know if this is exactly true, but I do think they go after children because of hatred and bitterness over what went wrong in their lives and the last point when they were innocent and happy.
Maybe that is also the age they started their sickness, or maybe before they got abused, or just a happier time.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 01:53 PM (l0YH1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 01:54 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)
Less probably cut off their junk than one would think.
Most chasers (the people who will actually fuck them and give them money) want them to keep it.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:48 PM (FpHTM)
So ... chicks with dicks > troons with suppurating surgical wounds.
What a world!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 01:54 PM (RVftD)
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:36 PM (FpHTM)
There was an aspiring FtM school shooter in Indiana last year. Trinity Shockley. Someone turned her in before she could carry out her plan.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 01:54 PM (xDN0i)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 01:54 PM (0KSrI)
He wasn't an incel pissed off about being rejected by women. Look at the guy, at his pics, at his grooming, and his poses. No way this guy was into girls. He was a faggot, and probably a tranny or proto-tranny.
Rodger was, in fact, the very first tranny mass shooter and murderer. The media covered it up and lied about. So a guy who was almost certainly gay and probably trans ended up being a posterboy for straight male incel rage. We. Was. Played.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:36 PM (iFTx/)
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I'd never heard of him, so I looked him up. You're right. He was a disco dancing, Oscar Wilde reading, Streisand ticket holding friend of Dorothy. A fudge packer.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2026 01:52 PM (AlhUl)
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You are correct
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:54 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2026 01:52 PM (AlhUl)
He was a Brit.
You could have just said that and meant the same thing.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:55 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:36 PM (iFTx/)
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I'd never heard of him, so I looked him up. You're right. He was a disco dancing, Oscar Wilde reading, Streisand ticket holding friend of Dorothy. A fudge packer.
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Wikipedia is far from objective on many matters, but he clearly expressed anger that women didn't dig him. Wikipedia makes him sound like somebody that gave off LOTS of signals that he should have been in a rubber room.
Posted by: Crusader at February 13, 2026 01:55 PM (TN0g+)
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Yes, I despise those uniform touches. You're a PD Chief--you didn't storm the beaches at Normandy.
Posted by: Crusader at February 13, 2026 01:50 PM (TN0g+)
Smacks of third-world dictatorship trappings. Don't like it.
Posted by: Tinpot militaristic cops have no home here at February 13, 2026 01:55 PM (TbWk/)
Don't click on "Continue reading. " click on the link for Comments in the line below.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at February 13, 2026 01:47 PM (0LVD3)
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Good idea, thanks.
Posted by: anon2020 at February 13, 2026 01:55 PM (RqMDa)
Posted by: Eeyore
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OK, now hold up a bit.
Oscar Wilde wrote some very good stuff. He may have been a sodomite, but he was a great author.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 13, 2026 01:55 PM (l0YH1)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2026 01:55 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)
The reddit post from when he was 15 claims he was thin.
But the pictures of the fat dude look older.
It's possible he stopped working out after he started hormones and the lack of testosterone made him fat.
Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2026 01:53 PM (FpHTM)
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Yea, the fat guy looks older. I assume that's a much more recent pic of him. But there's also supposedly a video of him laughing uncontrollably (clearly mentally ill), but I can't really tell if that's him or when it was. Could be some other mentally ill tranny freak.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:56 PM (iFTx/)
lol, the transient got the Good and Pretti airbrush treatment.
The Revolution will be gorgeous, comrades.
Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2026 01:56 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey
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See: George Orwell
https://shorturl.at/OU4XY
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2026 01:56 PM (XeU6L)
No one thought they were women, they just had a weird kink, and yes most of them were straight so they wanted to have sex with a woman dressed as a woman.
Is the FNM just pretending these people don't exist? Or that they were always really aktually! men who were women?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 01:57 PM (jtM2q)
Posted by: pawn at February 13, 2026 01:57 PM (uvB+6)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 01:58 PM (Pvpk0)
One snippet that came out of the BBC analysis of the British gender dysphoria clinic was that close to 100% of their patients had additional mental issues like bipolar or schizophrenia
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2026 01:58 PM (sKqQm)
Of the supposedly 20 trans "murders" they whined about, something like 17 were killed by johns, pimps, or drug dealers.
Street hooking and drug dealing is very dangerous, ya know?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:28 PM (iFTx/)
I remember a case, I think it was out of Chicago, where a man in a dress was killed in the wee hours of the morning, just chilling on a sidewalk, minding his own business (/sarc). Four guys jump out of a car and grab his purse, he tries to resist, one of them shoots him and he's dead.
That is also elided in popular discussions of gay-bashing: if they weren't out late in public parks, cruising the tea rooms (as they say), then they wouldn't get rolled by punks for the cash in their pockets. It's like no one ever told them that nothing good happens after midnight -- or they knew better, went out looking for one kind of trouble, and another kind found them. But it's in their power to avoid.
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 01:59 PM (Sy6m/)
Can we come together in opposition to Sheriffs and Police Dept. Chiefs wearing 4 stars on their collars?
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I was watching some TV cop show during a Christmas visit and the boss female cop had four stars and the male boss of the other boss had FIVE stars.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 02:00 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 02:01 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: pahound at February 13, 2026 02:01 PM (eyOo6)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 13, 2026 02:02 PM (AeW8/)
Wtf is with the Elliot Rodger revision? His rants have been released and he was clearly an angry male incel.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at February 13, 2026 02:02 PM (0LVD3)
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That shit would never happen to anyone in Chicago except at a time between midnight and 11:59pm
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 02:03 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 01:36 PM (iFTx/)
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I'd never heard of him, so I looked him up. You're right. He was a disco dancing, Oscar Wilde reading, Streisand ticket holding friend of Dorothy. A fudge packer.
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Wikipedia is far from objective on many matters, but he clearly expressed anger that women didn't dig him. Wikipedia makes him sound like somebody that gave off LOTS of signals that he should have been in a rubber room.
Posted by: Crusader at February 13, 2026 01:55 PM (TN0g+)
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That's the narrative, but there's very little actual proof of it. If you read the actual witness statements of the time he was in trouble before the murders, it was always other boys he was around and picking fights with (or picking on him). There is little if any actual evidence he was angry at women for rejecting him. Plus, lots of gays crave female attention.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)
These timers on the pop up ads going to make me have a day of vengeance. Wtf do I have to look at cranberry jelly for 4 seconds?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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See # 108
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at February 13, 2026 02:04 PM (0LVD3)
Ban guns
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 13, 2026 02:04 PM (Wnqw0)
Also surprising there have only been five total, given all the black shootings where they spray more than aim.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2026 02:04 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 02:04 PM (RVftD)
I'm trying to refute but I cannot. I really don't keep up on the news.
Posted by: pawn at February 13, 2026 02:04 PM (uvB+6)
I'd blame the Somalis, but that's something we've had before they got here. It's a fungus, not a WORM, BTW. About 15 years ago, my cats had (their one and only) outbreak. It comes out of nowhere. Maybe it likes certain local environmental conditions to thrive and sporulate, thankfully rarely.
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 02:04 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
Soon, a Latin American over-the-shoulder sash of office and a Marshall's baton.
Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2026 02:05 PM (Y8DZL)
To save time, it may help our viewers to view the whole trans thing in context, as just more redundant evidence of the incredible degradation of the society, the populace, and thereby the institutions.
Much as the situation at Tarawa in the first 12 hours, the issue is in doubt, as to whether there really will be an actual recovery. Or just a mangled degraded remnant of the former society will stumble along.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 13, 2026 02:05 PM (U/Byj)
Love is love, bigots.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 13, 2026 02:05 PM (AeW8/)
Posted by: anon2020
Rookie mistake and for the record it is.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at February 13, 2026 02:05 PM (DY7Xb)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 01:30 PM (/lPRQ)
You may have been looking at British crime stats. They classify Pakistanis as Asian. Once again breaking out the Theodore Dalrymple quote, which is also relevant to trans mania: https://archive.is/WBcUY
"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 02:06 PM (Sy6m/)
Psychos who kill have always been psychos who kill. Most of them through history were probably sexually frustrated in some way.
I bet a lot of them were dressing like ladies when they weren't slaughtering poor slatterns in alleys, or beating rent boys to death down by the docks.
We just offered up a freaky new way for these freaks to freak out, and they're glomming on to it, and it includes new and exciting features like pharmaceuticals, scalpels, and digital technologies to entice more borderline freaks into the freaky fold.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2026 02:06 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 02:06 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: pawn
It's sad that there are getting to be so many that it's hard to remember them all.
Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 02:07 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2026 02:07 PM (0KSrI)
Love is love, bigots.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 13, 2026 02:05 PM (AeW8/)
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"Meh"
-- Catherine the Great
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at February 13, 2026 02:07 PM (0LVD3)
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To paraphrase A Fish Called Wanda, "good".
I'm just kidding, as noted here more than once I suffered early at the hands of a fairly deranged Mommie Dearest. I don't force my damage on every stranger I meet. Just the ones I think would make good dominatrixes
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 02:08 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 02:08 PM (3ek7K)
But we're not going whack-a-doodle nutz like Britain.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 13, 2026 02:09 PM (F24MQ)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 02:09 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 13, 2026 02:09 PM (GuFFi)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
Dame Edna was all MAN, baby!
Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2026 02:09 PM (Y8DZL)
I see a list of trans killers like yesterday. I should have bookmarked it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at February 13, 2026 02:09 PM (0LVD3)
They will be coerced into believing that they played some part in the monster's actions. By not accepting, by bullying, by simply walking past the monster in school or town.
Young children will grow up believing they played a part and are responsible for their friends and teacher being murdered.
Posted by: old chick at February 13, 2026 02:10 PM (F3Dlr)
Robin Westman- Annunciation RCC shooter was also fake tranny
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 02:10 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2026 02:10 PM (RVftD)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 13, 2026 02:11 PM (AeW8/)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 02:11 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: anon2020
People have mentioned that it happens when they click 'Continue Reading', but who does that? 'Continue Reading' has a bug that leaves you unable to access the comments. Click 'Comments' instead.
(However, I'm on Brave, so my browser behavior may differ from yours)
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 02:12 PM (DD6gL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 02:12 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: old chick at February 13, 2026 02:10 PM (F3Dlr)
A trenchant observation. The Left continues and enhances the abuse, terror and horror, long after the caskets close.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 02:13 PM (Pvpk0)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)
I never bought the "anger at women" narrative, because it was so obviously belied by the fact that the first three people he killed were his own (male) roommates.
Incidentally, their manner of death was never disclosed. His roommates were Asian -- real Asian, not Pakistani -- and I assumed that their families requested discretion.
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 02:14 PM (Sy6m/)
You just went to school and came home alive. It's kind of the entire plan, minus the part where other children didn't.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2026 02:14 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 02:14 PM (N8ZBc)
https://tinyurl.com/3bcxzfc7
I've debated about sending it to Pooky, given that he was on estrogen for about two months to boost his testosterone. (It failed spectacularly.) But I hesitate because he's got enough health problems to worry about.
Posted by: pookysgirl gets angry discussing both kinds of CRT at February 13, 2026 02:15 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 13, 2026 02:16 PM (Wnqw0)
Van Root Cellar. Well, it's better than 'Sue'.
Posted by: Johnny Cash at February 13, 2026 02:16 PM (DD6gL)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 02:17 PM (iJfKG)
/rhetorical
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 13, 2026 02:17 PM (57Z/f)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 02:18 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2026 02:18 PM (iJfKG)
The surgeon who invented the SRS surgery (Paul McHugh) later disavowed it entirely precisely because it caused huge lifelong medical complications and had no impact on long-term s*ic*de rates, plus the regret/reversion rate was around 40% at the 10-15 year mark.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at February 13, 2026 02:18 PM (LgYtf)
Posted by: E Buzz at February 13, 2026 02:18 PM (MnH41)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)
I never bought the "anger at women" narrative, because it was so obviously belied by the fact that the first three people he killed were his own (male) roommates.
Incidentally, their manner of death was never disclosed. His roommates were Asian -- real Asian, not Pakistani -- and I assumed that their families requested discretion.
Posted by: SciVo at February 13, 2026 02:14 PM (Sy6m/)
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Yea. The guy was clearly nuts and it's hard to try to make sense of a lunatic's motivation. But overall, I never bought the narrative that this guy was motivated by a hatred for women for rejecting him.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 13, 2026 02:18 PM (iFTx/)
She needs to be on an early boat out of here.
I don't understand why she's here to begin with, since she clearly hates America so much.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 13, 2026 02:19 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 02:21 PM (N8ZBc)
No child should feel to blame when their parents' divorce or when their mother dies in childbirth or when their dog gets hit by a car while they are playing a video game in their bedroom.
However, adults need to place blame and if a child is constantly made aware that they survived a school shooting, but the shooter was not to blame, then they will carry that through life.
Posted by: old chick at February 13, 2026 02:21 PM (F3Dlr)
Please don't do this.
We're adults here, not a bunch of Victorian maiden aunts, nor yet a bunch of pussified twatwaffles who are constantly feeling "unsafe".
If you mean "suicide", type "suicide".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 13, 2026 02:21 PM (IG3/x)
September 20, 2018: Aberdeen, Maryland (Rite Aid warehouse)
May 7, 2019: Highlands Ranch, Colorado (STEM School)
November 19, 2022: Colorado Springs, Colorado (Club Q nightclub)
March 27, 2023: Nashville, Tennessee (Covenant School)
August 29, 2025: Madison, Minnesota (Abundant Life Christian School)
February 10, 2026: Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada (Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and residence)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2026 02:22 PM (PYyV9)
Yes, she's a terrible woman and absolutely clueless. After the Canadian shooting she wants to discuss a bill of rights for transgenders?!!If we all pretend they're really fake women or men and don't say a mean word mulitated kids and those on drugs and hormones will never kill. Uhhhhh huh
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2026 02:23 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Wofus at February 13, 2026 02:23 PM (CNa+A)
She's specifically trying to incite more mass murderers
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 02:25 PM (Pvpk0)
It used to be Dims courting Jesse Jackson, old & stale now since many blacks have no problem with ID at the polls vs being considered retards. Now it is wokeness for illegals & gheys & trans.
In the uproar days after Kirk was murdered, one of the cult said this was the beginning of a new paradigm. I am sure he was investigated. I don't even have X and read it.
The little furries are deep into the dark web playing violent games, taking on their characters and embolding themselves and their pathetic mental states into this being real life. Vs just being a regular queer.
With the help of liberal bent churches and love is love while ignoring Biblical teaching, politicians wanting votes, and kids wanting to rebel and be part of a cult.
Violence comes through these video games and the dark web.
Empowered Armed Queers,mentally ill kids, aided by Parents, politicians, & MD's being woke.
And here we are.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 02:25 PM (WONhk)
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To paraphrase A Fish Called Wanda, "good".
I'm just kidding, as noted here more than once I suffered early at the hands of a fairly deranged Mommie Dearest. I don't force my damage on every stranger I meet. Just the ones I think would make good dominatrixes
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2026 02:08 PM (Pvpk0)
Share a similar background. I don't cross-dress, haven't killed anyone, nor have any desire to chop my cock and balls off. It did however warp my self-perception such that I think the sole purpose of my existence is to take damage from other people without recourse or objection.
Posted by: Not seeking any dominatrices though at February 13, 2026 02:26 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Unkaren at February 13, 2026 02:27 PM (cDrfF)
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That is exactly what they want. Real women are offended by this but fake women are affirmed by it.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 13, 2026 02:32 PM (Wnqw0)
This led to the joke of calling the Lubyanka "Adult's World."
I used to think this was the darkest joke of all time, but in a society that includes children and the elderly in its bloodlust, I'm not so sure if we don't have the last laugh.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2026 02:37 PM (BI5O2)
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