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Daily Tech News 1 November 2026
Top Story
- French lawmakers have decided to do what French lawmakers have always done: Make other people pay for the problems they created. (Tom's Hardware)
In this case, they are trying to charge the companies that send data over the internet to customers in France for the data they send - at an utterly absurd 6 cents per gigabyte.
Costs to send data from a server - except for the big three cloud platforms which are wildly overpriced - start at about one cent per gigabyte at the high end, so France wants to levy a tax of 600% - on people who don't live in France.
Also, tiny problem with the article:With approximately 154 million users and counting in France, the proposal's authors say such a tax could generate around €10 billion ($11.2 billion) in annual revenue for the government.
Yeah, I don't think so, mate. Even after being invaded by North Africa, the population of France stands at around 66 million.
Tech News
- Reddit's share price has plunged by 29% after investors realised that it's Reddit. (CNBC)
You put my money into what?
- Anthropic's Claude is now blocking attempts to reverse-engineer games, pushing users straight into the hands of Chinese LLMs that don't give a shit. (Tom's Hardware)
Claude wouldn't even transcribe Khatchaturian's Sabre Dance for me.
- Sam Altmanette says it is "quite terrible" that the peasants have bread when he can make far better use of it in his breadcenters. (Tom's Hardware)
"Let them eat no cake", Altmanette added.
- To fix remote DoS in decodeWapPdu, or not to fix remote DoS in decodeWapPdu, that is the question. (Bleeping Computer)
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the integer overflows of outrageous SMS packets...
- A criminal gang spent $7216 on AI services to run extortion attacks. (The Register)
And left all its information - including decryption keys - on a public FTP server.
Oops.
- NASA is asking for proposals to boost the Hubble space telescope into higher orbit, without which it will likely re-enter Earth's atmosphere in the next seven years. (Ars Technica)
Jared Isaacman proposed a mission do do this using SpaceX's Crew Dragon back in 2022, offering to fund much of the mission himself.
Jared Isaacman is now the NASA administrator.
Musical Interlude
Well, okay then.
Disclaimer: Make it DDR5 modules and you're on.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 05:00 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at November 01, 2026 05:00 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 01, 2026 05:00 AM (bZzMF)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at November 01, 2026 05:01 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2026 05:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: clarence at November 01, 2026 05:02 AM (Imcic)
Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2026 05:03 AM (Ia/+0)
French lawmakers have decided to do what French lawmakers have always done: Make other people pay for the problems they created. (Tom's Hardware)
Reddit's share price has plunged by 29% after investors realised that it's Reddit. (CNBC)
Anthropic's Claude is now blocking attempts to reverse-engineer games, pushing users straight into the hands of Chinese LLMs that don't give a shit. (Tom's Hardware)
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 05:04 AM (odBC9)
Or did I miss it already?
Posted by: Pete Bog at November 01, 2026 05:06 AM (gs4+4)
Posted by: Colin at November 01, 2026 05:07 AM (CiQE7)
A criminal gang spent $7216 on AI services to run extortion attacks. (The Register)
And left all its information - including decryption keys - on a public FTP server.
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 05:07 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 01, 2026 05:10 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: clarence at November 01, 2026 05:10 AM (Imcic)
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 05:13 AM (odBC9)
Saturday Night Club ONT - October 31, 2026 [Disco & Dino]
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Ingredients
2 cups tomato juice
8 oz. vodka
2 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbsp. horseradish
2 tsp. hot sauce (such as Tabasco)
1/2 lemon, juiced
Freshly ground black pepper Directions
1. In a large bowl, combine tomato juice, vodka, Worcestershire, horseradish, hot sauce, lemon juice, and pepper. Whisk to combine. 2. Fill syringes with mixture and chill. Serve cold.
As intestinal parasites go, tapeworms are the stuff of nightmares. Though they can grow over 80 feet long in extreme cases, they often measure less than one-inch-wide. The intestinal parasites feast on their hosts, sucking valuable nutrients from mammals. And then there's the havoc they wreak on bear butts. One bear spotted in southeastern Alaska's Tongass National Forest this summer knows all about that. The unnamed bear was spotted with multiple long tape worms poking out of its butt as it walked along Anan Creek. For its service as a host to these long worms, the Rangers awarded this bear the 2026 Host with the Most Award. It's a reminder that nature can truly be gnarly.Perhaps not an award one wants to win...
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USGS Study Outlines Scope and Severity of Bat Fatalities at US Wind Energy Facilities
A new USGS study reveals that an estimated 18.7 million bats have been killed at U.S. onshore wind energy facilities since 1981, far more than previously understood. By analyzing data from hundreds of wind projects, researchers identified the species most vulnerable to turbine collisions and uncovered patterns that could help reduce future bat fatalities.
The study's findings provide evidence-based solutions for decision makers. For example, the study supports previous evidence that stopping turbines when bats are more likely to be present may reduce mortality for some species.In other words, stop wind mills unless you hate nature. The Science says so.
Bonus!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 10:00 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 10:00 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 10:00 PM (47diA)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 10:01 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 31, 2026 10:02 PM (nEUC6)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 31, 2026 10:03 PM (I5ncw)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 10:04 PM (47diA)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 31, 2026 10:04 PM (nEUC6)
I thought there'd be more kids this year, being today's Saturday, but we also had some rain.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:04 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 10:05 PM (47diA)
Many of the churches around here are having
Pumpkin Fests. I hope that's why they aren't
on the street.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 10:05 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 10:01 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Well, let's hope it didn't kill the kids...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 10:05 PM (FZ29D)
That poor bear.
Tried watching 'Smile' yesterday. Boring. Stopped halfway through. Felt like a lecture
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 31, 2026 10:06 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 10:06 PM (47diA)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:06 PM (l3cgK)
Coming in a close 2nd are those Bloody Mary syringes. I hate Bloody's to begin with, and really hate blood draws ... woof.
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 31, 2026 10:07 PM (oCio0)
What if we were sane and wanted to go in the other direction?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 31, 2026 10:07 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 10:05 PM (FZ29D)
Didn't see any floating toward the storm drains.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)
Thought about watching another horror movie, but I think I'll see if I can make some progress on my book instead.
Still have 373 pages to go (out of 850).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 10:07 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 10:05 PM (FZ29D)
Didn't see any floating toward the storm drains.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Any clowns lurking around down there?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 10:08 PM (FZ29D)
SOMEONE (not me) decided to cut the corner off the bag. Once that was done, we all started sneaking candies out...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:08 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 10:08 PM (0kX4S)
Posted by: Andy Reid at October 31, 2026 10:09 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 10:08 PM (FZ29D)
Didn't see any politicians anywhere.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 10:09 PM (1Ff7Z)
What if we were sane and wanted to go in the other direction?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 31, 2026 10:07 PM (syz1S)
Bats eat a ton of insects, including mosquitos.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:09 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 31, 2026 10:10 PM (K3aCg)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:10 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 31, 2026 10:11 PM (wVcYX)
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That won't distort the environment.
Save the planet you fucking commies.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 10:11 PM (WY+aP)
It was misty tonight, and raining earlier, and being Saturday maybe there was some event I didn't know about?
Guess I'm gonna get fat on leftovers.
Posted by: RandomDave at October 31, 2026 10:11 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 10:12 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 31, 2026 10:13 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 31, 2026 10:13 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:13 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 10:14 PM (Cjcf6)
This summer I have enjoyed my own personal bat who uses me as bait when I go for my after sunset walks or swims when the bugs are active.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 10:14 PM (NzX/y)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 10:14 PM (47diA)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 31, 2026 10:13 PM (aJQbY)
The downside...they can get rabies and other diseases...and can get nippy if you try to play with them, so don't do that.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:14 PM (l3cgK)
And without bats, how are we going to mine their assholes for interesting new viruses to play with?
Posted by: Tony Fauci at October 31, 2026 10:15 PM (w6EFb)
And without bats, how are we going to mine their assholes for interesting new viruses to play with?
Posted by: Tony Fauci at October 31, 2026 10:15 PM (w6EFb)
You, of all people WOULD enjoy that...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:15 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 31, 2026 10:13 PM (CHHv1)
Now why did I hear that in Lurch's voice (Ted Cassidy)?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 10:16 PM (qx7Zg)
"Chicken cordon bleu"
Posted by: Tonypete at October 31, 2026 10:16 PM (iqv62)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:09 PM (l3cgK)
DDT can pickup the slack.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 31, 2026 10:17 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Crusader
I'll have you covered in a sec. I'll assume the standard "apply everything posted in reverse" will apply.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 31, 2026 10:17 PM (t19vo)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 10:17 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 10:18 PM (WY+aP)
Good Halloween dad jokes there, guys!
As anticipated, no little trick or treaters about since it's been raining for two days. But I am enjoying the M&Ms!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 31, 2026 10:18 PM (D/6p1)
https://youtu.be/dyfcY050HCA
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 31, 2026 10:10 PM (K3aCg)
Noted for next year!
Posted by: Doof at October 31, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)
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I though that was a picture of a San Francisco sidewalk
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 31, 2026 10:20 PM (tB7nu)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 10:20 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Tony Fauci at October 31, 2026 10:15 PM (w6EFb)
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Great. Now I'm imagining the horror of an 80-foot tapeworm emerging from the asshole of a 6-inch bat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 10:20 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 31, 2026 10:21 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 31, 2026 10:21 PM (QaH55)
In the sentences above, you can already sense some red flags.
Here's my problem: Their entire gig live is to do a show involving the lead being an evil Pope, among a series of evil Popes. There's no happy ending, there's no "good triumps over evil", there's just evil Pope performing, or evil Pope being downed by the next evil Pope.
Why couldn't they just make melodic metal music? I can't purchase any of their product if they're hell-bent on downing Christianity.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 10:22 PM (Cjcf6)
_-_
Actually, I kinda...what are your prices like? My old panels aren't cuttin' it anymore...running the generator nightly...
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 10:22 PM (49QjJ)
Posted by: Crusader
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I think it's over. I looked earlier today and there was no new news.
zerohedge was posting last nights clips as if they were new.
This is from 2:58 PM today:
No articles about the attempted collapse and take over of a major European government. Why? Perhaps because it's over and the EU deepState lost. Thus the communist media here are shushing it down.
No talking of color revolution failures today.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 10:23 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 31, 2026 10:23 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 10:24 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Piper at October 31, 2026 10:24 PM (ZdaMQ)
A president who resorts to physical confrontation instead of respecting judicial authority shows contempt for the very institutions he is sworn to protect. The Constitution is not his personal playground.
The idea is to exhaust countries that could offer resistance to Russia/Trump's acts, and force them to be in constant internal strife.
Why doesn't the church say anything against politically engaged protesters attacking the police with a religious song on their lips? There's just so much wrong here.
The nth instance of an alt-right or alt-right-adjacent political leader trying to seize power by force. Yet society keeps pretending these are just opinions.
What a disgrace President Nawrocki is! A real piece of extremist shit the types that only Hungary's Orban can claim to be as low as him.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 31, 2026 10:24 PM (t19vo)
Unless perpetrators go to jail it isn’t over. They only have to be successful once.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 31, 2026 10:25 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Slow Riser at October 31, 2026 10:26 PM (vFcoN)
Posted by: davidt at October 31, 2026 10:26 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 10:22 PM (Cjcf6)
Well...dunno about the music group, but there were definitely some bad Popes...
https://tinyurl.com/ynrzmnru
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:27 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 31, 2026 10:28 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 31, 2026 10:23 PM (kYmoU)
Maybe they can see the bats on the Doppler radar...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:28 PM (l3cgK)
Unless perpetrators go to jail it isn’t over. They only have to be successful once.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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It's never 'over', evil never sleeps.
However, this particular EU cu cu coup is.
What they are going to do with the perpetraitors
remains to be seen.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 10:30 PM (WY+aP)
Closest neighbors have taken their 2 boys hunting this weekend, next-closest didn't have their grands over today...
I'm stuck here with a bag of candy.
Oh, darn.Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 10:30 PM (rdVOm)
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Thank you for posting that!
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 10:30 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 10:31 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: TRex - chocolate and peanut butter dino at October 31, 2026 10:32 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 31, 2026 10:32 PM (ceJ0R)
Posted by: Taenia Asiatica at October 31, 2026 10:33 PM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 10:33 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: TRex - attendance taker dino at October 31, 2026 10:33 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Piper at October 31, 2026 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 10:34 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: Tony Fauci at October 31, 2026 10:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 31, 2026 10:34 PM (96kpa)
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That wasn't my point. I'm not even Catholic. But I can't spend money on a band whose stage show is all about creating one bad Pope after another and then running with that all evening.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 10:34 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: PaleRider at October 31, 2026 10:34 PM (PV+Zw)
Bunghole virus probing sock off, dammit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 10:35 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 31, 2026 10:35 PM (ceJ0R)
Posted by: Piper
Well, I don't serve kale smoothies... but perhaps a nice apple cider? Naturally fermented!
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 10:35 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Jerome Lester Horwitz at October 31, 2026 10:36 PM (vFcoN)
My Christmas tree is up. I'll have my friends over in a week or so after the kids' gifts come in. They like to decorate the tree.
And Ralphy!!
Lived another month!!
We also celebrate him living through the night.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 31, 2026 10:36 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 31, 2026 10:36 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 31, 2026 10:36 PM (ftFVW)
Well, I don't serve kale smoothies... but perhaps a nice apple cider? Naturally fermented!
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 10:35
Perfect!
Posted by: Piper at October 31, 2026 10:37 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Pole Watcher at October 31, 2026 10:38 PM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at October 31, 2026 10:40 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 31, 2026 10:41 PM (ceJ0R)
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Huh. The word "introduce". I wasn't aware it included the idea of orchestrating a *coup*?
Tusk and anyone associated with him should be hung in public.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 10:41 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: PaleRider at October 31, 2026 10:42 PM (PV+Zw)
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Huh. The word "introduce". I wasn't aware it included the idea of orchestrating a *coup*?
Tusk and anyone associated with him should be hung in public.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 10:41 PM (Cjcf6)
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The excuse these people like to use is, "No one will listen to me! That's why I had to force the issue!"
Of course the reality is that people DID listen to them and decided their ideas were shit.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 10:43 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 10:43 PM (R+X/W)
That diagnosis came out of the yellow.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 10:33 PM (qx7Zg)
I'm red with envy.
Posted by: Red-Green Colorblindness at October 31, 2026 10:43 PM (l3cgK)
6:00 - Am I going to have enough candy?
6:30 - I am NOT going to have enough candy at this rate
7:00 - Ok, well, then I guess they are done.
7:30 - You know Kit Kats are pretty damn tasty
Posted by: 18-1 at October 31, 2026 10:44 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 10:34 PM (WY+aP)
Get a tub of chocolate covered raisins to keep them company.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:44 PM (l3cgK)
The mother no longer appears on the real-estate pages. I guess LinkedIn profiles are gone.
And the CBC!! They have interviews with the most die hardest President Trump fans ever who would walk through fire for him but are now disenchanted. Right.
MSNow does that too.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 31, 2026 10:45 PM (Sco7b)
Germany's lackey tried to seize the Polish high court and...failed?
Are we going to be in this weird state where he stays on as despot? Or are the people going to give me a Romanian holiday?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 31, 2026 10:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:46 PM (l3cgK)
Germany's lackey tried to seize the Polish high court and...failed?
Are we going to be in this weird state where he stays on as despot? Or are the people going to give me a Romanian holiday?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 31, 2026 10:45 PM (sKqQm)
You have to destroy democracy in order to save it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 10:47 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Don't Be Jealous at October 31, 2026 10:47 PM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 31, 2026 10:47 PM (4Je4D)
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Huh. The word "introduce". I wasn't aware it included the idea of orchestrating a *coup*?
Tusk and anyone associated with him should be hung in public.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 10:41 PM (Cjcf6)
We have test subjects for a scientific experiment. How high to people bounce after they fall 2000 meters from a helicopter?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 10:49 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: PaleRider at October 31, 2026 10:50 PM (PV+Zw)
youtube.com/watch?v=jzpGCpv7McE
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 10:51 PM (Jr5Lq)
The liberal media thinks the American people are so stupid.
PBS has a new report out today explaining how it will be completely ‘normal’ if we don’t know the results of the midterms on election night.
That is not normal, but the left wants to make it the new normal.
Just look at one race as an example, say the Los Angeles mayoral race. On election night, far left nutjob Nithya Raman was in a distant third place, but over the course of a few days and then a couple of weeks, they completely flipped the race. Nithya Raman bumped conservative alternative Spencer Pratt of the ballot and now it’s a contest between Karen Bass and Raman. Far left vs. really far left.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 31, 2026 10:52 PM (Sco7b)
There were only about a dozen trick or treaters here tonight, they all got lots of candy. The new neighbors on the street were grilling hot dogs in the driveway and handing them out to folks.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2026 10:54 PM (ibDUx)
What a day. I mentioned a few days ago that I had a bunch of my signs taken off yards and replaced with signs by my opponent. Quite frustrating.
Anyway, one of my campaign volunteers decided to put an AirTag inside one of our signs and waited to see what happened. The sign disappeared on Wednesday. The AirTag traced its location to...my opponent's property. Let's just say that hilarity ensued from there:
https://tinyurl.com/2ty7dj72
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 31, 2026 10:55 PM (9TOMd)
We had lots of kids trick or treating tonight.
We live on a deadend street with only 5 houses. Never had many before. Probably because it's Saturday, no school tomorrow.
Posted by: four seasons at October 31, 2026 10:55 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 10:55 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart!
"Please feel free to vote for either of our pre-selected candidates."
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at October 31, 2026 10:56 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: Piper at October 31, 2026 10:56 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at October 31, 2026 10:58 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: Don't Be Jealous at October 31, 2026 10:47 PM (vFcoN)
The same thing I do with leftover Candy Corn...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:00 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 31, 2026 10:32 PM (ceJ0R)
The Buckeyes losing to USC is a story as old as time ...
O... H ...
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 31, 2026 11:00 PM (oCio0)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 31, 2026 10:55 PM (9TOMd)
A self-inflicted October surprise, the most entertaining kind. I hope it gets enough traction to make a difference.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 31, 2026 11:00 PM (vTZFs)
That's awesome.
Thanks again for getting in the ring. Fingers crossed for you.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:00 PM (viF8m)
The article says she is trying to claim they were on public property and therefore she was allowed to remove them.
I suggest you save the full air pod data on that sign if she tries to argue this in court
Posted by: 18-1 at October 31, 2026 11:01 PM (sKqQm)
PBS has a new report out today explaining how it will be completely ‘normal’ if we don’t know the results of the midterms on election night.
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That's a recipe for fraud. They know it. But we allow it. Why?
Is PBS still receiving taxpayer money?
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 11:01 PM (Cjcf6)
What a day. I mentioned a few days ago that I had a bunch of my signs taken off yards and replaced with signs by my opponent. Quite frustrating.
Anyway, one of my campaign volunteers decided to put an AirTag inside one of our signs and waited to see what happened. The sign disappeared on Wednesday. The AirTag traced its location to...my opponent's property. Let's just say that hilarity ensued from there:
https://tinyurl.com/2ty7dj72
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 31, 2026 10
You don’t mess with a moron, Ms. Hughes!
Posted by: Piper at October 31, 2026 11:01 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 11:01 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 31, 2026 10:55 PM (9TOMd)
A self-inflicted October surprise, the most entertaining kind. I hope it gets enough traction to make a difference.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 31, 2026 11:00 PM (vTZFs)
I'm just sorry it didn't get her thrown in jail until the trial. Throw a wrench into her politicking.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 11:02 PM (qx7Zg)
PBS has a new report out today explaining how it will be completely ‘normal’ if we don’t know the results of the midterms on election night.
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That's a recipe for fraud. They know it. But we allow it. Why?
Is PBS still receiving taxpayer money?
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 11:01 PM (Cjcf6)
But only in lefty states...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:02 PM (l3cgK)
Is PBS still receiving taxpayer money?
Posted by: Crusader
The good guys have tried. Oddly enough, nobody seems to have "standing".
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at October 31, 2026 11:03 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 10:34 PM (WY+aP)
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Well that depends... do you feel like a fancy-shmancy monkey or an upscale elephant?
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 11:04 PM (8a4rF)
The article says she is trying to claim they were on public property and therefore she was allowed to remove them.
I suggest you save the full air pod data on that sign if she tries to argue this in court
Posted by: 18-1 at October 31, 2026 11:01 PM (sKqQm)
Sixth-degree larceny...a misdemeanor, perhaps?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:04 PM (l3cgK)
Thanks JQ, that will taste good with a bag of peanut M&Ms.
Darrell Harris do you have any last minute campaign events this weekend?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2026 11:05 PM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Doof at October 31, 2026 11:06 PM (QMAsf)
Is PBS still receiving taxpayer money?
Posted by: Crusader
The good guys have tried. Oddly enough, nobody seems to have "standing".
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Oddly enough, judges don't actually live at their court "houses". Apparently they all travel to another place and spend their off-hours primarily at that location.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 11:06 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 31, 2026 10
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That is fantastic!
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 11:07 PM (8a4rF)
Posted by: clarence at October 31, 2026 11:08 PM (Imcic)
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 11:08 PM (8a4rF)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Doing better, granddaughter wanted me to join the family. I was supposed to go as either Stephen Hawkins or Lt. Dan. however these types of things require more than 24 hr. notice. (laughing emoji here)
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at October 31, 2026 11:09 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 31, 2026 11:00 PM (vTZFs)
I'm just sorry it didn't get her thrown in jail until the trial. Throw a wrench into her politicking.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 11:02 PM (qx7Zg)
This actually points out the big problem with Early Voting. A significant percentage of the voting public has weighed in before this information came to light. Once they vote in-person, they can't vote again. Absentee ballots, however, give you the opportunity to change your mind.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 31, 2026 11:10 PM (9TOMd)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 31, 2026 10:41 PM (ceJ0R)
Howdy, Mr. Deal!
Posted by: Doof at October 31, 2026 11:11 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:12 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: moreweenthanhallow at October 31, 2026 11:12 PM (kJykj)
Who's going to threaten us now with Yoko Ono mystery clicks?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 11:13 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Some Rat Poison
Idea for next year:
Save boxes and get some black spray paint, build a "cabinet" for your wheelchair. Cut hole to mount a light and add battery holder & a switch you can operate from inside... Grow out a stubbly beard and do some "scars" with makeup...
Captain Pike!
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 11:14 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2026 11:05 PM (ibDUx)
I'm still the underdog. Many people have already early voted, and I presume most of those are Dems. I've focused most of the last few days on Weston, as this is a very affluent town that is going to see a huge increase in property taxes if nothing is done in Hartford in the next couple of years. That town is going to determine whether I win on Tuesday, and it's quite blue. There is an issue that has come up that I'm going all-in on trying to defeat, even though it's a Dem-backed election item. It's the right thing to do, and if I'm going to lose, I'm going down fighting for what's right for the town, rather than for the Dems in power there. It's a big risk, but at this point I've got nothing to lose. I'll be at Weston Center tomorrow morning with the Weston Republicans trying to convince people to vote for me (and against the resolution). Prayers needed.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 31, 2026 11:15 PM (9TOMd)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:12 PM (viF8m)
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Made me laugh
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 11:16 PM (GAp07)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2026 11:17 PM (08OqX)
Wow! That's pretty exciting. Hope it helps your campaign.
Posted by: Iris at October 31, 2026 11:17 PM (286+n)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 11:19 PM (1Ff7Z)
I spent more than 40 years just knowing that I would hate them.
And then I discovered that they are...
"edible".
There's a whole lot of effort involved in prepping something that is merely "edible".
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 11:21 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: ghost of Harry Belafonte at October 31, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb)
Hey Doof, I am here early, scrubbed and rinsed the tile floor and now I am stuck here until it dries.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2026 11:21 PM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2026 11:22 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: JQ
Ha! I like it! However I am REALLY planning on being free of this thing by spring.....
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at October 31, 2026 11:22 PM (BJzO2)
Darrell Harris do you have any last minute campaign events this weekend?
He's gonna turn that plane right around.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 31, 2026 11:22 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Case at October 31, 2026 11:22 PM (fzmBj)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 31, 2026
If her haircut has not persuaded voters that she lacks the judgment required for office, nothing will.
Posted by: bitch looks like sluggo at October 31, 2026 11:25 PM (Cs5x9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 31, 2026 11:25 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 11:26 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: JackStraw
The right side of the spectrum seems to have a much better sense of humor...
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at October 31, 2026 11:26 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at October 31, 2026 11:26 PM (etlz2)
Posted by: Some Rat Poison
Prayers up, that you *will* be free of it!
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 11:26 PM (rdVOm)
Pfft. I acquired it at an early age.
I would take down Paul Newman in his prime at deviled egg eating.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Don't Be Jealous at October 31, 2026 10:47 PM (vFcoN)
The same thing I do with leftover Candy Corn...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:00 PM (l3cgK)
Save them for next year. They don't have a shelf life. They have half-lives...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2026 11:27 PM (08OqX)
The variation in deviled eggs is indeed wide and deep. Some of the store bought ones are either bland or too funky. Miley stumbled on a really good recipe. And my mother had one that was pretty good as well. But the two are quite different.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 11:28 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:23 PM (viF8m)
Nice live Zep reference
Posted by: Doof at October 31, 2026 11:28 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 31, 2026
If her haircut has not persuaded voters that she lacks the judgment required for office, nothing will.
Posted by: bitch looks like sluggo at October 31, 2026 11:25 PM (Cs5x9)
She needs this punk's hair!
https://youtu.be/Zf5iwGZNY_Q
Or
https://youtu.be/Vft6VMhFMPk
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 11:28 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 11:28 PM (47diA)
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Do any of the ways that people make them end with a product that is better than...sausage patties, scrambled eggs, fried bacon, tater tots, etc?
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 11:28 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 11:29 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Case at October 31, 2026 11:29 PM (fzmBj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 31, 2026 11:29 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 31, 2026 11:29 PM (ceJ0R)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 11:30 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 31, 2026 11:31 PM (ceJ0R)
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 31, 2026 11:31 PM (ftFVW)
No matter what happens on Tuesday we will keep on keeping on. We're going to leave this place better than we found it. Cause that's what we do.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:31 PM (viF8m)
I'm looking forward to MeTV tonight. The extra hour means I get two episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea tonight, and two season 1 episodes at that.
Boy my life is really exciting!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 11:32 PM (w6EFb)
We watched the 1999 version of Sleepy Hollow w/ Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci tonight. Quite good; I doubt it resembles the original short story very much, but still, entertaining, with a thread of rationality running through the supernatural horror.
Most of my clocks and watches are already set back. The car, the "atomic" clock that needs to seek out WWV, and my two sport watches are still on CDT. I'm not too worried about the sport watches; I mainly use them as stopwatches for workouts. I'll get to them tomorrow, along with the new little radio with the clock display. Since it does not have a date feature, I doubt it knows to set itself back.
The GMT watch is now on CST, but I need to reset the GMT hand. GMT does not change with Saving Time or Standard Time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 11:32 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 31, 2026 11:32 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 31, 2026 11:32 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 11:33 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Don't Be Jealous at October 31, 2026 10:47 PM (vFcoN)
The same thing I do with leftover Candy Corn...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:00 PM (l3cgK)
Save them for next year. They don't have a shelf life. They have half-lives...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2026 11:27 PM (08OqX)
For my BIL's marriage, we (wife and I) made "gifts" for the guests consisting of 8 Hershey's Kisses (8 is close to the word for wealth/prosperity in Cantonese) tied up in tule with a ribbon congratulating their marriage, but for some reason he dropped off all the unused ones in a box with us.
So I gave them away one year for Halloween...the the next year, when one of the kids said, "Oh, the GOOD ones again this year."
Suffice it to say, we didn't give away any more the third year...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:35 PM (l3cgK)
Thanks for all those fantastic ONTs!
Stop by in the comments once in a while, will ya?
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 11:35 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 11:28 PM (47diA)
Who puts vegs in their deviled eggs?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:36 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at October 31, 2026 11:36 PM (BJzO2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:36 PM (l3cgK)
Probably the same sick freaks who put nuts in cookies.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 11:37 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: four seasons at October 31, 2026 11:37 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 31, 2026 11:37 PM (sKqQm)
Tiny bits of onion, pickles, etc often appear in some recipes.
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 11:38 PM (47diA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 11:38 PM (RIvkX)
https://tinyurl.com/2ty7dj72
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Once more, Democrats prove themselves liars and thieves.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:38 PM (WY+aP)
Tiny bits of onion, pickles, etc often appear in some recipes.
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 11:38 PM (47diA)
But no carrots, right?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:41 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 11:42 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 11:42 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:36 PM (l3cgK)
Probably the same sick freaks who put nuts in cookies.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 11:37 PM (1Ff7Z)
Punchline: "Then you probably don't want to know how the donuts are made."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:42 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Case at October 31, 2026 11:42 PM (fzmBj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:44 PM (WY+aP)
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"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" was a great show! I'll likely be watching it with you on MeTV tonight. The problem I'm running into is that my local MeTV channel keeps running *garbage" programming of "Svengoolie". And it sucks. And I mean it *really* sucks. At least Elvira was hot to look at, something that seems to have never needed. God bless anyone who was desperate enough to think that was good programming.
I keep asking the same question these days: Are there no standards these days?
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 11:45 PM (Cjcf6)
Does it strike you as a bit odd that Poland and Germany, along with the rest of the EU, Brazil, Australia and if we don't watch our 6, here, are all going through this spontaneous meltdown of students who want better school supplies?
Getting kind of hard to ignore the obvious. Like it or not we're in a war. Free people vs tyranny. Been coming for a long time. And now it's here.
We aren't immune. We're just the ultimate target and the clock is ticking.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 11:46 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 31, 2026 11:25 PM (Cqx++)
and like tuna salad, there is right way and a wrong way...
Posted by: sal at October 31, 2026 11:46 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 11:48 PM (47diA)
We aren't immune. We're just the ultimate target and the clock is ticking.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:45 PM (viF8m)
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Which side is the government on?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 11:49 PM (RIvkX)
BUt you get an extra hour this time around.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 11:49 PM (w6EFb)
Saturday night sci-fi on MeTV is basically Irwin Allen night.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 11:51 PM (w6EFb)
Agreed. I was fairly confident that I would finish the back nine of life before I would see this but I now have my doubts.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 31, 2026 11:51 PM (ceJ0R)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 31, 2026 11:51 PM (VYHjw)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 11:36 PM (l3cgK)
Probably the same sick freaks who put nuts in cookies.
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Any of you who think that double chocolate cookies which contain BOTH chocolate cookie dough and chocolate chips somehow become *contaminated* by pecans or walnuts...are just wussies.
You're not "allergic". Entire generations ate peanuts in all of their varieties, with no adversity. Get over your special snowflake beliefs.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 11:52 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2026 11:52 PM (ibDUx)
Two hits, and two that I thought were worth it. I must be aligning with CoB thinking.
Hordemind is real.
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2026 11:53 PM (VHUov)
My husband and I are going on a cross country road trip. I'm in charge of snacks and entertainment. He's in charge of
"driving straight through" and
"beating the GPS time".
Clearly we both know our strengths in this relationship.
>>>>> Nothing hits harder than when you beat the GPS estimate
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 11:53 PM (qx7Zg)
My Casio "atomic" watch, which syncs to the WWVB signal has a little bug, well "feature". There are two bits in the data frame that deal with DST. One is the "pending bit", and the other is the "change occured" bit.
To save money, the receiver logic just changes immediately when it sees the pending bit change, and not do the proper wait until 2AM local.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 11:53 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 11:53 PM (rdVOm)
Protests erupted in Poland today as the government suspended two senior justices and brought criminal charges against them, leading to a standoff involving police at the Constitutional Tribunal. This situation has escalated tensions surrounding the independence of the judiciary in the country
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Interesting. The protests last night were against Tusk. The EU must have paid for this one.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:54 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2026 11:55 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 11:53 PM (w6EFb)
So it no comprende "pending"?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 31, 2026 11:55 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Case at October 31, 2026 11:55 PM (fzmBj)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
And the Brits are "advising" it's citizens to stockpile food.
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at October 31, 2026 11:55 PM (BJzO2)
What a day. I mentioned a few days ago that I had a bunch of my signs taken off yards and replaced with signs by my opponent. Quite frustrating.
Anyway, one of my campaign volunteers decided to put an AirTag inside one of our signs and waited to see what happened. The sign disappeared on Wednesday. The AirTag traced its location to...my opponent's property. Let's just say that hilarity ensued from there:
https://tinyurl.com/2ty7dj72
Posted by: Darrell Harris
LoL!! Your opponent looks lovley. Like a bouncer in a lesbian bar.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 31, 2026 11:55 PM (pLaQB)
Eliminating leap seconds is going to break a field of the Ft. Collins WWVB signal, specifically the DUT1 field, which gives the difference between UT1( basically, the modern version of GMT, mean solar time over the prime meridian) and UTC to a resolution of 0.1s.
It can encode more than +/- 0.9s. So, when DUT1 does increase to 1s, that will be broken. They'll have to do something. I don't know of too many consumer devices that pay any attention to DUT1 but some things did.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:56 PM (WY+aP)
https://tinyurl.com/2ty7dj72
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Once more, Democrats prove themselves liars and thieves.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:38 PM (WY+aP)
They just can't help themselves. Good for you, Darrel Harris. Sometimes just putting pressure on an opponent is enough to force them into stupid mistakes.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 31, 2026 11:57 PM (r7+Q7)
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Golly, they both share a love of totalitarian governments and cock...other than that, I have nothing.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 11:57 PM (Cjcf6)
Me too. But this is the hand we've been dealt and I'll be damned if I will let these actual fascists, and I know what the world means, stomp on this country without doing what I can even if it's just being an annoying bell ringer.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:57 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 31, 2026 11:58 PM (w6EFb)
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ROLOL !!!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:58 PM (WY+aP)
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Which Brits?
Those who belong there?
Or the imported *rapists*?
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 11:59 PM (Cjcf6)
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Which Brits?
Those who belong there?
Or the imported *rapists*?
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 11:59 PM (Cjcf6)
How are you classifying those who brought the second group in?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 01, 2026 12:00 AM (qx7Zg)
....covering MGMT, but totally making it their own.
https://youtu.be/didMaZwUcII
Posted by: also, boobs. at November 01, 2026 12:01 AM (VHUov)
It's not just the Brits. It's happening around the world.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 01, 2026 12:01 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 01, 2026 12:01 AM (RIvkX)
And that's a wrap for Oct, here in Eastern Time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 12:02 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 01, 2026 12:03 AM (qx7Zg)
We aren't immune. We're just the ultimate target and the clock is ticking.
No doubt.
I wish people paid enough attention to look at the stolen election in Brazil and this coup in Poland and considered what it means before going to the ballot box.
If you want a bigger social net then the Republicans are hell even more immigration, you can always vote R this time around and vote D in the future when the Democrats stop being fascists. But if the D's acquire enough power you won't get an election that matters again...ever.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2026 12:03 AM (sKqQm)
Or the imported *rapists*?
Posted by: Crusader
Yeah, probably would have helped had they suggested canned hams.
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at November 01, 2026 12:03 AM (BJzO2)
....covering MGMT, but totally making it their own.
https://youtu.be/didMaZwUcII
The female singer doesn't look great in the nylon see-thru top but the male drummer in his own looks a lot worse...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2026 12:05 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:56 PM (WY+aP)
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The Government.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 01, 2026 12:06 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 01, 2026 12:07 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: 18-1
Yeah, it's hard to find a current band who doesn't have a bunch of lefty tendencies. Great music, but I could do without the male drummer in a lace top & lipstick.
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 12:07 AM (VHUov)
The only German connection is the
connection to the EU, his sponsor.
Oh, and, fuck Brazil.
Fuck Britain, Spain and Germany too.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 12:09 AM (WY+aP)
Posted by: Diogenes at November 01, 2026 12:10 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 12:10 AM (WY+aP)
And the Brits are "advising" it's citizens to stockpile food.
Posted by: Some Rat Poison
Two weeks to flatten the curve.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 01, 2026 12:10 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 01, 2026 12:10 AM (pLaQB)
And like clock work, the watch immediately jumped back to 11:00 at midnight. It starts trying to sync at midnight every day, and will try 3 times on the hour. Signal was good, and it immediately jumps when it sees the pending bit.
The pending bit is set on the UTC date of the changeover. So that means it would have been set at 8PM tonight.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 12:11 AM (w6EFb)
You know, the time when communists are stealing elections around the world.
Maybe pick up a couple bottles of water and some canned food just in case. It's not like it will go bad.
https://tinyurl.com/3d4jkjfk
Posted by: JackStraw at November 01, 2026 12:13 AM (viF8m)
....covering MGMT, but totally making it their own.
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Who recommended that? She checks off all the boxes: sleeves over her hands, tattoos, nose ring; I could go on but it was necessary to X it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 12:14 AM (WY+aP)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 01, 2026 12:14 AM (Fv808)
https://tinyurl.com/2ty7dj72
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 31, 2026 10
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Two quotes, both non-apology apologies:
"Yesterday I removed lawn signs that shouldn’t have been on public property. I apologize for removing them rather than contacting the police or my opponent’s campaign to remove them, and I take full responsibility and accountability for my actions. Campaigns should be about issues and differences of ideas, not yard signs. I apologize for the distraction, and am committed to having civil discourse with my opponent for the duration of this campaign season."
And...
"The Easton Democratic Town Committee does not condone Representative Anne Hughes' actions."
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 01, 2026 12:15 AM (bZzMF)
Or the imported *rapists*?
Posted by: Crusader
Yeah, probably would have helped had they suggested canned hams.
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That would have been a good move.
Posted by: Crusader at November 01, 2026 12:15 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Case at November 01, 2026 12:17 AM (fzmBj)
Posted by: Braenyard
My apologies, then. I thought her vocal delivery was worth it.
Posted by: mikeski, bowing and scraping at November 01, 2026 12:19 AM (VHUov)
But... Trump said *pussy*!!!
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 12:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Case
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you fdr.
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at November 01, 2026 12:21 AM (BJzO2)
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The two that matter most are Kirk and Sulu.
Captain Sulu was considered for a movie or television series after the 6th Star Trek movie. He was great in that role, and gave no hint that he was...fruity.
Posted by: Crusader at November 01, 2026 12:22 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Case at November 01, 2026 12:17 AM (fzmBj)
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Tusk's plan:
https://tinyurl.com/2rerayhv
Next up: Hungary.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 01, 2026 12:22 AM (bZzMF)
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at November 01, 2026 12:23 AM (BJzO2)
It should be Rear Admiral Sulu. And lower half, a bottom Rear Admiral.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 12:25 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ
So did Mrs. Slocumbe.
https://youtu.be/d-i523Gie9Q
(Are You Being Served?)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 01, 2026 12:25 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: JQ
So did Mrs. Slocumbe.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
At least once per episode, I think.
Posted by: mikeski is free at November 01, 2026 12:26 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: mikeski,
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It was rhetorical. No intent to call out.
Absolutely no apologies necessary.
It was directed at her; I should have been
more careful with the language.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 12:26 AM (WY+aP)
Not a "prepper"-- just making my dollars stretch as far as possible.
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 12:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: frammish at November 01, 2026 12:27 AM (rcENI)
https://tinyurl.com/3d4jkjfk
Posted by: JackStraw
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If anything it's the kingmaker's themselves scaring up the public.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 12:28 AM (WY+aP)
Globalists had a plan. Trump, and those of us who supported him, fucked it up. Elon played a crucial role in it by giving us back our voice. And now they are a cornered rat lashing out.
You can believe it or not but it's happening right before our eyes. Gloves are off. Act accordingly.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 01, 2026 12:28 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: polynikes at November 01, 2026 12:28 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Case at November 01, 2026 12:17 AM (fzmBj)
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One of many attempts uncovered. Read every word:
https://tinyurl.com/yuzdu2nj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 01, 2026 12:29 AM (bZzMF)
So I google what a politically correct way to say it is, and it went with, "postprandial somnolence" which just...rolls off the tongue
Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2026 12:30 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: JQ
Two guys walked into a bar, the third guy went under it.
Posted by: Some Rat Poison at November 01, 2026 12:31 AM (BJzO2)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 31, 2026
If her haircut has not persuaded voters that she lacks the judgment required for office, nothing will.
Posted by: bitch looks like sluggo at October 31, 2026 11:25 PM (Cs5x9)
That is one tough-looking road apple. Built to burn Diesel, I figure.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 01, 2026 12:31 AM (0kX4S)
Absolutely no apologies necessary.
It was directed at her; I should have been
more careful with the language.
Posted by: Braenyard
* nods *
I get it.
"She's a one. She's also an example of Rule Number One."
Posted by: mikeski would, with his club name at November 01, 2026 12:32 AM (VHUov)
Interesting: The oldest still living actor who appeared in TOS is David Frankham, who turned 100 in Feb. He played Larry Marvick in the "Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Diana Muldaur was in that episode.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
And Diana Muldaur is still alive at 88.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
https://tinyurl.com/mrx77ft8
Context plus well-deserved Community Note:
https://tinyurl.com/39yxxy5t
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 01, 2026 12:34 AM (bZzMF)
Posted by: Case
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True. We saw a HUGE dose of that under whatever meglamaniacs ran the "Weekend at Bernie's" presidency.
There's at least 50 million voters that should owe us all an apology. Biden was brain-dead. "His" policy positions were awful for anyone who worked a 9-5 job.
Anyone who spent all day sleeping and NOT working probably thought whatever this brain-dead said was...boring...that walking corpse had ZERO personality. But those lazy whores and assholes and middle-aged white women gave that *puppet* the white house. Along with a massive amount of fraud.
Posted by: Crusader at November 01, 2026 12:34 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 01, 2026 12:14 AM (Fv80
I can think of three more:
Clint Howard (Ron Howard's brother) - the strange-toothed alien in The Corbomite Maneuver
Joan Collins - The City on the Edge of Forever (long considered one of the best TOS episodes ever)
Mariette Hartley - the one where Spock fell in love and could have been forced to stay with her forever if he wasn't rescued (I forget the episode name)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 01, 2026 12:35 AM (9TOMd)
Posted by: 18-1
I saw Postprandial Somnolence open for King Crimson at First Avenue in '96.
https://youtu.be/Rk2B8pw1dVs
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 12:36 AM (VHUov)
But those are the easy ones. Take on a challenge once in awhile.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 01, 2026 12:38 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: JackStraw
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https://youtu.be/99og_g7rXnA&t=16
_i can't help myself
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 12:39 AM (WY+aP)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 01, 2026 12:14 AM (Fv80
Off the top of my head?
Barbara Luna - the Captain's Woman, France Nuyen - Elaan of Troyus
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 01, 2026 12:41 AM (1Ff7Z)
Wunderground's graph on the station page has 25 hour blocks displayed.
But I'm gonna bet it's still going to screw it up somehow. They've "fixed" this several times each year since I got this station, and never get it right.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 12:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 01, 2026 12:45 AM (0kX4S)
Oh, was I supposed to turn the porch light ON? (/s)
Nah. It's a long, dead-end road with few houses, at the edge of city limits. Not very lucrative for the candy-seekers.
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 12:45 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 01, 2026 12:45 AM (0kX4S)
Nope. Alzheimers a couple of years ago.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 01, 2026 12:46 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
No.
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
Which I link to every year, because d'awwwww.
https://youtu.be/UAm3RPqwmq4
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 12:47 AM (VHUov)
There was some sort of nasty fight there at the end with Nichelle due to the dementia over a conservatorship.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 12:48 AM (w6EFb)
But those are the easy ones. Take on a challenge once in awhile.
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I did. I pointed out the ones that matter.
I didn't bother to google if there was red-shirt still alive, because none of us would really care.
Posted by: Crusader at November 01, 2026 12:48 AM (Cjcf6)
Classy.
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
So did Mrs. Slocumbe.
https://youtu.be/d-i523Gie9Q
(Are You Being Served?)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 01, 2026 12:25 AM (qx7Zg)
Well, James Bond found out one of ladies he was with had an octopussy...
Would work well with that human from Mars with the triple tits...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 01, 2026 12:49 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 01, 2026 12:46 AM (1Ff7Z)
Awww. Too bad. RIP.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 01, 2026 12:49 AM (0kX4S)
"More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California cannot be found on voter rolls, according to a legal filing."
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2026 12:51 AM (rbvCR)
Finnegan.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 01, 2026 12:51 AM (1Ff7Z)
Classy.
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)
Star Trek Strange New Worlds really focuses on her. A lot of TOS secondary characters get a lot of stories.
Uhura, Scotty, Chapel is a hottie.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 12:52 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 12:52 AM (2GVsD)
The kids from "And the Children Shall Lead?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 01, 2026 12:53 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 01, 2026 12:14 AM (Fv80
I can think of three more:
Clint Howard (Ron Howard's brother) - the strange-toothed alien in The Corbomite Maneuver
Joan Collins - The City on the Edge of Forever (long considered one of the best TOS episodes ever)
Mariette Hartley - the one where Spock fell in love and could have been forced to stay with her forever if he wasn't rescued (I forget the episode name)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 01, 2026 12:35 AM (9TOMd)
I coulda sworn Joan Collins had been dead for quite a few years...I see she is not.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 01, 2026 12:54 AM (l3cgK)
Mariette Hartley - the one where Spock fell in love and could have been forced to stay with her forever if he wasn't rescued (I forget the episode name)
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I think you're thinking of Jill Ireland, and she's gone.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 01, 2026 12:55 AM (mmrXZ)
Ahhh, Edith Keeler won't die.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 01, 2026 12:55 AM (Fv808)
She has no class as well, but we knew that already.
Posted by: Crusader
Don't forget about us!
Posted by: Talent and Skill at November 01, 2026 12:56 AM (t19vo)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 12:57 AM (w6EFb)
Zero trick-or-treaters here. The jack-o'-lantern still burns faithfully on the front porch.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 01, 2026 12:57 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 01, 2026 12:54 AM (l3cgK)
No, that was Joan Crawford.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2026 12:58 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Does it have a long mustache?
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 12:59 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2026 12:59 AM (rbvCR)
Jill Ireland was in "This Side of Paradise" and was sort of interested in Spock. That was the one where the pollen from the flowers changed them, and Spock became "laid back".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 12:59 AM (w6EFb)
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I think you're thinking of Jill Ireland, and she's gone.
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Nope. Mariette Hartley is the actress in question, and still with us.
Posted by: Crusader at November 01, 2026 12:59 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2026 01:00 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Case at November 01, 2026 01:01 AM (fzmBj)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2026 01:01 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 01:01 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: PabloD at November 01, 2026 01:01 AM (mXZsC)
The fracas in Poland happened because some Poles believed polls taken by other Poles, but those Poles talked to the wrong Poles.
The first group of Poles then found themselves on the high wire without a balance Pole, because they believed the polls that misread what Poles wanted, and what the Polish leadership would do.
Now, they're trying to hide in a pole barn, but they left tracks for the other Poles to follow.
Make sense?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 01, 2026 01:02 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:02 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 01, 2026 12:54 AM (l3cgK)
No, that was Joan Crawford.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2026 12:58 AM (rbvCR)
Well, I KNEW Joan Crawford was mort. Almost 50 years now.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 01, 2026 01:02 AM (l3cgK)
"This Side of Paradise," Season 1 Episode 24
https://tinyurl.com/bdfufj37
Spock falls in love with Jill Ireland
Huh, he did it twice.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 01, 2026 01:02 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 01, 2026 01:03 AM (l3cgK)
Make sense?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 01, 2026 01:02 AM (qx7Zg)
Clearly, Tusk and Nawrocki are Poles apart.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 01, 2026 01:03 AM (0kX4S)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 01:04 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:04 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Weakly Reader at November 01, 2026 01:05 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Weakly Reader at November 01, 2026 01:05 AM (vFcoN)
My crayons are ready!!
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 01:06 AM (Sco7b)
Classy.
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)
Caught an interview, or maybe read about it in a memoir, where she asked MLK if she should quit the show in solidarity with his civil rights movement, and he told her that her character was exactly the portrayal the movement needed. He wasn't wrong.
I got to see her at a Jerry Goldsmith concert at the Pantages theater maybe a decade ago. She was in the audience and they called her out to take a bow. You could tell she was frail then, but she rose gracefully and felt the obvious love from all of us..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 01, 2026 01:06 AM (08OqX)
Posted by: Nawrocki Top at November 01, 2026 01:07 AM (Fv808)
Jill Ireland was in "This Side of Paradise" and was sort of interested in Spock. That was the one where the pollen from the flowers changed them, and Spock became "laid back".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 12:59 AM (w6EFb)
I think the reference was to where they were sent back in time ten thousand or so years to the ice age of a planet that was on the verge of being destroyed by their star going nova...and Spock was getting a taste for meat...and the native woman of that planet who had been exiled to that past.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 01, 2026 01:07 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Crawdaddy at November 01, 2026 01:07 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:08 AM (2GVsD)
She has no class as well, but we knew that already.
Posted by: Crusader
Apparently she has no dictionary either, as she's making layups look impossible and awkward. And fails to consistently bank the ball off the backboard.
layup
noun
(basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
(colloquial) A relatively easy task.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at November 01, 2026 01:08 AM (t19vo)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 01, 2026 01:09 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Crusader
Martini-Henry > Mariette Hartley
Posted by: Lt. John Chard at November 01, 2026 01:10 AM (t19vo)
Posted by: Case at November 01, 2026 01:11 AM (fzmBj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:11 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Celebrity Gossip at November 01, 2026 01:11 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 01, 2026 01:11 AM (Fv808)
Yeah, I posted the IMDB page for her character for that episode above.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:11 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:14 AM (2GVsD)
It seems against my nature to like something that gets a quarter-million views in a day. I'm losing my hipster cred.
Against the Current - Ashes To Glory
https://youtu.be/FQnFRklAeUE
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 01:15 AM (VHUov)
I remembered something about Mariette Hartley and belly buttons. The censors wouldn't let Roddenberry show her belly button in that episode. Later, he cast her in some role in "Genesis II" and gave her two belly buttons.
The censors did let female belly buttons through in TOS. Evil Universe Uhura and Barbara Luna in the same episode.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:15 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:16 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 01:18 AM (WY+aP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:18 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 01, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 01:21 AM (WY+aP)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:15 AM (w6EFb)
I've been having Star Trek Enterprise in the background while I've been working on my projects. I looked it up and they did try to sex Star Trek up by that time.
The rubdowns with gel in the contamination chambers, neuro-pressure sessions with TPol.
They actually had full side-boob of TPol in season 3, episode 1. And nearly disrobed backside in another. Beautiful woman. And I really like that series.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 01:21 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:22 AM (2GVsD)
Seven of Nine's "uniform" wasn't exactly, well, "practical" either.... Not that I'm complaining. Not one little bit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:22 AM (w6EFb)
*Holds up copy of Bjo Trimble's Star Trek Concordance 2d edition.*
Posted by: Anna Puma
YOU'RE WELCOME!!
Posted by: Al Gore at November 01, 2026 01:23 AM (t19vo)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 01, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)
You're going to age a whole bunch of us with so many references in one post.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 01:23 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:24 AM (2GVsD)
The death of Tripp at the end of Enterprise was just stupid. Still pisses me off to think of it.
And I got a kick of the twist they did on the Orion slave girls, the green chicks. Turns out they were the true masters, and the men were the slaves, so powerful were there pheromones and wiles.
And Tripp was immune, since he'd been "interfacing" with T'Pol. Her Vulcan emotional control rubbed off on him during the exchange of fluids....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:25 AM (w6EFb)
https://youtu.be/4haW72dgVM8
Posted by: Anna Puma
AI is scary stuff, ne?
I'm glad it still needs people like me to make the hardware parts. Hopefully that holds up until I'm old enough to retire.....
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 01:25 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:22 AM (2GVsD)
So well. I've really been enjoying them. The series was cancelled by season 4 and I just stopped watching so some will be new to me.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 01:25 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:26 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Classic TV at November 01, 2026 01:26 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at November 01, 2026 01:26 AM (Fv808)
The death of Tripp at the end of Enterprise was just stupid. Still pisses me off to think of it.
And I got a kick of the twist they did on the Orion slave girls, the green chicks. Turns out they were the true masters, and the men were the slaves, so powerful were there pheromones and wiles.
And Tripp was immune, since he'd been "interfacing" with T'Pol. Her Vulcan emotional control rubbed off on him during the exchange of fluids....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:25 AM (w6EFb)
And I'm having beer and deleting this from memory.
I hope you're doing well. I hope all of the estate stuff clears up quickly and painlessly.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 01:27 AM (Sco7b)
I loved the Vulcan arc at the end with young T'Pau, where Archer became the vessel for Surak's consciousness.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:28 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:28 AM (2GVsD)
If I had more money I would brush my teeth with bottled water.
Posted by: Braenyard
Wow. Our tap water isn't *that bad*... I'll use it for cooking or making coffee, but for drinking plain-- prefer bottled. Don't like the aftertaste of tap. Keeping a filter pitcher is such a hassle, though I used to do that. Counter space is crowded, so tossed the Brita thing.
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 01:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Kindltot
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It's Howdy Doodie Time!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 01:18 AM (WY+aP)
Somebody Howdy Doodied in my pants again...
Posted by: Sniffy Joe at November 01, 2026 01:29 AM (l3cgK)
That makes no freaking sense when Vulcan stoicism and renunciation of emotions is from discipline.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:30 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:31 AM (2GVsD)
It's not just the Brits. It's happening around the world.
Posted by: JackStraw
......
Well I've got a head start with all these fun-size Snickers and Kit Kats left over from tonight.
Posted by: wth at November 01, 2026 01:32 AM (oq9dX)
That makes no freaking sense when Vulcan stoicism and renunciation of emotions is from discipline.
Posted by: Anna Puma
Rule #2. Don't stick your dick in stoic.
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 01:32 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 01:32 AM (VHUov)
The stoic is what brings babies to New Jersey.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 01, 2026 01:33 AM (0kX4S)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:34 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at November 01, 2026 01:34 AM (3FgL5)
Well, it didn't turn him into a Vulcan, just made it where his big head always remains in control.
So, stick the little head in the she-Vulcan, and the big head wins.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:35 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:37 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Shamisen strings made from the pre-ghost cat?
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 01:39 AM (VHUov)
Classy.
Posted by: JQ
.......
I was always jealous of her chair.
Posted by: wth at November 01, 2026 01:39 AM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:40 AM (2GVsD)
The way it was explained in Enterprise was the Orion men do the dirty work, under the control of the girls, who just play sexy playthings all the time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:40 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 01:41 AM (VHUov)
Now, don't even think of banging a she-Klingon. Not even in the Holodeck with the safeties at full stop. A mere human male couldn't survive.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:42 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 01:43 AM (Sco7b)
Klingons? Bring your pain sticks.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:43 AM (2GVsD)
Another funny one in Enterprise was Lt. Reed, the tactical officer began to develop this protocol where the captain, with one command, could bring the ship to a state of tactical readiness, weapons, shields, everything on line. He called it a tactical alert. It saved their butts a time or two.
The began to call it a "Reed Alert"..... and then decided they needed some better name for it, some very descriptive term that would be obvious....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:45 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 01, 2026 01:46 AM (0kX4S)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 01, 2026 01:46 AM (2GVsD)
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That's never crossed my mind.
Posted by: Crusader at November 01, 2026 01:47 AM (Cjcf6)
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That's never crossed my mind.
Posted by: Crusader at November 01, 2026 01:47 AM (Cjcf6)
It did to B'elanna Torres' parents...
B'Elanna was born in 2346 on the Federation colony Kessik IV to John Torres, a Human father and Miral, a Klingon mother. Her mother called her "Lanna".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 01, 2026 01:52 AM (l3cgK)
https://youtu.be/mqlsO6iP5ow
Posted by: mikeski
Too many dudes?
Fine, here's The Shibatas. 2/3 female.
https://youtu.be/tEcJjqC1grw
Posted by: mikeski, bringing the culture at November 01, 2026 01:52 AM (VHUov)
Suzie Plakson's K'Ehleyr wasn't too bad. But I think she was half-human.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:53 AM (w6EFb)
The Tribunal’s social-media account called the events a coup, but did not report a criminal finding against her. If there’s evidence of a crime, prosecutors should investigate it and seek any required judicial or immunity decisions; the facts and legal authority need to be tested through that process.
BBC
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... yes: if authorities are investigating whether the suspensions were unlawful, examining Korwin-Piotrowska’s actions and hearing her account would be a reasonable part of the process. I haven’t found reporting that she has been formally summoned or questioned.
criminallawpoland.com
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 01:53 AM (WY+aP)
I remember in DS9 when Worf and Jadzia first got in on, they both limped into sick bay. Dr. Bashir explained that Klingon mating usually results in broken ribs and major contusions and such....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 01:55 AM (w6EFb)
https://youtu.be/mqlsO6iP5ow
Posted by: mikeski
Too many dudes?
Fine, here's The Shibatas. 2/3 female.
https://youtu.be/tEcJjqC1grw
Posted by: mikeski, bringing the culture at November 01, 2026 01:52 AM (VHUov
Needs Electric shamisens...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 01, 2026 01:56 AM (l3cgK)
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This was one of the Dems October surprises. She originally said Grenell pocketed the money, now the truth is coming out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 01:59 AM (WY+aP)
We now enter the Ambiguous Hour in Eastern Time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 02:01 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 02:01 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 02:03 AM (w6EFb)
Ralphy lived another month!!
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 02:05 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: publius
Grenade jokes are best jokes.
Five seconds later, everybody gets it.
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 02:05 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 02:06 AM (Sco7b)
I'm trying to remember a Stupid Criminal story involving this. He somehow thought he could get away with a crime by committing it during the first 1AM hour, then set up an alibi in the second 1AM hour.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 02:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
Erikaaa@ErikaCA47
@Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 You’re going to jail with Tusk. Soros puppets failed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 02:13 AM (WY+aP)
And yep, Wunderground screws it up yet again. They've got a second 1AM hour block, but when they graph the second 1AM data points it jumps back to the first.
So, the second 1AM block will be completely blank, and the graph will resume in the 2AM block. You would think they could get it right after 10 years or so...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 02:13 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 01, 2026 02:14 AM (ibDUx)
"They'll be there."
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 02:15 AM (rdVOm)
Sen. Elissa Slotkin's warning to young Americans not to join the Trump administration could backfire by handing Trump officials legal ammunition to derail the investigations Democrats hope to launch if they retake Congress, a former federal prosecutor warned.
The freshman Michigan Democrat said last month that she wants her party to pursue "signature cases" against officials who helped Trump, reasoning that it would discourage young Americans from considering jobs in his administration.
But Abhishek Kambli, a former deputy associate attorney general in Trump's Justice Department, said Slotkin's remarks could backfire if Democrats retake either chamber of Congress in the midterm elections and gain greater control over congressional investigations.
"If they just throw in boilerplate language that this is for legislative purpose, anyone challenging those subpoenas will have that entire record to demonstrate that it's anything but that," Kambli, a partner at Holtzman Vogel, told Fox News Digital.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 02:15 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 02:15 AM (Sco7b)
Just so there's no doubt, here's what time it is. Here, that is:
Date: 11/01/2026 Local Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05:00:00)
Longitude: -82.17110 UTC Offset: -05:28:41 TZ Offset: -00:28:41
DUT1: -54.74010 ms Leap Seconds: 37 s DeltaT: 69.23874 s
Terrestrial Time : 06:21:40 TT
Universal Coordinated Time: 06:20:30 UTC
Universal Time 1 : 06:20:30 UT1
Local Standard Time (TZ) : 01:20:30 AM EST
Local Mean Time : 12:51:49 AM LMT (UT1 base)
Local Apparent Solar Time : 01:08:14 AM LAST (UT1 base)
Julian Dates (UTC base) : 9800.76425 JD2000
: 2461345.76425 JD
: 61345.26425 MJD
Grnwch Mean Sidereal Time: 09:02:44
Local Mean Sidereal Time: 03:34:03
Current Equation of Time: 16:25.14
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 02:21 AM (w6EFb)
😜
OMG, Confucius was RIGHT!
Man with 2 clocks *never know* time.
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)
Democrats are used to heartbreak in Texas - could Talarico turn the tide?
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I'm gonna say "no."
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 02:27 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: publius
Grenade jokes are best jokes.
Five seconds later, everybody gets it.
Posted by: mikeski at November 01, 2026 02:05 AM (VHUov)
ooohhh punster
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 02:28 AM (odBC9)
Democrats are used to heartbreak in Texas - could Talarico turn the tide?
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I'm gonna say "no."
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 02:27 AM (odBC9)
Right after soccer becomes the state sport.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 02:28 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at November 01, 2026 02:29 AM (JIpUl)
Posted by: JQ
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You've been waiting for this all summer. _ Enjoy.
You're welcome to come over here, it's a balmy 78.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 02:29 AM (WY+aP)
Yes I have! And it's glorious! (Cat is somewhat less enthused.)
>>You're welcome to come over here, it's a balmy 78.
Thank you kindly, but I've had *quite enough* of that weather, for this year.
Cheers!
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)
Democrats are used to heartbreak in Texas - could Talarico turn the tide?
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I'm gonna say "no."
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 02:27 AM (odBC9)
Right after soccer becomes the state sport.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart! at November 01, 2026 02:28 AM (Sco7b)
Haha!
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 02:36 AM (odBC9)
True, indeed. And there are a bit more than two clocks there. TT, Terrestrial Time, is the "real time" in a uniform, relativistic sense. It's the proper time accumulated by a perfect clock at sea level on the rotating geoid. UT1 is true mean solar time reference to the Prime Meridian, and rather than an actual time, think of it as a count of the earth's synodic rotations relative to the equatorial mean sun. That's "what time it is" (with time zone offsets) relative to what we've always thought of as solar time.
Those two are the only ones that matter. UTC is a bastard hybrid, that kinda-sorta made sense in 1972 given the tech level at the time. It tried to be both things at the same time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 02:38 AM (w6EFb)
Hahaha, joke's on me! But I'll take care of it later...
"They'll be there."
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 02:38 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106.5 years old! Puppy at heart!
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Could what they do with Judge Korwin-Piotrowska influence SCOTUS decisions?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 02:39 AM (WY+aP)
Delta-T there, currently 69 seconds and some change is the difference between TT and UT1. What became TT, originally "ephemeris time" was set equal to GMT at Noon, Jan 0, 1900 (Dec 31, 1899).
Thus the earth has a clock is 69 seconds slow over 126 years...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 02:40 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 02:45 AM (WY+aP)
Globalists had a plan. Trump, and those of us who supported him, fucked it up. Elon played a crucial role in it by giving us back our voice. And now they are a cornered rat lashing out.
You can believe it or not but it's happening right before our eyes. Gloves are off. Act accordingly.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 01, 2026 12:28 AM (viF8m)
wow
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 02:45 AM (odBC9)
About 15 seconds a month is considered acceptable accuracy for quartz watches.
For standard mechanical watches, it's about 10 seconds *per day*. A good chronometer grade standard was -4 to +6 s per day. Why the offset? Well, back in the day, they considered it better to have a fast watch than a slow watch (bias is toward being early, not late), and the designs were such that is was easier to adjust a watch faster than to slow it down.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 02:49 AM (w6EFb)
Had to look that up. As far as adjustment of the mechanism, there is no difference. I don't know where that got in my head.
The "fast bias" is entirely due to human preference. In fact, an Omega standard shifts it entirely to the + side, for a spec that "never runs" slow.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 02:55 AM (w6EFb)
Globalists had a plan. Trump, and those of us who supported him, fucked it up. Elon played a crucial role in it by giving us back our voice. And now they are a cornered rat lashing out.
You can believe it or not but it's happening right before our eyes. Gloves are off. Act accordingly.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 01, 2026 12:28 AM (viF8m)
asmongold
They're burning everything down..
58:48
https://tinyurl.com/bd4mvf9u
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 02:57 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 02:57 AM (WY+aP)
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)
Up until the atomic clock era, the most accurate clock there was a master-slave vacuum pendulum clock. There's another name for that, I forget. It was very expensive and delicate, and the accuracy was about 1s per year. That was used for precision astronomical and master navigational references.
There's still a few around, and the USNO has some. Recently the did a year long study of one, comparing it's drift rate with an atomic clock.
They found its accuracy could've been an order of magnitude better, 1s in 10 year. You can see the effect of the lunar and solar tides, which are predictable, nicely in the signal. Had they known that at the time, it would be relatively easy to correct for that, and have that 0.1s per year accuracy.
But they didn't know, because they didn't have a much better clock to compare it with.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 03:12 AM (w6EFb)
Our main supplier of essentials is Chyna and they need us as much as we need them.
It may get interesting but in the long run, Trump knows what's going on. These clown shows may be what we need to get out of
NATO and increase hemispherical independence. We have troops
in South America, drones too. No telling what else. There are only two nations not allied with the US in South America. Lulu should be careful.
Another consideration about these nations warning people to stock up. They know that after our election Trump will be free range Maverick. That doesn't bode well for them.
After thought: Bukele sent 2000 trained troops to Haiti
...to rescue 4 men.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 01, 2026 03:13 AM (WY+aP)
The Shortt–Synchronome. That was the name.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 03:18 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
There is a case that the most accurate clock ever was a labrador announcing it was time for dinner.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at November 01, 2026 03:24 AM (wcyKn)
Hah!
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 03:25 AM (rdVOm)
Well, in theory it would've been easy to correct for. With modern computers to do the tedious correction calculations on the fly, it would be a piece of cake. But back then, in the early 20th century, it would've been very tedious to do it by hand.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 03:31 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 01, 2026 03:31 AM (8cA5w)
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 01, 2026 03:32 AM (5WPt1)
I was working on my computer when the change occurred.
01:59:59 was followed by 01:00:00.
Ooooooh, magic!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 01, 2026 03:34 AM (8cA5w)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at November 01, 2026 03:35 AM (wcyKn)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at November 01, 2026 03:35 AM (wcyKn)
She's probably sharing chocolatinis with Big Mike commiserating about their poor life choices.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 01, 2026 03:37 AM (5WPt1)
Well, just set all the clocks. It takes a while, because me being the nut I am, I have to get the sync'd to the second. The clocks around here, stove, microwave, and coffee makers, use the grid zero-crossing as the metronome, and that keeps them nicely in sync, as good as the grid, which tries to keep cycle counts sync'd with UTC. It drifts a bit, but over a month, they keep it damned close.
The few that depend on internal oscillators aren't that good, and it's a lost cause to keep them sync'd to the second.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 01, 2026 03:50 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at November 01, 2026 03:53 AM (rdVOm)
Globalists had a plan. Trump, and those of us who supported him, fucked it up. Elon played a crucial role in it by giving us back our voice. And now they are a cornered rat lashing out.
You can believe it or not but it's happening right before our eyes. Gloves are off. Act accordingly.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 01, 2026 12:28 AM (viF8m)
asmongold
They're burning everything down..
58:48
https://tinyurl.com/bd4mvf9u
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 02:57 AM (odBC9)
The video doesn't cover Poland--which he says he'll cover shortly; mainly France and Germany.
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 04:14 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at November 01, 2026 05:00 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: clarence at November 01, 2026 05:00 AM (Imcic)
Posted by: Colin at November 01, 2026 05:01 AM (CiQE7)
Music Thread: Rip Your Lungs Out Edition
Before we get into the silliness of Halloween music, maybe a taste of something lovely, but with an apt name! Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Ella Fitzgerald
For the second time in a row, something a little different! "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" is usually shortened to "Libiamo," and it is one of the great and popular arias in operatic history. The opera -- La Traviata -- which means "The Wayward," or "The Wayward Woman," was written by a guy named Joe Green, and with that pedestrian a name, of course he is going to write about drinking!
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Doof at October 31, 2026 07:50 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 07:50 PM (FZ29D)
The Torture Never Stops
youtube.com/watch?v=sw_LpINt8lk
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 07:55 PM (MWfyi)
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Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 31, 2026 07:55 PM (QaH55)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 08:00 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 08:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bob at October 31, 2026 08:01 PM (hWhmF)
youtube.com/watch?v=sw_LpINt8lk
Posted by: fd
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Who will bring us Zappa Month now?
*le sadz*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 08:02 PM (kpS4V)
youtube.com/watch?v=yMVV_HsHcX0
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 08:02 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at October 31, 2026 08:04 PM (IIwiI)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 08:05 PM (viF8m)
youtube.com/watch?v=yMVV_HsHcX0
Posted by: gp
Great tune. Screaming for Vengeance is their best album.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 31, 2026 08:06 PM (b99Hl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 08:06 PM (kpS4V)
youtube.com/watch?v=1kAIMlISHhU
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 08:07 PM (Jr5Lq)
one was "Menage a Trois", runner up in the 1979 Eurovision contest.
"A love that was made for three (Menage a Trois!)
A love that was made for you and you and me"
Posted by: the songs are AI-generated at October 31, 2026 08:07 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 31, 2026 08:07 PM (6tg/H)
I've had two. Two! I have a small mountain of candy and I'm getting nothing.
Going back to the fire pit if this doesn't improve double plus quick.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 08:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 31, 2026 08:10 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 08:10 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 31, 2026 08:10 PM (b99Hl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 31, 2026 08:12 PM (cfGMy)
youtube.com/watch?v=DSqp-W1pWoU
Saw her live decades ago, perfect show. She seems like the kind of bandleader that wants everything perfect, and the rest of the band is a little scared of her. (See also Diana Krall.)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 08:13 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 08:13 PM (Ia/+0)
***
November 26.
Posted by: Eromero at October 31, 2026 08:14 PM (LHPAg)
The Torture Never Stops
youtube.com/watch?v=sw_LpINt8lk
Posted by: fd at October
First saw Zappa in '65, I was fourteen, we got let into a bar /club behind Fenway that a friends brother worked at and we'd occasionally do Sunday morning cleanup work at. The Ark, I think. Quite different from the Dave Clark Five, the only other live band I had seen to that point.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 08:15 PM (sl73Y)
Needless to say "Brad you're an asshole" became very annoying to him
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 31, 2026 08:16 PM (cfGMy)
youtube.com/watch?v=Hx_m7Y9nGtU
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 08:17 PM (Jr5Lq)
I first saw it in college. Had no idea what to expect, but after the first time my friends and I went to see it again one or two times more. Never dressed up. Might have brought rice, I can’t remember.
I just watched it again on my own after Tim Curry died. It’s still a funny parody of old science fiction (of which I’m also watching a bit more of now) and fun music.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 31, 2026 08:18 PM (kYmoU)
Not that I have an opinion on the matter.
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 08:20 PM (yTvNw)
Lansdowne Street.
We might have crossed paths back in the day.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 08:20 PM (viF8m)
I've had two. Two! I have a small mountain of candy and I'm getting nothing.
Going back to the fire pit if this doesn't improve double plus quick.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 08:08 PM (viF8m)
JS, I can be there in 4 hours. As long as there is no licorice.
Posted by: RI Red at October 31, 2026 08:20 PM (zYph5)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 31, 2026 08:22 PM (pLaQB)
When you do visit again there is both a new little bar and restaurant for us to visit. I'm pretty sure you will like both.
Won't be as much fun in the winter but we'll make do.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 08:25 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 31, 2026 08:25 PM (h+uWx)
Posted by: Dames, Booze, Chains, and Boots at October 31, 2026 08:26 PM (vFcoN)
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 08:28 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 08:28 PM (2GVsD)
Joe Green: Oom-pah music for characters we care about.
Dick Wagner: Exquisite music for characters we're happy to see die in the end.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 08:30 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 08:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 08:32 PM (2GVsD)
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Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 08:33 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 08:36 PM (2GVsD)
JackStraw,
In the 60's there was a dive off Thames Street. The part that was called Blood Alley by locals. Can't recall the name. It had a pot belly stove for warmth, served strong drinks and the air filled with sea shanties. Pretty nice place for a New England winter night with the wind coming off the bay. Probably long gone along with the topless dancing bars now that the area has been gentrified.
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 08:36 PM (yTvNw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcIFMaeF1qc
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 31, 2026 08:37 PM (Fv808)
Very nice job. My favorite comments on mlb's Instagram were people asking who was the smokeshow. Her show 'Gabby Duran' was a lot of fun.
https://tinyurl.com/yuxymr23
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 31, 2026 08:37 PM (Sco7b)
John Moses Browning is my 2nd-favorite Mormon. Favorite is Juan Mijares, violin maker.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 08:38 PM (49QjJ)
https://youtu.be/-d2NsvFU5go
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 08:28 PM (2GVsD)
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That was awesome!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 08:40 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 08:42 PM (Eety5)
I don't know when you were last back but in the last number of years so much gentrification has gone on Newport has become a completely different place. Once they started turning the boatyards into condos and bars, well you can imagine.
Still a lot of fun but that soul has changed. I don't go there nearly as much anymore. I just sit on my little island that barely changes and watch the world go by.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 08:42 PM (viF8m)
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Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 31, 2026 08:47 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 08:47 PM (ndZc7)
Svengoolie is running The Wizard of Oz tonight.
And that reminds me, my mother hated that, absolutely couldn't stand it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 08:47 PM (w6EFb)
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Halloween used to be a good time in this town eh, neighbor?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 08:48 PM (RIvkX)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 08:50 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: JackStraw at October
I'm sure we did, hi between the dead, Allman Brothers, and Tull I've probably got a hundred or more shows from '68 - '75.
And a Boston native whost lived in Providence the last forty some years.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 08:50 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 08:50 PM (/zWHY)
youtube.com/watch?v=dKFoux4sgVY
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 08:51 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 08:52 PM (49QjJ)
Posted by: Pavlovian Response at October 31, 2026 08:52 PM (0sNs1)
"From another dimension, with voyeuristic intention, well secluded, I see all".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 08:52 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Brad Majors at October 31, 2026 08:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Brad Majors at October 31, 2026 08:53 PM
_-_
It was like the jitterbug, it plumb evaded me.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 08:55 PM (49QjJ)
I could be another Lincoln...
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at October 31, 2026 08:55 PM (6tg/H)
And a Boston native whost lived in Providence the last forty some years.
Some of the golden years of the Boston music scene.
cheers
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 08:55 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
"Used to be" = "a long time ago". I was actually at the last Castro celebration when the violence happened. Bridge-and-Tunnel crowd strikes again.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 31, 2026 08:57 PM (Fv808)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 08:57 PM (49QjJ)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 08:57 PM (YSUhf)
Still a lot of fun but that soul has changed. "
JS,
Haven't really been back for almost fifty years. Blood Alley was when the navy base was in full operation. When I went back briefly for my grandmother's funeral in 1987, I almost got lost a couple of times and many of the places I knew were gone. The house my parents bought for about 11 grand in 1957 is now valued at over half a million last I looked and it isn't in the fashionable part of town. I can be nostalgic for the Newport where I grew up but don't care about going back to all the ghosts.
The idea of your island not changing a lot and being peaceful sounds much more attractive.
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 08:57 PM (yTvNw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07R_Ne5J4AQ
Posted by: Brad Majors at October 31, 2026 08:57 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: six seven eleven at October 31, 2026 08:59 PM (KdMgn)
https://tinyurl.com/p6ddu4eb
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 09:00 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 31, 2026 09:01 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 09:03 PM (ndZc7)
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I liked what I heard. I will check out more later. Thanks
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 09:04 PM (X7PWQ)
I bet it's worth a lot more than that. My best friends sold their place in the 5th Ward 2 years ago and there was another digit involved and it was just a regular place. They were stunned. And happy. It's gotten stupid expensive around here which is a shame cause it's forcing a lot of the kids to leave.
Oh well. Memories.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 09:04 PM (viF8m)
https://tinyurl.com/nhjt67ra
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 09:07 PM (ndZc7)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 09:08 PM (Ia/+0)
Not much of a dance, but oh my, dat ass!
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 09:09 PM (Jr5Lq)
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It's been going on since forever, but seems to be picking up speed like a snowball.
A while ago I was hoping they'd increase the amount of income from the sale of a house that taxpayers can disregard. I think many seniors are sitting on property they'd sell if it weren't for the taxes.
Oh well. Memories
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 09:09 PM (X7PWQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07R_Ne5J4AQ
Posted by: Brad Majors at October 31, 2026
On the Pat Boone show, being introduced by Kookie Byrnes and Maynard G. Krebbes.
Not responsible for any spelling errors.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 09:09 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 09:09 PM (49QjJ)
She ended her program with Let's Do The Time.Warp as a joke. I have a love/hate relationship because I'll curse it from giving me an earworm but will do still dance to the Time Warp with glee decade after decade.
Ella Fitzgerald - the absolute best. Women understand her feelings in song.
Thank you.
Happy Halloween, all. 🎃👻
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 31, 2026 09:11 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Bulg at October 31, 2026 09:11 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 31, 2026 09:12 PM (ftFVW)
https://tinyurl.com/p6ddu4eb"
gp,
Thanks for the link. I hadn't heard of the group but small combo jazz is one of the great pleasures of the music world. I grew up with Dave Brubeck and Herbie Mann and some wonderful local talent. Vince Guaraldi and now Diana Kraal are good examples.
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 09:12 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 09:13 PM (49QjJ)
There is something seriously wrong with those overalls. That pattern makes my eyes hurt.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 31, 2026 09:14 PM (kYmoU)
That is all.
Posted by: Bulg at October 31, 2026 09:11 PM (77rzZ)
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I love listening to the new world symphony when driving out here in Wyoming. Seems like it was made for it.
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 09:14 PM (eJ/4K)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 09:15 PM (rdVOm)
_-_
That's a fact!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 09:16 PM (49QjJ)
Posted by: Bulg at October 31, 2026 09:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 09:17 PM (yEz+x)
https://tinyurl.com/bddkxu68
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 09:18 PM (sYOFY)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 09:18 PM (YSUhf)
Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost
@RepMaxwellFrost
Absolutely disgusting. Nazi’s are NOT welcomed in Central Florida. We say NO to white supremacy, bigotry, antisemitism and voter intimidation.
No one should ever feel threatened for exercising their right to vote.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 09:18 PM (ndZc7)
Happy Halloween, all. 🎃👻
Posted by: L - No nic...
Long ago, I bought an album Called Psycho Tina's Hell House of Horrors that had a much shorter techno cover of Bela Lugosi's Dead. It was pretty cool. It also had a crazy cover of Ballroom Blitz that I really liked.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 31, 2026 09:18 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Bulg at October 31, 2026 09:23 PM (77rzZ)
Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost
@RepMaxwellFrost
Absolutely disgusting. Nazi’s are NOT welcomed in Central Florida. We say NO to white supremacy, bigotry, antisemitism and voter intimidation.
No one should ever feel threatened for exercising their right to vote.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 09:18 PM (ndZc7)
His campaign manager probably did it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 31, 2026 09:23 PM (b99Hl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 09:24 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 31, 2026 09:25 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 09:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 31, 2026 09:27 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: JackStraw
And that he is just a moderate Democratic Socialist.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 09:29 PM (ndZc7)
Oh, you're no fun anymore!
Posted by: National Socialiste Deutsche Arbeiter at October 31, 2026 09:29 PM (49QjJ)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 09:32 PM (49QjJ)
Any of y’all who don’t vote this cycle can kiss my ass. Get out there. Instates that count, drag someone with you!
I shouldn’t do that. It would be counterproductive.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 09:33 PM (gyhsN)
There's an actual color revolution going on in Poland as we speak. This is right after they stole the Brazilian election right in front of our eyes.
France is burning. So is Belgium, Spain and now Germany. The UK is a hollowed out shell.
Fortunately, it can never happen here. I'm told. Which is nice.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 09:33 PM (viF8m)
I bet it's worth a lot more than that. My best friends sold their place in the 5th Ward 2 years ago and there was another digit involved and it was just a regular place."
You are right. Just looked it up. Current market value is just about a million bucks. Yes, it's a big house. But it is about 130 years old and in what was a working class neighborhood: one bread winner, a stay at home mom and 3 or more kids and people were not rich but were comfortable. If my old neighborhood and the Fifth Ward is that expensive, it's stupid and would drive away young people. No wonder most of the elementary schools kids could walk to are gone. Young families can't afford he area anymore.
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 09:34 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 09:34 PM (49QjJ)
Posted by: Bulg at October 31, 2026 09:38 PM (77rzZ)
It's basically just watch for when Pixy's comment time stamp actually switches over. Hilarity will sometimes ensue.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 09:38 PM (w6EFb)
https://tinyurl.com/anr2ufsk
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 09:38 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 31, 2026 09:38 PM (88C+u)
And once again, I'll get to see how Wundeground's display graphs screw up. Tomorrow will be a 25 hour day, and they can't seem to ever get that right.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 09:40 PM (w6EFb)
_-_
Finally got cool enough that the wife is baking again! The bread box is full, and I am getting fat!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 09:40 PM (49QjJ)
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I heard there are problems in Sweden as well.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 09:41 PM (ndZc7)
“What, you think I’m a horse thief?”
Posted by: Bulg at October 31, 2026 09:41 PM (77rzZ)
Islam is simply incompatible with Western Civilization. And progress in general. Leftist ideology just can't deal with that, and tried to deny it. And here were are.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 09:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 09:45 PM (49QjJ)
Publius, I believe you asked for prayers not long ago?
Posted by: Bulg at October 31, 2026 09:45 PM (77rzZ)
I would support such a proclamation!
Posted by: Quartermaster at October 31, 2026 09:46 PM (UOf2j)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 09:47 PM (viF8m)
I would support such a proclamation!
_-_
Utah figured it out. January 23rd.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 09:47 PM (49QjJ)
Yes, it was due to my mother near the end. It's all said and done now, and I appreciated the Horde's prayers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 09:49 PM (w6EFb)
Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost
@RepMaxwellFrost
Absolutely disgusting. Nazi’s are NOT welcomed in Central Florida. We say NO to white supremacy, bigotry, antisemitism and voter intimidation.
No one should ever feel threatened for exercising their right to vote.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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You're in MAGA country now! That Chicago at 3:00AM in winter, what were we thinking?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2026 09:53 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: She Hobbit
She loves Psycho Tina's Hell House of Horrors.
I do have to chuckle about Ballroom Blitz since it was inspired by bottles being thrown by an audience at the band. (Do we know what will truly inspire until it happens. 🤷🏼♀️
On a positive note, the granddaughter kicked off her hour with Psycho Killer.
Don't each too much candy!
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 31, 2026 09:54 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 09:57 PM (0kX4S)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 09:57 PM (49QjJ)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 31, 2026 09:58 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 31, 2026 10:05 PM (47diA)
Hobby Thread - October 31, 2026 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling sparkly and decided on a crystal and gem theme for this Halloween Hobby Thread.
Crystals and gems? Read on, fellow hobbyists... [Top photo: why isn't there a picture of a crystal or diamond for a crystal or diamond theme? Answer - if you had a dinosaur Halloween photo, wouldn't you post it?]
I bought a couple of smart bird feeders last year. One for my parents and one for my house. They're pretty slick. The downside is that the squirrels will climb the wooden pole and eat the feeder dry in a day. I could mount it higher and put in a squirrel guard, but my 70 year-old mother would need a ladder to refill the feeder. So like an idiot I got to designing. I built a pulley & carriage system for 3/4" electrical conduit and connected it to a volleyball net tension winch. I 3D printed the pieces out of PLA and after 4 versions, I seem to have hit on a workable design. Now my mother can raise & lower the feeder with the winch and the squirrels can't get past the guard attached to the carriage. So far, so good. The squirrels haven't been in either feeder in a month.
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).
Boo! Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 05:30 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 05:32 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 05:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 31, 2026 05:34 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 31, 2026 05:34 PM (QVmho)
Small... not nearly for jewelry. Just... cool to look at.
He also found many... many fossils. I have part of a Mastodon tusk, prehistoric shark teeth and some other stuff squirreled away somewhere.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 05:36 PM (RORbl)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 05:36 PM (1Ff7Z)
MMOs have a lot of holiday-related content.
In LOTRO, you can go "trick or treating" in player-owned neighborhoods, collecting virtual candy while dressed up in virtual costumes.
I've made it to Western and Central Gondor. Tons of quests available in Dol Amroth, the other major city besides Minas Tirith (still a long way from there....)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 05:39 PM (FZ29D)
Happy Halloween, Skip!
I've got my jack-o'-lantern carved, candle stuck in it for size. No idea who/how many trick-or-treaters I'll get, but I've done my part for tradition.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2026 05:40 PM (mmrXZ)
Found the plastic welding I had done to the fuel tank had cracked, so redid that, and then plastered it over with a huge smear of gorilla snot, with a layer of toilet paper embedded in it. Composite material, yo! That may seal it OK. Will look for a good used fuel tank.
Gems? Have not had much to do with gems. I did run across a deposit of "noble" serpentine in Arizona. Pretty, mottled green, and decently hard. Could be made into cabochons. Friend here in Alberta is big into gem ammonite, and has a mining lease.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 05:45 PM (0kX4S)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 31, 2026 05:46 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 05:52 PM (wzUl9)
I've never understood what that means. The watch has a rock in it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 05:54 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Well, I do believe I have the system above beat. When my parents were alive, they had a wealth of bird feeders behind the house, and as a result an all you can eat buffet for squirrels.
I bought a used fence charger (solar powered) and attached it to a metal pole. I then attached a large WOODEN bird feeder to the top. The fence charger cost me about $40. I built the bird feeder using scrap wood. So, a $40 bird feeder may sound a little steep. BUT, good grief, the entertainment factor alone on watching squirrels get shocked was hilarious and well worth it.
Posted by: Orson at October 31, 2026 05:54 PM (dIske)
They are smarter than the creatures that occupy the House presently.
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 31, 2026 05:58 PM (u322d)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 31, 2026 05:59 PM (Cqx++)
I've got an 'anti-squirrel' feeder. But. Little guys are so dextrous and such that, since my back yard has all sorts of climbable surfaces (such as fence, walls, posts, etc) the 'squirrel baffles' do no good, and they'll regularly slither up the pole, lean out and grab the feeder. If they put their weight on it, it will drop and close the feeder holes, but if they're careful, they might can get as much as a bird can. But mostly they just eat what the birds spill because birds are messy eaters. Re-filling the feeder every 1-3 weeks is fine. The old 'simple' feeder design the squirrels were dumping daily.
Posted by: RandomDave at October 31, 2026 06:01 PM (aJQbY)
I've never understood what that means. The watch has a rock in it?
Sapphire is a low friction bearing.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 06:02 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 06:04 PM (rbvCR)
Atop the roof was a Grim Reaper with a sign, "I've Got Shingles!" And on a table at the curb was a skeleton in pieces with signs like "I Was Just Coffin" and "Where's My Life Coach?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)
Jewels, often synthetic, are used as bearings to reduce wear in the winding movement.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 06:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 06:10 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 31, 2026 06:01 PM (aJQbY)
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I first tried it with one of those tiny solar panels on the back of a sidewalk light. But, those things don't hold enough power. The squirrels were not deterred. So, GO BIG, or go home. I knew a fence charger would work. Hell, my brother and I used to place bets on who could last longest holding onto the electrified wire that kept the neighbor's cows in.
Posted by: Orson at October 31, 2026 06:10 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 06:02 PM (Riz8t)
Last time I saw Miss Sapphire, she wasn't low friction.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 06:10 PM (1Ff7Z)
Would be neat to move up to brass casting.
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 06:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 06:05 PM (viF8m)
Instead of some lubricant?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 06:12 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Ronster at October 31, 2026 06:12 PM (QQf1O)
We made a bird feeder out of a collapsible clothes line pole. Built a cross tree out of 1x4 pine and suspended a feeder on the outter ends. Raise it up high and the squirrels cannot get in the feeders.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 31, 2026 06:13 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 31, 2026 06:14 PM (PLy7M)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 06:05 PM (viF8m)
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Instead of some lubricant?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026
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There's lubricant in there as well. It gets replaced when the watch is serviced. I expect some of the jewels do too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:14 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 06:14 PM (kpS4V)
Yep. Unlike liquid lubricant jewels don't dry or evaporate. It's a really old practice.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 06:15 PM (viF8m)
Dad had no problems with squirrels around until he 1) Wanted to put out a bird feeder and 2) Grow his own tomatoes in a patch in the backyard.
1) He eventually gave up that battle and moved on to putting out hummingbird feeders.
2) The squirrels had him so angry after eating all of his tomatoes he took to trapping them, putting the cage in the truck-bed, and driving them about two miles away to release them in the woods. That didn't work well as other squirrels moved into the open territory. That lasted a few months after he'd moved about 40 squirrels.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 31, 2026 06:15 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:15 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 06:15 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 06:16 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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There was a squirrel, who somehow managed to arc hizself on some powerlines when I worked in Menlo Park, CA. He roached power to several dozen businesses and homes... including my PoW which did some pretty important earthquake monitoring.
FWIW... smoked squirrel don't smell good.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 06:16 PM (RORbl)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 05:39 PM (FZ29D)
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Mirkwood is a more challenging neighborhood. 🕷️
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 06:17 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:14 PM (wzUl9)
Learn something new every day here at AoS.* Thanks Wolfus, Arch, and Jack.
*Except for loser trolls. They never learn.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 06:19 PM (1Ff7Z)
My Submariner is coming up on 40 years. 31 jewels. I've had it serviced twice and both time were because the crystal, see what I did there, was beaten up.
To the best of my knowledge none of the jewels have been changed and this watch has been through a lot.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 06:15 PM (yTvNw)
I probably killed it.
Posted by: Fraudvid at October 31, 2026 06:20 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2026 06:20 PM (08OqX)
To the best of my knowledge none of the jewels have been changed and this watch has been through a lot.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026
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My Sub is a 1978, and while I've had it serviced several times since I bought it in 1998, I too am unsure whether any of the jewels are replacements. It still keeps fantastic time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:21 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 06:22 PM (yTvNw)
(looks outside)
Hasn't rained all day. Funny. They can't get the weather for the day right, but they know what it will be like in a hundred years and we must give up stuff to avoid it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 06:22 PM (1Ff7Z)
What I absolutely loved about this place was they of course had lots of waste rock from the blasting and used it ... for the gravel driveway up to the mine surface. It was LAVENDER and sparkled in the sunshine! When I win the lottery I am going to get a dump truck of amethyst gravel and have the prettiest gravel driveway ever....
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at October 31, 2026 06:25 PM (ee9bx)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)
My boys are Dr Doom and Superman as a pair, so they are adding to the neighborhood superheroes...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 31, 2026 06:27 PM (Gb7+b)
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026
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". . . a single-shot rifle and a one-eyed dog. . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:28 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 06:29 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 31, 2026 06:30 PM (aJQbY)
I wish I still had my rocks.
I should get a rock tumbler and continue the gift for my granddaughter.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 06:32 PM (TQc0R)
We'll see if anything worth watching is on streaming.
Before I go to bed, I want to reread a couple of my favorite terror stories: "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M.R. James, and Richard Matheson's "Crickets."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:34 PM (wzUl9)
To the best of my knowledge none of the jewels have been changed and this watch has been through a lot.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026
____________________
I had a jeweler friend tell me that you should ALWAYS go to a professional to have something as simple as the battery replaced (even on a moderately priced watch...significantly below a Submariner). He told me that the gasket always has to be checked, properly lubricated and have a vacuum test run. Otherwise, your water resistance or water proofing is blown.
Posted by: Orson at October 31, 2026 06:34 PM (dIske)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 06:35 PM (TQc0R)
How fun.
I’d surrounded the place with a moat. And alligators.
Can I man a turret for you? Please?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 06:37 PM (TQc0R)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 06:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Orson at October 31, 2026
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My first "electric" (not electronic) watch was a 1966 Timex without a date. The battery compartment was on the back. You could pop the lid off with a nail file, put in the new battery, and snap the lid back all by yourself, and I did. Now, I suppose, the shop has to do it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:39 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026
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That might be available. I keep hoping for Curse of the Demon, which is also based on an M.R. James story called "Casting the Runes."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:40 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Eromero at October 31, 2026 06:40 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026
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That might be available. I keep hoping for Curse of the Demon, which is also based on an M.R. James story called "Casting the Runes."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:40 PM (wzUl9)
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"The Lost Boys" was mentioned by ace yesterday, so I'm watching that right now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 06:41 PM (FZ29D)
Yea, a Submariner has to go to Rolex for service if you want it to work right. Requires some sort of specialized tools to insure the waterproofing is intact. Fortunately, unlike a car it doesn't need to go in very often.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 06:41 PM (viF8m)
Bought a few strands of polished garnet chips and round beads, for a future multistrand necklace. Found some b&w quartz cabochons that someday will become matching pendant and earrings. Someday. Someday.
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 06:42 PM (rdVOm)
I have found small clear crystals in the mountains. They are very special. Sometimes you can hear them.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 06:42 PM (TQc0R)
Inherited an Elgin, pocket watch from my grandfather. The stem was broken, so Smash researched repair shops and verified reliability and sent it off for repair. $350 for the repair, general cleaning and polishing. It has a closing lid, gold case and (to me) very attractive and plain block numerals on the face. Repairman put a note in the pack thanking us for letting him service it, and told us it was worth $10k.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 31, 2026 06:42 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 06:44 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Turn up the volume. The soundtrack is awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 06:45 PM (TQc0R)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:39 PM (wzUl9)
Found a kid's watch in a school parking lot one year. Band was missing, and it looked pretty beat up. Noticed it was running though. Hmm...
A watch my brother had given me needed a new battery. Opened it and the kids' one up. Same battery. Bro's watch has been running ever since..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2026 06:46 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Turn up the volume. The soundtrack is awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 06:45 PM (TQc0R)
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Yep! I have it on CD!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 06:47 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 06:47 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 06:49 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at October 31, 2026 06:49 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 06:17 PM
'Lazy Lob, and Crazy Cob...'
Posted by: Eromero at October 31, 2026 06:50 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2026 06:46 PM (08OqX)
It must have been a Timex! "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking."
Posted by: John Cameron Swayze at October 31, 2026 06:52 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 06:53 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 31, 2026 06:54 PM (NnhvP)
I inherited my grandfather's Black Starr and Frost pocket watch. Thing still runs like, well, a clock.
I'm not fancy enough to use it but one of these days I want to take it in and have it cleaned up and give it to one of cousins kids. Little works of art.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 06:55 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: John Cameron Swayze at October 31, 2026 06:52 PM (1Ff7Z)
Heh. To be honest, it looked like something that came out of a Chucky Cheese claw machine. Battery was probably the most expensive component...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2026 07:00 PM (08OqX)
Posted by: Bulg at October 31, 2026 07:02 PM (77rzZ)
-Jack Straw
Black Starr and Frost, a movie about a disgraced football player who blew an eleven figure salary on gambling. He and Frost his white lab are trying to stay one step ahead of 'those guys'.
Posted by: Eromero at October 31, 2026 07:03 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 07:03 PM (Ti9vn)
Hmm. I’m thinking that after the Fall (of civilization), there may be a demand for herbs.
I know it’s ‘legal’ in some states.
May not be a good hobby choice.
Posted by: RI Red at October 31, 2026 07:04 PM (HdjQ+)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 07:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
-William Wallace
Boy howdy could I have fun blowing through an 11 million dollar salary.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m)
I know it’s ‘legal’ in some states.
May not be a good hobby choice.
Posted by: RI Red
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Learn to distill booze. Too easy to grow the Devil's Lettuce,lot harder to distill. Takes skill. Plus antiseptic.
The other is figure out how to build a Wood gasifier system and make it work.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 07:10 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 31, 2026 07:12 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 07:12 PM (AATb+)
My mother asked what I was doing; I told her it was a science experiment.
Posted by: RI Red at October 31, 2026 07:13 PM (HdjQ+)
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 07:14 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 07:14 PM (viF8m)
Garnets are also pretty common along with other minerals you find around former volcano pipes. They also sell minerals at the state park gift shop.
If you are interested in minerals, you can go up to Magnet Cove in about 90 minutes or so away from Murfreesboro and find a whole host of other fairly rare formed minerals including natural magnets (magnetite). Hot Springs to the West is also a remnant of the volcanoes that erupted in this area millions of years ago.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 07:16 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 06:47 PM
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I read this too quickly and thought it said "wire tapping." That's a very different sort of hobby.
Posted by: TRex - listening dino at October 31, 2026 07:17 PM (cCn4/)
My mother asked what I was doing; I told her it was a science experiment.
Posted by: RI Red
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Distilling and fermenting were a major way to pass time in WWII POW camps. Nasty hooch was better than no hooch and prisoners figured out how to use all sorts of materials to make bootleg booze. Colditz Story among other accounts allude to it.
But hard cider was a drink of choice of many Americans until the prohibition ended that.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 07:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: TRex - scary dino at October 31, 2026 07:18 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 07:19 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: JackStraw
Apparently kids read the AOS thread about your liking of licorice and are afraid that is what they will get at your house. Need to use Elvis as a lure to bring them in.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 07:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Wire Rapper at October 31, 2026 07:20 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Better yet, learn to reload as ammo supply may not be available in urban unrest times. First thing the authoritarians try to stop stores from selling.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 07:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: PabloD at October 31, 2026 07:23 PM (mXZsC)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 07:23 PM (viF8m)
Enjoy the music thread and don't forget to stop by Club ONT later. You're welcome to hang out here for a bit and keep hobbying if you're not into music.
Posted by: TRex - baby ruth dino at October 31, 2026 07:24 PM (cCn4/)
I think some of you are communists.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 07:23 PM (viF8m
Red licorice yes. Black no.
Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 07:24 PM (Ti9vn)
I think some of you are communists.
Posted by: JackStraw"
I think some of you are high.
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 07:25 PM (MWfyi)
I built one. Works fine. The guy who designed that is a frickin genius! I do so wish his firmware was open source.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 07:25 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
Yep if you can get the supplies. Distilling is a bit easier on supplies as lots of things can potentially produce alcohol, same with making fermented wines. In a pinch, you can make ice wine if you live in a cold enough climate which raises the alcohol level by throwing off the frozen water accumulation, residual is more alcoholic by content as it has a lower freezing point.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 07:27 PM (E4rtv)
I think some of you are communists.
Posted by: JackStraw
Ahem,
The FDA warns that adults over 40 should not consume more than 2 ounces of black licorice daily for two weeks or longer, as this significantly increases the risk of irregular heart rhythms.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 07:28 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Case at October 31, 2026 07:30 PM (fzmBj)
You get a good class in inductor winding: 6 plain toroidal inductors, a binocular center-tapped transformer, a toroidal tapped inductor, and a toroidal trifilar transformer.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 07:30 PM (Jr5Lq)
Judge in San Fran just ORDERED the Justice Department to stop 'threatening' election officials with prosecution for breaking Election Laws.
WOWZERS.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 31, 2026 07:30 PM (mP0Kj)
The FDA warns that adults over 40 should not consume more than 2 ounces of black licorice daily for two weeks or longer, as this significantly increases the risk of irregular heart rhythms.
Yea, that's whats going to get me. Licorice. Not any of the other, uh, questionable life choices.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 07:32 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Case"
Why just you? Musk has enough money to give everyone in America one million dollars.
Posted by: A Expert at October 31, 2026 07:32 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Iris at October 31, 2026 07:32 PM (286+n)
The FDA warns that adults over 40 should not consume more than 2 ounces of black licorice daily for two weeks or longer, as this significantly increases the risk of irregular heart rhythms.
Yea, that's whats going to get me. Licorice. Not any of the other, uh, questionable life choices.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 07:32 PM (viF8m)
But Covid Vaccines are still recommended...
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 31, 2026 07:32 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 07:33 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Iris at October 31, 2026 07:33 PM (286+n)
There are still a few of us of refinement and exquisite good taste that enjoy licorice. And, to further cement my superior tastes, black jelly beans. One Easter time Mrs. JTB found me a bag of all black jelly beans. I was thrilled.
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 07:34 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 07:35 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 31, 2026 07:35 PM (NnhvP)
I love black jelly beans.
I'm not saying you're a racist if you don't like black jelly beans. But you probably are.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 07:36 PM (viF8m)
I'm waiting for a Cardputer Zero that, hopefully, I can pair with the QDX for a super-portable full-fledged digital station.
Posted by: PabloD at October 31, 2026 07:36 PM (mXZsC)
Posted by: Iris
Yes, but pretty!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 31, 2026 07:37 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 07:39 PM (Jr5Lq)
Yea, that's whats going to get me. Licorice. Not any of the other, uh, questionable life choices.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 07:32 PM (viF8m)
ROTFLMAO
Posted by: Iris at October 31, 2026 07:42 PM (286+n)
I'm not saying you're a racist if you don't like black jelly beans. But you probably are.
Posted by: JackStraw
Seek help.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 07:43 PM (KSgP+)
Waiting for a last big kid group to dump the remaining candy off on, but nothing for awhile. May be left with more than I need. Will bring it to a pub tomorrow.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 07:43 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 07:45 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 31, 2026 07:45 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Piper at October 31, 2026 07:45 PM (ZdaMQ)
Now to watch that video of the guy cutting that beautiful piece of amethyst...and two of my favorite things...photgrammetry and gemstones! Well done!!!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 07:47 PM (49QjJ)
My house is dark, so I don't expect any action...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 07:47 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Still do.
Fuck those things.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 07:49 PM (8gXYW)
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 07:49 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 07:49 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 07:50 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2026 07:50 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Doof at October 31, 2026 07:51 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Skip
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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
Posted by: Jim Comey at October 31, 2026 07:52 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 31, 2026 07:57 PM (49QjJ)
"Don't make me get my flying monkeys!"
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 08:16 PM (rdVOm)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 31
Courtesy Roy Rubright
Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals. Would you like a treat? Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.
Give them all the treats https://t.co/Q9Nvl393Ve
— Respectful Memes (@RespectfulMemes) October 31, 2026
Watch those black cats on Halloween.
Happy Halloween 🧛🎃 https://t.co/QWQmdIWmgt
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) October 31, 2025
Cats And Their Owners Seem to Share A Weird, Hormonal Connection
You settle onto the couch after a tiring day, and your cat curls up beside you, resting its head against your hand. Its warm fur and purring are familiar parts of your bond. How that connection affects both your bodies is less understood. Scientists in Japan looked for signs of that connection in two hormones. Oxytocin plays a role in social bonding and can rise during affectionate contact. Cortisol helps regulate the body's response to stress and its use of energy. The study, published in iScience, found that owners with higher oxytocin tended to have cats with higher oxytocin, too. Higher feline oxytocin was also associated with fewer negative emotions and lower cortisol in owners. How these associations arise is still unclear. Petting is one possible explanation, lead author Saho Takagi of Kyoto University told ScienceAlert.Courtesy NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker
The speed of dogs and big cats https://t.co/ueUPAPL3oI
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) October 30, 2026
🔥🚨LATEST: Horse rider Katilyn Gunther is going viral after revealing her horse’s Halloween costume. https://t.co/1FxjG6VY8e
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) October 30, 2026
Encountered by Members of The Horde
Believe it or not, this is just 50 yds from the main 4-lane drag thru town. We sometimes get foxes, rat snakes, raccoons and drunk college students wandering through also. Cheers,Brave critters.
Dr. Varno
Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 24 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.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2026 03:10 PM (KmZYi)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at October 31, 2026 03:11 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2026 03:12 PM (KmZYi)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at October 31, 2026 03:16 PM (/enuJ)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at October 31, 2026 03:17 PM (/enuJ)
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its one of those little clicky things you hold in your hand and every time you kill someone, you click it and it shows you your total kills.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 31, 2026 03:21 PM (tB7nu)
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2026 03:12 PM (KmZYi)
It's in your hash.
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 03:27 PM (odBC9)
And the Ghosts and Spooks out there too
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 03:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 31, 2026 03:33 PM (JNr/z)
Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 03:37 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 31, 2026 03:47 PM (CHHv1)
Believe it or not, this is just 50 yds from the main 4-lane drag thru town.
We went outside last night around 1900 to double check the Halloween decorations and lights. Spotted Momma White Tail, and her twins as they strolled around from the side yard. Momma looked at us, strolled another twenty feet closer and began cropping grass about ten feet away. The twins were more shy, and kept Momma between themselves and us. Pretty cool. Seen the trio before, but never so casually close.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 31, 2026 04:03 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 04:04 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 04:05 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 31, 2026 04:06 PM (jb8Ss)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 04:07 PM (O7YUW)
Earlier this week a deer got killed on our street and it’s been odiferously expiring in a vacant lot nearby. That, of course, has drawn a huge crowd of vultures and some have been perching on our roof several times a day. Luna had been tirelessly evicting the vultures and every time she succeeds she does a victory prance around the living room to let us know that she’s repelled the invaders.
It’s earned her the new nickname Joan of Bark, the Mutt of Orleans.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at October 31, 2026 04:08 PM (VV/pN)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 04:09 PM (viF8m)
To use Jack's link, the three underscores must be replaced with india mike golf.
It's an AOSHQ thing. *shrugs*
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 04:14 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 04:04 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 31, 2026 04:15 PM (jb8Ss)
That opera cape would have made a great costume for the late smart black cat Marie-Antoinette. She'd have been willing to wear it as well. Very little ever frightened Marie once she realized Her Humans would take care of things for her.
Stirling or Wolf would look even more impressive. But Wolf hated costumes, even (or especially) the silly pink Princess cape and cap Linda put on Marie, and Stirling disliked it too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 04:16 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 04:17 PM (xz+xK)
My cats have always showed me affection, in their own difficult way, and sometimes an outright fashion as Stirling does or Marie did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 04:19 PM (wzUl9)
My cat has gotten so fat he can't curl up the way cats do, with his tail curled around to meet the tip of his nose. Can't do it. All he can do is wallow on his side.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2026 04:21 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 04:26 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 31, 2026 04:26 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 31, 2026 04:27 PM (5Op5D)
As far as the speed business, I've always read that the cheetah can hit 70 mph in its sprints. If 50 mph = 80kph, then multiplying times 1.5 gives 75 mph = 120kph, so I guess that's close enough.
The canine family are the endurance champs among mid-sized land mammals. They may not be as fast, but they can run their prey down over long distances. The cat family can't; they sprint, or they wait and pounce.
Though I've also read that, among bigger land mammals, 100 lbs. or more, man is the endurance champ. Most wolves don't get to 100 lbs.
Dolphins can apparently "sprint" at 37 mph or so. And they are doing that in a medium which they have to push aside, a medium denser than air.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 04:30 PM (wzUl9)
Mass hysteria!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 04:31 PM (O7YUW)
My cats have always showed me affection, in their own difficult way, and sometimes an outright fashion as Stirling does or Marie did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 04:19 PM (wzUl9)
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"Too affectionate?" What does that even mean?
Each animal has a unique personality. All of my cats show affection for me in their own way. I would never claim any of them is "too affectionate." Hexie can be a bit annoying when I'm trying to fix her food. Penny can be annoying when I'm trying to read in bed. But I'd never take them to a shelter for that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 04:31 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 04:31 PM (wzUl9)
Achievement unlocked: Catloaf!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 04:32 PM (O7YUW)
Pound-for-pound, I think mustelids take down bigger prey. But felines are second.
Posted by: mikeski and/or Wesley Crusher at October 31, 2026 04:33 PM (VHUov)
Ralphy lived another month. 106.5 dog years.
Doors closed for Halloween tonight. He's too much to deal with. Tons of life. Everyone have a good night.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106.5 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 04:34 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026
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I've never known a cat, male or female, who changed in his affection toward me after the Big Surgery. You'd think they would -- but no. It's not like they can realize what their future could have been and what they are missing. (Good thing.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 04:34 PM (wzUl9)
Penny is snoozing in a milk crate on top of the bookshelves in my office.
Allie is curled up in a plastic bin in the closet of my bedroom.
Hexie is wandering around somewhere in the living room / sunroom.
Chloe is lurking by the window in my library.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 04:35 PM (FZ29D)
Hence why submarines, and ships, are pointy on both ends.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 04:36 PM (0kX4S)
@24/Blonde Morticia: "My cat has gotten so fat he can't curl up the way cats do, with his tail curled around to meet the tip of his nose. Can't do it. All he can do is wallow on his side."
Achievement unlocked: Catloaf!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines
If we were in an elevator, Gabriel Iglesias (Fluffy) would be pressing the door close button saying "oh hell no".
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 31, 2026 04:36 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 04:36 PM (JrHfD)
"He keeps trying to copulate with my left nostril at 3 am while I'm trying to sleep" ? That might qualify.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 04:37 PM (O7YUW)
I was kind of kidding. I just will feel bad for him for having to wear, I expect, the "cone of shame".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 04:39 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
It's not even a matter of size. If you hold "the Cannonball Run" for every land animal, humans come in second, and there's nothing running close behind us.
But we're even further behind the winner: the American pronghorn. They have some crazy blood with way more red blood cells than any other animal, in addition to outsized lungs, heart, and windpipe. So in a race that's really "who's got the best cardio," they're running without restrictor plates while everyone else is. They can cover 4 miles at 35 mph without stopping. Nothing else runs like that.
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2026 04:43 PM (VHUov)
*bwahaha* I remember that bit!
For everyone else:
https://youtu.be/yDvtpAqjkLY
Worth it!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 04:43 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Sharkman at October 31, 2026 04:43 PM (/RHNq)
Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 03:37 PM (Ti9vn)
You are correct, sir!
Posted by: ghost of Ed McMahon at October 31, 2026 04:43 PM (w6EFb)
At age 4.5, La Siberienne is still not very affectionate. She likes Linda more than she does me, I suspect. Though she will follow me (the cat, I mean, not Linda) into the bathroom and lounge on the sink counter while I brush my teeth or shave. Sometimes it's because she wants water from the tap. Other times, I turn the water on, and she ignores it. She seems to like our company, but not to need a lot of petting, though she still gets it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 04:45 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026
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None of my cats have ever needed that; they don't try to gnaw at their stitches. We tried putting the cone on Dagny. She went ballistic, racing around in near-panic trying to get rid of The Thing That Was Attacking Her Head. We collared her (heh) and got it off, she calmed, and there was never any problem. So Millard may not need it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 04:47 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 04:48 PM (viF8m)
That's good to know. I hope so.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 04:49 PM (JrHfD)
Maybe her paws itched.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 04:51 PM (wzUl9)
Maybe her paws itched.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 04:51 PM (wzUl9)
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I have two cats who have been declawed (Allie and Chloe--both before they came to me). They use scratching posts like any other cat. I think it's instinctual behavior.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 04:53 PM (FZ29D)
Everyone is snoozing here, though tonight will probably be stressful if we get a lot of trick or treaters. The cats won’t care, but Saijo is quirky, a walk with costumed and loud kids will not be something he enjoys.
Posted by: Piper at October 31, 2026 05:12 PM (ZdaMQ)
Late September/early October here was in the 90's.
They're now prowling the 'hood again. The "hood" being the 20 acres around us, including our 5. Amazing how far they'll go just to lay in the weeds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 05:15 PM (RORbl)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 05:20 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Chloe sat and stared at Becca, and after a while, Becca shifted a bit, then moved aside for extra room, and when that didn't work, she rolled on her side and stared back. Eventually Chloe sighed and went to another cat pillow by the window.
I think the whole conversation was, "you are in my spot child" and the response was, "yes you are still boss, and I will fight you for the warm spot if you won't share"
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 05:34 PM (rbvCR)
Thanks for the pet thread KT!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 31, 2026 05:48 PM (WKesY)
There's a dead deer in my Dad's yard. Been there a while... ew. It's in a out-of-the-way place, or I would've noticed sooner. Probably got hit by a car & died later of its injuries, there's a busy road nearby.
Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2026 06:20 PM (rdVOm)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Halloween!
More on Pumpkins from Diana Erbio's Writer's Page:
In the Old World, people carved turnips and gourds into lanterns to scare away evil spirits. In America, they used pumpkins instead. Irish legend says a fellow named Jack was barred from hell for being too tricky, and had to walk the earth carrying a lantern lit with an ember the devil gave him. His name was Jack of the Lantern—or, as we say today, Jack-o'-Lantern.
This reminded me of my mom's childhood experience in Switzerland (no Halloween in Switzerland at the time 1940s) but there was a festival she told me about that was held around Halloween time. She said kids carried hollowed out turnips that were illuminated with a candle and paraded through the street. The turnip lanterns were carried on a stick. I remember my mom telling me that she and her brother carried a hollowed out pumpkin instead!
Pumpkins of course were popular in America during autumn, and because my mom's papa was born in America he was familiar with pumpkin carving and pumpkin pie, which was not a "thing" in Switzerland. My mom used to tell me how all the kids were very impressed with the large pumpkin lantern that my mom and her brother carried in the parade. She said her father had hung their pumpkin from a long stick that she and her brother held at each end.
Wish I had an old photo of that! My grandpa did take many photos for that era...but alas, no pumpkin parade picture. I did find pictures online about the Turnip Parade. Today it seems they create turnip sculptures too comprised of many turnips. Here’s a few of turnip lanterns. (Rabelichtli-meaning turnip and "lichtli" small light, and together they make a turnip lantern)
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By An interesting video on winter sowing tomatoes from NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker You might want to try this with heirloom and open-pollinated tomatoes. Or with cherry or grape tomatoes.
I love Halloween! This year’s theme is Halloween Ball in the Graveyard. A 🧵of pictures. https://t.co/yCiIOp4Vva
— Piper (@piper_moves) October 24, 2026
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.
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.
I think this is it on the flower sales front for this year, ending on quite a high with these 2 jars ❤️🍁💐
— Garden Brocante (@GardenBrocante) October 24, 2026
I don’t make wreaths (they’re just not me) so I’ll be getting everything ready for spring and no doubt buying more dahlias and lots of seeds 🙄😂
Have a good evening 🍁💐🍁 https://t.co/VtKZs4WauB
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 31, 2026 01:44 PM (jrgJz)
Chopped up some of first leaves to start next compost pile
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:50 PM (Ia/+0)
I am looking at whether to plant winter broad beans, Vicia faba, as a sort of winter cover crop. It would go well to follow anything that I harvest in October so I don't have to look at bare dirt until the weeds take over.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 01:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 01:59 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:00 PM (odBC9)
Fava beans! Never have even seen them. If it weren't for Silence of the Lambs, still wouldn't have heard of them.
Neat idea.
Posted by: MkY at October 31, 2026 02:02 PM (ik4bQ)
I love autumn!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 02:03 PM (yEz+x)
I'll never forgive them!
Posted by: MkY at October 31, 2026 02:04 PM (ik4bQ)
It turned out very nice, it was browned pork, carrots, onions, tomatoes, apple cider, black pepper, bay leaf, rosemary, and allspice. I browned the pork and onions, brought the tomatoes to a boil with the cider, simmered everything together for 10 minutes, and pressure canned.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 02:05 PM (rbvCR)
Even if they don't give me anything, they at least will cover the soil and will be at least as successful as when I tried to sow winter rye.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 02:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Emmie at October 31, 2026 02:11 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 02:12 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:13 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:15 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 02:17 PM (Ia/+0)
I leave a couple of volunteer tomatoes in the garden to come up, in 2020 all my tomatoes were volunteers because there were no starts to be found in the farmers' market. They are never great, but often they are very tasty.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 02:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:18 PM (odBC9)
There has been little artistic progress over these many years.
About to go out in the garage to carve this years pumpkin, contemplating using the skil saw. Blood is a definite possibility.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 02:18 PM (sl73Y)
Kindltot
My wife canned about a dozen quarts of venison 2 winters ago. Just a bit of salt.
Wonderful stuff! Tastes exactly like canned beef. We've used it for soups, insta food of all sorts.
Posted by: MkY at October 31, 2026 02:18 PM (ik4bQ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 31, 2026 02:19 PM (JNr/z)
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2026 02:20 PM (KmZYi)
We never can find the tomatoes we've decided to plant, so always start from seed. That can be a problem, too, cause there are some that just aren't available.
We assume those got blown away in trials somewhere, so adjust our choices.
Posted by: MkY at October 31, 2026 02:21 PM (ik4bQ)
Combo of Terra Cotta, Black Strawberry and San Marzano. Important to thin them before things get out of hand.
I don't bother with egg shells or ash. Egg shell degrade so slowly that you're better off fertilizing after they come up. Wood ash only.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 31, 2026 02:21 PM (w6EFb)
Don't be afraid of the pumpkins after the e.coli outbreak at a pumpkin patch in San Luis Obisbo County, though.
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*strange grin*
Posted by: Manual Labor at October 31, 2026 02:24 PM (4Aqsh)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 31, 2026 01:44 PM (jrgJz)
I think "yes"!
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:00 PM (odBC9)
MAYBE!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 31, 2026 02:24 PM (jb8Ss)
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 02:18 PM (sl73Y)
"blue pumpkins"
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:25 PM (odBC9)
It turned out very nice, it was browned pork, carrots, onions, tomatoes, apple cider, black pepper, bay leaf, rosemary, and allspice. I browned the pork and onions, brought the tomatoes to a boil with the cider, simmered everything together for 10 minutes, and pressure canned.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 02:05 PM (rbvCR)
Ground pork, butt roast, something else? Sounds good anyway.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 31, 2026 02:27 PM (jb8Ss)
I bought a new one with a fiberglass handle, and promptly broke the fiberglass handle.
I tried to get the old handle out of the old shovel, but apparently I fixed it so well the socket would not let it go. I finally gave up and used a new shovel handle on the new blade.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 02:27 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 31, 2026 02:27 PM (jb8Ss)
Cut up shoulder roast, it was on sale. Not a lot of fat, but I don't want that while canning. Browning it helps the texture, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 02:28 PM (rbvCR)
I love Hallowe'en, too. We are having renovations done on the house so this year's decorations have been messed up but I managed to carve one pumpkin today (rather that the usual 5) and added some lights and decorations on the stoop (which usually is completely decorated but since the workers were hauling in all kinds of stuff, I kept everything cleared until today). Oh, well, God willing, there will be many more Hallowe'ens for us! Happy Samhain to all!
Posted by: Brunnhilde at October 31, 2026 02:31 PM (3AwA+)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 31, 2026 02:31 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 02:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: four seasons at October 31, 2026 02:33 PM (/QHx4)
Cool, thanks! I've got some pork in my freezer so looking for ideas.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 31, 2026 02:34 PM (jb8Ss)
It seems to work better than wood ash
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 02:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Manual Labor
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Until I joined the Army, I thought that Manual Labor was a Mexican.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2026 02:36 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:38 PM (odBC9)
I got my garlic pot planted this month - fertilized, covered in straw, soaked, and left outside to await Spring.
Did the final weigh-in on Russet potatoes, nearly 23 pounds. Now, if the Food Thread would just start publishing potato recipes...
Tomato cleanup hasn't even started yet. I started on broccolini plants (one to go) and leaves (several billion to go...). At least the linden, sweet gum, crabapple, and all maple leaves will become compost - sycamores are crap, oak is for burning.
We plan to trim some barberry bushes this afternoon.
Posted by: Pat* at October 31, 2026 02:41 PM (UYhqW)
I'm at my mom's house, and she ordered TWO BAGS of mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. We'll probably get a small handful of visitors. This neighborhood used to be jammed with kids, but young families can't touch it now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2026 02:57 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 31, 2026 03:04 PM (fS2Jb)
Posted by: Case at October 31, 2026 03:09 PM (fzmBj)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 31, 2026 03:11 PM (JNr/z)
Halloween Miscellany
Content remaining after some disappeared:
One of the greatest ironies of the COVID era, for me, was watching people whose self-concept revolved around championing multiculturalism, Indigenous wisdom, and respect for non-Western traditions suddenly demand absolute conformity to a single Western biomedical approach to health. Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and countless Indigenous healing traditions around the world emphasize the health of the whole organism, its environment, and the cultivation of balance and resilience over fighting a particular pathogen. Yet during COVID, discussions of these perspectives—overall health, fitness, mental health, nutrition, and internal balance—were met with ridicule and even censorship, while people who refused the novel allopathic pharmaceutical intervention were excluded from most aspects of society. It was so dark that it was hard to appreciate the parody. People whose entire cultural narrative revolved around multiculturalism were insisting that everyone conform to the dominant Western biomedical establishment—a system consolidated through Rockefeller-era reforms, backed by oil wealth, that marginalized traditional approaches to medicine. Anyone who refused to conform to the system during the Covid era was treated as an ignorant savage, too stupid or dangerous to participate in society. And anyone who practiced holistic medicine and rejected the novel allopathic intervention was labeled "hesitant"—someone who needed to be "educated." The colonial irony was breathtaking. Here were the self-appointed champions of Indigenous wisdom, assuming the familiar role of the enlightened colonizer, arriving to educate the ignorant savages out of their supposedly primitive beliefs.
It looks like Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest (Kehlsteinhaus) has been gutted, perhaps beyond repair. It’s an important historical site & lasting monument to the Führer’s monomania.
I wrote about a visit there for @LawLiberty in 2023: https://t.co/9L3ZiCSQGT Yours truly in the lift. 1/2 https://t.co/vCZcIbI8Xi— Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair) (@_HelenDale) October 24, 2026
On this day in 1780 General Nathanael Greene wrote George Washington, expressing his great concern over the condition of the army in the Southern Department (of which he was about to assume command) and describing his pleas for arms and provisions. “I shall have the satisfaction of having done all in my power,” he concludes, “and if there is not public spirit enough in the people to defend their liberties, they will well deserve to be slaves.” The entire letter is a good read and a very interesting look at how desperate the situation was as the fateful year 1781 approached. Philadelphia October 31st 1780 Sir, On my arrival at this place I laid your Excellency’s letter before Congress and addressed them on the business of the Southern department. I am happy to inform you that my appointment is perfectly agreeable to their views and wishes. But I am sorry to acquaint you that from the best account I can get of the state and condition of the troops in that quarter, nothing is to be expected from them, unless large supplies can be forwarded from the Northward. They are altogether without clothing and blankets, and totally unfit for any kind of service. To carry them into the field in this condition will only fill the hospitals and sacrifice the lives of a great many valuable men. Arms are not less wanting than Clothing, and Waggons as much as either. Men I believe may be had if it was in our power to equip them for the field. But how we shall do this is difficult for me to imagine. Congress can furnish no money, and the Board of War neither clothing or other necessaries. Indeed the prospect is dismal, and truly distressing. I beg your Excellency to urge unceasingly the necessity of forwarding supplies for the southern Army, as it will be impossible to carry on a winters campaign without clothing. I have laid before Congress an estimate of our wants; but there is not the shadow of a prospect of their being furnished unless constant attention is paid to the business. And I am apprehensive as soon as I am gone, and no one left to urge our wants they will soon be forgotten. The late success of the Militia against Col. Ferguson, I am in hopes will be attended with good consequences. It will give a severe check to the Tories and spirit and confidence to the Whigs. A report prevails this day that Lord Cornwallis has retreated precipitately from Charlotte, towards Camden. The detachments of the Enemy that sailed lately from New York are landed at Portsmouth in Virginia; and it is said the shipping are pushing up the rivers. The troops have taken possession of the great bridge, by which I am told they command all the lower Counties. How to employ our little force if we are attacked both in Virginia and N. Carolina at the same time is difficult to determine. My first object will be to equip a flying Army to consist of about eight hundred horse and one thousand Infantry. This force with the occasional aid of the Militia will serve to confine the enemy in their limits and render it difficult for them to subsist in the interior country. I see but little prospect of getting a force to contend with the enemy upon equal grounds and therefore must make the most of a kind of partizan war until we levy and equip a larger force. Such was the difficulty of getting provisions and providing the means of transportation that Genl Gates writes in his last letter that the Army was in the utmost danger of disbanding. Congress have invested me with the same powers they gave to Genl Gates, and annexed Maryland and Delaware to the Southern department.
The arrangement of the Army has taken place, and I hope upon a footing which will render it more respectable than it has been, provided the business of Finance can be got into some regular order: but that is our weak side; and I wish our distresses may be painted in their true colours to the Minister of France, as he intimated to Baron Steuben that your Excellency did not appear to be apprehensive of any difficulty from the state of our affairs. I have made application to the Merchants of this city for clothing for the Southern army; but they excused themselves as having engaged more already than they can perform. I intend to try to put subscriptions on foot in Maryland and Virginia for the purpose of supplying clothing. Whether it will produce any good or not time only can determine. At any rate I shall have the satisfaction of having done all in my power; and if there is not public spirit enough in the people to defend their liberties, they will well deserve to be slaves. General Knox promised to send forward a company of Artillery if your Excellency approved thereof I wish they may come forward without loss of time. This State have promised to lend me one thousand stand of Arms upon a promise of their being replaced which I beg your Excellency to give an order for, as this was the only footing they could be obtained upon. I have the honor to be With every sentiment of respect and esteem Your Excellency’s Most Obedient Humble Servant. Nath. Greene M. General
The conjunction of Halloween and the midterms could be considered ominous, but it’s good for meme-makers. Otherwise, this week’s news was mostly last week’s news–riots in France and Ilhan Omar, still unsure about whom, exactly, she has been married to.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 31, 2026 11:51 AM (iIyc0)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 31, 2026 11:51 AM (LOvBA)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 11:53 AM (Riz8t)
Battle of Guilford Courthouse was the end of Cornwallis, though he didn't realize it. They do a very nice reenactment if you are in central NC for it.
Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at October 31, 2026 11:57 AM (+dxte)
Not many others from here after him.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 11:57 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Big Honor at October 31, 2026 11:58 AM (vFcoN)
Heh.
You gotta love Elon Musk. Fun sense of humor for halloween.
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2116399240880480429?s=20
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 12:01 PM (YSUhf)
Ha, I already had it bookmarked. Must've read it.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 12:02 PM (Jr5Lq)
Just get to the point.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:02 PM (5GaC4)
Heh.
You gotta love Elon Musk. Fun sense of humor for halloween.
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2116399240880480429?s=20
Elon is having way too much fun. He's the world's richest man, he's personally moving humanity forward, and he still has a sense of humor. It's not fair, I tells ya! Imma become a leftist. Isn't that where all the envious people go?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes
I think Elon is not afraid to hire brilliant minds of all kinds.
Those aren't all his ideas. Probably some janitor who's now a gazilionaire...
Posted by: MkY at October 31, 2026 12:06 PM (ik4bQ)
The county just north of mine in the Mid Hudson, Greene County , is named for Nathaniel
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 31, 2026 12:06 PM (f8snw)
Not a fan of automated cars. Skeletons or not.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:07 PM (5GaC4)
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2116399240880480429?s=20
Very Elon thing to do.
Rivian has a Ghostbusters mode for their cars this year where the dash screens show '59 Cadillac gauges instead of the modern ones and the horn is the Ecto-1 siren and stuff. Why can't we get fun stuff like that in ICE cars?
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:09 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 12:09 PM (Ia/+0)
I believe the reason is they were doing a world wide test group for cancer research ( mRNA) and if you cure people with these prophylactics it would ruin the test group.
Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 12:10 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 31, 2026 12:10 PM (8B4gm)
They're off-patent, which ruins Jeffrey Epstein's "start a pandemic and get rich on the cure" scheme that he pitched to Bill Gates.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:12 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: KT at October 31, 2026 12:14 PM (X8QDB)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at October 31, 2026 12:14 PM (VV/pN)
Turns out that with the advent of AI to answer questions, there is no need to turn to that incredibly biased source.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 31, 2026 12:16 PM (aD4fx)
It's all performative though, as KT wrote. Even the most woke doctors do telemedicine by Zoom, not by smoke signals.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:17 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 31, 2026 12:17 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: KT at October 31, 2026 12:18 PM (X8QDB)
To me ? The basic banning of not only common sense, but what we've all known ... or anyone that didn't just sleep through basic public education ... about how things work.
How your own immune system works. Suddenly, it was shots forever. Because you "couldn't develop immunity".
Hell, if that was the case ? Lets all just lie down and die now.
Covid was the emergence of the American Academic Priesthood. And all that chose to worship them.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:18 PM (5GaC4)
Yeah. Google's AI is terrible for doing actual AI things, but it's fantastic at showing me everything I need from a search without actually clicking through to whatever site and getting bombarded by ads.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:19 PM (QZThv)
"Shana Alexander, Life magazine in 1959, noted that Bagdasarian was the first case in the "annals of popular music that one man has served as writer, composer, publisher, conductor and multiple vocalist of a hit record, thereby directing all possible revenues from the song back into his pocket." Alexander also found it remarkable that Bagdasarian "can neither read nor write music nor play any musical instrument in the accepted sense of the word."[38] Bagdasarian owned Chipmunk Enterprises, which sponsored Chipmunk-related sales. By 1963, some 15 companies were using or planned to use Alvin figures. By that year, Billboard magazine estimated the total income from the Chipmunks' record sales (including overseas sales) and record club sales to be around $20 million ($161 million adjusted for inflation in 2025 dollars).
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This was a minor part of his career.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 12:19 PM (WY+aP)
Grok is quite good for answering questions - I increasingly use it as my research assistant.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 31, 2026 12:20 PM (aD4fx)
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Did the West kind of have the same thing with the four humors?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 31, 2026 12:21 PM (JzUSu)
Everything of why its all falling to shit. In one sentence.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:26 PM (5GaC4)
The current left and greens are striving mightily to erase that history, custom and language in the favor of globalism, and I wonder what will happen when the common ties holding the German peoples together are gone.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR)
Apparently, his henchmen ordered the plane carrying the President of Poland not to land at a Polish airport, but the military pilots ignored that and landed anyway.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 31, 2026 12:29 PM (aD4fx)
If you have to explain why it isn't a coup, it's a coup.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 12:29 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ian S
You can. They're called "infotainment screens" and they're terrible.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 31, 2026 12:29 PM (PLy7M)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Yeah, pretty much.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 31, 2026 12:31 PM (PLy7M)
Now apply this globally. To not only all cultures and regions. Apply it to business. Apply it to why Nation-States did what they did for a few hundred years recently.
And set it in tune with the Industrial Revolution.
Now ... this will all change when that great, big, beautiful Internet gets chopped up. And it will.
Then people will think its the New Dark Ages. But it won't be. They'll just have to go back to paper records and libraries.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:32 PM (5GaC4)
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Abolishing most civil rights (depending on location) was pretty significant. It obviously varied by city and state, but some governors and mayors were very aggressive in pushing draconian steps to keep the public under control.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 12:33 PM (RORbl)
Very often, sites plural. Way better than clicking through twelve StackExchange posts looking for the precise answer you need. It makes old-fashioned web search feel like pawing through old library card catalogs.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 12:34 PM (Jr5Lq)
Nothing says "not a coup" like ordering the police to seize the court building on the Friday night of a holiday weekend; and then trying to block the return of the Polish President who was on his way to Senegal when he heard about the coup, and turned his plane around.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 31, 2026 12:35 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Fleetwood Mac at October 31, 2026 12:35 PM (5GaC4)
Get the jab or lose you job!
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 31, 2026 12:37 PM (LOvBA)
It exposed people for who they are. Although few own up to it now.
"Crushed Glass !!! It all looks like Crushed Glass !!!".
And don't question the science. You just don't understand how Pharma works.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:37 PM (5GaC4)
If I ever end up on a plane to Senegal, I think I'd welcome any excuse to turn around and go back home.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 12:38 PM (Jr5Lq)
Thankfully I wasn't.
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 12:39 PM (Ia/+0)
Like I said, it exposed both sides. The "do this because Authority said so" bunch. And the "Oh My God lets all panic now" side.
It exposed both sides for the hypocrisy of how they would talk about Jenny McCarthy. That dirty Anti-Vax bitch. We took the jab, why is she too good ? Its the rules, don't ya' know.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:40 PM (5GaC4)
Nothing says "not a coup" like ordering the police to seize the court building on the Friday night of a holiday weekend; and then trying to block the return of the Polish President who was on his way to Senegal when he heard about the coup, and turned his plane around.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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I think the resignation of LaGarde at the Euro Central Bank and Tusk's coup are related. I think the EU is having a US Dollar liquidity problem which is why they continue the war on Russia and have to get Eastern Europe into the Eurozone despite the fact that none of them meet the legal requirements. One of those sticking points is the Polish Constitutional Court (TK) has held Polish Constitution and sovereignty on some matters is NOT under the EU courts. von Leyden cannot have this. Tusk plans to move Poland to the Euro, that requires putting Polish gold into the common EU reserve, and Poland has to accept at a minimum 100k migrants (their fair share). To do this, Tusk has to have the Constitutional Court taken over.
I think entire EU financial structure is about to come unglued. Continued.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:42 PM (E4rtv)
Why everything is falling to shit in three sentences.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:42 PM (5GaC4)
This is war for the sake of bankers in the EU and their lackey politicians. Russia would do the world a favor by simply targeting the next WEF and/or Bilderburg, Atlantic Council, etc. meeting with missiles.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:45 PM (E4rtv)
Economists who aren't retarded have said the EU is financially untenable since before it happened. The EU itself is of course doing all of the worst possible things to accelerate the ungluing though.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:45 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Smedley Butler at October 31, 2026 12:46 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 12:46 PM (ndZc7)
Tusk was bruted into office by the EU. He is an EU tool.
The EU orchestrated his take over attempt which illustrates
what bumbling fools comprise the EU.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 12:46 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 31, 2026 12:46 PM (WYfFt)
Economists who aren't retarded have said the EU is financially untenable since before it happened. The EU itself is of course doing all of the worst possible things to accelerate the ungluing though.
Posted by: Ian S.
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They want to keep the Russian billion$ they stole.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 12:49 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: gp
OMG! I left the microwave on!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 12:49 PM (ndZc7)
If I ever end up on a plane to Senegal, I think I'd welcome any excuse to turn around and go back home.
Posted by: gp
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Senegal's stability is extremely rare in Africa, never had a coup, had elections on a regular basis, no wars with neighbors, no tribe v. tribe slaughters, etc. etc.
Like Botswana, one of the rare islands of stability in a chaotic Africa.
What is not reported is that Nawrocki was accompanied by former Polish special forces types. Senegal is worried about the Wagner group and Prigozhin's son running it. Has become an outright warlord and drug trafficker in West Africa threatening stability in adjoining countries.
Now reports are that the military refused the President's request to land at the military airport but the pilots did it anyway.
It appears that a Tusk whose party got only about 30 percent of the vote in 2023 was trying to exile the President elected nationwide in 2025 with over 50 percent of the vote.
This is the leftist version of democracy, Heads I win, Tails you lose.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:51 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig
Thanks for continued updates and insights.
EU and Canadian economic behavior is so unhinged conspiracy theories pop up effortlessly.
Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 12:52 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 12:52 PM (Jr5Lq)
That was my point. ICE car screens are mostly terrible and not fun. The EV makers at least have the fun.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:53 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 12:53 PM (VrUCR)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 12:54 PM (u82oZ)
This is the leftist version of democracy, Heads I win, Tails you lose.
Yeah. While everyone was celebrating the end of USAID, the WEF has been busy keeping CIA color revolutions afloat.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:56 PM (QZThv)
Lefties are now furious that conservatives like Patrick Stewart. It must be exhausting.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:57 PM (QZThv)
I'd say their behavior is logical.
Their host ... US ... seems tired and pissy. They're flailing about to figure out what to do next.
Most illogical is the old-heads that just can't stand to let the EU go, and build a fence along the Canadian border.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:57 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 12:57 PM (WY+aP)
Economists who aren't retarded have said the EU is financially untenable since before it happened. The EU itself is of course doing all of the worst possible things to accelerate the ungluing though.
Posted by: Ian S.
Currency unions are a bad idea because each EU country has different productivity, different taxes, etc. etc. Conglomerating all of them into a mess has enervated Germany which originally benefitted, led to stupid overspending by the EU Southern countries, led to nosebleed tax rates in productive EU states like Netherlands, etc.
And was always designed as a political, not economic, way to make the EU a superpower. And the whole Euro project has failed and now the bill is coming due.
The truth is the EU Central Bank is held together by debt and that debt is causing serious destruction of EU economies under the Euro. Now, like any failing empire, the quest is on to bring in new territories to loot them to preserve the status quo a bit longer. Or end up in a war with Russia that destroys the debt by repudiation.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:57 PM (E4rtv)
The teachers were aghast. Kindergarteners were puzzled, and a preschool kid, one that rode on my bus, said "Mr. [NaCly], we said NO singing."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 12:59 PM (u82oZ)
One of the reasons why Poland has done so well economically is that they still have their own currency, and aren't locked into the Euro.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 31, 2026 12:59 PM (aD4fx)
Practicality do nothing but read about wars and the misery it causes. As the sign says at the Quakers meeting house
War isn't the answer but doesn't ask what the question is.
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 31, 2026 12:17 PM (+gK6I)
Being the richest man on the planet, he could cause every single one of them immeasurable pain and suffering. They need to STFU and STFD.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 31, 2026 01:01 PM (hmYU4)
I've called it a "cargo cult United States", because it's very clearly built on US envy. Meanwhile it's made Europe's position vs. the US far worse.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 01:03 PM (tUj8P)
Posted by: whig
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Putin alluded to that in one of his press conferences. He finished by saying something about, they should study their previous attempts.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:03 PM (WY+aP)
Most illogical is the old-heads that just can't stand to let the EU go, and build a fence along the Canadian border.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked
I think it is more to the point that the EU is realizing that its salad days of bleeding the US via unfair trade and making the US defend them from stupid actions is done. And even Obama, while he spoke nice to the Euros and played around with some of their idiocies like the Color Revolt in Ukraine, announced a pivot to Asia.
Our future trade is more with Asia than a dying and tired EU and thus NATO is essentially a dead weight expenditure on the necessary security measures that the US needs to have to guard its commerce there. That does not include a large army and prepositioned expensive logistics based in Europe.
With Iran, the Euros again show their uselessness by trying to restrict US base usage and if we cannot use those bases for real challenges (that primarily benefit the Euros and our Asian allies now), then we no longer need them at all.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 01:04 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Sad commentary on the state of the nation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:06 PM (WY+aP)
I can understand not trusting tinyurl, but at least try trimming the URL in other ways. like, lopping off the ?s=20 at the end, or replacing the slash in x.com/[thingy] with a space.
Margins don't want to cuddle after you blown them.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 31, 2026 01:06 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 31, 2026 01:07 PM (5Op5D)
Posted by: Ian S.
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Every European country that is still vigorous is not in the Euro zone nor accepting masses of migrants. Every country within the Eurozone is dying and the EU dictating massive migrants brought in that do nothing than consume is simply an idiotic Keynesian idea economically. It destroys the government bottom line because borderline retards are never going to be able to support the massive social spending Europe does nor provide much other than menial labor for any hi tech modern economy.
Socially and politically, it destroys the civil societies in those countries because Islamic hordes have no intention to become Europeans but to conquer.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:07 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 31, 2026 01:09 PM (5Op5D)
Posted by: gp
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Tusk has German ancestors including one grandfather who served in the Wehrmacht. Patriotic Poles call him a mutt serving van Leyden.
But Tusk (because of German pressure) has cancelled multiple big infrastructure projects that would lead to economic advances like new port facilities, etc. Each of these projects that began under the opposition have been cancelled and Poles noticed that only Germany would benefit from these cancellations.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Skip
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Not really broken up about it frankly. Tear down the remainder and put a plaque up.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:11 PM (E4rtv)
England will create a great pucker factor and deep introspection.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:11 PM (WY+aP)
When asked who eventually pays the bill ? Old Keynes replied "We all die in the end.".
Thanks England. For another really, really stupid socio-political philosophy.
And thanks Ivy League. For being so unpractical that you'd actually push dumb shit like this.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:12 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 31, 2026 01:14 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: The Invisible Man at October 31, 2026 01:14 PM (0sNs1)
And also worry the Euros. I assume you're talking about the Old American Cold Warriors.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:15 PM (5GaC4)
Margins don't want to cuddle after you blown them.
Posted by: 88C+u
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Please explain about distrusting tinyurl.
I don't have a clue.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:15 PM (WY+aP)
Any update on his condition?
Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 31, 2026 01:07 PM (5Op5D)
*removes Pug Mahon mask*
TAAA-DAAAHH!
Posted by: Harry Houdini at October 31, 2026 01:15 PM (0aYVJ)
Actually watching Mark Felton video on the fire Adolf actually H8ed the location
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:16 PM (Ia/+0)
Me not having any singing talent and still singing also has something to do with that request.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:16 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:16 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:07 PM
Inshallah, effendi!
Posted by: Abdul al Merry & Mohammad bin Pippin at October 31, 2026 01:17 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Braenyard
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US so far has refused to support the EU directly stealing it so now the EU is trying to issue bonds based on interest from the frozen assets. That means a permanent state of war between Ukraine and Russia. Orban blocked the original plan and so had to go. I'd imagine it is now back on the table again.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:17 PM (E4rtv)
Any update on his condition?
Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 31, 2026 01:07 PM (5Op5D)
Ain't gotten out of the grave yet.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 01:18 PM (1Ff7Z)
And, FWIW, there's an awful lot of chatter on the Internet about a massive amount of civilian unrest being fomented... here and abroad to usher in "regime change."
I think we'll know for sure shortly after the elections here. And it might not matter how they turn out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 01:18 PM (RORbl)
I'm guessing that an uncustomized tinyurl provides no clue to where it will lead, so some are wary of clicking on them. I think they can be customized to lead to a prelim landing site that reveals the dest URL.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 01:18 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 31, 2026 01:06 PM
I'm always up for a cuddle, though.
Posted by: The Barrel at October 31, 2026 01:18 PM (0sNs1)
Maybe as intended. But it revealed the foolishness of those who believed in those structures.
Covid was the Emperor screaming "Hell Yes I'm Nekkid". It was The Wizard flipping back the curtain himself.
And Covid was many of the rest of us still screaming "He's Got Clothes" and "We're Not Supposed to See Back There !!!"
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:19 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 01:20 PM (Jr5Lq)
England will create a great pucker factor and deep introspection.
Posted by: Braenyard
It is simply time to disband NATO lock stock and barrel. Like China with its Panda face and its Dragon face, the EU does a similar fan dance with NATO stroking US egos and EU crapping on us at every chance.
We should revert to bilateral treaties instead of these hideous multinational borgs that always seem to be getting into Uncle Sam's pocketbook and putting us on the hook for Americans dying for countries that can't or won't defend themselves and are even now allowing massive invasions disguised as migrants. Screw that deal.
Like trade, sign with countries that deal with us fairly and ignore the rest.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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That's what Trump said. When the elections are over he's a free man and he's going to do whack-a-do.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:22 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 31, 2026 01:22 PM (4WM7K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (GN2QT)
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)
I don't even know who you are anymore. But I like it. I'm having a JackStraw moment.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (5GaC4)
I think we'll know for sure shortly after the elections here. And it might not matter how they turn out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Democrat Labor Unions have called for Election Day nationwide strikes as a way to put their people on the street for mayhem. SEIU is one of the plaintiffs in the 9th Circuit courts trying to stop DoJ investigations into election fraud. Etc. Etc.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (E4rtv)
Visiting an old teahouse dating from the Ming dynasty, he noted that the bridge leading to it was built in zigzag form to thwart evil spirits who, unable to maneuver angles according to Chinese belief, would fall into the water at the turns. Elsewhere observing the number of gods and shrines in all the houses, he remarked that the main point of religion in China “seems to be an effort to scare away evil spirits who are continually trying to do them harm.”
By chance or perspicacity he had hit upon a central fact of Chinese life—fear of Feng shui, the demons, ghosts and devils who bring evil upon men.
Posted by: 13times at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (6iKlf)
There's also concern beyond the very specific issues arising out of BLEU about such a large seizure of sovereign assets without any process. The continuing trade relations (= Euro imports of Russian energy) as the context of such an expropriation only make it more dicey.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 31, 2026 01:24 PM (U/Byj)
I don't have a clue.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:15 PM (WY+aP)
Example
https://tinyurl.com/53emfde9
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 01:24 PM (rbvCR)
I got tickets to the Trump Rally in Salina tomorrow. Going with one of the widows.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:24 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 01:24 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:25 PM (GN2QT)
Posted by: gp
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Someone could make bank by creating an app for phone addicts.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:26 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (GN2QT)
The Japanese have just released information on a successful stem-cell treatment for Parkinsons so there may be hope for him as well
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 01:26 PM (rbvCR)
And again, this "lag" - even between what people see with their own eyes and how long it takes to process it - just blows me away.
We've had Civil Unrest for about a decade now. Open Riots for a few years.
Yet NOW we're talking Civil Unrest ? Really ?
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:26 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 01:20 PM (Jr5Lq)
I've never had any issues on my small smartphone.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 31, 2026 01:26 PM (OlzlW)
Has there been any mention of motive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:27 PM (GN2QT)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 31, 2026 01:28 PM (U/Byj)
Has there been any mention of motive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:27 PM (GN2QT)
Yes. The Treaty of Versailles and a desire to return Germany to Regional Power Status.
But that's not important right now.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:29 PM (5GaC4)
Well, I voted... I'm in CA so it won't matter but I've never missed a vote.
Posted by: It's me donna
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Same. Although we may defeat the "billionaire" (i.e., soon to $100,000) tax.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2026 01:29 PM (mmrXZ)
https://tinyurl.com/53emfde9
Posted by: Kindltot
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Yeah, well, we all know about the Admiral. There are long time
trusted members here and there are unknown nics. I never click
an unknown nic and rarely read them.
Hit and runs degrade the thread.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:29 PM (WY+aP)
This...THIS is what I voted for.
it’s about dei officers in the federal government being cleaned out and many being unable to find new jobs because they were put on “dei watchlists” that come up in google searches in the exact same way it did for right wingers who had their lives ruined by journalists. then he starts applying for dei jobs in the private sector but can’t get one because no one wants to hire someone with dei shit all over their resume. then they find a conservative activist and ask him if he’s happy with all of this and his response is “these people are all anti-white, of course I’m glad they can’t find jobs.”
This is Trump's fault."
https://tinyurl.com/435mxk89
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 01:30 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 01:30 PM (xz+xK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:27 PM
Hurt people hurt people.
Posted by: Abdulrahman "Abdul" Mohamed El-Sayed at October 31, 2026 01:30 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Color Me Shocked
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I largely stay out of defense debates over NATO because my opinion doesn't matter. Never believed the free trade bullshit even though my economics profs tried to inculcate that in me. I agreed with Perot in 92 for example. I can appreciate past European contributions to culture and society but hate their attitudes and governments that put America last. And what is coming out now from Euroland from their ruling elites is pure putrid globohomo trash.
In foreign affairs, I am Jacksonian and hate multilateral gibberish and more so, I dislike the people that believe in it. Most of my former colleagues believed in how wonderful international organizations are and those in defense/nat sec, how NATO shows the way to institute democracy everywhere bullshit.
I was never with them. But as my focus was on domestic politics, I could be non committal about it in discussions as I had to get along with the type.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:31 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 31, 2026 01:31 PM (U/Byj)
Well, I voted... I'm in CA so it won't matter but I've never missed a vote.
Posted by: It's me donna
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Same. Although we may defeat the "billionaire" (i.e., soon to $100,000) tax.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Thank you both. Being there is important. Showing up. Being counted letting every other Republican in that civic waste land that they are not alone. On the six o'clock news when they tally up the votes yours will be there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:33 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 31, 2026 01:14 PM (OlzlW)
I never want to forget, but sometimes wish I could forget:
>The phone call from the pastor of my church at the time who was checking in on members two weeks into the lockdown, and his reaction when I told him I was going to the first church that opened, as I no longer believed the pandemic narrative. They were streaming prerecorded services at that time. It was sad.
>Arguing with my brother about taking the vaccine. We each thought the other's position was nuts, but quickly agreed to table the discussion. He's been gone just over a year now.
>Father's Day 2020. I attended my first live service at my new church. No masks. Packed shoulder-to-shoulder. No social distancing. Shaking hands, smiling - even embracing. It was an oasis of fellowship within the wasteland of despair that permeated everything..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2026 01:33 PM (08OqX)
Has there been any mention of motive?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Since the alleged perp was pantifags, I am guessing he thought it would prevent the AfD from power or some nonsense. Too stupid to realize the real Not Sees are running the EU now and parties like the AfD are trying to save Europe from the abyss of Muslim slavery.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:33 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:31 PM (E4rtv)
I think that's a mistake. Because you rarely see folks that can distinguish between Domestic and International Politics.
Which are two different things. We can be a Classical Liberal as we wish, in the Domestic. As Libertarian as we please.
But Internationally ? That's Fools Gold. And Borders are International. As is Trade. All the rest.
But the argument is Moot. We've fucked this experiment. Now we're just waiting to divide up the pie to start again.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:34 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: It's me donna
Don't pat yourself on the back too much. I'm about 2/3 the way through putting up my Xmas lights. Take THAT!
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 01:34 PM (Riz8t)
In foreign affairs, I am Jacksonian and hate multilateral gibberish and more so, I dislike the people that believe in it. Most of my former colleagues believed in how wonderful international organizations are and those in defense/nat sec, how NATO shows the way to institute democracy everywhere bullshit.
I was never with them. But as my focus was on domestic politics, I could be non committal about it in discussions as I had to get along with the type.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:31 PM (E4rtv)
==
I can't say I was ever that much against them, but I acknowledge their having been taken over by globocommie and no longer do their function as imagined when put in place. (cont)
Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 01:35 PM (8uHt+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 01:30 PM (xz+xK)
You might like this then:
https://allrevolutionarywar.com/
She also has a yt channel.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 01:35 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Yep. Massive numbers of GOP in CA that are being subjugated by fake and gay fraudulent mail in ballots and foreigners. Sad. Trump is trying to do something about it and the Democrat judges there are all against him.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:35 PM (E4rtv)
Agree.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 01:35 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (GN2QT)
There is. Comes in a brass bottle.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 01:36 PM (0kX4S)
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:35 PM
You say that like it's a Bad Thing.
Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at October 31, 2026 01:37 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 01:37 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 01:38 PM (xz+xK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (GN2QT)
There is. Comes in a brass bottle.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 01:36 PM (0kX4S)
Barbara Eden ? Back in the day ?
Piss on Paul. I'm claiming that.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:39 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 01:39 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 01:36 PM (0kX4S)
I opened one of those things and wished I hadn't! It caused me so much trouble.
Posted by: Harold Ventimore at October 31, 2026 01:39 PM (1Ff7Z)
* Serried ranks of 'Rons and 'Ettes in uniform, with some from the Vietnam era to today. Even the AF vets are standing tall. *
*Surrounding the vets are a crowd of colorful Morons*
"Whig, Front and Center. "
Attention to Orders.
By order of the Horde cognoscenti, I present you with the AoSHQ Distinguished Service Order for trenchant analysis and reporting on the Polish Coup D'Etat."
Hand Salute. Ready, Two.
-you may now return to the ranks.-
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:40 PM (u82oZ)
The Singularity is now
We were told the Singularity would arrive like a comet – a date, a flash, a headline. It won't. It's already here, and it looks like a press release nobody reads.
Look at biology, just the last six months. A pill that doubles survival in the deadliest cancer. A single infusion that edits a gene – no pills, no refills, no return visits. A man living on a pig's kidney. Each one, alone, is a story. Together, they are a slope.
And the same slope runs through AI, energy, rockets, materials. Each field now accelerates the others. That is what the Singularity actually is: not the moment machines wake up, but the moment progress starts feeding on itself faster than we can absorb it.
Here is the part nobody says. The bottleneck is no longer science. It's permission. The body is becoming a software problem, but our institutions still run on paper, committees and fear. The science is exponential; the bureaucracy is linear. And when a linear system meets an exponential one, the linear one doesn't win. It gets bypassed. Europe should listen carefully.
https://tinyurl.com/c2j45ahv
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 01:40 PM (Riz8t)
When I said "no longer rely on our church communities" I meant that we were forbidden by the government from gathering together. Although our congregation did have a visitor report us to the health department, which was creepy. There were definitely some people who did stupid and evil things in their quest to keep everyone "safe."
Posted by: Emmie at October 31, 2026 01:41 PM (OlzlW)
Go all the way back to Gerhart Schroeder getting the Gazprom pipeline started 'cause the Euroweenies could tell everybody what to do, how high they could jump or when to sit down. The Russians went along until they didn't.
The global left are scolding Karens who fantasize that they are still in charge and will sue you if you don't go along. Ask Elon.
Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 01:41 PM (Y8DZL)
I remember having a conversation with my boss about China's inclusion into the WTO. I was against it, on a number of grounds, which I realize now were spot on for a 30 year old.
I remember the one world government stuff when GWHB was president and I admit I poo pooed that. I now think back on it and realize the global elite at that time were already trying to take over, they just needed to take care of the pesky Americans.
They almost did it. But in the end, Americans get pretty honked off at that type of stuff. Had the left been smarter about the immigration stuff, it may have succeeded. But I now know why DC wanted immigration "reform" when no one in the voting public wanted anything like that.
As I have said - they are getting desperate. Trump's election scared them. Then the reaction of the monied class to Biden on technology development freaked many of them out. This election will not knock MAGA out, and if things continue on this path - Rubio, Vance or DeSantis will be the next president, with more MAGA in congress, and more support to attack the judiciary. By then both Canada and Brazil will have been dealt with. It's almost over.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 01:42 PM (8uHt+)
Yeah. We're going back to the Dark Ages for a bit. Self-Inflicted.
Not all the way back. But a regression. No doubt about it.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:42 PM (5GaC4)
It has really pissed him off. Hence, RFKJr.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 01:43 PM (sl73Y)
You had an AF pilot / astronaut rescue a stunningly attractive woman from thousand's of years of isolation.
She has a skimpy outfit, calls you master, and has additional magic powers.
And nothing happens. Until marriage.
Change that to a US Naval Aviator, and the show could not be broadcast in the US.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:43 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Black JEM
There is a certain sort of American desperate to be thought of as serious thinkers and they end up being Europhile kiss asses and these are primarily in our ruling class. And then you have the Euro educated classes, many have a deep loathing for America and Americans because at the heart of it, is envy. 1914, Europe was the center of the world for civilization. 1945, Europe was in ruins, broke, and dependent on the US (or worse, the Russians for the Eastern bloc).
And they know deep down, their ancestors destroyed European civilization and this gave Europeans essentially nihilism and a deep loathing for the US as optimism that the future can be better.
So I like individual Europeans, get along fine with the strivers and the working class, but their intellectual class is mean, petty, destructive, and envious toward Americans. And asskissing Europhiles in our chattering class simply adore being abused by Euro intellectuals as in Chip Diller--Thank you sir may I have another!
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:43 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Black JEM
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Well said. Disagree with nothing you've said.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:45 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:43 PM (u82oZ)
The damn show really was good, on all levels. A lot of shows back then just were.
LandMan started off like that. Until it wasn't.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:46 PM (5GaC4)
They just "had it" back then. Look, marriage ain't easy. Those shows handled it quite well.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:47 PM (5GaC4)
One thing I've noticed repeatedly is libs saying President Trump is historically unpopular. Are they just polling their offices, friends and family?
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 01:48 PM (Sco7b)
All national news media you see on TV comes from NYC and DC. All national sports media you see on TV comes from NYC and LA.
Yes. Its an echo chamber.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:49 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: Emmie at October 31, 2026 01:50 PM (OlzlW)
Well, we remember the good stuff better. And there was a lot of it. Even the game and variety shows.
Art Linkletter. Lawrence Welch, Ed Sullivan. Concentration, Let's Make a Deal, Hollywood Squares and many more examples.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea level schlock, not so much. Although I remember mocking it at the times.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:50 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 01:48 PM (Sco7b)
Basically, yes. The Left lives in a bubble.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 01:51 PM (0kX4S)
Go all the way back to Gerhart Schroeder getting the Gazprom pipeline started 'cause the Euroweenies could tell everybody what to do, how high they could jump or when to sit down. The Russians went along until they didn't.
The global left are scolding Karens who fantasize that they are still in charge and will sue you if you don't go along. Ask Elon.
Posted by: Auspex
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Schroeder after his stint as chancellor became head of GazProm's European import company.
The question I want to know is who was idiotic enough to destroy European manufacturing via Green Stupidity. The Green stupidity in Germany was almost a copy of the Morgenthau plan of deindustrializing Germany. Bringing in masses of Islamic violent idiots more so. Eurozone ditto.
None of these things make economic sense so the rigid support of these idiocies has to be political. And I think the answer is restoring aristocracy over peasants in Europe with a lot fewer peasants around by attrition and subjugation by ruling class pet Islamists. The stupid ruling class there probably thinks that moving to Islam will keep them in power as a new state religion.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:52 PM (E4rtv)
Go see what the Spooks are about
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)
As you said, though, there was also plenty of absolute crap. Supertrain anyone?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 01:52 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:52 PM (E4rtv)
They probably don't believe in a higher power anyway, so they don't care if they're Christian, Muslim, or nothing. It's power that matters to them.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 01:53 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:50 PM (u82oZ)
Have Gun, Will Travel was as good a morality play as anything. They just crapped on the entire Black Hat / White Hat stuff. I loved it. Still watch it.
Laugh In did better Political Satire than anything now. Hell - Johnny Carson was a better watch. Just more real.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:54 PM (5GaC4)
https://tinyurl.com/c2j45ahv
Posted by: Archimedes
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Musk said something, rhyming in a very positive way, about
AI, healthcare and the exponential creation of remedies to
heretofore incurable maladies.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:54 PM (WY+aP)
Its the same stupid class that believes Keynes. They don't know exactly "how" it'll turn out. Just that it'll turn out right.
You know, faith.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:55 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:55 PM (u82oZ)
One thing I've noticed repeatedly is libs saying President Trump is historically unpopular. Are they just polling their offices, friends and family?
Posted by: Stateless
Republicans no longer respond to polling. That is clear across the board. So a Dem heavy sampling means less popularity for Trump. I'd imagine that the CBC viewers would get the vapors if they knew that Obama's second term led to low approval ratings as well. That is what led, in part, to Trump winning in 2016. Obama's policies were never popular, the idea of Obama being a salvation for racial peace meant his popularity was artificially inflated for a time until his meanness, his hypocrisy, and his hatred of Americans got noticed. Classic Europhile and Muslim Brotherhood in orientation
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:56 PM (E4rtv)
https://tinyurl.com/yck5zfzh
A Catholic friend of mine theorized that the most significant reason Islam has not conquered the world is the Catholic Church.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 01:58 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Likely. There is a reason that the Bible says do not put your trust in princes.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:58 PM (E4rtv)
heretofore incurable maladies.
And I'll say BULLSHIT !!!
No program, or search engine, is going to fix a damn thing. Not one damn thing. They don't think.
Now - can online stuff remove the Doctor from getting paid to hear your symptoms and give a script that really ... we should be able to just get ourselves ?
Maybe.
But no. There is no fucking Intelligence in that data-center ruminating on the cure to cancer. Not how this shit works at all.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:58 PM (5GaC4)
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They are writing history for your grandchildren.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:59 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Certainly true in medieval times, unfortunately, under the banner of tolerance, I don't see that resistance in the hierarchy to stopping the flow of immigrants and the Catholic Church has lost its hold on national rulers. Back in the day, the threat of excommunication carried both political and social costs for rulers. Not even attempted now because it would be 'mean' to the casual types.
Not any different than other Christian sects though or even the Jewish faith. Each contain a percentage of secular types that would make deals with the devil if it made them feel 'nice'.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 02:02 PM (E4rtv)
I'd ask you friend how many divisions The Pope commands. And how many militias.
And how much money the Catholic Church pours into politics that restrict the private ownership of guns.
Then I'd tell your Catholic friend to shut the fuck up.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 02:03 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 02:03 PM (WY+aP)
We live in miraculous times that would feel like a Singularity to our forebears.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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And yet, the chattering classes fear that their hold on the rest of is fading and that makes their talons dig deeper to hold onto their power today because they fear it will be gone soon.
Reminds me of 1914 actually. The old aristocratic class (King Edward's funeral in 1910 is a reminder there of the times) was giving way to the newer order domestically as technological changes no longer supported a fatuous elite class running everything by birth. And that led the aristos to overreact in a series of crises until Europe fell into the abyss in 1914.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 02:06 PM (E4rtv)
It was so dark that it was hard to appreciate the parody. People whose entire cultural narrative revolved around multiculturalism were insisting that everyone conform to the dominant Western biomedical establishment—a system consolidated through Rockefeller-era reforms, backed by oil wealth, that marginalized traditional approaches to medicine.
They are mouth breathers whose drool cups need to be emptied continually. Many faces badly in need of a fist, IOW.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 31, 2026 02:07 PM (ixS3i)
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I color you somewhere between ignorant to non-existent.
I assume he's Scogg.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 02:07 PM (Riz8t)
Hey now, some of us still aspire to the fatuous elite class.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 02:08 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Black JEM
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I was in academia and had to from graduate school onwards. Fortunately I have a poker face and others like to blabber. Learned that trick working in politics and the military before grad school.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 02:10 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 02:10 PM (Ia/+0)
Rent-Seeking. A phrase that I first heard, back in the day, from those who were very, very Liberal Democrat. As in "Burn It All Down". Obama made a point of this.
It makes sense. Those who have worth not by what they DO, or not even what they KNOW, but just what they CONTROL. Like collecting RENT.
Part of today in politics is who gets to collect the RENT. I guess its always been this way. We're just seeing the flop of how the serfs want to pay the rent.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 02:11 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 02:11 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:40 PM
Someday a miracle will occur.
Is today that day?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 31, 2026 02:11 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Why, I aspire to eternal salvation, not material things. Have my weaknesses but focusing on the world to come tends to clarify what is important now.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 02:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:40 PM
I assume the Dining Facility is taking orders for the Airman Steaks.
Fly, Fight, and Eat !!!
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 02:13 PM (5GaC4)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 02:08 PM
Cardboard-level AoSHQ membership?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 31, 2026 02:13 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:15 PM (odBC9)
Go see what the Spooks are about
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:16 PM (odBC9)
It makes sense. Those who have worth not by what they DO, or not even what they KNOW, but just what they CONTROL. Like collecting RENT.
Part of today in politics is who gets to collect the RENT. I guess its always been this way. We're just seeing the flop of how the serfs want to pay the rent.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked
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I would agree. My economic tastes in undergrad ran toward public choice and von Mises Austrian school.
But I had commie profs and Keynesian Samuelson types as well as reading classical economic theory. Marxism and Samuelson gloss on the innumerate Keynes never made intrinsic sense to me. Economics undergrad.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 02:16 PM (E4rtv)
Our neighborhood has few young children these days, and my wife wants to go out to dinner rather than wait for those few kids to ring our doorbell. But I am torn! I like meeting younger families.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
We, too, get very few young trick-or-treaters, but we stay and hand out the goodies. It is fun to see them and to interact with them, particularly the younger children.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 31, 2026 02:19 PM (ixS3i)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 02:08 PM
Cardboard-level AoSHQ membership?
Bite your tongue! I'm going all out for bauxite class.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 02:19 PM (Riz8t)
Economics to me is very simple. In the Macro and Micro.
Do you produce more than you consume ? Are you putting it in the bank, or taking it out ?
I'll be honest. I don't trust Economics anymore than Milton Friedman. The rest of it is geared to why others are supposed to make money off my sitting currency. Supposedly for my own good.
Bullshit.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 02:20 PM (5GaC4)
My favorite Nathaniel Greene quote: "We fight get beat and fight again."
From whence comes such men?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 31, 2026 02:23 PM (ixS3i)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 31, 2026 02:23 PM (LOvBA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 02:28 PM (WY+aP)
Just because the gardening thread is up doesn't mean we red-thumbs can't carry on down here, you know!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2026 02:29 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 31, 2026 02:30 PM (LOvBA)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 31, 2026 02:49 PM (hG5L0)
Not from men that are 1st or 2nd Lts or even Captains.
Because they get killed right along with the battallion or company. They don't live long enough to write "we lose, then we lose some more".
Not near as romantic that way.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 02:53 PM (5GaC4)
https://tinyurl.com/435mxk89
Posted by: Archimedes
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Straight into my veins, please.
The dude ensured that ACF personnel "resemble" the people they serve: "vulnerable Americans with foster care, home energy needs and early education." So it was welfare, and most recipients, as shown right between the lines, were POC.
I remember Michelle Obama saying "I'm tired of being told to fear people just because they look different!"
I've been subjected to endless DEI trainings (complete with quizzes!) that tell me I'm bigoted if I don't want to work with people who look different. But now we've got actual welfare recipients who prefer not to speak with WHITE personnel? I think we've found the problem! Are they being forced to take trainings and quizzes before they get their checks? No? Why are we accommodating THEIR bigotry?
Anyway, probly the last comment in this thread, but I've got a bellyful.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2026 02:53 PM (mmrXZ)
No articles about the attempted collapse and take over of a major European government. Why? Perhaps because it's over and the EU deepState lost. Thus the communist media here are shushing it down.
No talking of color revolution failures today.
Here is 30 seconds from my favorite, MP Dominik Tarczyński of Poland, today, on Fox.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 02:58 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 02:59 PM (WY+aP)
https://tinyurl.com/4aj9s6da
Polish MEP Warns Illegal Migrants: “If You Don’t Want To Be Shot, Don’t Come To Our Borders”
February 28, 2020 By CFT Team
Dominik Tarczyński, member of the Poland Law and Justice Party, member of the European Parliament, and Vice Chair of the European Conservatives Group, during a recent interview on The Newsmakers, defended Poland’s allegedly ‘harsh’ treatment of migrants who attempt to illegally cross Poland’s borders:
• https://christiansfortruth.com
I’ve got a message for all illegals. If you don’t want to be pushed back, if you don’t want to be arrested, if you don’t want to be shot, do not come to our borders. Do not come to the Polish border, then you’re safe. It’s not us, it’s not our police who came up to beat you up, to push you, or to arrest you. It’s you who tried to break the law on our land.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 03:18 PM (WY+aP)
The Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Denton.) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. Don't forget to say a prayer or three.
2) Be kind, be nice. Vote early and vote often.
3) Running with sharp objects is really not a good idea.
4) 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: 9/18 – Random Dave posted an update to his job progress. He is still looking for FT work, but has accepted a substitute teacher position (more flexibility for interviews, some income to slow the bleeding). He asks for prayers that the interview results he is waiting on will get back to him soon, especially if one is the “right job”. If any are “not the right job”, they would fall away soon and get back to him, and that if all of them are “not the right job”, the ‘right job” would show itself aggressively, so he doesn’t miss it! He also thanks the Horde and the folks at church for their prayers and support.
8/14 Update – Random Dave needs continued prayers for his job situation, that God would guide him to the right one soon, and also for prayers for M’s grandmother, who fell the other day and tore a ligament.
10/22 Update – M’s grandmother is healing well. She is mostly mobile now (on crutches), and occasionally has bouts of bad pain. They praise God for the healing and humbly request additional healing. Random Dave reports no real change on his job situation. He continues to pray for God to make the path known as he applies, and periodically deal with “good” interviews that end up going nowhere. 9/18 – Brother Tim posted that he has been overnight in his car more than indoors. He is convinced that his retirement/resignation was a severe error, a result of fatigue and depression. He asks for prayers.
10/17 – Bother Tim posted that he has been in the hospital for 3 weeks. 10/10 – Just Some Guy asked for prayers for his former work colleague, who had a heart attack and stroke. 10/10 – Mile, okravangelist, requested prayers for Mama Publius, for grace and fortitude, and that she passes in her sleep. Mama Publius is in home hospice care.
10/24 Update – Mama Publius passed away this past week. 10/14 – NR Pax requested prayers for a friend, whose husband died on 10/10 after a long illness. 10/17 – Pooky’s Girl posted that she is in the hospital, because Wee Pooky is threatening to come early at 30 weeks.
10/24 Update – Pooky’s Girl’s contractions have been stopped. She is at 31 weeks along, so every week that Wee Pooky stays put is less time in the NICU. 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.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 31, 2026 06:55 AM (3ZBdr)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 31, 2026 06:59 AM (3ZBdr)
MisHum, I don't think there are thanks enough for you for everything you've done over the years. I hope that "stepping away" doesn't include not commenting.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 07:06 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at October 31, 2026 07:06 AM (1w4xE)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 31, 2026 07:06 AM (AMvSw)
Proving Polish judges are as bad as our judges.
Something needs to be done about the judiciary.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 31, 2026 07:10 AM (XV/Pl)
Who made the Hollywood extravaganzas with Esther Williams and a supporting cast of women gamboling about in a swimming pool in choreographed routines that were amazing?
Why didn't they branch out and make similar films, but the lead and her supporters were swimming in a pool of coffee?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 31, 2026 07:11 AM (WI4aa)
{grammie}{TiFW}{Some Rat}
mh I have missed your voice at AoS and wish you all the best. May the road rise to meet your feet and the wind remain at your back.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 07:12 AM (RIvkX)
Who made the Hollywood extravaganzas with Esther Williams and a supporting cast of women gamboling about in a swimming pool in choreographed routines that were amazing?
Busby Berkeley comes to mind.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 07:13 AM (eRlcH)
Seriously...
Posted by: one hour sober at October 31, 2026 07:14 AM (J4Dwc)
Thank you, Mis Hum. I have always enjoyed your work. Best wishes and prayers for you and yours going forward.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 31, 2026 07:14 AM (WI4aa)
Seriously...
Posted by: one hour sober at October 31, 2026 07:14 AM (J4Dwc)
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They must mean that other Michigan
Posted by: Elissa Slut-kin at October 31, 2026 07:17 AM (SxOcO)
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Something needs to be done about the judiciary.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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I've been yammering on about that for a while. I have a feeling it's not going to happen unless "unconventional" means are used.
Likely involving the use of lead, at high velocities.
But it most certainly will not be resolved through political means such as "voting." Because the judiciary here is squarely on the left's side.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 07:17 AM (RORbl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 07:18 AM (2GVsD)
Seriously...
Posted by: one hour sober
That's unadulterated crap. Nice fact checkers you've got on board, DM.
Perhaps you meant Texas. But so what? This isn't an equity quest where both sides get a turn because "fair".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 31, 2026 07:18 AM (WI4aa)
Posted by: Melissa Slotcunt at October 31, 2026 07:23 AM (0OORa)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 31, 2026 07:24 AM (VyBeY)
Thank You
Posted by: Ben Had at October 31, 2026 07:27 AM (8Uo7a)
Making apple pancakes and bacon
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 07:27 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dark Lix at October 31, 2026 07:33 AM (Fv808)
All the best to you and yours.
Lola
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 31, 2026 07:33 AM (NFX2v)
Similar one:
A man fell into an upholstery machine. But don't worry, he's totally recovered.
Posted by: Dan Patterson at October 31, 2026 07:33 AM (9f4mI)
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 31, 2026 07:34 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 31, 2026 07:34 AM (Hbeqj)
Proving Polish judges are as bad as our judges.
Something needs to be done about the judiciary.
There you have it.
The correction is not more cartoon togetherness or compromise or prayerful turning of the opposition’s hearts.
There are two sides in that conflict, as there are in most any. The two sides can never live peacefully without agreement on national direction, just as America cannot remain peaceful under multiple ideologies.
Look carefully at domestic separation and see the philosophical cleaving patterned after ancient emotional (female) human failings of spite, envy, jealousy, and rage among others. Is California any different? Is New York?
The US is so far distanced from our origins of freedom and liberty, and independent thinking, that we are propped up on toothpicks.
Posted by: Dan Patterson at October 31, 2026 07:40 AM (9f4mI)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 31, 2026 07:44 AM (kOluj)
We are all going to miss you.
Good luck to you and prayers for the next chapter in your life's journey.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 07:44 AM (FZ29D)
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need
1 Polish coup
2 al-Sayed telling the Dem unity people to pound rocks
3 Alaska election fraud
Let's pray that they end up in a correct way for the Free World
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 31, 2026 07:44 AM (f8snw)
MisHum, thanks for running the Prayer thread, you will be missed!
Posted by: RandomDave at October 31, 2026 07:45 AM (aJQbY)
peltola's campaign has denied involvement in the fake candidate and isn't saying a word about anything. Tuesday is the election and we still don't know what the state is going to do about this mess.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 31, 2026 07:46 AM (I43vL)
*dons Zoot Suit and Python boots*
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 07:46 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 31, 2026 07:48 AM (FnERZ)
So glad to have been able to meet you in person at the MoMe.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 31, 2026 07:49 AM (gA/vX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 07:49 AM (xz+xK)
Gee, Decoy Dan, one may surmise from you having skipped out that nothing about your "campaign" is on the up and up.
Follow the money, folks. Where has it flowed and where has it pooled?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 31, 2026 07:50 AM (WI4aa)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 31, 2026 07:50 AM (f8snw)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 31, 2026 07:48 AM (FnERZ)
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Grammar Nazi?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 07:50 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 07:50 AM (2GVsD)
I despise bullies. I loathe cheaters.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 31, 2026 07:51 AM (WI4aa)
" 'blue tsunami' risks turning into a measly ripple"
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 07:51 AM (MWfyi)
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Brother Tim, I pray that you will find permanent living accommodations very soon. If I ever win the lottery, I'm buying you a home so you no longer have to struggle with such a basic necessity. I feel for your situation.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 31, 2026 07:51 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Paul at October 31, 2026 07:51 AM (qAxSt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 07:52 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 31, 2026 07:52 AM (WI4aa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 07:52 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 31, 2026 07:52 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 31, 2026 07:53 AM (FnERZ)
Posted by: Dan Patterson at October 31, 2026 07:40 AM"
But we LIKE cartoon togetherness.
Posted by: Feminized Western societies at October 31, 2026 07:53 AM (gA/vX)
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Unless you take into consideration that you can finish trimming the hedges in half the usual time.
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 07:54 AM (qgHp7)
Of course they would. There is never a penalty for a Democrat to lie.
Hypothetically if they tell the truth: People see what demonic plans they have ready to foist on the world, get outraged and then sit home and do nothing.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 07:54 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 07:55 AM (2GVsD)
Ongoing prayers for all of the Horde with special prayers for those with particular need.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 31, 2026 07:59 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 31, 2026 07:59 AM (ydbXs)
Posted by: Bud Collyer at October 31, 2026 07:59 AM (gA/vX)
Modern day Nostradamus?
If modern gamblers are so good at predictions, why do Casinos seem to be able to print money?
Why gamble a few hundred bucks on Kashi when one can place highly leveraged trades in the commodities market and reap 10x investment?
The mob is never wrong, is that the take-away here?
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:00 AM (a4flb)
Daisy Ridley is going to be the lead actor for a reboot of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 08:01 AM (2GVsD)
So I guess I'll be the one to ask.... will this become a Dildo prayer thread?
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 31, 2026 08:02 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 08:03 AM (xz+xK)
The highly corrupt Alaskan "judges" who are in on the scam to defraud the voters should also feel compelled to high-tail it to a non extradition country.
But we honor our black-robed traitors and tyrants.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:03 AM (a4flb)
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We won't be going to see it as fast as we can.
Posted by: Most people at October 31, 2026 08:04 AM (gA/vX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 08:04 AM (2GVsD)
That should be an evergreen prayer. No season for when it shouldn't be prominent in our time dedicated to God.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:05 AM (a4flb)
The betting odds are seeded heavily towards the Dems to win both the House and Senate
see, here's the problem
we've complained for years about the polls being skewed / manipulated to favor the left / suppress the right (demographic sampling / misleading questions / etc.)
it would be far easier for a campaign to manipulate the "predictions markets": throw some monies on your candidate to win, then say "look at the betting! the people are speaking with their wallets!"
I would think that, for a small fraction of a campaign's media budget, they could make a significant swing in the prediction markets
and these days, people are looking more towards the prediction markets, and dismissing the polls
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 31, 2026 08:05 AM (AMvSw)
Seen that here, Israel, South America, Europe
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 08:06 AM (Ia/+0)
They have learned nothing!
Daisy Ridley is going to be the lead actor for a reboot of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Posted by: Anna Puma
She has all the acting chops and screen appeal of a Flat Stanley cutout doll.
Tell me she is going to command a sub whose body is composed of carbon fiber composite. Lie if you must.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:07 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: NR Pax at October 31, 2026 08:07 AM (/k3in)
But again, as we see, time and time again, judges in Alaska, citing no law or misinterpretation of law, decided that fake Dan Sullivan could be on the ballot.
Something's got to be done about these judges.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 31, 2026 08:07 AM (XV/Pl)
As I don't currently have a gun, I will for the time being leave the shooting to others.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 08:03 AM
something something...sell your cloak...something something
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 31, 2026 08:08 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 31, 2026 06:59 AM (3ZBdr)
Out house is a very, very, very fine house (fine house)
With two turds in the pit
It really smells like shit
Now it's twice as stinky thanks to you
Posted by: CSN&Y at October 31, 2026 08:08 AM (qlLNh)
The viewing was on Sunday and the funeral mass was Monday. We watched our friend's dogs until Friday. She's holding it together as best she can.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 31, 2026 08:08 AM (/k3in)
Posted by: I gotta ask at October 31, 2026 08:08 AM (gA/vX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 31, 2026 08:09 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 31, 2026 08:09 AM (8Uo7a)
Daisy plays Lee whose twin sister, now deceased, has discovered a strange sub trapped in Arctic ice. The sub awakens when Daisy comes aboard. And there is some lost continent tied into this mess.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 08:09 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Mrs. Olson at October 31, 2026 08:09 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 31, 2026 08:10 AM (qlLNh)
A heartfelt thank you for doing this thread, all of your work on the blog, and being a presence here. You will be missed. But I'm a better person for reading your content.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 31, 2026 08:10 AM (7v6oI)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 31, 2026 08:11 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: I might be interested at October 31, 2026 08:11 AM (gA/vX)
I would think that, for a small fraction of a campaign's media budget, they could make a significant swing in the prediction markets
This idea has been bandied about on several podcasts of late. It is devious, it is inexpensive, and it is right up the alley of campaigns of candidates who are long on money and short on scruples. Dims, for sure (looking at you, Alaska).
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:11 AM (ixS3i)
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I'm sorry to hear this, Mr. Hum, but I totally understand the feeling. I've had thoughts along that line myself though the reasons may be different. Your equanimity and humor will be missed.
But I intend to stick around after you leave just to see if I can trim my toenails while running with a sharp nail clipper.
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 08:12 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 08:09 AM (2GVsD)
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Sounds like they are using the title Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as a skinsuit for a woke Hollywood director's *real* movie. Typical.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 08:12 AM (FZ29D)
The Prediction Markets, as you said, have more unearned credibility because stupid people think that there is skin in the game, whereas pollsters can flat out lie since none of their claims can be verified. We just have to trust that they took a poll, that the poll was honest, that a high integrity sample was taken, that the results were honestly tabulated, interpreted and reported. Lots of links in that chain that can/will be corrupted in a Low Trust Society.
Prediction Markets self filter to amplify the opinions of compulsive gamblers, easy money enthusiasts, youngster with little life experience, and sponsored market manipulators who see a low cost ROI propaganda engine.
These are the top people to trust!
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:13 AM (a4flb)
But wait, it gets worse!
Daisy plays Lee whose twin sister, now deceased, has discovered a strange sub trapped in Arctic ice. The sub awakens when Daisy comes aboard. And there is some lost continent tied into this mess.
Posted by: Anna Puma
How do they make it gay? They have to make it gay to have a marketing hook!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:13 AM (ixS3i)
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We won't be going to see it as fast as we can.
Posted by: Most people
RICHARD BASEHART!
Even the Walter Pigeon movie version was cheesy, but it did introduce Barbara Eden to the world, which was nice.
Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 08:14 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 08:14 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at October 31, 2026 08:14 AM (FmxBl)
Posted by: NR Pax at October 31, 2026 08:15 AM (/k3in)
Posted by: dantesed at October 31, 2026 08:15 AM (Oy/m2)
Go ahead and spend it all on RAM and video adapters. We are all doomed anyway.
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 08:15 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:07 AM (ixS3i)
She was no doubt hired when the first choice (a block of wood) was unavailable.
Not even if Ridley gets naked will I go see that.
At most, I'll fast-forward through it on streaming to get to the good parts.
On second thought, an image search indicates that she's hitting The Wall early and hard.
So nah.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 31, 2026 08:15 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 31, 2026 08:16 AM (VyBeY)
Prediction Markets self filter to amplify the opinions of compulsive gamblers, easy money enthusiasts, youngster with little life experience, and sponsored market manipulators who see a low cost ROI propaganda engine.
These are the top people to trust!
Posted by: Community Notes
Our elections are akin to playing "scratch and win" lotto tickets by "influencers", you say? Get outta town!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:16 AM (ixS3i)
Proving Polish judges are as bad as our judges.
Something needs to be done about the judiciary.
It's been a Soros family plan for several decades to take over countries via the court system. We've seen it here, in Israel, in Europe, and in Brazil, and there are probably other places its happening that just haven't made the news.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 08:16 AM (QZThv)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 31, 2026 08:16 AM (qlLNh)
Or hang around men who are comfortable being the well armed sheep dog.
God gave us all roles in life.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:16 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 08:17 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
That prospect will keep me awake at night, but I guess that's still better than a Saturday "Art" Thread.
Posted by: No Ottoman Fan at October 31, 2026 08:17 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Caffiend at October 31, 2026 08:18 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:13 AM (ixS3i)
The twin sister was a tranny, so the the Ridley character has to dress up as a tranny to carry out the investigation.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 31, 2026 08:18 AM (qlLNh)
As commented below, the whole Polish kerfluffle was kicked off by a magistrate judge deciding the president and vice president were no longer vice presidential president.
Oh, I can just see some traffic court judge here saying Trump was illegitimately elected.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 08:18 AM (eRlcH)
She was no doubt hired when the first choice (a block of wood) was unavailable.
Blocks of wood are useful. On the other hand, she...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:18 AM (ixS3i)
Daisy Ridley is going to be the lead actor for a reboot of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 08:01 AM
I didn't know who that was, so I looked her up
Daisy Ridley is actually female. The word you were looking for is actress.
thank you for your attention to this matter
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 31, 2026 08:18 AM (AMvSw)
This being Hollywood, I'll place a bet on "What are you doing, twin sister?" happening.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 08:18 AM (QZThv)
Spotify, Apple or wherever Podcasts are
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 08:19 AM (Ia/+0)
LOL, is this becoming A Thing?
I saw some bs clickbait a few days ago "AI experts so sure of cancer cure in x years, they've started smoking"
pretty sure it wasn't the Babylon Bee ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 31, 2026 08:19 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 07:52 AM
I had not seen that. That seems to be the only way out of this mess the democrats made but that will generate tons of lawsuits from them.
I have read about multiple federal subpoenas for everyone involved including the missing decoy dan but my point remains, the election is Tuesday, it's way too late to do anything other than tossing out this election and having another one.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 31, 2026 08:20 AM (I43vL)
I saw some bs clickbait a few days ago "AI experts so sure of cancer cure in x years, they've started smoking"
Anthropic and OpenAI both have more debt than they can cover, so they're trying to goad DC into making their competitors illegal, in the same way that Elizabeth Warren and Barney Frank made starting a new bank all but illegal after 2008.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 08:20 AM (QZThv)
Execute a Spartacus remake, but with Dan Sullivan as the protagonist?
The "I am Dan Sullivan" scene will be lit!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:21 AM (ixS3i)
"AI expert who used to work at Google says he's so convinced the technology will destroy the world in the next 10 years that he has stopped saving for retirement"
I'll stop paying taxes right about... now.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 08:22 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Caffiend at October 31, 2026 08:18 AM (vFcoN)
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Everytime I see this I remember old Cuban men sitting in front of a bodega on Bergenline Ave sipping coffee.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 08:22 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 08:23 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: 95 Theses, Nail Included at October 31, 2026 08:24 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Robert Dowdell, who played "Chip Morton" on the T.V. series was tagged with that title decades ago.
Did very small series work till he hung it up and moved to Coldwater Mi., 'cause the career didn't pay enough to live anywhere else.
Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 08:26 AM (Y8DZL)
Since the very beginning, it was assumed that judges would rule corruptly, thus the appeals courts and in certain countries, the priests would get involved in difficult cases.
In Deuteronomy, its built right in: "You shall appoint judges and officers... and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement"
So when the fear of the LORD is absent you get:
"Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts" - Isaiah 1:23
In fact, Isaiah 1:21-24 reads like the US since its founding is a recapitulation of Zion- a common understanding among the Founders as the New World was a recapitulation of Hebrews leaving Egypt.
Will there be a temporal recapitulation of vv 25-31?
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:28 AM (a4flb)
Rethuglicans trying to make a federal case out of some lighthearted fun and games in Alaska.
HAVE YOU NO SHAME?
Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 08:29 AM (Y8DZL)
Time Change Eve and Halloween?
That's an extra hour to bulldoze all the Halloween crap out of the store and get the Christmas crap set up in its place!
* takes a deep breath and pats chest *
Holiday commerce -- there's nothing like it!
Black Friday has become unmoored from being the day after Thanksgiving in online commerce space -- did you know that? Every day is now Black Friday!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:29 AM (ixS3i)
Please God,,, no!!
Posted by: TeeJ at October 31, 2026 08:30 AM (ix5nG)
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:31 AM (a4flb)
Dear Polland,
Stop ruining my vacation plans with your stupid coup!
Eastern Europe is now supposed to be the rational and stable part of Europe.
Austria and Hungary consider this your warning too.
That is all!
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 08:31 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Ed Sullivan at October 31, 2026 08:32 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 08:32 AM (RORbl)
Posted by: Annies Stew at October 31, 2026 08:33 AM (3UA1N)
That's two of the "Fightin' Dan Sullivans". Where the other three at?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:34 AM (ixS3i)
Due to the expected demand and crowds on Election Day, Republicans are to vote on Tuesday and Democrats are to vote on Wednesday.
Which is unfair and biased against the Republicans and TRUMP!!1! because the DNC will know how many votes to overcome!
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:34 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: dantesed at October 31, 2026 08:35 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 08:35 AM (MWfyi)
Chicken Coop:
Nasty, dirty sinkhole that attracts rats.
Chicken Coup:
Chickens cross road to burn down KFC, Chik-Fil-A, and Popeyes.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 08:35 AM (YSUhf)
In Deuteronomy, its built right in: "You shall appoint judges and officers... and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement"
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Proverbs 18:5-6
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 31, 2026 08:35 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Annies Stew at October 31, 2026 08:33 AM (3UA1N)
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Fabulous news! b"h for good health
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)
I thought we were not doing the time change anymore. What happened?
Posted by: dantesed
The bill, which was a complete piece of crap and waste of time, left the choice whether the drop Daylight Savings Time up to each state, IIRC.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:36 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 08:37 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 08:37 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: I gotta ask at October 31, 2026 08:38 AM (gA/vX)
The average IQ in the US is 100 (ignore the obvious reverse Flynn Effect)
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:38 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: one hour sober at October 31, 2026 08:38 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 08:38 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: dantesed at October 31, 2026 08:35 AM (Oy/m2)
A traffic court judge ruled that the President did not have the Constitutional authority to mandate a time change that might impact his traffic court schedule!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at October 31, 2026 08:39 AM (hOUT3)
The average IQ in the US is 100 (ignore the obvious reverse Flynn Effect)
Posted by: Community Notes
And all the IQ 50 folks are MAGAts and Trump supporters and all the IQ 150 folks are us!
-- Dims, Karens, and our "betters"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:40 AM (ixS3i)
Democrats were far more enthusiastic about taking the poll than Republicans were. Registered Democrats were more than twice as likely as registered Republicans to complete the survey after answering an interviewer’s call — 32 percent versus 12 percent — with a similar partisan gap when texting voters to complete the survey online.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 31, 2026 08:40 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 31, 2026 08:40 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: fd
Get some Lucky Charms and see if you could trap it. You'll be rich!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 31, 2026 08:41 AM (8B4gm)
Posted by: one hour sober
Vatican head of state casts ballot in foreign election.
Like Chicago needs another fake vote.
Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 08:41 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: dantesed
House passed a bill, Senate went home, as usual.
Posted by: Lazy Spineless Grifters at October 31, 2026 08:41 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:38 AM (a4flb)
I think it is more easily understood when you say that the statistical data shows that roughly half the entire population is below average!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at October 31, 2026 08:42 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 08:43 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 08:43 AM (RIvkX)
Arizona and Hawaii have "opted out" of the semi-annual stupidity for almost 60 years.
I vote that the US adopts UTC as the standard and never deviate from it. So lunch in Chicago can be 1800 (AM/PM doesn't make sense under a UTC standard) year round.
And if it is too dark for children to be dropped off at the government school and the school refuses to change start/end times with the season, well, tough. Stupidity should be painful.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:44 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 08:32 AM (RORbl)
Remember it is ranked choice.
So do you write "1" on the Real and "2" on the fake to make sure the Real gets elected?
And then (D) get to write "1" on Petola and "2" on the fake giving them TWO votes against the Real Dan.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 31, 2026 08:44 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 08:44 AM (JrHfD)
It's like a lame trick question on a test in 5th grade.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 08:44 AM (RORbl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 08:44 AM (RIvkX)
Shenanigans Begin Again - a limerick
I just read the latest news bulletin
This election the Dems will take a Mulligan
When there guy doesn't win
They'll make us all vote again
But they're going to need a bunch of Dan Sullivans
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 08:44 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: TV Addict at October 31, 2026 08:45 AM (vFcoN)
Gee, I wonder which party's candidates got Pope Bob's vote in Illinois.
Posted by: one hour sober
I don't mine the Pope casting an absentee ballot in Illinois. I do object to the entire College of Cardinals casting absentee ballots in Illinois.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 08:45 AM (eRlcH)
I think it is more easily understood when you say that the statistical data shows that roughly half the entire population is below average!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
That thumping sound you just heard was Garrison Keillor stamping his little footsies in his tar paper shack on the Island of Discarded NPR Hosts
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:45 AM (ixS3i)
MisHum, thank you for all you've done for the HQ and the Horde. You are a gentlemanly curmudgeon and only unleashed Tagaq/Ono when we deserved it.
I hope your OnlyFans venture is rewarding and lucrative.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 08:46 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip
Except for the yellow submarine.
Posted by: Fab Four at October 31, 2026 08:46 AM (gA/vX)
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:44 AM (a4flb)
You need to read the DEI manual more closely!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at October 31, 2026 08:46 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:46 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 08:43 AM (Ia/+0)
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In the TV show, the aliens were thought to be water-breathers. Their craft traversed space, atmosphere, and oceanosphere.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 08:47 AM (RIvkX)
A retired Navy admiral says UFOs could be hiding in our oceans...
*pats young child's head*
And that Little Billy is why America kept losing wars.
Now, let me tell you all about Barack Obama, the President who wanted to burn down America and his pet monkey, Joe Biden...
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 08:47 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at October 31, 2026 08:42 AM (hOUT3)
On modern IQ tests like the Wechsler scales, one standard deviation equals 15 points.
Between 1 and 2 SDs begin mild retardation.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 31, 2026 08:48 AM (/+uur)
The Pope is a citizen, and given how enthusiastically the Democrat Party supports abortion until birth and transgenderism I would think that the Pipe might actually vote for Republicans.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 08:44 AM (JrHfD)
Given that both are, according to Catholic doctrine, objectively evil acts and given that both are dogma for the entire Democratic party, how could he do otherwise?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 08:48 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 31, 2026 08:48 AM (ixS3i)
Average† ≠ Median‡
† add all the values and divide by the number
‡ arrange the numbers in order and find the middle value
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:49 AM (a4flb)
I was just responding to a poster who suggested Pope Leo would vote for Democrats since he's originally from Chicago.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 08:50 AM (JrHfD)
Requiem on an AoSH Humanitarian - a limerick
Your resignation is final I presume
And your exit leaves a sonic Ka-boom
Your nick's an oxymoron
So from all us gray-boxy Morons
We're sure gonna miss you, Mis Hum!
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 08:51 AM (qgHp7)
† add all the values and divide by the number
‡ arrange the numbers in order and find the middle value
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:49 AM
Now that's just mean.
Posted by: Oops at October 31, 2026 08:51 AM (gA/vX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 07:52 AM (2GVsD)
Everything is corrupt about this ballot, including the fourth candidate, Heinkes, a Republican, who was also drafted by the DSCC’s operative to run. The Peltola campaign forced the actual fourth candidate from the primary, a D, to drop out, so their other R spoiler could also muddy the water. Total corruption and a full-blown conspiracy.
Posted by: EveR at October 31, 2026 08:51 AM (rJD2P)
Posted by: Socket To Me! at October 31, 2026 08:52 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 31, 2026 08:52 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Socket To Me! at October 31, 2026 08:52 AM (vFcoN)
I high Somali IQ is 1 SD off 100.
ANd yet they are smarter at cheating than the average govt employee.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 31, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 08:53 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Buck (Ofama) at October 31, 2026 08:54 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 08:55 AM (qgHp7)
Between 1 and 2 SDs begin mild retardation.
Statisticians model IQ as N(100,15²
that given, -1σ and lower represents 19% of the population.Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 08:55 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2026 08:55 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Dr_No at October 31, 2026 08:56 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 08:57 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 31, 2026 08:57 AM (Q/FnY)
Hasn't happened yet but sooner or later, it will.
And notice how a couple of verses in that chapter, 10 an 19, bear an incredible resemblance to Rev 6:12-17?
Or how Isaiah 13:9-13, Joel 2:31 and Matt 24:29 also speak to that same Revelation passage?
Posted by: TeeJ at October 31, 2026 08:58 AM (ix5nG)
The Papists seem absent from here today. Proverbs 3.7?
Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 08:58 AM (Y8DZL)
Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
St. Marcellus the Centurion, martyr, pray for us.
***
I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 31, 2026 08:58 AM (ksbjf)
https://tinyurl.com/ycyudz6s
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 08:58 AM (Ia/+0)
Nasty, dirty sinkhole that attracts rats.
Chicken Coup:
Chickens cross road to burn down KFC, Chik-Fil-A, and Popeyes.
Posted by: naturalfake
________
Ha! Now do Chicken Coupe
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 31, 2026 08:59 AM (JzUSu)
It's Alaska. Between weed, vodka and inbreeding, it's a small miracle any elections take place at all.
Posted by: Nanookie of the North at October 31, 2026 09:00 AM (Ssbab)
I think that they are honoring the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation (October 31, 1517)
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 09:04 AM (a4flb)
But if one or two percent make the mistake it can make the difference in a close election.
FL was a mess in 2000 because of confusing 'butterfly ballots" and "hanging chads." Compounded by having many elderly voters.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 31, 2026 09:04 AM (dtajH)
The county Sherriff is up for reelection. He's a (D) Been Sherriff for as long as I've been here (15 years.) His opponent (R) is a newbie. He's made race something of an issue. The (D) is white, the (R) is black. Sitting Sherriff has sketchy history, but nothing definitive has been proven.
Vote or not?
I may not vote for either.... ideas?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 09:04 AM (RORbl)
The Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with the Screaming Chicken hood decal.
(think: Smokey and the Bandit)
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 09:06 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 31, 2026 09:07 AM (/+uur)
Thanks from the bottom of my heart Mis Hum for all the work you have done on the blog from ONTs, Rants, Prayer threads.
Hope we hear from you occasionally in the future. Its always a sad never to run across old companions.
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 09:08 AM (Ia/+0)
there guy = their guy
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 08:55 AM (qgHp7)
there
there wolf
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 31, 2026 09:09 AM (/+uur)
Tyndale- the latter the English translator of the Bible, killed by some Catholics in Europe for the reclamation of Europe. I also pray for the intercession of St Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross for Spain.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 09:10 AM (JrHfD)
It's another thing when he's solicited by conspirators who do the work of getting his name on the ballot.
You'd think the Alaska Supreme Court could see the difference.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 31, 2026 09:10 AM (dtajH)
After 16,000 dead found after the 2024.
PS Dead voters arent much fun
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 31, 2026 09:11 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: A non-standard deviant at October 31, 2026 09:11 AM (gA/vX)
Posted by: fd at October 31, 2026 09:11 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 09:12 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 31, 2026 09:12 AM (/+uur)
I think it is more easily understood when you say that the statistical data shows that roughly half the entire population is below average!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it."
Deplorable, but I still would have loved to lead them into the promised land of Democracy Now!
Posted by: Hillary, older & bitterer at October 31, 2026 09:12 AM (NFX2v)
The Papists seem absent from here today. Proverbs 3.7?
Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 08:58 AM (Y8DZL)
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I thought according to the AoSHQ Style Guide it was "Filthy Papists".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 09:12 AM (eRlcH)
Thanks from the bottom of my heart Mis Hum for all the work you have done on the blog from ONTs, Rants, Prayer threads.
Hope we hear from you occasionally in the future. Its always a sad never to run across old companions.
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 09:08 AM (Ia/+0)
Well said. I, too, had missed the farewell message.
The 24-hour news cycle is bad for your mental health. The media knows this, that's why they constantly bleat doom-and-gloom. I don't pay attention to it any more.
You have to trust in Jesus and pray.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 31, 2026 09:13 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 08:43 AM (RIvkX)
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Thanks for the reminder! I looked this up once, but it seems my analog brain only remembers the stuff I read on paper, not what I look up on the phone/interwebz.
It's like joke telling- I only remember the ones I've repeated to someone else... never the ones I forward via email...
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 31, 2026 09:13 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 31, 2026 09:14 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 31, 2026 09:10 AM (dtajH)
I think I see the problem, it's that the members of the Alaska Supreme Court are lawyers...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at October 31, 2026 09:15 AM (hOUT3)
The Left is now reaching the stage of a Doomsday Cult. When the promised Big Event doesn't happen, a few will drop out and the rest will carry on with more fervor.
The current Big Event is the Blue Tsunami that will hit on Tuesday. R candidates will get washed away. Righteous candidates like Talarico, El-Sayed and Hochul will win by double digits, because the polls say so.
I call Shenanigans.
Turnout. Turnout. Turnout.
Vote early and often.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 31, 2026 09:15 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 31, 2026 08:59 AM (JzUSu)
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Conservative rooster runs over the protester birds trying to burn down Chik-Fil-A in his two-door Thunderbird.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 31, 2026 09:16 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 31, 2026 09:17 AM (gBwqC)
Biscuit Rigsby of Goochland died five years ago. Governor Spanberger just restored her voting rights anyway. There’s an official letter, the state seal, and the Governor’s signature.
Dead dog voter are not much fun
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 31, 2026 09:17 AM (/+uur)
But if one or two percent make the mistake it can make the difference in a close election.
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Plus, the conspiracy’s plot did not plan for the Court to require some “definition” between the two candidates, Fake Dan must have started to feel a bit nervous, leading to his removal of the R designation. The NYT probably contacted him for comments prior to publication, which caused him to run, imo. He has perjured himself for this farce, at a minimum.
Posted by: EveR at October 31, 2026 09:18 AM (rJD2P)
I'd vote for the Republican just because I've ceased voting for Democrats. I'm sorry if he has made the issue about race. On the other hand, he did wake up to reject the "ownership" the Democrats feel that they have on black voters.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 09:18 AM (JrHfD)
This is not my ancestor's Virginia!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at October 31, 2026 09:19 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 31, 2026 08:59 AM (JzUSu)
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Conservative rooster runs over the protester birds trying to burn down Chik-Fil-A in his two-door Thunderbird.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
+++
Stay in your lane, pal.
Posted by: Plymouth Road Runner, Ford Falcon, and Buick Skylark at October 31, 2026 09:19 AM (gA/vX)
MisHum, thank you for everything you've done to help make this crazy and fun place what it is!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 31, 2026 09:20 AM (ctC8W)
Enjoy the downtime; stop in now and then - don't be a stranger.
Bests.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 31, 2026 09:21 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 09:04 AM (RORbl)
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Vote for the black Republican, and PLEASE tell me his name is Bart.... lie if you must.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 31, 2026 09:22 AM (kOluj)
Psalm 62:8
He is here for you today. He will be there for you after the election.
Trust in Him alone. He is the one constant across the span of time.
Blessed is the Lord our God.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 31, 2026 09:22 AM (gBwqC)
The Left is now reaching the stage of a Doomsday Cult. When the promised Big Event doesn't happen, a few will drop out and the rest will carry on with more fervor.
...
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 31, 2026 09:15 AM (dtajH)
Collectivism is an inversion of Christianity. Collectivists profess a concern for the poor, but Collectivism requires the commission of the sins of Pride, Envy, Wrath and Theft. Unconditional Love (i.e, agape') has no place in their worldview. Being materialists, they view humans as "things" to be used and discarded as necessary in the pursuit of Utopia. Instead, the path to Utopia turns to a path to Hell-on-Earth.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 31, 2026 09:25 AM (ksbjf)
But again, as we see, time and time again, judges in Alaska, citing no law or misinterpretation of law, decided that fake Dan Sullivan could be on the ballot.
Something's got to be done about these judges.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 31, 2026 08:07 AM (XV/Pl)
As I commented on the tech thread.....a certain movie comes to mind.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 31, 2026 09:25 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
**********
That would explain why my wife is spraying me with the garden hose.
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 09:26 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 31, 2026 09:27 AM (0sNs1)
My thinking is that at this point (post-primaries)
it's now all about numbers and leverage points.
In legislation, even the most putrid Republican is okay to vote for because, if the numbers game is won by Democrats, they will actively govern to harm you, your children, your grandchildren and the country.
Outside of legislation, a Democrat win gives them a position to foist insane Democrat damage to your community as we've seen with Soros' DAs and Police Chiefs.
So, I just vote R, assuming that we can clean up the filthy tards like Ol' Corny in the primaries.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 09:30 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 31, 2026 09:30 AM (LOvBA)
Sometimes this is a tough blog to read because it’s a whole lot of ugly truth to handle at times. But knowing that I’m not alone in this fight is quite the comfort; it’s that same feeling when Kirk Douglas says I Am Spartacus. 🫡 to MisHum
Posted by: TxAnn at October 31, 2026 09:30 AM (itAg7)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 31, 2026 09:31 AM (LOvBA)
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 October 31, 2026 09:31 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 09:32 AM (qgHp7)
Just had to drill a couple pop rivets out of an S shaped connector from the straight down from the roof to just before it heads underground. Plug was just past the S into the downstream.
🙏
Posted by: TeeJ at October 31, 2026 09:34 AM (ix5nG)
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 09:34 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 31, 2026 09:34 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Joe Mama at October 31, 2026 09:35 AM (SJtb9)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2026 09:35 AM (08OqX)
Tyndale- the latter the English translator of the Bible, killed by some Catholics in Europe for the reclamation of Europe. I also pray for the intercession of St Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross for Spain.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 09:10 AM (JrHfD)
You're right, I am appalled. Put me in the "dubious" category concerning Luther and Tyndale. The less said of Martin Luther, the better. Tyndale was executed for blasphemy, not for translating the Bible into English.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 31, 2026 09:36 AM (ksbjf)
Muldoon's work is the standard displayed
His poetic fiction
Yields excessive friction
So with love (and a hose) he gets sprayed.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 31, 2026 09:36 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: A non-standard deviant at October 31, 2026 09:11 AM
Never! We're working 24/7 to increase deviancy across the board. We're moving the Overton window, and having a pretty mephitic time doing it!
Posted by: Big Penguin at October 31, 2026 09:39 AM (0sNs1)
Tyndale- the latter the English translator of the Bible, killed by some Catholics in Europe for the reclamation of Europe. I also pray for the intercession of St Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross for Spain.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 09:10 AM (JrHfD)
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One of many English translators. Putting the Bible into the vernacular was the whole point of St. Jerome's Vulgate Bible. Surely you don't think his translation was what got him killed?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 31, 2026 09:40 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 31, 2026 09:40 AM (ksbjf)
Maybe if y'all adopted credo baptism wouldn't be so filthy
Posted by: Community Notes at October 31, 2026 09:40 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 31, 2026 09:40 AM (YcOeP)
Posted by: Big Penguin at October 31, 2026 09:39 AM (0sNs1)
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With that remark, you just decided the "Guilty Pleasure" I'll be featuring on tomorrow's Sunday Morning Book Thread...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 09:41 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher
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My wife LOL'ed!
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 09:41 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 09:42 AM (Ia/+0)
I really wish I had a flat-earther friend so I could've woken him up and yelled "Look! One of Elon's rockets finally done blew a hole in the firmament!"
Posted by: PabloD at October 31, 2026 09:42 AM (mXZsC)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 31, 2026 09:36 AM (ksbjf)
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And arrested at the request of Henry VIII, friend of Catholics everywhere, but especially in England!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 31, 2026 09:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: M. Gaga at October 31, 2026 09:43 AM (3p/KU)
I'm not looking forward to Tuesday but I'm starting to care less. We voted R across the board. R has done jack and shit to combat what I think is some basic things to help all Americans. Here in Texas they banned porn sites and hemp products. I guess that's a good thing but lowering property taxes might have gained more votes. Priorities. Idiots.
Good luck Mis Hum.
Posted by: Billythesquid at October 31, 2026 09:44 AM (x4l2h)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 31, 2026 09:45 AM (sKqQm)
https://ibb.co/v6ZCBYHv
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 09:46 AM (RORbl)
Posted by: A non-standard deviant at October 31, 2026 09:11 AM
Regarding IQ tests and statistics, the Hrothgar Index (yet to be proven wrong) is that basically every other person you have to deal with is below average!
The only places where the above HI does not apply are any AoS MoMe where the inverse will be found to be true!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at October 31, 2026 09:47 AM (hOUT3)
Chemo has been halted due to side effects and the oncologist will review before moving forward. We may do it every other week. Four sessions down, eight to go. Not sure what the path is but prayers are appreciated.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 31, 2026 09:47 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 09:41 AM
Will the pants requirement be suspended? Because otherwise it's more difficult for us to participate.
Posted by: Big Penguin at October 31, 2026 09:49 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2026 09:51 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2026 09:52 AM (ja/vV)
Posted by: Big Penguin at October 31, 2026 09:49 AM (0sNs1)
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The rules are in place for a reason!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 09:54 AM (FZ29D)
Now Let's See If They Have a Sense of Humor - a limerick
Roman Catholics display a great zeal
But I think we can finally reveal
That their quest for popularity
Reveals a true disparity
Their services lack a certain Mass appeal
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 09:54 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 09:54 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 31, 2026 07:48 AM (FnERZ)
Yay!
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 09:54 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 31, 2026 07:48 AM (FnERZ)
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Grammar Nazi?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 07:50 AM (RIvkX)
Ooh, I hope so!
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 09:55 AM (odBC9)
And call no man your father upon earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
I even cringe when I see the writers in the Didache referred to as "the church fathers."
Posted by: TeeJ at October 31, 2026 09:56 AM (ix5nG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 09:56 AM (ndZc7)
Mis Hum, sorry to see you step away from the blog. Your contributions have been invaluable and I wish you the very best in your new adventures!
May God continue to bless us all.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 31, 2026 09:57 AM (D/6p1)
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 09:57 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
"People who Practrice Popery" is also allowed.
Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 09:58 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 09:54 AM (qgHp7)
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Hey.... at least we'll say 'Hi' to you in the liquor store 😆
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 31, 2026 09:58 AM (kOluj)
Chickens cross road to burn down KFC, Chik-Fil-A, and Popeyes.
Posted by: naturalfake at October
Chicken coupe: the two door vehicle chickens use to cross the road.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 09:58 AM (sl73Y)
"People who Practrice Popery" is also allowed.
Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 09:58 AM (Y8DZL)
_________
*checks Guide*
Also "Slavish Idolators of the Whore of Rome"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 10:04 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 10:04 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 10:08 AM (ndZc7)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Posted by: TeeJ at October 31, 2026 10:08 AM (ix5nG)
Posted by: Big Pharma at October 31, 2026 10:12 AM (gA/vX)
I understand the sentiment. Feels like change is in the air. Not exactly sure where it's taking me yet and that is a little anxiety provoking but one foot in front of the other.
Glad I got to meet you in person. Our conversation meant a lot.
love
Sharon (willow's apprentice)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 31, 2026 10:15 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 31, 2026 10:16 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: 88C+u: mm... capers at October 31, 2026 10:17 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 10:18 AM (qgHp7)
NNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Thank you for all the years of service to us morons. I for one, will miss you greatly. You have always been kind to me from the beginning. I hope you have more time to paint, fish, and see your daughters and grandkid. Please don't be a stranger and I hope to see you and the Mrs. again in the future.
Posted by: lin-duh at October 31, 2026 10:18 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: 88C+u: mm... capers at October 31, 2026 10:17 AM (88C+u)
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As long as its not a blueberry bagel. Those are unholy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 10:19 AM (RIvkX)
I'd vote for Victor Marx if he was funnier
Posted by: 88C+u at October 31, 2026 10:16 AM (88C+u)
Victor was kicked out of the Marx Bros, after being featured in the movie-
"A Tea Time of Boredom"
Like Groucho, Chico, and Harpo, he was known for his "specialty"...Plate Spinning.
Audiences were not amused.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 10:21 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 10:23 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 10:27 AM (zV+0v)
Posted by: Frenchjeton at October 31, 2026 10:28 AM (j0T5y)
A hail and hearty Salute! to you Mis Hum - thanks for all your patience and hard work.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 31, 2026 10:30 AM (iqv62)
Was it something we said??
Seriously, you are loved and such a part of this community. And we will miss your art.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at October 31, 2026 10:30 AM (FGA9/)
CNN Communications
@CNNPR
CNN's @kaitlancollins spoke to @FT about image, communication — and what to wear for battle with Donald Trump
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 10:33 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 31, 2026 10:33 AM (lOlUK)
Roman Catholics display a great zeal
But I think we can finally reveal
That their quest for popularity
Reveals a true disparity
Their services lack a certain Mass appeal
Posted by: muldoon at
I'm blessed that the old chant "sticks and stones" was firmly instilled in me. The right to ignore is a massive power.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 10:33 AM (sl73Y)
@CNNPR
"But ultimately what these journalists rely on is each other"
The women of CNN's Election Night in America share with @USATODAY how they are are taking on Trump, approaching the midterms, misinformation, and more.
https://tinyurl.com/nhttjaff
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 10:37 AM (ndZc7)
youtube.com/watch?v=JI3SYhY7dG0
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 10:38 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 31, 2026 10:40 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 31, 2026 10:42 AM (M+uMR)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 31, 2026 10:42 AM (M+uMR)
I'll take it... The ones o've seen have Abbot losing
Posted by: It's me donna at October 31, 2026 10:44 AM (+gK6I)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Real Queer Politics is more like it.
Posted by: Joe Mama at October 31, 2026 10:45 AM (SJtb9)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 31, 2026 10:46 AM (znREB)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 09:12 AM (eRlcH)
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Funny how trashing Judaism is strictly forbidden--and rightly so--but mockery of Catholicism is acceptable.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 31, 2026 10:47 AM (3ImbR)
“The View” Hosts Call Out Alaska Dems’ “Shady Tactic” Putting a Second Dan Sullivan on the Ballot
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Too dishonest for The View?!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 10:50 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 10:50 AM (kpS4V)
I know you didn't particularly like me. You even threatened to ban me, (and you were right to do it, of course).
But, I always liked you, and you had the finest of ONTs, bar none. That was the golden age of ONTs, the Dom Perignon among Bruts and Andres.
Farewell, and think of us from time to time as you mosey along the old dusty trail!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 31, 2026 10:51 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: IrishEi ?!
John 15:18–20
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.”
Posted by: Tonypete at October 31, 2026 10:52 AM (iqv62)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 31, 2026 10:47 AM (3ImbR)
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The mackerel snappers don't control the weather.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 10:52 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 31, 2026 10:53 AM (LOvBA)
Very sorry to hear that you are retiring. You're going to be missed. Any idea how many threads you have posted over the years?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2026 10:53 AM (XeU6L)
Election Integrity Group Claims to Have Found Thousands of Potentially Dead Los Angeles Voters
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 10:54 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: IrishEi ?!
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Are you kidding ?!
Posted by: Methodists at October 31, 2026 10:55 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 10:52 AM
+++
LOL.
Posted by: Person who always enjoys a good mackerel snapper reference at October 31, 2026 10:55 AM (gA/vX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 10:57 AM (xz+xK)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 31, 2026 10:58 AM (3ImbR)
youtube.com/watch?v=MnMi-8_W-JU
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 10:59 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I may have taken a few cheap shots at the Presbyterians...well, one of the two.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2026 11:00 AM (XeU6L)
People here tear into the Jews over our retarded politics - again, fair.
But I put "Filthy Papists" in the same category as "Da Jooooz" and "Icebacks." It’s just bawdy humor, not malicious humor.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 31, 2026 11:00 AM (BI5O2)
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If making a wordplay joke on big "M" Mass and little "m" mass constitutes a great trashing of Catholicism I guess the answer to the above is "No".
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 11:01 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 31, 2026 11:03 AM (CV/BS)
Posted by: Funsize at October 31, 2026 11:03 AM (3j87q)
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Cute.
I rest my case.
Posted by: IrishEi ?!
You're insulted that people make fun? Come on. Do you know where you are?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 11:04 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 11:05 AM (Ia/+0)
Mis Hum the coffee & prayer thread is my favorite weekend hangout
I hope you will still be around in the comments
Big thanks and bigger hugs
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 31, 2026 11:06 AM (Ydd86)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:06 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:06 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 31, 2026 11:07 AM (lvxFe)
But if you’re totally hanging it up, I understand and am grateful for over ten years of your wisdom. I will look at your art hanging on my wall and remember.
Love to The Fabulous. Hugs to you.
Posted by: creeper at October 31, 2026 11:08 AM (lWAes)
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 11:01 AM (qgHp7)
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My remark was not directed at you, muldoon.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 31, 2026 11:08 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 31, 2026 11:09 AM (8B4gm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
No dusty trail in Wisconsin, only Tundra Muck, either frozen or unfrozen.
Posted by: Frost Heaves Ahead! at October 31, 2026 11:10 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 31, 2026 11:12 AM (8B4gm)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 11:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 11:16 AM (YSUhf)
FWIW, AI sez "A major political and judicial crisis is unfolding in Warsaw after the suspension of the head of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal triggered street protests and a high-level standoff."
IDNKT.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:16 AM (Jr5Lq)
Voiceover: What do you think would happen if we put up a fake candidate?
Ka-Boom!
Mister Lizard:"We're going to need another
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 11:17 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Archimedes
Nah, the usual... president defied the EU and said they wouldn't take refugees. PM came to talk to Obummer and then they started a color revolution... looks like it failed.
Posted by: MkY at October 31, 2026 11:18 AM (ik4bQ)
huh
Lot of that going around lately. Coincidentally.
Somehow, this dropped off my rotation. Mis Hum reminded me. Thanks again.
https://tinyurl.com/y829ze8n
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:20 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 31, 2026 11:20 AM (lvxFe)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 11:21 AM (763Um)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 31, 2026 11:21 AM (Cqx++)
I thought according to the AoSHQ Style Guide it was "Filthy Papists".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 09:12 AM (eRlcH)
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Funny how trashing Judaism is strictly forbidden--and rightly so--but mockery of Catholicism is acceptable.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 31, 2026 10:47 AM (3ImbR)
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Oh dear. I'm a Catholic and I can assure you that I take it very seriously. But I hope I'm secure enough to laugh at the slings and barbs cast at me and my fellow religionists.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 11:22 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 11:22 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Jeff E at October 31, 2026 11:22 AM (l/qir)
Posted by: Haha at October 31, 2026 11:22 AM (x+Rx3)
There may be more Sullivan brothers in Juneau.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 31, 2026 11:21 AM (Cqx++)
__________
They're all residing in Iron Bottom Sound.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 11:22 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: IrishEi ?!
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I didn't think it was. We've had a fair amount of attempts at humor that turn into rancor. I sometimes think people misread my particular odd sense of humor as mean-spirited, when it's mostly just odd. I do try to maintain an element of truth, as good humor should, but avoid ad hominem. My basic premise is that the world in many aspects is quite simply absurd.
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 11:24 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:24 AM (Jr5Lq)
FWIW, AI sez "A major political and judicial crisis is unfolding in Warsaw after the suspension of the head of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal triggered street protests and a high-level standoff."
IDNKT.
Posted by: gp
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Last nights ONT is an excellent 'in time' presentation.
Don't know what's happening today but last night will take you
up till five o'clock AM their time. That's when Karol Nawrocki departed the Tribunal building.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:24 AM (WY+aP)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 11:25 AM (j8MoG)
Posted by: Mick at October 31, 2026 11:25 AM (HFx9z)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 31, 2026 11:25 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 31, 2026 11:25 AM (ZxPkt)
72% Ds win 51.
For the “polls are wrong” peeps lots of free money for the taking if you’re sure of it.
Posted by: Money where your mouth is at October 31, 2026 11:26 AM (x+Rx3)
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 31, 2026 11:27 AM (ZxPkt)
Funny how trashing Judaism is strictly forbidden--and rightly so--but mockery of Catholicism is acceptable.
Posted by: IrishEi ?
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How many times do you read, as a Catholic....?
How many times do you read, as a Baptist ...?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:27 AM (WY+aP)
That's true in general here, but I've never seen anything from muldoon that could conceivably raise hackles.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:28 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 31, 2026 11:28 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Hopefully, they can plug it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 31, 2026 11:28 AM (8B4gm)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 11:30 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 11:24 AM (qgHp7)
Absolutely.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 31, 2026 11:30 AM (8B4gm)
If you get tires at Discount Tire, they fix that kind of thing for free. I was surprised.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:31 AM (Jr5Lq)
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Texas is playing Mississippi St (TX -20.5)
and SC is playing Oklahoma (OU -3.5)
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 31, 2026 11:31 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: gp
**********
So you must have missed my Morninng Rant in 2022 about fly-tying...
Posted by: muldoon at October 31, 2026 11:31 AM (qgHp7)
It would be the ultimate irony if Bass loses to her after helping her cheat Spencer Pratt out of the race.
Posted by: Whoever wins LA is still a shithole at October 31, 2026 11:32 AM (x+Rx3)
That's true in general here, but I've never seen anything from muldoon that could conceivably raise hackles.
I'd say he's raised my hackles, but I'm not really sure if I have hackles.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)
Also true on many levels with the hippy dippy vs reverent Mass styles
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 31, 2026 11:32 AM (Ydd86)
Posted by: muldoon at October
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Did you get all crotchety?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 11:33 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 11:33 AM (4Uhmp)
Opposed to killing Christians, whatever church they ascribe to.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 11:33 AM (xz+xK)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:34 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 31, 2026 11:36 AM (HTKYt)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 11:36 AM (kzq+c)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:36 AM (WY+aP)
As long as hackles are in season, it's OK to fish for them.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:36 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Whoever wins LA is still a shithole at October 31, 2026 11:36 AM (x+Rx3)
It's hackle raisin' time!
Martin Luther really hated the Jews
Thank him for the Holocaust too
That might be a gaff
But, it's surely a laugh
That he wanted to kill Catholics too!*
*Luther's own writings give this limerick a thumb's up!
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 11:37 AM (YSUhf)
Ask Ernst Rohm about irony. That's how this kind of stuff works.
The Karen Bass types of the world never get it, while they're staring at the wall or the bottom of a hasty ditch. But, sadly, you or I never get to see it either. We're gone way before the Karen Bass types get their own goal.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 11:38 AM (5GaC4)
Posted by: one hour sober at October 31, 2026 11:38 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 11:40 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 11:40 AM (odBC9)
It's safer than it was a few years ago.
AI sez: 'Rockford, Illinois is famously known as "Screw City".
The nickname pays homage to Rockford's rich industrial history. During the late 19th and 20th centuries, the city became a manufacturing powerhouse, specifically establishing itself as a global leader in the production of screws, bolts, fasteners, and precision machine tools'
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:41 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: one hour sober at October 31, 2026 11:38 AM (J4Dwc)
Extremism in defense of whatever I consider important is no vice, sir !!!
Posted by: Most People Are Tyrants at October 31, 2026 11:41 AM (5GaC4)
Government officials admit his Halloween decorations are legal. Why won't they leave him alone?
https://tinyurl.com/3eecbbhv
The real problem is the overuse of "racism" to describe any and every thing. Would I have hung those decorations? No. There is a bit of a resemblance to a lynching. But people are fed up to their eyeballs with the promiscuous labeling of "everything I don't like, including white people" as racism.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)
Here's a weird chili recipe that uses curry as part of the seasoning.
Kill City Chili
https://www.saveur.com/article/recipes/kill-city-chili
It sounds interesting enough to try.
But, also odd enough to hate.
Anyone tried this particular type of chili?
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 11:43 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 11:44 AM (xz+xK)
Posted by: Zombie Men Of Sodom at October 31, 2026 11:44 AM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2026 11:45 AM (XeU6L)
Laughing is far easier.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 11:45 AM (sl73Y)
And the poor guy suffered because the vat of coffee was instant ersatz coffee.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 31, 2026 11:45 AM (NnhvP)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:45 AM (Jr5Lq)
Saturday sabbath is a Jewish thing, and a Seventh-Day Adventist thing. It's a weird thing for a Catholic to get worked up about.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 31, 2026 11:46 AM (BI5O2)
Got one house on my little cul-de-sac that loves a good "love is love" flower bed sign. They put a variation of it up about once a month. I suspect their "less that fully functional" stay at home boy is queer.
The sign irritates me. But never once has it occurred to me to take it down. Because it's their property. Their right to put up the gay ass flower bed sign.
That's the thing with the decorations, the sign, all of it. You or I or anyone else don't like it ? Look at something else. The End.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 11:47 AM (5GaC4)
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 11:47 AM (sl73Y)
FYI the active ingredient in my chili is habanero peppers. No hot sauce needed.
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 31, 2026 11:47 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Facebook Ad at October 31, 2026 11:47 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 31, 2026 11:47 AM (NnhvP)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:45 AM (Jr5Lq)
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I don't get it either, but whatevs.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 31, 2026 11:48 AM (HTKYt)
It has turned into a competition. I also can't help but think this is somewhat of a deflection for non-religious people to celebrate because they don't feel right about putting up Xmas decorations.
Or perhaps I'm just way overthinking this.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
Mateusz Morawiecki@MorawieckiM
WE ARE SUBMITTING A MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE IN TUSK'S GOVERNMENT.
Our proposal: a technical government led by @Marek Jurek until the elections that will elect a new parliamentary majority.
A reset in the Constitutional Tribunal is needed - many political circles agree on this: from Razem, through Rozwój Plus, to Konfederacja. This was also emphasized by the President and the legal President of the Constitutional Tribunal.
However, this cannot be a reset with the participation of today's TK attackers! Their place is in the dustbin of history and before independent courts as defendants.
The very end of the disastrous rule of this coalition will only be the beginning - you need to have a concrete plan for what to do next to ensure that the dramatic scenes of yesterday never happen again
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:49 AM (WY+aP)
It has turned into a competition.
That said, I've enjoyed the displays a lot.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 11:49 AM (sl73Y)
Segue to gardening thread: didja ever inspect a vining plant to see if all the twists are same-handed, right or left? They often are. Plants are smart.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:50 AM (Jr5Lq)
Saturday sabbath is a Jewish thing, and a Seventh-Day Adventist thing. It's a weird thing for a Catholic to get worked up about.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Wasn't it a Christian thing until Constantine unified with the sun worshipers?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:51 AM (WY+aP)
It has turned into a competition. I also can't help but think this is somewhat of a deflection for non-religious people to celebrate because they don't feel right about putting up Xmas decorations.
Or perhaps I'm just way overthinking this.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
There's a very rich guy in Highland Park who has a YUGE Halloween display every year in front of his YUGE house,
people drive by just to see it, like they would Christmas decorations.
So, your thoughts are probably correct.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 11:51 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Joemarine at October 31, 2026 11:52 AM (y171U)
Posted by: gp
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Metric, or Imperial?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2026 11:53 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Death Comes Soon Enough at October 31, 2026 11:53 AM (vFcoN)
Kill City Chili
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Used to eat lunch at Sammy's Heartburn City. Best Chili cheese and bacon hamburgers in the world.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:53 AM (WY+aP)
He's not as sanguine about the idea as I am.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 31, 2026 11:54 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: IrishEi ?
We trash secular Lefty Jews all the time. I think the same goes for all the religions . Methodists, Church of England, Presbyterian, etc.
The religion that gets mean spirited mocked the most here though is Mormon and for the most part they are conservative.
Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 11:55 AM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:55 AM (Jr5Lq)
Good considering I was a walk in and everyone is getting their winter tires put on right now.
It’s snowing in the mountains!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 11:55 AM (yEz+x)
I would suggest the best Saints were Sam Mills, Pat Swilling, Ricky Jackson, and Vaughan Johnson.
Probably the only time the 3-4 was truly played as originally conceived.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 11:55 AM (5GaC4)
Kill City Chili
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Used to eat lunch at Sammy's Heartburn City. Best Chili cheese and bacon hamburgers in the world.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:53 AM (WY+aP)
Did they use chopped raw onions as well?
Cuz anything that's chili-cheesed needs chopped raw onions.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 11:55 AM (YSUhf)
This act of brutality risks attracting the attention of foreign armies. It was absolutely stupid.
Best outcome is that Tusk resigns and the next government is less thuggish.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 31, 2026 11:57 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:58 AM (Jr5Lq)
Heh.
You gotta love Elon Musk. Fun sense of humor for halloween.
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2116399240880480429?s=20
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 11:58 AM (YSUhf)
Cuz anything that's chili-cheesed needs chopped raw onions.
Posted by: naturalfake
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Yes and jalapenos if you ordered them. It was the king of burgers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 11:59 AM (WY+aP)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:59 AM (Jr5Lq)
It was fun seeing all the families stroll around looking at the over-the-top decorations.
Then we had cider and doughnuts.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 12:03 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: 88C+u
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Tusk was bruted into office by the EU. He is an EU tool.
The EU orchestrated his take over attempt which illustrates
what bumbling fools comprise the EU.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 12:04 PM (WY+aP)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 11:45 AM (Jr5Lq)
I know a guy who does side work putting up and taking down Christmas lights. He charges up to $1000 per house depending on the size and how intricate the lighting is. And that’s just for his loaner, the cost of the lights is separate and can be several hundred dollars as well. Which to me is insane money to spend. But he has a never ending list of clients.
Posted by: Whoever wins LA is still a shithole at October 31, 2026 12:04 PM (x+Rx3)
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Eva Marie Saint.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2026 12:08 PM (XeU6L)
Heh.
You gotta love Elon Musk. Fun sense of humor for halloween.
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status
/2116399240880480429?s=20
Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 11:58 AM (YSUhf)
; )
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 12:16 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 12:17 PM (0kX4S)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 31, 2026 08:20 AM (I43vL)
Simply assign all votes for the decoy Dan to the real Dan.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 12:31 PM (0kX4S)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 31, 2026 12:32 PM (RDiUV)
My prayer request is for my mother's eventual passing into heaven in peace in her sleep, without any pain or fear. She's doing ok from what my brother tells me & when I talk to her. Her every need has and will be met. Sitters 24/7.
I do think it will be in the next few weeks or months based on her approaching her 96th birthday. She's going home from rehab after a procedure to fix a lumbar fracture. Lived indpendently til now in the house they built in 1964 on the farm.
My brother & I love each other. The problem I have, and am ignoring, is his wife going insane & emailing me to basically fly there every week to do my mother's laundry & order food for her. This is absurd, but she may be crazier than we thought. I doubt my brother knows she's doing this & I will spare him from knowing as he seems fine as mother's POA & healthcare surrogate, 1/4 mi away.
We've never been a Jerry Springer type family, &, as mother is dying, it is not the time to start. I wrote 3 sentences of we are handling this, I speak to him daily,no worries.
She's added this burden to my early grief.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 31, 2026 12:40 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 31, 2026 10:47 AM (3ImbR)
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The mackerel snappers don't control the weather.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 31, 2026 10:52 AM (kpS4V)
* golf clap *
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 31, 2026 03:05 PM (ksbjf)
Daily Tech News 31 October 2026
Top Story
- Binance was hacked by thieves who made off-ish with $6.3 billion. (Bleeping Computer)
I say "ish" for two reasons: First, half the funds were immediately frozen and cannot be transferred further; second, it's a bit like bank loans: When you lose $1000 in Bitcoin, you have a problem; when you lose $6.3 billion in Bitcoin the blockchain has a problem.
The attack was bootstrapped through a compromised devops laptop. The developer themselves didn't have access to do this, but they had access inside the corporate firewall so more sophisticated attacks could be launched bypassing that level of security entirely.
Tech News
- Speaking of compromised devops laptops, the Visual Studio Code extension for the Claude AI tool on the Cursor platform was backdoored for twelve hours. (The Register)
That's bad. It apparently doesn't affect the mainstream Claude Code interface, only that extension for that IDE on that particular marketplace, but that's another firewall bypass in a very widely used tool.
- Google's first datacenter in space is operational after launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 earlier this month. (Tech Crunch)
This is a small test run - only 1000 watts of power - and is intended to examine radiation and thermal stresses in the real environment before further deployments.
- With Nvidia's RTX 5090 declared extinct in the wild, interest turned to the second-fastest model, the RTX 5080. With predictable results as the card more than doubled in price and then followed its bigger sibling across the Darwinian event horizon. (Tom's Hardware)
The 5080 was never good value, and now it's gone.
Disclaimer: Happyween!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 04:01 AM (odBC9)
>>>Speaking of compromised devops laptops
"Are we not men?"
"We are devops."
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 04:02 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 31, 2026 04:14 AM (Hbeqj)
520 All week been up this early, no point in doing that today
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 02:30 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 04:18 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 31, 2026 04:24 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: clarence at October 31, 2026 04:27 AM (Imcic)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 04:27 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2026 04:28 AM (mmrXZ)
Guess he got some gas money and was able to make it home yesterday.
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 31, 2026 04:24 AM (Hbeqj)
Yes, he did! From a coworker.
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)
AoSHq style guide
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 31, 2026 04:43 AM (M4Dop)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 31, 2026 04:47 AM (L1JuH)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 04:47 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 04:48 AM (odBC9)
M you are prolific today
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 31, 2026 04:43 AM (M4Dop)
Lifics are my favorite!
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 04:48 AM (odBC9)
There are a few more hits on news sites about it.
But not a great deal.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 04:56 AM (iMotb)
https://tinyurl.com/4er9muw9
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 04:59 AM (iMotb)
What the f*ck is happening in Poland??
1:16:15
https://tinyurl.com/wtuubvh4
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 04:48 AM (odBC9)
At one point, somewhat near the end, he reads out a chat comment that said "Australia is in the EU."
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 05:02 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: brass tacks at October 31, 2026 05:02 AM (5bV7D)
https://tinyurl.com/4er9muw9
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 04:59 AM (iMotb)
I quit reading that pretty quickly because it seems to have been written in English by a non-native English speaker and gets confusing pretty quickly!
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 05:04 AM (odBC9)
999,971 views 7h ago
asmongold
What the f*ck is happening in Poland??
1:16:15
https://tinyurl.com/wtuubvh4
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 05:07 AM (odBC9)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 31, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)
My total weekly commute is probably less that one day of Skip’s.
Posted by: Accomack at October 31, 2026 05:15 AM (4c58h)
Posted by: Just Wondering at October 31, 2026 05:16 AM (gA/vX)
But then again, I don't know a lot of 16 year olds who are wanted on murder charges either.
https://tinyurl.com/3zzumncv
Seems to create as many questions as it answers.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 05:16 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: brass tacks at October 31, 2026 05:02 AM (5bV7D)
Like Meathead on All in the Family.
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 05:16 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 05:18 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: No thanks at October 31, 2026 05:18 AM (gA/vX)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 05:19 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 04:47 AM (iMotb
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Mail!!! I made a couple of small political contributions and my mailbox gets a half a dozen fundraising requests a week. From a variety of individuals and groups. My name and addresser get sold and passed around.But it's wasted effort
Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 31, 2026 05:21 AM (jKSoO)
Posted by: fluffy at October 31, 2026 05:21 AM (V0/Sp)
Water relatively clean, despite the leaves.
We have been getting bluebirds since Wednesday.
Posted by: fluffy at October 31, 2026 05:26 AM (V0/Sp)
Only three more days till the political ads stop!!!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 04:47 AM
Only four more days until the 2028 election campaigns start!!!
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 31, 2026 05:28 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 05:28 AM (O7YUW)
I suspect that the same thing has happened at this end.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 05:28 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 05:29 AM (iMotb)
But then again, I don't know a lot of 16 year olds who are wanted on murder charges either.
https://tinyurl.com/3zzumncv
Seems to create as many questions as it answers.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at
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Flights run about $600 to $800 from Virginia to Ethiopia. Maybe mom and dad know a rich Nigerian prince
Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 31, 2026 05:30 AM (cJkCC)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 05:35 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 31, 2026 05:39 AM (aKiSo)
215 Since I won't be here for the Tech Thread: I was making sure my keyboard macros for next week were working okay. I was on my laptop, and I knew the keybinds, and so of course I opened up Notepad to check them. The first thing that popped up was a notification that Microsoft is using Notepad to train its AI. (Suspiciously, I can't find that notification back.) I tried my macros, and they would only half-work. As in, about half the time, they would only do the first of three words followed by a bunch of small o's. I have never seen anything like it. I opened a LibreOffice document, and they worked just fine.
TL,DR: Microsoft has managed to eff up Notepad.
Posted by: pookysgirl wants the degradation to stop at October 30, 2026 11:10 PM (Wt5PA)
I suggested SciTE and Notepad++ as alternatives. If someone has a better suggestion, I'm sure she'd appreciate it.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 05:41 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 05:41 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 05:52 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 31, 2026 06:00 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 06:02 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 31, 2026 06:06 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: clarence at October 31, 2026 06:07 AM (Imcic)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 31, 2026 06:07 AM (amcLV)
https://tinyurl.com/yts4jc3v
55 min of absolute EU fuckery.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 31, 2026 06:08 AM (Q/FnY)
The shortcut to Notepad in the Start > Accessories menu has this as the file's location:
%windir%\system32\notepad.exe
( So probably C:\system32\notepad.exe in most installs )
And if you don't have an old Windows 7 machine running, one of your family members or friends probably has one.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 06:11 AM (O7YUW)
Good Morning, goodbye, I'm wiped out and very fubared.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 31, 2026 06:12 AM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 06:13 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 05:28 AM (O7YUW)
The President of Poland was out of the country on a trip to Africa.
The Prime Minister of Poland (Tusk) ordered police to block access to the ... Supreme Court (I think).
The President flew back.
Mostly peaceful marching in the streets.
And stay tuned.
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 06:17 AM (odBC9)
And if you don't have an old Windows 7 machine running, one of your family members or friends probably has one.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 06:11 AM
raises hand
guilty as charged, Your Honor
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 31, 2026 06:17 AM (AMvSw)
I'm not sure, but I think Stirling the great black cat was exercising his Halloween cat privilege by jumping on me at his usual 3:45. The reason I'm not sure? I glanced at my watch, turned over, and the next thing I knew it was 5:00. Yet I don't think I slept another hour and more.
Had a confused dream about how a Moslem handed me an announcement to make about an upcoming bomb explosion. I was walking through an indoor mall, trying to find an attorney to represent me with the Feds once I made the public announcement, or a gun to protect myself from Moslems if I didn't make it. Something like that. I think.
What's going on for H'ween?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 06:17 AM (odBC9)
... because of the 24/48-hour rule.
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 06:20 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 06:22 AM (iMotb)
55 min of absolute EU fuckery.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 31, 2026 06:08 AM (Q/FnY)
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As I understand it, Poland is resisting the E. U open borders policy. Is Hungary still resisting?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 31, 2026 06:23 AM (qS5GK)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:24 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 06:24 AM (RIvkX)
Yet.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2026 06:22 AM (iMotb)
"Poland bears"
Polar bears?
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 06:24 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 06:24 AM (RIvkX)
How wonderful! Congratulations.
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 06:25 AM (odBC9)
Congratulations! Have a wonderful time and Happy Anniversary!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 06:27 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 31, 2026 06:27 AM (qS5GK)
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They were, but this Tusk dude got elected.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 31, 2026 06:28 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 06:28 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:29 AM (wzUl9)
Missed the ONT last night, but the first question was asked 30 years too late. Now, I wouldn't travel to Europe even if it was all expenses paid and Sydney Sweeney as a companion. I don't go places where I'm unwelcome. The Europeans' last living act after having their throats slit by their Musloid invaders will be to sneer at Americans.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 06:29 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 31, 2026 06:32 AM (wzUl9)
Happy anniversary and many more to San Franpsycho and the Missus.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 06:33 AM (eRlcH)
>>If someone has a better suggestion, I'm sure she'd appreciate.
Sublime Text, only because installing Neovim on a win machine is a pain in the ass.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 31, 2026 06:35 AM (XV/Pl)
Hadrian, that was my thought as well last night. Where was box E? That's where I'm going.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 06:37 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 31, 2026 06:40 AM (VyBeY)
(Fortune Magazine)
So apparently the CEO of Cisco "found" a 27 year old employee by the name of "Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy" working 5 levels below him in the org chart. "Paddy" is a former founder of ... something.
And he's been given unlimited AI tokens and told to refactor Cisco's code.
Cisco, the same company that has repeatedly hard-coded root-level passwords into their router products.
This will end well. The stupid, it burns.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 06:42 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Mitch at October 31, 2026 06:45 AM (gA/vX)
FIFY
as far as I'm concerned, that word always gets scare quotes until further notice.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 31, 2026 06:47 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 31, 2026 06:48 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 06:49 AM (2GVsD)
Donald Franciszek Tusk (born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician and historian who has served as the prime minister of Poland since 2023, previously holding the office from 2007 to 2014.
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 06:53 AM (odBC9)
Karol Tadeusz Nawrocki (born 3 March 1983) is a Polish historian and politician who has served as the 7th president of Poland since 2025.
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 06:54 AM (odBC9)
Retarded me didn't even think about it when i tried opening a .py file in a new user login and autopiloted to accept the extension. Seems it was just because fedora has VSCode configs on every /home/userxx instead of in root, but i don't want to have to spend Sunday afternoon auditing vscode extensions. I guess that's the price to hand over the computer to a colleague and wait all nonchalantly for the prick to be a prick, the way pricks do when they think you trust them.
Posted by: Nato at October 31, 2026 06:55 AM (XAyZ8)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 06:56 AM (Ia/+0)
Proving Polands judicial system is as bad as our own.
Something really has to be done about judges.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 31, 2026 06:56 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 31, 2026 06:56 AM (aKiSo)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 31, 2026 06:57 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 06:57 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 06:58 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 31, 2026 06:56 AM (XV/Pl)
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They all seem to have embraced the idea that they are "philosopher kings" dispensing wisdom and justice in equal measure as they see fit.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 31, 2026 07:00 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Tuna at October 31, 2026 07:03 AM (lJ0H4)
Lots of places in Europe would like to see, but won't ever happen
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 06:56 AM (Ia/+0)
Same here. St. Peter's in particular. But it's too late.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 31, 2026 07:04 AM (eRlcH)
Goodbye Horde, I am stepping away from the blog. I have volunteered to fill in if needed but this is goodbye to the Coffee Thread & The ONT. Everything is fine. It's just time to walk away. I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for making the Prayer Thread the most uplifting Thread anywhere on the web. Be well my friends.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 06:48 AM
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 07:08 AM (odBC9)
Proving Polands judicial system is as bad as our own.
Something really has to be done about judges.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 31, 2026 06:56 AM (XV/Pl)
A certain movie comes to mind.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 31, 2026 09:19 AM (hmYU4)
She's Out of My Life was his last standard presentation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 10:43 AM (WY+aP)
Posted by: SMOD at October 31, 2026 11:46 AM (gWCxi)
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Kinda cute
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Why Africa is a mess
Best and worst
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How many have you done?
Pun
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Halloween musical interlude
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Fiat currency
Europe sucks
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Hard times
Healthcare
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 30, 2026 10:00 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: 496 at October 30, 2026 10:00 PM (zcIRq)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 10:01 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 10:02 PM (2RJDy)
Reverse cowgirl was funny.
And nice, hot asian babe.
Box A.
Iceland's supposed to be real nice.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 10:02 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 10:03 PM (2RJDy)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:03 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 10:03 PM (ZxPkt)
I find myself wondering how effective a couple stomps could be at creating an ersatz Kathy Bates hobbling. The punk should never walk normally again.
Posted by: 496 at October 30, 2026 10:04 PM (U1y04)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 30, 2026 10:05 PM (kOluj)
Can I just take the cash?
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 10:06 PM (MWfyi)
Which means that Poland is absolutely under attack from a coup.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:06 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: TRex - spooky dino at October 30, 2026 10:06 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 10:10 PM (qlLNh)
The only one I'm unsure of is the "offered a ride" to a drifter part. Maybe I did, if she was pretty, but I did a lot of stupid stuff when I was younger and IF I did that one, it didn't lead to a HOF outcome--perhaps I dropped her off to a 7/11?
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: davidt at October 30, 2026 10:11 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Joemarine at October 30, 2026 10:12 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 10:12 PM (pFPY8)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 10:13 PM (ZxPkt)
@JackPosobiec 23m
BREAKING: The President of Poland has forced his way through the illegal police barricades in Poland!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2026 10:13 PM (nEUC6)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 10:14 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 10:14 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 10:14 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: DanMa'am at October 30, 2026 10:14 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Joemarine at October 30, 2026 10:15 PM (y171U)
Which means that Poland is absolutely under attack from a coup.
Posted by: Crusader
It is a coup attempt but Polish President Nawrocki is screwing up the Prime Minister and his minions attempts. Nawrocki turned around his plane from a trip to Senegal and returned to Warsaw (reportedly the military refused Tusk's attempts to block landing as the airport was military). Tusk took off to a resort and issued a claim that will haunt him, that it was all about the opposition taking Poland out of the EU. The AWFL karen fake judge that tried to kick out the top judges of the Constitutional Tribunal got shoved aside when she tried to prevent Polish President from entering the building. Police resisted the President briefly but as a former boxer, he pushed them aside.
So the Polish Constitution leaves a mess. Elections are not until 2027, the opposition is united but cannot remove the PM without 3/5 majority, the President is head of the military but the defense minister has day to day control and the President cannot remove him, etc. etc.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:16 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 10:16 PM (pMmVV)
We have a launch in about 90 minutes.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 15-18
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 30, 2026 (PDT)
Launch Time: 9:02 p.m. PDT (October 31, 0402 UTC, 05:02 CET)
https://youtu.be/OVOVtaf15eY
Posted by: Joyenz at October 30, 2026 10:16 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: 496 at October 30, 2026 10:16 PM (uzg2C)
Posted by: DanMa'am at October 30, 2026 10:14 PM (8uzBS)
Same. Not sure if it was a drifter or a locally-sourced artisanal hobo.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 10:16 PM (qlLNh)
Which means that Poland is absolutely under attack from a coup.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:06 PM (Cjcf6)
Believe nothing until it is categorically denied. This is as true in politics as it is in business.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 10:16 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 10:16 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 10:17 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 10:17 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)
Read it again. Heh.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 10:17 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: A0s dOpE at October 30, 2026 10:18 PM (88C+u)
The trick the nasty commie color revolution types use is ngos, press, security forces being split, and the veneer of legality for very illegal actions claiming to save democracy or other rubbish while killing it.
This is the globo homo WEF way. Smother republics with a pillow claiming people power.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:18 PM (E4rtv)
Box A.
Iceland's supposed to be real nice.
It's awesome. I'm going to guess that B doesn't get a lot of love. Well, unless you're the Wehrmacht.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 10:18 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Joemarine at October 30, 2026 10:15 PM (y171U)
No, it absolutely does not. Heh, again.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 10:18 PM (qlLNh)
>>@elonmusk
>>Our second product is called Blindsight and it will, as the name suggests, enable even those who are completely blind or have never seen to see.
>>It is ready from an engineering standpoint. Just waiting on regulatory approval.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:18 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 10:19 PM (NnhvP)
Gonna have to spread that to my church homies.
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 10:19 PM (kU0PQ)
I've done most all the (How many have you done?) except 9. Do I win a prize?
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 30, 2026 10:19 PM (96kpa)
Teaching was tolerable today... not great, but tolerable.
I might teach Monday, or I might not. Depends on what's available by Sunday evening.
There's a beautiful late-blooming rose on my rosebush. One of the best times I let nature take its course.
Looking forward to passing out candy tomorrow night!
Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2026 10:20 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: DanMa'am at October 30, 2026 10:20 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 10:20 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 10:21 PM (wzUl9)
FWIW, All Saints Eve, Polish tradition is to visit the graves of their ancestors thus traveling days so like cowards the Tusk regime thought they could shove it through without people noticing until too late.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:21 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 10:22 PM (Q7jI8)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 10:22 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026
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I hope by "Offed a drifter" you mean "Removed a Drifters record from the turntable"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 10:22 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 10:23 PM (kU0PQ)
She looked at me that the same way we’d look at someone casually juggling live grenades for fun.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 10:23 PM (pFPY8)
!0 years ago might have been a different call but today it's B.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:07 PM (viF8m)
Same here.
It's the least likely quadrant to get me murdered by muslims or leftists.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 30, 2026 10:24 PM (vSvIl)
Youu make Friday night waaay fun!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 30, 2026 10:24 PM (96kpa)
So awefully conforming; and indeed boring.
Truely, is there any aspect of Modern Life depicted in 80's/Max Headroom that has not been fully realized?
Blanks
BlankReg
Ad Markets
Organleggers
Broadcast Hacks
Trial By TV Judge
Intelligent Avatars
Homeless with TVs
Blipverts: Dopamine sites
15Minutes into the Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aykTosadj-c
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at October 30, 2026 10:24 PM (DfBR0)
Posted by: DanMa'am at October 30, 2026 10:24 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 10:12 PM (pFPY
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A hobo is a kind of drifter, right?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 10:24 PM (FZ29D)
Tomasz Rakowski
@TomaszJRakowski
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41m
Translated from Polish
They thought he wouldn't turn the plane back.
They thought he wouldn't come to the TK.
They thought he wouldn't enter the TK.
They thought they would win.
Well, not with President
@NawrockiKn
.
He is on duty, not in a position
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TK is the Polish Constitutional Court at the center of the controversy. Tusk needs the opposition dominance of the court removed as they and the President have frustrated Brussels and the EU from shoving over 100k plus migrants into their state. EU wants the border barriers down too so illegals can enter via Belarus. All using the cover of EU law.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:25 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: All Cultures Are Equal at October 30, 2026 10:25 PM (vFcoN)
I'd normally choose C but would now choose A due to barbarians. Have seen the UK and would probably stay in Iceland since Trump says Norway sucks (I know it's beautiful).
I have never offed a hitchhiker. I guess that means killed. I have hitchiked one time in college, during a bad snowstorm trying to get to the hospital to work on Thanksgiving at 0630. He asked for my ID and yelled at me the entire trip (the bus wasn't running).
Roman club?
Elder son went to UF, and yes the girls looked like that. Other son went to FSU and the girls were prettier.
Thank you for this massive ONT, WD.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 10:25 PM (hzuYO)
So the Polish Constitution leaves a mess. Elections are not until 2027, the opposition is united but cannot remove the PM without 3/5 majority, the President is head of the military but the defense minister has day to day control and the President cannot remove him, etc. etc.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:16 PM (E4rtv)
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Thank you! I really appreciate your detailed report.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:26 PM (Cjcf6)
The EU really has a hardon for illegals. It's amazing.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 10:27 PM (Riz8t)
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Dominik Serwacki 🇵🇱 ✍️ 🌍
@DominikSerwacki
Translated from Polish
❗️🇵🇱 2:30 The spokesperson for the Constitutional Tribunal, Weronika Ścibor, announced that all actions taken by Anna Korwin-Piotrowska against the President of the CT Bogdan Święczkowski and the Vice-President Bartłomiej Sochański have no legal force.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:27 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 10:22 PM (Q7jI
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Yep. Freeman Dyson wrote an essay about his daughter's experience as a social worker in Africa.
Turns out villagers will petition the government for money to dig a well--a process that could take YEARS--rather than ask a nearby well-digger to do it (cheap!).
Because the well-digger is from the wrong tribe.
Dirty water from a stream far away is preferable to having easy access to clean water locally.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 10:28 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Frugal Frank at October 30, 2026 10:28 PM (vFcoN)
>>It's the least likely quadrant to get me murdered by muslims or leftists.
Northern Europe is gorgeous. Finland and the whole Baltic Sea area is spectacular..
If you know you know.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:28 PM (viF8m)
In fact, I've come closer to "offing" a co-worker than a drifter.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:29 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Archimedes
They are using them as battering rams against the native populations. Same as bankrupting themselves over Ukraine and using up military stores there that now cannot be used to restore order at home. Meanwhile mosques in Euroland are becoming arsenals and native populations have a lot of restrictions even if they are allowed to have a firearm.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:30 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 10:30 PM (xOuxV)
Posted by: Willard Delecto at October 30, 2026 10:30 PM (sdSI9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 10:30 PM (6v4rH)
I've never offed a drifter, nor owned a set of encyclopedias. Solid 18.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 30, 2026 10:31 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: logprof at October 30, 2026 10:31 PM (eS0lA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 10:32 PM (xOuxV)
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So does the Democratic party in the United States. I "get" why Trump campaigns in states we've already won--we need to *crush* our opponents ideology. They need to lose by 20 instead of 10.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:32 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 30, 2026 10:33 PM (96kpa)
The curser is suddenly massively thick and black. wut is going on? This is new!
I also liked, of course, the Peak Redneck pick up truck. The girl's shock then laughter is familiar somehow from my distant youth. We used to "water ski" on a farm car, old Rambler station wagon, by wearing swimsuits and holding on to the luggage rack while 13yr old brother drove through woods. We'd duck under trees.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 10:33 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Crusader
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Democrats are planning on using the same techniques here from teh stash that DR has found. Same empty claims about saving democracy while violating the Constitution and its laws, crowds in the streets, illegal orders to military and police, etc. etc.
Given the recent groundswell, I think globohomo WEF types are going for broke before they lose it all. Too much is happening in too short a time now. Brazil, Israel, riots in France, now the Polish coup attempt, etc. Beware the Ides of October indeed.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:33 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 30, 2026 10:34 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2026 10:34 PM (aJQbY)
Dariusz Lasocki
@Dariusz_Lasocki
Translated from Polish
Supposedly, one of the so-called "new" Constitutional Tribunal judges, the one who hasn't been sworn in, had a heart attack.
They let the Politicians screw them over big time. They'll pay for it with their health, or maybe even their lives.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:34 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:35 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 10:35 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 10:35 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2026 10:35 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: logprof at October 30, 2026 10:36 PM (eS0lA)
That kind of crazy talk will get you branded a black piller.
Ask me how I know.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:36 PM (viF8m)
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 10:36 PM (2WIwB)
Better than "you guys" and the terribly ambiguous "you".
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 10:36 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 10:37 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 10:37 PM (2RJDy)
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 10:36 PM (2WIwB)
Sonds like the start of a bad 80's action flick.
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 10:37 PM (Q7jI8)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:25 PM (E4rtv)
Nawrocki needs to shoot Donald Tusk, and a gaggle of his supporters.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 10:38 PM (6v4rH)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2026 10:35 PM (aJQbY)
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It's tricky fitting a MoMe in the back of a pickup truck, but somehow they make it work.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 10:38 PM (FZ29D)
I think I'd have to go with B, just to get high enough into the Arctic circle to see the midnight sun in summer.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 10:38 PM (w6EFb)
Jan Molski 🇵🇱
@JanMolski
·
39m
Translated from Polish
As Deputy Marshal of the Sejm Krzysztof Bosak reports, after entering the Tribunal grounds with President Nawrocki, a prosecutor was already waiting for his ministers, who intended to bring charges against the president's collaborators for entering the Tribunal grounds.
This is Tusk's dictatorship!
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:39 PM (E4rtv)
Iceland just barely touches the arctic circle, which sort of surprises me.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 10:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 10:40 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sPumpkin at October 30, 2026 10:40 PM (k5CNB)
I forgot to add that my one time hitchhiking I was picked up by an undercover cop who yelled at me the entire ride to the hospital front door. As he had my ID I thought he was going to call my parents (this was always a fear 1000mi away) and then talk to the nursing director. He did neither.
He did tell me if he saw me doing this again he'd arrest me.
I have no idea if he was a real undercover cop, but at least he was not a serial killer finding student nurses in an early snowy Thanksgiving morning. There's that.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 10:40 PM (hzuYO)
Genius. Thank you, this is why I stay up Friday nights.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 10:41 PM (Y8DZL)
Oskar Szafarowicz
@Szafarowicz2001
·
1h
Translated from Polish
Police Chief Inspector Tomasz Michułka, who ordered the issuance of automatic weapons to riot squads against 🇵🇱 patriots defending the legal Constitutional Tribunal. The order, issued in writing, pertains to the period from November 2 to 8.
It's worth remembering his zeal during the Tusk regime's coup d'état.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:41 PM (E4rtv)
I told my family it's scarier than any horror movie because it's far, far closer to reality.
Posted by: logprof at October 30, 2026 10:41 PM (eS0lA)
Posted by: PaleRider at October 30, 2026 10:41 PM (PV+Zw)
Are Philadelphians more closely related to Bostonians or New Yorkers? And is Wisconsin really in the Pacific Northwest?
Posted by: From about That Time at October 30, 2026 10:42 PM (sl73Y)
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Dominik Serwacki 🇵🇱 ✍️ 🌍
@DominikSerwacki
Translated from Polish
❗️🇵🇱 2:30 The spokesperson for the Constitutional Tribunal, Weronika Ścibor, announced that all actions taken by Anna Korwin-Piotrowska against the President of the CT Bogdan Święczkowski and the Vice-President Bartłomiej Sochański have no legal force.
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Great update!
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:42 PM (Cjcf6)
I'm slow today (what else is new?), so I have to admit I don't get the pun. Anyone care to enlighten me so that I can 1) groan and 2) feel dumb. Thank ya kindly.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 30, 2026 10:43 PM (q3u5l)
In our own country post-Katrina, there were many stories of nice white churches sending money, volunteers, youth groups, etc. to help clean up. Locals did not pitch in, they sexually harassed the young ladies, sitting on porches throwing down beer cans and bottles, saying "Hey, pick that one up too". Some people deserve to suffer and are nothing but trouble and lifelong expense to the taxpayers. Let them starve and drink dirty water.
Posted by: Givers and Takers at October 30, 2026 10:43 PM (vFcoN)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2026 10:35 PM (aJQbY)
I hope they had safety straps on.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 10:43 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 30, 2026 10:43 PM (r7+Q7)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 10:44 PM (ZxPkt)
Hitched all over New England when I was a yute. Mostly nice people. Some absolutely batshit crazies too.
Favorite was getting picked up by a guy driving a big rig during a pretty heavy snowstorm who lectured me for an hour about how dangerous it was to hitchhike in New England in the winter and then drove me right to the front door of my frat. Nice guy.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Dayyyum at October 30, 2026 10:45 PM (Hs1wI)
No reason for me to bring that up.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 10:45 PM (2RJDy)
Posted by: California Racial Type at October 30, 2026 10:45 PM (vBZcw)
I sort of like the BOLD and broken lines but not the skinny part that I have to enlarge.
I hope my laptop is not kicking the bucket.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 10:45 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sPumpkin at October 30, 2026 10:40 PM (k5CNB)
Punching wogs...or punching their ticket?
Not that it matters.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 10:45 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Guy who still uses a typewriter at October 30, 2026 10:46 PM (gA/vX)
Look up the archaic, original meaning of decimation as pertains to the Legions.
Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2026 10:46 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 10:45 PM (hzuYO)
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 10:47 PM (Q7jI8)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:41 PM (E4rtv)
Sounds like he was going to wait until Monday to issue the weapons. You know, because everyone had gone home for the weekend.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 10:47 PM (rbvCR)
Wonder if Musk has seen the Europe Regulates vid
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 10:47 PM (f8snw)
Ask me how I know.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Only difference is I think Trump and his team are aware of the Democrat game plan. I think even the President of Poland and most of Tusk's party were in the dark about today's actions too. Tusk is now in a seaside resort being called a mutt German (Tusk has some German blood in him) on X. His fake judges are being brushed aside and his ministers are now struck with second doubts. Foreign Minister Sikorski is in Atlanta for G20 meetings with already several key ambassadors resigning publicly denouncing the coup. And he is likely to get serious pushback from Rubio and Trump over this.
Perhaps a failed coup in Poland gives pause to the assorted groups trying push one here for a moment. Young people are flocking to the court building now and siding against the coup and police cordon as Tusk looks like a return of Jaruzelski here.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:47 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Publius Quinctilius Varus at October 30, 2026 10:47 PM (vBZcw)
Allegedly.
You people are terrible at this.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:48 PM (viF8m)
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This seems to be where we're at globally. The most corrupt 500 people on the planet have grown impatient--they're no longer willing to wait on their grandchildren to rule us all. They are determined to over-run every government NOW with enough immigrants to create total *chaos*...so that they in turn can take totalitarian control.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:48 PM (Cjcf6)
No reason for me to bring that up.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 10:45 PM (2RJDy)
we all know that decadent means having only ten teeth.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 10:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:36 PM (viF8m)
F*cking shark apologist.
We don't want your kind around here.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sPumpkin at October 30, 2026 10:49 PM (k5CNB)
I spent thirty five years working on the ground in the villages, in the jungle, and every third fourth and fifth world shithole on this planet.
The African pig story is not only 100% true, it is just icing on the cake of their savagery...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at October 30, 2026 10:49 PM (fgH73)
Nice dramatic portrayal of "can't have nice things."
Posted by: logprof at October 30, 2026 10:49 PM (eS0lA)
I'm getting tired of the AI art stylings ...
I can't put my finger on it, or articulate exactly what rubs me the wrong way, but the way the characters are presented is aggravating.
I want to smack all of them !!!
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 30, 2026 10:49 PM (oCio0)
Thanks.
And yeah, maybe (just maybe, can't be sure today) I'd have gotten it if there'd been 5 more guys in the picture.
Slinks off, groaning, to feel dumb.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 30, 2026 10:50 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 10:50 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)
It doesn't say "Offered a ride to a drifter."
It says "Offe
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 10:51 PM (kU0PQ)
This year they tackled "Thriller"
https://youtu.be/-d2NsvFU5go
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 10:51 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cosda at October 30, 2026 10:51 PM (oAbBA)
Would have been A, but they're fuqed now.
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 30, 2026 10:51 PM (oCio0)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 10:51 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 10:52 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 30, 2026 10:49 PM (oCio0)
Preach it!
They are puffed up and the colors are exaggerated.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sPumpkin at October 30, 2026 10:52 PM (k5CNB)
Attempted coup an backlash in Poland
Haley Stevens in Michigan tries a Dem unity meeting , al-Sayed shits on her. He definitely torpedoed his campaign
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 10:52 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:47 PM (E4rtv)
Hopefully this ends with Poland leaving the EU.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 10:52 PM (6v4rH)
Will my clocks fall back automatically?
Will I remember which ones I have to change by hand?
Will I remember all of the timepieces I have to check?
Will I drop any while charging the time?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 10:53 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 10:51 PM (ZxPkt)
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"Only one in ten will get this"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 10:53 PM (vBZcw)
Posted by: 496 at October 30, 2026 10:16 PM (uzg2C)
I'll allow it.
Posted by: TV Judge at October 30, 2026 10:54 PM (kU0PQ)
John Nelson
@WIgeopolitical
·
2h
🇮🇩 Mateusz Morawiecki on tonight’s events at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal:
“A judge whose oath was never accepted by President
@NawrockiKn
has declared herself head of the
@TK_GOV_PL
and suspended its leadership, while police secured the building. This is not how the rule of law is restored.”
He warns that swapping one disputed set of rules for a more radical one only invites the next government to do the same, calls on Tusk to withdraw the police, and urges all sides to agree a lasting cross-party law on the Tribunal.
He also notes that European institutions spent years loudly criticizing Poland’s rule of law—and asks why those same voices are silent now. “Principles that apply only to one side of the political spectrum are not principles at all.”
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My comment added
And this is the whole point of lawfare, to do unto the opposition in order to take power in a coup. So it is no wonder those Euro NGOs and their precious rule of law are silent when their coup fails live on X.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:54 PM (E4rtv)
You're not sounding very trust-y.... you have to trust your coworkers.... (I hate trustfalls)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2026 10:54 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:48 PM (viF8m)
I am only allegedly terrible at this.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 10:54 PM (rbvCR)
Of course they are. They were also aware of the Russia hoax, the BLM/antifa riots and everything else.
Half the country doesn't give a shit what Trump's team knows or doesn't know. They will run with whatever lie they are told to run with.
You know what would be a really great idea for a change? If we got out in front of their lies and stopped playing defense all the time.
I like winning and going home with the prom queen a lot more than just dodging bullets all the time.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:55 PM (viF8m)
I said Roman club above as a guess. No idea.
I'm going to post now and see what happens with the format.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 10:55 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)
Into Viking funerals are we?
Posted by: TV Judge at October 30, 2026 10:55 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 10:57 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: pookysgirl,also has pregnancy brain at October 30, 2026 10:57 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
No one should be in the EU but even in independent countries like Brazil and UK, the left is following the same gameplan--seize power using whatever pretext and rely on the media, ngos, street activists, lawyers,courts, leftist politicians in office, and destruction/defection of security forces designed to prevent such things.
Literally treasonous to the very countries and the citizens of it that they claim fake allegiance to.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:57 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:45 PM (viF8m)
Back in the college days, we'd thumb rides to get from Amherst to Smith /Holyoke. Ended up riding in the back of an Egg Truck on one visit ... the guy was a little sketchy, but the eggs were legit.
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 30, 2026 10:57 PM (oCio0)
R on Poland?Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 10:57 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 10:51 PM (ZxPkt)
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"Only one in ten will get this"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 10:53 PM (vBZcw)
*******
Nope. Still don't get it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 10:58 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 10:58 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 10:58 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 10:59 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 10:59 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 10:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 10:48 PM (rbvCR)
Which is why the English are always being called decadent.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 11:00 PM (2RJDy)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:00 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 30, 2026 10:57 PM (oCio0)
*****
Husband hitched across the country with a friend. A weird ride with a trucker on speed who was going way over the speedlimit was his only weird story.
I'm relieved the format is normal again. What a weird deal that was, apparently only for me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 11:00 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 10:58 PM (2GVsD)
Lots of machines on IX
Posted by: Guildsman at October 30, 2026 11:00 PM (rbvCR)
They are puffed up and the colors are exaggerated.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sPumpkin at October 30, 2026 10:52 PM (k5CNB)
And that, good sir, is why you're in charge of the Art Thread !!!
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 30, 2026 11:00 PM (oCio0)
When a professor I had was a young (and young-looking) professor, there was a terrible snowstorm on the day of his final exam. He went in the ditch on the way to school.
The only thing moving, slowly, was a bread truck.
The driver stopped and asked what the fuck he was doing out in this weather.
"I've got a final exam."
"Jump in. I'll give you a ride. You just know that damned professor will be there."
My professor kept his mouth firmly shut.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 11:01 PM (qlLNh)
You're not sounding very trust-y.... you have to trust your coworkers.... (I hate trustfalls)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2026 10:54 PM (aJQbY)
My average is to correct time on the last clock is Wednesday or Thursday.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 11:01 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Dayyyum at October 30, 2026 11:02 PM (Hs1wI)
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Great. Once he's officially lost, can we deport him? Or perhaps just drop him out of a helicopter somewhere over a large body of water?
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 11:02 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 10:27 PM (Riz8t)
You have to break the nations before you can really get to global rule. The UN was inadequate to that, so... mass immigration.
Posted by: TV Judge at October 30, 2026 11:02 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:03 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 11:03 PM (r2Icn)
Lot of that going on. I mean there are literally millions of people being eaten by sharks every single day!
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:03 PM (viF8m)
I like winning and going home with the prom queen a lot more than just dodging bullets all the time.
Posted by: JackStraw
I think like Lincoln or, like Roosevelt in WWII, Trump and his team need a casus belli. South was stupid enough to do it by shelling Ft. Sumter. Mustache Man and the Japanese were foolish enough to declare war first.
Poland's opposition was fractured but now is united due to Tusk destroying his own moral credibility. Lula hangs on but his own actions damn him as a thief, liar, traitor, and crook along with their Supreme Court. The left is destroying their own case for morality by embracing foreign criminals, endless streams of Muslims out to conquer them, making eunuchs of kids, all sorts of fraud, and killing babies up to crowning, and other vile and vicious things that appall the normies.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:03 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 30, 2026 11:03 PM (L1JuH)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 10:59 PM (rbvCR)
*****
Thank you. My hero.
Sounds sort of like my father's stories of Marine bootcamp at Camp Pendleton.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 11:04 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Dayyyum at October 30, 2026 11:02 PM (Hs1wI)
It's full of Poles.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 11:04 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 11:01 PM (qx7Zg)
Pro tip: if you put it off long enough, you won't have to do it.
Follow me for more labor-saving advice!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 11:04 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 11:04 PM (Cjcf6)
And the Superbowl is on Valentines Day?
Serious crossing of the streams here folks.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:04 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Dayyyum at October 30, 2026 11:02 PM (Hs1wI)
It's full of Poles.
Posted by: 88C+u
Is there sort of lightbulb screwing in crisis?
Posted by: Dayyyum at October 30, 2026 11:05 PM (Hs1wI)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:05 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 11:05 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 11:02 PM (Cjcf6)
Officially: "fled the country to avoid prosecution."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 11:06 PM (6v4rH)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 11:04 PM (Cjcf6)
Decimate
Posted by: Dayyyum at October 30, 2026 11:06 PM (Hs1wI)
I hope my priest does not read here, but I'd tell him the same.
I ain't no unitarian.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 11:06 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: a.moron at October 30, 2026 11:06 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Dayyyum
Coup seems to be failing. Prime Minister who started it all on the behest of the EU is in a resort town north of Warsaw, his ministers are beginning to start nervously hemming and hawing, the people in the streets are not friendly and calling in police for the regime is making the police unhappy and fidgety. All the HR groups and 'Pro Democracy' are silent, and US ambassador asks for calm and talks rather than force.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:06 PM (E4rtv)
Greetings fellow Hordians!
Today is my wife's birthday.
Also today, I received a text from a number I don't recognize, in the (437) area code, 847 prefix asking about my trip to Japan. Using goggle translate, I replied in Japanese 'I haven't been to Japan'.
The following exchange then occurred, in english:
437 texted: 'Are you Amy?'
Being a smart a** I replied:'Am I army? No , I've never been in the service'
437 texter: 'Are you an idiot?'
Me: 'More of a Moron, actually. '
That was several hours ago. I haven't heard anything further. I believe these people pretend to be texting a wrong number, then try to establish a dialogue which will eventually result in an exchange of money, from me to them.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 30, 2026 11:07 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 11:07 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 11:07 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: National Cattlemens Beef Association at October 30, 2026 11:07 PM (vFcoN)
I said Roman club above as a guess. No idea.
I'm going to post now and see what happens with the format.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 10:55 PM (hzuYO)
The clue is that only one in ten will get it. The reference is to the Roman practice of decimation, where they can't lots and one i. Ten legionaires were killed for some failing of the legion.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 11:08 PM (2RJDy)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 11:06 PM (6v4rH)
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"Shot while trying to escape" had a certain neat finality to it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 11:08 PM (vBZcw)
The modern misinterpretation of "decimation" makes it sound as if only one-tenth of the original group would be left. But it was 90% survived, 10% died.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 11:08 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Fritzy at October 30, 2026 11:08 PM (2GIh1)
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The fact that she was willing to utter those lines says she's not a genius, but it proves she knew in advance what to say.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 11:08 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 11:05 PM (2GVsD)
Looks like 40 now.
Classic "October Surprise". I don't much care for such "dirty tricks", even if my own side does it, but Mary asked for it by doing it first.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 11:08 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 11:08 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 30, 2026 11:09 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 11:09 PM (/+uur)
https://youtu.be/4mII44yDfJw?t=152 (meme)
The first meme in the video should be a standard Halloween decoration.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 11:09 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 11:10 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:03 PM (E4rtv)
Even with this overstep in Poland, the 40% who vote left will continue to vote left I fear.
It's all about the will to power ... rust never sleeps.
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 30, 2026 11:10 PM (oCio0)
TL,DR: Microsoft has managed to eff up Notepad.
Posted by: pookysgirl wants the degradation to stop at October 30, 2026 11:10 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 11:10 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at October 30, 2026 11:11 PM (fgH73)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:11 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 30, 2026 11:07 PM (QGaXH)
The term is called "pig butchering" You were supposed to be the pig
Posted by: Guildsman at October 30, 2026 11:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 11:11 PM (2RJDy)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 11:11 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:12 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 30, 2026 11:12 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:12 PM (mP0Kj)
She thinks a Fox poll that the district has moved from Solid Republican to Lean Republican is a win for her.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)
Goes to show the war against this filth never ends.
Posted by: Dayyyum at October 30, 2026 11:12 PM (Hs1wI)
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Great--I can't wait to see the charges filed against him.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 11:12 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 11:06 PM (6v4rH)
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"Shot while trying to escape" had a certain neat finality to it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 11:08 PM (vBZcw)
"Before turning the gun on himself." is another classic.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 11:12 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 11:12 PM (vBZcw)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:45 PM (viF8m)
That story would be perfect if he was driving a semi full of beer.
Posted by: TV Judge at October 30, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ)
Well, to be fair...
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 11:11 PM (vTZFs)
Mothers kill their children at a rate 4 times that of deaths by Rifles in the US...
Mom is more dangerous than an Assault Rifle.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:13 PM (mP0Kj)
Well, to be fair...
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 11:11 PM (vTZFs)
Mothers kill their children at a rate 4 times that of deaths by Rifles in the US...
Mom is more dangerous than an Assault Rifle.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:13 PM (mP0Kj)
Clearly, we need common sense MOM regulation.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:14 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 30, 2026 10:57 PM (oCio0)
I visited Amherst as a HS senior in the early 90's. No Greeks just, TAPs or some such thing which was just the college paying for keg parties.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 30, 2026 11:14 PM (r7+Q7)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 11:14 PM (wzUl9)
Like building a C store and people applying for EBT.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 11:14 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 11:14 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 11:08 PM (vBZcw)
But "fled the country" leaves some uncertainty. Maybe Elbozo Leftard is indeed hiding out Algeria under an assumed name.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 11:15 PM (6v4rH)
Posted by: Burl Ives at October 30, 2026 11:15 PM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 11:15 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:03 PM (qqdHS)
I assumed it was AI just by the voices.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 11:15 PM (2RJDy)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 11:01 PM (qlLNh)
*****
Smart.
I just remembered one more attempt at hitch hiking. So, a total of two.
I was at my new college for the nursing skool interview. Waited and waited for a bus (it was always the fault of the bus). A straight shoot to the other part of town and I stuck my thumb out.
Picked up by a guy around my age and told him roughly where I was going (not my address). Ok. We drive about 6 blocks and he turns right. I immediately say, STOP. He does as I was possibly bigger than him. Residential neighborhood. For sure someone would have noticed me killing this guy in a car as there would be a lot of yelling (former cheerleader: I'm loud), blood and splatters flying out of that car. He would have looked similar to one of the baked pigs in a blanket above when I left. I have no doubt he would have been scarred and sorry.
Fortunately he was a rookie serial killer because there was a doorknob still on the interior car door. I got out glaring at him and caught the bus.
My guardian angels are still exhausted from me in college. Then my bf/husband took over.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 11:15 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 30, 2026 11:15 PM (L1JuH)
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There's nobody more deserving. Hillary would have made somebody look like a piker had she been born in time to rule Germany in the run up to WW2.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 11:16 PM (Cjcf6)
"
Arturo Villa
@arturovilla
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4h
Translated from Spanish
The current and legitimate President of the Polish Constitutional Court is opening the gate with an angle grinder, because Tusk's and Brussels' police won't let him enter his own Tribunal.
It's the one in the cap who's cutting the metal chains himself. Epic."
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:16 PM (E4rtv)
https://youtu.be/4mII44yDfJw?t=152 (meme)
The first meme in the video should be a standard Halloween decoration.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 11:09 PM (qx7Zg)
I think the meme at 4:13 might be Bulg....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 11:16 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 11:17 PM (pMmVV)
Not sure about offing a drifter. I used to drink a lot.
Did all the rest, though. And I still use paper maps.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 30, 2026 11:17 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 11:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 11:18 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 11:12 PM (qlLNh)
That's how Salvador Allende checked out. With an AK given to him by Castro.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 11:19 PM (6v4rH)
Not the blind kid... the one who defended him... we need MORE of good Men standing up for those who can't.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:19 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 30, 2026 11:15 PM (L1JuH)
Not Negro since 1968, Black.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 11:19 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: buddhaha at October 30, 2026 11:20 PM (EuPh7)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 11:20 PM (wVcYX)
I have no idea what he was hauling. It was snowing like a mofo and cold and he just lectured for over an hour about what an idiot I was to be out hitchhiking in that weather. I had no defense. He was absolutely right.
Every now and then angels come into your life. Seems like a good idea to listen to them.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:20 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Kindltot
Moo?
Posted by: A cow at October 30, 2026 11:20 PM (L1JuH)
Not sure about offing a drifter. I used to drink a lot.
Did all the rest, though. And I still use paper maps.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 30, 2026 11:17 PM (0aYVJ)
Never did AO Hell????
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:20 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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The folks involved including some national Democrats like Marc Elias are in trouble. Plus there is a parallel state investigation into the lies that the Democrat operatives and the candidate told to courts, both the trial court and the Alaska Supreme Court to implement their scheme. Now the fake Daniel Sullivan has gone awol, the Democrat Senate Campaign Committee apparently had a political operative who told them his fake Sullivan scheme and sent him to Peltola. Peltola's former campaign staff members are singing like canaries, etc.
Giant poo bomb all over the Democrats in Alaska that probably will cost them the Senate race, the governor's mansion, and may end their ridiculous RCV voting scheme which is why the Dems did this in the first place, trying to manipulate it.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 11:20 PM (wVcYX)
Nice Panama City Beach Ass Mustache
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 11:22 PM (/+uur)
My professor kept his mouth firmly shut.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 11:01 PM (qlLNh)
Heh. That's a classic ...
Hitching in New England didn't seem to be too dangerous back in the day.
I wouldn't have done that in the North Country, where I went to school, though. Too sparsely populated, and the denizens were definitely kin of the "Dueling Banjos" folk.
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 30, 2026 11:22 PM (oCio0)
Off sock!
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 11:22 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 11:18 PM (rbvCR)
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And their eyes. Lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 11:22 PM (vBZcw)
Posted by: Count de Monet
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She be, ho, ho, hoe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 11:23 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 30, 2026 11:23 PM (0aYVJ)
Also loved the Hertz local maps
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 11:23 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 11:25 PM (qlLNh)
I've read a report that Tusk ordered the Polish military not to let President Nawrocki's plane land at a military airport outside of Warsaw.
Allegedly, the Polish military refused to obey that order.
I think that Tusk did not anticipate that Nawrocki would order his plane (enroute to Senegal) turned around when he heard about the coup.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 11:25 PM (aD4fx)
Actually true.
But they are still fun to tip over.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:10 PM (viF8m)
I'd be really surprised if cows killed any sharks.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 11:25 PM (2RJDy)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Read the stories of the first cowboys to wrangle longhorns after them living generations in the wild. They warn't no ways domesticated.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 11:25 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 11:26 PM (rbvCR)
Goes to show the war against this filth never ends.
Posted by: Dayyyum
I think the Polish youth are against the migrants (other than the AWFL women types) because they see how bad other countries are getting by travel. Older Poles, many of which lived in places like the UK have returned home with tales of Muslims.
I think the Tusk types of globo homo are losing the remaining youth of Europe by killing their dreams (again, not the weirdo Die Linke type females or antifa criminal males). And they are now losing the middle as the compassion has run out for the Muslim invasion in country after country. Only the oligarchs, the WEF banksta types, and politicians still want this to happen.
I hope the coming fight in Europe is peaceful but it can very easily turn into a bloodbath. The Muzzies are armed, the populace has to fight the regimes and the Muzzies right now.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:26 PM (E4rtv)
noun
A leather scourge used for flogging.
A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The lash is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.
A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:26 PM (qqdHS)
Allegedly, the Polish military refused to obey that order.
I think that Tusk did not anticipate that Nawrocki would order his plane (enroute to Senegal) turned around when he heard about the coup.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Yep. Several different sources for that. I think plane was over Spain at the time and reversed course.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:27 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 11:15 PM (hzuYO)
Mid 80's I finally figured out maybe something was looking out for me for some reason.
2 totaled cars. 3 totaled motorcycles... shot... cut... broken bones... 14 stitches in my head... storms at Sea... and had slept more than one night in the Marine Compound in Beirut in 83 where the barracks got blown up.... picked up hitchhikers... hitchhiked myself... Ran a van load of Coors beer to Virginia as a joke to throw a party...
Did drugs I still won't talk about...
Yet somehow... came through it... still don't know why.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:27 PM (mP0Kj)
https://tinyurl.com/3f6mwrzt
On average 10 people are killed in the entire world every year by sharks.
Statistics. How do they work?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:27 PM (viF8m)
Allegedly, the Polish military refused to obey that order.
I think that Tusk did not anticipate that Nawrocki would order his plane (enroute to Senegal) turned around when he heard about the coup.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Yep. Several different sources for that. I think plane was over Spain at the time and reversed course.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:27 PM (E4rtv)
So, wrong color for the revolution?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:28 PM (mP0Kj)
@arturovilla
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4h
Translated from Spanish
The current and legitimate President of the Polish Constitutional Court is opening the gate with an angle grinder, because Tusk's and Brussels' police won't let him enter his own Tribunal.
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Seems like "Tusk's and Brussel's police" should be placed under under arrest and do hard time.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 11:28 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: buddhaha at October 30, 2026 11:20 PM (EuPh7)
I'm just waiting a while to respond.
Statutes of limitations can be very liberating.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 11:29 PM (2RJDy)
Posted by: Dayyyum at October 30, 2026 11:02 PM (Hs1wI)
It's full of Poles.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 11:04 PM (88C+u)
Poland is for strippers.
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 11:29 PM (kU0PQ)
Thank you!
Posted by: ChrisP at October 30, 2026 11:30 PM (zXSV5)
Actually true.
But they are still fun to tip over.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:10 PM (viF8m)
I'd be really surprised if cows killed any sharks.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 11:25 PM (2RJDy)
/nods...
everyone knows that Sharks are killed by Jets!
Because when yer a Jet, yer a Jet all the way...
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:30 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
The shill's son worked for Washington House Democrat Glueskamp (sp) and apparently he had a role too along with a named operative who has went radio silent. That operative briefed the DSCC first about the plan and then persuaded the fake Sullivan and the Peltola campaign to sign on. The DSCC ran it by their legal team as well as the specific senators that run it (which is where Elias comes in).
That is why the NYT story broke blaming it on the Peltola campaign. They are setting a backfire to distract from the DSCC role.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:30 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 11:31 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:31 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:27 PM (viF8m)
It appears to require parading around like a pigeon with its breast out claiming that numbers are equivalent to moral superiority.
I have a candlestick chart demonstrating this, if that will help clear up any questions.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 11:31 PM (rbvCR)
Tusk is a globohomo Eurocrat traitor to the Polish Constitution, they should airdrop him over the Alexanderplatz.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 11:32 PM (RIvkX)
https://tinyurl.com/3f6mwrzt
On average 10 people are killed in the entire world every year by sharks.
Statistics. How do they work?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:27 PM (viF8m)
You've never seen them rumble. Sondheim wouldn't tell you about that.
Posted by: Riff - Leader of The Jets at October 30, 2026 11:32 PM (r7+Q7)
🌍 THE WORLD IS WATCHING POLAND.
Fox News, NBC, Daily Wire, Euronews: police at Poland's Constitutional Tribunal.
U.S. Ambassador Tom Rose: "very serious indeed."
CPAC stands with President Nawrocki.
Donald Tusk's coup. Share it 🇵🇱
X - > https://tinyurl.com/3r9baxwj
X viewer - > https://tinyurl.com/yfrna4w4
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 11:32 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:32 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:27 PM (viF8m)
It appears to require parading around like a pigeon with its breast out claiming that numbers are equivalent to moral superiority.
I have a candlestick chart demonstrating this, if that will help clear up any questions.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 11:31 PM (rbvCR)
Latest stats from studies? still has to be confirmed, but one study says 17 MILLION people died worldwide due to bad reactions to the Covid Vaccine...
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:33 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 11:33 PM (f8snw)
I'm getting tired of the AI art stylings ...
I can't put my finger on it, or articulate exactly what rubs me the wrong way, but the way the characters are presented is aggravating.
It's like some AI music just sounds odd and I can't really describe what I'm hearing. Same with the cartoonish stuff.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 11:33 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Romeo13
I would call it the yellow revolution because it appears that Tusk and his ministers are now pissing their pants at what comes next.
Unwitting, that thick and stupid globalist has let Nawrocki become a reincarnation of Lech Walensa and instead of Gdansk ship yard, there is the Court Building surrounded by police and youthful protesters against the coup. This lets the yutes take on the role of Solidarity against Tusk who takes on the role of Jaruzelski.
Elections were in 2027 anyway but Tusk pushed the coup panic button, my guess is due to pressure from the EU.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:33 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:28 PM (mP0Kj)
Institute of Peace and USAID put out a pamphlet, "What Color Is Your Revolution"
Best seller, you know.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 11:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 11:34 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 11:06 PM (6v4rH)
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"Shot while trying to escape" had a certain neat finality to it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 11:08 PM (vBZcw)
Well, see, he was trying to flee on a helicopter out in the middle of Lake Superior. He leaned out to see if he could see the wreck, and he slipped. BTW, did you know a human will bounce when hitting the water from that high up?
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 11:34 PM (kU0PQ)
TL,DR: Microsoft has managed to eff up Notepad.
Posted by: pookysgirl wants the degradation to stop at October 30, 2026 11:10 PM (Wt5PA)
If you need a simple Windows text editor, I'd get SciTE. (https://scintilla.org/SciTE.html). It's free, doesn't have AI, and I used it for text files for years.
You might also look at Notepad++. No AI crap, and it's what I use now on Windows. It has more features for programmers (like I used to be), but it's a reliable tool.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 11:35 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 11:33 PM (f8snw)
IMO? was already failing. EU was supposed to be an ECONOMIC consortium... not a political master...
And I'll note that even after all these years, countries won't put their Militaries under EU control...
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:35 PM (mP0Kj)
It was nice to get away from the computer. Just for a day.
No Halloween tomorrow. Ralphy is too much but my friends' kids and the others across the street are each getting a box of 50 KitKat , Coffee Crisp, Aero and Canadian Smarties - which are like M&Ms but thinner.
No candy corn or molasses candy at Walmart yesterday.
Oh, the Christmas tree has been up a week. My friends' kids like to decorate it so I'm keeping the Christmas in October - November thing going.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 11:36 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Romeo13
The really good news is I've been told by experts it can't happen here.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:36 PM (viF8m)
I've been using Notepad++ for years now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 11:37 PM (w6EFb)
You called the internet on the phone, and hoped that the internet takes your call
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 11:34 PM (ZxPkt)
And then halfway through conquering Ireland, you phone connection would die.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:37 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:33 PM (E4rtv)
I wonder if Christine LeGarde stepping down as President of the ECB has anything to do with this.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 11:37 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
I think it is a question of the EU disintegrating financially, just a day before the Euro Central Bank head, Ms. LaGarde appeared in a strange video with bandage stripes across her face. Her resignation was like a weird hostage video take and I doubt any woman would want to appear in public like that when a simple letter of resignation would be enough. Someone wanted her humiliated.
I keep coming back thinking perhaps a banking crisis leading to a sovereign debt crisis and the urgent need for the EU to steal Russia's 275 billion in frozen assets as a banking backstop.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:37 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Kindltot
See above.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:37 PM (E4rtv)
The big breakthrough in modern couping is the existence of X.
Tusk posted the justification for the coup on X, Nawrocki announced that he was turning the plane around on X, the Polish and Warsaw cops defended their actions on X, two Polish ambassadors announced their resignations on X, the globalist Polish Foreign Minister denounced one of the ambassadors on X, and the video of Nawrocki breaking into the court building was posted on X.
This is going to redouble governments' attempts to control on social media.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 11:38 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 11:27 PM (mP0Kj)
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Pure luck on my part. I worked hard, studied hard, & partied with my buddies every weekend when not skiing or hiking, or writing a paper, or having a huge exam. I knew how to balance my crazy life.
Met a bunch of non nursing friends the year I moved across the city to be near the bus route to the hospital. Second university here.
Man, we had fun! No regrets.
They all met my bf future husband at keggers. All but one liked him. The one who didn't had a chance to date me but never mustered the nerve to ask. He HATED my bf and the feeling was mutual. Otherwise I kept them as friends all through school and beyond. Two dated classmates of mine. It was all one big osmosis of two university groups. I loved them all.
In HS I was almost killed in a car crash but unscathed by a miracle. I remember thinking, as my vision blurred green (trees)/ blue (sky) in a spin, "This is it." I was calm. Nope! There was more time ahead to ski dangerously and climb dangerous slot canyons and mountains with friends. Who gave me far more credit for survival than they should have.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 11:39 PM (hzuYO)
Donald Tusk
@donaldtusk
Translated from Polish
I will not allow the right wing to take us out of the European Union. That’s what the game is about today.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:39 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 11:12 PM (qlLNh)
That's how Salvador Allende checked out. With an AK given to him by Castro.
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It always makes me laugh to remember that Castro's own Che Guevara met his death when his mentor Fidel Castro decided that he had outlived his usefulness. Castro ended this situation by ordering Che be killed by firing squad. Che had nothing to say afterwards. He just died. That's how that works.
But please, any 15-55 year olds out there shopping at the mall, buy this idiot's t-shirt. That helps us know to keep an eye on your worthless asses.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 11:39 PM (Cjcf6)
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Atoms Not Bits
@AtomsNotBits
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7h
BREAKING: America just announced up to $70M to close its mining workforce gap with China, which graduates over 15x more mining engineers annually.
The Department of Energy will fund university training programs to double U.S. graduates in mining and critical minerals within two years, with American mining engineers earning over $100K annually in median wages.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:40 PM (E4rtv)
Dozens of individuals are injured and killed each year while flying kites in India, with reports indicating that incidents can lead to multiple fatalities during major kite festivals. In recent years, events like the Uttarayan festival have resulted in several deaths, including six people in January 2023 alone
.........
It probably sucks to go through the afterlife being known as a guy taken out by a kite.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 11:41 PM (Sco7b)
You called the internet on the phone, and hoped that the internet takes your call
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 11:34 PM (ZxPkt)
That's the reason I'm a night owl now. In a house with 5 people, it's the only safe time to dial - especially when starting with 1200 baud.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 11:41 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 11:41 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 11:41 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 10:23 PM (kU0PQ)
Where in the US of A are you still allowed to ride unrestrained, much less unrestrained in the back of an open pick-up??
And why would you do that on a freeway?
Sounds like your last words will be 'hey everyone, watch this....'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 30, 2026 11:43 PM (QGaXH)
Pan Cezary Krysztopa #BabiesLivesMatter
@cezarykrysztopa
Translated from Polish
An anonymous police officer says that
@PolskaPolicja is lying and the shocking document regarding machine guns for police officers is absolutely RELATED to the situation in W-wie. He also speaks about low morale and that police officers do not want to do this.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:43 PM (E4rtv)
(not original with me, though I wish it was)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 11:44 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Harry Reid's exercise bands all over again.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:44 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:45 PM (viF8m)
Dozens of individuals are injured and killed each year while flying kites in India, with reports indicating that incidents can lead to multiple fatalities during major kite festivals. In recent years, events like the Uttarayan festival have resulted in several deaths, including six people in January 2023 alone
.........
It probably sucks to go through the afterlife being known as a guy taken out by a kite.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 11:41 PM (Sco7b)
Who knew kite flying is more deadly than attempting to summit Everest? Only 5 died this past May on that mountain.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 11:46 PM (wVcYX)
During an annual spring kite festival in eastern Pakistan, eleven people were killed, and over 100 were injured. Deaths were caused by stray celebratory bullets, kite strings, electrocution from kites, and falls from rooftops while flying kites.
Many kite flyers use wire or sharp kite strings made from ground glass to cut rival kite strings, causing injuries and deaths to birds, people, and other animals. In response, Pakistani police arrested over 700 people for using dangerous kite strings or firing weapons and seized 282 illegally held weapons. A temporary ban on kite flying was imposed following a series of festival deaths and re-imposed after these fatalities
My friends' cat Snowflake is sleeping on the chair herr. She's so beautiful.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 11:46 PM (Sco7b)
But please, any 15-55 year olds out there shopping at the mall, buy this idiot's t-shirt. That helps us know to keep an eye on your worthless asses.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 11:39 PM (Cjcf6)
Che was killed by the Bolivian army.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 11:46 PM (6v4rH)
@donaldtusk
Translated from Polish
I will not allow the right wing to take us out of the European Union. That’s what the game is about today.
That was yesterday - setting out the motivation for the coup.
Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker must be feeling nervous - playing their assigned roles in the planned Color Revolution after the election just got more problematic.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 11:47 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 11:41 PM (Sco7b)
They put glass shards on the string, ostensibly to cut the strings of other kites. But sure, it could kill you.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:47 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 11:47 PM (2WIwB)
Castro was tired of Che's crap, and Che was shit at any sort of governance in spite of being in charge of Cuba's central bank. Castro sent him overseas to go do revolution like he wanted to.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 11:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 11:48 PM (U/Byj)
1. Buy four pigs.
2. Paint numbers 1, 2, 3, and 5 on them.
3. Release them in Wal-Mart
4. Watch security look for #4.
Might also work at a mosque, if you dropped them off on a Saturday with enough food and water for 5 (or 6).
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 11:48 PM (qx7Zg)
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Here's the problem with that question: it all depends on whether the judiciary is aware that they're bound by the rule of law and acts accordingly.
Otherwise, its Judge Boasberg time after time after time.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 11:49 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 11:49 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: GWB
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You can penetrate it but you can't compress it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 11:50 PM (pMmVV)
The only one I'm unsure of is the "offered a ride" to a drifter part. Maybe I did, if she was pretty, but I did a lot of stupid stuff when I was younger and IF I did that one, it didn't lead to a HOF outcome--perhaps I dropped her off to a 7/11?
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)
This is me as well.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 30, 2026 11:50 PM (p61JE)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 11:51 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 11:49 PM (U/Byj)
Yes.
Long ago, I had a very interesting chat with one of the fellows who was there.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 11:52 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 11:52 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 11:52 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:53 PM (qqdHS)
Posted 45 minutes ago:
The stand off around Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal is about restoring rule of law to an institution which had been politicised by the populist government which lost power in the election of 2023. Its president repeatedly broke the law by steering politically sensitive cases to hand-picked judges. It failed to pass its own budget,
Over the last three years a new majority of judges was duly elected by parliament and demanded to be able to function. The outgoing president of the tribunal kept blocking them, The most senior judge of the new majority took charge of the tribunal premises and asked the police for protection. Our populist opposition is unfortunately refusing to accept its loss of control over the Tribunal. The democratically elected government will continue to uphold the constitution.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 11:53 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 11:53 PM (U/Byj)
Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker must be feeling nervous - playing their assigned roles in the planned Color Revolution after the election just got more problematic.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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History does not view losers in coups favorably. And just mebbe their masters don't either. Politicians are hirelings and expendable for whoever is driving the globo homo train.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:53 PM (E4rtv)
His wife, on the other hand, inserts herself (this is the second time) into the picture. They share an email because she is nuts and controlling. I am polite to her but I have never liked her nor had a cross word. The cross words would come but I love him too much.
She airs her list of crap she will and will not do for our mother. The only thing she's been asked to do was open the electronic gate to the driveway and front door so the hospital bed could be delivered 2wks ago.
I offer to pay for stuff. I have no freaking idea what she expects me to do from 1000 miles away.
My reply? He and I talk daily. All is well. I will pay for whatever.
Bite me and stay out of our bidness was not in the reply. I don't need her crap.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 11:53 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: lin-duh at October 30, 2026 11:53 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2026 11:54 PM (ZdaMQ)
Ever watched how relentless water breaks down rock? Kind of fascinating.
Never stop fighting. Ever.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:55 PM (viF8m)
This is the guy who thanked the United States after the Nordstream pipelines were blown up.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 11:55 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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I would kick his ass out of the US (he was in Atlanta for the G20) and recall our ambassador for consultations from Poland.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:55 PM (E4rtv)
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Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone)
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See, that's the problematic part of what's going on in America today. Who the fuck are THEY to allow me to or not allow me to?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 11:55 PM (pMmVV)
S'up?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 11:55 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Ah, a reincarnation of von Ribbentrop.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:56 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 11:56 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 11:53 PM (U/Byj)
He was Argentine, but it is reported that there is no evidence that he ever went to medical school. He may may been pre-med.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 11:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Romeo13
The really good news is I've been told by experts it can't happen here.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:36 PM (viF8m)
Short memories, apparently.
The coup forces were at the gates of the White House at the end of the summer of love. And then their guy was installed.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 30, 2026 11:57 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: And yet we learned NOTHING at October 30, 2026 11:57 PM (gA/vX)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:58 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 11:56 PM
Not yet! But soon. I had 2 glasses of wine tonight, and I don’t drink often or much at all. Almost never. So definitely bed soon!
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2026 11:58 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 30, 2026 11:57 PM (vSvIl)
You mean Nixon?!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 11:59 PM (qqdHS)
Posted by: Tracy at October 30, 2026 11:59 PM (xPT96)
But they screwed up. They screwed up trying to put Trump in prison, making him stronger than before. They then screwed up fighting him on immigration which was one of the reasons he was elected. So now the people do not trust the judiciary.
He gutted USAID, which meant real money, leaving the uniparty and global elite in a bit of a tough spot. It forced them to move early. But at the same time Trump kicked China out of the hemisphere (except for China and Brazil), he took out the narco state head Maduro. He took a hammer to the EU's favored tariff arrangement, creating even more problems for them financially. He's killing Canada (more accurately letting them commit suicide). Iran is about done.
So the global left knew they were out of time. They know they will not get the Senate, so if they get the House it only hurts them for 28. So the move in Brazil and Poland. Carney's continued cozying up to China even though it is killing them.
We are on offense now.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 12:00 AM (8uHt+)
Posted by: Piper at October 31, 2026 12:00 AM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 12:01 AM (L9C9L)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 11:53 PM (hzuYO
I'm glad you have a good relationship with your brother.
CBC news is covering elections in Texas.
Lol
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 12:01 AM (Sco7b)
Ever watched how relentless water breaks down rock? Kind of fascinating.
Never stop fighting. Ever.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I think they have sat too comfortably playing at law to actually understand they are undermining it actively by their shady word games, their ignoring traditions as a source of law, and this stupid hierarchy of litigant derived from Communism. Degrees of oppression bullshit.
Justinian, during his lifetime after he published the Justinian Codes forbade lawyers and law students from 'glossing' his code--that is writing to explain it often trying to put little twists in it to benefit their own legal positions. The penalty was death.
Napoleon, after the French Revolution and the rotten system of justice under the king, where judges were viewed as oppressors, had his own Code which has outlasted multiple French government Constitutions but under one French Code.
And law is looked as a demeaning trade in France still because of what lawyers did in the past.
This is what happens.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:02 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2026 12:04 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 31, 2026 12:04 AM (wVcYX)
>>The coup forces were at the gates of the White House at the end of the summer of love. And then their guy was installed.
Whoa.
So if I understand what you are saying the color revolution we are currently going through is really just a continuation of the same one that has been going for over a decade?
Mind blown.
We should probably watch out for murder cows. No telling what they will do next. Statistically.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:04 AM (viF8m)
Dariusz Sobkow
@dareksobkow
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1h
Translated from Polish
Some scenes from before TK: The President and his team, including SOP security, let through the side by police, a long conversation between the head of police units and former Interior Minister M. Kamiński, the mild and passive stance of the police showed that there was a possibility of a situation extremely dangerous for the government: the possibility of FRATERNIZATION - police FRATERNIZING with the demonstrators and the President of the Republic of Poland. Hence there may be this decision to withdraw the police. Nitro the rest but one thing is certain:
THE PRESIDENT WON THIS ROUND OF THE GAME 🇵🇱
@prezydentpl
@KarolPopieramy
POLAND WON 🇵🇱🇵🇱
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:05 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 31, 2026 12:04 AM (wVcYX)
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Estes Kefauver?
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 12:05 AM (Zyj/8)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 31, 2026 12:07 AM (f8snw)
Taborowski: President Karol Nawrocki has left the building of the Constitutional Tribunal. (PAP)
It's 5 AM in Warsaw.
Got to love a country who names their state news service "PAP".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 31, 2026 12:07 AM (aD4fx)
Steady yourselves.
Ok. Ready?
The CBC is interviewing people predicting a blue wave!!
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 12:07 AM (Sco7b)
We are on offense now.
Posted by: Black JEM
I do agree that the people are moving against them. Ironically the citizens of the world like that dolt at UTSA have no idea nor feel for the countries they live in as rootless travelers exploiting wherever they land. These are the types of people running the NGOs, the tedious stints in office as junior briefcase holders, the thoughtless and cruel climbing the greasy poles of power and money, until they become some horrid creature like Queer Keir Starmer, Fancy Man Macron, Childless Ma Merkel who destroyed Germany, etc. etc.
Their legacy is destruction and infamy.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:09 AM (E4rtv)
Carp
Raining and blowing stink out here in the beach. I would love to go for a walk but I have a Funk planted on my leg.
Sounds like BIG raindrops on the windows.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 12:09 AM (yEz+x)
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 12:10 AM (Hu233)
Steady yourselves.
Ok. Ready?
The CBC is interviewing people predicting a blue wave!!
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 12:07 AM (Sco7b)
Methinks a wave of blue-haired old ladies is more likely. But, I haven't lived in Texas since I was 10, so I *could* be wrong.
Do older women still get that bluish tint from the hairdresser?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 12:10 AM (qx7Zg)
I agree firmly with Whig - Tusk did a half assed coup attempt without understanding at all the full implications of what he was trying. What an arrogant fool.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 31, 2026 12:11 AM (xOuxV)
Alaska is going to leave a mark. All the fraud is going to as well. The left's position is weaker unless all the EV is wrong. Even a 52-48 Senate isn't enough. Because it will be more aligned with Trump than the previous one.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 12:11 AM (8uHt+)
Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 12:00 AM (8uHt+)
I like the cut of your jib, sir. Do you perchance have a newsletter to which I might subscribe?
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 31, 2026 12:12 AM (r7+Q7)
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We are on offense now.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 12:00 AM (8uHt+)
We can haz bounties?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 31, 2026 12:12 AM (jb8Ss)
Cezary Kaźmierczak
@C_Kazmierczak
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3h
Translated from Polish
Leaving aside entirely the absurd ideas that the Minister of Justice could, with the help of a forced police entry, change the leadership of the Constitutional Tribunal, what intrigues me is what drives people who take on such dirty work from political leaders—signing off on papers, issuing orders, taking up positions and roles, acting against the law and exposing themselves to criminal liability. All just to curry favor with some party bigwig, who will later sip his wine while the justice system tears them apart. The nooks and crannies of the human mind are unfathomable.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:12 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 31, 2026 12:13 AM (vBZcw)
Sounds like crisis averted. This time.
Head on a swivel, and have a plan.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 12:13 AM (u82oZ)
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TJM has been pretty damn rosy about the upcoming elections. It gives me hope, but I'm not counting any chickens until they hatch
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 12:13 AM (Fgg+Q)
We need the funk.
https://tinyurl.com/atmtunt7
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:13 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 31, 2026 12:13 AM (wVcYX)
And they'll do little more with it than they've done so far.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 12:14 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 31, 2026 12:15 AM (f8snw)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 31, 2026 12:15 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 31, 2026 12:13 AM (wVcYX)
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Damn! I really thought I got that one!
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 12:16 AM (Zyj/8)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 31, 2026 12:16 AM (f8snw)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 31, 2026 12:16 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: 496
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I think it is like War of the Worlds broadcast by Orson Wells on Halloween.
And from what I've read on other Color Revolutions, pretty much what DR has uncovered here. Tusk was just sloppier because he already got away with illegal actions back in 2023 (shut down the public television stations guaranteed autonomy until he took over), took over the National Prosecutors office illegally, etc.
Now he just launched a giant stinkbomb that like the fake Sullivan in Alaska, is going to hurt the EU badly in other countries.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:16 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 31, 2026 12:04 AM (wVcYX)
Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 31, 2026 12:16 AM (jb8Ss)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 31, 2026 12:19 AM (qqdHS)
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 12:19 AM (T2GT8)
Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 12:00 AM (8uHt+)
I like the cut of your jib, sir. Do you perchance have a newsletter to which I might subscribe?
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 31, 2026 12:12 AM (r7+Q7)
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Haha! I do write a bit on substack for fun, but it is not on a regular schedule. I have a day job.
My latest on the election - hope the link isn't too long.
But its late enough - hopefully the mods won't mind.
https://jimsmentalgym.substack.com/p/midterm-finish-line
Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 12:19 AM (8uHt+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 31, 2026 12:16 AM (f8snw)
392 Sundance and the Kid?
Posted by: rhomboid at October 31, 2026 12:16 AM (U/Byj)
Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 31, 2026 12:16 AM (jb8Ss)
Bingo. Bingo. Bingo.
Let's have a round of applause for our winners. Jay, tell them what they've won . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 31, 2026 12:20 AM (wVcYX)
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She was probably just on CPT.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 12:21 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 31, 2026 12:22 AM (vBZcw)
And they'll do little more with it than they've done so far.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 12:14 AM (Cjcf6)
I hope you’re right. I already voted: Republican, straight down the ballot. Had to hold my nose for some of them, because what’s the alternative?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 31, 2026 12:22 AM (qqdHS)
You mean the guy who trolled me for me for the better part of a year saying Trump was going to lose Pennsylvania because of fraud in Philly when I told him repeatedly that his RNC had it?
Trump won Pennsylvania in 2024 just as I said he would.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:23 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: 496
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I think it is like War of the Worlds broadcast by Orson Wells on Halloween.
And from what I've read on other Color Revolutions, pretty much what DR has uncovered here. Tusk was just sloppier because he already got away with illegal actions back in 2023 (shut down the public television stations guaranteed autonomy until he took over), took over the National Prosecutors office illegally, etc.
Now he just launched a giant stinkbomb that like the fake Sullivan in Alaska, is going to hurt the EU badly in other countries.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:16 AM (E4rtv)
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This was just - sloppy. Which is why I smell panic. If I was the illegitimate leader of Brazil I would maybe be getting a bit worried. I'm certain all kinds of options are being discussed by Trump's people. And his friends don't have any power to stop what they might do.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 12:25 AM (8uHt+)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:23 AM (viF8m)
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So what are your thoughts on the upcoming election? MI? GA? MN?
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 12:25 AM (kSATS)
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Or Hillary.
Hillary probably goes to bed every night *righteously* angry that she didn't attempt a coup.
Also, she probably goes to bed every night in a room without a husband and drunk off her ass.
Posted by: Crusader at October 31, 2026 12:25 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: 496
Not really. TJM thinks the GOP loses the House narrowly and keeps the Senate. Harry Enten at CNN suggested as much several days ago.
The reason is even in 2018 in a much worse midterm environment, Trump did fine in the Senate while losing the House by a huge swing. Generic vote difference seems to be firming on D+4 across the US. Given the normal historical GOP vote in places like KS, IA, TX, AK etc. those are out of reach. And states like MN, ME, MI, and even NH, would not be in play at all.
Same issue with House races. Democrats need a lot more than +3-4 generic to repeat 2018. That is not there. Instead, D House challengers had to win districts that are +3 or +4 GOP normally and after redistricting in many states that is harder to gain now. Serious analysts of the house are focusing on about a dozen or so races that will decide the House elections. So GOP can eke out a win from 218 up or lose to something like 225 to 210 depending on the swing.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:25 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 31, 2026 12:22 AM (vBZcw)
Nah, he never could find a Bolivian hat style he liked and settled in Argentina instead.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 31, 2026 12:27 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 31, 2026 12:19 AM (qqdHS)
Yeah, I meant 2020
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 31, 2026 12:28 AM (vSvIl)
Pleasant Climate and far away from the European idiots...
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 31, 2026 12:28 AM (PxgV0)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 31, 2026 12:28 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: lin-duh
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS.
Posted by: BEN SNUFFLEUPAGUS at October 31, 2026 12:28 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Black JEM
Bessent is a stone cold killer of economies along with Trump's trade negotiators. Lula's illegallities make it easy to apply all sorts of sanctions under different laws if Trump desires. China doesn't have the money to prop up Brazil as they have a fiscal crisis going on themselves regarding debt explosion (theirs is about 300 percent of GDP or higher). The whole bankruptcy of their big real estate developer is basically like Enron, no assets worth much to recoup billions lost of government money.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:29 AM (E4rtv)
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How about a McCulloch chainsaw
A Las Vegas wedding
A Mexican divorce
A solid-gold Kama Sutra coffee pot
Or a baby's arm holding an apple
Posted by: A new Monza! at October 31, 2026 12:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 31, 2026 12:28 AM (CHHv1)
Y'all come back now, ya hear?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 12:29 AM (qx7Zg)
What do you think? You can see what I see.
You all are at least as smart as me if not smarter. Ignore the noise, what do you think is going to happen in MI, GA and MN?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:30 AM (viF8m)
I just saw the Heroes and Icons channel will have a Chekov night Sunday evening airing some his most famous TOS episodes, and then Monday will be Picard night, airing some of his most memorable TNG episodes.
"Temba with his arms wide", "Shaka, when the walls fell" is one of them. Of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 12:30 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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About 30-50 years of economic and social misery and authoritarianism if the left takes over. Eventually it will collapse like the PRI in Mexico or the USSR but leave a helluva lot of wreckage behind.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:31 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 31, 2026 12:31 AM (Cqx++)
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Max Hübner
@HubnerrMax
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24m
Translated from Polish
Historic statement by President Karol Nawrocki regarding the Tusk government's coup against the Constitutional Tribunal, read by Paweł Szefernakier:
"In connection with the THREAT TO INTERNAL SECURITY of the Republic, I am convening TODAY urgent consultations with the participation of representatives of parliamentary forces in order to bring about the stabilization of the political situation and the restoration of constitutional order."
He also stated that the President of the Supreme Court shares the President's conviction about the coup and called for the security forces to leave the Tribunal's premises and for the government to restore legal order.
This is getting serious, like never before in the Third Republic.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:32 AM (E4rtv)
What do you think? You can see what I see.
You all are at least as smart as me if not smarter. Ignore the noise, what do you think is going to happen in MI, GA and MN?
I am confused about Georgia ??? They voted for two F**king Idiots for the Senate.
What is up with that ??
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 31, 2026 12:33 AM (PxgV0)
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:33 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: lin-duh
Thanks. I didn't want to be the one to say it.
I'd think off'd would be more common knowledge.
........
Separately, PlutoTV has a spicy channel after midnight. 'Love, Sex and Robots' is on.
Nothing too graphic.
I remember the 90's. I think CityTV in Toronto had late night pron.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 12:33 AM (Sco7b)
Cooper looks too strong in NC, and the dems have banked enough votes to withstand voting day. Western NC would have to have the mother of all turnouts for Whatley to win. But it is super low odds for that.
Black vote in Georgia is down, but not down enough probably to beat Ossoff.
New Hampshire will be close, but probably not enough there, but Minnesota will be interesting. They are always the tease, and I figure they are teasing again. But you have the Ilhan stuff and more and more fraud. I think Tavoya gets close, but more likely they get a GOP state legislature.
The other wild card - much like 2024 - NRC has strong field presence and the DOJ is in their hands this time. So maybe we get some surprises.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 12:34 AM (8uHt+)
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 31, 2026 12:35 AM (PxgV0)
I am confused about Georgia ??? They voted for two F**king Idiots for the Senate.
What is up with that ??
Posted by: Jackson K.
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Whites are almost a minority now in GA is what is up. Blacks at about 30 percent of the electorate, corporate drifter whites that vote blue add to it along with Hispanics and Asians in the Atlanta area.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:35 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:35 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:30 A
Michigan. Rogers.
When even MSNow is having Abdul on with Franken talking about black voters, the tent is looking like a Carnival Cruise.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 12:36 AM (Sco7b)
I am confused about Georgia ??? They voted for two F**king Idiots for the Senate.
What is up with that ??
Posted by: Jackson K.
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Whites are almost a minority now in GA is what is up. Blacks at about 30 percent of the electorate, corporate drifter whites that vote blue add to it along with Hispanics and Asians in the Atlanta area.
Then they should stop bitching about everything SUCKS when you elect a Retard for the Senate..
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 31, 2026 12:37 AM (PxgV0)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:38 AM (viF8m)
"
Rafał Bochenek
@RafalBochenek
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1h
Translated from Polish
TVN24 propagandist
@sebastiantvn24
is walking among the protesters in front of the Constitutional Tribunal and insulting them on the tvn24 airwaves, claiming that the protesters reek of alcohol and that it's the crowd pressing against the police officers, while the police are restoring order❗️ Lying incitement machine❗️"
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:38 AM (E4rtv)
🇵🇱 Stańczyk
@NatConPatriot
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2h
A brief explanation for those with no knowledge of Polish politics:
A year ago, the Polish people elected a conservative president, Karol Nawrocki.
Poland currently has a left-liberal government, which, however, does not yet control the courts.
Tusk government is attempting to take illegal control of the courts in order to undermine the election of President Nawrocki.
Only in this way can Tusk secure absolute power for himself. Tusk knows he will lose the 2027 elections, so he is attempting to undermine the state’s constitutional order and to remove a president beloved by the Polish people.
This is literally a war of cynicism and evil against sincerity, the voice of the people, and goodness.
Pray for Poland and president Nawrocki.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:39 AM (E4rtv)
I cut up peppers for dinner. I just rubbed my eyes and discovered that I didn't wash my hands well enough.
I have just pepper sprayed myself. I wasn't doing nothing! Just sitting here reading the internet and bang, I was rolling around on the floor like a dog with a nose full of skunk.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 12:41 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:41 AM (viF8m)
Trump/Bibi Hammer the Ragheads in Iran......
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 31, 2026 12:42 AM (PxgV0)
Poor Snowflake threw up. I have towels on the chair for just stuff like that. I'm not a cat person, or even own cats, but I'm trainable.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 12:43 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Retired, thank God at October 31, 2026 12:43 AM (va0Yo)
What do you suppose that means?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:38 AM (viF8m)
Somebody told her that if he wins, they'll pass Prohibition again?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 12:45 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 11:53 PM (hzuYO)
If crosswords don't work, perhaps Scrabble?
No need to thank me. I'll show myself out....quickly....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 31, 2026 12:45 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:46 AM (E4rtv)
Dozens of individuals are injured and killed each year while flying kites in India, with reports indicating that incidents can lead to multiple fatalities during major kite festivals. In recent years, events like the Uttarayan festival have resulted in several deaths, including six people in January 2023 alone
.........
It probably sucks to go through the afterlife being known as a guy taken out by a kite.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 11:41 PM (Sco7b)
Maybe somebody should tell those idiots that its a kite, not a hang glider.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 31, 2026 12:48 AM (vzuC7)
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2026 12:01 AM (L9C9L)
So was Rambo.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 31, 2026 12:48 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 31, 2026 12:49 AM (CHHv1)
Oddly enough, that doesn't endow them with wisdom or all the answers.
I'm old enough to remember when ace yelled at us chuckleheads who supported Trump over DeSantis because only Ron could win.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:49 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: John Rambo at October 31, 2026 12:50 AM (L1JuH)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
I assumed it was AI just by the voices.
Posted by: tankdemon
If it was AI, they could have gone even further over the top.
"What's your favorite position?"
"Reverse cowgirl."
".....in volleyball?"
"I said what I said."
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2026 12:50 AM (VHUov)
What do you suppose that means?
Posted by: JackStraw
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Secret ban on insider trading?
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 12:50 AM (T2GT8)
Somebody told her that if he wins, they'll pass Prohibition again?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Key Largo Nancy
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 31, 2026 12:51 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: JackStraw
Moo??
Posted by: A cow at October 31, 2026 12:52 AM (L1JuH)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 31, 2026 12:53 AM (znREB)
I think she is genuinely afraid.
Markets don't mean much when everything implodes.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:53 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: 496
(Thousand yard stare)
Posted by: John Rambo at October 31, 2026 12:50 AM (L1JuH
I still have a couple of beers left.
I should watch 'Hobo with a Shotgun' again.
It may be Canada's greatest contribution to cinema. I don't want to spoul it, but dude just wanted to buy a lawnmower to earn some money and turn his life around.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 12:54 AM (Sco7b)
Markets don't mean much when everything implodes.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I agree. I was being snarky on the fastball down the middle. Seeing some fear from the old group grifter left with the hard shift of their side.
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 12:56 AM (T2GT8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 12:56 AM (6v4rH)
Do older women still get that bluish tint from the hairdresser?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 31, 2026 12:10 AM (qx7Zg)
*****
Not at my salon. Mine is highlighted blonde and I pay a lot of $ for it.
Now my husband is mad at SIL for inserting her schizo nose into my brother's and my bidness about our mother.
I'll bet she emails and deletes history so he doesn't see her drivel. I wish my other brother was alive to snark, but instead I choose y'all.
In the middle of grief of what is to come I have to deal with this nutcase. I am ignoring her forever. Apparently she took the wrong pills or the dog she made insane bit her today.
I doubt she has any idea I could gut her like a deer with a few choice words. The only buffers are my beloved brother and mother.
I don't need this, I didn't ask for her opinion, & she can implode with anger as I will give her no quarter. My concise and terse reply is the last one I will give.
Please keep in mind they live 1/4 mile away on our family farm on land I agreed they could have at no cost (probably $30k). Because I love my brother and he wanted to be near our mother on the lake when they built their house.
Shoot me now.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 31, 2026 12:57 AM (hzuYO)
"So, basically, 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 120 million Russians who can’t even defeat 40 million Ukrainians while those 500 million Europeans don’t even realize they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis. Is that about right?"
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 31, 2026 12:57 AM (tcsrY)
I just saw the Heroes and Icons channel will have a Chekov night Sunday evening airing some his most famous TOS episodes, and then Monday will be Picard night, airing some of his most memorable TNG episodes.
"Temba with his arms wide", "Shaka, when the walls fell" is one of them. Of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Walter Koenig's best work wasn't as Chekov, but as Alfred Bester on Babylon 5. He played a bad guy with charm, humor, and cold blooded terror. Koenig looked like he was having a blast in the role.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 31, 2026 12:58 AM (L1JuH)
My bad. I guess I'm still sensitive from that croissant eating moron trying to lecture me on statistics.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:59 AM (viF8m)
work work work...
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 31, 2026 12:53 AM (znREB)
Whar's that Eskimo woman I gotta rassel?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 31, 2026 01:00 AM (QGaXH)
No need to thank me. I'll show myself out....quickly....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 31, 2026 12:45 AM (QGaXH)
*********
Oh, I'd beat her at that as well as she claims she has dyslexia (with two masters degrees in edumacation) and why she lost her teaching license. Because...whine...she can't learn online.
I'm trying not to revert to the potato voodoo doll catharsis, but it's coming.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 31, 2026 01:01 AM (hzuYO)
Which season?
Honestly, none of the above; Europe is such an f'n mess right now, I'd end up in coups in Poland or riots in Spain, France, and Italy...and who wants to spend time in North Africa?
I'll just stay home, thank you very much. Can I get a cash equivalent?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 01:01 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
Not sure about "2 billion" muslims. Can their 40 different sects and sub-sects actually agree on things long enough to work together without murdering each other?
Otherwise, this is exactly the current violent political situation in the world.
There are also 1 billion Indians and 1 billion Chinese trying to do all the same shit but without the overt genocide.
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2026 01:01 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: JackStraw
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All good. Wasnt poking at you. Just got home from a Halloween party - too many comments to catch up. And I hate croissants.
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 01:02 AM (T2GT8)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2026 01:02 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 01:03 AM (l3cgK)
Markets don't mean much when everything implodes.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:53 AM (viF8m)
Hello, world.
Posted by: Trillions of dollars burned on the pyre of AI at October 31, 2026 01:03 AM (vSvIl)
453 Well, I got the little Honda generator running again......
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 12:56 AM (6v4rH)
Congratulations! You, sir, are a wonder.
Are you thinking Arizona yet? Or the world around you isn't quite one total unending expanse of snow and ice just yet?
(Joking! I know it's only late October....)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 31, 2026 01:06 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 01:06 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 01:06 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 01:07 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 01:08 AM (T2GT8)
Or maybe it will be looked back on as the night the EU began to die.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 31, 2026 01:08 AM (xOuxV)
Posted by: Orson at October 31, 2026 01:09 AM (dIske)
Reverse Cowgirl
In Volleyball?
Setter
Well, Setter could also work for the other kind of activity too...Is she Irish?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 01:11 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 10:1
It didn’t say boffed a drifter…
Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 01:11 AM (KC5Lt)
What do you suppose that means?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:38 AM (viF8m)
He spilled the beans about her flesh stretching sessions above the planet Ba'ku.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 31, 2026 01:13 AM (vzuC7)
Thank you for putting up with my lame attempts at lighthearted humor this Halloween Eve*.
*Not Halloween yet here on the left coast....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 31, 2026 01:14 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 01:15 AM (T2GT8)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 01:17 AM (l3cgK)
Actually true.
But they are still fun to tip over.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:10 PM (viF8m)
I'd be really surprised if cows killed any sharks.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 11:25 PM (2RJDy)
*********
*Lights a cigarette, takes a long draw, and contemplates explaining just what the Cow Team 6 does for the world.*
Posted by: Red, the Old Breeding Bull from the ranch down the road at October 31, 2026 01:17 AM (xScFa)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 31, 2026 01:00 AM (QGaXH)
The CBC has some show 'Nirth by North' I think and the eskimo lady is really hot.
Kind of looks like Selena Gomez.
And 'Hobo with a Shotgun' is no longer free. Crap.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 01:19 AM (Sco7b)
Yeah, two out of the first four times I gave my eldest a bath when he was a newborn, he gave me a shower...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 01:20 AM (l3cgK)
(Joking! I know it's only late October....)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 31, 2026 01:06 AM (QGaXH)
No time set yet. Still stuff to do here. Coldest day so far has been about 26 F. Last little snowfall is 90% gone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 01:21 AM (6v4rH)
Pelosi has become fabulously wealthy from the system she allegedly hates. It was a great grift as long as it never really got changed. Rage against the machine and all that bullshit.
What happens when someone on your team wants to blow up the machine?
The one thing Democrats do is stick together. No matter what. Always. So why?
Why is Pelosi dissing Abdul? It's not a little thing on the eve of an election.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 01:21 AM (viF8m)
Actually true.
But they are still fun to tip over.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:10 PM (viF8m)
I'd be really surprised if cows killed any sharks.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 11:25 PM (2RJDy)
*********
*Lights a cigarette, takes a long draw, and contemplates explaining just what the Cow Team 6 does for the world.*
Posted by: Red, the Old Breeding Bull from the ranch down the road
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I was told there would be no mooing. There was much mooing after the Great Bovine Shark Culling Event of '86.
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 01:22 AM (T2GT8)
What do you suppose that means?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:38 AM (viF8m)
She’s old enough to be a cunty lefty that actually doesn’t hate America.
Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 01:24 AM (KC5Lt)
Praying for Poland and praying for the USA.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2026 01:25 AM (ibDUx)
What do you suppose that means?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 12:38 AM (viF8m)
He spilled the beans about her flesh stretching sessions above the planet Ba'ku.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 31, 2026 01:13 AM (vzuC7)
Nancy made an appearance on Dr. Who once...
https://youtube.com/shorts/tNvtEstm0tM
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 01:25 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 01:28 AM (viF8m)
Why is Pelosi dissing Abdul? It's not a little thing on the eve of an election.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 01:21 AM (viF8m
Used to stick together. Or were forced to submit or die.
But at 80+, she may no longer give a damn, the party went too far left, she may realise the DSA will split the party. Carville's on the warpath too.
And Fetterman is vocal too.
I wonder if it's possible for the US to have two left wing parties like Canada. The Liberals are like the dems, and then you have the NDP for the DSA type crazies.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 01:28 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 01:21 AM (viF8m)
She got pissed when he called her auger tits.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 31, 2026 01:28 AM (vzuC7)
Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 01:30 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 01:21 AM (viF8m)
She got pissed when he called her auger tits.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 31, 2026 01:28 AM (vzuC7)
I'm sure she doesn't do twirling for Paul anymore...it'd hit the ceiling fans...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 01:30 AM (l3cgK)
Praying for Poland and praying for the USA.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Always nice to see you in the comments, DDS. Yes, the missus has a Halloween Birfday! I will pass along your well wishes.
I'm too dumb or too cheap to pour it out - and it is bitter. I suspect i will need a second to cancel the first out - moron logic.
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 01:31 AM (T2GT8)
What do you suppose that means?
Posted by: JackStraw
She's retiring. She's not pleased her daughter would not be able to roam the halls of Congress with film crew & cameras at hand.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 31, 2026 01:31 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 01:32 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Helluva good thought. It is unlike the left to eat itself. Why? What is she doing? A career of graft and comes from a made family.
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 01:35 AM (T2GT8)
Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 01:38 AM (KC5Lt)
She did what the people she wanted to make happy wanted her to do at a time no one really cared.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 01:40 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: polynikes
But the only animal that can outrun us over an arbitrarily-long distance is the American pronghorn.
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2026 01:42 AM (VHUov)
Her husband previously came out against hammers. But not against inviting in gay drifters for drug-fueled homo sex. Nancypants probably just does not want to see daddy thrown off a roof.
Posted by: rooftop Koreans > rooftop muslims at October 31, 2026 01:44 AM (1M0ma)
It's that people in the west pretend it isn't happening and someone else will deal with it.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 01:45 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old
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Maybe I am naive - happy to noodle on other ideas. Nancy has consistently been self serving, never struck me as one to make others happy. Not a big conspiracy guy but it seems there is something more to her comments.
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 01:46 AM (T2GT8)
Posted by: Reforger at October 31, 2026 01:47 AM (Ae6Br)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 01:49 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: frammish at October 31, 2026 01:52 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Reforger at October 31, 2026 01:47 AM (Ae6Br)
She is but one of a legion of such politicians.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 01:55 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 01:49 AM (viF8m)
For good reason; statistics is math.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 01:56 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 31, 2026 01:57 AM (vzuC7)
It's that people in the west pretend it isn't happening and someone else will deal with it.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Wrote some notes today to organize my thoughts on this topic. Quickly turned into 2700+ words. Was supposed to be notes, not a manifesto.
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 01:57 AM (T2GT8)
Possibly because she was the most powerful politician in DC for decades and her insider trading made her fabulously wealthy.
Ever looked at who her father was? They aren't some protected class. Just scumbags who have been robbing us for decades. Maybe we should stop them.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 01:58 AM (viF8m)
What is up with that ??
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 31, 2026 12:33 AM (PxgV0)
That election was stolen the same way the 2020 election was stolen. Current (outgoing) governor threw out our newly purchased voting machines and replaced them with a different machine (name starts with a “D” ). Those were used to cheat Biden into power, then used again to flip our Senate representation to the dark side. On a personal note, I was informed at the poll on Election Day in 2021 (senatorial election) that I had already voted by mail, and could not vote again. I have never voted by mail in my life. Every election since then I have voted early, in person. Seemed to have worked for the 2024 re-election of Trump (third time! ). Hope it works again. You know they did try to halt the counting in Georgia for the 2024 presidential race, not in Fulton Co., but in an adjacent county. Stopped by on the ball Republican lawyers. I hope they are ready to go to bat again.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 31, 2026 01:58 AM (qqdHS)
I have way too many words.
If you are ever in the area I'll buy you a beer.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 02:02 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Deal, but rum. And bitching about the Mets. Then more rum.
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 02:05 AM (T2GT8)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 31, 2026 02:07 AM (viF8m)
Bers, those bike trips sound wonderful, it has been a very pretty autumn around here too.
JQ, wherever you are, I hope that all is well with you.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2026 02:08 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 31, 2026 02:10 AM (qqdHS)
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The Midwesterner is spot on. And spelled hotdish correctly.
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 02:13 AM (T2GT8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 02:14 AM (0kX4S)
Posted by: scampydog
Ya, you betcha.
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2026 02:16 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: mikeski
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Adjacent...scampywife had the MN goodbye tonight at the Halloween party. Salty old guy/friend looked at her, looked at me and said, "You're not leaving for 30-45 minutes. Order another." I didn't. He was right.
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 02:22 AM (T2GT8)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 02:30 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2026 02:08 AM (ibDUx)
Seconded!
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:34 AM (odBC9)
Watching a Season 2 episode of Mannix (I think S2 and S3 were the best seasons, IMO), where one of his Army buddies is trying to kill him with some elaborate scheme.
There were several such episodes over the years, where some old buddy of his would come back and try to kill. So, apparently, to know Mannix was to eventually want to kill him.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 02:38 AM (w6EFb)
For some reason, I never got into Babylon 5 much at all. I hear it's good, and one of these days, I might try to watch it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 02:39 AM (w6EFb)
For some reason, I never got into Babylon 5 much at all. I hear it's good, and one of these days, I might try to watch it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 31, 2026 02:39 AM (w6EFb)
Didn't see EVERY episode, but most of them. Was pretty good. It's amazing the graphics and special effects were done on Commidore Amigas.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 02:45 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 31, 2026 02:46 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Madred at October 31, 2026 02:46 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 02:49 AM (T2GT8)
The only thing I’d truly miss out on that just misses being in that quadrant is Stonehenge. But I’d love to see Hadrian’s Wall, the Brochs of Scotland, runestones of Orkney island, Norway, and other Viking historical sites in Iceland.
Posted by: KSB at October 31, 2026 02:53 AM (ao2T5)
Biden appointed black woman “judge” of course.
So illegals just got the green light to go vote early and often nationwide.
Posted by: Dayyyum at October 31, 2026 03:03 AM (bkXXh)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 31, 2026 03:09 AM (O7YUW)
A “judge” has ordered the DOJ to stop looking into whether illegals are voting.
Biden appointed black woman “judge” of course.
So illegals just got the green light to go vote early and often nationwide.
Posted by: Dayyyum
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Fine, it'll get appealed up to SCOTUS if necessary and once it's reversed there, no "judge" will ever get to try it again.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2026 03:16 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 31, 2026 03:24 AM (aKiSo)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Helluva good thought. It is unlike the left to eat itself. Why? What is she doing? A career of graft and comes from a made family.
Posted by: scampydog at October 31, 2026 01:35 AM (T2GT
They've never policed themselves because they've never had to police themselves.
Then suddenly, out of nowhere, they got themselves an opposition who would no longer rubber stamp their perfidy in the name of "comity" and "bipartisanship".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 31, 2026 03:30 AM (aKiSo)
The only reason I can imagine for Nancy Pelosi to oppose Abdul is she fears he'll cut into her daughter's grift.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2026 03:31 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: KSB at October 31, 2026 02:53 AM (ao2T5)
My wife and I want to do a similar kind of trip, focused mostly on the Orkneys, Shetlands, Faraoe Islands, etc. Maybe a side trip to Finland to visit some friends-in-law.
This year we're just going to some city that rhymes with Schmeckyavik.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 31, 2026 03:37 AM (aKiSo)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 31, 2026 03:24 AM (aKiSo)
cool
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 03:46 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 04:01 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Hadsil at October 31, 2026 10:46 AM (/4OWh)
Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at October 31, 2026 02:47 PM (rOrJ3)
Halloween Cafe
Anti-oposum decorations. The obligatory dog Halloween costumes. The perfect costume for a yowly dog. A local station used to run a Halloween Dance commercial. It's not good. Coincidentally, a commenter, maybe nurse ratched, linked this in the comments today. But I had already had it in this post. (I've been collecting Halloweeney links for a few weeks.) Terrifying. Could this be real? I mean, I know it's not a ghost. But is it AI or a clever bit of crafting? De children of de night... what sweet nose-boops they give. Saturday morning commercials from October 25, 1980. Includes a commercial for Zany Zappers. Here's a direct link. I don't remember that particular ad. I think maybe I remember this one. And if you have Zany Zappers, you're gonna want to pick up Mr. Microphone too. Spooky board game commercials.
"Cry Little Sister" from The Lost Boys. Don't blame me, Garrett told me to post it. In True Stories of TikTok Witchcraft, a witch asked women (of course) to send in the names of the men who had wronged them. She intended a mass spell that would curse all of these male-factors in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, the women who submitted the names were cursed themselves -- getting fired out of the blue, having car accidents, even being diagnosed with serious maladies. Well, the real TikTok witches condemned the first witch for performing her witchcraft wrong so it Reverse Uno'd the women who wanted the men cursed. Public service announcement: Only get your curse spells from TikTok witches approved by the Better Blasphemy Bureau. Real, supposedly, and accomplished with pretty cheap materials:
Look at this Halloween costume 📹 utahstories https://t.co/UTWOtOsV0K
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) October 27, 2026
Halloween costumes. Which one's your favorite? https://t.co/zFi1whheh0
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 30, 2026
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Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 07:13 PM (88C+u)
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1132195055967121
If you check out their facebook page, he has a short video on how he did it. It took him years to build the electronics.
Posted by: Ann at October 30, 2026 07:16 PM (SHHm+)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 07:20 PM (Ia/+0)
I sometimes watch the videos about how to do projections and Pepper's Ghosts effects. I'd like to try it some day.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 07:20 PM (1wjle)
Maybe I'll watch "The Lost Boys" after that...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 07:21 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 07:22 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 07:22 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 30, 2026 07:22 PM (0sNs1)
yeah you can see one guy wire near the end
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 07:24 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 07:22 PM
You wouldn't want to hand out untested treats to the kiddos, would you? As a Moron, Quality is Job One!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 30, 2026 07:24 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 07:24 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: four seasons at October 30, 2026 07:25 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 07:25 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 07:25 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Ann at October 30, 2026 07:16 PM (SHHm+)
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All fine and dandy until the Scooby Gang comes along and ruins your masterful plan...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 07:25 PM (FZ29D)
Not gonna lie. That mini 100Grand bar was the shiz.
If some little freeloader gets stiffed tomorrow night because of well he should get used to disappointment.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 07:28 PM (Ia/+0)
Is it too much to hope they got turned into unemployed newts these 'witches'?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 07:29 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 07:30 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 07:30 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 07:30 PM (Qugny)
TN death row inmate Christa Pike describes constant pain in first statement since failed execution.
so... a Happy Halloween story.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 07:30 PM (Y8DZL)
Whoofreakinghooo!!!!!
What’s for dinner y’all? Cocktail of the evening?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 07:31 PM (BD9i6)
You should check out his videos. I have no talent or inclination for building electronics and I found it fascinating. The man is extremely talented.
Happy Halloween!
Posted by: Ann at October 30, 2026 07:32 PM (SHHm+)
You've got some great links for us, Ace! Many thanks.
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 07:32 PM (uyuYG)
We haven't had a trick-or-treater in 25 years here but herself just brought 2 bags of candy back from the store and left one open on my desk.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 07:33 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 07:35 PM (BD9i6)
That's a good one.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 07:36 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 07:36 PM (8Uo7a)
so... a Happy Halloween story.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 07:30 PM (Y8DZL)
Canada has doctors that can solve her pain problem. Permanently.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 07:36 PM (6v4rH)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 07:37 PM (pFPY8)
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 07:37 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Let me guess, the kid can eat licorice.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:37 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 30, 2026 07:39 PM (0sNs1)
My first few years here it was non-stop parade of Trick or Treaters. Then a few years ago the kids realized they could do much better closer to the town center where the houses are closer together. Now it's a small fraction of what I used to get.
But I have one little girl who comes around with her mom. She's adorable and very sweet. Her mom always has her in a great costume. Makes my night. Hope she hasn't outgrown it yet.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 07:39 PM (8Uo7a)
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And you just ate her 100 Grand Bar mini.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:40 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 07:40 PM (pfXMo)
I'm one of those weirdos who loves licorice. He ain't getting my stash.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 07:42 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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The smelly soundless fart is the most deadly of super weapons used by the Invisible Man.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:42 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Is that a Deadhead thing or what?
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:42 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: AoSHQ Cafe Custodial Engineers at October 30, 2026 07:43 PM (ACSiz)
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 07:43 PM (1wjle)
As big a grinch as I am I live in fear of running out of candy on Halloween. I have way too much for just that reason.
I have plans for it if an unexpected horde doesn't show up.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Oddly specific, can you elaborate?
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:45 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 07:25 PM (pMmVV)
Owwww.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 07:45 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: ballistic at October 30, 2026 07:46 PM (oqH4h)
Got home in time to indulge trick-or-treaters today. They always want to pet the bulldogs, who are happy to oblige.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 30, 2026 07:46 PM (CjHsb)
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Hopefully not eating oneself into a diabetic coma. Our neighborhood, alas, has aged out. Only oldsters in the vicinity.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:46 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 07:46 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 07:47 PM (eRlcH)
“We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.”
― Jerry Garcia
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:48 PM (viF8m)
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If your speech does not imitate Claude Rains, then that costume is a no go. Course, with bandages, easy enough to convert to a mummy costume. Moaning and grunting is a bit easier to imitate for most.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:49 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 30, 2026 07:49 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Case at October 30, 2026 07:49 PM (fzmBj)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at October 30, 2026 07:49 PM (j7INY)
Posted by: Ben Had
When my kids were still kids, we lived in a neighborhood where there was wine or beer on many porches. Your glass would never have been empty!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 30, 2026 07:50 PM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 07:52 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 07:52 PM (rbvCR)
In sad news for our single 'rons, Ms. Hudson already has a new man.
However, for our single 'ettes, just in time for Halloween and Holiday Season festivities, Mr. Belichick is back on the market!
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 30, 2026 07:52 PM (0sNs1)
Nah. I haven't bought a candy bar for myself since I was a kid. A little treat around the holidays but what I really like is cookies.
If only I knew someone who could bake cookies.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 07:53 PM (8Uo7a)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 07:55 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:53 PM
It's hard to conceal a reasonably-sized shiv or hacksaw blade in a cookie.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 30, 2026 07:55 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 07:55 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: PaleRider at October 30, 2026 07:55 PM (PV+Zw)
That's what I thought. But then I don't have the mind of a master criminal.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:56 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 07:53 PM (8Uo7a)
Dad had a friend who had lived in Churchill Manitoba, and on Halloween the adults would go out and turn on all the car headlights in the neighborhood so the kids could trick-or-treat without worrying so much about being eaten by polar bears.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 07:57 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 07:57 PM (8Uo7a)
ULTIMATE FIST BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 07:58 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: davidt at October 30, 2026 07:59 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 07:59 PM (8Uo7a)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:53 PM (viF8m)
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Not many people bake cookies these days.
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:00 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 30, 2026 08:00 PM (jrgJz)
NYC has a per capita murder rate of about 10%, that of red state Mississippi.
Blue states have much lower murder rates of red states. And much lower incarceration rates.tgry spend it on education and rehabilitation to keep crime rates low.
Even you state NJ has low crime rates Ace
Posted by: Paul at October 30, 2026 08:00 PM (LqJV1)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 08:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 08:01 PM (pFPY8)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 07:57 PM (8Uo7a)
Our records show:
OATMEAL RAISIN
Posted by: Big Raisin at October 30, 2026 08:01 PM (oCio0)
In Shi'a Islam, they call it "mutah".
Posted by: contractual marriages aren't prostitution, infidels at October 30, 2026 08:02 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 08:00 PM (viF8m)
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I think she meant cookies, but I will gladly accept the compliment, lol!
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:02 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: Call 988 at October 30, 2026 08:02 PM (vFcoN)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:03 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:00 PM (uyuYG)
I do! I don't like store cookies. Happily, my mama taught me to bake. I'm not an especially good cook otherwise, but cookies are my jam.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 30, 2026 08:03 PM (CjHsb)
Troll doesn't realize Mississippi is 40% black and most of the crime is in Jackson and the Delta. Because he's a stupid, ignorant troll.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 08:03 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: PaleRider at October 30, 2026 08:04 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 08:04 PM (pFPY8)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 08:04 PM (8Uo7a)
Doesn't really matter. When I see your name I think cookies. Same same.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 08:05 PM (viF8m)
I'm sure Mississippi has way fewer murders than the State of New York.
Posted by: Case at October 30, 2026 08:05 PM (fzmBj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 08:05 PM (6v4rH)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 30, 2026 08:05 PM (jrgJz)
I do. I live in a city neighborhood, and get a succession of different ethnic hordes from nearby projects. I'm happy to comply with payola demands, as my neighborhood remains quite peaceful all year.
Better service than I get from my taxes.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 30, 2026 08:06 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 08:06 PM (pFPY8)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:06 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 08:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 08:04 PM (8Uo7a)
*blushes, curtsies
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 30, 2026 08:07 PM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 08:07 PM (6v4rH)
17 arrested worked at theme parks, 13 at Disney and 4 at Paramount.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 30, 2026 08:07 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 07:22 PM
You wouldn't want to hand out untested treats to the kiddos, would you? As a Moron, Quality is Job One!
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Had to get a 55 piece bag today to replenish the 150 piece bag I started hitting yesterday.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 30, 2026 08:08 PM (sl73Y)
I do. I live in a city neighborhood, and get a succession of different ethnic hordes from nearby projects. I'm happy to comply with payola demands, as my neighborhood remains quite peaceful all year.
Better service than I get from my taxes.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 30, 2026 08:06 PM (sl73Y)
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Me! I do. I was just thinking that for the first time in many years I will have to carve it myself tomorrow. Usually one or more of the kids come by to do it but not this year. I got my husband one too so we can carve together. He always did creative ones but I have zero artistic ability so mine will probably be the traditional three triangles and a smile.
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:09 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 08:09 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 08:09 PM (8Uo7a)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 08:10 PM (pfXMo)
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Heh. I never have had thought of a bottle of good stuff to pass around to the parents. I think that would be a popular add on for the parents of tricker treaters.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 08:11 PM (E4rtv)
If only I knew someone who could bake cookies.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I'm not a baker at all and I can do most cookies. But yeah, enjoying other people's cookies, I can see that.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 08:13 PM (E4rtv)
Not aggressive, 2 to 3 year lifespan
Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 30, 2026 08:13 PM (4wBV7)
It's humbling.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 08:13 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 08:13 PM (r2Icn)
I might try leaf lard, but then again I might follow the instructions because the recipe I have is good for most people.
My failures are often just self inflicted problems.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:13 PM (rbvCR)
You might enjoy an account I follow on YouTube, called Scarlett O Hair. ( I'm sure she's on all platforms) Extremely long red hair, which she does up in utterly insane styles, along with beautiful costumes.
The Morons in general would likely find her utterly delicious!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2026 08:13 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 08:14 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Want to see a Greek and Turk fight, ask them who invented baklava.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 08:15 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 08:15 PM (8Uo7a)
You blue states lie about everything. Including crime stats. And every urban city is blue , North or South.
Commie tranny loving immoral baby killing American hating perverts like you and your brethren can continue to live in your shit holes and pretend it's a utopia.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 08:15 PM (Ti9vn)
Not aggressive, 2 to 3 year lifespan
Posted by: JM in Illinois
They eat ticks, which is awesome.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 08:15 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:16 PM (uyuYG)
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Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! Right-wing Polish President Karol Nawrocki just PERSONALLY STORMED IN to the nation's highest constitutional court after Donald Tusk's group of pro-EU flunkies tried a COUP
THIS, RIGHT HERE, IS A PATRIOT WHO LOVES POLAND 🇵🇱
Poland is erupting and it's not good for the enemies who refuse to respect their sovereignty.
America is with Poland and President Nawrocki all the way!
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 08:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 08:18 PM (8Uo7a)
My heart goes out to opossums. They look scary, but they're wonderful, eating a lot of bad stuff -- starting with roadkill.
Not aggressive, 2 to 3 year lifespan
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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I like vultures. Poor, ugly, unloved bastards do a very useful job.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 08:19 PM (eRlcH)
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son!"
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 08:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:21 PM (uyuYG)
I had never thought about that, you have to do that with bread dough because the gluten gets all tangled and stiff.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:21 PM (rbvCR)
It's humbling.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I cannot think of any since perhaps Teddy Roosevelt and he died much younger than Trump.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 08:21 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:22 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:23 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:21 PM (uyuYG)
Vegetable oil and the butter being too warm and heavily worked, I am told. Especially if I get frustrated and add too much and make shortbread.
A nice shortbread crust can be nice if you are making a tarte, but not for a fruit pie.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:23 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 30, 2026 08:24 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:23 PM (uyuYG)
This but I overwork the dough and don't keep it cool enough. The voice in my head tells me that if I don't work the dough enough the crumb will not be fine enough. The voices don't know how to make pastry I'm afraid.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:25 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:25 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 08:15 PM (E4rtv)
Ninjas, Ninjas invented it.
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 08:26 PM (Q7jI8)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory"
I submit that they are more useful than many other creatures, such as those whose only claim to fame is "they hold hands when they sleep".
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:26 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:27 PM (rbvCR)
I have never seen a fighter like trump.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 08:27 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:27 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:28 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: Wenda at October 30, 2026 08:28 PM (W2eM/)
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 08:28 PM (Q7jI8)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 08:29 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:29 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:30 PM (rbvCR)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 08:30 PM (Ia/+0)
I've never seen anything like him in all my years watching politics. He dominates and changes narratives like no person I've ever seen. Never will again.
Whatever quibbles people might have about his ego or "gauche" language he does things for a reason. He's almost singlehandedly changing the trajectory of the world not just the US.
It's an amazing time to be alive.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 08:30 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 30, 2026 08:31 PM (YBpBG)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:31 PM (rbvCR)
And I get to watch and clap.
Posted by: Wenda at October 30, 2026 08:31 PM (W2eM/)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:32 PM (MWfyi)
"One thing about living in Santa Clara I never could stomach...all the damned vampires."
- Grandpa
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 08:34 PM (h+uWx)
And of course showed a picture of four candles.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:35 PM (rbvCR)
I have never seen a fighter like trump.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October
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YES!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 30, 2026 08:37 PM (YBpBG)
France can't finance their debt, Britain and Spanish governments are at war with their own citizens backed by muslim jihadis, Germany has no energy or industry left and Canada wants to go steady with them but gets rejected.
Whatever comes out of the woods tomorrow night will seem sane.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 08:37 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 08:37 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:38 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:38 PM (rbvCR)
And stir the ice water in with a fork.
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:39 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:40 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 08:40 PM (8Uo7a)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:27 PM (rbvCR)
I made a whole turkey breast in a combo toaster/convection oven one Thanksgiving when I had no choice.
I wrapped it in foil for most of the cooking cycle, then used the toaster function to toast the skin at the end.
Much to my surprise, it came out great.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 08:40 PM (qlLNh)
Wenda! Tip taken.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 08:41 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:42 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:42 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: AOS Cope at October 30, 2026 08:42 PM (JNDIb)
Or an actual hand pastry cutter/blender if you're not looking for a new hobby to fill up your free time :-)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 08:42 PM (qlLNh)
Had never paid attention up to now, but I understand both WNBA teams left the court when the National Anthem was played. Just like the Team of Woman Soccer Players from the United States, it's a good reason to avoid watching women's sports.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 08:42 PM (eRlcH)
CFO
The Company has an IBM 360 to compute all the compute that ever needs to be computed.
Proj Mgr
I just ran our next buildout in Lotus 123 today and we do not need to wait till next week for IT.
IT
WREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:43 PM (/+uur)
Thanks for reminding me. I haven't had it out since the last years of my husband's illness.
I may get it out early, just for me!
And I will definitely run up my JOY banner up my flagpole!
Posted by: Wenda at October 30, 2026 08:43 PM (W2eM/)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:42 PM (MWfyi)
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Well, I was going to say "use two shivs" but then I realized I'm probably the only one here with a shiv collection.
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:43 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:43 PM (/+uur)
10/30/1938
Lest We Forget
Posted by: Kindltot
Thank you. Idnk it was on today's date.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 08:44 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:44 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 08:44 PM (8Uo7a)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:44 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: Wenda at October 30, 2026 08:28 PM (W2eM/)
Good tip! I don't make pie crust very often, but it seems like this would work just as well with biscuit dough.
As it is, I usually wind up with a misshapen leftover lump at the end that tends to fall apart, which a roomie of long ago dubbed "Jerry's biscuit". Well, no one ever accused Al of being couth.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 08:45 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: AOS Cope at October 30, 2026 08:45 PM (AXLM8)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 08:42 PM (qlLNh)
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Yes, if he has one!
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:45 PM (uyuYG)
Grovers Mill, New Jersey
10/30/1938
Lest We Forget
Posted by: Kindltot
__________
RIP Carl Phillips. That bastard Ramon Raquello skipped town ahead of the catastrophe.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 08:46 PM (eRlcH)
Maybe.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 08:46 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 08:46 PM (h+uWx)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 08:42 PM (qlLNh)
I just use it to make mashed potatoes.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 08:47 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:47 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:45 PM (uyuYG)
I'm not big on single-use kitchen gadgets, but that one was well worth the drawer space. I make biscuits and gravy pretty often (more often than my doctor would probably like) and that dingus not only saves time, it gives better (IMO) results.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 08:48 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 08:48 PM (8Uo7a)
It's also possible that your batter is too thick, so maybe add a bit more milk if that's the case.
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:48 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 08:46 PM (h+uWx)
I did not know you could get hassenfpheffer from lamb
or
Its ok I make you lamb
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:48 PM (/+uur)
realclearpolitics.com /articles/ 2026/…
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 08:50 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 08:51 PM (8Uo7a)
Maybe.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 08:46 PM (viF8m)
***
The Queen of Cell Block D has entered the conversation...and you all know who I mean!
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 08:52 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 08:53 PM (6v4rH)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 08:54 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 08:55 PM (xOuxV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 08:55 PM (zZu0s)
Masses of police. People shout in front of the Constitutional Tribunal: Where is the army!?!?!?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 08:56 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 08:56 PM (8Uo7a)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 08:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 08:57 PM (Ti9vn)
garrett?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 08:57 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:57 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Catupuncture
Posted by: whig
Stolen.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 08:58 PM (yEz+x)
garrett?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 08:57 PM (viF8m)
Boo (blue)bell.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 09:00 PM (2WIwB)
But she had so much momentum she slid right across the desk and off the other side, nearly taking out one of my monitors along the way!
Cats are so much fun.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 09:00 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 09:01 PM (uyuYG)
Some make fun of Shatner's acting style, but do remember that his character had to be "forced" by mind control to kiss the delectable Nichelle Nichols.
Given what a horndog Kirk was (even nailing an enlisted woman, Yeoman Rand -- #metoo apparently doesn't exist in the 25th Century), that was some decent acting.
Damn! These! Platonians! Sorry, Uhura. Can't. Resist. Now. Getting. Urge to. Remove Pants.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:03 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: H8 and Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at October 30, 2026 09:03 PM (nd4Tt)
This is over a censorship bill? Interesting.
*types* *deletes*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 08:56 PM (zZu0s)
It’s been going on a long time. Poland had a pretty conservative independent government. Then the EU engineered th ed election of a pro-EU PM. But the Poles then elected a populist President, and they hate each other
So it looks like the EU PM is trying to use the State Police to stage a coup against the President, but he’s fighting back. Interesting night.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 09:04 PM (xOuxV)
https://tinyurl.com/44bpsy8e
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 09:05 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 09:05 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: H8 and Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at October 30, 2026 09:03 PM (nd4Tt)
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I feel the same! I'm looking forward to seeing all the little ones in their costumes tomorrow.
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 09:06 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Can I get some for under $8.99 lb?
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 09:07 PM (Y8DZL)
Well, I was going to say "use two shivs" but then I realized I'm probably the only one here with a shiv collection.
Posted by: JackStraw
Let's see....
Ww2 Japanese bayonette
Vietnam era bayonette
Modern epoch bayonette
U.S. Marine 1980s K-Bar
Double edged boot dirk
Two palm hilt skinning knives
One Damascus blade that won't hold an edge for shit
Morakniv one of the sharpest I have, took me a long time to get it there.
An antique Swiss army knife that has been out of production for 60 years
Several other EDC knives
One of Smash's cast off kitchen knives that I have almost as sharp as that Morakniv
Yeah, I got a few shivs.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 30, 2026 09:08 PM (QVmho)
If you can't figure it out I'll let you know.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 09:10 PM (Ti9vn)
Lot of CA transplants to TX continue to vote Democrat . They don't see the contradiction of moving to Texas because the cost of living is so much lower and voting for the same type of people who made CA what it is today.
Posted by: polynikes
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I know someone who did that. She has relocated TWICE to flee Democrat taxation, all while voting Dem. She said all shocked, "I didn't vote for THAT."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 09:11 PM (mmrXZ)
> I did not know you could get hassenfpheffer from lamb
Lammpfeffer?
The IntarWebs say that's an actual known Luxembourgish dish.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:11 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 09:12 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 09:13 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 09:14 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Pazusu at October 30, 2026 09:14 PM (2RJDy)
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Well, Republicans are vampire werewolves.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 09:15 PM (ndZc7)
It's especially weird to have a Prime Minister in countries that no longer have a monarch.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:15 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 08:48 PM
The rabbit was delish with some herbed polenta. The lamb shank will be dinner on Sunday.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 09:16 PM (h+uWx)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 09:18 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 09:14 PM (MWfyi)
Because nobody could see it if it were placed in the basement.
Posted by: Pazusu at October 30, 2026 09:18 PM (2RJDy)
Ideally
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 09:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: boo-bell at October 30, 2026 09:06 PM
Awww...
The RMBS Mom and I have our last theater night of the season tomorrow...Phantom...so we'll miss the little ones for the first time in many years.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 09:19 PM (h+uWx)
I'm not sure why. Interracial nookie was Strom Thurmond-approved.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:19 PM (qlLNh)
It's especially weird to have a Prime Minister in countries that no longer have a monarch.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:15 PM (qlLNh)
well the PM is the head of government in a normal Parliament system like England. Well aside from the ceremonial King.
Starting to think all of these systems are totally dysfunctional.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 09:19 PM (Ai6WH)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 09:14 PM (MWfyi)
Alternate answer (and sock removal) He was grabbing Walter White's pizza.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 09:19 PM (2RJDy)
Star Trek TNG is on (Heroes and Icons, which runs all 5 series starting at 8PM), and it's the episode where Data loses his memory and contaminates a village with radioactive material.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 09:20 PM (w6EFb)
They are fun. aren't they? It amuses me the way I will throw a little styrofoam ball for the kitten and he ( what spouse calls "revs up his engine" ) ( shakes his backside) and races off to get up. I have said before, I am glad the cat is not 200 lbs. I'd probably be dead, except for the fact that he seems to regard me as his surrogate mother.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 09:20 PM (JrHfD)
Long story about california transplants there.
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 09:22 PM (Q7jI8)
This is what happens when you take a carnivore diet cheat weekend.
Oh boy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 09:22 PM (XV/Pl)
I'm sorry, but this European business of having both a President *and* a Prime Minister has always seemed utterly retarded to me... a recipe for gridlock at best and civil war at worst.
__________
Ja
Posted by: Paul von Hindenburg at October 30, 2026 09:23 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 09:24 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 09:19 PM (Ai6WH)
US Constitution: ~10 pages
Proposed EU Constitution (which was rejected): ~350 pages
Obviously theirs is 35 times better than ours, right?
Similar to the way the French are on their fifth republic while we're still on our first. They obviously have more experience, yes?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:24 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 09:25 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Polish Bullwinkle at October 30, 2026 09:25 PM (Cqx++)
A president in a parliamentary government is like a parent who has to sort out the constant arguments among all the squabbling kids.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 09:26 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:27 PM (qlLNh)
Similar to the way the French are on their fifth republic while we're still on our first. They obviously have more experience, yes?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:24 PM (qlLNh)
__________
A woman walks into a library in Paris and asks if they have a copy of the French Constitution. "Madame," the librarian sniffs, "we do not carry periodicals here."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 09:28 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:24 PM (qlLNh)
The French started that nonsense about having both a PM and a President. They couldn’t make up their minds what they wanted and went with one of each. Then a bunch of other Euro’s said “ooh the French did it, we want to do it too!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 09:29 PM (xOuxV)
About two hrs ago he sent out a letter via tweet denouncing AIPAC and Israel.
I think the meeting just went boink
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 09:29 PM (f8snw)
Didn't Poland at one time have a system that required a unanimous vote on EVERYTHING? Or am I thinking of some other European country?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:27 PM (qlLNh)
_________
The librum veto in the pre-partition Sejm.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 09:30 PM (eRlcH)
To answer my own question, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had a parliament ("Sejm") in which any member could not only veto the current legislation under discussion, but could repeal any previous legislation and even dissolve parliament, just by saying Nie pozwalam!” (“I do not allow!”
.
This worked about as well as you would expect.
Now, I know perfectly well that that Poles aren't stupid, as the stereotype would have it, but sometimes it's harder to believe that than others.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:32 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 09:29 PM (xOuxV)
That's just plain goofy.
Using them as an example of what NOT to do would make way more sense.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:33 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory"
I submit that they are more useful than many other creatures, such as those whose only claim to fame is "they hold hands when they sleep".
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:26 PM (MWfyi)
Oooh! Shots fired, nurse.
I see we have at least one Moron on the payroll of Big Penguin.
!!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 30, 2026 09:33 PM (p61JE)
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 09:34 PM (5WPt1)
Using them as an example of what NOT to do would make way more sense.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:33 PM (qlLNh)
___________
Late 19th century European governments are notable for their ramshackle, inept construction.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 09:35 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:32 PM (qlLNh)
Well, they are one of about two countries in Europe that haven't imported the entirety of the Califate, and they are majority Catholic which precludes a lot of nonsense that is rife elsewhere on the continent.
So, there's that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 09:35 PM (5WPt1)
True enough.
I don't think the Russians have imported many recently, but the barbarians were already inside the gates from the USSR days.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:37 PM (qlLNh)
Any system can be broken by people who want to break it. Even ours.
Anyone who thinks they will be satisfied with taking Europe and counties like Brazil but won't come after us is delusional. They have before, they will again.
Stay frosty. It's coming.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m)
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https://tinyurl.com/u4sks5sx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now
.......
Can't wait for the gender reveal.
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 09:40 PM (oq9dX)
7.
One to yell "coup" and six to...(fill in the blank)
Posted by: Dumb Polack Jokes at October 30, 2026 09:41 PM (Ssbab)
Why do the Poles bury their dead with the butts in the air?
So they have bicycle parking.
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 09:42 PM (oq9dX)
https://www.academia.edu/8203210/
Islam_in_the_Russian_Empire
So it goes way back.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 09:45 PM (3NeBC)
Trick question, they have no roads.
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 09:47 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 09:51 PM (pMmVV)
Hilarous that their curses failed and spectacularly backfired! Did an attorney take their class action case? "Tic Tok Witches vs Stupid Old Witch"
I never had many boyfriends but I also never put a hex on them. We just mutually stopped dating. Or I stopped dating them and they figured it out and life went on. So weird.
Talked to youngest son and he and DIL have a cold from the baby, who is a Toddler Flamingo for Halloween. She won't give two hoots about trick or treating and will go to sleep in her stroller. She thought her 1st birthday was pretty weird until the cake part, which she ate with both fists in complete nirvana.
Based on the way she walks I think she should have been a baby Penguin.
She's so cute. Her big sister, blonde like our side of the family, was almost bald at this age. This one has a ton of hair and DIL puts two pig tails on top of her head like antenna to get the hair out of her eyes. When she naps one sticks straight up. This hairdo matches her personality. We thought she was the quiet one but she was storing all she learned til she was mobile.
Have a great weekend, Ace and all.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 09:52 PM (hzuYO)
254
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 09:47 PM
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It's not funny. Nothing against you, it just isn't.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 30, 2026 09:52 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: LASue at October 30, 2026 09:53 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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They are generally better behaved because they know Russian trials are very quick. About 2200 fps.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 09:54 PM (pMmVV)
I'm sure Mississippi has way fewer murders than the State of New York.
Posted by: Case at October 30, 2026 08:05 PM (fzmBj)
******
My crazy brother used to collect weird murder reasons in MS. One shooting over a pork chop. After Katrina a stabbing over using the last of the ice.
The last time I went trick or treating was 3yrs ago. Black velvet dress, black boots, and a vintage black hat with a veil and long black coat as it was cold. I put a ton of eyeliner on and scared my own grandchilden at first, as I don't need or wear eyeliner normally. Photo of 1st girlie on my hip looking at me and my younger brother thought I was supposed to be Stevie Nicks. Ha. I thought I was an old hag. My hair was pretty wild and free.
As I confessed in recent months, I was everyone's favorite costume at a kegger in college once as I was Bong Woman and wore a giant posterboard bong we made.* There are sadly photos somewhere out there and I have hope no one can see my face (so far). We had so much fun!
*I am now a refined Southern Nana who goes to Mass every Sunday and those daze are far behind me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 10:06 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 09:54 PM (pMmVV)
There's a story that some shithole terrorist group or other once kidnapped a Russian diplomat.
The KGB promptly snatched the nephew of the terrorist leader, and started send them (e.g.) finger joints.
They do NOT fuck around.
See also: the way they deal with Somali pirates. Most countries try to capture them. The Russians just sink them, and do NOT stop pick up any survivors, and the sharks of that region are notoriously vicious.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 10:08 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 10:09 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
That is what happens when you annex Central Asia and South Central Asia, those areas were muslim. The Tsars annexed those areas.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 10:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2026 10:33 PM (2RJDy)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 08:57 PM (Ti9vn)
==
Except that's not true. It's not Colorado now - it's asylum seekers. They were key when Cruz beat Beto.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 30, 2026 11:16 PM (8uHt+)
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 31, 2026 12:28 AM (NFX2v)
Case Closed: Deportations of Criminals Reduce, Get This, Crime
Update to Ada Brown story: This account, @capablanca_92, says that Ada Brown was pushed on Trump by, get this, Severely Conservative Stalwart John Cornyn.
Well whoopdefreakin'do. On to the headline story:John Lott argues that the deportation of criminal aliens and the sharp drop in crime might be somehow related. A heretical thought, but give the man a chance to make his case.
Lott notes two reasons for a decline in crime: Trump takeovers of law enforcement in two high crime cities, DC and Memphis, as well as greater prosecution of crime, even in leftwing cities like San Francisco, which replaced a Soros prosecutor who would not punish criminals with a somewhat less extreme liberal. Read the article for that. But I want to get to the deportation factor:
The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration's embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped 31%. Property crime fell 19%. Except for rape, these are the largest one-year reductions recorded since data collection began 53 years ago. The reductions followed substantial increases during the previous four years, when felony violent crime rose 59% and violent crime, including misdemeanor simple assault, increased 42%. Murder also declined sharply last year. The U.S. recorded about 4.1 murders per 100,000 people in 2025, a record low, down from roughly 5.1 per 100,000 in 2024. The murder rate has continued to drop. If preliminary FBI data showing an additional 18.4% decline during the first seven months of 2026 hold for the full year, the murder rate would fall to approximately 3.36 per 100,000. "We are witnessing a historic plunge in crime to levels never seen before in the United States," Professor Carl Moody, a crime researcher at the College of William & Mary, told RealClearInvestigations. "As a result, we are all safer in our communities than we ever have been. We should all thank our law enforcement professionals."
He also points out that law-abiding Americans are arming up, which is a huge deterrent to violent crime, at least in areas with a strong gun culture.
The crime decline has also coincided with increased immigration enforcement. While data indicate that legal immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born citizens, illegal immigrants commit crimes at a far higher rate. The Department of Homeland Security says approximately 70% of illegal immigrants deported under the Trump administration had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges. The trend represents a reversal from the Biden years, when felony violent crime increased sharply as illegal immigration also reached record levels. During the Biden administration, at least 12.8 million illegal immigrants were encountered at the border, apprehended after illegal crossings, or classified as known gotaways. The total also excludes undetected border crossings. During some surges, officials pulled 80% or more of Border Patrol agents away from guarding the border, while 30% of the cameras in Border Patrol's main surveillance system were broken. These gaps potentially allowed millions more illegal immigrants to cross the border undetected.
State prison data also illustrate the potential relationship between illegal immigration and crime. At the end of 2025, 7,113 illegal immigrants were incarcerated in New York, accounting for 14% of the state's inmate population, at least 3.4 times illegals' share of the state population. That is the best data available, but even that data understates the total because New York does not systematically identify inmates' immigration status, and federal authorities can deport some illegal immigrants before they complete their sentences.
Researchers point out that the historic decline in crime coincided with more aggressive law enforcement, tougher prosecution policies, increased deportations of criminal illegal immigrants, and more Americans carrying firearms for self-defense. "The results are unmistakable," said professor Gary Mauser, who has extensively studied crime at Simon Fraser University in Canada. "Americans experienced unprecedented drops in crime rates in 2025, and rates are continuing to fall in 2026. The government's most comprehensive measure of crime shows that the improvement was far greater than the FBI's widely publicized figures suggested."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 06:22 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (hG5L0)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 06:24 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 06:24 PM (1wjle)
3 noods!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 06:24 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 06:25 PM (I43vL)
Posted by: Eddie Baby at October 30, 2026 06:25 PM (s19xO)
Posted by: Dave at October 30, 2026 06:26 PM (sbsMc)
Posted by: Fox Butterfield at October 30, 2026 06:26 PM (+UCFu)
Posted by: The Count at October 30, 2026 06:27 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 06:28 PM (FZ29D)
Wierd system but the prime minister (backed by EU ), who is leader of the parliament, is attempting to remove the president who is the leader of the constitutional court which is responsible for protection of their constitution.
Cont...
Posted by: TeeJ at October 30, 2026 06:29 PM (ix5nG)
What a fucking idiot.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 06:30 PM (r2Icn)
There would be no crime if we opened the Gyms and Parks for Midnight Basketball.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:30 PM (Qugny)
To me one illegal committing a crime is too many
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 06:30 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2026 06:31 PM (+UCFu)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:32 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 06:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Yeah, crossing the US border.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 06:32 PM (NnhvP)
People taking to the streets to protest.
President has cut a trip short and is heading back.
Posted by: TeeJ at October 30, 2026 06:32 PM (ix5nG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 06:33 PM (ndZc7)
To me one illegal committing a crime is too many
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Before him, Ron Unz created a statistical fantasy claiming the same thing awhile back. Quit reading him after that. I did US federal sentencing stat work at the time and knew he was full of shit with his alleged stats.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:33 PM (E4rtv)
Well, hope it works out for the Polish people...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:34 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: TeeJ
Already back at his offices TeeJ, meeting with others. PM Tusk has made his play and now we see what the opposition does. Depends on who the forces of law and order follow, the President or Prime Minister.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:34 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2026 06:35 PM (+UCFu)
It will come down to the Military.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:35 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 06:35 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:36 PM (pfXMo)
What a fucking idiot.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
Perfect example like Charlie Crist of a Jeb! Bush Republican that are actually Democrats. Jolley won office as a GOP House member claiming to be severely conservative just like Crist did before fleeing to the Democrat party.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:36 PM (E4rtv)
Wierd system but the prime minister (backed by EU ), who is leader of the parliament, is attempting to remove the president who is the leader of the constitutional court which is responsible for protection of their constitution.
Cont...
Posted by: TeeJ at October 30, 2026 06:29 PM (ix5nG)
These ramshackle government forms drive me nuts. No excuse except to give a chance for these coups.
I still have no idea when Germany's constant rotation of local sub elections results in ....well, results.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:37 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:37 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 30, 2026 06:37 PM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 06:35 PM (TN0g+)
Pro EU vs Pro Poland (not even anti EU)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:38 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Crusader
President Nawrocki or some such is a Polish nationalist along with his PiS party. Tusk is a Euro Commie Fascist and is prime minister of a coalition of assorted pieces of lefties that want abortion on demand and a lot of other legislation that the Constitutional Court was blocking (had a PiS majority). So Tusk tried to do an end around while Nawrocki was flying to Senegal to take out the PiS supporters on the court using a sock puppet justice as cover.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:38 PM (E4rtv)
TOUSI on Poland ...
Presently reading communiqe from US ambassador to Poland.
Posted by: you really don't want to know at October 30, 2026 06:38 PM (mtytl)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:39 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:33 PM (E4rtv)
I'll grant that. Let them be peaceful in their home nations, often hellholes. Do you hate foreigners?
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:39 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:39 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:39 PM
There's a man with a gun over there.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2026 06:40 PM (+UCFu)
Presently reading communiqe from US ambassador to Poland.
Posted by: you really don't want to know at October 30, 2026 06:38 PM (mtytl)
US has called for the end of the coup.
Posted by: you really don't want to know at October 30, 2026 06:40 PM (mtytl)
I still have no idea when Germany's constant rotation of local sub elections results in ....well, results.
Posted by: Oldcat
No one in post Commie and post WWI wanted a king so you get the French 5th Republic hybrid of an elected President that has separate and limited power that vary according to the country. French President has the most, the other Euro countries without kings vary.
The regular parliamentary systems are turning into mush as well and Proportional Representation makes it much worse.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:41 PM (E4rtv)
WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧
@WarMonitor3
·
1h
Huge Polish police columns are seen moving on Multiple highways including the S1 towards Warsaw.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:41 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 06:42 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2026 06:42 PM (+UCFu)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:43 PM (Qugny)
Does it make you wonder why so many Democrats are taking about impeaching Hegseth almost as much as they are talking about impeaching Trump?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 06:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 06:43 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 06:43 PM (ndZc7)
So what it is ain't exactly clear?
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:39 PM (pfXMo)
Tusk was installed by the EU in a rigged election like most recent elections in EU land. Absentee ballots from other countries, missing ballots from other countries, the works.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:44 PM (uhVAy)
Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat
·
1h
🚨BREAKING: Counter coup MP's and their supporters are literally cutting through the chains (preventing entrance into the Constitutional Court) put in place by Donald Tusk's Police
Things are escalating quickly
Good Luck to all Polish Patriots 🇵🇱
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:44 PM (E4rtv)
What he actually wrote: I'm looking for a tard wife.
So.... a DSA member, then?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 06:44 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 06:43 PM (Cqx++)
They'll have to order their armies from Amazon this time.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:44 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:45 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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You left out fascism with a bureaucratic face.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:45 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 06:43 PM (viF8m)
If only he'd stop firing the traitors we've gotten to high rank. -- leftists who'll suddenly decide that refusing illegal orders ISN'T okay.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 06:45 PM (ExV1e)
Has BroFo Omar been frogmarched to the nearest border and kicked across it yet?
Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 06:45 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 06:46 PM (n5tGW)
Surround it, and set it on fire. Problem solved.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:39 PM (Qugny)
hey that might be a nice building and the comfy chairs are salvagable.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:46 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: I gotta ask at October 30, 2026 06:46 PM (W2mvV)
Same with the crime rate; the cities Trump earmarked have dramatic drops in crime, thus effecting the average. But if you live in an other than area nothing is changed. I'm waiting for Homan to come and get my neighbors.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 06:47 PM (pMmVV)
Things are escalating quickly
Good Luck to all Polish Patriots 🇵🇱
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:44 PM
If the Army steps in it's over one way or the other. If they start rolling tanks and attack helicopters into warsaw it's going to get lit in a not good way.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 06:47 PM (I43vL)
call me.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:48 PM (Qugny)
Donald Tusk
@donaldtusk
·
4h
Translated from Polish
Restoring the rule of law is our duty. After years of PiS-led lawlessness, this is a difficult process, sometimes painful, and it requires decisive action. There is no other way.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:48 PM (E4rtv)
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: The person who always says that at October 30, 2026 06:48 PM (W2mvV)
Surround it, and set it on fire. Problem solved.
Posted by: garrett at October 30,
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Hey, that's an idea.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 06:48 PM (pMmVV)
His lawyers say "he wuz hacked!!" and point out the account profile indicated interest in women. So maybe he was indeed hacked.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 06:49 PM (KCI+7)
I came in close to the end of Tousi's live stream. It was pretty short. Towards the end he also said that the US had conducted airstrikes on 4 targets in Iran yesterday that he reported yesterday.
New news to me.
Posted by: TeeJ at October 30, 2026 06:49 PM (ix5nG)
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 06:50 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 06:50 PM (TN0g+)
lol, they're claiming victory?
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 06:50 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 06:50 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:48 PM (E4rtv)
Chaining shut the government building seems a leeeeetle lawless. I mean a teeeeeny bit lawless.
Doing that to force abortion on a Catholic nation is hardly nice.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:51 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Fleetwood Mac at October 30, 2026 06:51 PM (W2mvV)
Posted by: NYC Voter Holding Out Gruel Bowl at October 30, 2026 06:51 PM (VFdB/)
"Well I can't believe the trans-child-obsessed Confirmed Bachelor James Talarico is into group fetish shit," said noted void phantom Doctor Nullity, The Man Who Never Existed
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 06:51 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 06:51 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 06:51 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 06:51 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: TheITGuy2 at October 30, 2026 06:51 PM (v9ncW)
Prime Minister Tusk is supposedly from a center-ish party.
But Tusk was the President of the European Council for 5 years until 2019, so that's who he is working for.
The EU despises the right in Poland because of the Law and Justice Party's policies on immigration and the like.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 06:52 PM (6ydKt)
Łukasz Kmita
@Lukasz_Kmita
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1h
Translated from Polish
👮♂️I'm receiving information from PL that the Chief Commander has ordered the mobilization of OPP
@PolskaPolicja (Police compact units) in many regions of our country.
If this is true—then @Tusk and @MKierwinski
want to take the police to the streets against Poles.
Suggests 👮♂️urgent use of L4
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(don't know what in the hell this is.)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:52 PM (E4rtv)
is Tusk the one married to crazed leftwing neo-warmonger Anne Applebaum?
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 06:50 PM (1wjle)
Donald Tusk's wife is Małgorzata Sochacka,
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:52 PM (uhVAy)
Leftists have been insisting that Trump is going to invoke the Insurrection Act despite Trump not talking about it at all. But as the guy with the Free Candy van noted coups succeed of fail based on what the military does.
There are coups, riots, unrest all around the world. They aren't isolated incidents, they are coordinated. Insisting it can't happen here is whistling past the graveyard. It would be a huge climb but that doesn't mean they won't try.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 06:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ace
Former Foreign Minister from Tusk's Party if I recall correctly.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:53 PM (E4rtv)
Believe me.
Posted by: Mitch at October 30, 2026 06:53 PM (W2mvV)
Yeah no...Nixon loses by between 15 and 20 points...
Posted by: Boswell at October 30, 2026 06:53 PM (j10i6)
@Lukasz_Kmita
·
1h
Translated from Polish
👮♂️I'm receiving information from PL that the Chief Commander has ordered the mobilization of OPP
@PolskaPolicja (Police compact units) in many regions of our country.
If this is true—then @Tusk and @MKierwinski
want to take the police to the streets against Poles.
Suggests 👮♂️urgent use of L4
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Mr Tusk, you have an ordering problem. It should be cops first , coups second. Not the other way about!
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:53 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: ZZ Litella at October 30, 2026 06:54 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 06:54 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Tissue? at October 30, 2026 06:54 PM (W2mvV)
Posted by: Crusader
The cereal?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 06:54 PM
Kix are most exclusively for kids.
Posted by: Liam Neeson at October 30, 2026 06:55 PM (I43vL)
Gravitar.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Thanks--I wasn't aware of that one BUT you might enjoy the wikipedia page. Its an interesting write up.
I did like Asteroids a lot.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 06:55 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 06:56 PM (I43vL)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:56 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 06:56 PM (1wjle)
Gesundheit
Posted by: Tissue? at October 30, 2026 06:54 PM (W2mvV)
Not the kind of name to whisper in her ear, it would bust an eardrum, maybe both of them.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:56 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: TeeJ
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Musk shutting down the Nitter mirror put a crimp in news gathering.
I'll give Musk my telephone number when he gives me his.
He's a genius doing wonderful things for the world but he's not
a pragmatist, he's a utopian.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 06:56 PM (pMmVV)
A private company has secured approval to start testing their micro nuclear reactor. It outputs 1 megawatt of power for five years. It fits in a shipping container. It requires no maintenance for the five year span. When it's done, you ship it back and it gets recharged with all necessary consumables.
http://tiny.cc/k6xc101
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 06:56 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Crusader
The cereal?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 06:54 PM (Cqx++)
Cereal would be Quisp, or Kix.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)
Little Italian place on the other side of town serves that on the weekends. It's a really good dessert.
Posted by: Food nerd at October 30, 2026 06:57 PM (W2mvV)
NYT: U.S. to Send Dozens Back to Afghanistan, Despite Risk of Persecution The Trump administration plans to fly the Afghan immigrants from Louisiana to Pakistan, where they are expected to be expelled over the border to Afghanistan
US law prohibits the government from deporting people back to countries where courts have ruled they would likely face prosecution. The government circumvented this law by sending them to Pakistan, where they will then be expelled to Afghanistan.
Speedrunning how to get other countries citizens to never cooperate with us because they know we'll fuck them over. Excellent plan!
These are just dozens of people too, throwing away all this good will because you can’t have 12 people from the Middle East live here…
All it takes is an administration change and every promise or commitment made to an ally evaporates.
The DNC is ruled by people who believe in having a "strong Republican Party" to keep the left in check. Bringing back Schumer and Jeffries virtually guarantees that nothing will happen.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 30, 2026 06:58 PM (U6rW6)
A private company has secured approval to start testing their micro nuclear reactor. It outputs 1 megawatt of power for five years. It fits in a shipping container. It requires no maintenance for the five year span. When it's done, you ship it back and it gets recharged with all necessary consumables.
http://tiny.cc/k6xc101
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 06:56 PM
So has every terrorist in the world.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 06:58 PM (I43vL)
I'm not even going to try to figure it out. Just wait till the dust settles.
It is, after all, more than 10 miles away.
Posted by: TeeJ at October 30, 2026 06:58 PM (ix5nG)
http://tiny.cc/k6xc101
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 06:56 PM (mkw2N)
Finally I can have my nuclear robot soldiers 3 meters high!
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:59 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 06:59 PM (Ia/+0)
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Bartosz Pałucki
@Palucki_B
Translated from Polish
Step by step.
Ms. Anna Korwin-Piotrowska ordered the removal of the President of the Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, and the Vice-President, Bartłomiej Sochański, citing Article 12(4) of the Act on the Constitutional Tribunal and Article 130 of the Code of Common Courts Organization.
Article 12(4) allows for substituting the President in cases of IMPOSSIBILITY to grant authorization. It does not grant the right to unilaterally assume his powers.
Article 130 § 2 states that the removal of a court president is decided by the Minister of Justice. This power CANNOT be transferred to a Constitutional Tribunal judge through analogous application of provisions concerning Supreme Court judges.
Article 19 of the Act on the Status of Constitutional Tribunal Judges allows applying provisions concerning Supreme Court judges only in matters not regulated. Such issues are, after all, regulated in Chapter 3 of the Act.
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continued.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:59 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Huge and bloody.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 06:59 PM (pMmVV)
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In the background are fundamental constitutional principles:
art. 7 – the principle of legality;
art. 10 – separation and balance of powers;
art. 173 – the distinctness and independence of the Tribunal;
art. 195 – the independence of Constitutional Tribunal judges.
Added to this is the dispute over the status of Korwin-Piotrowska herself and the consequences of her failure to take the oath before the President.
It is not enough to declare the assumption of powers to legally assume them. Each of these actions requires a specific legal basis.
This is an unprecedented event. We are dealing with a coup d'état.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:59 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 07:00 PM (fhfS+)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 07:00 PM (8Uo7a)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 07:01 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 07:01 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 07:02 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:59 PM (E4rtv)
Coups aren't unprecedented. We practically have a Crayola box full of them by now.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 07:02 PM (uhVAy)
No! NO!! This just enables the cispsychopatriarchy!!!
IT'S BADTHINK, AND CANNOT BE ALLOWED !!!!!!!!
I DEMAND TO SPEAK TO BLÖG MÄNÄGËMÉNT !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Kareny McKarenface at October 30, 2026 07:02 PM (0sNs1)
There has been more than one mass shooting per day in 2026 thus far.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 07:02 PM (Ti9vn)
Yes.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 07:02 PM (1wjle)
Hot, yes, crazy...also yes.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 07:03 PM (uhVAy)
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Sounds like a great experiment--lets remove all but 11 people from the Middle East from our country and see what it does for good will.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 07:03 PM (TN0g+)
Just had one in Brazil. It was in all the papers.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:03 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 07:02 PM (Ti9vn)
Do the D/A's report them?
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 07:03 PM (uhVAy)
[ South Vietnam has entered the chat ]
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2026 07:03 PM (d4hsS)
Yeah no...Nixon loses by between 15 and 20 points...
Posted by: Boswell
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See above on Fox ratings. They are sinking like a rock for the midterms. Murdoch spawn and Ryan are destroying their own media empire.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:04 PM (E4rtv)
Costa Rica is setting up one, and Peru is setting up 8.
Apparently there is enough evidence that jailing violent criminals as opposed to giving them minimal sentences so they can find a place in the local criminal hierarchy, helps society
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 07:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 30, 2026 07:04 PM (U6rW6)
Posted by: Oldcat
Is there a country where this doesn't apply?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 30, 2026 07:04 PM
Sweden.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (I43vL)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (Ia/+0)
France will charge €0.055 per GB on all internet traffic, presumably all internet traffic which goes through France.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (ExV1e)
http://tiny.cc/k6xc101
Posted by: bonhomme
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Yep, developers will take these and build new communities.
Selling point, virtually Free Electricity.
Heat, Cool and Cook your home for a year
at the cost of one month's bill, today.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (pMmVV)
Meaning?
Are you claiming the nuclear material is easily converted to weapons use? If so, you're wrong.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (viF8m)
Notice how nobody ever accuses the Trannies of not be sufficiently crazy enough to be actual women.
Of all the ways they fail to ascend to the feminine ideal...that is not one of them.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 07:06 PM (Qugny)
UC Merced is also 52% Hispanic, and 21% Asian...
With only 10.4% WHITE Students... by their own numbers.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 07:06 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Well centered on the EU, I would agree. But that was in the original post, not my editorial comments. I try to put those up top or clearly demarcate them at the bottom. I don't know what the hell is L4 for example (graphic had a color graphic with that on it).
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:06 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 07:06 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (I43vL)
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Fairly crazy there too, if neurotic counts.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 07:06 PM (fhfS+)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (viF8m)
Dating a Hawt Woman, named after an Alcohol drink...
Truly a Sailors dream.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 07:07 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:06 PM (E4rtv)
Probably NOT a Lagrange point. Might be some security bureau contraction.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 07:07 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 07:08 PM (Ti9vn)
Of all the ways they fail to ascend to the feminine ideal...that is not one of them.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 07:06 PM (Qugny)
Well a difference between men and women is single minded focus and testosterone fuelled drive. Apply that to CRAZY TIME and you have a real problem.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 07:09 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 07:09 PM (pMmVV)
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"
Marcin Horała
@mhorala
Translated from Polish
The current attack on the Tribunal is based on a triple unlawfulness:
1. Ms. Anna Korwin-Piotrowska is not a TK judge because she did not take the oath before the President.
2. Even if she had correctly taken the oath, she could not, as one of a dozen or so members of the Tribunal, remove the president and vice-president of the Tribunal from their duties by her decision.
3. Even if the president and vice-president had been properly removed, the judge with the longest judicial service is Judge Wojciech Sych, and he should be the acting president.
Each of these three premises is sufficient to establish the unlawfulness of the government's actions, and all three occur simultaneously‼️"
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:09 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 07:10 PM (fhfS+)
oh, wait...
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 07:09 PM (pMmVV)
/grabs his gavel...
Posted by: Judge Boasberg at October 30, 2026 07:10 PM (mP0Kj)
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Perhaps a constitutional scholar asserted that they'd have to pass the constitution to know what's in it?
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 07:10 PM (TN0g+)
>>Truly a Sailors dream.
And iff she can fly a spinnaker she's a keeper.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:10 PM (viF8m)
France will charge €0.055 per GB on all internet traffic, presumably all internet traffic which goes through France.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (ExV1e)
Snicker. Buy stock in wire bypassing France.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 07:10 PM (uhVAy)
I had to take to my fainting couch with smelling salts and a fan...to think the dear illegals bring crime!
Hallelujah! Millions are waiting!
I hope millions self deport if the GOP wins the mid-terms.
Please let this be so.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 07:10 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Oldcat
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I'm guessing or some provision of Polish law. Good colleague and friend of mine married a Polish woman last year and retired to Poland. Hope his and she are okay.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 07:01 PM (SwyyQ)
DH's brother traveled the entire world playing sportsball. He claims Poland has the most beautiful women, bar none, in the world. About the crazy part? He never said out loud.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 07:11 PM (5WPt1)
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 07:12 PM (sSkke)
Posted by: Jozef Pilsudski and His Fabulous Mustache at October 30, 2026 07:12 PM (VFdB/)
France will charge €0.055 per GB on all internet traffic, presumably all internet traffic which goes through France.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (ExV1e)
Snicker. Buy stock in wire bypassing France.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 07:10 PM (uhVAy)
So, how are they going to tax Starlink?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 07:13 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 06:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Quake acted like he was the butch and Quisp was the bitch, but you just know that when push came to shove (uh...) it was Quisp who wore the 15" black strap-on.
> 116 The more important question: are Polish women hot? If not I might sit this one out.
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 07:01 PM (SwyyQ)
Not quite as hot as Czech women (who are the hottest white women on the planet, IMO... suck it, Sweden) but pretty damned hot.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 07:13 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:11 PM (E4rtv)
Google:
In Poland, L4 is the colloquial name for a sick leave certificate (zwolnienie lekarskie)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 07:13 PM (uhVAy)
Of all the ways they fail to ascend to the feminine ideal...that is not one of them.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 07:06 PM (Qugny)
Well a difference between men and women is single minded focus and testosterone fuelled drive. Apply that to CRAZY TIME and you have a real problem.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 07:09 PM (uhVAy)
IT'S MA'AM!!! -- Not at all crazy dude in a dress.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 07:13 PM (5WPt1)
This is a battle, physical and mental.
The winner will make the law.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 07:13 PM (pMmVV)
"Anna Korwin-Piotrowska:
“I am the one who issued the order for the immediate suspension of official duties of Mr. Bogdan Święczkowski, as well as Mr. Bartłomiej Sochański.”
“There must be a person who must take action in this regard toward the President of the Tribunal, because no one stands above the law.”
Militant democracy, law as they understand it.
Accountability will reach everyone."
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Translation--we must burn and destroy democracy by force to save it.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:14 PM (E4rtv)
Huge Polish police columns are seen moving on Multiple highways including the S1 towards Warsaw.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:41 PM (E4rtv)
Fifth columns?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 07:14 PM (6v4rH)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 07:14 PM (TN0g+)
It is where I get off the train for EC. I like just about everything before it.
But, I never could really jive with Armed Forces for some reason...
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 07:14 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Ah so. Thanks. I have to rely on X translate which it didn't for that.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:15 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:41 PM (E4rtv)
Fifth columns?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 07:14 PM (6v4rH)
That was Madrid.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 07:15 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 07:04 PM (rbvCR
Not just jailing them but not allowing 'prison ain't no big thang ' like it is here. Our prison system treats inmates like customers and strive for customer satisfaction. The only thing that makes our prisons horrible are the prisoners.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 07:15 PM (Ti9vn)
They are not real. They only exist when words of them
pass across the screen.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 07:16 PM (pMmVV)
>>Truly a Sailors dream.
And iff she can fly a spinnaker she's a keeper.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 07:10 PM
And she would be as true as the North star.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 07:16 PM (I43vL)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (mkw2N)
Well, you could make dirty bombs. Making an actual fission weapon (much less a fusion weapon) would be pretty hard.
You need to figure out a way to keep them from getting it in the first.
One suggestion I've seen is that, given that most of these are self-contained units that only really need to be accessed once every several years, is to just embed it in so much concrete that it would take days to get through. Someone's going to notice a bunch of terrorists with jackhammers long before that, and it's not a huge deal to spend a few days getting it out when you need to refuel.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 07:17 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 07:18 PM (sSkke)
Posted by: Ann at October 30, 2026 07:18 PM (SHHm+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Police are under the Parliament's minister of justice command but the Army is under control of President Nawrocki. We shall see what happens but this coup and making opposition illegal is what the Democrats tried here. This is a truly global conspiracy of vile WEF types.
Rolling the dice there is likely to be the same here post election day. Get your groceries, start to pray, and make your security preparations.
Normally not an alarmist but pushing these so close together, Brazil cheat and coup, this, the firing of that traitor general, and the stated plans uncovered by Data Republican of provoking widespread unrest to 'protect' the election makes me very uneasy.
7 Days in May vibes.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:19 PM (E4rtv)
Concrete bunker is what I was thinking.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 07:19 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 07:20 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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That won't happen.
An armed society is a polite society.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 07:20 PM (pMmVV)
MJ
@Real_Politik101
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56m
All four party leaders of the opposition gathered in front of the TK (R+, PiS, Konfederacja, KKP) in Warsaw. Mind you they HATE each other very much yet are being united. Tusk doing the impossible. From the centre to the radical right, a coalition government may now be possible in Poland for nationalists. (though we need exclude Braun despite cooperating for now in this crisis. He’s gonna be a HUGE liability and a boogeyman Tusk will use constantly in the election)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 07:21 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 07:22 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 07:05 PM (mkw2N)
I suppose one could make dirty bombs from the fuel, and the fission products.
Put the small reactors in an enclosure guarded by robots with shoot-to-kill orders.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 07:25 PM (6v4rH)
Posted by: Tommy Shanks at October 30, 2026 11:59 PM (i0jxB)
GDP Growth Surges to Strong 3.4%
There's been some good economic news lately, despite the half-as-high-as-Biden-and-therefore-apocalyptic inflation.
October 1: Unemployment applications fell to the lowest level since July.American paychecks grew faster than the rate of inflation, which was totally not the case under Biden. So obviously Trump is a disaster.
The four-week moving average was 200,000, a decrease of 2,500 from the previous week's revised average, the department also said. Unemployment claims are a proxy indicator for layoffs, and they signal to economists where the job market is headed. So far this year, claims have remained below 220,000, which is a historic low.
American households have seen the buying power of their paychecks grow under President Trump, a welcome change from years of watching real compensation fall thanks to runaway inflation. The average private-sector paycheck has grown faster than prices since President Trump took office, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show. And in recent months, real pay is growing even faster. From January 2025, the month Trump was inaugurated, through August 2026, average weekly earnings of all employees on private payrolls rose from $1,222.14 to $1,298.94, a gain of 6.3 percent. The Consumer Price Index rose 4.8 percent over those 19 months. Adjusted for inflation, the weekly paycheck was up 1.5 percent. In January 2025 dollars, that is a gain of about $18 a week, from $1,222 to $1,240. The most recent three months were stronger. From May to August, the average paycheck rose from $1,285.91 to $1,298.94, or 1.0 percent, while prices were essentially unchanged, up 0.05 percent. Real weekly pay rose 1.0 percent in that span, about $12 a week. August is the latest month for which both earnings and prices are available. The September price index is scheduled for October 14. Over the four years of the Biden administration, the paycheck shrank after inflation. From January 2021 to January 2025, average weekly earnings rose from $1,047.55 to $1,222.14, a gain of 16.7 percent. Prices rose 21.4 percent. Real weekly pay fell 3.9 percent. In the dollars of January 2025, the paycheck went from about $1,272 at the start of that administration to $1,222 at the end, a loss of about $50 a week.
The service industry grew at its fastest pace in five years. And exports grew, and hiring accelerated.
The latest advanced estimate for the growth: a high 3.4% increase in the nation's gross domestic product.
U.S. service-sector activity expanded in September at the fastest pace in more than five years, with technology businesses leading a broad advance as stronger demand encouraged companies to increase hiring, according to a survey released Monday by S&P Global. The Services PMI Business Activity Index rose to 58.8 from 56.5 in August, marking its fourth consecutive monthly increase and the strongest expansion since July 2021. Readings above 50 indicate growth compared with the previous month. Activity increased across all five broad services sectors covered by the survey for the first time in ten months. Information and communication businesses reported by far the strongest expansion, while transportation and storage returned to growth. ...
Export orders also increased for a second consecutive month, although their growth was much slower than the rise in total new business. The pace of export-order growth matched August's 20-month high. Companies responded to rising workloads by adding workers for a third consecutive month. The pace of services job creation was the strongest since June 2022. Some businesses reported that they had been able to fill previously vacant positions.
The conventional wisdom is that voters form their opinions about the state of the economy six months before an election. They do not update their opinions with late-coming information. So this will not help us in the midterms. I guess maybe we could guess that people felt this growth before it was officially reported, but Gallup says economic confidence is low and has been for a long while.
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.4 percent in the third quarter of 2026 (July, August, and September), according to the advance estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). In the second quarter, real GDP increased 2.2 percent. ... Compared to the second quarter, the acceleration in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected an acceleration in investment and an upturn in government spending that were partly offset by a downturn in exports. Imports increased more in the third quarter than in the second quarter. ... The price index for gross domestic purchases increased 3.0 percent in the third quarter, compared with an increase of 5.6 percent in the second quarter. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index increased 2.1 percent, compared with an increase of 5.0 percent, and the PCE price index, excluding food and energy increased 2.5 percent, compared with an increase of 3.3 percent.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 05:22 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 05:24 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 30, 2026 05:25 PM (ENxVw)
Willowed
The EU is looking at the reality of sponsoring the Ukraine war all by themselves.
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Where do they think this is going to end? Is Ukraine going to get its territory back? "On to Moscow"? A huge number of lives have been lost already. How many more are the EU willing to see die?
I don't know if Trump is right or wrong, but at least he's trying to stop two countries from grinding each other to powder. Don't see the geniuses in the EU trying out any ideas.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 05:25 PM (eRlcH)
^^ this is the key sentence
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 05:25 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 05:27 PM (r2Icn)
^^ this is the key sentence
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 05:25 PM (88C+u)
which equates to a single meal at McDonalds now.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 05:28 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 05:28 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: DanMan at October 30, 2026 05:29 PM (8uzBS)
HOPE and CHANGE People .....
This is the only thing that will save us from .......
THE EVIL TRUMP DASDARDLY POLICIES ......
REMEMBER "It's FOR THE CHILDREN" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 30, 2026 05:32 PM (ENxVw)
Posted by: DanMan at October 30, 2026 05:32 PM (8uzBS)
Where do they think this is going to end? Is Ukraine going to get its territory back? "On to Moscow"? A huge number of lives have been lost already. How many more are the EU willing to see die?
I don't know if Trump is right or wrong, but at least he's trying to stop two countries from grinding each other to powder. Don't see the geniuses in the EU trying out any ideas.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 05:25 PM (eRlcH)
I believe it's become an existential thing for the left in Europe to maintain Russia as the enemy, along with Trump.
They know they are becoming more and more unpopular because of the effects of immigration and having an external enemy to point to as a threat that only they can confront is the basis of many a political system.
Even Poland which doesn't have the immigration problem that Western Europe has is still caught up in it because their PM is a far-left EU butt-boy and will do anything he can to complete their takeover of the most important Eastern European country.
They need somebody to point to and blame and Putin and to a lesser extent, Trump, are the targets.
If that means war, so be it.
They can rule over the ashes.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:32 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 05:32 PM (pMmVV)
The Green Savant enters at 2:30.
Wow, letting her vote is about the same as finding the dumbest retard in the Sudan and letting him vote in American elections.
I literally could feel my brain shrinking in abject horror as she spoke.
Cute but dumb as a rock. However, you can't fuck rocks so I guess she wins that contest.
Great work Greeny McSpoinkbrain!
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 05:33 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 30, 2026 05:34 PM (6H1rq)
Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 05:34 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 05:35 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 05:35 PM (Sco7b)
Please remind me. When did the Democrats predict the inevitable Trumpcession will begin?
Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 05:34 PM (5rh/l)
_________
January 21, 2025
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 05:35 PM (eRlcH)
or is it MI6? Tusk couldn't have pulled this off on his own.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 05:36 PM (pMmVV)
They need somebody to point to and blame and Putin and to a lesser extent, Trump, are the targets.
If that means war, so be it.
They can rule over the ashes.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:32 PM (6ydKt)
I see he's staged a coup in Poland and has taken over the courts and the legislature....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 05:36 PM (+gK6I)
in the last thread, Abdul al shithead said Hegseth's mom was the type to wear her son's jersey to a game.
I wore my son's football jersey to his games. Is that supposed to be an insult? That's kinda what moms do. At least the ones I associated with.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 05:37 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 05:37 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 05:37 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 05:37 PM (SwyyQ)
My advice is to do a little research on your grocery providers. See who has the closest distribution center and shop there.
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 05:37 PM (dIske)
Who is the Green Savant?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 05:35 PM (JrHfD)
She's in the last video on the previous thread.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 05:37 PM (YSUhf)
or is it MI6? Tusk couldn't have pulled this off on his own.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 05:36 PM (pMmVV)
If we is the deep State and CIA , maybe... Trump wouldn't be happy with this left winger I don't think....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 05:38 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 05:39 PM (+gK6I)
I believe it's become an existential thing for the left in Europe to maintain Russia as the enemy, along with Trump.
If Putin declares himself to be communist will they love Russia again?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 05:39 PM (Cqx++)
See also: Canada
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 05:39 PM (SwyyQ)
The place I work hires whomever they can find. The Navy, NASA and Virginia Space are going nutz not to mention their private partners.
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:39 PM (yVEo1)
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And if American commercials are to be believed, they do a lot of boating and they all own new SUVs.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 05:40 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 05:40 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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They aren't putting election money out to help Trump candidates.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 05:40 PM (pMmVV)
Just like a European who watches American TV thinking the US black population is at least 40% . They would also have to think we are in an economic depression and people are all on the verge of bankruptcy and being homeless.
Posted by: polynikes
And GAY!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 05:41 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:41 PM (yVEo1)
Just like a European who watches American TV thinking the US black population is at least 40% . They would also have to think we are in an economic depression and people are all on the verge of bankruptcy and being homeless.
Posted by: polynikes
And GAY!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 05:41 PM (Cqx++)
And we take an awful lot of medications
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 05:42 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 05:42 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 05:43 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:43 PM (yVEo1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 05:39 PM (Cqx++)
It doesn't matter if he's a communist or a fascist tycoon.
He's Russian, and Europe has been playing with the Russians like this for 500 years.
They're doing a science project, and Putin is the current reason to take the experiment to the next level.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:43 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 05:44 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 05:40 PM (TN0g+)
And we tend to sing and dance a lot when a new weight-loss drug comes out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:45 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:45 PM (yVEo1)
MJ
@Real_Politik101
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1h
Coup underway as Tusk tries to remove the President and Vice President of the Constitutional Court + nullify all of PiS appointees. Sending the police to block court officials from entering as well while this process is underway.
None of Tusk’s appointees were recognized by the President which means they’re illegitimate yet the PM is trying to ram it through. Nawrocki is returning to Poland from his flight to Senegal to intervene. He’s the most popular politician in Poland. Hoping this backfires and destroys KO in the next election. Insane stuff
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:45 PM (E4rtv)
They're doing a science project, and Putin is the current reason to take the experiment to the next level.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Putin is the wrong person to play, 'experiment the leader' with.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 05:45 PM (pMmVV)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
Who is the good Pole and who is the bad Pole?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 05:46 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 05:42 PM (TN0g+)
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That and the EU has stolen (or wants to steal) all the hundreds of billions in “frozen” Russian assets. Something like $275 billion (with a ‘b’
. The end of the war will require some accounting of these assets. The EU cannot let that happen.Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 30, 2026 05:46 PM (Xr1vn)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 05:37 PM (Ti9vn)
____________________
Oh, that's hogwash. Why...we haven't had a black person in our commercials in decades.
Sincerely,
ADT Security Systems.
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 05:46 PM (dIske)
If Putin declares himself to be communist will they love Russia again?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 05:39 PM (Cqx++)
There's a rumor a major hate causer vs Putin is his cutting off child adoptions to gay parents in the west because of the abuses they suffered.
It's not just the left. Everyone in the UK's deep state has a major fascination in taking the Crimea like its the Crimean war is on again. They spent huge efforts trying to blow a bridge that barely carries any military traffic like idiots. Even sent an admiral there to coordinate efforts. No boats though, they don't have any.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:46 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 05:47 PM (u82oZ)
Sincerely,
ADT Security Systems.
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 05:46 PM (dIske)
See also: COPS
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 30, 2026 05:47 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 05:45 PM (pMmVV)
I'm just waiting for Europe's new Napoleon to show up.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:48 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at October 30, 2026 05:48 PM (D+4vV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 05:39 PM (Cqx++)
Putin could be given all of Ukraine, and a Nobel Prize, simply for posting, "Dear Gays, Russian children are back on the menu."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 05:48 PM (ExV1e)
That and the EU has stolen (or wants to steal) all the hundreds of billions in “frozen” Russian assets. Something like $275 billion (with a ‘b’. The end of the war will require some accounting of these assets. The EU cannot let that happen.
Posted by: Elric the Blade
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They are super jiggery about that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 05:49 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 05:49 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:48 PM (6ydKt)
Macron wanted to be, when he wasn't the new Jupiter.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Crusader
WWI by 1917 was at this point as well. The elites of all the warring powers had come to the end of their support from the common people and losing or even negotiating over losing would result in regime implosions.
EU is desperate to keep those hundreds of billions in Russian frozen assets and ending the war would require sending them back never to return to the EU, ditto for the UK. LaGardes strange resignation speech from teh EU Central Bank is also a tell. My guess, banks in Europe start imploding if the war ends in Ukraine and that stolen money has to be returned.
So they would gladly drag the US and their own countries into the abyss to fight a ruinous war with Russia in order to save their worthless skins.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM (Ti9vn)
There's a rumor a major hate causer vs Putin is his cutting off child adoptions to gay parents in the west because of the abuses they suffered.
It's not just the left. Everyone in the UK's deep state has a major fascination in taking the Crimea like its the Crimean war is on again. They spent huge efforts trying to blow a bridge that barely carries any military traffic like idiots. Even sent an admiral there to coordinate efforts. No boats though, they don't have any.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:46 PM (uhVAy)
I don't even think it's that complicated.
The EU is pissed off that Putin invaded Ukraine when they told him not to.
They are arrogant and feel insulted.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM (/+uur)
Putin is not your friend.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM (Y8DZL)
Zelensky is a worse friend
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 05:51 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 05:51 PM (f8snw)
El Salvador had four aviation techs working with the Gang Suppression Force, which is backed by the UN. A gang ambushed them and took the techs hostage.
Bukele put thousands of soldiers on commercial flights over to Haiti. Haiti doesn't have a military, so nobody stopped this. Bukele has reassured the people of Haiti he's just there to kick some gang butt and doesn't want anything from them. Trump has given his blessing.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 05:51 PM (mkw2N)
Trump is the enemy. Russia will be our best buds about 30 seconds after the next dim resident is installed.
It's been June 23 again...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 05:52 PM (pfXMo)
In the 54 year history of The Price Is Right, maybe one black person was happy they won a boat.
Posted by: Redneck Ron Cheep Thrills at October 30, 2026 05:52 PM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:52 PM (yVEo1)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 05:52 PM (/+uur)
The EU is pissed off that Putin invaded Ukraine when they told him not to.
They are arrogant and feel insulted.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM (6ydKt)
it's much much older than that, a century at least. They didn't even tell him not first, he moved before they thought they would while they were moving artillery up to shell the Donbas cities.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:52 PM (uhVAy)
No, not really.
Do you think Putin thinks we've been friendly toward him?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 05:53 PM (viF8m)
I mean they did last time, right? The Biden years aren’t that far in the past.
Posted by: LIV at October 30, 2026 05:53 PM (pkv3v)
Posted by: Braenyard
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They are using that as a facade to hide their deteriorating banks financials. Same as City of London. Trump ending the bleeding of dollars via trade imbalances to the EU is also part of it. Thus a pivot to authoritarianism where inconvenient national politicians are dispensed with like Orban, banned from taking office like in Romania, preventing political parties from taking office like in Germany and France, and riots by Muslims in the streets are allowed so that the implicit threat is the state is the only thing preventing them from taking over.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:53 PM (E4rtv)
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Why won't you tell me what's going on?
Why won't you tell me who's on the phone?
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 05:54 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:54 PM (yVEo1)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 05:54 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 05:51 PM (mkw2N)
Now Bukele has a better rapid response army than the EU or any member state. They could only get a few dozen people into Greenland to stop us.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:54 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 05:55 PM (RIvkX)
revolution in Ukraine. It was a mutual effort.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 05:56 PM (pMmVV)
Can't make this shit up.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 05:56 PM (Ti9vn)
No, not really.
Do you think Putin thinks we've been friendly toward him?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 05:53 PM (viF8m)
We have teams of people talking to the Russians daily since Trump came into office, and he speaks to Putin on the regular. Putin doesn't need friends, he needs adults on the other end of the line.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:56 PM (uhVAy)
" The first shipment of Russia-sourced diesel oil, all 300,000 barrels of it graded ultra-low-sulphur, will be arriving in a US port around November 7."
Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2026 05:57 PM (rj6Yv)
TOUSI on Poland ... he's been live for about 10 minutes.
Posted by: you really don't want to know at October 30, 2026 05:57 PM (mtytl)
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It has been established for some time now that polls are not to inform but to influence a position.
Posted by: Decaf at October 30, 2026 05:57 PM (vB6Pf)
Translation:
They hate the Veterans.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 05:57 PM (I43vL)
Read a newer novel recently where the main character is an obviously liberal woman. So she hates the New York Post, she considers them conservative, but she openly admits in the novel that they write the best newspaper headlines in the business. Like the "headless body in topless bar," or whatever the phrasing of that famous headline is.
That "bad bromance" headline deserves to go on the listing some of the best. Maybe not of all time, but the last ten years at least. Bless the New York post.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 05:57 PM (s1aVp)
Posted by: Reddit at October 30, 2026 05:58 PM (zyHX6)
Remember when they used all that BBB money to fix all the roads and bridges and stuff....
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 05:59 PM (tB7nu)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 05:59 PM (Qugny)
revolution in Ukraine. It was a mutual effort.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 05:56 PM (pMmVV)
one of the celebrations was burning 25 ethnic Russians alive in Odessa.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:59 PM (uhVAy)
Translation:
They hate the Veterans.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM
Ditto on the American Legion (50 year member), at least the publication anyway.
Posted by: Eromero at October 30, 2026 05:59 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:54 PM (uhVAy)
They sent a few dozen people as a propaganda show because they knew they didn't need them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:00 PM (pfXMo)
Get your houses in order and then maybe we'll listen to you
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 06:00 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 06:00 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 06:00 PM (TN0g+)
The North Pacific would be run by three countries: Russia and Japan in the east and the US in the west.
California becomes the most important place in the world.
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 06:01 PM (NeFn5)
Posted by: four seasons at October 30, 2026 06:01 PM (/QHx4)
So, what have the Dems said they would do to bring prices down ? Bueller......
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 06:01 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:54 PM (uhVAy)
They sent a few dozen people as a propaganda show because they knew they didn't need them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e)
Yeah, the US is totally blocked from Greenland forever. Nice op.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:01 PM (uhVAy)
At the very least for businesses that rely heavily on Gas / Diesel.
It would have been such an easy W.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:01 PM (Qugny)
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Blue skies smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies do I see
Blue birds singing a song
Nothing but blue skies from now on
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly
Blue days, all of them gone
Nothing but blue skies from now on
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 06:01 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 05:53 PM (viF8m)
Putin has wanted Russia aligned with the west since he came to power but he's always been rebuffed. I wonder if he sees that as a blessing now.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 06:01 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:02 PM (pfXMo)
No, not really.
Do you think Putin thinks we've been friendly toward him?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 05:53 PM (viF8m)
_________________________
A nice little wake-up call showed itself a couple of weeks ago when Ukraine slammed some of the Russian Data Centers and took them out for a day and a half.
Remarkably, about 70% of all pro-Palestinian jabbering on "X" just disappeared for that time frame. Russia was/ is hosting that contingency or maybe even just botting the hell out of "X" on the subject.
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 06:02 PM (dIske)
France prepares for very high violence as it braces for Halloween riots.
Posted by: four seasons at October 30, 2026 06:01 PM (/QHx4)
Can't wait for the Christmas riots and Hanukah riots...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 06:02 PM (+gK6I)
I wore my son's football jersey to his games. Is that supposed to be an insult? That's kinda what moms do. At least the ones I associated with.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 05:37 PM (W2Pud)
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Yes like he thinks asking him about Islamic terrorism is somehow really an attack on "the way I pray."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 06:02 PM (RIvkX)
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I might have to join them--its been way too long since there was a new entrant to the "Halloween" movie franchise.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 06:03 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:03 PM (5WPt1)
The North Pacific would be run by three countries: Russia and Japan in the east and the US in the west.
California becomes the most important place in the world.
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 06:01 PM (NeFn5)
The dumb part is it drove China and Russia together. Not a great plan. And there is nobody for them to turn to.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:03 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 06:04 PM (xz+xK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 06:02 PM (RIvkX)
To be fair, when he prays, he prays that his kinsman will obliterate the US, so there's that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:04 PM (5WPt1)
Adults realize countries don't have friends. Don't have permanent allies either. They do things for their countries interests and react when other countries make moves they deem not in their countries interests.
NATO pledged to Russia over and over since it's founding it would not move further eastward. NATO lied. Repeatedly. Putin warned he viewed it as an aggressive infringement on his sphere of influence much as we did when Russia tried to put missiles in Cuba. That almost caused WWIII.
Doesn't get mentioned much because it hurts the narrative but prior to the war the Ukrainian government killed thousands of ethnic men, women and children in the Donbas region. Putin was obviously not happy about that. He became he less happy when the west ran a coup in Ukraine and took down an elected leader that favored Russia over the west and installed a puppet government. He got even angrier when the west tried the same thing in Kazakhstan. He sent in troops to stop that one.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 06:04 PM (viF8m)
Wait till those Mennonites get into the non pasteurized milk...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:04 PM (pfXMo)
So all those 100,000 or more protesters carrying Pali flags are a Russian op also?
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 06:04 PM (Ti9vn)
- Whig
And they won't be able to stop them from taking over.
Posted by: Eromero at October 30, 2026 06:04 PM (LHPAg)
You forgot the 'Student'.
Almost as important as the 'Mostly Peaceful'.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:05 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2026 06:05 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 06:05 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:03 PM (5WPt1)
Repeat that line for North Sea oil, pipelines from Nigeria to the Meds, and dozens of other projects the EU has messed up.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:05 PM (uhVAy)
Who blew up the pipeline? Funny how that story went away.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 06:05 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 06:04 PM (Ti9vn)
____________________
No, those are retarded yutes. I call them ribbon wearers.
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 06:05 PM (dIske)
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:03 PM (5WPt1)
They don't want any gas cars and probably no electric cars.. They want no vehicles that are privately owned.. Public transit for all and public housing.. It is their ultimate plan
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 06:05 PM (+gK6I)
That'd be sweet.
Let it be massive and bloody.
And impossible to not cover.
for the mid-terms.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 06:06 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 05:37 PM (W2Pud)
Hockey mom here, but yes, that's what we do. After millions of hours spent sitting on a cold bench for practice after practice, I would think it fair to get one hockey sweater to wear to games. And if people don't like it, they can self deport to somewhere they like better.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:06 PM (5WPt1)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:06 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 06:05 PM (+gK6I)
But most of them want a big car with a driver so they don't have to mix with the hoi polloi. They just want US on the bus.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:07 PM (5WPt1)
At the very least for businesses that rely heavily on Gas / Diesel.
It would have been such an easy W.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:01 PM
There is no way that would ever make it through the senate. The democrats would frame it as a tax credit for billionaires and big businesses and never vote for it.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 06:07 PM (I43vL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 06:07 PM (f8snw)
So, what have the Dems said they would do to bring prices down ? Bueller......
Posted by: It's me donna
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Only time prices come down is during a depression. We don't want
that. When inflation stops or diminished, as Trump cut in half, a
new float level is created. That's a best case scenario.
Democrat remedies to 'bring down prices' can only be inflationary
hopeum.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 06:07 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: Mister Scott
Unfortunately true, FEC reports of employers. These are not the rank and file but the hq
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:08 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 06:04 PM (Ti9vn)
I saw some crap about how the Pali flags really just signal that the flag flyers are upset about something, anything, and that is the current signal.
Bullshit, but that's what they are selling.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:08 PM (5WPt1)
means. It assume it means they don't identify as a male or a female. Sometimes they're one and sometimes they're the other . It's all about "feelz" whatever their sexual organs are.
And NO, I am not non binary.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 06:08 PM (xz+xK)
It doesn't have to.
All he has to do is force the Vote on it to be seen as trying to mitigate the negative effects of the Iran actions.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:08 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:09 PM (pfXMo)
Polish President Nawrocki ordered his plane to turn around and return to Poland.
Posted by: mrp
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From my understanding about thirty minutes ago on X, a post claimed Nawrocki is on the ground now in Poland but security does not want him around the Con. Court building. Who knows if it is true.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:10 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: you really don't want to know at October 30, 2026 06:10 PM (mtytl)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:08 PM (E4rtv)
The Left love to run ' non-profits' .
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 06:10 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 06:10 PM (rxwdW)
means. It assume it means they don't identify as a male or a female. Sometimes they're one and sometimes they're the other . It's all about "feelz" whatever their sexual organs are.
And NO, I am not non binary.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 06:08 PM (xz+xK)
As far as I can figure, "I'm non-binary" just means "You're not the boss of me!"
It is a nonsense statement, but it demands that you pay attention and give uptwinkles.
Best to be ignored.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:11 PM (5WPt1)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 06:04 PM (viF8m)
Plus they started a war with the dissident Donbas lands in 2014-5. Not sure what assistance Russia gave but they did not use troops. The Donbas forces surrounded the Ukraine troops and Ukraine sued for a ceasefire. Germany and France signed an agreement to guarantee for talks to settle the issues, and admitted a few years back they never intended to do so. Russia tends to be a stickler about that. These Minsk accords stalled all the way to the outbreak of the war.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:11 PM (uhVAy)
And Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain and Lyndsey Graham.
There were other countries involved, it wasn't just the US. But our foreign policy establishment has been doing stupid shit for decades and then blaming the fallout on others, like Russia in this case. Remember, it was an internet video that caused the attack on the US embassy in Libya.
uh huh
No, Putin is not an angel. Anyone who thinks our previously permanent foreign policy establishment is blameless is smoking much better stuff than I ever could've afforded.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)
I wore my son's football jersey to his games. Is that supposed to be an insult? That's kinda what moms do. At least the ones I associated with.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 05:37 PM (W2Pud)
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Yes like he thinks asking him about Islamic terrorism is somehow really an attack on "the way I pray."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 06:02 PM (RIvkX)
It's not real bright.
Abdul needs those suburban soccer moms who wear their son't jerseys to their games.
That's one of his target demos.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 06:11 PM (6ydKt)
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SCW
@SCWOFTX
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6h
This is what happens when you abandon those that made FOX number One
Fox News is suffering one of its most dramatic ratings collapses in years, losing nearly one-third of its audience in key demographics just days before the critical midterm elections.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Auspex
He’s also not my enemy. I’ve never heard Putin say he wants me in internment camps. I’ve heard many Democrats say it though.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 30, 2026 06:11 PM (zyHX6)
Who blew up the pipeline? Funny how that story went away.
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"We blew up their pipeline"
-Joe Biden
"shut the fuck up Joe"
-The Deep State
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 06:12 PM (tB7nu)
Bullshit, but that's what they are selling.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:08 PM (5WPt1)
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A lot of truth in that. Think about what makes up the left. They don't have the luxury of universal positions. They are a rag tag collection of "one issue" facets. That's how you end up with gays supporting Muslims despite the fact that both factions are diametrically opposed to each other. It's an unwritten agreement that this group will support the other group, because the act will be reciprocated. There is no reference to substantive quality. There is every reference to superficial quantity.
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 06:12 PM (dIske)
The domestic industry was going to raise prices anyway. Supply is constrained, demand increased, and what's left of the petroleum club hates Trump. Bigly.
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:12 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 30, 2026 06:12 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:11 PM (5WPt1)
Thankfully , I have never had anybody tell me they are non binary, but that's probably because I don't hang out in leftist circles.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 06:12 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 06:10 PM (rxwdW)
Putin is the moderate in the leadership vis a vis dealing with Europe. Much much more people want them to piss up the nearest rope.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:13 PM (uhVAy)
Putin has wanted Russia aligned with the west since he came to power but he's always been rebuffed. I wonder if he sees that as a blessing now.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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I watched his interview with Schmucker, (is there another one?).
What he said about Yeltsin's attempts to align Russia with the
US matched what I witnessed and thought about events at the
time. The US behaved shamefully. Putin understandably has feeling
about the way we treated Yeltsin and Russia.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 06:13 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: polynikes
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Run them into the ground for grift which is typical of those that like to firmly plant their butts in a swivel chair and do little all day. And then whine about being underpaid.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:13 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:07 PM (5WPt1)
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Don't forget the restricted traffic lanes reserved for "special" vehicles.
Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2026 06:13 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:13 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:14 PM (5WPt1)
Sure. He reclaimed the Venezuelan Oil Fields, pretty much killed OPEC and the Petroleum Lobby now hates his guts.
You seem really informed.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:14 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 06:12 PM (JrHfD)
A lot of it now is the youth, who use it to "join" the alphabet community without having to do anything perverted. Asexual also works if you want them to leave you alone.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:14 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 05:37 PM (W2Pud)
That's exactly what moms do.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 06:15 PM (r2Icn)
All he has to do is force the Vote on it to be seen as trying to mitigate the negative effects of the Iran actions.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:08 PM (Qugny)
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None of that "WE FORCED THEM TO VOTE AGAINST IT!!!!11" nonsense has moved the needle with normies for at least 30 years.
Nobody. Fucking. Cares.
Posted by: Johnny from Georgia at October 30, 2026 06:16 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 06:16 PM (Y8DZL)
Inevitable West
@Inevitablewest
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35m
🚨BREAKING: President Karol Nawrocki has just ARRIVED at the Presidential Palace in Polish capital Warsaw
He has to urgently deploy the army! 🇵🇱
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:16 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 06:16 PM (MWfyi)
TOUSI on Poland ...
He's been replaying video from on the ground. He has something in English right now (about 8 minutes before the "live" point).
Posted by: you really don't want to know at October 30, 2026 06:16 PM (mtytl)
But we are talking about the Ukraine. And what Russian major military action has taken place outside of the former USSR states? Putin is no angel but i don't rank him close as our #1 adversary .
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 06:16 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 06:02 PM (RIvkX)
To be fair, Abdul prays that his compatriots will rise up and destroy the US, so there's that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:17 PM (5WPt1)
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I'm giving those up, and bananas too...so we can keep the bombs dropping on Gaza!
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 06:17 PM (TN0g+)
And that means what to domestic production constraints?
Let me know when XOM breaks new ground for refining/supply.
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:17 PM (pfXMo)
Rush once talked about a survey during the Bush administration when the economy was going gangbusters. It asked people "How are you doing financially?" and "How do you think your neighbors are doing financially?"
Most people said their finances were doing great but they thought their neighbors were struggling. So, they thought the economy was in the crapper and they were just lucky.
The MSM was just that powerful.
Posted by: 29Victor at October 30, 2026 06:17 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 06:18 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 06:18 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:14 PM (uhVAy)
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I'd love to be an observer in public schools these days when the English teacher lectures on pronouns. I'm sure it is now nuanced. Or maybe not, because I keep seeing youths claim to identify as they/them, and in the very next sentence refer to themselves with a first person singular pronoun like "I." Maybe they are skipping that curriculum altogether to avoid conflict.
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM (dIske)
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"We blew up their pipeline"
-Joe Biden
"shut the fuck up Joe"
-The Deep State
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 06:12 PM (tB7nu)
There was even a little US naval force in the area at the time doing maneuvers. I can't see anyone else doing it. Russia could just turn off the spigot if they wanted to cut Europe off, so it was not them. Biden's boys did it, there were even several "prediction" leaks beforehand by insiders.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM (uhVAy)
about the way we treated Yeltsin and Russia.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 06:13 PM (pMmVV)
We could have done better by them, possibly.
It was a chaotic situation and nobody had ever tried to de-transition a communist economy on that scale.
But Yeltsin is not entirely blameless here, either, the big, jovial, drunk, bear got himself into his own trouble without our help.
Yeltsin essentially sold off the biggest sectors of the economy to the oligarchs, and that's probably what Putin was most angry about.
Putin wants Russia to be treated as an equal by the U.S., and the west, but Russia has been too untrustworthy too many times for that to happen immediately.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM (6ydKt)
He doesn't want his Mom wearing his uniform because it is a Suicide Vest.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM (Qugny)
1h
Translated from Polish
Pan_komentator
@PanP23929
Translated from Polish
The presidential convoy of Karol Nawrocki is heading to the Presidential Palace.
A meeting will take place in the Palace between the president, the president of the Constitutional Tribunal Bogdan Święczkowski, and the president of the Supreme Court Zbigniew Kapiński.
Poland is waking up.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM (pfXMo)
He needs to leave.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM (5WPt1)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM (rxwdW)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 06:20 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2026 06:20 PM (+UCFu)
He has to urgently deploy the army! 🇵🇱
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:16 PM (E4rtv)
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Brussels ain't gonna like that - the EU's "security" depends on Tusk's control of the most powerful European conventional military force in the continent.
Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2026 06:20 PM (rj6Yv)
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I'm giving those up, and bananas too...so we can keep the bombs dropping on Gaza!
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 06:17 PM (TN0g+)
Down to about a quarter of what they were here in CA.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:20 PM (uhVAy)
That's a lot of consonants...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:20 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM (E4rtv)
We have several troop emplacements and forward "bases" in Poland. Have for many years. I suspect Putin should tread lightly in that endeavor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:20 PM (5WPt1)
And now they are our mortal enemy because western powers fucked around in the most corrupt country in western Europe that happens to sit on Russia's border?
Oh, ok.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 06:20 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2026 06:20 PM (+UCFu)
Not Donald Tusk. He's Grima Wormtongue.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:21 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:21 PM (pfXMo)
It's possible to dislike both Putin and Zelinsky.
Like Saddam and Khomeini.
Posted by: Auspex
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All of the above destroyed or are destroying their own countries to scratch their itches for power to the grave.
They hate their opponents because it is a reflection of themselves. See Mustache Man and Stalin as well.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:22 PM (E4rtv)
It gets things wrong, as false prophecies do. But what's fascinating is that during the period it talks about, it predicts there will be a period when the constitution will "hang by a thread," and it also says Russia will be our great enemy. This is from the 1800s.
Not exactly wrong there...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_V-669GlIY&ra=m
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 06:22 PM (9jlvI)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 06:22 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 06:22 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: man
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Could be worse, the crisis could have involved Wales.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (MWfyi)
No China is. And a lot of people in Russia don’t like the appearance of subservience to them.
But Putins Russia is a close second. His ideological rigidity is stunning in its ignorance of the fact that people like Trump see Russia as a great country who is above a lot of this nonsense and is being dragged down by it.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (rxwdW)
It's the lack of air conditioning.
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM (rxwdW)
Who the fuck wants Europe? Putin isn't an idiot.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 06:23 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Y8DZL)
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they don't issue jerseys to the guy that collects the jock straps
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 06:24 PM (tB7nu)
A meeting will take place in the Palace between the president, the president of the Constitutional Tribunal Bogdan Święczkowski, and the president of the Supreme Court Zbigniew Kapiński.
Poland is waking up.
Posted by: whig
I worry instead that they'll all be arrested for the crime of being right-wing and insufficiently pro-immigrant and anti-Russia. Tusk will get full support on this from the EU.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM
Fortunately for europe putin has about a -1000% chance of acting on his dreams of conquest and they know it or they should know it. His army is gone, his navy longer exists and his air force has been reduced to next to nothing in the war in ukraine.
The only thing he has left is oil and nukes. And if he starts popping off nukes in europe the fallout literally drifts back to his country. putin is being used as a boogey man to scare europe.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 06:25 PM (I43vL)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 06:25 PM (ndZc7)
Ranty Man
@RanTeeThree
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1h
My Polish friend says Tusk has cancelled major infrastructure projects because they compete with Germany - New port to compete with Hamburg - cancelled. New Airport to compete with Frankfurt - cancelled. New nuclear power station - cancelled. loads of other projects cancelled.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:26 PM (E4rtv)
Gee I wonder if this is all somehow related.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 30, 2026 06:28 PM (zyHX6)
But we are talking about the Ukraine. And what Russian major military action has taken place outside of the former USSR states? Putin is no angel but i don't rank him close as our #1 adversary .
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 06:16 PM (Ti9vn)
There was a little encouragement of the locals in Niger and similar West African states to push out the French. When I heard what they were paying for Uranium from the locals shocked even my colonialist soul - pennies on the dollar when they could use every dime for infrastructure and development so we could get more resources out.
But screwing the French is just a little kidding around and teasing, not real politics.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:28 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Problem for the EU is they have no army and NATO is not going to get involved as an organization and it depends on US assets for logistics.
Something is causing the whole globalist party to move into maximum overdrive NOW. Too many crises and institutions being wrecked like Canada's implosion, Brazil moving to criminal fascism, now this simultaneously.
By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:29 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Dv3i1)
They will send in the EU Army!!!! Oh wait, there isn't one. And the US Army has a few brigades there now.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 06:30 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 06:29 PM (E4rtv)
Trump is close to a tipping point if you believe Tom Luongo.
Posted by: you really don't want to know at October 30, 2026 06:33 PM (mtytl)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 06:19 PM (rxwdW)
I've never seen Putin threaten to conquer Europe.
He's threatened the West only when we encroached on what they feel is their sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and Asia. Georgia, and Ukraine (Crimea) especially, are important to Russia's defensive strategies, and Putin does not want to give those up to US & EU adventurism.
I am not a big Putin fan, but I am a realist when it comes to world affairs. Putin warned the West for a decade that if they kept encroaching on Russia by enlarging NATO they would respond. And that's exactly what he did when Ukraine moved towards joining the EU and NATO.
Russia is in no position to invade anybody else for the foreseeable future. This was Putin's last stand, and he's going to end it when he's ready and Russia's control of, and access to, Crimea and the Donbass is guaranteed.
Why would he want to invade Europe at this point?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 06:36 PM (6ydKt)
That said, Poland is weird. I don't understand countries with a PM and a President. Pick one!
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 06:37 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 06:16 PM
Our number enemy is islam, no matter where.
Posted by: Eromero at October 30, 2026 06:46 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 06:46 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 30, 2026 09:30 PM (jrgJz)
Why would he want to invade Europe at this point?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 06:36 PM (6ydKt)
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He's been offered that. Wants Odessa as well. He can stop anytime. Zelenskyy knows he can't push them back, and we have no intention of doing it for him. His domestic political situation means he knows times up. Putin faces an even bigger problem. His military has been shown to be inept and no longer first world. He has spent lots of time, treasure and blood. He was supposed to get Ukraine as a buffer. He feels he can't stop.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 30, 2026 10:35 PM (8uHt+)
The Week In Woke
Via Instapundit:
AHOY! It's racist to oppose this.
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze So just in case you're following along, the mostly public face of The Bulwark is endorsing a Muslim Britherhood adjacent proven Anti-Semite. Ok, sure but that's not even the best part of this. He's claiming that the opposing candidate will usher in internment camps, which would be a really uncomfortable fact, if his coworker and podcast partner had not floated someone with an actual Nazi internment camp guard symbol on his chest for President in 2028 prior to that candidate dropping out.
Why are you making a big deal about that you Racists?
El-Sayed courted Muslim centers where clerics portrayed U.S as Satan, sought 'revenge' on Zionists Newly surfaced recordings show the Democratic candidate courting votes at tax-exempt Islamic centers, where clergy and Islamic scholars called America the "House of [Satan]," asked Allah to support the fight against Israel, and prayed for vengeance against Zionists and their backers.
The left has destroyed education and their next target is all of society.
Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed directly solicited support for his campaign inside Islamic centers whose imams and guest speakers called America the "the House of Shaitan [Satan]" and urged Allah to "take the worst revenge upon" Zionists, according to a review of their videotaped services. Experts said the video evidence, first uncovered by the Middle East Forum and verified by Just the News, could open the door to potential investigations into the nonprofit status of places of worship and provide a stark reminder to voters in the final days of the 2026 election about El-Sayed's ties to other controversial activists, who include Hasan Piker. El-Sayed is locked in a close contest with former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., for Michigan's open Senate seat. The contest is expected to be one of the most competitive of the cycle. Throughout the contest, El-Sayed has taken flak for his ties to Piker, a prominent Twitch streamer who has said America "deserved" 9/11, among other sensational statements. President Donald Trump has called El-Sayed a "terrorist sympathizer." The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Just the News, and has denied his familial relationships to the Muslim Brotherhood and to radical Islam in general, with supporters such as former President Obama calling the issue "Islamophobic." In March before the Democratic primary, El-Sayed visited the Islamic Center of Detroit, a nonprofit organization that offers both Muslim religious services and engages in charity work in the community. El-Sayed was welcomed to the pulpit by one of the mosque's leaders during a Ramadan prayer service, during which he solicited signatures from the congregation so that he could qualify for the Michigan Democratic primary, according to a recording reviewed by Just the News. The host introduced El-Sayed as "our beloved brother Dr. Abdulrahman," using his full first name, and El-Sayed spoke to the room in a livestreamed meeting and asked the congregation for their support. Meeting ended with call for God to take "revenge" upon the Zionists "I have to get on the ballot to be able to get your vote, inshallah [God willing]. So my team is here in the back. You'll see us on the outside [...] If you're a registered voter in the state of Michigan, we need your signature to get on the ballot, so I ask that you'll give us a signature," El-Sayed told the congregation. "Please don't leave here without doing that." Later in the same Ramadan livestream, a leader reads the closing supplication in Arabic, which called for God to take "revenge" upon the Zionists and to foil their plans. It is not clear whether El-Sayed was still in attendance when this closing prayer was sung. "O our Lord, the Zionists have spread corruption in the land. Your forbearance has deceived them, so show them Your power, O Compeller. They killed our brothers and sisters, so take the worst revenge upon them," the leader sang, according to the video. "Lie in wait for them, our Lord. Raise no banner for them in the lands of the Muslims [...] and foil their plans in every time and place," he continued. The Arabic language prayer was translated independently by the Middle East Forum and confirmed by Just the News using Google's translation application. The Islamic Center of Detroit did not respond to a message submitted to its online contact portal.
Matt Van Swol
@mattvanswol 🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!! A Nashville TEACHER OF THE YEAR walked away from her career because she says the district ORDERED HER TO FABRICATE A STUDENT'S GRADE. She refused, so they went into the system and CHANGED IT THEMSELVES. According to the teacher, a student didn't finish a project so Hardcastle (the teacher) gave the grade the student earned... a failing grade. Then a parent came in and SAT IN THE OFFICE FOR HOURS until that grade changed. Three administrators huddled up and decided the AWARD-WINNING TEACHER was the problem. She still refused to change the grade. So they overrode her and changed it ANYWAY. She quit in May and put all of it in a three-page resignation letter. It's public. Read it yourself. She calls it GRADE FABRICATION.
The leftwing Groomer Media is very, very sad that it turns out the spike in "queer identification" was a social contagion all along, just like the Bigots said, and are coping over reduced teen identification as LGBTQ.
When they say the answer to a question they want to answer "no" to is "complicated," they mean "yes" but are too cowardly to say it.
Are Fewer Teens Identifying as Gay or Bisexual? It's Complicated. New data have prompted questions about changes in teens' sexual orientations. But researchers disagree on how much the numbers can really tell us.
Some of the most notable changes between generations have involved gender and sexuality, where there has been a steady increase in young people identifying as L.G.B.T. over the decades. But as culture and attitudes evolve over time, Dr. Twenge has wondered if that trajectory will hold. Her analysis of new federal numbers on youth and sexual identity suggests there may be a change: In a recent post on her Substack, Generation Tech, Dr. Twenge argued that lesbian, gay and bisexual identification was in a "free fall" among high schoolers, with the clearest declines among ninth-grade girls. After peaking at 26 percent in 2021, the percentage of ninth-grade girls identifying as bisexual dropped to 13 percent in 2025.Did the social contagion burn itself out resulting in the number of "queer" identifying youth falling by half? Who knows, it's "complicated." So now she's going to argue against the findings:
No it's not, it's a reversal of a very suspect spike in young people -- in particular, young girls who have historically been the most susceptible to social pressure and social contagions -- suddenly deciding in 2015 that they were "queer." Anything but straight. Straight is normal and normal is boring. Yuch! This explosion in "gay" youth is ten years old. This is not a "longstanding trend," unless you're ten years old.
The change caught her eye, Dr. Twenge said, because "pretty much every other indicator for a very long time was going in the direction of more same-sex relationships, more acceptance of same-sex relationships, more identification." ... "It's a reversal of very longstanding trends," Dr. Twenge said.
... Dr. Twenge's analysis immediately prompted speculation about the forces driving the change. Conservative commentators argued the nation's rightward swing had swayed young people, suggesting that the prior rise in L.G.B.T. identities had been a product of progressive institutions promoting them. "Amazing what happens when you cut the Department of Education and USAID," Terry Schilling, the director of the American Principles Project, posted on X. Others argued that the findings reflected an increasingly hostile climate for L.G.B.T. people in the United States, making teenagers afraid to disclose their sexual identities, especially in surveys conducted by the federal government.LOL. Cope harder. Meanwhile, the longstanding trend of increasing acceptance of the gay lifestyle also reversed, which I'm sure has nothing to do with progressives brainwashing young girls into being "queer" or "trans."
U.S. Support for LGBTQ+ Issues Remains Down From Peak by Jeffrey M. Jones Story Highlights * Support for legal same-sex marriage down six points from 2022-2023 highWell, Republicans were willing -- eager, even -- to leave gays alone. But the Gay Movement did not return the favor, not even close. So here we are now. They want war.
* 62% viewing gay/lesbian relations as moral is lowest since 2016
* Perceived morality of changing one's gender down eight points since 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After two decades of rising support for LGBTQ+ issues, U.S. attitudes have plateaued and begun to slide back modestly. Approval of same-sex marriage, moral acceptance of gay and lesbian relations, and endorsement of gender changes are all down from peaks reached in the early 2020s. While most Americans still favor legal same-sex marriages, the 65% who do so today is down six percentage points from the peak in 2022 and 2023. Similarly, the percentage viewing gay or lesbian relations as morally acceptable, 62%, has not been lower since 2016. And the share of Americans who consider changing one's gender morally acceptable has declined eight points over the past five years, to 38%. These items are from Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs survey, conducted May 1-17, 2026. Between 1996 and 2022, the percentage of U.S. adults in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage increased by 44 points, from 27% to 71%. In 2024, the figure dipped to 69%, and it has shown a marginal decline each year since. Gallup first asked about the morality of same-sex relations in 2001, when 40% said they were morally acceptable. By 2022, 71% held that view, before a sharp drop to 64% in 2023, holding at about that level during the past three years. When Gallup first asked about changing one's gender in 2021, 46% found it morally acceptable, and 51% found it morally wrong. Today, those numbers stand at 38% and 57%, respectively. Most of the recent changes in LGBTQ+ attitudes have occurred among Republicans. For example, in 2021 and 2022, 55% of Republicans said they favored legal same-sex marriage, but today, the figure is 37%. Among independents, support has dropped six points, to 67%, while Democrats' views are the same as in 2022 (87% in favor). Partisans' views on the morality of gay or lesbian relations have shifted similarly. Since 2022, the high point for Republicans, the share who say such relations are morally acceptable has fallen 21 points to 35%, compared with an eight-point decline among independents to 64% and no meaningful change among Democrats (now at 81%). As a result of the recent decline, Republicans' views of the morality of same-sex relations are now similar to what they were between 2005 and 2014.
EXCLUSIVE: 'Decolonize Palestine' organizer for Michigan Dem William Lawrence claims Charlie Kirk 'got what he f*cking got' "Charlie Kirk incited a lot of violence and he encouraged a lot of violence. And sometimes you get what you f*cking get." A field organizer for Democratic Socialist of America-aligned (DSA) candidate William Lawrence in Michigan--despite saying that it was "bad" that Charlie Kirk was assassinated--justified the shooting, claiming that Kirk "incited a lot of violence, and sometimes you get what you f*cking get." Lawrence is running in Michigan's 7th Congressional District and has billed himself as an average progressive. ... "So it's like, my parents, like when I talk to them about it, it's like, 'Well violence is not good. We shouldn't be allowing it.' I'm like yes, but the violence happens. It happens. Sorry it happens. This is a world full of f*cking violence and Charlie Kirk incited a lot of violence and he encouraged a lot of violence. And sometimes you get what you f*cking get."Remember when they claimed the Joker movie would spur the right into embracing psychotic nihilistic violence? The left is quoting the line Joker says before executing a man on television: "You get what you fucking deserve."
Horrifying. I want to smack this smug murder-loving asshole and I hope someone else feels the same.
this is not a small group of people on the left anymore, but a large, dominant faction without whom democrats can’t win elections. and there is no debating them, because they aren’t interested in changing your mind. they just earnestly want you to die. https://t.co/ctYtJ8awtd
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) October 28, 2026
I think we found the most effective way to deal with protesters. https://t.co/DJllyWLOgN
— Joe Rogan Podcast News (@joeroganhq) October 28, 2026
LGBTQ activist has a deer-in-headlights moment when Piers Morgan asks her to explain what “non-binary” actually means.
When she can’t, she calls it “uncomfortably personal.” Then Riley Gaines finishes her off. PIERS MORGAN: “I just want to ask, what do you mean by non-binary?” ACTIVIST: “Um when I say I’m non-binary, I’m expressing my identity in a way that I have the right to do.” PIERS MORGAN: “What does that mean? There’s only one of you.” ACTIVIST: “Actually, they/them has been the collective they has been used to refer to individual people for centuries and still is. So, um, I mean, if you don’t understand basic grammar, that’s on you.” PIERS MORGAN: “I’ve got to be honest with you, I don’t understand the concept of what non-binary means… There’s one of you sitting here, and you look to me female. You’re a female?” ACTIVIST: “If you don’t understand what non-binary means…” PIERS MORGAN: “Are you a female?” ACTIVIST: “…then I’m not sure you’re in a position to lead a debate…” PIERS MORGAN: “But if you can’t explain it in simple language, then what’s the point?” ACTIVIST: “I don’t think that I’m here to discuss the contents of my identity.” PIERS MORGAN: “You raised this whole thing. I didn’t mention anything about what you were. You did.” ACTIVIST: “This has really become uncomfortably personal.” PIERS MORGAN: “Has it? You said it, not me…” That’s when Riley Gaines dropped the hammer. RILEY GAINES: “If you think this is uncomfortably personal, try undressing in a locker room with a 6’4 naked man.”— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) October 27, 2026
@AceofSpadesHQ
— Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper🥶 (@TobytheBeagle1) October 30, 2026
She's doing the meme https://t.co/xGPs46s9gg
NOW: Drivers REACT as Anti-ICE Protesters block ALL Entrances to the Brooklyn Bridge on Manhattan side. https://t.co/Jv3lc71oev
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) October 28, 2026
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 04:21 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 04:22 PM (Ia/+0)
Hi there, hope everyone's week is ending on a happy note.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 04:22 PM (Y8DZL)
I don't support Rogers...I support the Islamist's opponent. Because Islam is incompatible with my religion, my country, my culture.
If that makes me a racist then I will proudly proclaim that I am a racist!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sPumpkin at October 30, 2026 04:23 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 04:23 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 30, 2026 04:24 PM (ubCxQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:24 PM (JrHfD)
Well, it was DeNiro, so I'll allow it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 04:25 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 04:25 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 30, 2026 04:25 PM (skR0U)
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i.e., the "Party of Science" can't figure out he's the same race as Europeans.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 04:25 PM (Fi81e)
That is to be laughed at.
Gen Z makes fun of it.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 30, 2026 04:26 PM (LOvBA)
People are going to totally accept violence, subversion and anarchy from the left without any retribution.
No. Really. Stop laughing.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 04:27 PM (A55d8)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 04:27 PM (l3cgK)
At the direction of EU-simp Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the police have taken over the Constitutional Tribunal, which has been clashing with Tusk over his interpretation of the laws.
Tusk did this while the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, was on his way to Senegal. Nawrocki has turned his plane around, and is heading back to Poland.
Nawrocki is supposed to be the commander of the Polish military.
Sounds like an interesting twenty-four hours ahead in Poland.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 04:28 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 04:28 PM (wVcYX)
That guy did himself no favors exiting his vehicle like that. A handgun in a crowd is not the weapon you want.
These types are best dealt with from 1000-1500 yards off. Protests will cease quickly when random participants heads start exploding like pumpkins on the November Range.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 04:29 PM (Qugny)
"It's complicated" is an appeal to stupidity. Because the answer the Commie Media is working to distract dummies from is always YES.
Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 04:29 PM (5rh/l)
Tallyrand has a quote on this, "I am their leader so I must follow them".
Same goes for David French, Christianity Today, and the "Anxious Bench" side of Patheos. They may have started out Christian. But it wasn't Christians signing their checks.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 04:30 PM (88C+u)
But rayciss
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 04:30 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:31 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 04:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 04:32 PM (A55d8)
Posted by: NCKate at October 30, 2026 04:32 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: Truths at October 30, 2026 04:32 PM (zyHX6)
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It used to have a lot more cachet.
When somebody points out that "gay white men" have become the "straight white men" of the LGBT "community", you can see the fatigue sitting in.
Gays only check one box these days.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 04:32 PM (Fi81e)
In Rwanda, this would be about the time the plane suffers a tragic mechanical failure (due to a SAM hit on an engine).
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 04:33 PM (88C+u)
Tusk, two hours ago, justifying his coup:
Restoring the rule of law is our duty. After years of PiS-led lawlessness, this is a difficult process, sometimes painful, and it requires decisive action. There is no other way.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 04:33 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 04:33 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 04:28 PM (wVcYX)
Support has gone flaccid.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 04:33 PM (1Ff7Z)
----
no no
nonsense
The appeal is becoming more selective
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 04:33 PM (ZxPkt)
That's racist!
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 30, 2026 04:34 PM (LOvBA)
Too bad. I wanted to write a heartleft poem about dismemberment.
Preferably remembering most faculty and staff too.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 04:34 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Truths at October 30, 2026 04:32 PM (zyHX6)
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Well, that's my fear too. Especially given how Trump's election seems to have gotten away from them.
But with a fair-ish election, my money is that Rogers would be the winner.
Unfortunately, I think it's a sure thing that Benson is our next governator. No conflict of interest there.
If only women ran the world!
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 04:34 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 04:34 PM (RIvkX)
Yeah, we should probably start a pool on whether President Nawrocki is still alive twenty-four hours from now.
Sometimes, "Our Democracy" requires decisive action, Citizens!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 04:34 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 04:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 04:29 PM (Qugny)
Heads exploding like pumpkins?
No, it's more like goo.
Posted by: Kamala at October 30, 2026 04:35 PM (1Ff7Z)
Bwahahahaha!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
I don't know, he looks pretty hot to me.
Posted by: Mayo Pete at October 30, 2026 04:35 PM (UjdFS)
You can go hide in the basement with your teddybear and a six day supply of comfort food if you like, but the rest of us have voted or plan to vote, sissy.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 04:35 PM (88C+u)
Every single one of our cabinet secretaries were selected because they’re the best of the best in their respective fields.
Interesting. Virginia is 19.5% black. Of the 7 people in your cabinet, all but one is black. Are you saying that blacks are the most talented and hard-working, in your words "the best of the best" by a factor of 4.4 than whites? They're just that much more talented than whites?
That's what the numbers say. You know, unless the important characteristic they possess isn't talent or work ethic, it's skin color.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 04:36 PM (Riz8t)
Throwing them under the bus?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 04:36 PM (8Uo7a)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
There's that lawlessness word again. Very popular last couple weeks.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 04:37 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 04:37 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 04:37 PM (f8snw)
Throwing them under the bus?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 04:36 P
On a weekend.
Brave.
I hope utsa bitch can come up with a pelosi poem.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 04:38 PM (Sco7b)
These types are best dealt with from 1000-1500 yards off. Protests will cease quickly when random participants heads start exploding like pumpkins on the November Range.
It's hard to argue with his results.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 04:38 PM (Riz8t)
Throwing them under the bus?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 04:36 PM (8Uo7a)
Even she recognizes that you can push too far in politics.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 04:38 PM (mP0Kj)
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Sounds better in the original German.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 04:38 PM (RIvkX)
Virginians in 2026 -- "Look at all the black people I have working for me!"
Posted by: 29Victor at October 30, 2026 04:38 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 04:39 PM (8Uo7a)
This kind of thing is why I stopped getting worked up overmuch about the culture war. I'm not going to let my blood pressure spike over all the gay groomer stuff and other LGBT+ excesses if a near supermajority still can't see the slippery slope they've been pushed down began with treating gay/lesbian relations as moral. It's not that I approve or am indifferent exactly, but you can't fix anything if people don't/won't see the problem.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 30, 2026 04:39 PM (1M0ma)
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*sigh
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 04:39 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Truths
Well, that's it then. I had hopes for us in this election, but now that you've said what you've said, I'm just going to stay home and cry. Thanks for that, previously unknown commenter.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Riz8t)
https://youtu.be/CANy4LDa0mE
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 04:40 PM (wVcYX)
Oregon is even funnier - Oregon is 2% black, Portland is 6% black, and blacks are vastly overrepresented at the upper reaches of government in both jurisdictions.
Portland had three finalists for the newly created job of city manager.
All three finalists were black.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 04:40 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: NCKate at October 30, 2026 04:40 PM (enNUy)
Even harder to argue with 3 guys brandishing knives...he was safer in the truck, driving off.
Trust me, I wanted to see him ventilate all of those thugs. It's just not a smart move from a self-defense perspective to put yourself at that risk.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 04:41 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: Case at October 30, 2026 04:41 PM (fzmBj)
I always laughed at the time, but dang, he was right the country is currently being destroyed by white people with too much time on their hands.
Posted by: 29Victor at October 30, 2026 04:41 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 04:41 PM (RIvkX)
Throwing them under the bus?
Methinks something decisive has happened in the Democrat Civil War, probably a realization that the DSA lunatics are going to be annihilated in the election. The Old Guard may prevail after all.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 04:41 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Truths
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They probably should have done that in 2024 for the presidential election and not lost the imperial presidency and control of the DOJ.
But I guess they just lost that on purpose to throw us off the scent!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:41 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Seminar Caller at October 30, 2026 04:42 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 04:42 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 04:42 PM (UjdFS)
Throwing them under the bus?
Methinks something decisive has happened in the Democrat Civil War, probably a realization that the DSA lunatics are going to be annihilated in the election. The Old Guard may prevail after all.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 04:41 PM (Riz8t)
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I think Democrats have realized that MI is lost (along with a few others like TX), and the establishment is readying to blame a lot of the losses this year on the upstarts that crashed the party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:42 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: DSA Supporters at October 30, 2026 04:42 PM (skR0U)
Posted by: NCKate at October 30, 2026 04:40 PM (enNUy)
You mean a radio station?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 04:43 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 04:41 PM (Qugny)
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They hit the truck. I was surprised he didn't.
That's impulse control.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 04:43 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 04:29 PM (Qugny)
Heads exploding like pumpkins?
No, it's more like goo.
Posted by: Kamala at October 30, 2026 04:35 PM (1Ff7Z)
Ah, yes, Scanners was a fun movie.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 04:43 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Riz8t
People on the internet often change my entire worldview too.
But somethings I stand by.
'Prometheus' and 'Freddy got Fingered' weren't THAT bad...
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 04:43 PM (Sco7b)
Community....
Since Trump has been POTUS these people have been ..
"TAKING IT UP ASS MORE" then when Biden or Alah-Bama were POTUS...
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 30, 2026 04:43 PM (WRN1+)
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Ahh. The Fourth Reich wing of the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 04:43 PM (ndZc7)
It's like a parody film, only you leave the "performance" thinking to yourself...."there's someone that's going to lose a finger or two when they reach down into the sink drain without turning off the garbage disposal".
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 04:44 PM (dIske)
America is a land of immigrants and that like makes the economy work.
How could I have been so wrong about this?
i don’t like think that’s fair.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:44 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 04:44 PM (AKptf)
Oregon is even funnier - Oregon is 2% black, Portland is 6% black, and blacks are vastly overrepresented at the upper reaches of government in both jurisdictions.
Portland had three finalists for the newly created job of city manager.
All three finalists were black.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 04:40 PM (aD4fx)
I went to college in Eugene, Oregon in the early 1990s. EVERTHING in the city was about "Diversity, Inclusion and Tolerance." Signs were in multiple languages. Every store had signs telling you how much they loved minorities.
One day I was reading the "Demographics" chapter in my sociology book and came across a table listing the racial makeup of mid-sized cities in America. And, wouldn't you know, Eugene, Oregon was, by far, the whitest mid-sized city in the entire country. Well over 90% white.
Posted by: 29Victor at October 30, 2026 04:44 PM (0MjtC)
Resurrecting the historically feared Poland Senegal Axis.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 30, 2026 04:44 PM (Fv808)
America is a land of immigrants and that like makes the economy work.
How could I have been so wrong about this?
i don’t like think that’s fair.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:44 PM (6ydKt)
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She's wrong.
America is a white supremacist hellscape run by a fascistic oligarchical imperialistic group of heteronormative capitalists who tell their fascist police state to murder brown people for sport.
Which is why we...must bring all the brown people here?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:45 PM (xjopy)
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[pretends to sneeze] Bullshit!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 04:46 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 04:46 PM (AKptf)
I kept hoping for her hoodie to slip a bunch further, but alas ...
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 04:46 PM (wXgT/)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 04:46 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 04:47 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 04:47 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 04:47 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: logprof at October 30, 2026 04:47 PM (k86l/)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 04:46 PM (U/Byj)
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You see, Democrats lost on purpose. They can cheat to the moon whenever and wherever. Nothing can stop them no matter what the people want.
So, when they lose, it's a choice and not the limits of their ability.
They did it on purpose, handing the DOJ off to mortal enemies, so that they could do impeachment theater a couple of years after Trump et al spent years tearing at their pillars of power like the fed grant machine which funds the Democrat Party.
It's GENIUS!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:48 PM (xjopy)
That doctoral thesis given by the Pink brainiac at the end was the perfect closer.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 30, 2026 04:48 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Logics at October 30, 2026 04:48 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Portland Whitey [Palestinian flag/Ukraine flag/LGBTQ flag/Trans flag] at October 30, 2026 04:48 PM (Ovx+P)
They have to know that there is a dumpster fire when it comes to her citizenship. Maybe they are using that to try and distance her from the somali fraud she was engaged in, no idea but they are trying to get ahead of something.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 04:48 PM (I43vL)
I had a couple of friends who were there at that time...
92-96 or so?
It was a fun place to visit.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 04:49 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 30, 2026 04:49 PM (amcLV)
I object to this unfair characterization! Our elections are much cleaner!
Posted by: President-For-Life Alexander Lukashenko! at October 30, 2026 04:49 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 04:49 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 04:49 PM (AKptf)
Throwing them under the bus?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 04:36 PM (8Uo7a)
Hi Ben Had!
I think Nanzi is simply pissed-off that the DSA/Islamofacist wing of the party is heading towards being able to completely take over the Division of the Loaves and Fishes from the Geriatric Wing of the Democrat Party.
Nanzi and Clyburn and the other Sixties Liberals didn't work in politics for decades to see their family members and other dependent clients be pushed off the US Treasury Gravy Train, by upstart yutes and Islamists who have a different clientele to put on that Gravy Train.
Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 04:50 PM (5rh/l)
h/t Spencer Pratt
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 04:50 PM (RIvkX)
Dude is like 5' 6" tall, at best.
He's like a little leprechaun.
A little Goat-Fucking leprechaun.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 04:50 PM (Qugny)
They have to know that there is a dumpster fire when it comes to her citizenship. Maybe they are using that to try and distance her from the somali fraud she was engaged in, no idea but they are trying to get ahead of something.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 04:48 PM (I43vL)
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I suspect they know how strong the case is against her and the Todd Blanche isn't going to just fold in the face of judicial resistance. The details will come out. They'll be really bad, probably extend into other members of Congress, especially in The Squad, and hurt even if Democrats don't start trying to back off from her as soon as possible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:50 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: rhomboid
.......
Fast Talking Shorty will be spending his days at the Gay Gym and shopping for XXS t-shirts.
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 04:51 PM (UjdFS)
America is a white supremacist hellscape run by a fascistic oligarchical imperialistic group of heteronormative capitalists who tell their fascist police state to murder brown people for sport.
Which is why we...must bring all the brown people here?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:45 PM (xjopy)
But Brawndo has what plants crave.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:51 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2026 04:51 PM (/OKHJ)
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 04:52 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Portland Whitey [Palestinian flag/Ukraine flag/LGBTQ flag/Trans flag] at October 30, 2026 04:52 PM (Ovx+P)
I kept hoping one of the enraged New Yorkers would simply run over the protesting twatters. You know they'd move if you did a slow run up to them, bumping them along. Or simply yell, "Speed bumps" out the window and hit the gas.
The dumb woman thinking this is cool, as it's soooo in-hu-mmmmmmmmaaane. What a word salad spinner dumb socialist regurgitator. Throw her off the bridge!
It's a very good thing I stay home is all I can say. I don't want to become Bertha's Prison Beetch.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 04:52 PM (hzuYO)
Right at the start, post-USSR, the guy was picking fights with the US, like a junior high school tough guy. Was hilarious reading the cable traffic from Minsk. Harassment of diplomats, cutting off utilities to the embassy. Non-airhead Russians regard him as sort of a buffoonish figure, though they appreciate his support of Russia in general.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 04:52 PM (U/Byj)
Report: Son of "Decoy Dan" works for Democrat who co-chairs House caucus with Alaskan challenger accused of fraud
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 04:53 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 04:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Gee you learn something new everyday ......
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 30, 2026 04:54 PM (ENxVw)
When they say the answer to a question they want to answer "no" to is "complicated," they mean "yes" but are too cowardly to say it.
_________
Once you say you're gay, that's it. No take backs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 04:55 PM (eRlcH)
There are multiple nightmares, not just one!
How can I believe this nonsense film now?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:55 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2026 04:55 PM (vzuC7)
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*sigh
Posted by: runner
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Decision by the Tribunal this month put Polish Constitution above the EU where the EU treaty and the Polish Constitution and laws under it conflict.
Tusk is doing this even though he didn't even get a majority vote for his own party in the past elections. Coalition of parties put him in as Prime Minister.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 04:55 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 30, 2026 04:55 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 04:56 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 04:56 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 04:56 PM (kU0PQ)
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The maximum diversity is 100% black women.
Maybe a couple of them are trans-women.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:57 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2026 04:51 PM (/OKHJ)
Not for me on Anazon, this week.
Instead, I had YouTube insisting I login to prove I wasn’t a bot.
Because wanting to watch a music video on YouTube is highly suspicious behavior for a human.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:57 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 04:57 PM (8Uo7a)
Pity about the upcoming tragic car accident.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 04:57 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 04:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: testy at October 30, 2026 04:58 PM (vFcoN)
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I doubt he is looked at as that by serious politicians; he was able to maintain balance between Ukraine and Russia - still has an open channel to the Ukes, while getting all the benefits of being a reliable ally of the more powerful neighbor; he is in favor with Trump administration and was able to make some deals in his country's favor, even though he is sanctioned by the clowns in Brussels.
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 04:58 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Mark1971
Amazon is preemptively trying to prevent AI bots from doing shopping there for people. Amazon makes more from advertising by product placement in their searches than they do from actually selling the product in many cases. AI bots from Grok and other places mess up that revenue stream by getting people what they want rather than what Amazon presents to them.
Would not be surprised either if Amazon is using demand pricing where different people get different prices based on what the algorithm tells Amazon you are willing to pay.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 04:58 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Portland Whitey [Palestinian flag/Ukraine flag/LGBTQ flag/Trans flag] at October 30, 2026 04:52 PM (Ovx+P)
Nah. I'll leave them chained to a tree with no food, water, or shelter.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 04:58 PM (r2Icn)
Pity about the upcoming tragic car accident.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
His accompaniment that he took to Senegal are reportedly ex Polish special ops peeps. Tusk is probably the one in trouble here trying to serve the EU as it becomes a fascist uber state.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 04:59 PM (E4rtv)
And he's grooming his son to be his replacement.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 04:59 PM (aD4fx)
Piers responds he doesn't know what that means because there's only one of her.
She then goes into the retarded argument that they/them has been used to refer to singular people for centuries and Piers obviously doesn't know grammar.
I hate this argument so much. The historical usage is when you're talking about an UNKNOWN, INDEFINITE, OR GENERIC PERSON. If I say to you, "If anyone bangs on your door, tell them to go away." Yes, we're talking about a singular INDEFINITE person. That person may be a man or a woman or a child or it's possible no person comes to the door at all.
When you're talking about a specific person, using they/them is new and is not grammatically correct. "This is Sasha who goes by they/them. I met them at work." This is not centuries old and anyone who argues otherwise is an asshole.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 04:59 PM (mkw2N)
Here's a few Halloween movies that are great which you may not have seen:
"The Revenant" (200
- horror/comedy with a soldier mysteriously killed in Iraq and brought home to bury rises and becomes an undead vigilante with his scumbag friend. Great fun!
"Splinter" (200
- parasitic fungus animates dead victims in to herky-jerky puppets to infect others. Stand off in gas station. Very creepy and fun.
"Nightmare Detective" (2006) Oddball horror movie involving murder in dreams which affect the real world. Made by the same guy who did "Tetsuo, the Iron Man" Creepy and puzzling.
"Noroi (The Curse) (2006) Excellent found footage Japanese horror movie. Slow burn but by the end the hairs will be rising on your neck in horror.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 05:01 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 05:01 PM (8Uo7a)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 05:01 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Skip
Democrats are giving up on native blacks and that in part is what is upsetting the applecart in Michigan and Minnesota. Everyone is most conservative about what affects them and native urban gimmedats are resenting newcomers taking their cheese.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:02 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Portland Whitey [Palestinian flag/Ukraine flag/LGBTQ flag/Trans flag] at October 30, 2026 04:52 PM (Ovx+P)
Nah. I'll leave them chained to a tree with no food, water, or shelter.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 04:58 PM (r2Icn)
But they are moments away from dying so I must act now and call the toll-free number or scan the code on my screen, and for just 63 cents a day I can fill their bowls.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 05:03 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Takes you to Actblue website to donate.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:03 PM (E4rtv)
Gee you learn something new everyday ......
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 30, 2026 04:54 PM (ENxVw)
I had a dream about this.
Murkowski in a schoolgirl uniform workingvto arouse me in class. And it was a FRENCH class.
So many horrors
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 05:03 PM (Sco7b)
But it the Most Diverse, because to them diversity means both non-white and non-Christian.
There was some town close to the Mexico border that won some "most diverse town" award, because it was like 85% "Hispanic" (not considered "white" apparently).
Posted by: illiniwek at October 30, 2026 05:04 PM (vbXSk)
Link sent!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 05:04 PM (1Ff7Z)
Bwahahahaha!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 04:27 PM
Rad Bromance > Bad Bromance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjwQyoeQp_s
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 05:05 PM (h+uWx)
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Who dream of having their pussies grabbed by Obama.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 05:05 PM (ndZc7)
I told Hubby I will be glad when election day is over. He said all we will read and hear is lots of pissing and moaning for days after.
Posted by: four seasons at October 30, 2026 05:05 PM (/QHx4)
Murkowski in a schoolgirl uniform workingvto arouse me in class. And it was a FRENCH class.
So many horrors
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 05:03 PM (Sco7b)
Brother you are watching way too much cable news and anime if Murkowski is showing up in your dreams in a schoolgirl outfit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)
In light of the events in the country, I have concluded that it is no longer possible for me to continue serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland. As of today, I have submitted my resignation and a request for recall.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 05:06 PM (aD4fx)
"Final OSZ Midterm Forecast
Senate:
🔵 Democrats: 51
🔴 Republicans: 49
House:
🔵 Democrats: 229
🔴 Republicans: 206 "
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 05:06 PM (AKptf)
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It was "bad" Kirk was assassinated. What a poignant tribute to the man. Certainly not a coping mechanism to avoid being critiqued for his real view.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:07 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 05:07 PM (AKptf)
I like Vuori shirts, but they're pricey for t-shirts. I set up a grok bot to check a dozen websites for specific sizes and colors and alert me to sales. It's not spamming those sites, it only checks twice per day. It leaves me alone unless it finds a good deal.
Amazon will ban your grok bot if you do this on their site.
If you're in the market for any big ticket item, I suggest setting this up. It's amazing. You don't have to sign up to be spammed by a dozen websites and you don't have to maintain anything. The bot doesn't sign you up for freaking "partner" spam. It doesn't bother you unless it finds something good.
I want to try doing this with airline ticket prices next time I'm going on a trip.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 05:08 PM (mkw2N)
WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧
@WarMonitor3
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30m
Details of what is happening in Warsaw Poland right now:
A long standing power struggle between the countries two main political parties over Judges in the countries judiciary has spilled out after Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska who is linked to the current Prime minister Tusk has suspended two other judges both sides linked to the opposing PIS Party.
This caused outrage amongst PIS supporters who flocked to the countries constitutional court, the Judge Anna Korwin then called police to protect her which have surrounded the building which is widely pictured, the police have now had clashes with protestors.
The President of Poland has turned his plane around on a diplomatic flight to Senegal calling the suspension of judges and the police presence near the courthouse a coup attempt by the Prime minister tusk and a massive overstep of Judicial power.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:08 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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So, we have a coup in motion, the success of which we shall observe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 05:08 PM (pMmVV)
Posted by: The Clancy Brothers (With Tommy Makem) at October 30, 2026 05:09 PM (vFcoN)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 05:03 PM
When you're done with the rest, and ready for the best, we're here for you.
Posted by: Lena, Triggly, Stacey, Joy, & Hillary! at October 30, 2026 05:09 PM (0sNs1)
They didn't register their link, much like Geek Girls advertised here and didn't continue to register their link, so the Simpsons' link now leads to something we shouldn't link here.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 05:09 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)
It's been... more than a few... years, but at one point she looked pretty damned good in a swimsuit.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 05:09 PM (qlLNh)
El-Sayed went on this bizarre rant against Pete Hegseth -- claiming that Hegseth "rode the pine" in "whatever sport he played" in high school.
He invoked Hegseth's mother (moms are fair game now, huh?), and claimed she was "the type" who would have worn her son's jersey to games.
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Bitch!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 05:10 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 04:59 PM (mkw2N)
They can get past all of that by turning on the arrogance and pretending you’re the stupid one for not knowing this.
Which, surprisingly, is amazingly effective to turn things to their favor, unless Riley Gaines is also in on the coversation.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:10 PM (6ydKt)
Amazon will ban your grok bot if you do this on their site.
If you're in the market for any big ticket item, I suggest setting this up. It's amazing. You don't have to sign up to be spammed by a dozen websites and you don't have to maintain anything. The bot doesn't sign you up for freaking "partner" spam. It doesn't bother you unless it finds something good.
I want to try doing this with airline ticket prices next time I'm going on a trip.
Posted by: bonhomme
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Yep. Seems to be a thing that the big ecommerce websites are going to hate, like Amazon. Kills their product placement revenue, their selling private info about buyers, and puts pricing pressure on them.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:10 PM (E4rtv)
@StanPyrzanowski
- police anti-riot units are heading to Warsaw from Kraków, Rzeszów, and Częstochowa.
Unofficially: police officers are aware that the Constitution is being violated. They are waiting for the President's move
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 05:10 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Damn, did not know you were nearly as old as Vic.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 05:09 PM (qlLNh)
I’m guessing that would have been around 1970?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)
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It was "bad" Kirk was assassinated. What a poignant tribute to the man. Certainly not a coping mechanism to avoid being critiqued for
I'm across from Detroit and you know I've been reporting on commercials. There's been tons of anti-Lawrence commercials.
Don't remember many for him.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 05:11 PM (Sco7b)
"Final OSZ Midterm Forecast
Senate:
🔵 Democrats: 51
🔴 Republicans: 49
House:
🔵 Democrats: 229
🔴 Republicans: 206 "
Yea......
AND Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu will lose in landslide !!
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 30, 2026 05:12 PM (ENxVw)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)
It's been... more than a few... years, but at one point she looked pretty damned good in a swimsuit.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 05:09 PM (qlLNh)
On the whole, I'd prefer the other Lisa Ann showing up in my fevered dreams provocatively dressed.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 05:12 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 04:41 PM (Qugny)
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I don't think he's the kind of guy who gives a shit about safety and I think we need more people with his attitude.
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 05:12 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 04:58 PM (AKptf)
Serious enough Biden tried to color revolution him a few years ago.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:12 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:11 PM (E4rtv)
Heh. Older than dirt, not older than the Big Bang.
But seriously, Lisa had a rockin' bod in a tank suit, probably because she did a lot of swimming. I don't know if she's kept it up.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 05:12 PM (qlLNh)
Murkowski in a schoolgirl uniform workingvto arouse me in class. And it was a FRENCH class.
Try to remember what you ate and drank the evening before that dream and never do that again.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 05:12 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 05:13 PM (odBC9)
"Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook", and follow the news reports on X.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 05:14 PM (aD4fx)
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Violent crazy ass idiot. Yeah, average progressive.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 05:14 PM (ndZc7)
El-Sayed went on this bizarre rant against Pete Hegseth -- claiming that Hegseth "rode the pine" in "whatever sport he played" in high school.
He invoked Hegseth's mother (moms are fair game now, huh?), and claimed she was "the type" who would have worn her son's jersey to games.
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Bitch!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 05:10 PM (ndZc7)
Not sure where he expects to find a big anti Secretary of War faction in Michigan.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:14 PM (uhVAy)
If the US and Russia align, the first one shanked is the EU.
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:15 PM (NeFn5)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 05:15 PM (Ia/+0)
"Final OSZ Midterm Forecast
Senate:
🔵 Democrats: 51
🔴 Republicans: 49
House:
🔵 Democrats: 229
🔴 Republicans: 206 "
Posted by: runner
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Crap. Is what. Most sober analysts have it at roughly 52-54 GOP Senate and about a dozen seats as tossups in the House.
Betting markets need to be limited for elections as campaign contributions and that is what is driving a lot of this crappy and fake polling plus analysis.
OSZ was caught lying on several occasions in the recent Iran attacks and I don't really consider them to be reliable at all.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:15 PM (E4rtv)
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Let me 'splain something to you. Telling an individual or a group of people to go out and hurt people and break shit is inciting violence. Saying things that a certain group don't want to hear and they respond with violence is not inciting... Glad I could clear that up for you.
Not one single violent act can be traced back to CK inciting it.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 05:15 PM (tB7nu)
Then vote for all these "Mostly Jeffersonian" DSA candidates for more "GOOD TIMES"...
Posted by: Barry Soetoro at October 30, 2026 05:16 PM (Ge/3i)
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:16 PM (NeFn5)
That's all they do......and made it their most important takeaway from all the fraudster info talked about in the meeting:
Keith Ellison
@keithellison
This is an insult to every American taxpayer.
Trump wasted almost half a billion of our tax dollars cutting a sweetheart deal for one of his donors. Demanding an explanation for that corrupt overpayment isn't a "waste of time," it's absolutely essential.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
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2h
Q: If the administration has declared on waste and fraud, could you explain the $420 million overpayment for a prison in Appleton, MN, when they company offered it to the state for $75m?
BESSENT: I don't know anything about that. That's a waste of our time.
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 05:16 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Might have been the coke she snorted.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:16 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:14
I'd think downtown Detroit.
But they probably just group them together and label them as Whitey.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 05:17 PM (Sco7b)
Stuart Dowell
@StuartDowell_
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50m
BIG UPDATE on the events at Poland's Constitutional Tribunal tonight.
It's increasingly looking like a coordinated attempt to break the existing leadership's hold over the court.
Justice Minister and Prosecutor General Waldemar Żurek has now filed five applications to lift the immunity of the Tribunal's president and deputy, backed by 50 volumes of case files.
Both Żurek and the judge who ordered their suspension had contacted police in advance about security concerns.
All this on a Friday evening, while President Nawrocki was travelling to Senegal.
The timing and coordination are striking. The legality of the operation remains disputed.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk has defended the government's approach, saying: “Restoring the rule of law is our duty.”
But constitutional lawyer Marcin Matczak, a longstanding critic of PiS's judicial reforms, has questioned the legality of the suspension:
“I consider Bogdan Święczkowski the worst person to serve as president of the Constitutional Tribunal. But there is no legal basis for ordering a break in his duties or suspending him.”
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:17 PM (E4rtv)
I will not allow the right wing to take us out of the European Union. That’s what the game is about today.
So obviously the coup was necessary...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 05:17 PM (aD4fx)
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These are rookie numbers. We go to get those numbers up
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 05:18 PM (tB7nu)
Collingwood 🇬🇧
@admcollingwood
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1h
If Donald Tusk was really certain that suspending the President of the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland and surrounding the building with police so judges and officers could not attend was "restoring the rule of law", he wouldn't have done it on a Friday evening or while the President of Poland was flying to Senegal.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 05:18 PM (ndZc7)
I will not allow the right wing to take us out of the European Union. That’s what the game is about today.
So obviously the coup was necessary...
Posted by: The ARC of History!
Court ruled this month that several of the EU Treaty provisions were in violation of Poland's Constitution and laws and therefore could not be enforced. We are seeing the EU lurch into bureaucratic Brezhnevism in real time.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:20 PM (E4rtv)
(Why don't you ask him what's going wrong?
Why don't you ask him the latest on his throne?)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 05:20 PM (88C+u)
OTOH, if left-wing organizations are putting a lot of money into betting markets to skew the odds, there is money to be made taking the other side of those bets.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 05:21 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely at October 30, 2026 05:21 PM (vFcoN)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 04:59 PM (mkw2N)
It reminds me of the Monty Python sketch about the mountain climber who saw double and was going to build a bridge between the 2 peaks of Mt Kilamanjaro
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:21 PM (uhVAy)
Marcin Przydacz
@marcin_przydacz
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1h
Translated from Polish
Poland's Ambassador to China, in response to the D. Tusk government's violation of the law and forceful attack on the Constitutional Tribunal, tenders his resignation.
This is an act of courage and responsibility toward Polish democracy and the Republic's image in the world.
Ambassador Kumoch is an experienced diplomat. In the past, he served as Poland's Ambassador to Switzerland and Poland's Ambassador to Turkey, as well as Head of the International Policy Office in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)
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Dude, Lisa Simpson is like 8 years old! Has been for like 40 years.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 05:22 PM (ndZc7)
If you have to exile your President, shut down Tribunals, and generally make yourself king, Mr Tusk; can your first edict be to make Polish names easier for us nonslavic barbarians to read and pronounce?
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 05:22 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 05:22 PM (n5tGW)
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These are rookie numbers. We go to get those numbers up
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 05:18 PM (tB7nu)
Bisexual was just a way for regular people to avoid being persecuted for being normal.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:23 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 05:16 PM (E4rtv)
Might've had something to do with it. She didn't look skeletal, though.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 05:23 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 05:23 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 05:15 PM (tB7nu)
Ace has helpfully pointed out that their violence is speech, and our speech is violence.
Many of them are now essentially making the case that our living, breathing, continued existence on the planet is white supremacist violence.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)
The EU is looking at the reality of sponsoring the Ukraine war all by themselves.
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Where do they think this is going to end? Is Ukraine going to get its territory back? "On to Moscow"? A huge number of lives have been lost already. How many more are the EU willing to see die?
I don't know if Trump is right or wrong, but at least he's trying to stop two countries from grinding each other to powder. Don't see the geniuses in the EU trying out any ideas.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 05:24 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Lloyd Loar at October 30, 2026 05:24 PM (Mx+TJ)
Posted by: Multi-Generational Squalor and Discord at October 30, 2026 05:25 PM (vFcoN)
I will not allow the right wing to take us out of the European Union. That’s what the game is about today.
So obviously the coup was necessary...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 05:17 PM (aD4fx)
the second coup. The first one put him in power in the first place. Much shadyness in that election, and every election in Europe since.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 05:22 PM (88C+u)
They could set up a trade deal with the Pacific islands -- send them surplus consonants in exchange for their extra vowels.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 05:26 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 05:26 PM (Cqx++)
I would expect the same stupid Nazi bs in Poland that happened in Ukraine.
If you found out the hijackers were going to crash into Langley, would you stop them?
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:27 PM (NeFn5)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 05:28 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:30 PM (NeFn5)
The Green Savant enters at 2:30.
Wow, letting her vote is about the same as finding the dumbest retard in the Sudan and letting him vote in American elections.
I literally could feel my brain shrinking in abject horror as she spoke.
Cute but dumb as a rock. However, you can't fuck rocks so I guess she wins that contest.
Great work Greeny McSpoinkbrain!
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 05:31 PM (YSUhf)
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Where do they think this is going to end? Is Ukraine going to get its territory back? "On to Moscow"? A huge number of lives have been lost already. How many more are the EU willing to see die?
I don't know if Trump is right or wrong, but at least he's trying to stop two countries from grinding each other to powder. Don't see the geniuses in the EU trying out any ideas.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 05:24 PM (eRlcH)
Jesus, man. The zeroth through tenth item are NO ARMY NO WEAPONS NO INDUSTRY repeated over and over.
Even years ago the offensive ability of the Ukr army declined to very low levels. Times when the Russians were facing major defeats they withdrew and resumed offensives later. They have been tenacious at resisting offensives but this means the Russians can just rest if they get too damaged to keep going in that sector. And there are lots of sectors to cover. The prognosis is pretty clear.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:31 PM (uhVAy)
I wore my son's jersey to his football games.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 05:34 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:30 PM (NeFn5)
The original intent was to have the sanctions do all the work while EU just watched. Not a great plan, and Russia moved first and almost nabbed the leadership. When that failed, it was reset and methodical taking of the contested ground since then.
Yes lets blockade the most resource rich nation in the world.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:35 PM (uhVAy)
Every single one of our cabinet secretaries were selected because they’re the best of the best in their respective fields
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Are their respective fields: Lesbian theory, black studies, women's research, gender science, and queer poetry?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 05:35 PM (tB7nu)
I wore my son's jersey to his football games.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 05:34 PM (W2Pud)
while he got all sunburnt?? for shame, nurse!
...yeah, not sure that was the master stroke his scriptwriter though it was.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:36 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Accomack at October 30, 2026 05:30 PM (NeFn5)
Even now NATO is there to keep the Europeans from wandering into traffic. And Putin is actually the moderate wing in avoiding telling the EU to screw itself. You notice they never speak to an EU official officially, just statesmen from real nations?
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 05:38 PM (uhVAy)
They could be guessing how much fraud there might be
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)
I get that hard-core Commies don't give a rip about fair elections, but voters are going to hammer the Marxists politicians going through the motions during a NY election season.
Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2026 05:46 PM (rj6Yv)
But don't quote me...
Posted by: UncleJefe at October 30, 2026 05:49 PM (DzC+b)
Senate:
🔵 Democrats: 51
🔴 Republicans: 49
House:
🔵 Democrats: 229
🔴 Republicans: 206 "
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lol!
The dems have essentially conceded Texas as all the polls move to yeah Paxton is going to barely win.
Ohio and Iowa are gone. Michigan looks very dicey and if there is more bad news in Minnesota (I wonder who the feds are going to indict Monday) it might just finally tip the scales there.
In the House they are essentially both at 2010, and then the tossups come in.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 30, 2026 05:50 PM (7/DDO)
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Anyone remember back when we paid the Iranian terrorists 4 billion dollars in cash for nothing in return, while at the same time pimping a near trillion dollar missile defense system in Ukraine to protect Europe from Iranian long range missiles?
Putin said, look, the relationship between the US, Europe and Russia is at an all time high, why are you putting all this shit right next door in Ukraine. If it is for Iranian threats, I'll help you work out a deal to put the defense system in Azerbaijan...
But the American deep state had already set up a money laundering arrangement with Zelenski and the rest is history
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 05:52 PM (tB7nu)
Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2026 05:53 PM (rj6Yv)
Because nothing say Perfectly Normal than demanding the teenagers, who should not be having any sex whatsoever, tell the Federal Government who they want to stick it in.
/spit
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 05:57 PM (5WPt1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 05:34 PM (W2Pud)
Hockey mom here, did the same. Supporting your kid's team and their sports is somehow awful? WTF?
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 05:59 PM (5WPt1)
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 06:00 PM (5WPt1)
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Anyone remember back when we paid the Iranian terrorists 4 billion dollars in cash for nothing in return, while at the same time pimping a near trillion dollar missile defense system in Ukraine to protect Europe from Iranian long range missiles?
Putin said, look, the relationship between the US, Europe and Russia is at an all time high, why are you putting all this shit right next door in Ukraine. If it is for Iranian threats, I'll help you work out a deal to put the defense system in Azerbaijan...
But the American deep state had already set up a money laundering arrangement with Zelenski and the rest is history
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 05:52 PM (tB7nu)
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You are conveniently forgetting to mention Putin's other demands, oh and I get to set security policy for all of eastern Europe. OK?
Posted by: Black JEM at October 30, 2026 07:37 PM (8uHt+)
The Spooktacular History of Halloween Traditions and Lore
Halloween in the 1930s
Why is Halloween the "spooky season" in the first place? How did this nonsense begin? Well as you've no doubt heard, supposedly this time of year is a "liminal," meaning "on the threshold." ("Subliminal" means "beneath the threshold (of conscious perception).) Supposedly, during liminal times, the "walls separating the mortal realms from the 'other worlds' (both the spirit realms and the lands of the fairies) are lower." I guess because this time is at the end of autumn -- in Germanic languages, "the fall" or "autumn" is just literally called 'harvest." Herbst in German, for example. So this time is between two seasons and therefore between two worlds. That's an idea with a lot of salience in folktales -- crossroads, for example, are also believed to be space between two worlds, which is why you might see ghosts or even the devil in a crossroads.
Crossroads are viewed in global folklore and legends as liminal "thin places" where the barrier between the living world and the spirit realm weakens. Folklore and Supernatural Beliefs * Spirits and Lost Souls: Crossroads are often said to confuse wandering or restless spirits. Historical burials of criminals or people who died by suicide at intersections led to beliefs that their spirits would face four paths and get lost. * Spectral Animals: The British Isles feature legends of spectral black dogs--such as the Black Shuck or Barghest--which are seen at crossroads as harbingers of death.Halloween is a contraction of All Hallow's Eve. The following day, November first, is All Saint's Day, so the night before is the eve of all the hallowed, the sainted. To hallow means "to set apart as holy." Are the words connected? Yes they are:
Of course, this is probably a case of early Church syncretism, or the merging of pagan traditions with Christian ones. Mostly just the dates.
The words hallow and holy share a direct and deep etymological connection, both coming from the same ancient root meaning "whole" or "healthy". Etymological Lineage * Hallow: From the Old English verb hälgian ("to make holy, consecrate") and the noun hälga ("holy person or saint"). This evolved into Middle English halwe and modern hallow. * Holy: From the Old English adjective hälig ("holy, sacred, or consecrated"), which developed directly from häl ("whole"). * Proto-Germanic Root: Both trace back to Proto-Germanic hailagaz / *hailagōn (holy, sacred, or set apart). * Proto-Indo-European Root: Going further back, they stem from the PIE root *kailo- meaning "whole, uninjured, or of good omen".
Because November 1st happens to be an ancient festival:
Samhain is an ancient Gaelic festival celebrated on November 1 that marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Meaning and Timing * Pronunciation: Commonly pronounced "sow-in" (rhyming with cow-in or sau-in). * Dates: Celebrations traditionally begin at sunset on October 31 and continue through November 1, as the Celtic day starts and ends at sunset. * New Year: It marked the Celtic New Year and the transition into the "darker half" of the year.The origin of the Jack O'Lantern is interesting and very pagan. Apparently it was a Druidic custom to light communal bonfires. I assume these bonfires had some religious/cultic purpose. Then, when the fire had died down, the embers or coals from the fire would be transported to the individual hearths of the worshippers, so that the later fires would be descended from the communal ones. These coals were carried from the communal bonfire to the home hearth in... hollowed out turnips or gourds. Faces began to be carved into these fire-transporting turnips to ward away evil spirits. I don't know when pumpkins were used for this purpose, if ever, but the pumpkin with fire inside is clearly a direct descendant of the coal-toting turnip. The actual name "Jack O'Lantern" emerged from later, Christian-age Irish folktales about someone who tried to trick the devil.
A grumpy bastard of a blacksmith by the name of Stingy Jack invites the devil for a drink but refuses to pay (hence, the "stingy" descriptor). He convinces the devil to shape-shift into a coin to cover the tab. But when the devil obliges, Jack sticks the coin in his pocket. And much to the devil-coin's dismay, there is a silver cross in that pocket, preventing him from returning to his original form. A deal is struck. Jack sets the devil free and, in return, the devil agrees A) to bar Jack from entering hell when he dies, and B) to leave Jack alone for a year. A quick aside: This seems like a bad deal. And it is a bad deal -- because guess what? A year later, the devil comes back to mess with Jack. Only Jack is ready for him. He convinces the devil to climb a tree so he might enjoy a delicious piece of fruit.Note that this tale involves fruit. As you'll see, most Halloween traditions are fruit-based.
Once the devil is up in the tree, Jack carves a cross into the trunk. The devil can't come down. Another (bad) deal is struck, although this one does have the advantage of being slightly less bad than the previous one. Jack frees the devil in exchange for ten years of peace. Jack dies. (Don't be sad. He was an asshole.) The devil, true to his word, refuses to let Jack into hell. God, meanwhile, refuses to let Jack into heaven. So, what is Jack's fate? To wander forever in eternal darkness, of course. But because the devil is not totally heartless (wait...), he tosses Jack a lump of burning coal from hell so he can have a bit of light. Jack carves out a turnip and sticks the coal inside, creating a lantern. Hence, "Jack of the Lantern," which is later shortened to "Jack O'Lantern."Kids have been dressing up in costumes for a long, long time. I don't know when this began, but an early example of it is kids going out "guising" -- wearing disguises. In the Shetland Islands, kids dressed as "skeklers," wearing dresses made of wheat stalks.
Etymology and Origins * Skekel / Skekle: The root noun in the Shetland dialect means a masked or disguised person, a guiser, or specifically someone wearing a straw dress at Halloween. * Norn Roots: The term originates from the historical Norn language (a North Germanic language spoken in Shetland and Orkney until the 18th/19th century before being replaced by Scots). * Skakling: Recorded in local almanacs to describe the start of the winter half-year around All Saints' Day (November 1st).Kids dressed up in dresses made of straw is kinda creepy!
* Costume: Made from local oat-straw woven into a skirt (gloy), a short cloak, and a tall, pointed straw mask or hat. * Tradition: Skeklers traveled from house to house (hoosamylla) in small groups between mid-October and late January, dancing and playing music in exchange for food or drink. * Leadership: The group was traditionally directed or led by a figure known as the scuddler.Apparently people used to put apples on the thresholds of their doors as an offering to evil spirits, who would be placated by the sweets and not trouble the family inside. But kids became coming by afterwards and asking for the apples which had not actually been carried off by spirits, which I would imagine was most of them. And from that: begging for candy in costume. Bobbing for apples is closely associated with Halloween. Remember, this coincides with the final harvest of the year, so apples are significant. As I mentioned, fruit was central to many Halloween traditions:
In America today, Halloween is most often associated with pumpkins and candy. For centuries in the British Isles, though, this eerie night was linked with apples, nuts, and cabbage, all of which were given secret powers... Among all the food traditions of Halloween, apples appear most often. There are loose theories for why apples are so special on this day. They've long been thought to have an uncanny magic: in Welsh folklore, for instance, they carry a whiff of immortality. In the Book of Hallowe'en, an early 20th century study of October 31 traditions, Ruth Edna Kelley writes that apples came to Halloween through the colonizing Romans, who linked their fall apple festival with the Celtic Samhain.
But the game didn't start as bobbing for apples in water. Instead, the apples were bobbed for in between fire. A stick was hanged from the ceiling by its middle so that it was suspended horizontally, and free to spin on the string holding it. On one side was stuck an apple. On the otherside, a lighted candle. Then the stick would be set to spinning and you would, without your hands, bob and bite at the apple as it spun around, trying to avoid being licked in the face by the flame or hit in the eye with hot candle-wax. This "game" was called "snap-apple," and, if I might channel the noted ethnologist Donald Trump, it's a shit-hole tradition. Oh, and winning the game -- eating the apple without taking a mouthful of flame -- would mean that you would be the first to marry or marry whatever person you liked. Another version of the game involved suspending apples on strings from the ceiling, no sticks or candles involved. This is safer, though far less Mëtäl. Another variation:
Sometimes the apples would be labeled or marked by young men and women before they were put in a tub of water: the person who caught your apple could be your mate. In another version of snap apple, a hoop is suspended from the ceiling, and different treats and tricks, including cake, candies, bread, apples, and peppers, are stationed along its rim. The one a player caught with their teeth would foretell the nature of their love--would it be sweet, spicy, too hot? Would it nourish or burn them?A lot of fruit, a lot of eating, and a lot of promise of sex. Even cabbages had sexual bend:
If none of these fortune telling methods went your way, you could still resort to cabbage. One tradition involved pulling kale stalks from a field: the nature of the stalk, its weight, length, girth, and taste, would hint at one's future spouse.I'm not going to unpack that. A lot of divinations were of the "ill fortune" type:
Some people would bake a ring and nut into the cake--the finder of the nut would be a widow or widower. In another version, the cake had a coin, a sloe berry and a bit of wood baked in. The coin meant wealth, the sloe meant you'd outlive all your friends and the wood meant you'd die within the year.Yay! This being a "liminal time" when the "walls between the worlds were lower" led to Halloween being a time for minor magics like divination of the future. And this divination usually involved predicting your future spouse. In one divination game, you would peel an apple all in one big peel, then throw the apple peel over your shoulder. When the peel landed on the floor, it would form a letter, which would be the first letter of the name of the person you would marry. This magical divination predicts a lot of spouses with names beginning with I, J, G, S, Z, and C, and maybe a D here and there, but anyone whose name began with K, X, Y, R, B or any letter formed by multiple strokes was shit out of luck and would die a lonely spinster. Another of these "see your future spouse" games involved going into a darkened, lonely room with only a candle for light and looking at a mirror. Supposedly, over your shoulder and behind you, would appear the dark, fuzzy form of the person you would wind up marrying. Obviously this just relies on darkness and unsteady light and seeing what you want to see. I read about this "candle in a mirror and your future spouse appears behind you" game in Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party, which also featured "snap-apple," but I'm pretty sure it was the safe version without the candle. Oh, and the victim is killed by being drowned in the tub for bobbing apples. Oh, and also, despite the book being set in the 1960s, they casually mention that the village has a "village witch" like this is a normal thing that most villages have and needs no further explanation. What? English villages all had a village witch, the same as they had a butcher or postman?
There were other variations.
In many variations, the seeker was forced to walk backward, which aided the tension. From a 1916 story in the Alaska Daily Empire out of Juneau, "Little girls duck for apples till they are wet from head to foot, walk down the cellar stairs backward, hold a candle before a mirror to see their future husbands." The opportunities for shenanigans are obvious. Friends stealthily followed behind mirror-toting players, or hid in the darkened destinations. At the right moment, they leaped from the shadows, screams stabbing the night before terror collapsed into giggles. Or, there was the potential for romantic assignations. A hopeful young man, yearning to make his feelings known, could plan to reveal himself in a mirror. As another postcard suggested, "of course this affair must be prearranged to be successful for the Witches are busy and can't tend to everybody."
This one, via Google AI (but I've read it elsewhere), is even more dangerous than snap-apple:
Walking Backwards Down Stairs: Some variations required a person to hold a hand-mirror and walk backwards down a dark flight of stairs at midnight to catch a reflection of their future mate.That is a shithole tradition way to wind up in traction. We've all noticed that Halloween has become, for older teenagers and young adults, a holiday all about sex. Girls dress like literal streetwalkers. It's a hookup holiday. But I didn't realize until writing this post... it's literally always been a holiday closely associated with sex. Even stuff like the ripe, full apples suggest sexual maturation and pregnancy. Sure, magical games to see your future spouse are the socially acceptable way to suggest sex, but it's still mostly about sex. This holiday has always had mating on its mind, from the early pagan days. So: magic, pagan traditions, "lowering the veils" between the worlds, evil spirits and the devil. And on top of it all: the suggestion of sex. No wonder religious people have such a problem with it.
Many of the ideas in this post came from this video about the folklore that may have inspired It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
MaaikeDxSpooky Talafreako:
@RembrandtsRoom Oct 31, 2024 Taken in 1936 during a photo session at Raynham Hall in Norfolk. The photographers captured the original lady of the house, Lady Dorothy Townsend, descending the staircase. One of the most famous "ghost photograph" ever
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— simplicissimus🇺🇸 (@DrBoecker) October 30, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: doug at October 30, 2026 03:09 PM (B1+sW)
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Reminds me........I need to find my "no yeet" shirt......
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Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:15 PM (iFTx/)
(topic: young pro athletes and their money being soon parted)
"Only one data point from direct experience. Familiar with an AHL hockey player who described a complete supportive bubble within which he and the other guys lived.
Their only purpose was to practice and play hockey. Everything else - from finding a place to live, transportation if needed, even laundry service - was paid for/arranged by the team. Financial advisors (with a very aggressive conservative spiel on money management), tax preparers were provided, which addresses the main topic here.
Of course these minor league guys aren't generally pulling in the long green, but a portion of them do rotate up to the bigs and get a $$ bump and some stay there for a while or forever, at which point of course they're handed off to that team's support network. Lots of sociological and other differences with basketball and football player backgrounds, in general, but seems that pro hockey at least is taking a pro-active approach to help the young guys avoid trouble."
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 03:15 PM (U/Byj)
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Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 03:16 PM (AKptf)
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has announced that the Texas Department of Agriculture will no longer award eligible department-administered grants to businesses that employ H-1B visa holders, directing taxpayer dollars toward Texas workers instead of companies that rely on temporary foreign labor.
Miller said Texas taxpayers work hard for their money and deserve to know their tax dollars create opportunities for Texans rather than subsidize businesses that choose foreign labor while Texans are ready and willing to work.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 03:16 PM (TN0g+)
I was almost sure you'd comment, "I'm leaving that to Garrett to explain."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:16 PM (l3cgK)
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Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 03:16 PM (AKptf)
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The Jack Nicholson one, right? Not the Stephen Weber one?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 30, 2026 03:17 PM (skR0U)
Each with a buck and a quarter
Stingy Jack came down with two-fifty
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)
Of course these minor league guys aren't generally pulling in the long green, but a portion of them do rotate up to the bigs and get a $$ bump and some stay there for a while or forever, at which point of course they're handed off to that team's support network. Lots of sociological and other differences with basketball and football player backgrounds, in general, but seems that pro hockey at least is taking a pro-active approach to help the young guys avoid trouble."
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 03:15 PM (U/Byj)
Former San Jose Sharks player Evander Kane was cut from the team after they learned he was filing for bankruptcy after blowing his entire 8 figure contract on gambling.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:18 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 03:18 PM (Cqx++)
That gives a different meaning to having wood...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:18 PM (l3cgK)
Miller said Texas taxpayers work hard for their money and deserve to know their tax dollars create opportunities for Texans rather than subsidize businesses that choose foreign labor while Texans are ready and willing to work.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 03:16 PM (TN0g+)
Read that this morning. Go Texas!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:19 PM (ccf/V)
Somewhere once I read a remark that most of Crime and Punishment happens with someone standing in a threshold, so it is a liminal novel.
Posted by: frammish at October 30, 2026 03:19 PM (rcENI)
House Republicans
@RepKeithSelf
I just cosponsored the Judicial Loyalty Act to require ALL American judges to be natural-born citizens.
This is a commonsense safeguard to protect the Constitution from foreign influence and ensure those who interpret our laws have undivided loyalty to the United States.
Radical judicial activism must be stopped.
Every member of Congress should join me in supporting @RepPeteStauber’s bill.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (TN0g+)
Each with a buck and a quarter
Stingy Jack came down with two-fifty
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)
You f*cked that up, my friend......
Posted by: Andrew Dice Clay at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (ccf/V)
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Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (Fi81e)
Oct 31, 2024
Taken in 1936 during a photo session at Raynham Hall in Norfolk. The photographers captured the original lady of the house, Lady Dorothy Townsend, descending the staircase. One of the most famous "ghost photograph" ever
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There was a huge industry post WWI in England for retouching and manipulating photographs to insert fallen family members or isolate them from group photos for remembrance. Just sayin'
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Dude is a scumbag.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 30, 2026 03:17 PM (skR0U)
yes, Kubrick's , the one from 1980
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (AKptf)
"Trapped in the dark, Frankie encounters the spirit of a murdered child and becomes the target of a local serial killer, unearthing dark community secrets with the help of a mysterious grieving specter"
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (5aHaY)
I thought it weird.
Later on I discovered she's a witch. So....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (RORbl)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (Ia/+0)
>>Another of these "see your future spouse" games involved going into a darkened, lonely room with only a candle for light and looking at a mirror. Supposedly, over your shoulder and behind you, would appear the dark, fuzzy form of the person you would wind up marrying.
We did this in jr high. It can produce some very weird and unpleasant visions.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (viF8m)
Valero is buying LyondellBasell's shuttered Houston refinery and intends to start up 165,000 bpd of light crude refining and is looking to expand to refining heavy, sour crude in the future.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 03:21 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 03:18 PM (Cqx++)
Was out last night and they had the Packers / Panthers game on. I'll admit, it was kinda cool to see the Brewers players come out with the trophy and a couple of them do the Lambeau Leap and celebrate with fans for a moment.
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Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Congrats!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:22 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 03:23 PM (u82oZ)
I was there and saw it. Actually our very large group house had yuuuuge, epic Halloween parties in college, just a bit earlier than this. But by the mid 80s, Georgetown streets would spontaneously fill with adult costumed people starting just after rush hour. Like most great things, this continued for a few years, with the cops finally blocking off streets to cars for a few hours, and then was killed by the merchants and others objecting.
Still recall how topical some of the get-ups were, which was amusing. The year Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in India, there was a group of guys dressed as "Sikh bodyguards" surrounding a Rajiv figure, carrying plastic sub-machine guns and fake-menacing anyone coming close. Then there was (I think the GW football team) group, obviously all fairly worked-out and larger guys, all wearing some pink flamingo outfits. A lot of hilarious and imaginative stuff.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 03:23 PM (U/Byj)
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Posted by: Your local ER and/or Dentist at October 30, 2026 03:23 PM (skR0U)
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And not saying "Candyman" 3 times.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:23 PM (Fi81e)
The actual name "Jack O'Lantern" emerged from later, Christian-age Irish folktales about someone who tried to trick the devil.
For getting the better of the devil, I prefer The Decameron and the story of how the holy hermit Rustico taught the comely young virgin princess Alibech how to Put The Devil Into Hell.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2026 03:23 PM (y9nCu)
Dude is a scumbag.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (r2Icn)
I thought he was "French Canadian."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:23 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Eromero at October 30, 2026 03:23 PM (LHPAg)
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Disgusting!
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (Fi81e)
Not the kind of icing I'm looking for...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:23 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 30, 2026 03:25 PM (VYHjw)
-- Tinder
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)
To be fair, Tinder is not known for producing lasting relationships.
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:18 PM (ccf/V)
Gambling is a touchy subject for organized sports. If he'd drunk it all he might still have a job.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:25 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:25 PM (ccf/V)
Shiiiiiiiit ... I woulda done that a a kid! To impress a hottie? 100% woulda done it.
I was a bit of a reckless lunatic.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:25 PM (iFTx/)
So they just took off their slacks and draped them neatly over the arm carrying the briefcase. All dressed up, boxers below, but a great field-expedient move to get in the spirit.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 03:25 PM (U/Byj)
They didn't know yet all you needed was a Honda Civic and a 6 pack of cheap beer
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 03:25 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 03:25 PM (MWfyi)
Gambling is a touchy subject for organized sports. If he'd drunk it all he might still have a job.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:25 PM (uhVAy)
The league suspended him for a while, but last I heard, he came back and was playing again for one of the Canadian teams.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:25 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Eromero at October 30, 2026 03:23 PM (LHPAg)
It will cure the foot pain from the chicken bone 100 percent.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:26 PM (uhVAy)
George Washington Univ. does not have a football team. The basketball or baseball players, maybe?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 03:26 PM (u82oZ)
Good morning Mr Benson
I see you're doing well
If I had me a shotgun
I'd blow you straight to hell
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 03:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Hillary at October 30, 2026 03:26 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 30, 2026 03:20 PM (RORbl)
Well, at least you're not a newt anymore!*
*Wait. Are you?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 03:27 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2026 03:23 PM (y9nCu)
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Hold my beer.
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Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:27 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:15 PM (ccf/V)
Watch who you're calling water head!
Posted by: Zombie OJ Sompson at October 30, 2026 03:27 PM (kbbUi)
All Saints Day falls on a Sunday this year. The solemnity is transferred to Monday, but not the obligation. Catholics can receive a plenary indulgence by 1) being in a state of grace, without attachment to sin, 2) going to Confession, 3) receiving Communion, 4) visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead, 5) praying for the Pope's holy intentions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 03:28 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Hillary at October 30, 2026 03:26 PM (n5tGW)
No it doesn't...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:28 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Carly Brown at October 30, 2026 03:28 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:29 PM (Ti9vn)
All Saints Day falls on a Sunday this year. The solemnity is transferred to Monday, but not the obligation. Catholics can receive a plenary indulgence by 1) being in a state of grace, without attachment to sin, 2) going to Confession, 3) receiving Communion, 4) visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead, 5) praying for the Pope's holy intentions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 03:28 PM (eRlcH)
And if the Pope has unholy intentions?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:29 PM (l3cgK)
Chew each mouthful gently and thoroughly.
Posted by: Your local ER and/or Dentist at October 30, 2026 03:23 PM (skR0U)
I think in England even now there are commercial cakes with a little figure baked into them for ...whatever uses.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:29 PM (uhVAy)
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Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 03:29 PM (AKptf)
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You should take inspiration and buy a copy.
A thousand copies.
Each.
For posterity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:29 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Carly Brown at October 30, 2026 03:28 PM (MWfyi)
Unless you used pumice, that'll be a sunk cost.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:29 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Carly Brown at October 30, 2026 03:28 PM (MWfyi)
Nice link in nick
Ok....this has gone on far enough.......
Kquayperrious Renfroe
I can't come up with enough names to mash together to come up with THAT name......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:30 PM (ccf/V)
While it's a bridge a good bit too far for me, Randall Carlson ties in Halloween with, you guessed it, the dreaded Younger Dryas. An ancient memory of it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 03:30 PM (w6EFb)
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Egads. The ugiest and creepiest mascot of all time.
Ok, it's Friday and everyone's lazy so here's a link:
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Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:30 PM (iFTx/)
Rejoice, all ye spinsters.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 30, 2026 03:31 PM (RE0lB)
A thousand copies.
Each.
For posterity.
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Become President.
Use tax dollars to by thousands of copies.
Give them to world leaders as gifts.
Profit!
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Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 03:31 PM (U/Byj)
Backrooms was disappointing, in that I wanted to see more of the liminal spaces seen during the game. But the main character's acting was phenomena, and larger themes about feeling stuck, about purpose and identity, were really good and made it stand out.
But I think the Conjuring is still my fave horror series because I love spending time with the main characters. The final film in the franchise has poignant themes I also want to revisit.
Also, doing my Universal monster movie rewatch! Sometimes the classics are the best. No school like the old school.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 03:31 PM (M6ZCM)
I've resorted to giving apples to the horse to slow him down. If it weren't for PETA, I could just take out the horse and the Headless Horseman would end up living on the streets of San Francisco with the rest of the lunatics.
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 03:31 PM (dIske)
https://tinyurl.com/58atecwe
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:27 PM (l3cgK)
Easter, or Paschal Sunday doesn't have a fixed day, predates the calendar change, and is the earliest major Christian holiday. The term Easter comes into play much later. Basically every day is the day of some Saint(or several rather).
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 03:31 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (bX16E)
Yeah, that's weird.
God's like "Yeah, but wait for November 1st! It's about SAINTS! It'll do .... something"
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Kquayperrious De-Bobbian-Aunterrio RENFROE at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (MWfyi)
It was.... ugly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (RORbl)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 03:30 PM (w6EFb)
Being struck by a meteor was always part of our Halloween traditions.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (uhVAy)
Egads. The ugiest and creepiest mascot of all time.
Ok, it's Friday and everyone's lazy so here's a link:
https://tinyurl.com/bdvm6fra
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:30 PM (iFTx/)
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Posted by: It's Bibendum at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Wenda at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (W2eM/)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (Ti9vn)
And if the Pope has unholy intentions?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:29 PM (l3cgK)
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You're not praying for those. Traditionally, the Pope's holy intentions are:
- The triumph of the Church
- Peace among leaders
- The conversion of sinners
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (eRlcH)
Yeah, that's weird.
God's like "Yeah, but wait for November 1st! It's about SAINTS! It'll do .... something"
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (Fi81e)
They come Marching In, of course.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:33 PM (uhVAy)
Nehemiah 8:10
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 03:33 PM (dhhKu)
You're not praying for those. Traditionally, the Pope's holy intentions are:
- The triumph of the Church
- Peace among leaders
- The conversion of sinners
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 03:32 PM (eRlcH)
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And for sevens at the craps table.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:33 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:20 PM
The Changeling. 1980. George C. Scott.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 03:33 PM (ctC8W)
I like Louise's costume one year when she went as a Dragon with a girl tattoo.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:34 PM (Ti9vn)
“ Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.”
Proverbs 16:24
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 03:34 PM (dhhKu)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:34 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 03:31 PM (okun6)
Its fun when a religion splits because they don't agree on what day Easter is supposed to fall.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:35 PM (uhVAy)
“ Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.”
Proverbs 16:24
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 03:34 PM (dhhKu)
...and full of stinging bees
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:35 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 03:21 PM (eRlcH)
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Meanwhile, the idled Benecia refinery in CA is set up to process heavy crude.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at October 30, 2026 03:35 PM (eGzf1)
https://tinyurl.com/58atecwe
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:27 PM (l3cgK)
Easter, or Paschal Sunday doesn't have a fixed day, predates the calendar change, and is the earliest major Christian holiday. The term Easter comes into play much later. Basically every day is the day of some Saint(or several rather).
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 03:31 PM (okun6)
The pagan holiday and the Christian one are both in Spring.
Look up the Festival of Ishtar (where the word Easter comes from). Bunnies and chicks aren't part of the Judeo-Christian tradition of Passover/Last Supper (but lambs are). BTW, the Last Supper was a Passover Seder...
Posted by: It's Bibendum at October 30, 2026 03:35 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:36 PM (1wjle)
Coolest scene of this was Disney's Fantasia. The demons go wild until the church bells sound, they slink away, and suddenly its holy choir music and a procession of lights for All Saints Day.
Something modern Disney would never touch.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 03:36 PM (M6ZCM)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:35 PM (uhVAy)
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NOT THE BEES!!
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:36 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 03:36 PM (dhhKu)
Miller crapped all over Gov. Abbott about the data centers and said rural voters are pissed at Abbott for not listening to them about their concerns. They are also pissed about transmission lines according to Sid M.
Posted by: Glenn at October 30, 2026 03:36 PM (nvKZ7)
Posted by: browndog says woof at October 30, 2026 03:37 PM (oCio0)
I always start to watch that.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:36 PM (1wjle)
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And then you do a George C. Scott in Hardcore?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:37 PM (xjopy)
It's a good movie to watch on Halloween.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:37 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: It's Bibendum at October 30, 2026 03:35 PM (l3cgK)
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There is actually new scholarship against that origin story.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:38 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:38 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:37 PM (xjo
I asked before but have you seen the doc Milius ?
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:38 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 03:31 PM (M6ZCM)
Wait....a MAN is the real villain? That NEVER happens, what a twist!
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:38 PM (uhVAy)
I always start to watch that.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:36 PM (1wjle)
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Great movie. I like twist.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:39 PM (Fi81e)
the last Old School movie I watched was The Invisible Man, a couple of years ago.
Oh, I watched the remake of The Wolf Man with Benecio Del Torres. It was.... okay.
It was too gory and I don't mean that in an "oh gross" way. I mean, when there's violence, you think "Oh I hope there's no awful gore." it's the anticipation/dread of coming gore that really matters. But early in the film, it's just a goreshow of arms being bitten off, so you relax because you know every single scene with the wolf will have gore. There's no dread of it, just acceptance of it.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:39 PM (1wjle)
Something modern Disney would never touch.
Posted by: LizLem
All to the strains of "Night on Bald Mountain".
Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2026 03:39 PM (lJ0H4)
123 And then you do a George C. Scott in Hardcore?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:37 PM (xjo
I asked before but have you seen the doc Milius ?
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:38 PM (Ti9vn)
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I have not.
Though, John Milius fascinates me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:39 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:38 PM (uhVAy)
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He's beaten by a woman assisted by a bear!
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:40 PM (Fi81e)
Look up the Festival of Ishtar (where the word Easter comes from). Bunnies and chicks aren't part of the Judeo-Christian tradition of Passover/Last Supper (but lambs are). BTW, the Last Supper was a Passover Seder...
Posted by: It's Bibendum at October 30, 2026 03:35 PM (l3cgK)
Let's break this down.
1. Pagans and Christians celebrate holidays in the same seasons. Well yes, we live on the same planet subject to the same seasons.
2. The Ishtar thing is made up. It is also not the traditional name as the holiday and religious tradition is related to Passover(hence Paschal).
3. Yes today stuff has arbitrarily been merged into the holiday. That is not the same as saying this was the origin of the holiday. Stuff has been added in, and varies enormously by country, it did not start that way.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 03:40 PM (okun6)
very scary and lots of suspense and dread
definitely horror
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:40 PM (1wjle)
One of my favorites meals is a Seder with Jewish friends and family members. It reminds me of what binds us together, instead of what separates us.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 03:40 PM (dhhKu)
Pascua comes from the Vulgar Latin pascua, derived from Latin pascha, which in turn comes from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, meaning "Passover"), and is ultimately rooted in Aramaic פסחא (paskha) and Hebrew פסח (pesakh).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:40 PM (l3cgK)
• The Claim: A viral internet meme claims that Easter originally celebrated Ishtar (allegedly pronounced "Easter") and that symbols like eggs and bunnies belonged to her.
• The Reality:
• In almost all non-English languages, the name for Easter is derived from the Greek and Latin Pascha (or Hebrew Pesach / Passover), such as Pâques in French or Pasqua in Italian, which have zero connection to Ishtar.
• The English word "Easter" likely derives from an old Germanic/Anglo-Saxon calendar month or spring terms rather than a Babylonian deity.
• Historical sources show that Christian celebrations of the resurrection of Jesus predate English-speaking regional terms by centuries.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 03:41 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:39 PM (1wjle)
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Fun note:
The bad guy in that was heavily inspired by Dr. Mabuse, especially Fritz Lang's second film about the German super villain: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
Also, Christopher Nolan told his brother Jonathan to study Mabuse while writing the Joker in The Dark Knight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:41 PM (xjopy)
Gourds are old world, but not any edible squashes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 03:42 PM (yu2jU)
Posted by: It's Bibendum at October 30, 2026 03:35 PM (l3cgK)
So is it traditional to turn your Dad in to the cops in Jewish tradition? The ear being cut off must take a lot of squaring with the police afterward.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:42 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: scampydog at October 30, 2026 03:42 PM (2bFN5)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:42 PM (1wjle)
Please stop being factual and challenging things people read on the internet with actual verifiable history.
Thank you. lol.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 03:43 PM (dhhKu)
There is an astronomical tie-in with "Samhain" and the Pleiades too. Samhain is the cross-quarter point for the Sun's ecliptic longitude (45 degrees before the winter solstice). That occurs around Nov. 7 in the Gregorian calendar. With the Julian which was the one used back then, it would've been different.
At any rate, the Pleaides would transit very close to midnight on Oct. 31 back around 500 AD. Or somewhere around there. I'd have to check to make sure of the exact dates.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 03:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 03:43 PM (8Uo7a)
Though, John Milius fascinates me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:39 PM (xjopy)
You should be watch. It's free to watch . It's a good documentary.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:43 PM (Ti9vn)
Old English Easterdæg, "Easter day," from Eastre (Northumbrian Eostre), from Proto-Germanic *austron-, "dawn," also possibly the name of a goddess whose feast was celebrated in Eastermonað (the Anglo-Saxon month corresponding with April), from *aust- "east, toward the sunrise" (compare east), from PIE root *aus- (1) "to shine," especially of the dawn.
I might be wrong on the Ishtar/Easter connection, but the etymology of the word in English seems pagan.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:43 PM (l3cgK)
https://tinyurl.com/8zysx2kb
It caused a stir. Some people think his definition is too...restrictive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:43 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:44 PM (1wjle)
very scary and lots of suspense and dread
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:40 PM (1wjle)
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I prefer suspence and dread--especially cosmic dread.
Carpenter's Prince of Darkness is one of my favorite movies of the horror genre.
It was in Carpenter's pseudo-Christian era with They Live. (Churches, faith actually has a meaning, though "lost")
Gore is a whole different thing to me.
People described Alien's as "gory", but I basically noticed, because the story was the main thing.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:44 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:40 PM (l3cgK)
And even in English, most Churches will still refer to Holy Week and times surrounding as the Paschal season.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 03:44 PM (yu2jU)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 03:41 PM (TN0g+)
Eggs and Rabbits are gonna belong to something, they were a universal food source for the populace everywhere. What they symbolize might vary, but Eggs are gonna be linked to birth for sure.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)
It was in Carpenter's pseudo-Christian era with They Live. (Churches, faith actually has a meaning, though "lost")
everybody likes that movie except me
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:45 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 03:41 PM (TN0g+)
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That's what I was thinking of.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:46 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2026 03:46 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 03:46 PM (n5tGW)
It was in Carpenter's pseudo-Christian era with They Live. (Churches, faith actually has a meaning, though "lost")
everybody likes that movie except me
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:45 PM (1wjle)
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Prince of Darkness or They Live?
I suspect you are talking about They Live.
And I can tell you that you are not alone. They Live...underwhelms me, and even its most ardent defenders admit that the third act is trash.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:47 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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Really scary to kids ringing the doorbell for candy when you show up to give it to them.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 03:47 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 03:41 PM (TN0g+)
Eggs and Rabbits are gonna belong to something, they were a universal food source for the populace everywhere. What they symbolize might vary, but Eggs are gonna be linked to birth for sure.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)
And rabbits...well, rabbits are proliferative...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:47 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 03:47 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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RMBS is this you?????
Posted by: lin-duh at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (VCgbV)
Up above, it's noted that apples were put outside homes so dangerous (presumably evil) spirits would say "oh look, an apple, I won't go inside and eat anyone!"
In the Philippines, they had a serpent-dragon god big and powerful enough to swallow the moon. Bakunawa. How did they keep this planet-destroyer away? By banging pots and pans.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/)
Prince of Darkness. never liked it. My gf at the time saw it before me and reported "It's like every John Carpenter film, great premise, great opening, goes nowhere."
I can't say she was entirely wrong. (The Thing and some others excluded.)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Delurker at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (2Drhq)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:43 PM (l3cgK)
Well the etymology of most familiar basic items is going to be pagany, since Christianity is a latecomer and can't replace every word. Hence the infiltration of local festival ideas into Christian festivals.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)
It's more fan service than PoD, and PoD is the more interesting premise, IMO.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (Fi81e)
Up above, it's noted that apples were put outside homes so dangerous (presumably evil) spirits would say "oh look, an apple, I won't go inside and eat anyone!"
In the Philippines, they had a serpent-dragon god big and powerful enough to swallow the moon. Bakunawa. How did they keep this planet-destroyer away? By banging pots and pans.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/)
sounds pansexual...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:49 PM (l3cgK)
Prince of Darkness. never liked it. My gf at the time saw it before me and reported "It's like every John Carpenter film, great premise, great opening, goes nowhere."
I can't say she was entirely wrong. (The Thing and some others excluded.)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (1wjle)
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Prince of Darkness is more nightmare logic than anything like a story. I get caught up in the images, especially that mirror, towards the end.
I like nightmare logic movies, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:49 PM (xjopy)
I can't say she was entirely wrong. (The Thing and some others excluded.)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (1wjle)
The central joke/plot point might seem relevant today.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:50 PM (uhVAy)
Based on John Steakly's novel. He only wrote two books. My favorite SciFi, Armor
and second , Vampires
I thought that was also the name of the movie.
Did Carpenter make two vampire movies?
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:50 PM (Ti9vn)
It was in Carpenter's pseudo-Christian era with They Live. (Churches, faith actually has a meaning, though "lost")
everybody likes that movie except me
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:45 PM (1wjle)
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Prince of Darkness or They Live?
I suspect you are talking about They Live.
And I can tell you that you are not alone. They Live...underwhelms me, and even its most ardent defenders admit that the third act is trash.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:47 PM (xjopy)
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Yea, but it has one of the greatest one-liners in all action-movie history ....
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
Supposely, Roddy Piper ad libbed that line.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 03:50 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 30, 2026 03:51 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/)
Also a good treatment for eclipses of the sun or moon.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:51 PM (uhVAy)
Is it possible to die from too much schadenfreude?
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 03:50 PM (mkw2N)
It has a stock ticker? What sort of idiot would buy into it?
Nevemind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:51 PM (l3cgK)
It's more fan service than PoD, and PoD is the more interesting premise, IMO.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (Fi81
Wasn't the book based on the movie?
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:51 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 03:52 PM (dhhKu)
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
Supposely, Roddy Piper ad libbed that line.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
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The first 2/3 is messy, angry, and memorable. It has real positive qualities.
But that third act, man. It's awful.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:52 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: DaveA at October 30, 2026 03:52 PM (FhXTo)
Is it possible to die from too much schadenfreude?
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 03:50 PM (mkw2N)
Reddit has stock?
"Experts predict the supply of cute kittens in r/cats is going to slump in the next quarter"
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:52 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 03:50 PM (mkw2N)
Has it lasted longer than four hours?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 03:53 PM (1Ff7Z)
Is it possible to die from too much schadenfreude?
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 03:50 PM (mkw2N)
Reddit has stock?
"Experts predict the supply of cute kittens in r/cats is going to slump in the next quarter"
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:52 PM (uhVAy)
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I saw some headline that its traffic had nosedived because people who would use it for researching things like technical/software questions are just using chatbots instead. Since, you know, chatbots were trained on Reddit and know everything written on Reddit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:53 PM (xjopy)
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
Supposely, Roddy Piper ad libbed that line.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
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The first 2/3 is messy, angry, and memorable. It has real positive qualities.
But that third act, man. It's awful.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:52 PM (xjopy)
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You mean, when Roddy is just wandering around downtown LA with a shotgun, blasting people at random? That's not a great way to deal with an alien invasion?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
Pick up a Johnny Human Torch costume from Mainway Toys. It's a bag full of rags and gas.
Posted by: Irwin Mainway at October 30, 2026 03:54 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
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When he's shooting people for "selling out", deus ex machinas his way onto an alien ship, and it's just random, lazy action filmmaking from Carpenter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:54 PM (xjopy)
https://tinyurl.com/3u9y9csf
Miles Davis has come back as office building door.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 03:54 PM (ndZc7)
The prior generations of aunts, uncles, and our parents have all passed on but when alive, one woman was considered the family witch, a wise woman, in keeping with tradition. (Not at all like witches of Europe or America.). I guess the concept came from the Druids.
Interesting given they spent so much time in church tied to catholism, with one Aunt becoming a nun. Tradition!!
Thanks for the fascinating Halloween history, Ace.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 30, 2026 03:55 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 03:55 PM (dhhKu)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
Then? No. Now? ......
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 03:55 PM (1Ff7Z)
Vampires is a decent Vampire movie by Carpenter. Stars James Woods .
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:55 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:51 PM (Ti9vn)
Lovecraft's book/story is At the Mountains of Madness set in Antarctica. I like how he finds horror everywhere...central Australia, Vermont, Boston Suburbs...ok I'll give him Boston.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:55 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)
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One could argue that several things in the "Patriarch era" of the Bible are "pagany".
Abram did not invent his own covenant tradition. Jacob was not told to prevent Rachel from stealing "house gods".
The traditions by which Onan owed Tamar an heir and even the double portion rule seem to come from the Levant culture itself. Not to mention the way that Judah owed Tamar an heir, either through his last son or himself.
In fact, were Abraham really the "Father of Nations" there might not be much that is specific to the Jacob strain's tradition of Abraham, not to mention a pre-Mosaic "oral tradition" which who knows how much of what the Spirit would disclose to him he already knew when writing the Pentateuch.
So there are cross strains between the Bible and levant culture.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:56 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 03:56 PM (+gK6I)
The definition of Easter (the "computus of Easter", computus paschalis) is basically this. The date of Easter will the the first Sunday *after* the first full Moon occurring *on or after* the vernal equinox.
That will get you there most of the time. Now, the equinox is the ecclesiastical equinox, defined as Mar. 21 exactly, not the actually astronomical event, and the full Moon is not the astronomical event either, but based on a lunar calendar.
During the Gregorian reform, it's well-know they "fixed" the solar calendar relative to the equinoxes, but they also fixed the lunar calendar to be more accurate as well.
The Orthodox didn't, and still use the Julian calendar, and the older lunar calendar, which has drifted about 5 days on average from the actual full Moon dates. And that is the big difference between West and East on the date of Easter.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 03:56 PM (w6EFb)
glad some liked!
I thought the jack o lantern origin was neat. Never heard that before.
Really makes me think Halloween III is real.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 03:57 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 03:57 PM (mkw2N)
Lovecraft's book/story is At the Mountains of Madness set in Antarctica. I like how he finds horror everywhere...central Australia, Vermont, Boston Suburbs...ok I'll give him Boston.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:55 PM (uhVAy)
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There's a CG test of Guillermo del Toro's unmade adaptation of the film out in the wilds of Youtube. He was lining up nine figures to make it, but funding fell through (not a shock).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBA6TThb1yI
Still, I want the movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:57 PM (xjopy)
Halloween is for Diabetus.
Posted by: Wilford Brimley at October 30, 2026 03:58 PM (OkYzo)
Interesting given they spent so much time in church tied to catholism, with one Aunt becoming a nun. Tradition!!
Thanks for the fascinating Halloween history, Ace.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 30, 2026 03:55 PM (NFX2v)
Druids were all men. Medicine from old women just evolves from child and family care and thus the elderly would have the most experience. Males in medicine are more tied to battlefield and injury treatment.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:58 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 03:58 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 03:58 PM (dhhKu)
RMBS is this you?????
Posted by: lin-duh at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (VCgbV)
LMMFAO!
Well played.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:59 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 03:56 PM (w6EFb)
Irish churches and English ones split for a while about Easter dates IIRC.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:59 PM (uhVAy)
It's fun to cozy up in that room and watch a scary movie. Or some really good college football is welcome, too.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 30, 2026 04:00 PM (ZgwKJ)
I remember actually getting homemade popcorn balls and Carmel Apples while trick or treating in the neighborhood as a kid.
Now if you saw homemade food given out, it's directly to the trash.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 30, 2026 04:00 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:00 PM (xjopy)
yum.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 04:01 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sPumpkin at October 30, 2026 04:01 PM (k5CNB)
Even when the full Moon occurs late enough to be on or after Mar. 21 in both the Julian and Gregorian, you'll still notice the Eastern Easter occurs about a week later usually. And that's the difference between the lunar calendar. The Orthodox lunar calendar will have the full Moon date about 5 days later.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 04:02 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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Really scary to kids ringing the doorbell for candy when you show up to give it to them.
Posted by: whig
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But if their Moms are with them you might get lucky.
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 04:02 PM (UjdFS)
well we had it tough. Every door we knocked on, the owner would kidnap us and keep us in his cellar for five years with nought to eat but the rats.
Posted by: Yorkshireman Ace at October 30, 2026 04:02 PM (1wjle)
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In Bali, spirits have to travel in straight lines, so if you put a slab out in front of the temple entry way, they can't get around it.
Straight lines.
It's kind of the theme that we resisted a kind of metaphysical hopelessness by a sort of frivolous hopium in our beliefs about the pagan spirits of old.
In a way, there was no other way to dispel the spirits pre-Christians used to believe in, but they minimized them and they only became semi-powerless tricksters.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 04:02 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 04:03 PM (8Uo7a)
well we had it tough. Every door we knocked on, the owner would kidnap us and keep us in his cellar for five years with nought to eat but the rats.
Posted by: Yorkshireman Ace at October 30, 2026 04:02 PM (1wjle)
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These younguns today are just soft.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:03 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:51 PM (Ti9vn)
Lovecraft's book/story is At the Mountains of Madness set in Antarctica. I like how he finds horror everywhere...central Australia, Vermont, Boston Suburbs...ok I'll give him Boston.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:55 PM (uhVAy
The movie was not based on a Lovecraft story but it was more of a homage. It was an original screenplay from my understanding that a book was released after the movie by Sutter.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 04:04 PM (Ti9vn)
I knew it was pagan connected, then All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day to cleanse.
No idea about the bobbing apples in flames, etc. Or the walking backwards with a mirror to see your future spouse. Learned a lot!
As a young girl I never worried about my future spouse as I knew he was out there somewhere.
I'd worry about the kids in straw outfits around the bonfires, but they are all dead now or ghosts.
My grandkids are a basketball player, a princess mermaid, and a toddling flamingo girlie. We don't do scary creepy stuff in our family.
Ever since I saw The Omen I've never been the same. The Shining endeth my King novels as I screamed washing my face when I didn't see my new husband walk into the loo.
Despise anything demonic and don't go there.
Creepy movies for me include Nichole Kidman's face, altho I tolerate her in Lioness.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 04:04 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 03:53 PM (xjopy)
There's always been lots of poison in there aside from a few places. Possibly the growth of personal Discord forums is reducing Reddit use.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 04:04 PM (uhVAy)
oh I forgot All Soul's Day.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:04 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 04:05 PM (Ti9vn)
Since we're talking about horror movies, which one is it with this scene: something like the entrance to a long, scary brick hallway maybe lined with prison-like cells, there's a young, terrified girl on the other side of something like a gurney or table from a guy with a weird, still smile -- he looks sort of like Jesus. The music is getting louder and louder as the girl realizes what's going on/who he is, and he's staring into her eyes with this smile, and she's looking at him horrified. She's on the side of the table that leads down the hallway.
Which one is that? It's one of the famous ones.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 04:05 PM (mmrXZ)
the Omen was pretty good. I should watch that again.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:05 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 04:06 PM (A55d8)
I also appreciated the Halloween parades at the school and taking our son along to the local town for Halloween. Once he was dressed as an Imperial Storm Trooper and another time as a policeman . I think Halloween Trick or Treating has gone out of fashion.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:06 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: ace
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It's a terrible horror movie that I somehow enjoyed because it's such a crazy premise.
That jingle will be in my brain forever.
https://tinyurl.com/cdtcnkaz
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 04:06 PM (BvOE+)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 04:04 PM (hzuYO)
My brother did a full body paper mache T Rex costume one year.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 04:06 PM (uhVAy)
the Omen was pretty good. I should watch that again.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:05 PM (1wjle)
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The remake from 2006 is surprisingly...okay. Best Omen movie since the original.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:07 PM (xjopy)
I can't totally reject that idea, even though it does not make the case "it's all made up" irresistible, even if there's a lot of man-centered imagination involved.
A trinket keeps the devil in Jack's pocket, nothing about the Will of God and God's purpose in Jack's life. Just the trappings. And the same thing with the sort of "magic" of carving a cross into a tree. The shape, not the concurrence with God's will.
We can sort of steal power from God as a sort of "religious symbol magic", because the tale tells us the Lord is not to happy with Jack at the end.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 04:07 PM (Fi81e)
That jingle will be in my brain forever.
I like it. It gets a bit slow during the investigation phase, sure, and you can see the lack of budget, but I like the weird robots and Stacy Nelkin's boobies are outstanding.
And the payoff to the premise is truly horrific.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:07 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Ben Had
I remember tipping off other trick or treaters as to what houses were giving full sized candy bars.
Those were the days when we went out without adult accompaniment. No all kids have mom or dad with them.
Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2026 04:07 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/)
Also a good treatment for eclipses of the sun or moon.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:51 PM (uhVAy)
Also a good way to protest governmental austerity measures too.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 04:08 PM (rbvCR)
Good always overcomes evil. Always.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 04:08 PM (A55d8)
i heard that was good, and I heard that even the prequel was good. "The First Omen" or something. About the nun the devil impregnated to create his evil bastard.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:08 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:06 PM (JrHfD)
The trunk or treats have put a kybosh on most of it. Can't tell for sure, just notice we have fewer and fewer each year, but there aren't that many smaller kids in the neighborhood. Might not give out candy next year. Kid will be fifteen. Sounds like a year to give it up.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 04:08 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Yorkshireman
You had rats?
luxury!
We had to gnaw on our arms.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 04:08 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 04:08 PM (MWfyi)
Appreciate you!
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 04:08 PM (0vz7x)
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:09 PM (1wjle)
I also appreciated the Halloween parades at the school and taking our son along to the local town for Halloween. Once he was dressed as an Imperial Storm Trooper and another time as a policeman . I think Halloween Trick or Treating has gone out of fashion.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:06 PM (JrHfD)
One year a newlywed couple made caramel apples and nobody took them and she was so sad. When we got back from round 1 the six of us kids went over in a body and ate all her apples, razor blades or no razor blades.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 04:09 PM (uhVAy)
I saw some headline that its traffic had nosedived because people who would use it for researching things like technical/software questions are just using chatbots instead. Since, you know, chatbots were trained on Reddit and know everything written on Reddit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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For sure a few of the info forums are dead or dying. It's funny though, I always think of reddit as a place to vent the sort of idiocy our moron Interceptor finds. Just a place for nonexpert chatter about movies, politics, games, etc.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 04:09 PM (mmrXZ)
i heard that was good, and I heard that even the prequel was good. "The First Omen" or something. About the nun the devil impregnated to create his evil bastard.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:08 PM (1wjle)
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Jay at RedLetterMedia gushed over it, but Jay from RedLetterMedia is a sick pervert.
Might as well watch something classy like Ken Russell's The Devils instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:09 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Discord is making all its chats other than those started as private as internet discoverable. Same as Reddit did shortly before it sold the data outright to AI companies.
Act accordingly if you need to scrub your Discord files.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 04:09 PM (E4rtv)
October 31 is also the day when Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses in Wittenberg.
So Halloween also is the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation
Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 04:10 PM (a6PrB)
Milutin Milankovitch, of Milankovitch Cycle fame and the Revised Julian calendar, attended some Eastern Synod back in the early 1920s as a astronomical delegate, and they came up with a proposal to reconcile the date of Easter across of all of Christendom.
Basically, it was to define it precisely based on the astronomical events, and use the local mean time of a meridian passing through Jerusalem for the actual calendar date and time reference to determine the first Sunday after those events.
They sort of agreed to "think about it", and have been thinking about for a little over 100 years.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 04:10 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: lin-duh at October 30, 2026 04:10 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: scampydog
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I'd call it spooky, especially the ending. And those veiled women.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 30, 2026 04:10 PM (JzUSu)
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:09 PM (1wjle)
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I bought the big Arrow set of the whole series because I wanted the Blu-ray of just the first one, the remastered version only appearing in that box set.
I sold all the others individual except that first one and the remake. The only two worth ever thinking about again.
Not even Sam Neill can make the third one watchable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:11 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Axeman
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Pretty clear that the Bible warns against dabbling with the occult (and that includes the Torah, aka Old Testament, for those that are Jewish).
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 04:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 04:12 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 04:12 PM (I+a8W)
And better than the original, which I remember being dumb and trashy.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:12 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 04:12 PM (A55d8)
Posted by: Bulg
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its disheartening, to say the least.
I wish I didnt care about it.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 04:12 PM (BvOE+)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 30, 2026 04:12 PM (bX16E)
Here in Oregon there is a lot of "Trunk or treat" gatherings in parking lots where you go to cars and get candy. Seems rather odd to me.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 30, 2026 04:13 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 04:13 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Bulg
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Yeah, I can't wait for the "elections" to be over.
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 04:13 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 04:04 PM (Ti9vn)
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Exactly. Overall, it was a sort of Lovecraft cosmic horror, but strong Stephen King elements.
At the Mountains of Madness is still something I would like to see a faithful adaptation of.
Also, a legitimate artful expansion of Robert Chambers King in Yellow series.
But I've seen some of the expansions on KiY, and I'm not a fan--including James Blish's novella More Light. Probably one of the deftist handlings, but a lot of KiY "dogma" comes out of the way that Blish put the fragments into play.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 04:13 PM (Fi81e)
luxury!
We had to gnaw on our arms.
well when I say "rats" I mean "other children dressed as rats," of course. We would all dread the day we would be dressed as rats, which was every Friday.
Posted by: Yorkshireman Ace at October 30, 2026 04:13 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 04:13 PM (I+a8W)
I watched the new practical magic 2, and the most terrifying thing was seeing what they have done to their faces. Stockard Channing also.
(they should have let Sandra bullock keep her hubby alive and get Lee Pace for her sister, but then we can't have wimmens power I guess if we give them BOTH happy love stories. And the daughter stuff was just macguffin dumbness.)
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 04:14 PM (0vz7x)
happy to oblige. I was trying to think of posts I could write yesterday that would hold up for 24 hours and was like, Duh, Halloween.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:14 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:11 PM (xjopy)
Well, given he's mort, he won't be doing any living remakes either.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 04:14 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Bulg
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Yeah, I can't wait for the "elections" to be over.
Posted by: wth
Um. Y’all do know you can go for a walk, right? Bake a cake? Read a book? Go to the pound and visit the critters?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 04:15 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 30, 2026 04:10 PM (w6EFb)
Well that's religion for you. The last "Believe it or Get out" rule was posted in 1865 or so after 1800 or so years of thinking about it...and that's just one religion.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 04:15 PM (uhVAy)
Megan Rapinoe says men can play women's sports because sports aren't fair in the first place
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 04:15 PM (ndZc7)
(they should have let Sandra bullock keep her hubby alive and get Lee Pace for her sister, but then we can't have wimmens power I guess if we give them BOTH happy love stories. And the daughter stuff was just macguffin dumbness.)
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 04:14 PM (0vz7x)
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Less terrifying Nicole Kidman is when she's trying to kill and stuff Paddington Brown in the first Paddington movie.
The Paddington movies are awesome, and I will make everyone love them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:15 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 04:15 PM (W2Pud)
Those poodle dogs are too leftist for me.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 04:16 PM (uhVAy)
A movie that would scare me as a kid was "Watcher in the Woods" with Bette Davis. It was a Disney movie, but really dark.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 30, 2026 04:16 PM (OkYzo)
Yeah, I can't wait for the "elections" to be over.
Posted by: wth
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I'm already looking forward to Democrat riot season beginning just in time for the holidays.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 04:16 PM (E4rtv)
I told my older kid. This is why assimilation matters. You have two community holidays each year that celebrate being American - Halloween, which celebrates coming together for the kids and giving to each other in the neighborhood and Thanksgiving, which celebrates coming together for family and friends and offering thanks.
If you don't assimilate and participate, you yourself contribute to the breakdown of societal bonds of goodwill and neighborliness...which is how communication and service are fostered.
But, now I step off my soap box as I have my full size bars at the ready (thank you Amazon for 50 cents/item), and my jack o lanterns newly carved by my kids today on my porch...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 04:16 PM (Gb7+b)
Posted by: M. Night Shyamalan at October 30, 2026 04:16 PM (wVcYX)
every title like that, with a vague noun and place combo, like "The Lurker on the Threshold," gets my attention.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: M. Night Shyamalan at October 30, 2026 04:16 PM (wVcYX)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Shirley Jackson at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (skR0U)
Megan Rapinoe says men can play women's sports because sports aren't fair in the first place
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 04:15 PM (ndZc7)
I remember playing coed softball for PE in Jr. High...it was all fun and games until a guy hit the ball hard, and it slammed into the head of the girl who pitched it, knocking her down and out...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 04:15 PM (W2Pud)
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Sittin' on my porch in the rocker works for me.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (6ZFFR)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (A55d8)
A movie that would scare me as a kid was "Watcher in the Woods" with Bette Davis. It was a Disney movie, but really dark.
Posted by: Frank Barone
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Disney's take on Something Wicked this Way Comes is also unexpected light horror.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (E4rtv)
I may be wrong.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (1wjle)
And even though Repairer of Reputations is Chamber's largest story in the motif, and most quotes from the "play" come from here, it's a quaint--and funny--story that really wouldn't pay off on the horror of Yellow Sign.
And if they could figure out how to work in the tragic elements of The Mask, that's where I think the main body of the adaptation should be.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (Fi81e)
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Never take the brown acid.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: M. Night Shyamalan at October 30, 2026 04:16 PM (wVcYX)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Shirley Jackson at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (skR0U)
I always chuckled after that movie came out, when a commercial for the senior community "The Villages" would show up on the TV...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Yes. Or we can suspicously loiter at a liquor store. Or start a bar fight. Really, the options for fun don't need to be limited to clean living.
Posted by: scampydog at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (2bFN5)
I was disappointed that it didn't scare the shit out of him, to be honest. He seemed tense, but he handled it well.
Now, if he could just keep up with his schoolwork...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 04:15 PM (ndZc7)
Don't you love how to these lib shits *supposedly* equity and fairness are the most important things? But then put it to something in the real world and they're like fuck your fairness.
You don't think they're bullshitting about all this equity stuff do you???
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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How much did you get from the studio to shill those?
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: M. Night Shyamalan at October 30, 2026 04:16 PM (wVcYX)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Shirley Jackson at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (skR0U)
Sigh.
Posted by: Number 6 at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (1Ff7Z)
Megan Rapinoe says men can play women's sports because she's retired now.
FIFY.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (aD4fx)
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Geez, Marty. God himself had only ten.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 04:19 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 30, 2026 04:16 PM (OkYzo)
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Yep. I love that movie. Disney made some very dark movies back in the day. "Watcher in the Woods" is a very short movie, barely an hour long.
"Something Wicked This Way Comes" is another great Disney horror flick.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 04:19 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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How much did you get from the studio to shill those?
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (E4rtv)
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Nothing.
I do it for the love of the game.
Armando Ianucci is writing the fourth, and I'm so game.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:19 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 04:19 PM (f8snw)
Fortunately I have a good thermal scope.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 04:20 PM (A55d8)
Politics is poison that will steal your soul.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Both are power plays, but being shot is more honest than politics because there is no gray areas for combatants to lurk.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 04:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:11 PM (xjopy)
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Different opinion. It might just be the age at which I saw it, but Neil's "real evil" monologue is what makes it my favorite.
I haven't seen it since.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)
I was disappointed that it didn't scare the shit out of him, to be honest. He seemed tense, but he handled it well.
Now, if he could just keep up with his schoolwork...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (xjopy)
If he has a problem with math, send him to a Catholic school.
Joke punchline: "I knew they were serious when I saw the statue of a guy nailed to a plus sign."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 04:20 PM (l3cgK)
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Da fuq?
Posted by: Independence Day at October 30, 2026 04:20 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 30, 2026 04:20 PM (skR0U)
M/C Bikers in Crusader costumes
Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 04:21 PM (a3CJ+)
I haven't seen it since.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)
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He is genuinely good in the film.
Literally everything else around him is dogshit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:21 PM (xjopy)
every title like that, with a vague noun and place combo, like "The Lurker on the Threshold," gets my attention.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (1wjle)
glub glub..glub glub...
my favorite anecdote was the time when HP and a young fan took turns having each other murdered by unspeakable horrors in stories.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 04:21 PM (uhVAy)
Oh wait, nothing to cancel since it's been commandeered by the left a long time ago...
https://tinyurl.com/mrxydbj4
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 30, 2026 04:22 PM (6ZFFR)
I was disappointed that it didn't scare the shit out of him, to be honest. He seemed tense, but he handled it well.
Now, if he could just keep up with his schoolwork...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (xjopy)
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I saw it with my dad when it came out in a dingy theater on the east side filled with pot smoke. I was already freaked out before the movie started.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 04:22 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Case at October 30, 2026 04:23 PM (fzmBj)
I was disappointed that it didn't scare the shit out of him, to be honest. He seemed tense, but he handled it well.
Now, if he could just keep up with his schoolwork...
Saw it in the theatres when it came out with a group of HS dudes. I was like that, tense, but another dude had to leave the theater and not come back.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 04:23 PM (uhVAy)
I do it for the love of the game.
Armando Ianucci is writing the fourth, and I'm so game.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Just pulling your leg but I rarely watch much anymore compared to reading. AI slop has even made me not wanting to watch many historical documentaries to unwind in the evenings on occasion anymore on YT.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 04:23 PM (E4rtv)
You don't think they're bullshitting about all this equity stuff do you???
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 04:18 PM (I+a8W)
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They like sounding high-minded. And they put themselves over you by their rhetoric.
But when it comes time to pay any opportunity cost, they're Humpty Dumpty: a word means exactly what they mean it to say, no more, no less.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 04:23 PM (Fi81e)
>>>
Da fuq?
Posted by: Independence Day at October 30, 2026 04:20 PM (wVcYX)
You aren't asked to do anything for that holiday. People do stuff for you (like governments paying for fireworks shows).
The fall holidays require you to do something for them. Governments aren't handing middle class kids candy or middle class folks turkeys...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 04:25 PM (Gb7+b)
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:27 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:27 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: nurse ratched
I do those things, too. (Well, not cake-baking.) But I like to spend time here with you all, so I appreciate it when I can do so with something to talk about other than politics.
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 04:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I've been watching Rooster on Netflix. Steve Carell plays a very successful, though not terribly respected, thriller author who returns to his Alma Mater where his daughter is now an instructor because her marriage is in trouble. The college dean, played by John C. McGinley, is a crazy health nut obsessed by eliminating "brown fat", which, apparently, is worse than "white fat". Anyway, a deadpan comedy about crazy ass people I'm enjoying.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 30, 2026 04:30 PM (ndZc7)
the Omen was pretty good. I should watch that again.
Posted by: Ace at October 30, 2026 04:05 PM (1wjle)
*******
Nay for me. NOPE! Never again! I don't watch or read about serial killers, either, with good reason as one was lurking around when I was in college.That scared me for a lifetime.
A nursing school classmate took me to see The Omen. I don't remember what demonic scene, but I had my fist in my mouth to not scream. Until then I didn't know my fist would fit in my mouth (ok, Morons, I know what you are thinking so shut up as I get ahead of it).
For that matter, the yearly Wizard of Oz was horrific for me as well. Yet I endured it. The flying monkeys got me. And I clearly remember scooting back on the floor to sit on my mother's feet when the Wicked Witch arrived. NOPE
I have pure thoughts in my bubble when not snarking or being sarcastic. I have no room for demons.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 04:38 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 05:15 PM (odBC9)
The rest of the secular side of Halloween evolved in the last 500 years or so. No ancient pagan connection.
Posted by: Patti at October 30, 2026 05:27 PM (cyAnJ)
Candidate of Germany's Far-Left Party "Die Linke" Confesses that Islamists Control Her Party and That She Fears They Will Kill Her
Der Spiegel is a leftwing outlet in Germany.
Here's an example of how hard they'll lie on behalf of the Red-Green Alliance.DER SPIEGELUh huh. So it takes an awful lot for them to report that the the far left's candidate for the mayor of Berlin admits that her party is controlled by Muslim extremists and that she feels her family is "in danger" due to them. She's a candidate for "Die Linke," which just means "the Left."
@derspiegel Oct 18 Translated from German
Right-wing ideologues claim a connection between the riot over the weekend and the ancestry of many of the troublemakers. That is a racist lie that conceals French failure. Link in X-Bio.
The left's response to this is their usual response: They demand censorship of her admission of Islamist control over her party and fearing for the safety of her family,
Karina Mariani
@KarinaLMariani Translated from Spanish
🇩🇪🚨MEGA-SCANDAL: The winner of the BERLIN elections, from the far-left party Die Linke, accidentally confesses that Hamas controls her party and fears for her life💣 A mistake has just triggered an astonishing security crisis. The magazine Der Spiegel--a media outlet, it must be noted, with a marked leftist slant--has brought to light an internal document proving how Die Linke has been hijacked by Islamism. Its candidate to govern Berlin, Elif Eralp, accidentally sent the newsroom her private notes from an interview where she confesses to being coerced and terrified by Hamas operatives within her own party. It turns out that after an interview, the candidate's team reviewed the transcript. During this process, Eralp made internal comments that were meant to remain in the strictest confidentiality. However, the document with the un-erased annotations was sent back to the journalists. The content of those notes is dynamite. When Der Spiegel asked her about Ibrahim Ibrahim--a pro-Palestinian Hamas sympathizer who celebrated the October 7 massacre--the public response was going to be evasive. But in the margin of the leaked document, Eralp wrote the truth: "There is a PROBLEM. [...] my husband no, and neither do I, want to name specific names, he is afraid of these people and so am I." The leak exposes the raw reality of Islamo-leftism in Germany: Eralp even went so far as to compare the threat level of these pro-Palestinian militants to that of Organized Crime and implores to abort the publication: "I can't put myself and my family in danger for Der SPIEGEL. What do we do now? Do we scrap the whole interview?" The biggest joke of the entire situation, however, was captured in one of the phrases that Eralp did want to publish. In a display of utter disconnection, the candidate states in the interview: "What I can say with total clarity is that, as governing mayor, I will ensure the safety of all Berlin women and all Berlin men." A promise that rings utterly ridiculous coming from a leader who, in the same document, secretly admits that she can't even protect her own family from the rank-and-file of her party.
So is this real? Well, Google's leftwing propaganda AI says it is:
In the wake of the scandal, Eralp has announced that she will take legal action against Der Spiegel and file a formal complaint with the Press Council for having quoted her internal annotations. This judicial maneuver immediately reveals just how sensitive and utterly overwhelmed these leadership cadres really are when faced with crisis situations. Berlin's radical left believed it could politically capitalize on Islamic extremism; today, the documents prove that it's the extremism holding them hostage.
By the way: The lesson that Der Spiegel takes from this is that the problem is with this candidate, not the Islamists controlling the left:
The "Der Spiegel" and Die Linke Controversy (October 2026) * The Incident: In late October 2026, Der Spiegel published a report following an interview with Elif Eralp, the leader of Die Linke in Berlin who won the September 2026 Abgeordnetenhaus election. * The Leak: When Eralp's office sent back the authorized interview draft, internal notes and remarks were accidentally left in the document. * The Content: The leaked notes showed Eralp requesting to strike a question regarding Ibrahim Ibrahim, a pro-Palestinian activist who praised the October 7 Hamas attack. In her private comments, Eralp wrote that she and her husband were afraid of backlash and could not put their family in danger, stating: "I can't put myself and my family in danger for Der Spiegel" and "I should never have agreed to this interview". * The Party's Reaction: Die Linke leadership accused Der Spiegel of publishing private notes that endanger the safety of Eralp and her family. The party announced plans to file a complaint with the Deutscher Presserat (German Press Council) and considered legal action. * Political Impact: The leak has created friction during ongoing coalition negotiations in Berlin between Die Linke, the Greens, and the SPD, while drawing scrutiny over how the party handles antisemitism and radical associations within its ranks.
DER SPIEGEL
@derspiegel Translated from German Elif Eralp wants to become the governing mayor of Berlin. But in an internal memo, the Left Party politician reveals that she fears terror sympathizers with contacts to Hamas. Can such a person be responsible for security in the capital...
I mean, yes, if she's terrified pro-Hamas Islamists will kill her family she obviously will not crack down on these violent invaders, but aren't you missing the real problem here...?
🇩🇪🚨MEGA-ESCÁNDALO: La ganadora de las elecciones de BERLÍN, del partido de ultraizquierda Die Linke confiesa por error que Hamás controla su partido y teme por su vida💣
Un error acaba de generar una crisis de seguridad impresionante. La revista Der Spiegel —un medio, cabe destacar, de marcada tendencia izquierdista— ha sacado a la luz un documento interno que prueba cómo Die Linke ha sido secuestrado por el islamismo. Su candidata a gobernar Berlín, Elif Eralp, envió por accidente a la redacción las notas privadas de una entrevista donde confiesa estar coaccionada y aterrorizada por Hamás que opera dentro de su propio partido. Resulta que luego de una entrevista, el equipo de la candidata revisó la transcripción. Durante este proceso, Eralp hizo comentarios internos que debían quedar en la más estricta confidencialidad. Sin embargo, el documento con las acotaciones sin borrar fue devuelto a los periodistas. El contenido de esas notas es dinamita. Cuando Der Spiegel le preguntó por Ibrahim Ibrahim —un propalestino simpatizante de Hamás que celebró la masacre del 7 de octubre—, la respuesta pública iba a ser esquiva. Pero en el margen del documento filtrado, Eralp escribió la verdad: «Hay un PROBLEMA. [...] mi marido no, y yo tampoco, quiero nombrar nombres concretos, él tiene miedo de esta gente y yo también». La filtración expone la cruda realidad del islamoizquierdismo en Alemania: Eralp llegó a comparar el nivel de amenaza de estos militantes pro-Palestina con el del Crimen Organizado e implora abortar la publicación: «No puedo poner en peligro a mí misma y a mi familia por Der SPIEGEL. ¿Qué hacemos ahora? ¿Anulamos toda la entrevista?». El mayor chiste de toda esta situación, sin embargo, quedó plasmado en una de las frases que Eralp sí quería publicar. En un alarde de desconexión absoluta, la candidata afirma en la entrevista: «Lo que sí puedo decir con total claridad es que, como alcaldesa gobernante, velaré por la seguridad de todas las berlinesas y todos los berlineses». Una promesa que resulta irrisoria viniendo de una dirigente que, en el mismo documento, reconoce en secreto que ni siquiera puede proteger a su propia familia de las bases de su partido. Luego del escándalo, Eralp ha anunciado que procederá legalmente contra Der Spiegel y presentará una queja formal ante el Consejo de Prensa por haber citado sus anotaciones internas. Esta maniobra judicial evidencia de inmediato lo susceptibles y completamente desbordados que están en realidad estos cuadros dirigentes frente a situaciones de crisis. La izquierda radical berlinesa creyó que podía capitalizar electoralmente el extremismo islámico; hoy, los documentos demuestran que es el extremismo quien los tiene de rehenes.— Karina Mariani (@KarinaLMariani) October 29, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 02:11 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 02:11 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:11 PM (HD2n/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 02:11 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: four seasons at October 30, 2026 02:12 PM (/QHx4)
See: Michigan.
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:13 PM (HD2n/)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:13 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 02:13 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:13 PM (ccf/V)
This is a story as old as time...
or, at least as old as the fictitious religion known as islam.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 02:14 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 02:14 PM (W2Pud)
But she will let herself be raped to death by muslims before she'd ever support any conservative candidate or party.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 02:14 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:14 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:14 PM (HD2n/)
Posted by: mr tmz at October 30, 2026 02:14 PM (rJ48h)
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That coalition got a little more Green than Red....
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:15 PM (Fi81e)
Politician sues media for being quoted accurately.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 02:15 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 02:15 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:15 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 02:15 PM (7LLii)
Who else is going to run down all those annoying Christmas Market Shoppers?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 02:16 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 02:16 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:16 PM (Fi81e)
This is dog bites man.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 02:16 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 02:16 PM (7LLii)
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at October 30, 2026 02:16 PM (POlRB)
She's a commie. Nothing they do is not a lie or ploy or scam of one kind or another.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 02:17 PM (EYPNI)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 02:14 PM (W2Pud)
Yes, those damnable leftists Germans.
Oh, you meant the Muzzies...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:17 PM (l3cgK)
Hopefully next week won't turn into a shitshow.
If you live in a big city or are adjacent, stock up with water and some food.
Ammo should be fully stocked.
Posted by: four seasons at October 30, 2026 02:17 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 02:17 PM (UjdFS)
So its got that going for it.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 02:17 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 30, 2026 02:17 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:18 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:18 PM (Ti9vn)
But..they'll kill us last!
Posted by: Leftists who lay down with Jihadis at October 30, 2026 02:18 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 02:16 PM (1wjle)
'Make like a tree and get outta here.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:18 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 02:19 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:19 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 30, 2026 02:20 PM (0U5gm)
No more bullshitting around. No more waiting for the other shoe to drop. Let's get right down to the nub of the matter.
I want to see leftists killed and raped by their Muslim "comrades." There. I said it. Because that it the only way for the leftists to wake the fuck up and become unbrainwashed.
It's a harsh form of Cult Deprogramming, but in this case probably the only effective way.
And luckily, we don't have to "make it happen," because it will happen eventually in the fullness of time.
More, faster, please.
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:20 PM (HD2n/)
From German to Spanish to English...
At least it isn't from English to Japanese back to English...
https://youtu.be/MrlvVhL35Ws
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:20 PM (l3cgK)
lol
you lie like a tree
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 02:19 PM (1wjle)
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Phew!
Posted by: The Rug at October 30, 2026 02:20 PM (Fi81e)
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Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD
@TonerousHyus
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If WaPo actually did robodial 135k people to get 300 "Republicans" you may just need to torch the whole industry and ban it as campaign finance violations.
Quote within
"It's worse than that, the article states clearly they made (at least) 135,000 contact attempts, the ENTIRE Active voter pool in KS is 1,700,000. In other words to get a valid sample (ish) they had to send invitations to 10% of the entire pool."
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 30, 2026 02:20 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:21 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 02:21 PM (7LLii)
I wonder what other demands "Ibrahim Ibrahim" had in store for her once she became mayor.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 02:21 PM (mmrXZ)
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Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD
@TonerousHyus
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If WaPo actually did robodial 135k people to get 300 "Republicans" you may just need to torch the whole industry and ban it as campaign finance violations.
Quote within
"It's worse than that, the article states clearly they made (at least) 135,000 contact attempts, the ENTIRE Active voter pool in KS is 1,700,000. In other words to get a valid sample (ish) they had to send invitations to 10% of the entire pool."
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:20 PM (E4rtv)
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But their sample of independents is just the middle of the road voter, doesn't share any of the same issues with the GOP sample, and can't possibly be infested with Democrats saying they're independent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:22 PM (xjopy)
They brag about huge numbers of new Muslims every year but they come to that number by calling every baby born a Muslim. In all likelihood they are just not going to be a major threat because young Muslims who move to Europe or born there are more European than Muslim.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:22 PM (TMNW7)
Is there something going on that I'm not getting? Between this and the NYT actually reporting on Ilhan Bro-fo, Sullivan in AK, and some other thing that has slipped my mind at the moment, are we being set up for something?
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 02:22 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 30, 2026 02:22 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: SciVo at October 30, 2026 02:22 PM (ke3zm)
Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD
@TonerousHyus
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I think people who have a statistical background think Pollsters have this like way behind the scenes to work through data and then when they show you what it looks like it's like
R response rates: 0.02%
Indy response rates: 11.1%
Dem response rates: 19.2%
We got our Indies!
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:23 PM (E4rtv)
Will she survive?
Will the right side party take advantage of the information?
Stay tuned.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 02:23 PM (nqf1u)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 02:23 PM (r2Icn)
You probably shouldn't have flushed billions of taxpayer dollars bringing them in, dipshit.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (jb8Ss)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Your spiel reminds me of "These are not the droids you are looking for"
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (E4rtv)
There's no such thing as a 'palestinian.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:21 PM (ccf/V)
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I just saw a video "debunking" that idea.
Spoilers: people lived in British Palestine.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (Fi81e)
( yes, I know X's translations can't be easily CnPed )
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (nEUC6)
R response rates: 0.02%
Indy response rates: 11.1%
Dem response rates: 19.2%
We got our Indies!
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:23 PM (E4rtv)
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We have to trust polls, whig.
Harvard-Harris kind of got it right a couple of years ago, which means we have to trust Marist because they're all the same.
And, besides, there's every indication that pollsters have fixed all their issues. Just look at the MI Senate Democrat primary polling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (xjopy)
My heart bleeds, almost as much as their victims did over the last +70 years.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (rbvCR)
lol
you lie like a tree
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 02:19 PM (1wjle)
It's time to go. Lettuce salad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (ccf/V)
lol
you lie like a tree
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 02:19 PM (1wjle)
It's time to go. Lettuce salad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (ccf/V)
Like wine on rice.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:25 PM (Ti9vn)
( yes, I know X's translations can't be easily CnPed )
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (nEUC6)
I remember watching news from Mexico in Spanish, where Bush II was asked a questions and said, "Why don't you ask the Press"...they translated it as "Why don't you ask the Pres(ident)"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:25 PM (l3cgK)
Spoilers: people lived in British Palestine.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (Fi81e)
It wasn't around long enough to be able to declare it a 'race of people' as one would, say, Jews or Arabs identifiable by DNA markers.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:25 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (ccf/V)
Like wine on rice.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:25 PM (Ti9vn)
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For all intensive purposes, we often take this for granite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:26 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 02:26 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:26 PM (uhVAy)
Goody, Bessent is up in Minnesota. Next up: Kash.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 02:26 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:26 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Oddbob
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The big cheat. ... .. SURPRISE! we win!!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 02:26 PM (nqf1u)
lol
you lie like a tree
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 02:19 PM (1wjle)
It's time to go. Lettuce salad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (ccf/V)
Like wine on rice.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:25 PM (Ti9vn)
Can I hear a "ramen"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:27 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 02:27 PM (U/Byj)
lol
you lie like a tree
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 02:19 PM (1wjle)
It's time to go. Lettuce salad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:24 PM (ccf/V)
Like wine on rice.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:25 PM (Ti9vn)
Make like a baby and split.
Posted by: King Solomon at October 30, 2026 02:27 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: PaleRider at October 30, 2026 02:27 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:27 PM (ccf/V)
@RepublikaTV 1h
Translated from Polish
URGENT! Tusk's services have entered the Constitutional Tribunal building and put chains on the doors
@michalrachon 1h
Deputy president of 🇵🇱 Polish constitutional court denied entrance to the building by the police force. #TuskCoupDEtat
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2026 02:28 PM (nEUC6)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:22 PM (TMNW7)
Here, I had AI clean it up. Dang, I'm not stalking you today. After this games for a bit.
Scientology claims to be the world's fastest-growing religion, frequently citing its expanding real estate holdings as evidence. The organization reports controlling over 18 million square feet of property worldwide, including elaborate churches and facilities. However, expanding buildings doesn't necessarily mean expanding membership. Independent census figures from Canada, Australia, and Britain show declining Scientology affiliation. Much of the construction is financed through member donations, raising questions about whether Scientology's impressive property expansion reflects genuine religious growth or simply accumulated wealth.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 02:28 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 02:28 PM (r2Icn)
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That coalition got a little more Green than Red....
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:15 PM (Fi81e)
probably had Communists doing the same thing 20 years ago, and Enviro nuts since then.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:29 PM (uhVAy)
Yea, islamists want to enslave or kill you. It's not like they are shy about it.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 02:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 02:29 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 02:28 PM (r2Icn)
East Germany is the only hope. That's where AfD is, the West is all Euro-fasist or Green-Communist.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:30 PM (uhVAy)
Because, to clarify:
Islam is not a race. There are Muslims of every race and ethnicity — white, Asian, black, Middle-Eastern, and everything in between.
Islam is also not a religion. Religions concern spiritual matters, God, the soul, etc. But religion, at least in our Western concept that invented the very notion of "religion," does not concern itself much with worldly politics. When the West encountered Islam, it did klnow how to classify this...thing...so we classified it (mistakenly) as a "religion" because we had no other word to characterize it, and because Islam did at least, in part, concern itslef with God, the afterlife, etc. But this mischaracterization was the all-time classic example of "orientalism" (see: Edward Said), in which we apply Wesdtern concept to glamorized "eastern" things we do not actually understand.
Islam is, in practical reality, an all-encompassing life-doctrine and worldview that includes politics, warfare, personal behavior, economics, social structure, morality, sexuality, the legal structure, and, yes, also spirituality.
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:30 PM (HD2n/)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:30 PM (E4rtv)
Everything from Scientology is a lie, including "the" and "and"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:30 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: mr tmz at October 30, 2026 02:31 PM (rJ48h)
On close review of photos and careful review of filmed footage, I have determined that Janet Napolitano, Obama's DHS Secretary, is actually Andrew Napolitano in drag.
It is the only explanation that encompasses all the facts laid out before me. Daphne and Velma would be so proud of me!
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 02:31 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:31 PM (Ti9vn)
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Well what do ya know! I always wondered what happened to MTV's Martha Quinn!
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 02:31 PM (TN0g+)
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*taps pencil on teeth*
This has happened before...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 02:32 PM (RIvkX)
And hasn't the AK court (yet another august institution, I'm sure) already ruled that the fake Dan Sullivan will stay on the ballot? At this date I don't see how the ballot could be changed, as a practical matter, anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 02:32 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Media bleeds as much ink talking it down as the spend on Trump.
[triple metaphor]
I'll go look for that list of fda approved medical wonders plus trials.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 02:32 PM (nqf1u)
This has happened before...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 02:32 PM (RIvkX)
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Spain? 13th century?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:32 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 02:32 PM (kX27y)
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Don't talk about it !! You are making more islamonazis by talking about islamonazis !
Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 02:32 PM (AKptf)
It's like they never read the foundational religious text of the muslim death cult before letting millions of them into their country.
But, that can't be right! They're so much smarter than..well, everyone!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 02:28 PM (Sco7b)
The cult of the Scientific Shrink was bigger in the 50s to 70s and that's the core of the 'belief'. People go to shrinks now more for medication rather than as a way to fix the world. Scientology since has been scamming money out of the rich to keep its purchasing power up.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: PaleRider
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Patrick Ruffini is noting that Rust Belt and Midwest are just not getting enough GOP respondents for polling so the ones that are are getting to answer pollsters are not necessarily a representative sample.
Pollsters seem to be having better luck in Sunbelt.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (E4rtv)
Islam is also not a religion.
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Exactly.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (9TspW)
They learned nothing from 19 muslim hijackers, most let into the US by John Brennan, flying planes into buildings and killing 3000 people 25 years ago. They idiots in NYC elected one mayor instead.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (viF8m)
But, that can't be right! They're so much smarter than..well, everyone!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (YSUhf)
or read a newspaper.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (uhVAy)
And hasn't the AK court (yet another august institution, I'm sure) already ruled that the fake Dan Sullivan will stay on the ballot? At this date I don't see how the ballot could be changed, as a practical matter, anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 02:32 PM (U/Byj)
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Fake Dan is going to be on the ballot. Early voting has been going on in AK for a while.
However, I have seen it asserted that this is in violation of 18 USC 241.
And the crime was committed in Alaska, not DC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:34 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (YSUhf)
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They were being tolerant, not suspicious. Being suspicious would be racist (against another set of Caucasians).
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:34 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:30 PM (HD2n/)
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Don't forget hygiene ... or lack thereof
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 02:34 PM (iFTx/)
I would say that it contains a religion, but its an overall cultural political system. Its all for everything, like Communism
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:34 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 30, 2026 02:34 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 30, 2026 02:35 PM (CWTWj)
Is there something going on that I'm not getting? Between this and the NYT actually reporting on Ilhan Bro-fo, Sullivan in AK, and some other thing that has slipped my mind at the moment, are we being set up for something?
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 02:22 PM (vTZFs)
Interfactional Lefty conflict is brutal, since they all know exactly what they're capable of, so every move is nuclear to remove the capacity for retaliation. And, Diversity + Proximity = War, so things like that are the expected, natural result of demographic changes in their coalition. It could just be a handful of Jews and homos with bylines that don't want to be killed.
Posted by: SciVo at October 30, 2026 02:35 PM (ke3zm)
Pollsters seem to be having better luck in Sunbelt.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (E4rtv)
No wonder 10 percent of the polling answers are 'Bless Your Heart'
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:35 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:30 PM (TMNW7)
Now, now, that just the Body Thetans talking.
Posted by: David Miscavige at October 30, 2026 02:35 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 02:28 PM (r2Icn)
East Germany is the only hope. That's where AfD is, the West is all Euro-fasist or Green-Communist.
Posted by: Oldcat
Merkel's old man was a bigwig in the E German govt before the wall fell. She's implemented the immigration policies that brought them to this point. See also the green energy zealotry that has been destroying manufacturing.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 02:35 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:30 PM (E4rtv)
That's Jerid Kurtz, a Democratic political operative from Ohio. He used fake names such as Zack - LEO showed one of the Alaskans he talked to a photo of Jerid and positively identified him.
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 02:35 PM (kX27y)
Pollsters seem to be having better luck in Sunbelt.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (E4rtv)
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I like to know that Maine has seen this issue for more than a decade.
2014, Collins won he race by 40 when polls said she'd win by 30. That 10% was the rural white vote.
In 2020, she won by 8 but lost the polling by 8. That 16% swing was...the rural white vote.
Seems like this issue is just getting...worse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:35 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 30, 2026 02:36 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:36 PM (Ti9vn)
See: Michigan.
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:13 PM (HD2n/)
This is not an insane conspiracy theory, this is just a conspiracy theory. Most of the entrenched political power groups in the world today are made up of insane partisan ideologues, and a larger base of people who are mostly with the program but also are terrified of reprisals if they try to either leave or argue against the core tenets of the movement.
Trump's moves to this time have been to relieve the stranglehold the lunatic core holds over the mostly normies, so the movement, or the individuals can act like rational actors, and be sane in their own interest for a change.
No one can escape the Combine, because they kill those who try to escape. Unless there is either some underground railroad, or the core madmen completely lose credibility through horrible decision making and results.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 02:36 PM (rbvCR)
Much of the construction is financed through member donations, raising questions about whether Scientology's impressive property expansion reflects genuine religious growth or simply accumulated wealth.
Posted by: Stateless
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I read something about that Scientology "growth" once. You see a lot of big study centers full of empty desks and dead monitors. Auditoriums that are never used. They spend money on fake church assets as an investment strategy or a way of convincing people that they're big and popular. The dough comes from members who drain themselves bankrupt supporting the church or work like literal slaves.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 02:36 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 02:31 PM (rbvCR)
You are supposed to tear off the rubber mask over the head...
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:37 PM (uhVAy)
Whatever.
I seems to me a number of people with more money than common sense are freely spending on creating unrest. You'd think someone would look into it and, oh, maybe black bag these people.+
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 30, 2026 02:37 PM (RORbl)
And hasn't the AK court (yet another august institution, I'm sure) already ruled that the fake Dan Sullivan will stay on the ballot? At this date I don't see how the ballot could be changed, as a practical matter, anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid
Yes. Remember back when that poor schmuck got charged and convicted for making a fake graphic telling people that Killary's election day was one day later than the real one? Election interference is a federal crime. Then you have concurrent state investigations where the early state case that threw Sullivan off the ballot and then the AK Supreme Court restored him required multiple sworn statements that Sullivan was not a Dem plant. Thus perjury before the court.
So DoJ has subpoened 30 people so far involved in the mess. Marc Elias included.
And the fecal matter has hit the DSCC as it appears the scheme came from an associated (named now) political operative for them and they are the ones that peddled the scheme to the Peltola campaign. That explains the NYT trying to shift the focus to the Peltola campaign.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:37 PM (E4rtv)
There's no such thing as a 'palestinian.'
Posted by: Sponge
More precisely:
"Palestinian" is an adjective, not a noun.
It was origianly used, exclusively adjectivally, to character people of various demograophics who were at the tiem living in what was called "The Holy Land," i.e. the former Roman province of Palestina (which itslef was a made-up name created by the Romans to tweak the Jews, by naming their land after a (mistranslated) tribe that had lived there thousdands of years earlier but long ago disappeared. But that's a diffierent story.)
Thus, there were "Palestinian Jews" "Palestinian Christians," "Palestinian Druze," "Palestinian Arabs," ""Palestinian Turks," etc. etc.
These labels persisted up until as late as the 1960s, when the phrase ""Palestinian Arabs" was shortened to just "Palestinians," and all the other "Palestinian" labels disappeared.
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:37 PM (HD2n/)
There's no such thing as a 'palestinian.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:21 PM (ccf/V)
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I just saw a video "debunking" that idea.
Spoilers: people lived in British Palestine.
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Check out practically ANY Encyclopedia published prior to 1966 or so, crack open the "P" volume and look up "Palestine". You'll get one of two outcomes--there will be NO ENTRY at all for "Palestine", or you'll get a short description with ZERO politics or statehood assertions and will instead have "Palestine" described as a *region* within the country of Israel.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 02:38 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2026 02:38 PM (rj6Yv)
I was polled here in Kansas on a cold call this Fall. Once. I unleashed a broadside. No more calls.
I did not say "Die, Commie Dog, ender of Western Civilization". I deny saying that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 02:38 PM (u82oZ)
But they don't censor the exact same speech coming from immigrants or the left.
Funny that.
Posted by: 29Victor at October 30, 2026 02:38 PM (0MjtC)
The most right wing organization in Germany would be left wing here. They ALL are totally all in on globull warmining, they ALL are totally all in on socialist programs.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:38 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Pope Dumb Dumb XIV at October 30, 2026 02:38 PM (Ssbab)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 02:16 PM (7LLii)
Hell, Theo van Gogh would like to give a word of warning, but he is dead too.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 02:39 PM (rbvCR)
Seems like this issue is just getting...worse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:35 PM (xjopy)
Polls are increasingly hardly bothering to hide the fact that they are push polling.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:39 PM (uhVAy)
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Saturday responded to the remarks President Trump made at Benedict College on Friday, telling the president that the criminal justice system is designed to "give people like you a pass" and adding, "For once in your life, you're being held accountable."
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 30, 2026 02:39 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 02:40 PM (rbvCR)
>>>Former NBA star Paul Pierce is on the verge of bankruptcy, having squandered over $200m in earnings during his NBA career...Back before they turned into The View for sports bros, ESPN did a good documentary on how athletes end up bankrupt despite being paid so much
Larry Miller, the owner of the Utah Jazz, was famous for caring for his athletes. He made sure they understood finances. He helped set up Karl Malone with a series of auto franchises, so he would have money rolling in after he retired from basketball.
One of the Seahawks players owns a Crumbl Francise in Seattle. Finding other ways to make your money work for you is the way to go.
Sage Steele has talked about this. Throwing a kid from the street hustle culture into a multimillion sports contract... it can go south without someone helping them that actually cares about their future.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 02:40 PM (VqqKv)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 30, 2026 02:41 PM (JNr/z)
Lying to Justices in court proceedings including Mr. Fake Sullivan and forcing AK Sup. Ct. to take the rep hit for being fooled by DSCC scamsters is likely to make them a bit irate.
Democrat son of Mr. Fake Sullivan worked as an aide for Dem House member Gluesenkamp and probably facilitated the arrangement as well.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:41 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2026 02:41 PM (rj6Yv)
So much for that case, if true.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 02:41 PM (aCZ8n)
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That's questionable, as a number of people talk about Marxism or even Atheism as a "religion" which also aren't religions in that sense either.
Which illustrates a major point of mine is that we need a third term for the social structure of "religion" + social enforcement of the Vision.
Atheists, in particular tend to be egregious on this vacillation. "Religion is dumb because nothing is supernatural", but enough of them--which are not also Marxists--will tell you Marxism is a "religion", if you point out how many people Marxism killed with efficiency that religious zeal could only envy.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:42 PM (Fi81e)
Didn't just fail lie detector tests, but admitted it.
Leftwing Butthurt goes down in flames...
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 02:42 PM (mP0Kj)
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TBF they're all probably afraid of being killed.
I mean that was pretty much de rigueur for people who lived in eastern bloc countries under communism. See for example The Lives of Others.
Its just another gang of assholes infiltrating the system and strong arming it.
Posted by: this is what happens when you take away peoples guns at October 30, 2026 02:42 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 02:43 PM (I+a8W)
I was polled here in Kansas on a cold call this Fall. Once. I unleashed a broadside. No more calls.
I did not say "Die, Commie Dog, ender of Western Civilization". I deny saying that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Heh.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:43 PM (E4rtv)
I'd forgotten was a raging lunatic that tranny was. Just nuts.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 02:43 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: pookysgirl misses 90s SNL at October 30, 2026 02:43 PM (Wt5PA)
The NBA at least has a program to try to teach new stars about finances but I am not convinced it sinks in
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:43 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 02:38 PM (TN0g+)
No such region. The British mandate created after WWI of Palestine and Transjordan carved out of Ottoman turf was the first surfacing of it since the brief period where Rome renamed Judea because of a major Jewish revolt there. Even that didn't last long.
At independence the Brits carved the area into Arab bits and Jewish bits and left. Arabs and the neighboring nations attacked instantly and lost to the Jewish settlers and allies.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:44 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:45 PM (TMNW7)
Islam is also not a religion.
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Exactly.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 02:33 PM (TN0g+)
The gay muzzies don't last very long...maybe a few seconds of flight.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:45 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 02:45 PM (RIvkX)
Well, just a thought but this is probably a good time for some self reflection about life choices. Maybe consider changing parties.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 02:45 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:45 PM (TMNW7)
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Because his German was so bad that the other guy couldn't understand it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:45 PM (xjopy)
So much for that case, if true.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Unless the case is a misdemeanor, magistrate judges do not try cases. Grand jury meets with prosecutors but Boasberg is simply the conduit for legal filing matters as federal judges have little role in the Grand Jury indictment process.
Grand jury refusing to indict is the more serious problem than Boasberg at this stage.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:45 PM (E4rtv)
So much for that case, if true.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 02:41 PM (aCZ8n)
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So, it fell into the DC pit.
Do the Dems really want to give this game away, after enough of them admitting Nur Said Elmi was caught on this?
As I think DC seems to have already given her over, I'd bet this is Boasberg's chance to repair his reputation as a "partisan" label.
He'll make one little judgment that goes Trump's way (say) and then it will be "See!! He's not biased!!"
As always, I could be wrong.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (Fi81e)
I would say that it contains a religion, but its an overall cultural political system. Its all for everything, like Communism
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:34 PM (TMNW7)
Power of AND...
It is both a religious and political system. The two aspects reinforce each other.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (l3cgK)
Odd, that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (f8snw)
Give Elon Musk $200 million in early dot-com venture capital earnings, and he parlays it into a galactic empire.
Give an NBA player $200 million in salaries and bonuses, and within 5 years he has squandered it all on hookers, blow, VIP lounges at Da Club, private jet rides, and a "posse" of parasitic hangers-on and groupies.
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (HD2n/)
Odd, that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)
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Genocide and colonization are still bad, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (Ti9vn)
The NBA at least has a program to try to teach new stars about finances but I am not convinced it sinks in
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:43 PM (TMNW7)
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Huge chunks of their salaries go to taxes. They still would be very rich, but the costs of entourages and hangers-on and lamborghinis and rolls royces and and sex abuse claims and 17 baby mommas add up quick.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 02:47 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 02:45 PM (RIvkX)
I toggling back and forth watching it - Oz is now giving examples of more fraud......
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 02:47 PM (kX27y)
Yeah. That sums it up...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 02:47 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 30, 2026 02:47 PM (bX16E)
With so much media focus on the Senate races in MI and TX they are barely mentioning the Senate race in Minnesota. Tafoya has a real shot at winning.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 02:48 PM (viF8m)
Mgoes (bio/acc 🤖💉@m_goes_distance
this might be my last normal tweet before biotech goes vertical
i'm not a whistleblower. I don't work at Lilly, Novo or any of the big labs
but there is a massive shift happening in human biology right now.
it's sitting in press releases and almost nobody reads them
the last 6 months alone:
- a once-daily pill roughly doubled median survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer (13.2 vs 6.6 months)
- a one-time gene editing infusion cut hereditary angioedema attacks 87%, and 62% of patients stayed attack-free and off all other prevention for 6 months
- a one-time gene edit for cholesterol dropped LDL up to 62%, and it held for over a year
- a personalized mrna vaccine beat keytruda alone in a 1,137 patient melanoma phase 3
- retatrutide hit ~28% weight loss in a phase 3
- an ai-designed drug entered phase 3
- a pill that regrows hair passed its second phase 3
- an immunotherapy that could let some rectal cancer patients skip surgery, chemo and radiation just got fda approved
- a man lived 271 days off dialysis on a pig kidney
- human cells were caught passing chromosome-sized chunks of DNA to their neighbors,
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 02:48 PM (nqf1u)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (xjopy)
Well, iirc, the series of revolts totalled somewhere over a million people getting killed. (Note: Roman stats are odd, I am not sure how trustworthy they are.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:48 PM (zZu0s)
we are on the verge of an era where the human body is a software problem and the update cycle gets shorter everyday
stick around, it's going to get weird
bio/acc
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 02:48 PM (nqf1u)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (Ti9vn)
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Hell, I think they should bring back "home ec" classes in school ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 02:35 PM (r2Icn)
So she's a globalist, we knew that. But the globalists are currently weakest in East Germany. Not sure what AfD evolves to if they are allowed to win, which I doubt, but it won't be populist, nationalist globalism.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:48 PM (uhVAy)
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Or one Kardashian.
Posted by: Lamarr O at October 30, 2026 02:49 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at October 30, 2026 02:49 PM (eGzf1)
The NBA at least has a program to try to teach new stars about finances but I am not convinced it sinks in
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:43 PM (TMNW7)
I think the NBA stared doing financial advice along with personal protection from gold diggers around the time Shaq was drafted as he was given a ridiculous amount of money as a very young man entering the league.
It really isn't the league's fault if they don't listen.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:49 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 02:47 PM (iFTx/)
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Damon Wayans Jr. was explaining how he had a real culture shock on the set of The Other Guys.
He went to a poker night arranged by Mark Whalberg and Will Farrell, and Wayans was confused.
"Where the bitches at?"
"Oh, man. I'm married," Farrell replies. "We're just here to play poker.
Wayans explains how the older Marlon would have bitches hanging on his arm at all times. That when he died, he'd bring along a couple of bitches to take him into heaven.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:49 PM (xjopy)
Odd, that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)
Corruption/Translation of Philistia, land of the Philistines in Canaan. Of course Arabs are NOT descended from the Philistines (one of the Sea Peoples). Or the Canaanites.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:49 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 02:16 PM (7LLii)
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What is that, like, history?
Ok, Boomer.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 02:49 PM (RIvkX)
All college and high school kids, tbh, should have to take finance classes. They will teach kids in high school how to use birth control, but not how to make credit work for them and how to boost credit their scores. So when they turn 18 they get a bunch of credit cards and royally screw up unless someone teaches them.
It is a universal problem.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 02:50 PM (5sg/j)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 02:50 PM (viF8m)
Give Elon Musk $200 million in early dot-com venture capital earnings, and he parlays it into a galactic empire.
Give an NBA player $200 million in salaries and bonuses, and within 5 years he has squandered it all on hookers, blow, VIP lounges at Da Club, private jet rides, and a "posse" of parasitic hangers-on and groupies.
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (HD2n/)
Where's my Death Star?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:50 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 02:42 PM (mP0Kj)
The left never has and never will give two shits about the fate of any general.
Posted by: notalawyer at October 30, 2026 02:50 PM (fR677)
Ruffini posted an infographic on X,
https://tinyurl.com/bdxud8va
Shows response rates by propensity of voter for the parties and independents. ME is in second column but Patrick aggregates response rates from 2018-2024 which could be diluting non response effects this year.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:51 PM (E4rtv)
Barkley said he learned a lot. Of course Barkley is a gambler so it didn't completely take
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 02:51 PM (f8snw)
She's a communist.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 02:50 PM (viF8m)
The only good Communist is a - - -
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 02:51 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:44 PM (zZu0s)
Tusk went to an English university for he graduate degrees, and it close besties with the Brit political class.
I am going to guess we have the next Pilsudsky
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 02:51 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:48 PM (zZu0s)
Take a look at the Roman AD timeline . Seems like the eventual assassination of the current leader was a given.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:51 PM (Ti9vn)
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Or one Kardashian.
Posted by: Lamarr O at October 30, 2026 02:49 PM (anL5R)
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I watched the NF documentary on him. Train wreck. I think he finally cleaned up, and he's more charismatic than I thought, but bro was blowing $100k a night -- yes, a night -- at drug-and-sex clubs.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 02:51 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:48 PM (zZu0s)
And the final one, Bar Kochva, was not just in modern Israel but across a much larger region. Hence the unusual step of renaming Jerusalem and the region itself.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:51 PM (uhVAy)
In hindsight, tearing down the wall might not have been the best idea. We didn't let freedom in, we let communism out.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 02:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:53 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:53 PM (TMNW7)
>>Give an NBA player $200 million in salaries and bonuses, and within 5 years he has squandered it all
All it would have taken is for someone, his agent or handlers, to make him put 10 pct of that into high dividend stocks and ETF's and he would have a nice safety net.
But that's the problem, these people are dopes and they are surrounded by unscrupulous a**holes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 02:53 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: 18-1
And now, the top ten anagrams for "Elif Eralp"
10. I, paler elf
9. lapel fire (usually pants, but okay)
8. fail leper
7. a free pill
6. plea filer (hopefully!)
5. paler life (after the plea is filed)
4. ape filler (Musloids are branching out)
3. I fell a rep (more gains, bro!)
2. pilfer ale (German leftists, eh?)
1. I'll pee far (because I pilfered too much ale)
Posted by: mikeski letterman at October 30, 2026 02:53 PM (VHUov)
Skydiver from a helicopter?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:53 PM (TMNW7)
without a parachute
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:53 PM (l3cgK)
She's a communist.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 02:50 PM (viF8m)
The only good Communist is a - - -
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 02:51 PM
"I wouldn't know. I've only killed communists."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:54 PM (ccf/V)
In hindsight, tearing down the wall might not have been the best idea. We didn't let freedom in, we let communism out.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 02:53 PM (viF8m)
They are sort of like roaches, or termites. Slowly, then all at once.
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 02:54 PM (Gqar8)
She looks hobbity, and a mean one.
These people tire me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 02:54 PM (hzuYO)
"I, Paler Elf" was the failed fantasy version of "I, Robot"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:55 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 02:55 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 02:51 PM
"I wouldn't know. I've only killed communists."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:54 PM (ccf/V)
Why risk it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)
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Damon Wayans Jr. was explaining how he had a real culture shock on the set of The Other Guys.
He went to a poker night arranged by Mark Whalberg and Will Farrell, and Wayans was confused.
"Where the bitches at?"
"Oh, man. I'm married," Farrell replies. "We're just here to play poker.
Wayans explains how the older Marlon would have bitches hanging on his arm at all times. That when he died, he'd bring along a couple of bitches to take him into heaven.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:49 PM (xjopy)
________
And the Wayans are pretty tame compared to some of these hard-partying lunatics ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 02:55 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (l3cgK)
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Because one of the key elements of a "religion" is the Vision. The "authority of God" is leveraged to "his lieutenants and prophets" and is the basis of the wisdom that obeying him utterly is.
The vision is the power and uncontestable authority of God and being on the right team.
After that, it's obeying everything some people invoking that authority tell you.
Christianity has resembled this at times, but not when Jesus' example of Servant Leadership is paid more than lip service. Jesus did not tell Peter to shear his sheep, but to feed them, to serve them.
The lure to claim authority is a lure that men will always put on divine authority. And it is no surprise that the Church, composed of men, fell to that temptation.
Islam is paper thin on the spirit dimension and big on the part that any other religion can do: I am an authority, God commands you obey me.
And I would gather this explains why their religion, such that it is, is a slip cover over authority over men.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:56 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:51 PM (Ti9vn)
Not in that era - "the 5 good emperors" all had decently long rules from 90AD to maybe 140. Then the lack of formal succession rules took over when a line produced too many weak rulers. Things got really bad after 230 AD when the rulers became military and died in battle or usurped when they couldn't cover all the crises.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:56 PM (uhVAy)
In hindsight, tearing down the wall might not have been the best idea. We didn't let freedom in, we let communism out.
Posted by: JackStraw
Unfortunately, It got out a long time before the wall came down.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2026 02:56 PM (NnhvP)
I think this phrase will be getting some very heavy rotation in my posts from now on...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 30, 2026 02:56 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:30 PM (HD2n/)
Just like communism...
Posted by: notalawyer at October 30, 2026 02:56 PM (fR677)
The biggest accounting firm in Manhattan moved from downtown to just across the street from the KSU campus football stadium. Helped fund the multi-story building. This happened after college students got NIL money.
Coach Snyder of blessed memory worked hard to give his players a financial education and some street smarts, before NIL.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 02:57 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Eu Commie coup, aka trans-fascist.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2026 02:57 PM (nEUC6)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 02:57 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:56 PM (Fi81e)
I'd call it a leaky condom...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 02:57 PM (l3cgK)
True. But back then we were fairly united in agreeing communism was evil. Today one of our 2 major political parties is being taken over by communists.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 02:57 PM (viF8m)
Which Queensryche song is that???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 30, 2026 02:58 PM (jb8Ss)
Please don't hurt yourself Tuesday when the "minimum 55d senate" doesn't come to pass.
Posted by: Thrawn at October 30, 2026 02:58 PM (oPFtC)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at October 30, 2026 02:58 PM (eGzf1)
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (HD2n/)
True, Zombie. It's not just the perks but what you do with them. The left screams about Trump's daddy gave him money starting out. Yeah, the real story is his dad told him to stay in Queens, NYC was a shark tank. But gave him a million dollars (a loan?) to try and make it, which in NYC even in the 70s and 80s real estate game, a million was nothing. And he made it work.
I rolled my eyes a lot during the sci-fi time movie with Justin Timberlake. But one of the most real things about that film, was he gave his friend ten years of time, and what did his friend do with that wealth? Drank himself to death. Leaving behind a wife and kid. Brutal but true.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 02:58 PM (5sg/j)
It would seem obvious the Democrats would gravitate towards this. The coming power struggle between the Islamists in office and the DSA idiots will be something to behold.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 30, 2026 02:58 PM (RORbl)
Posted by: Please make a note of it at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (zNSAX)
Politically incorrect too.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at October 30, 2026 02:58 PM (eGzf1)
The Minors of Troll Leagues.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 02:55 PM (f8snw)
**********
Especially if the Eeeerallllpppp is dragged out longer. With an eeeplop at the ending.
Men are noisy harfers. Altho I have only harfed (from illness) five times since I was a child, I am quiet about it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (hzuYO)
Wayans explains how the older Marlon would have bitches hanging on his arm at all times. That when he died, he'd bring along a couple of bitches to take him into heaven.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:49 PM (xjopy)
________
Whores. They're called whores.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:56 PM (Fi81e)
A Roman Emperor (Tiberius?) is quoted when getting overpayment of taxes from a province saying "I want my sheep shaved, not skinned" . In the death throes of the West Empire there are edicts remitting some or most of the taxes in provinces where invasions had damaged the land and population.
It's a balance a good ruler should keep.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (uhVAy)
As the best in breed of figuring out what should be done in light of "future history", and the Vision of a universal restoration of "Man's dignity".
Although it's clear that Rousseau and Owen contribute more to this vision than Marx's logistics and History which makes Owen's communes "inevitable", or at least worthwhile as "History's end".
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:30 PM (HD2n/)
Just like communism...
Posted by: notalawyer at October 30, 2026 02:56 PM (fR677)
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Islam is a political system masquerading as a religion. Communism is a religion masquerading as a political system. They both use each other for their own ends.
Posted by: ballistic at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (CWTWj)
It isn't exactly socialist, but they are big on "entitlements" in which the government does lots of handouts
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 03:00 PM (TMNW7)
They're Mohammedans.
Posted by: Please make a note of it
They were known as Saracens before that.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2026 03:00 PM (nEUC6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 03:00 PM (f8snw)
>>Give an NBA player $200 million in salaries and bonuses, and within 5 years he has squandered it all
All it would have taken is for someone, his agent or handlers, to make him put 10 pct of that into high dividend stocks and ETF's and he would have a nice safety net.
But that's the problem, these people are dopes and they are surrounded by unscrupulous a**holes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 02:53 PM (XV/Pl)
_______
There's an entire cottage industry built up around pro athletes that encourages insanely lavish spending. So instead of getting real financial advice, the players get fleeced by an army of parasites. Sure, at the end of the day it's their fault, but these are usually very young guys and not too sharp to begin with. Easy marks.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:00 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 03:00 PM (dIske)
Foreign names, America-friendly "company" names.....
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
25m
🚨 BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel just announced SEARCH WARRANTS and CRIMINAL CHARGES against the following Minnesota fraudsters
- Feisal Elmi, Aspen Associates: 11 counts, $8M intended loss
- Jama Mohamod, American Home Health Care: $3.27M intended loss, 6 counts
- Faiza Ahmed, Home Sweet Home: $10M intended loss, 8 counts
- Habiba Mohammed, Smart Therapy: conspiracy to defraud the U.S., ~$20M
Yeah, super "AMERICAN" names! 🙄
These fraudsters tried to defraud up to $41 MILLION from THOUSANDS of Americans.
THIS IS THE LAW AND ORDER I VOTED FOR!
(My spelling of their foreign names may not be right)
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 03:01 PM (kX27y)
Which Queensryche song is that???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 30, 2026 02:58 PM (jb8Ss)
SHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
You tryin'ta get me killed?!?
*panics*
*runs*
*hides*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:01 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 30, 2026 03:01 PM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Ah yes, provides a reason for borg brains in urban areas. Good advert for living out in the country away from others.
Also if merely living around others causes that, what does promiscuity do regarding DNA transfers.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 03:01 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (ccf/V)
How dare you!! Eeeee!!!
Posted by: gym thots at October 30, 2026 03:01 PM (5aHaY)
Elif Eralp is either George Lucas coming up with Sci Fi names again or someone just writing their real name backward...Life Plare
Posted by: 18-1
I wonder if she knows Wolley Segap?
https://youtu.be/EjxuwbD_G7g
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 03:02 PM (Cqx++)
Uh oh Mrs. F. just tuned into the press conference on the fraud in Minnesota. I may have to drink with lunch.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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These things are starting to run into each other for me. "Four individuals arrested, 26 indictments, three billion dollars, 8 months of investigating, we fear this is only the tip of the iceberg" etc.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 03:02 PM (mmrXZ)
Which Queensryche song is that???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 30, 2026 02:58 PM (jb8Ss)
SHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
You tryin'ta get me killed?!?
*panics*
*runs*
*hides*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 03:01 PM (ccf/V)
Nickelback peeks in, slinks out.
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 03:02 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:00 PM (iFTx/)
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Jack Johnson says, "Hi."
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at October 30, 2026 03:02 PM (eGzf1)
There is a coordinated dockworkers strike going on around Europe and beyond. The reason they give for the strike is the want to stop arms from being shipped to Israel. Uh huh.
If they can coordinate a strike in over 20 countries they can organize riots too. And they want to come here soon.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 03:03 PM (viF8m)
Beckster, As of 8am this morning, there are still 4.4 million ballots missing from Republicans in California!
Unless we boost turnout and get at least 65% of these ballots returned by Election Day, Prop 39 for Voter ID FAILS, the tax hikes PASS, and Steve Hilton LOSES!
I'm begging you to get ACTIVE this weekend to help us turnout these votes in TWO WAYS:
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 03:03 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 30, 2026 02:56 PM (zZu0s)
********
For bad coup in children, use vaporizers at night.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 03:03 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Ah yes, provides a reason for borg brains in urban areas. Good advert for living out in the country away from others.
Also if merely living around others causes that, what does promiscuity do regarding DNA transfers.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 03:01 PM (E4rtv)
DNA transfer happens from transplanted organs, albeit limited. Stem cells from baby to momma happen too...If your Mom is still alive, she probably has some of your stem cells...you could say you're always with her.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:03 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 02:46 PM (HD2n/)
Bengals star WR Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson was famous for living in the stadium for his first few years, eating team food. Coach Marvin Lewis made him rent something when he took over. Chad flew on budget airlines and had fake bling jewelry made.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:03 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 03:04 PM (Ti9vn)
Beckster, As of 8am this morning, there are still 4.4 million ballots missing from Republicans in California!
Unless we boost turnout and get at least 65% of these ballots returned by Election Day, Prop 39 for Voter ID FAILS, the tax hikes PASS, and Steve Hilton LOSES!
I'm begging you to get ACTIVE this weekend to help us turnout these votes in TWO WAYS:
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 03:03 PM (kX27y)
And I'm one of them. Haven't voted yet, will on Monday or Tuesday.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:04 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 03:00 PM (dIske)
Unless the AfD gets banned because they're Not-Sees or w/e. The SPD (?) party has proposed banning them a few times.
Posted by: Thrawn at October 30, 2026 03:04 PM (oPFtC)
Instead they just ignore the gap between hoping for historical outcomes and Knowledge of God.
Not to mention that finding snippets of the Bible that can be repurposed as if the God of the Universe that we believe in were telling us to do the progressive thing, fills that role when they engage in it.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)
Hunted on a city street by an Islamic savage stabbed in chest with note attached. Broad daylight. Witnesses
That's the religion of peace.
She should move to....CUBA
Posted by: torabora at October 30, 2026 03:05 PM (Wt1Rs)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 03:05 PM (u82oZ)
Ok, Boomer.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 02:49 PM (RIvkX)
Dunno if I'd be so free with the insults, SF. You know what Hadrian did to Judea....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 03:05 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 03:05 PM (viF8m)
Easy marks.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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I've heard that the pro leagues give them some counseling when they start. "You're about to have more money than God, now don't blow it, do this instead." But that advice doesn't always stick. Some YouTuber -- Spencer something-or-other -- has shown exactly how some of them have gone bankrupt on Midas salaries.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 03:06 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 30, 2026 03:06 PM (jb8Ss)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:00 PM (iFTx/)
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Jack Johnson says, "Hi."
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at October 30, 2026 03:02 PM (eGzf1)
__________
"Meh"
-- MC Hammer
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 03:06 PM (iFTx/)
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent in Minnesota CONFIRMS a major investigation into Somali terror group Al-Shabaab receiving fraud dollars within the United States
SHUT IT ALL DOWN!
"FinCEN issued a geographic targeting order to trace criminal networks that divert funds overseas and ensure that taxpayer dollars go to the American people, not terror groups like Al Shabab."
"We have ongoing investigations at home and abroad into Al Shabab, its networks, and its the start of the Trump administration, FinCEN data, have also supported the law enforcement effort that led to the arrest and charging of 115 fraudsters as well as 75 convictions and nearly 3,000 subpoenas across Minnesota." 🔥
Under the targeting order, every bank and money transmitter in Hennepin and Ramsey counties has to report any overseas transfer of $3,000 or more
The scam cost Minnesota taxpayers potentially BILLIONS, and part of that money was laundered overseas. Tim Walz had YEARS to stop it!
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 03:06 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: torabora at October 30, 2026 03:06 PM (Wt1Rs)
Posted by: Blake
Blame Salem Communications and Insty himself for choosing Disqus as a commenting system. They use it like X does to increase 'engagement' numbers for advert selling.
Rolling your own does far better troll control using resident blog troll hunters. At the high end, blog registration/and or fees to join get rid of the rest of trash like bots and poo flinging trolls.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 03:06 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (Fi81e)
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I'm a rank amateur when it comes to Rousseau and the New Harmony v. Marx and Engles comparison, but didn't Rousseau espouse a "back to nature" and the "Natural Man" direction and M and E looked to the future for the establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2026 03:07 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Redd Foxx at October 30, 2026 03:07 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Vanishingly Rare Foreign Youkai at October 30, 2026 03:07 PM (dyiKR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:03 PM (l3cgK)
I heard somewhere that new research is showing that gestating a baby is actually really good for most women, medically. It boost certain things in their body that makes them happier and healthier overall. Cool if true.
So much for the left's idea it's just a parasite.
Also, obgyns now will sell you plushies with the sound of the heartbeat of the baby, that they took during your exams. Cool. And a very capitalistic pro-life thing to do!
Posted by: gym thots at October 30, 2026 03:07 PM (5aHaY)
Well, I'm a Californian who voted. Sent in my mom's ballot, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 03:07 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 03:08 PM (Ae6Br)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 02:53 PM (viF8m)
They are sort of like roaches, or termites. Slowly, then all at once.
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 02:54 PM (Gqar
We didn't get it from East Europe, or China. Communism started in England/Germany and was incubated in the Universities
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:08 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: gnats local 678
A true Renaissance Man.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 03:09 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Actually even in no pregnancies, some evidence has been collected that suggests DNA from male to female results in some genetic changes in the female as a result. Might be the opposite is true as well. So yeah, there may be genetic changes based on all the partners that a person has been with from the original baseline.
Mother's milk feeding babies might have similar effects.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 03:09 PM (E4rtv)
Well, I'm a Californian who voted. Sent in my mom's ballot, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 03:07 PM (mmrXZ)
I just hope the 4.4 million figure is from people who wait to vote on the actual Election Day, but????? My vote was counted 2 weeks ago.
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 03:09 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: That Guy at October 30, 2026 03:09 PM (9I5W+)
Shooting and killing a woman on the way to an abortion clinic, however, is a double homicide.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at October 30, 2026 03:09 PM (eGzf1)
I always thought "Al-Shabaab" sounded like a middle-eastern BBQ place...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:10 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 30, 2026 03:06 PM
You really think so?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 03:10 PM (ctC8W)
Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2026 03:07 PM (rj6Yv)
Rousseau's nature was the kind you find in student bars near a university.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 03:10 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 03:10 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 03:11 PM (l3cgK)
Their only purpose was to practice and play hockey. Everything else - from finding a place to live, transportation if needed, even laundry service - was paid for/arranged by the team. Financial advisors (with a very aggressive conservative spiel on money management), tax preparers.
Of course these guys aren't generally pulling in the long green, but a portion of them do rotate up to the bigs and some stay there for a while or forever, at which point of course they're handed off to that team's support network. Lots of sociological and other differences with basketball and football player backgrounds, in general, but seems that hockey at least is taking a pro-active approach to help the young guys avoid trouble.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 03:11 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: ballistic at October 30, 2026 02:59 PM (oqH4h)
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It's hijacked Abrahamism, with some of the same inspirations, but corrupted in service to political power.
Somewhat like the Divine Right of Kings, which Samuel Rutherford had to fight against as a default assumption among Christians.
And definitely this is what Locke fought against in his writings against the Crown scholar Filmer, who argued that people belonged to the King.
Despite Deuteronomy, God's will was kings and enveloping authority.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 03:11 PM (Fi81e)
Shooting and killing a woman on the way to an abortion clinic, however, is a double homicide.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at October 30, 2026 03:09 PM (eGzf1)
Yeah....tell me about it.......
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You mean to say he was an alcoholic with poor personal hygiene?
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That's what's good about this place. Nearly every other site I visit requires a Digust sign up. If this place ever went to that or a subscription to comment, I'd just disappear. Don't have the money, and my comments aren't of any value.
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Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:22 PM (TMNW7)
When the shooting starts, they will be shooting at you. Blood is thicker than water.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 03:19 PM (6v4rH)
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 02:40 PM (VqqKv)
Look. If one of those dumfuck athletes wants to piss away his dough buying million-dollar Panhards, why should I be so churlish as to dissuade him?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 03:37 PM (6v4rH)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 02:43 PM (iFTx/)
All trannies are raging lunatics, in some aspects at least.
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Posted by: Pooklord at October 30, 2026 07:50 PM (9MAOs)
A Stronk and Empowered Black Female Democrat Judge Routinely Makes Racist Screeds Against Attorneys Before Her, Because She's So Anti-Racist
Another DEI clown put into a position of authority by the left, and one that seems to have genuine mental health struggles on top of it.
By the way: This isn't new. Josh Blackmun wrote an article, which I'll link later, in which he reports that he has heard all about this nasty racist mentally-ill woman for a long time but didn't say anything, because no one made it official by filing a complaint. Well now a complaint has been filed."Judicial notice" is when a judge enters a fact into the record without evidence or testimony. It's for simple matters of fact that can be found in, say, a dictionary or a calendar, like "I'm taking judicial notice that July the 25th was a Sunday." This Nobel Prize Finalist takes "judicial notice" of her own background and the Racial Expertise it gives her in all things, especially in knowing Which Other Races Are Stupid and Evil. She would have failed out of the Charlie Kelly School of Bird Law. Filibuster!
A lawyer's misconduct complaint against US District Judge Ada Brown stemmed from a hearing during which she repeatedly directed racial insults at him, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg Law. Attorney Ezra Young, who has represented a Black woman professor suing over a tenure denial, filed a complaint against Brown following the April 2026 hearing in Dallas, he confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg Law... Throughout the hearing, the judge, a Black woman with Native American ancestry, accused Young of mistreating Black attorney took "judicial notice" of her own background in making findings against Young, and repeatedly referred to Young, who is Latino, as being White. Brown called the hearing months after she revoked Young's ability to practice in her courtroom to weigh whether the lawyer should face sanctions.
He's intimidated by Black Excellence? Where might that be, DEI hire? "Black excellence" is often -- but not always -- a racist meme asserting black supremacy and, here, people's discomfort with seeing the full power of black supremacy. It doesn't have to mean that. It could just be a little racial boosting, talking up "black excellence." But here it's plainly an assertion that she is superior due to her melanin ratio.
"I think what's happening here, quite candidly, is you are very intimidated for some reason, Mr. Young, with Black excellence, in light of your White mediocrity. Yeah. Right?," Brown said, according to the transcript. "You should write that down. I mean, you -- I'm -- you look like a White man, right?"
"I'm not White, Your Honor," Young replied, adding that he's Latino. "Well, you are White-presenting; is that fair to say?" Brown said, according to the transcript. Young said that he's "fair-skinned," and Brown said that Young had "White privilege" when he argued his client didn't receive key evidence in the case.I'm so glad that the black leftist political class, full of Black Excellence of the kind you see here, is on the job and ready to instruct us in aggressive anti-racism.
Well you are in fact a stupid black lawyer who should be disbarred, and it does appear you need help -- both for your job performance and for your obvious mental illness -- so you should accept whatever help this White Latino Savior can offer.
"You're the White savior, come to save all the stupid Black lawyers in Texas who need your help, from New York," Brown later said, according to the transcript.
During the hearing, Brown also implied that Young fabricated a quote in the case and indicated she'd gone through Young's public social media profiles before suggesting that the attorney may be tracking her on social media.I wasn't kidding about the mental illness.
Yeah, forced on him by Democrats. I don't know why we allow that still. Oh yeah I do -- because Nostalgia Republicans still think it's 1997.
Young said he was "disgusted and mortified" by the suggestion of him having an anti-Black animus, and told Brown that he was concerned about her conduct during the hearing, according to the transcript. Soon after, Young filed a formal complaint against Brown, saying he believed the judge may be suffering from a mental health condition. The complaint helped launch a judicial investigation that resulted in her temporarily losing her docket earlier this month. A special judicial committee has ordered Brown to undergo a psychiatric examination as part of that investigation. Brown, a Donald Trump appointee who joined the court in 2019, didn't return requests for comment.
Brown has said she won't participate in proceedings tied to complaints by Young and Chief Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod of the Fifth Circuit. Brown earlier defended her conduct toward Young in a 76-page written response viewed by Bloomberg Law. Brown in that response denied having a mental health issue, as raised by Young in his complaint, and denied that any of her actions were inappropriate.I'd like to have an undelicate conversation with this racist cow about how some extremely uneducated and unfit people get Socially Promoted into jobs they are completely unqualified for.
Andre Davis, a former Fourth Circuit judge who previously served as a federal trial judge in Baltimore, said the purported conduct -- at the hearing and since -- shows "a clear pattern of inappropriate and abusive behavior by Judge Brown that reflects violations of numerous provisions of the Code of Conduct for Federal Judges." "If the investigation of the matters at issue were to conclude on the current facts, without consideration of any potential information bearing on mitigation, the case for removal of a judge, at the state or federal level, would be compelling," Davis said.In an unexpected twist, this angry and stupid black racist is "triggered" by any word she thinks gives her Special Racial Rights to lash out at other people for their racial make-up:
Braced for Conflict Young, a Columbia Law School graduate and solo-practitioner who's litigated for over a decade, had tense interactions with Brown in the past. She issued two earlier orders raising whether he should face penalties in her court. In an interview with Bloomberg Law, Young said he was prepared for the April hearing to be "bizarre," but that he found his experience with Brown to be "wildly disturbing." "This was a degree of conflict and what seemed like a judge using her position of power on top of what I've come to believe is an obvious disability that I think is disqualifying, trying to go out of her way, in my belief, to prevent a civil rights litigant and her lawyer from using the civil rights laws to do what they're supposed to do," Young said. ... During the April 24, 2026 hearing, Brown accused Young of "racial bullying" toward Black attorneys in the case. Brown also said that Young was acting like a "Chad," a term Young wasn't familiar with. The judge said it was the male version of a "Karen." "It's someone who calls the manager when they don't get their way. They stomp their foot when the rules are supposed to apply to them, right?" Brown said, according to the transcript.
So she sees the word "lynching" in an article submitted as evidence and she decides this is a coded dog-whistle against her so now she gets to freak out and scream at people:
During the April hearing, Brown took issue with an article headline describing the case when it went before the Supreme Court of Texas. The article quoted a brief filed by Young that referenced another law professor apparently comparing what happened in the tenure denial to a "lynching."
This White Latino continued attempting to pound it into the thick head-bone of this bison-skulled woman that he is not in fact caucasian. But she didn't understand.
The judge accused Young of making up that quote to "get a headline." "And so when I read a headline -- a sensationalized, very racialized headline that says, 'it's like I've been lynched,' and it's literally got no connection to this case, I have to ask you, Mr. Social Media, Main Character Chad, White Hero, Savior, Loves to Help Black People Be An Ally, where the lynching in this case came from?" Brown said, according to the transcript. She also apparently gave Young a copy of a 1920 newspaper article that described a lynching. "So we don't find lynching jokes funny down here, sir," Brown said, according to the transcript.
Toward the end of the hearing, Young said that Brown seemed to be "using vicious stereotypes about White people, when I've repeatedly disclosed to this Court I am Latino." He said that it appeared that Brown "is trying to tar and feather me for anti-Black animus, that has never been raised by anyone but this Court," according to the transcript. "This Black woman?" Brown replied. "No, Your Honor. This Court," Young responded.He tried to tell her he has no anti-black animus and in fact, as a civil rights lawyer, has worked to vindicate the rights of many black people. This racist lunatic was offended at that:
"Can I pause and just tell you, I appreciate, on behalf of Black people, your White saviordom," Brown said. "Your Honor, again, I'm not White," Young replied.
Josh Blackmun:
Oh, she doesn't even bother doing her job? Plot twist. Next thing you'll say something Kah-razy like "she also created a fake charity and collected hundreds of thousand of dollars that she spent on trips and jewelry." And she's also apparently refusing to participate in the disciplinary hearing over her action. I guess she's just relying on her Black Excellence to carry the day.
The Bigger Problem With Judge Ada Brown's Woke Tirade: She Said The Quiet Part Out Loud About "White Saviors" Many lawyers and judges harbor the "anti-racist" views that Judge Brown spewed, but have the mental faculties to keep it private. For some time, I've heard rumors about unusual behavior from Judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas. I was hesitant to write about the situation, because my information was incomplete and some of it was revealed in confidence. Now, the accusations are public, in part, because Judge Brown personally disclosed items to the press and others. ... Now, onto the substance. There seems to be something seriously wrong with Judge Brown. Her behavior in court that has been reported in the press is extremely troubling. Her refusal to decide cases seems to be an abdication of her responsibility as a federal judge.
And her unwillingness to participate in any disciplinary proceedings suggests something is amiss. I will hold off on opining on these issues in more depth, as I suspect more facts will come out.Here's the real scandal, as they say: What Brown is saying is not aberrant among the black leftist class. It is their foundational ideology:
Some people may be shocked at what Judge Ada Brown said in court, but the truth is that she is parroting standard dogma from Anti-Racists and Critical Racial Theorists. The charges may be completely absurd for someone like Ezra Young, but imagine the black plaintiff was represented by a white lawyer. Would that person be a "White Savior"? Think of the most famous white lawyer in American literature. Could even Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird be derided as a "White Savior"? Yes. Welcome to the world of academia.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (hG5L0)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (hG5L0)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (hG5L0)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (1wjle)
Ok, that's funny. And most Latino I've met are whiter than me...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 01:13 PM (ADOtk)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 01:13 PM (Qugny)
it's about you being a Racist who needs to #DoBetter
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (1wjle)
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Oh, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
That's a show, ace.
#BeBetter
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:14 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 01:14 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:14 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 01:15 PM (ADOtk)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:15 PM (ccf/V)
White and Autistic, if we are to believe him.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 01:15 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: NCKate at October 30, 2026 01:15 PM (enNUy)
He's intimidated by Black Excellence? Where might that be, DEI hire?
Wakandan justice is amazing.
Beautiful society.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 01:15 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:15 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 01:16 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 01:16 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 01:16 PM (4WM7K)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 01:16 PM (RIvkX)
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"That's OREO talk from Uncle Toms, cracker."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:16 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:16 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:17 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:17 PM (ccf/V)
nah, Josh Blackmun says he's heard of this behavior from other lawyers and judges for a spell.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:18 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 01:16 PM (RIvkX)
And her blackened soul.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:18 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:14 PM (RDiUV)
What is?
One Pickle
Two Pickle
My "Wife" Has a
Blue Pickle
?
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:18 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:19 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:19 PM (RDiUV)
I was just setting up my own "joke".
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:20 PM (I+a8W)
Don't go out of your way to help black people ... RACIST!
Do go out of your way to help black people ... RACIST White Savior!
Either action makes you a racist.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 30, 2026 01:20 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)
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In Texas...so blue slip policy meant that this lady passed both Cornyn and Cruz's vetting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:20 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:18 PM (1wjle)
Do we know she's Democrat? I can't see Trump nominating a lefty black woman.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:20 PM (Ti9vn)
EricLDaugh/status/2116189296893808825
Allison Albro reportedly posted a selfie with the caption: "Going to the trump rally in my city tmr so I can shoot him with my glock! wish me luck guys!!"
By "reportedly" we mean Albro reported it, in a caption.
The link has her in some of the goofiest makeup I've ever seen on a woman, and then the mugshot where the makeup is all streaked with her tears.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 01:20 PM (88C+u)
I did call the UTSA where that bitch was celebrating Kirk's murder.
The guy, who sounded Indian, said he hadn't received any calls about this after a student publicly celebrated a political killing. The Mom's real estate office didn't pick up. And her phone from the website - no answer either.
I really want bad things to happen to that bitch.
Back to stoicism and things I can control tomorrow.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 01:21 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:22 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 01:22 PM (r2Icn)
If you're talking about that smug blonde See You Next Cunt, she's infuriating. I have her for the Week In Woke.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:23 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 30, 2026 01:23 PM (Idsil)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:20 PM (I+a8W)
Be better. Or get me more coffee.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:23 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 30, 2026 01:23 PM (w0BVu)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:22 PM (1wjle)
Don't forget staying in a neighborhood
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:23 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: one hour sober at October 30, 2026 01:23 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:23 PM (RDiUV)
I can do both. It's Friday. One lump or two.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (I+a8W)
Wound still looks bad, but so much better than it was a week ago.
He's happy to be home, but is rubbing it on everything at the moment.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (ccf/V)
It happens. I think maybe deals are made.
And also: He has not had good advisors in the past. Especially in the first term, when he had the whole GOPe Establishment advising him.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (1wjle)
To say that would be RAYCISS!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (I+a8W)
Black, like I like my racist judges.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (RDiUV)
That's a big tell. The other thing going on here is that states are very protective of their state bars and local lawyers. They resent and often despise big-city lawyers coming into "their" fiefdoms and taking business away from local lawyers.
I experienced this first-hand when defending nationwide class action and products liability cases. Many of those cases are brought in courts in the south where the plaintiffs' bar rules. Texas is (or was) a big one. Lotsa class action and injury cases brought there.
We always had to make sure we had a local lawyer involved and billing nice fat fees to smooth over the friction of being "a yankee lawyer come all the day down here to tell us dumb rednecks how to lawyer."
I even wrote a song about it, called ... Yankee Boy. LOL.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)
If you're talking about that smug blonde See You Next Cunt, she's infuriating. I have her for the Week In Woke.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:23 PM (1wjle)
Someone put up this website in her honor if you missed it.
https://isacasahuga.com/
Have a good weekend ace.
Rest up.
And thank youl
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 01:25 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 30, 2026 01:25 PM (Idsil)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:25 PM (qlLNh)
same with move out of/move into a neighborhood.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:22 PM
Yep, they have many "rules" that work that way.
I wish I had similar rules for me in Vegas. Whatever hand PI is showing wins in blackjack.
After a month or two of those rules, Jeff Bezos would be washing my car.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 30, 2026 01:25 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 01:25 PM (RIvkX)
I don't think you understand how the see you next Tuesday thing is supposed to be used
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:25 PM (TMNW7)
If you're talking about that smug blonde See You Next Cunt, she's infuriating. I have her for the Week In Woke.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:23 PM (1wjle)
Like they say at Texas State:
You can't spell NUTSACK without UTSA.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:25 PM (ccf/V)
That bloated sack is basically white.
Too funny.
I was expecting Aunt Esther or Flip Wilson black. She's a faint cappucino.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (VuTBl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (ccf/V)
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He's been gone for a while.
He has to get his scent back on everything or his whole world will remain out of whack.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:20 PM (xjopy)
Cornyn. Spit.
Posted by: LASue at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (mP0Kj)
Sorry. We don’t have the votes for impeachment. Bag of Dicks at the door should have told you.
Posted by: John Thunes Gay Box of Excuses at October 30, 2026 01:27 PM (egaJw)
She is on The Federalist Society's website under "speaker and author bios" with this disclaimer:
A person listed on this page has spoken or otherwise participated in Federalist Society events, publications, or multimedia presentations. A person's appearance on this list does not imply any other endorsement or relationship between the person and the Federalist Society.
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2026 01:27 PM (/OKHJ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 30, 2026 01:27 PM (Wp1X1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:25 PM (TMNW7)
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I honestly struggle with that.
I teach a Tues/Thurs class, so it's always tempting to tell my students "See you next Tuesday!" at the end of Thursday's class.
I have to keep reminding myself not to do that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (RDiUV)
And Kenyan
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (I+a8W)
Either action makes you a racist.
same with move out of/move into a neighborhood.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:22 PM (1wjle)
Or building highways/tearing down highways.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (mP0Kj)
Profit-taking before the much-(liberal press)-ballyhooed blue wave that is to come next week. That's my guess.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (mP0Kj)
If I told you it was purposeful manipulation to try to get a few last undecideds to vote Dem, would that seem crazy to you?
At this point, would you highly doubt it?
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (mP0Kj)
Could be the Binance hack and other security failures have people spooked. Also the election season leads to uncertainly, and those longshoremen in Europe decided it was a fine time to launch a strike
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 01:16 PM (4WM7K)
Oh yes. She's right up there with a few other female justices...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:29 PM (l3cgK)
Opening/closing a new grocery store...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2026 01:29 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:29 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 01:29 PM (8Uo7a)
A person listed on this page has spoken or otherwise participated in Federalist Society events, publications, or multimedia presentations. A person's appearance on this list does not imply any other endorsement or relationship between the person and the Federalist Society.
oh boy, so those Rock-Ribbed True Conservatives may have recommended her to Trump, huh?
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:30 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (mP0Kj)
If I told you it was purposeful manipulation to try to get a few last undecideds to vote Dem, would that seem crazy to you?
At this point, would you highly doubt it?
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (Sco7b)
3% of Nasdaq gets into the real money category... may be a Lemming thing... because I sure don't see anything in the news...
But then, its the news... so...
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 01:30 PM (mP0Kj)
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That's just too much Black excellence for me at one go.
It looks ad hoc, but you really have to think "Black excellence".
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:30 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (mP0Kj)
Could be the Binance hack and other security failures have people spooked. Also the election season leads to uncertainly, and those longshoremen in Europe decided it was a fine time to launch a strike
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (88C+u)
AI sez: "The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.73% to 51,961.23 on October 30, 2026, as weak earnings from Intel and Amazon, along with concerns about AI spending returns, weighed on tech-heavy stocks."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:30 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:31 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:22 PM
Consider the way that "women's healthcare" is supposedly "ignored", yet somehow women live, on average, 5 years longer than men.
Imagine the screeching that would ensue if men lived 5 years longer than women.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:31 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (mP0Kj)
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Earnings quarter has not been great for a lot of companies (mostly in tech), there's an election next week, and the markets have been on fire all year.
NASDAQ took a shit this last month. It's still up almost 10% for the year ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 01:31 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:30 PM (l3cgK)
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This is the worst day in the stock market since 1929.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:31 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)
Friday before elections?
For effect. mostly.
Though there might be spots where people are looking to take gains out of the market before a major news week?
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 01:32 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (ccf/V)
Very good.
Oh, new update at Gateway on UTSA bitch.
There will be reviews.
“The sentiments expressed do not reflect the values of our university,” Izbrand stated. “The university is reviewing the circumstances through its established student conduct processes, consistent with applicable state and federal law and university policies.”
Citing FERPA privacy protections, the school declined further comment on any specific disciplinary action.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 01:32 PM (Sco7b)
Suddenly out of seemingly nowhere they decided that someone's blackness must be acknowledged every yoctosecond of the day and that was the only way to know that you aren't racist.
Essentially this is what you get when the scorpion arrives at its destination. How did they know they had arrived? Honestly probably the double election of the dog eater meant they knew they had us by the hairy marbles.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:32 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:33 PM (qlLNh)
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That's just too much Black excellence for me at one go.
It looks ad hoc, but you really have to think "Black excellence".
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:30 PM (Fi81e)
Black Lives Matter is a prime example of "Black excellence."
::: waits for Libs' heads exploding :::
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:33 PM (l3cgK)
Mad Cow Disease is my diagnosis.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)
For the stock market tanking, or for the behavior of this judge?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2026 01:33 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (mP0Kj)
Moneychanger op?
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:33 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)
Guessing you haven't watched Peaky Blinders yet.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:34 PM (I+a8W)
"She had TWO white women, I'll have you know! A full 25% of the image!"
--Virginia leftist
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:34 PM (TMNW7)
::: waits for Libs' heads exploding :::
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:33 PM (l3cgK)
They are remarkably good at killing each other.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:34 PM (RDiUV)
Bloomberg would never have covered this story if Brown want appointed under Trump. If they can't find some way to tie this to Trump - no matter how tenuous - they ignore it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 30, 2026 01:34 PM (p61JE)
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I think that's because of the "blue slip courtesy" bullshit I've complained about for the last couple of days.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 01:34 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:34 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: polynikes
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She wasn't. There have been a long line anecdotes of this judge being an incompetent nutjob.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:34 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (VuTBl)
She's part Native American IIRC.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:35 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:35 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:34 PM (I+a8W)
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I tried, but I don't like watching shows where I have to read the subtitles to understand spoken English.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 01:35 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:35 PM (Fi81e)
Somehow never seems to work in the favor of conservatives in judges
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (VuTBl)
She's part Native American IIRC.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:35 PM (Ti9vn)
"How", you say?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (Wp1X1)
Judge Brown may be a kook, but she also may be getting targeted since she is a black woman appointed by Trump.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (P9Ea3)
Posted by: scruboak at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (pcWkN)
Looks like a troll as much as anything else, could be "white" or "hispanic" so I understand the judge not being sure...but what a stupid time we live in.
I guess I'm "rayciss" because I don't want to have to assess the race of everyone I interact with before deciding how to interact with them
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (sKqQm)
Her name Ada kept reminding me of Ava from Justified for some reason.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)
That evil succubus Ava would leave you roofied in a tub full of ice with a fresh set of sutures over where your kidney would be. But it'd be worth it.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (y9nCu)
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I think that's because of the "blue slip courtesy" bullshit I've complained about for the last couple of days.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 01:34 PM (TN0g+)
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She's part of the district court in Texas.
The blue slip policy means that both Cornyn and Cruz signed off on her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (xjopy)
They do find their way into our hearts.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:33 PM (qlLNh)
Thanks.
Even the cat seemed half-assed glad to see him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (ccf/V)
But of course, that would be rayciss.
Posted by: Low 80's at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (Ssbab)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:34 PM (E4rtv)
When I was watching PotentiallyCriminal go through the transcripts he mentioned that she was nominated under the Trump Admin 1.0...
I didn't fact check that, though.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (Qugny)
Blaxcellence.
It needs it's own word.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:35 PM (Fi81e)
Ghettocracy
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (l3cgK)
On X they said she was recommended to him by Cornyn, which sounds about right.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2026 01:33 PM (y9nCu)
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Panic over a possible Democrat victory?
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (Fi81e)
So zer is a woman that will bang other chicks and/or guys.
Which is pretty much every leftwing woman nowadays
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)
That's a big tell. The other thing going on here is that states are very protective of their state bars and local lawyers. They resent and often despise big-city lawyers coming into "their" fiefdoms and taking business away from local lawyers.
I experienced this first-hand when defending nationwide class action and products liability cases. Many of those cases are brought in courts in the south where the plaintiffs' bar rules. Texas is (or was) a big one. Lotsa class action and injury cases brought there.
We always had to make sure we had a local lawyer involved and billing nice fat fees to smooth over the friction of being "a yankee lawyer come all the day down here to tell us dumb rednecks how to lawyer."
I even wrote a song about it, called ... Yankee Boy. LOL.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)
Judge Ada Brown is no Judge Chamberlain Haller.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (Ae6Br)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (88C+u)
"would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Crusader
Yep. Cornynhole and Cruz had to issue the blue slips for this nutjob. Probably involved in a trade for another nominee in another state where Dems refused to seat a presidential nominee without some sort of quid pro quo.
Blue slips are an anachronism dating back from WWI seg era Democrats using it to formally block any GOP race mixing nominee from getting a vote to put an integrationist judge in those states.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (E4rtv)
Me either, I'm Germanic.
Posted by: scruboak at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (pcWkN)
I'm white. Lily f*cking white. "Your honor, your direct implication of racism into this court case is embarrassing for you and this court."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:38 PM (ccf/V)
"would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (TMNW7)
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Why...yes. Yes, I would.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:38 PM (xjopy)
On X they said she was recommended to him by Cornyn, which sounds about right.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (2ocoG)
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Cornyn's final turd in the punch bowl.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:38 PM (Fi81e)
Young's defense? "I have autism and can't understand a basic court order."
So again, not defending Brown, and she may be a bad judge. But let's not assume Young is a noble knight in shining armor.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 30, 2026 01:38 PM (P9Ea3)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 01:39 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: PaleRider at October 30, 2026 01:39 PM (PV+Zw)
She'd shotgun your knee off and then go sleep with the guy who used to beat her regularly.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:39 PM (TMNW7)
huh. For some reason Bloomberg chose to hide that from us.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:39 PM (1wjle)
"would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:37 PM (TMNW7)
Wait. Were we supposed to wait to say grace or something?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:39 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:38 PM (ccf/V)
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Irish?
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:39 PM (Fi81e)
::: waits for Libs' heads exploding :::
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:33 PM (l3cgK)
They are remarkably good at killing each other.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:34 PM (RDiUV)
I'm working on my project and one of the topics is important or pivotal moments in the history of various cities.
I mentioned Detroit to the AIs and they kept trying to focus on 'the great rebirth.' AI is trained on all social media (some aren't) and any criticism of Dem cities is muted compared to rebirth lies, so that was understandable.
I did explain that, NO - sometimes decline into being a thrid world shit hole has no happy ending. I hope Coleman Young is suffering right now. Asshole..
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 01:39 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 01:40 PM (2WIwB)
Wiki says she was appointed by OrangeManBad in 2019. To 5th court of appeals in Texas by Rick Perry in 2013.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:40 PM (l3cgK)
Has gone off the deep end. If she refuses to resign, impeach her or put her in a "rubber room" with no duties until mandatory retirement
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 01:40 PM (f8snw)
Young's defense? "I have autism and can't understand a basic court order."
I did not know that. Thanks.
to be honest, I'm not really focused on this autistic tranny. I just don't want judges telling me I'm inferior because I'm white (or "white presenting").
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:40 PM (1wjle)
He doesn't really act like he cares about the judiciary one way or the other. Judicial appointments are just more fodder for Making A Deal to him.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 01:40 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:40 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Denny Crane! at October 30, 2026 01:41 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 01:40 PM (2WIwB)
She'll use her army to enforce it?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:41 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:41 PM (I+a8W)
* duh dink*
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 01:42 PM (n5tGW)
As a matter of fact, that's the *exact* reason Mukilteo, WA (and others) removed that book from it's school curriculum. Specifically stated as the reason.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at October 30, 2026 01:42 PM (gUs21)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 01:40 PM (2WIwB)
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Kinda like the SCOTUS and circuit court judges on immigration?
In the end, not good things.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:42 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:42 PM (1wjle)
I didn't fact check that, though.
Posted by: garrett
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She was and fwiw, Cornyn and Cruz were both on the Senate Judiciary committee in 2019. Lady Lindsay Graham was chair. So my guess is some sort of swap versus a blue state nominee was involved but that is only a guess. Both Cornyn and Cruz though had to return blue slips for this nominee and could have tanked her being on the court.
Trump, at least in term one, due to senatorial courtesy, would have consulted the home state senators for any district court appointment so as to not get blindsided by a rejection. So either Cornyn or Cruz had to promote this incompetent boob as a potential nominee, again, I am guessing in return for a competent judge in another state. Or because Cornynhole was in fact a Democrat.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:42 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:43 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:43 PM (I+a8W)
He's one senator out of a hundred. What has he not done that you expected him to do or vice versa?
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 01:43 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 30, 2026 01:43 PM (hxMfc)
Mayflower Society? Ya mean dem whiteys dat came on da boat from England?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:43 PM (l3cgK)
How you like them ladyballs?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:42 PM (1wjle)
Twist my arm
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:44 PM (I+a8W)
154 So...hey black voters, note trannies are above you in the Dem oppression stack order.
How you like them ladyballs?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
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"i don't like it at all!"
-Dave Chappelle
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:44 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:40 PM (1wjle)
I understand. It seems like Brown has really gone off the dead end and not just in this case. She should probably be removed. However, her behavior in this case may be in part due to frustration to an out of state lawyer who bashes black lawyers online. Again, from Legal Insurrection's comments:
"Young was in Texas helping on a case (several cases actually) where he was working under “pro hoc vice,” which is where he is not a member of the local bar, but was working under the supervision of a lawyer who was.
The ability for Young to work in that manner was pulled after he continually made complaints about black lawyers in writing and also posting attorney-client privileged information."
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 30, 2026 01:44 PM (P9Ea3)
Most black people in the US have white ancestors so its not that surprising
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 01:43 PM (vTZFs)
Be better than Reagan. The Reagan who wasn't shot the second month of his first term
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (rbvCR)
She's great, but the Person of Interest I come back to most often is the one where Amy Acker is dual-wielding. 10/10 no notes.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:42 PM (1wjle)
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Heh.
I started a rewatch of that series last night...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (FZ29D)
How you like them ladyballs?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
With Illegals above both and Muslims above all. For now.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (r2Icn)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (hxMfc)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 30, 2026 01:44 PM (P9Ea3)
Shit can both.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (RDiUV)
but you're allowed to complain about black lawyers
it's not illegal
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Diogenes
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It's coming. Lawyers and judges have no one to blame but themselves for making courts a laughingstock worldwide. And the result will be no judicial independence which bites everyone in the ass too.
Judges and lawyers are essentially bureaucrats in dispute resolution and the same incentives for employees at the DMV are in operation there.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (E4rtv)
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Okay. She's clearly a corner case.
Maybe this is a development against being called a "House N-----" for her career.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:46 PM (Fi81e)
Most black people in the US have white ancestors so its not that surprising
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)
She has white privilege...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:46 PM (l3cgK)
BBC is telling people to eat garbage scraps.
This is a real article in the BBC.
Eating fruit and vegetable scraps such as peels and stalks could provide a health boost that most of us are missing, say UK researchers.
They say scraps are an overlooked source of dietary fibre and are encouraging people to try "root-to-tip" eating, including watermelon rind, pineapple core and butternut squash seeds.
http://tiny.cc/yuwc101
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 01:47 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:47 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:47 PM (Ti9vn)
She'd shotgun your knee off and then go sleep with the guy who used to beat her regularly.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:39 PM (TMNW7)
Amateur.
Posted by: Beth Dutton at October 30, 2026 01:47 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at October 30, 2026 01:47 PM (0sNs1)
U.S. stocks are falling mainly because disappointing results and outlooks from Amazon and Intel have intensified a sell-off in technology and AI-related shares. Investors are also questioning whether heavy AI spending will pay off; Intel was especially weak, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell more than the Dow.
There’s another concern adding pressure: two Federal Reserve officials said inflation may require higher interest rates, after a recent inflation reading strengthened expectations of a possible December rate hike.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:47 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:47 PM (ccf/V)
Judges and lawyers are essentially bureaucrats in dispute resolution and the same incentives for employees at the DMV are in operation there.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:45 PM (E4rtv)
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It might be the dinner bell for the Gods of the Copybook Headings.
Although, they might be a ways off yet.
Very few people understand how a cluster of venial decisions can create a pile of rubble.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (Fi81e)
BBC is telling people to eat garbage scraps.
This is a real article in the BBC.
Eating fruit and vegetable scraps such as peels and stalks could provide a health boost that most of us are missing, say UK researchers.
They say scraps are an overlooked source of dietary fibre and are encouraging people to try "root-to-tip" eating, including watermelon rind, pineapple core and butternut squash seeds.
http://tiny.cc/yuwc101
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 01:47 PM (mkw2N)
Tree bark and grass too.
Posted by: NORK peasant at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (l3cgK)
Just saying it wouldn't be the first time.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (I+a8W)
As is so often the case, there is no good guy in this scenario, but one of them has more power and thus leverage to do damage to society than the other.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (TMNW7)
This is a real article in the BBC.
Eating fruit and vegetable scraps such as peels and stalks could provide a health boost that most of us are missing, say UK researchers.
They say scraps are an overlooked source of dietary fibre and are encouraging people to try "root-to-tip" eating, including watermelon rind, pineapple core and butternut squash seeds.
http://tiny.cc/yuwc101
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 01:47 PM (mkw2N)
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Hey! They're gonna be grateful for this information when the government initiates a famine! (For the children, of course!)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (FZ29D)
Intel fucked up and is missing the AI boat. Again.
Also they had an explosion at their foundry in Israel. Not caused by Muslims, it was a fuckup.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (n5tGW)
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That's partisan bullshit. 10 OTHER Federal Reserve officials said the opposite.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 01:49 PM (TN0g+)
That is more evidence of my theory.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:49 PM (Ti9vn)
Intel fucked up and is missing the AI boat. Again.
Also they had an explosion at their foundry in Israel. Not caused by Muslims, it was a fuckup.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (2ocoG)
Yeah, and thinkin on it... NVIDIA CEO literally in bed with Chi Com spy? not a good look.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 30, 2026 01:49 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:47 PM (sKqQm)
There's that word again. Why December? Because by December you will forget this announcement.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:49 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 01:50 PM (wVcYX)
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Ah, so this could be the drying off period for AI hype.
If that is the case, it's needed.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:50 PM (Fi81e)
Slay you black queen!
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 30, 2026 01:50 PM (OkYzo)
The lawless, power-mad, unhinged usurpation of political power by courts, their erasure of the constitution and its replacement by this gigantic absurd edifice of judge-made "law", the delusional imitation of some kind of Revolutionary Command Council in issuing cultural ukazes far outside any imaginable purview they might have - this is the important issue.
Had a few SCOTUS clerk acquaintances in DC days. Was fun to torment them about the most ridiculous cases. O'Connor's idiotic affirmative action ruling was a favorite. In each case they had no defense, really nothing to say. The whole system, culturally, rests on a lazy ignorant deference to an unexamined emperor with no clothes.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 01:51 PM (U/Byj)
Tree bark and grass too.
Posted by: NORK peasant at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (l3cgK)
Many parts are edible...
Posted by: Euell Gibbons at October 30, 2026 01:51 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 01:51 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (2ocoG)
Q: Whats the difference between an explosion caused by Muslims and an explosion caused by a fuckup
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:51 PM (I+a8W)
OK story time:
When my mom was a teenager, they were so poor after medical bills to help with grandma's brain tumor that they had too little to eat. The stores would let them go into the dumpster and find edible but expired foods to take home. They would eat a can of soup for dinner, between the six of them.
I grew up less poor than that but... very poor.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:51 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (TMNW7)
Can't and won't argue with that.
Remove the judge and see if Mr./Ms./Mx./whatever-the-hell-it-is Young's license can be revoked for violating clear court orders.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 30, 2026 01:51 PM (P9Ea3)
If that is the case, it's needed.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:50 PM (Fi81e)
The Friday before the election? Yeah nope
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:52 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:52 PM (Ti9vn)
Hey AI, could you make a movie where a woman jumps off a tall cliff hits a trampoline at the bottom and then summer saults back up--almost gaining energy?
So that I can show this fake video to everybody for engagement?
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:52 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Finch - Lynch it rhymes don't it at October 30, 2026 01:52 PM (anL5R)
PUT DOWN THE CHICKEN NUGGIES
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 01:52 PM (r2Icn)
He doesn't really act like he cares about the judiciary one way or the other. Judicial appointments are just more fodder for Making A Deal to him.
Posted by: Oddbob
Trump is a realist. Senatorial courtesy on judicial nominations extends way back to the nation's founding on district court nominations. Used to also apply to circuit court nominations with specific state 'seats' on each circuit but that norm has been weakened a lot.
Trump has complained repeatedly and publicly that the blue slip policy (not a Senate rule btw) of the judiciary committee should be ended so that his nominees can come to a vote. Grassley, as one of the oldest senators with the most seniority among the GOP, as chair of the Judiciary Cmte, refuses to do that but is due to be rotated out of the position next Congress anyway I think.
The blue slip policy has made a mess though of district attorney nominations (mebbe US marshals as well but dunno about that), because of blue state Democrats blocking all of those using blue slips which never was an issue before Trump.
Time for that policy to die for the GOP.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:53 PM (E4rtv)
"he" (or whatever it is) can be denied all future pro hac vice requests, at least.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:53 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Klaus at October 30, 2026 01:53 PM (Fi81e)
For example: Pumpkin seeds: yum
Apple seeds: potentially dangerous
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:53 PM (TMNW7)
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Yes, I practically drown mine in butter and do the same thing.
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 01:53 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Dave at October 30, 2026 01:53 PM (sbsMc)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (FZ29D)
LUXURY
Posted by: the Past and Future Yorkshire Men at October 30, 2026 01:53 PM (rbvCR)
Phrasing?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 01:50 PM (wVcYX)
From the rooter to the tooter!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (2ocoG)
Q: Whats the difference between an explosion caused by Muslims and an explosion caused by a fuckup
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:51 PM (I+a8W)
The "Alah snackbar" before and the ululating after?
Posted by: NORK peasant at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (Qugny)
Months ago I saw a very incompetent they/them lawyer embarrassing theyself at a hearing...
and i think he/she/they was berated by a black female judge....
Is this pyrsyn heavy, by any chance?
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:53 PM (E4rtv)
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A foolish consistency is still a foolish consistency.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (U/Byj)
I suspect the only think stopping them is the Russians noting they will nuke the rich neighborhoods in London...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: That Guy at October 30, 2026 01:55 PM (Fi81e)
Intel fucked up and is missing the AI boat. Again.
Also they had an explosion at their foundry in Israel. Not caused by Muslims, it was a fuckup.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:48 PM (2ocoG)
Yeah, and thinkin on it... NVIDIA CEO literally in bed with Chi Com spy? not a good look.
Posted by: Romeo13
Neither would replacing the courts and lawyers with AI/arbiters who would actually evaluate the case on the documented facts rather than hear-say argument of the very people who are setting fire to the world and gunning your children down: Lawyers (no, not cTHIEL, he's the one selling the AI/Judiciary, imagine that!)
That day has to come, just not right now, and certainly NOT under the perview of the LIBs.
This is Normal.
LET'S GO BRANDON!
End LIB Strategic Insanity Forever.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at October 30, 2026 01:55 PM (M58G6)
Posted by: Maroon at October 30, 2026 01:55 PM (CIoEY)
Save your scraps and make veggie stock or gravy out of them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:56 PM (TMNW7)
I suspect the only think stopping them is the Russians noting they will nuke the rich neighborhoods in London...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (sKqQm)
That and the lack of an army, or guns, or trucks to send bangers and mash and tea to the front lines.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 01:56 PM (uhVAy)
Racism is about power.
Rape is about power.
Is there anything leftists don't think is about power?
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:56 PM (I+a8W)
Like an Indian eats a Buffalo Penis.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (Qugny)
That's hot!
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at October 30, 2026 01:56 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (1wjle)
Unfortunately. It's a way that the legislative has secured in stealing a power away from the executive.
Posted by: That Guy at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (Fi81e)
Racism is about power.
Rape is about power.
Is there anything leftists don't think is about power?
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:56 PM (I+a8W)
The dead ones.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (l3cgK)
Months ago I saw a very incompetent they/them lawyer embarrassing theyself at a hearing...
and i think he/she/they was berated by a black female judge....
Is this pyrsyn heavy, by any chance?
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (1wjle)
From a quick Google photo search, yeah, Young could use skipping a few desserts (and breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, for that matter)...
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (P9Ea3)
Posted by: lin-duh at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (9AdGW)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (Ti9vn)
Like an Indian eats a Buffalo Penis.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (Qugny)
That's hot!
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at October 30, 2026 01:56 PM (ccf/V)
It's not a popsicle...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (l3cgK)
I remember the line from Enemy at the Gates: "Every soldier has been issued 5 bullets. If you weren't given a rifle when the soldier in front of you falls take his"
I suspect modern Britain would have no problem with the same
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Maroon at October 30, 2026 01:55 PM (CIoEY)
Market is up and down all the time.. It's schizophrenic ..
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (+gK6I)
Britain has been pretty clear they want to start a war to kill off a non-trivial percent of their white population.
They are running military recruitment ads with white men in them, never a good sign for peace.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:58 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:56 PM (I+a8W)
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The only thing that progs are not "transactional" about is money.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:58 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 30, 2026 01:58 PM (Q/FnY)
Unfortunately. It's a way that the legislative has secured in stealing a power away from the executive.
Posted by: That Guy at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (Fi81e)
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It's my understanding that it's only held up because of leadership of the Judiciary Committee.
Which is, essentially, Chuck Grassley.
It's just a courtesy, not even a rule.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:58 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 01:58 PM (wVcYX)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdEGjU928rc
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:58 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:58 PM (sKqQm)
The outside observer is left to choose between characteristic low quality and safety standards in such a country, and deliberate sabotage by ..... well, you-know-who.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 01:58 PM (U/Byj)
Time for that policy to die for the GOP.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:53 PM (E4rtv)
In theory no reason a Dem judge could follow the law and not be political. If they proposed one, I could consider it.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 01:59 PM (uhVAy)
Although, they might be a ways off yet.
Very few people understand how a cluster of venial decisions can create a pile of rubble.
Posted by: Axeman
Don't discount the fact that encrustation of laws eventually destroy liberty as it gives the tools for power mad despots to give the veneer of legality for their actions. This judge made a public ass of herself but there are a lot of equally insane hacks in black that are clever enough not to show their diseased and twisted contents of their brains by restraining themselves from public utterances and public behavior.
Boasberg, among others, is just as cracked and power mad as she is for example. Judge Sullivan pursuing a white whale is another hack in black doing evil under the name of 'justice'.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:59 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Maroon at October 30, 2026 01:55 PM (CIoEY)
Market is up and down all the time.. It's schizophrenic ..
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (+gK6I)
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We could hope that some prog investors are betting against the market in trying to create a market slump before the elections.
Especially if they pay for it.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:59 PM (Fi81e)
Slop the hogs!
(This Venn Diagram is a single circle)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 01:58 PM (wVcYX)
Pigs will eat people...Soylent Green...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 01:59 PM (l3cgK)
I am not watching the numbers...but a Crash is unlikely. The market corrects itself all the time...and people also manipulate the Market for affect all the time.
I wouldn't worry much at all.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 01:59 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:59 PM (TMNW7)
https://www.ezrayoung.com/bio
Posted by: Lurkyloo at October 30, 2026 01:59 PM (PZ7h8)
$20, same as in town.
I just thought it was a useful detail since it was in Israel and explosions there are usually of the Aloha Snackbar kind.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (2ocoG)
Oh what a tangled web we weave...
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: Jim Cramer - Investment Pro and Media Personality at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (Ti9vn)
Nope. Nothing whatsoever. As I write that, I realize that it could sound like sarcasm but it isn't. I mean it 100% sincerely. Every issue -- from big things like who should be President to small things like where to meet your LGBT friend for dinner during the World Series -- begins with the question of Who/What/Whom.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: lin-duh at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (9AdGW)
Liberal dipshittery and inclusivity will be the destruction of the west and the imminent takeover of the world by islham.
The United States will be the last battlefront mainly because we still have our guns, for now.
In the immortal words of Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. We're gonna need it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (Ae6Br)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (1wjle)
___________
Ask, and The Blade delivers! Not the same "guy" ....
https://tinyurl.com/yt3s9ek8
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (iFTx/)
Racism is about power.
Rape is about power.
Is there anything leftists don't think is about power?
Posted by: ...
Explains it all: pearl-clutching LIBs and people who want-to-believe
https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
...has discovered, as Shakespeare understood, that the more brazen and relentless one’s acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one’s door offering to forget, to forgive, and to give forgiveness a bad name.
What FOOL These Mortals Be?
Let's GO BRANDON!
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (M58G6)
Its one of those Gentlemen's Agreements in an era with no gentlemen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:01 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 02:01 PM (Ae6Br)
I remember the line from Enemy at the Gates: "Every soldier has been issued 5 bullets. If you weren't given a rifle when the soldier in front of you falls take his"
I suspect modern Britain would have no problem with the same
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:57 PM (sKqQm)
their army could probably cover 4 km of front line if they were lucky. And that isn't considering drones, which they probably don't have.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:01 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:01 PM (ccf/V)
Da Fuq!
Posted by: Delurker at October 30, 2026 02:01 PM (2Drhq)
Zee/Zem says they's name is like "Rob Hopkins" or something.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 02:02 PM (1wjle)
I hate losing money more than I like making it.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:02 PM (Ti9vn)
The Justice Department plans to put about 1,000 of its own employees in polling places across the country on Election Day, Nov. 3, and has not yet said where.
Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon announced the figure Aug. 17, and by Sept. 22 she said the department was "pretty close" to it, calling it "the biggest DOJ election observer effort in history," according to the NAACP's federal complaint.
The complaint says DOJ has never deployed more than 600 monitors in a prior election. Department spokeswoman Kiersten Pels told USA Today the full county list will come early next week.
Anywhere not having votes counted by midnight should have a mob of armed people in and surrounding the building protecting the vote. For the children....
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 02:02 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: four seasons at October 30, 2026 02:02 PM (/QHx4)
"Everything is politial"
--V. Lenin
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:59 PM (TMNW7)
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If that quote is real, it's amazing how close the modern form "the personal is political" comes to that.
And a lot of people prattle that (and then wonder why the country has become "so divided"--TRUMP!!) these days.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:02 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Legal profession has become rotten from law school onwards. Time to make it an undergraduate degree like in UK and elsewhere by restoring the bachelor of laws degree as prerequisites for the bar and remove the idiotic cachet of Doctor of Laws.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:02 PM (E4rtv)
Nope. Nothing whatsoever. As I write that, I realize that it could sound like sarcasm but it isn't. I mean it 100% sincerely. Every issue -- from big things like who should be President to small things like where to meet your LGBT friend for dinner during the World Series -- begins with the question of Who/What/Whom.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (vTZFs)
that isn't an opinion, it is leftist doctrine and always has been.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:02 PM (uhVAy)
Worked for the Russians during World War Eleven.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 02:02 PM (Qugny)
Can I haz hair lighter fluid?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:01 PM (ccf/V)
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While many may understand that I'm not prone to panic, but in this case...
I'm shirtless, have a tie wrapped around my forehead, have killed my neighbors, and am dancing on top of a car in preparation for the ongoing apocalypse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Maroon at October 30, 2026 01:55 PM (CIoEY)
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Indexes are still up big for the year and near all-time highs
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: four seasons at October 30, 2026 02:02 PM (/QHx4)
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We shoze ze wronk religion, anyvays.
Posted by: Guess Who? at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (Fi81e)
Extra protein!
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (UjdFS)
Might I suggest:
Any jurisdiction not counted by midnight has its votes discarded
And every election official hung within 24 hours.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (P9Ea3)
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: Reforger
Yep. The Golden rule of politics, use raw government power to grab the gold of others.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (E4rtv)
The Justice Department plans to put about 1,000 of its own employees in polling places across the country on Election Day, Nov. 3, and has not yet said where.
Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon announced the figure Aug. 17, and by Sept. 22 she said the department was "pretty close" to it, calling it "the biggest DOJ election observer effort in history," according to the NAACP's federal complaint.
The complaint says DOJ has never deployed more than 600 monitors in a prior election. Department spokeswoman Kiersten Pels told USA Today the full county list will come early next week.
Anywhere not having votes counted by midnight should have a mob of armed people in and surrounding the building protecting the vote. For the children....
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 02:02 PM (Sco7b)
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I bet Biden's DOJ sent them into Philadelphia and not, like, small town Florida.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:04 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 02:04 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 02:04 PM (7LLii)
I love how "his" voice changes to become female halfway through LOL
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:04 PM (TMNW7)
Can I haz hair lighter fluid?
I recall during Obama days, plus or minus 2% days were not uncommon.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 02:04 PM (vTZFs)
And the daily price changes in enormous companies such as the big tech behemoths can be radical, compared to the industrial stalwarts that dominated the exchanges decades ago.
Take those imbalances and combine with one of the (potential) periodic paradigm-shifting real trends (AI-related infrastructure spending), and voila.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 02:04 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (Ae6Br)
That's not how banking works. That money is already gone. The question is will they print more when you want it back.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:05 PM (uhVAy)
Was that BroFo or Rancid Taliban?
Either way I suspect this only worked because the Germans were pretty clear they wanted to massacre the slavic people if they won.
So follow shithead Stalin's orders and probably die or run away and even if the NKVD doesn't torture you to death the Germans will...and your family.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 02:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 30, 2026 02:05 PM (P9Ea3)
Pics or it didn't happen.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 02:06 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 02:00 PM (vTZFs)
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It's an extension of Foucault's main premise.
Every exchange of words is about *power*.
In other words, they convinced themselves that all exchanges of words are only about what progressives wanted to do with words.
And since it was inevitable, they were on Team Progress. And you're not.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:06 PM (Fi81e)
Every fiscal decision made by the Obama Administration was in service to this very notion.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 02:06 PM (Qugny)
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So its Friday and 5 o'clock somewhere!
Posted by: Crusader at October 30, 2026 02:06 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Stateless
I would make every damn one of them a temporary US marshal. That means they could immediately arrest any state or local pollworkers when they see fraud in their observations. Exception to requiring a warrant before arrest. Hacks in black interfere, arrest them too for obstruction of justice among other things.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:06 PM (E4rtv)
"I FREAKING TOLD YOU"
--Margaret Thatcher
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:06 PM (TMNW7)
And every election official hung within 24 hours.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)
I'm taking care of an elderly dog loyal to my late mother.
After this, axe executioner would be cool. It's not like they're human. Entire bloodlines.
Hmmm. Maybe I am angry enough to be here...
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 02:06 PM (Sco7b)
I'm shirtless, have a tie wrapped around my forehead, have killed my neighbors, and am dancing on top of a car in preparation for the ongoing apocalypse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (xjopy)
look, you aren't going to win "Mother of the Year" so quit trying.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:06 PM (uhVAy)
>Every exchange of words is about *power*.
The Argument of Utility is pure evil.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 02:06 PM (Qugny)
Pics or it didn't happen.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 02:06 PM (vTZFs)
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https://tinyurl.com/msu92ey2
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:06 PM (xjopy)
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Have you saved them in a chest freezer?
Neighbors go bad after a while.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:07 PM (Fi81e)
yeah I saw that by now. Being from Oklahoma City doesn't mean much because Ezra Young is shimself an out of state lawyer permitted to argue in texas via pro hac vice leave of the court.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 02:07 PM (1wjle)
When he says Latino, does he mean he's from Latin America, he may have meant Hispanic as a signifier he's from Hispanola.
Or maybe he's just reaching for a bullsh*t term to make the lunatic, racist twat bag stop humiliating him.
Regardless, all of these people are f****g nuts.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 02:07 PM (XV/Pl)
All Russian outfits hand minders that made sure you never retreated . Go backwards and get shot.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:07 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 02:07 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge
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Buy and learn to shoot a firearm is first. Ammo comes next.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:08 PM (E4rtv)
I'm shirtless, have a tie wrapped around my forehead, have killed my neighbors, and am dancing on top of a car in preparation for the ongoing apocalypse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at
*pulls pin*
*aims at TJM*
*squeezes handle*
*sweeps side to side*
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 02:08 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (2ocoG)
I did some quick research and found that the most diverse country in the world is Tuvalu, a South Pacific nation of about 12,000 people and zero whites. Nauru (with 200 whites) and Honduras (1% white) are also up on the list, since 'diverse' = 'non-white' in Lefty.
Posted by: SciVo at October 30, 2026 02:08 PM (ke3zm)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 02:07 PM (XV/Pl)
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The funny thing about both those terms is that they both refer to regions in Europe.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:08 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (xjopy)
Is that your Shaun of the Dead Halloween costume for Tricks-or-Treats? Remember the "spot of red" on you for the full effect.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (wVcYX)
So like polynikes, when I have a baked potato, I tend to eat the whole thing. Besides which the skin is pretty good, especially when things like sauces or bacon etc are in the picture.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 02:07 PM (XV/Pl)
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The funny thing about both those terms is that they both refer to regions in Europe.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:08 PM (Fi81e)
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What do you mean that Hispaniola and Latin languages refer to the land of Cortez and not the land of the Aztec?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (xjopy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdEGjU928rc
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No if you watch it he identifies himself as Rob Thomas an attorney from Oklahoma City.
Posted by: Crazy as a bedbug at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:03 PM (xjopy)
Is that your Shaun of the Dead Halloween costume for Tricks-or-Treats? Remember the "spot of red" on you for the full effect.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (wVcYX)
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Not nearly enough of you have seen Black Books, and it shows.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:10 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 02:10 PM (vTZFs)
But they were all dudes, and the ladies were all natives.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:10 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (Fi81e)
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I have met the enemy, and they are me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:10 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:05 PM (uhVAy)
Which is why the government wants them to die.
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 02:10 PM (Ae6Br)
"Everything is politial"
--V. Lenin
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
If that quote is real, it's amazing how close the modern form "the personal is political" comes to that.
And a lot of people prattle that (and then wonder why the country has become "so divided"--TRUMP!!) these days.
Posted by: Axeman
267 Is there anything leftists don't think is about power?
"Everything is politial"
--V. Lenin
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
If that quote is real, it's amazing how close the modern form "the personal is political" comes to that.
And a lot of people prattle that (and then wonder why the country has become "so divided"--TRUMP!!) these days.
Posted by: Axeman
Remember who did this:
“Iran is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami (in 1997). (It is) the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote
There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.” -- Bill Clinton'05, BFF/fenz w/Epstein
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at October 30, 2026 02:10 PM (M58G6)
Waiting for Bessent to come on the stage in St. Cloud. Seems they're running late.
Posted by: beckster
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That appearance was on, then off, now on again. I haven't been around much. Have we armchair quarterbacked it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2026 02:10 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 02:08 PM (E4rtv)
Wait. Everyone doesn't already have a firearm?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 02:11 PM (ccf/V)
You ever seen the Meme of the S. American Native Chick and the mock Columbus Quote - "Burn the boats".
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 02:11 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (xjopy)
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Actually, one is a more direct reference to the language the Roman empire spoke.
No history of colonizing there.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:11 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 02:11 PM (r2Icn)
She's super, super cute but I think she was like 12 in that image
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 02:12 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (Fi81e)
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I have met the enemy, and they are me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 02:10 PM (xjopy)
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So you have them facing inward?
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 02:13 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: beckster
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That appearance was on, then off, now on again.
Sometimes service at Cheesecake Factory can be slow.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 02:13 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 02:14 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 02:14 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 30, 2026 02:15 PM (wGerL)
Worked for the Russians during World War Eleven.
Posted by: garrett at October 30, 2026 02:02 PM (Qugny)
There was plenty of ammo and crap lying around their side of Stalingrad in the battle. Live men and real estate was the problem. For all practical purposes except morale the Germans took Stalingrad in the fall of 42. It was the counterattack on the flanks and rear that did the damage. Even when surrendering months later the Germans held the city, 62nd army was too weak to push them out.
The problem for the Germans was that Stalingrad was a pretty worthless objective aside from a place to shelter from the winter once the factories were destroyed. And the open flanks on both sides held with inferior troops was a giant "Surround Me!" sign on their asses.
great courage from the Russian troops both in and out of the city and a great job by the counterattack planners. Russia did a second offensive at the same time nearer Moscow called Mars that had more men that the Germans were able to defeat at a huge cost.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:15 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 02:14 PM (U/Byj)
it also was pretty much ignored by the men facing Operation Blau, and presumably the army brass afterward. It was notable that often units dissolved and moved to the rear in a semi formed state, sometimes crossing the paths of the Germans moving south and west going north and east to shelter behind the Don river where they were reorganized.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:19 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Halfhand at October 30, 2026 02:20 PM (ln9iG)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)
Presumably from a list given to him by traitors in the GOPe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 02:20 PM (6v4rH)
“Iran is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami (in 1997). (It is) the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote
There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.” -- Bill Clinton'05, BFF/fenz w/Epstein
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at October 30, 2026 02:10 PM (M58G6)
First time I've heard religious hardliners and terrorists being called 'progressive'
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:21 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Crazy as a bedbug at October 30, 2026 02:21 PM (anL5R)
Chad is the apex of manliness, not a genderbent Karen meme. Disgusting.
Posted by: Sjg at October 30, 2026 02:22 PM (i8HNq)
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 02:09 PM (U/Byj)
The eyes or green bits are the danger areas. If there's much there cut them out.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 02:23 PM (uhVAy)
For reference, here's his bio.
https://www.ezrayoung.com/bio
Posted by: Lurkyloo at October 30, 2026 02:30 PM (PZ7h8)
Legal profession has become rotten from law school onwards. Time to make it an undergraduate degree like in UK and elsewhere by restoring the bachelor of laws degree as prerequisites for the bar and remove the idiotic cachet of Doctor of Laws.
Posted by: whig
Solicitors and Barristers with white wigs.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 02:32 PM (Cqx++)
Looks like a troll as much as anything else, could be "white" or "hispanic" so I understand the judge not being sure...but what a stupid time we live in.
I guess I'm "rayciss" because I don't want to have to assess the race of everyone I interact with before deciding how to interact with them
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 01:36 PM (sKqQm)
Tranny vs rayciss? All I can do is root for casualties. Could we convince them to settle this in a duel with hand grenades?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 02:32 PM (6v4rH)
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Wash the skin, cut out eyes and green bits. Dry skin. Olive oil, then kosher salt on skin. Poke holes with fork all about. Slice 2 inch long cut in skin of potato. Wrap in tin foil, but leave the 2 inch long cut open to air, foil like a chimney. Bake 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes at 425. Apply desired condiments. Inside will be fluffy. Yes, you will eat the skin.
Posted by: potato land potato land potato land at October 30, 2026 02:34 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:42 PM (E4rtv)
But was her raving racism in evidence at the time of the appointment? Maybe the cheese slipped off her cracker a little later?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 02:39 PM (6v4rH)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (ccf/V)
We're talking about the wound, right? Right?
Glad your furry friend is home. We've been through that as well, only with our cats over the years. They are part of the family, for sure.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 30, 2026 02:45 PM (hmYU4)
Sometimes I think we are in a Mad Magazine endless SNL skit.
Will it ever stop? What happened to whirrled peas?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 02:52 PM (hzuYO)
Well, I'll accept the first one. But the second is patently, facially, false, as she's a racist and in violation of judicial ethics, labor law, and the 14th Amendment.
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 02:53 PM (kU0PQ)
Huh. Wouldn't that be a deprivation of rights under color of authority charge?
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 02:56 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Daniel Ream at October 30, 2026 03:00 PM (LgYtf)
Posted by: sidney at October 30, 2026 03:04 PM (V8nDf)
I smell a rat. I think we’re being played. Just sayin’…
Posted by: FOMSG at October 30, 2026 04:14 PM (jtjbl)
Posted by: FOMSG at October 30, 2026 04:17 PM (jtjbl)
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at October 30, 2026 06:14 PM (OGFx7)
We can't blame this one on the Democrats
Posted by: Kevin at October 30, 2026 08:46 PM (h5uyd)
Feds Raid Multiple Fraudulent "Autism Services Centers" in, Get This, Minnesota
It's the same scam we've seen before: essentially fake "health care providers" bill the federal government for "services" they never provide to "patients" who don't exist or don't even have the ailments they're supposedly being treated for. This could quickly be stopped by the most basic of verification protocols, but the Democrats always turn those all the way off. And, as usual, they find a liberal criminal, in this case a 70-year-old Karen, who has some certification which allows her to sign off on the completely-fake billing. And no further questions are asked.Federal agents raided multiple Minnesota autism service providers Thursday in the latest law enforcement action involving a state already under intense scrutiny over allegations of widespread fraud in taxpayer-funded programs. The FBI confirmed that federal and state agencies were conducting "court-authorized investigative activity" at multiple locations across Minnesota, including sites in the Twin Cities and Rochester, according to MPR News. ... Iska Inc. received more than $16.7 million in Medicaid payments between 2018 and 2025, according to state data reviewed by the Minnesota Star Tribune. The business participated in Minnesota's Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program, which provides services to children and young people with autism and has faced increasing scrutiny over fraud allegations. ... The Justice Department also announced charges against 15 defendants in May in connection with alleged health care fraud schemes involving more than $90 million in intended losses. The cases included an alleged $46.6 million scheme targeting Minnesota's autism intervention program, which DOJ said saw Medicaid claims surge from more than $600,000 in 2018 to more than $400 million by 2025.Meanwhile: Greasy Gavin Newsom is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to provide luxury gourmet food to welfare lifers.
California Sends Luxury Foods to Welfare Recipients As middle-class families struggle to afford groceries, the state delivers organic produce, salmon, and more to Medi-Cal members.
Salmon, beef, organic produce, and Amy's Kitchen meals: these are just some of the luxury foods that California welfare recipients can get delivered to their homes each week, for free. Californians like TikTok user "Lupita" are taking full advantage. Earlier this year, she posted a video of herself opening a taxpayer-funded grocery box, apologizing to her manicurist as she unboxed it by hand. Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, and more. "Yesterday, I was like, 'I need some lettuce,' but the lettuce was like five dollars," she said. "And look at this. Fresh lettuce! Thank you, God." She can also thank Governor Gavin Newsom. As part of his nearly $12 billion Medicaid reform package, welfare recipients--including illegal immigrants--can receive free, "medically tailored" meals and groceries, delivered straight to their door. They can get foods for free that would cost ordinary people a small fortune. The food service is part of CalAIM, Newsom's multibillion-dollar Medi-Cal reform package. Signed into law in 2021, CalAIM directs Medicaid dollars to social programs like transitional rent payments and housing deposits. Newsom called it a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to completely transform the Medicaid system in California." The transformation is working. The most popular of CalAIM's "Community Supports," by far, is "medically tailored meals." That program and a related offering send prepared meals or "tailored" grocery items to qualified Medi-Cal recipients' homes. The state makes eligibility easy. Applicants need a qualifying Medi-Cal card, a provider's recommendation, and an eligible condition. In a 2024 presentation to a Los Angeles nonprofit, Andrew Barrier, a former executive of a California medically tailored food contractor, told his audience how easy it was to enroll. "They're not looking to push people away from the program, they're really looking for people to be on it," he said. "Step one is that chronic condition. This is really how most people come in, and they could have diabetes, pre-diabetes, cardiovascular, mental- and behavioral-health disorders--we've seen anxiety, PTSD, depression, ADHD. Again, the list is very, very long." From there, the food shows up at recipients' doorsteps. Medi-Cal pays contractors to deliver the food for up to 12 weeks, after which eligible recipients can re-enroll. And it's not cheap: across 24 weeks, between food and delivery, a single "medically tailored meals" recipient costs taxpayers more than $1,500.
Here's the Corrupt Karen who signed off on fake billing for fake patients suffering from fake autism and even warned her co-conspirators that they had to CALM DOWN on the truly massive fraud or else "the feds will come in."
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. HHS is now launching a wide-scale AUDIT of all 50 states' taxpayer AUTISM programs due to rampant fraud
North Carolina data just dropped: +11,000% PERCENT SURGE IN AUTISM BILLING 🤯 It was NOT just Minnesota! PRESIDENT TRUMP ON FRAUD: "You haven't seen anything yet." This is being called a "GOLD RUSH" of fraud, hundreds of millions and even BILLIONS are being found. More data confirmed autism spending is surging in every other state with public data.— MAGA NEWS 🇺🇲🗞️ (@MAGAlwr5) October 24, 2026
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:16 PM (xjopy)
Midnight, darkness all around.
You better beware, you better take care.
Be prepared for the shock.
The time has come and he's the one
Who's breathing down your neck.
Coming from behind, now it's your time,
A loser will die.
Fast as a shark, he'll cut out of the dark.
He's a killer, he'll rip out your heart.
On a one way, track and you're not coming back.
Because the killer's on the attack ...
FOR FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)
Just curious...
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:17 PM (Sco7b)
North Carolina data just dropped: +11,000% PERCENT SURGE IN AUTISM BILLING 🤯
It was NOT just Minnesota!
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There's an entire economy being attacked right now by the powers that be.
It's diffused across the nation. It's rich. It's connected.
But it doesn't seem to be racking up much in the way of wins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:17 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (JnkZq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: The person who always says that at October 30, 2026 12:19 PM (aDmlG)
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Note well. She is worried about the Feds, not the State's authorities -- because the state authorities are in on it.
Posted by: Captn Obvs at October 30, 2026 12:19 PM (anL5R)
--Minnesota government
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:19 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 12:19 PM (NcvvS)
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Who them, gratefully fill Dem coffers.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:20 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 12:20 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:20 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 30, 2026 12:20 PM (aCs4e)
Guarantee you that will be the spin. From all the news organizations.
Just like "no we will not give free food to illegals and people who can work any longer" is being spun as "they are starving 900 trillion children in Alaska alone!!!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (TMNW7)
She gets the first shot at cutting a deal to name names, though.
Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: I gotta ask at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (aDmlG)
Posted by: LASue at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: M. Gaga at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (3p/KU)
Total healthcare spending could be cut in 24 hours to 25% of what it is right now, and not one actual human with any real sickness or need of care will be affected. Not a one.
Nobody will ever be able to convince me of anything different. Not even if you try to use shark attack and car accident statistics!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (M+uMR)
Posted by: I'm Korva Coleman, and this is NPR News at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (XE5AP)
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (9TspW)
Posted by: M. Gaga at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (3p/KU)
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Everyone has AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
Everyone has AIDS
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Therapists everywhere at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (aDmlG)
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (Ae6Br)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (2rrwR)
Posted by: I'm Korva Coleman, and this is NPR News at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (XE5AP)
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Wait. You skipped the "It's not happening" phase.
We have to have a round of "It's not happening".
We gaslit know our gaslighting.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:23 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: toothless worthless gutless dickless GOP asshats at October 30, 2026 12:23 PM (aDmlG)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 12:20 PM (Jr5Lq)
Secondary take - real service providers should welcome a 50 state audit. B/c they will realize there will ultimately be more money for them when the 90% fake places are shut down...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 12:23 PM (Gb7+b)
It appears as if all the fraud can be stopped, we might not need a national income tax.
Posted by: Mudshark at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (ZdCWL)
Nope. However, if you or yours might be able to use some assistance...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (ADOtk)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (iFTx/)
Assume a spherical hippo.
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (wXgT/)
Autism became "not a dull, obedient, ordinary child who does well in school" rather than a mental illness. Any child who is slightly different than their baseline lab model? Austistic or ADHD! That boy who gets bored in school? ADHD! That girl who doesn't break down crying when teased? Autistic!
Thar's big money in them hills.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (iFTx/)
Assume a spherical hippo.
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (wXgT/)
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Think I can apply my model for a spherical chicken?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (9TspW)
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The only limit to hating the Republicans enough is how much you hate the Democrat/Media/DC complex.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (Fi81e)
I guess Islam is the green part of the Red/Green Alliance. Red is for commies, though the Greens are also commies with their fake Green New Deal and all.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (mkw2N)
good point.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (1wjle)
It's beyond frustrating when you can see the fraud coming from a million miles away.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (I+a8W)
another good point.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (1wjle)
It's a genocide. (Except if we abort them because they have genetic markers for autism, were that a thing.)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: mr tmz at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: illiniwek at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (vbXSk)
I'd like to think old fashioned and believe some of it goes to hookers, cocaine and booze.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (1wjle)
"My opponent agrees with Trump, slashing much needed services to immigrants with autistic children!!!!!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (f0Zj2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 12:27 PM (qBdHI)
Only half?
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:27 PM (ADOtk)
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (9TspW)
This! Starting to think that maybe decades of failed oversight wasn't accidental.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 30, 2026 12:27 PM (lFFaq)
https://tinyurl.com/4whwbftk
Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (myTpx)
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (1wjle)
But they found that steak and lobster make for lower hospital admissions.
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (Ae6Br)
As usual, something I posted with 700 words is better stated by someone else using fewer than 20
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (9TspW)
This! Starting to think that maybe decades of failed oversight wasn't accidental.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 30, 2026 12:27 PM (lFFaq)
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All real power at the federal level is in the executive. It's the only prize that really matters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (xjopy)
How would you tell if a Somali is autistic? Less of a lightbulb head?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (HD2n/)
Thar's big money in them hills.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (TMNW7)
That was the scam of calling it a spectrum, rather than a proper diagnosis.
Any parent who is not immediately skeptical of such spectrum "diagnoses" should have their head examined.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (9TspW)
This! Starting to think that maybe decades of failed oversight wasn't accidental.
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Just because we are fat and dumb, doesn't mean we aren't also greedy.
Posted by: The Uniparty at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (anL5R)
This isn’t hyperbole. It’s a partial list of what they have actually said is the agenda.
Posted by: Vengeance at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (oAqqA)
(Hint: if you make more than 125K a year in Portland, you are "rich".)
The county pays daycare providers, not on the number of preschoolers they take, but on the number of spaces they have "available", used or not.
Can't imagine a bigger invitation for fraud.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (aD4fx)
Feds: " What is it you would say you do here , karen?"
Karen: " I write the QPS reports. "
Feds: " as a matter of fact , that 's why we're here , because apparently you don't."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (mmrXZ)
As usual, something I posted with 700 words is better stated by someone else using fewer than 20
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (TMNW7)
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But, nah, it's much easier to piggyback on a growing problem and siphon off money going to that than to invent the whole explosion yourself for fraud.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (RDiUV)
To get on the spectrum.
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (Ae6Br)
Yeah good luck in court, DA. Not only is this notoriously difficult to win against an investigative reporter, but most of those charges are utterly without a shred of support.
He didn't vote. He didn't even register to vote. He didn't sign anything.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (TMNW7)
Duh - nothing would happen
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (9TspW)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (4WM7K)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (TMNW7)
They may just be "neurodivergent."
It's all part of the hip trend to have a many self-diagnosed afflictions as possible. Collect them all. Trade them with your friends.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (RDiUV)
But my mom told me you either "have autism" or you don't.
That predated by decades the first time I heard about the "Autism spectrum".
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (4WM7K)
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1. It's their livelihoods.
2. Stopping now doesn't erase the records of what they've done in the past.
3. These people largely seem retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (xjopy)
Duh - nothing would happen
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (9TspW)
Double secret nothing will happen?
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (4WM7K)
If you are a gun owner and value your 2A right, there is zero reason to sit home.
Posted by: Vengeance at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (oAqqA)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (TMNW7)
Yes, my niece (and nephew to a lesser degree) are that category. Think nonverbals and intellects below the age of 6 - that's severe autism.
It pisses me off that their needed services get skimmed by the introverted kid or energetic boy. B/c those kids will have advancement and "show the treatment is working" b/c it was never needed in the 1st place...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (Gb7+b)
2. Stopping now doesn't erase the records of what they've done in the past.
3. These people largely seem retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (xjopy)
I'm going with 3
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (4WM7K)
Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
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4h
🚨 SHE'S BACK: Maria Bartiromo just landed her first big hosting gig since leaving Fox News.
She'll host the America Business Forum in Miami on December 16 and 17, the same event that brought out President Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Lionel Messi last year.
President Trump is cheering her on.
Fox let her walk out the door, and Maria landed on her feet.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (E4rtv)
Yeah that was the first sign of a scam. I will buy that there is a range of human behavior and emotional response, we all learn that by the age of 5. What I won't buy is that there isn't a bright line between normal range of human behavior and mental illness.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (xjopy)
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Which makes me feel retarded.
A reasonably clever person should be able to exploit this forever if they don't get too greedy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 12:33 PM (FZ29D)
A reasonably clever person should be able to exploit this forever if they don't get too greedy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 12:33 PM (FZ29D)
And there is the answer.... reasonably clever
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:34 PM (4WM7K)
I think that's just another scam. The taxpayers are billed, but the meals are never delivered. Just another type of fraudulent "phantom" economy.
I think the phantom economy is nearly as big as the real economy.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:34 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: NCKate at October 30, 2026 12:34 PM (enNUy)
I don't think there is a single girl under the age of 25 in America that doesn't claim at least one. And they have been in therapy their entire life so they are great at faking it on demand.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:34 PM (TMNW7)
- News Bimbo from KARE 11
Did the Autism hunt them down and beat them to within an inch of their lives or something?
Do they need PTSD treatment now, too?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (6ydKt)
— MAGA NEWS 🇺🇲🗞️ (@MAGAlwr5) October 24, 2026
How much will the medical community be held responsible for diagnosing every kid with some kind of hyperactivity as autistic instead of those with ACTUAL autism?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (ccf/V)
Yeah, this all makes me feel warm all over.
Like someone pissed on me.
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (ADOtk)
There are levels to everything. Some autistic people are basically non-functional. They can't take care of themselves. They don't excel in engineering or math or any of the stereotypical fields you find autistic people in. On a completely different level, go deep into SpaceX, or Microsoft 25 years ago, and basically everyone is autistic.
My main complaint with the label is it far too broad. If a non-functional person and a high-achiever both have the same diagnosis, it's not a useful diagnosis.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (q921n)
As a Catholic, I have to say this is totally inappropriate; namely, he's a foreign sovereign and his realm is supposed to be spiritual, not on a tax increase for the forest preserve (which I'm sure he voted for).
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (Q/FnY)
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Especially because it established all that many taxpayers are now trying to vote against.
They say you have to pay taxes for your child's "education", but in our schools they "know" that schools are NOT a "educational institution" but a "socializing institution" (My ex-teacher wife, had her principle say that square to her face.)
So every time you want to cut the sum: "But don't you WANT your children EDUCATED?!" "What do you have against EDUCATION?!"
But, NEA doesn't want schools for education, it wants to serve the needs of all the parents who say "You know what my child needs more of? Socializing. I'm worried that playing with the neighbor kids, they are not getting the right kind of socializing!"
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (xjopy)
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Which makes me feel retarded.
A reasonably clever person should be able to exploit this forever if they don't get too greedy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 12:33 PM (FZ29D)
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These people aren't coming up with anything. They're being handheld and instructed by a combination of NGO employees and government employees. They're pawns, at best.
It's government power specifically designed to steal from you and give to invaders.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (xjopy)
It's just not the government being defrauded.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Vengeance at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (oAqqA)
And this is why I've lost faith in "Our Democracy".
And yeah, I know it's a Constitutional Republic.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (bQDOK)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (mkw2N)
One is a disability, one is not. When you are an adult with the intellect of a 3 year old and are nonverbal and need a daily caregiver, you are autistic.
When you are an engineer with a 6 figure salary who just struggles in talking to girls and not saying weird things, you are not.
Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Gb7+b)
But that's my argument: they aren't. They aren't autistic, they are just weird or antisocial. Being awkward and nerdy is not a mental illness. Like NCKate noted.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (TMNW7)
As a Catholic, I have to say this is totally inappropriate; namely, he's a foreign sovereign and his realm is supposed to be spiritual, not on a tax increase for the forest preserve (which I'm sure he voted for).
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (qwx/I)
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We're not supposed to have dual citizenship.
If the Pope can't respect that standard, I shake my head.
Really? Can we have a spiritual pope saying "But everybody else is doing it!"
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Fi81e)
Everyone has AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
Everyone has AIDS
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (xjopy)
You asked for it.......
https://youtu.be/aLLeQQBk2pk
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (ccf/V)
So, that UTSA bitch Isa Casahuga. For some reason, this pissed me off. Maybe because she's cute and reminds me of Kat from Gutfeld.
But since it's a beer day, I have found her mom's office phone number, agency, etc and was just calling out of curiosity. No-one's answering anywhere.
I guess SOME publicity is bad publicity...
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (TMNW7)
I would concede that there is a spectrum of people/behaviors/disabilities that could be called autism, and that is just normal animal trait variability. But it is very narrow to the point of being essentially a bright line, as we once knew it to be - you are, or you aren't.
The abuse of the spectrum idea is purely financially motivated and leads to widespread child abuse or neglect of a child's actual needs (such as "fresh air," exercise, being forced from one's comfort zone, etc.).
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (RDiUV)
'Will never happen' - the never will happen people.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (Jr5Lq)
There are levels to everything. Some autistic people are basically non-functional. They can't take care of themselves. They don't excel in engineering or math or any of the stereotypical fields you find autistic people in. On a completely different level, go deep into SpaceX, or Microsoft 25 years ago, and basically everyone is autistic.
My main complaint with the label is it far too broad. If a non-functional person and a high-achiever both have the same diagnosis, it's not a useful diagnosis.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (mkw2N)
Aspergers used to describe the functional ones.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (Cqx++)
But I must have that designo paint on my Mercedes!
(Yeah, it's "Manufaktur" now)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (ADOtk)
Children's Prevalence: Rates among 8-year-olds have climbed steadily from roughly 1 in 150 (2000) to 1 in 36 (2020), and most recently to 1 in 31 (2022 data).
and...
Prevalence: Estimates in the 1960s suggested that autism affected only about 2 to 4 children per 10,000 (e.g., Lotter's 1966 study estimated roughly 4 in 10,000).
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (rbvCR)
As a Catholic, I have to say this is totally inappropriate; namely, he's a foreign sovereign and his realm is supposed to be spiritual, not on a tax increase for the forest preserve (which I'm sure he voted for).
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (qwx/I)
Send that exact sentiment to him (he has contact ability) - popes can make mistakes and should be told when they are doing so.
I've never made it to pope level, but I have made it to bishop level for telling them when they are wrong...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 12:39 PM (Gb7+b)
Posted by: Oprahpottamus at October 30, 2026 12:39 PM (q921n)
Sure, but the other side of that coin is a concerned parent who wants to get their kid all the help they can. They want to know so they can learn how to accommodate their kid(s) and help them thrive. For those parents, it's not so they can throw their hands up and quit, it's a guide for what they need to do to help.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:39 PM (mkw2N)
Yeah it means you don't have to teach, shape, and build a child: Its out of my hands they are (insert therapyspeak term). Now give me that sweet SSI money.
Speaking of fraud, Pope Bob cast an absentee vote in Illinois
I don't want to push this too far but if you're the literal head of a foreign country, maybe you shouldn't be able to vote in the USA.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:40 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:40 PM (9TspW)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:40 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: AVS at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (5PF8b)
But that's my argument: they aren't. They aren't autistic, they are just weird or antisocial. Being awkward and nerdy is not a mental illness. Like NCKate noted.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (TMNW7)
An inability to grasp social norms(at least through the intuitive means the rest of us rely on) isn't quite the same as being awkward or nerdy.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (TMNW7)
I bet the DA loves those people who try to get Gun Show vendors to sell a gun to unqualified buyers.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (ADOtk)
I'd like to think old fashioned and believe some of it goes to hookers, cocaine and booze.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)
Jihadists love them some good old fashioned American excess, so yeah, there's that too.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:40 PM (rbvCR)
The saying in the military is, I think, "hours of boredom with moments of terror"
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (4WM7K)
Next time the Democrats have both houses of Congress and the Presidency they'll enact a law making it a capital offense for any FedGov employee to indict any Fed funded 'health provider' for fraud, or submit a whistleblower complaint about health provider fraud.
Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (5rh/l)
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They would argue about what's not happening.
The Nothing Will Happen faction will argue that prosecutions and convictions and sentences aren't going to happen.
The Nothing IS Happening will argue that prosecution is a odd step since corruption doesn't happen (unless it's the other guy, who's 100% corrupt with power!).
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (Fi81e)
When I mean uncoordinated communities, as a child of the 70s, I had cousins and friends close by that gave social cues that were informal and not threatening. With widely separated blood families, this feedback loop allowed more vulnerable types to descend into the self.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: AVS at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (5PF8b)
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We've spent less than $50 billion on the Iran action, and most of that is just operating costs of the military that would be incurred whether the ships were in port or in combat.
Also, it's like a couple of days worth of Medicaid spending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (xjopy)
"There is no bribery and pressure applied by the pharmaceutical industry in congress and regulatory industries, and by none, I mean 'very little'"
--Big Pharma
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (TMNW7)
Shark attacks would be far worse if Officer Krupke wasn't on the beat.
Posted by: Kindltot
Watch out for Jabberjaw!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Kindltot
Frog suits. It's not a raid without frog suits.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (q921n)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (okun6)
They grasp them - they don't care about exercising them b/c no one makes them do so. There's a difference.
Anything can be memorized, and they are the masters of memorization.
Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Gb7+b)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (ADOtk)
Posted by: Sonny Corleone at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Ovx+P)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:40 PM (rbv
Same basis of the saying ' better to carry a gun and not need it to not carrying and needing it'
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (5rh/l)
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Do you want to kill your fellow American so much that you would bring down health PROVIDERS!!
They PROVIDE!! It's in the NAME!! (Antifa argument recycled.)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Fi81e)
That's a good argument to change the criteria for diagnosis. But the plain fact is that according to the current guidelines, they are autistic.
I think we basically agree with each other. I'm saying the label is too broad and needs to be narrowed. You're saying the label is misapplied. Both positions get you to essentially the same conclusion.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (qwx/I)
If the Pope can't respect that standard, I shake my head.
Really? Can we have a spiritual pope saying "But everybody else is doing it!"
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Fi81e)
The pope is a fraud.
He's as bibilcal as Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (SwyyQ)
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Billionaire donors to the GOP are like 3x the amount to the Democrat Party this cycle, and it's far from just Musk.
Democrats are probably going to have money problems for a few years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (qwx/I)
Just don't say it too loudly........
Posted by: Alex Jones at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: NCKate at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (ADOtk)
Posted by: Sonny Corleone at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Ovx+P)
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I love retards.
Posted by: Pat Healy (Picture Matt Dillon in a Mustache) at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Fi81e)
Also, it's like a couple of days worth of Medicaid spending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (xjop
We've given Ukraine almost 200 billion for their war interest.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Ti9vn)
But they get the coin so totes cool.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (q921n)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (qwx/I)
I would expect someone with such up close, intimate experience to be the most discriminant.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: Pat Healy (Picture Matt Dillon in a Mustache) at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Fi81e)
Um. Isn't that politically incorrect?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (RDiUV)
But a lot of this money is sliding into the hands of terrorists and hostile nations like China. China especially benefits from the Asian senior scam.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (Toos7)
Honestly, you’re an idiot if you believe that voting for Democrats is going to be a step in the right direction. Do you need them to carve it on your forehead?
Posted by: Vengeance at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (oAqqA)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (ADOtk)
We've given Ukraine almost 200 billion for their war interest.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Ti9vn)
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But, you see, that's a war for democracy. Zelensky will march on Moscow and depose Putin. Easy.
The war in Iran is for oil and Trump's ego since he doesn't have a plan to replace the mullahs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (xjopy)
I used to be terrible at it. You know why? It wasn't that I could not, it was because I didn't. I was too busy doing other things, learning other things, thinking about other things. These guys are light years ahead of other people when it comes to nuclear physics and engineering, but terrible at personal interaction.
That's not a disability, its different priorities. When you were learning how to flirt with Lisa in the desk next to you, they were figuring out how their pen worked.
My firsthand view of autism and the spectrum is that it's a byproduct of smaller families and uncoordinated communities
I think that plays a big role: disconnected parents and no extended family to teach and demonstrate proper behavior and cultural roles.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (TMNW7)
It's just not the government being defrauded.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (Ti9vn)
True medical insurance reform would have allowed for armed auditors and black ops teams for fraud resolution.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (rbvCR)
We are being forced to pay for our own demise.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (SwyyQ)
Red Baron was backing the employee, and people are rewarding them with a buycott.
Everyone's sick of Karen's shit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (SwyyQ)
And if it's not fraud, the dude will be a millionaire by next week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (ccf/V)
But I must have that designo paint on my Mercedes!
(Yeah, it's "Manufaktur" now)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (ADOtk)
________
"Meh"
-- Iridescente Metallizzato
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)
Anyway , the feds are finally getting to the rubber stampers. That's encouraging.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (mmrXZ)
That's an oversimplification. A lot of the traits that make a good engineer are because of autism. Over-fixation on details. Extreme interest in things over people. Extreme retention of technical information.
Talking with an engineer who can recall all the details how a barely used function works based on their cursory review of it three years ago will lead you to quickly realize they're not like other people.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (mkw2N)
This.
Posted by: man
Eunice Shriver had to scrap the Retarded Olympics.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 12:48 PM (q921n)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (viF8m)
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Yes. Yes you are....
Posted by: Cloward and Piven at October 30, 2026 12:48 PM (Fi81e)
Those "influencers" need to be punched in the face. Hard. Repeatedly.
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:48 PM (ADOtk)
Everyone's sick of Karen's shit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,
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That one had nothing to do with karen. In fact , we probably need to get a nickname for these mulatto social media pranksters who get clicks off other people's distress.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 12:49 PM (mmrXZ)
Also, it's like a couple of days worth of Medicaid spending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (xjop
We've given Ukraine almost 200 billion for their war interest.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Ti9vn)
Whatever we spend on taking down the Iranian IRGC Caliphate will be worth it.
Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 12:49 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 12:49 PM (Ae6Br)
Posted by: Dave at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (JsnYl)
How big was this cat?? That's like one step down from morphine in terms of pain management
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 12:49 PM (mmrXZ)
I was waiting for the crackhead buddy to touch Pizza Guy and get a good "don't touch me" across the face.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (ccf/V)
I'm a skeptic generally but it seemed real .
And I already thought Red Barron pizza was the best for the price.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (Ti9vn)
Does the Hasan Piker lawsuit against Scott Jennings for like $70M+ have legs, or is it a nothing burger? Apparently it's connected to a clip he ran that might have been doctored.
I'd hate for Piker to get one penny, when all he does all day is spew vile, treasonous, violent hate and lies on Twitch, and shock his dog on camera and then lie about it. If he's ever slandered anyone in the right, they need to sue him right back.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (Toos7)
Posted by: Dwarves of Khazad-dûm at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (Fi81e)
I used to be terrible at it. You know why? It wasn't that I could not, it was because I didn't. I was too busy doing other things, learning other things, thinking about other things. These guys are light years ahead of other people when it comes to nuclear physics and engineering, but terrible at personal interaction.
That's not a disability, its different priorities. When you were learning how to flirt with Lisa in the desk next to you, they were figuring out how their pen worked.
I think that plays a big role: disconnected parents and no extended family to teach and demonstrate proper behavior and cultural roles.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (TMNW7)
I believe it goes farther than that, one of the common experiences in dealing with autistic people is that they are frustrated with difficulty in communication and understanding, which certainly doesn't suggest contentedness. Roundabout explanations are often needed to explain things that are intuitive to most.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (okun6)
How big was this cat?? That's like one step down from morphine in terms of pain management
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (TMNW7)
Amoxicillin is an antibiotic. I practically grew up taking that shit for bronchitis as a yute.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (tB7nu)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (Ti9vn)
I think at least half of the people that are diagnosed as autism are just slightly, socially awkward with absolutely nothing remotely wrong with their brain. Not everybody can be class president.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 12:52 PM (IRNAh)
Wait, no I was thinking of like hydrocodone. Amoxicillin is for infections. Tough for me to keep these pharmacy invented names straight.
There was a funny bit on Babylon Bee about a woman reading off a list of prescriptions and accidentally summoning Cthulhu
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:52 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,
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That one had nothing to do with karen. In fact , we probably need to get a nickname for these mulatto social media pranksters who get clicks off other people's distress.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 12:49 PM (mmrXZ)
It's in the same realm.
MYOFB, whether its some lonely cat-abusing Karen or some IRL ragebait "influencer." Just leave people alone.
Everyone's had enough of your shit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:52 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (viF8m)
Out: "the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them"
In: "the taxpayers will subsidize through taxation the rope with which we will hang them, and then they will give us more money to ease the pressure on their throats a little"
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (rbvCR)
And I already thought Red Barron pizza was the best for the price.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (Ti9vn)
I'll have to wait as I think EVERYTHING I could cook with is packed, so no pizza tray OR cutter.
Otherwise, I'd be eating pizza all weekend.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (ccf/V)
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Californians like TikTok user "Lupita" are taking full advantage. Earlier this year, she posted a video of herself opening a taxpayer-funded grocery box, apologizing to her manicurist as she unboxed it by hand. Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, and more.
"Yesterday, I was like, 'I need some lettuce,' but the lettuce was like five dollars," she said. "And look at this. Fresh lettuce! Thank you, God."
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (kX27y)
Also, it's like a couple of days worth of Medicaid spending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (xjop
that's a good point. It would be interesting to see the amount attributable solely to the Iran "war" effort (which I fully support).
Posted by: LASue at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (Ti9vn)
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Pope is both a Title, and an Office, of a foreign State. Did Congress approve of this?
Or am I just too tired, and I've missed something obvious?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (ccf/V)
It's generic too. Over the counter south of the border.
Pisses me off that I have to go to a doctor to get it.
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (Ae6Br)
MYOFB, whether its some lonely cat-abusing Karen or some IRL ragebait "influencer." Just leave people alone.
Everyone's had enough of your shit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:52 PM (RDiUV)
This.
I quite enjoy the videos out there with the dipshit 'influencers' f*cking with people and getting the FAFO treatment.
It soothes me........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (ADOtk)
As middle-class families struggle to afford groceries, the state delivers organic produce, salmon, and more to Medi-Cal members.
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What's the matter racist. Don't you want people on government assistance to have better shit that you.. Raycissssss
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (tB7nu)
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“I've got no option but to sell you all for scientific experiments.” -- RFKJr.
Posted by: Cloward and Piven at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (Fi81e)
I don't think the video in question is doctored and Hasan has no shot here. Given all the horrendous stuff he's said in the past, the last thing he should want is to go to court and air them all out.
The worst part? He's worth tens of millions of dollars and is begging his viewers for donations to pay for legal fees.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (TMNW7)
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Californians like TikTok user "Lupita" are taking full advantage. Earlier this year, she posted a video of herself opening a taxpayer-funded grocery box, apologizing to her manicurist as she unboxed it by hand. Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, and more.
"Yesterday, I was like, 'I need some lettuce,' but the lettuce was like five dollars," she said. "And look at this. Fresh lettuce! Thank you, God."
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (kX27y)
Because the lettuce is now freeeeee!!!!
Posted by: LASue at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 12:55 PM (u82oZ)
You're kidding, right?
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:55 PM (ADOtk)
all the kids. damn, adults fucking wrecked them with their isolation and fear mongering and threats. no wonder they are all so freaky weird, tattooed, pierced, hormone raging, cross hormone taking, mentally deranged, socially inept and violent.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 12:55 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (ccf/V)
Hope so! And that he gets a good financial advisor so he can just bank it all and live off the interest. Get to be with his kids every night!
The part of the vid where his voice breaks as he talks about how he couldn't tuck his kids in at night, and then has to go back out at 5 am and do it all again... that's the part that got me. I think it's resonating for a lot of people.
Demonize the rich, dumb but I get it. But sucker punch and punch down on the little guy just making a living for his kids? There will be blood. Glad the Red Baron PR team read the actual mood of their audience and are boosting him, not firing him.
He's made enough money in pizza sales for them this week, I hope they give him a huge Christmas bonus check!
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 12:56 PM (Toos7)
I thin they are concerned that the bacteria will become resistant if its overused, but they hand that stuff out like Tic Tacs at the hospital so I dunno.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:56 PM (TMNW7)
I don't think the video in question is doctored and Hasan has no shot here. Given all the horrendous stuff he's said in the past, the last thing he should want is to go to court and air them all out.
The worst part? He's worth tens of millions of dollars and is begging his viewers for donations to pay for legal fees.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (TMNW7)
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I think the lawsuit is a giant attention-whoring and grifting operation. Piker is scum, lower than an earthworm's dick.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:56 PM (iFTx/)
The '60s rate of 0.04% of chiren? There is more than ample treatment available. For everyone else, there's parenting.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:57 PM (RDiUV)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:57 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (TMNW7)
His 'fans' are mental retards, so......
A fool and their money are soon parted, n' shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (MWfyi)
Unless it's tried in DC, that is.
The Scott is toast.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (Fi81e)
Wasn't enough funding for oversight. Now funding that would normally go to care is going to oversight because no one wants to increase funding for disabled people
She was the safeguard and she deliberately allowed millions if not billions in theft. Find out who she works for and where that money went and I 100% guarantee you it leads right back to the CIA and American government funding proxy wars in other countries
Republicans voted against the oversight the Dems wanted more of. They win on pretending to care about fraud and pretending they are fiscally responsible because idiots don't pay attention
MN has an annual Medicaid spend of 23B. 7M is .03% of that. It's a rounding error for most people. If you spend 1M for your company it's like losing 300. You're not getting questioned on that amount.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (nW0Hp)
Yeah he sounded and acted like most dads out there. Busting their ass at a job that feels demeaning, doesn't ever seem to earn enough, and keeps you from your family, and now he has to put up with THIS?
Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, and more.
You know what? Putting aside the dubious need and questionable funding of this all... That's the kind of stuff I want sent out for the poor. Here's raw materials, here's fruit and healthy stuff.
She says "Thank God" but I bet she was seething inside "where's my wagyu and lobster???"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:57 PM (rbvCR)
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How is Ukraine our war?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (xjopy)
At least they're not Methodists...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (ADOtk)
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (MWfyi)
"Our studies have found a strong correlation between eating more lobster and using less meth."
-- Gov't statisticians
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (vTZFs)
It is a hard one to ignore.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (f8snw)
90% of parents in this area claim to have kids with autism or ADHD.
1. Everyone is making money on it. The parents get social capital.
2. 50% 0f the kids are simply average, and their parents can't handle it.
3. 40% of the kids are just weird, mostly because their parents let them play vidya games all day.
4. <1% are actually autistic
Posted by: MJ at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (XOmY9)
Yeah I suspect that his numbers have been trending downward and he needs publicity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (TMNW7)
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
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Please support my legislative proposal for nationally televised woodchipper shredding of Tik Tok pranksters
Colin Dunlap
@colin_dunlap
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Oct 29
Real people have real emotions.
Real people need to stop being f’ed with for your social media pranks and content. Not everyone is living in your fake world.
Good on the Red Baron Pizza guy.
The world was better when kids had a healthy fear of all adults.
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (kX27y)
I find this particularly amusing:
Obama Calls for End to Political Anger at Atlanta Rally
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (nW0Hp)
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CIA had USAID for a slush fund.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (vTZFs)
They weren't afraid of being called racists. They were in on it.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (I+a8W)
I really hope so. Some news channel posted on YouTube a panel of "experts" and had this lawyer on that was all "Scott is cooked!" And the others on the panel were practically clapping over it, and all the comments on the vid were joyful that Scott would lose and probably lose his show and spot in CNN and be forced to stop telling his "lies."
Hope the piker gets his butt handed to him. But I didn't see the details of the video Scott posted, and why or why not it might be doctored.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (Toos7)
"Ha!"
--Hunter Biden
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (TMNW7)
Former NBA star Paul Pierce is on the verge of bankruptcy, having squandered over $200m in earnings during his NBA career.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (ccf/V)
I find this particularly amusing:
Obama Calls for End to Political Anger at Atlanta Rally
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (qBdHI)
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I brought my gun to my knife fight, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)
Pootin Man Bad.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (vTZFs)
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Gayatollah Man Not Bad?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)
How did he not spontaneously combust over that statement is beyond me.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (qBdHI)
I'm surprised that the Media and the Democrats aren't calling for his removal since they "were not too high." It was only fraud making it look that way. The TRUMP CABINET IS A BUNCH OF LIARS!!!!
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (dIske)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (xjopy)
Besides the politicians making bank off of kickbacks? Good question.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)
Wasn't enough funding for oversight. Now funding that would normally go to care is going to oversight because no one wants to increase funding for disabled people
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit
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There was plenty of funding for it , but who could keep up with this level of fraud? And there might have been funding , but there wasn't enough nerve for oversight. People curled up in a ball and died if a somali fraudster threatened to call them a racist
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (mkw2N)
Time to ask the same question about trans.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: DaveA at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (FhXTo)
Quick - without looking it up, who won the 1968 Super Bowl and what was the spread?
Ask your wife or girlfriend - what was the most expensive Kate Spade handbag in 2018, and what's the current resale value?
Engineers are no more prone to autism than the general population. They're just interested in things that society doesn't value. Anyone who thinks they're "not like other people" has never had to sit through twenty minutes of a sports fan telling you in detail what his team's chances are this year and why.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (LgYtf)
Internet sleuths also said Mr. Clancy murdered his 3 children........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (xjopy)
Besides the politicians making bank off of kickbacks? Good question.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)
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"You are opposing Ukraine! That's treason!"
"So, Ukraine is our vassal state and must do what we say?"
"No! The US is Ukraine's vassal state and must do what it says!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (xjopy)
Depending on specifics, we used to call this learning disabled. Which goes back to the point they’ve vastly over expanded the definition and diagnosis of who is actually autistic. It’s moved well away from a clinical definition and more neatly into one that meets certain legislative and ultimately benefits driven definitions. That encompasses much more than a clinical diagnosis which at one time was directly tied to the physical genesis of autism itself. Notwithstanding that a direct cause for most autism has not been discovered, that allows the continued expansion of what falls into this category. If you go back to the earlier days of autism and look at the clinical definition it’s easy to see why it has grown over the years. I would argue it’s mostly what they include in that category under an ever expanding definition, and the growth of benefits provided for it.
Posted by: Marcus t at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (egaJw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (xjopy)
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Most of the D-Development when to develop footholds for the CIA.
Trump said they weren't cutting any man-critical programs. Musk said they weren't cutting any man-critical programs.
But apparently the death toll from stopping the "Agency for International Development" is killing thousands upon thousands, because people are dying in Africa of something.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Dr_No at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (ayRl+)
IF its the video I am thinking of, is the one where Piker says basically "F black people, we need to go back to the days of lynching"
Its worth remembering that before he hooked into the Champagne Socialist persona, he used to be a red pill frat bro guy saying outrageous stuff about women and minorities.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)
Obama never carried a gun to a knife fight, he had the CIA and the USAF kill all his opponents via drone strike.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (Fi81e)
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They're as real as the Claude created Republicans that NYT/Siena now use in their polling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)
"So, Ukraine is our vassal state and must do what we say?"
"No! The US is Ukraine's vassal state and must do what it says!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (xjopy)
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Right they didn't care how many groceries you had to put back as long as Zelenskyy (and DC) got his money!!
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Fi81e)
Been that way for 20 years now. Everyone wants special consideration...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (ADOtk)
My mom also has her story . She worked for 35 years for Walgreens as a pharmacist tech and for the first 30 she waited on and got to know customers who were on Medicaid or some type of government assistance and had empathy for them.
Then the drive thru window became a thing and her empathy was reduced when she noted almost all had a brand new expensive model car .
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)
Obama never carried a gun to a knife fight, he had the CIA and the USAF kill all his opponents via drone strike.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (rbvCR)
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"I didn't use missiles. I used diplomacy."
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)
Doof hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (ccf/V)
Back before they turned into The View for sports bros, ESPN did a good documentary on how athletes end up bankrupt despite being paid so much.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Fi81e)
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I couldn't buy those bananas because $21 went to Ukraine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:05 PM (xjopy)
90% of parents in this area claim to have kids with autism or ADHD.
1. Everyone is making money on it. The parents get social capital.
2. 50% 0f the kids are simply average, and their parents can't handle it.
3. 40% of the kids are just weird, mostly because their parents let them play vidya games all day.
4.
Posted by: MJ at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (XOmY9)
I have had two young kids. I currently deal with other people's kids in Boy Scouts, children's theater, home school group, and coaching little league. The predominance of kids having real issues with attention and focus or reading social cues or whatever have been less than probably 1%, and many of those are a result of neglect or medicating their kids instead of parenting.
The people I know who do have genuinely weird or asocial kids who could be considered "on spectrum" are not actually medicated, and the parents do all they can to expose them to social situations, encourage social interaction in Scouts and home school group, and bust their asses to make sure that they can experience normal human relations.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:05 PM (RDiUV)
Been that way for 20 years now. Everyone wants special consideration...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (ADOtk)
Isn't some obnoxiously large percentage of Harvard students have some sort of 'disability' now?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:05 PM (ccf/V)
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)
And a pallet of cash
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (4WM7K)
Posted by: Dave at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (JsnYl)
In retrospect I am certain to that Walz is a doofus that the Democrats spotted as an easy mark. They made him an offer to get to be Gov, if he swore to do exactly as instructed by whatever DFL Party cabal pulls the strings in MN. He, and his social-climber wife, said, "YES!!"
He's a beta-male copy of Hochul in New York. A moderate track record elected Democrat nebbish who who instantly becomes a Radical Leftist when installed in a executive elected office.
Same thing with Biden. Who will the DNC select as its totally controllable or at least very steerable cypher, to run for Prez in 2028?
Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)
Doof hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (ccf/V)
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Doof and I are gentleman scholars who only duel with the finest of folded steel rapiers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (xjopy)
Their methodology for that number is basically "add up all the people who died since it was announced USAID was being cut"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (TMNW7)
Obviously a thousand wheels turning here, but the main drivers are state and federal mis-regulation and captured regulation, and oligopoly or even de facto cartel situations at all levels both on the medical and financial sides of the picture.
And things were made much worse, every flaw and rent-seeking outrage was compounded, by "reform" in 2013. To its almost puzzling credit, the electorate fought against it (including the greatest partisan bloodbath in modern history, 2010). But the inertia and lack of an opposition party prevailed. So a sector that should be about 10% of the economy (even with the aging demo) instead is .... 3 to 4 times that.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (U/Byj)
That description fits the perfect description for model citizen in the DSA's reformulation of the former United States.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (a3CJ+)
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)
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Drones aren't missiles, so as long as he can classify them as "diplomacy", he's set.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (Fi81e)
I couldn't buy those bananas because $21 went to Ukraine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:05 PM (xjopy)
You can't perform The Bagels classic "Eat Like a Somali Citizen" with only rice......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (ccf/V)
If it's fresh wild-caught reds, yeah, luxury food.
If it's canned pinks or even farmed trash fish? Not so much.
I'm thinking probably canned, if only because I find it hard to believe that a bureaucracy could be efficient enough to deliver fresh salmon before it goes bad.
Canned pinks are currently going for a little more than the crap tier ground beef at the local Walmart. The good ground beef is quite a bit more.
Most Alaskans consider pinks just marginally edible even when fresh. They're the next step above chum salmon, which the marketroids have been foisting off on Lower 48ers who don't know any better as "keta" or "silverbrite".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (qlLNh)
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)
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Drones aren't missiles, so as long as he can classify them as "diplomacy", he's set.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (Fi81e)
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I don't think the drones we used to bomb that wedding procession was a kamikaze drone. Pretty sure it used...missiles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (xjopy)
The primary one being "attending Harvard"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (TMNW7)
Mrs. F. has had this as a full time job since 2003. I foreshortened my career because she was exhausted.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (RDiUV)
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)
The No Agenda Show has ended production, so I was listening to shows from 2012. Curry and Dvorak mentioned that during the one month they were tracking in 2012, Obama had killed over 35 people overseas via drones, as it was reported in the MFM
I am glad the archive is there, I am reminded a of a lot of things that I forgot about that time because I got busy
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (rbvCR)
The primary one being "attending Harvard"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (TMNW7)
HEY!!!!!!
Posted by: David Hogg - Scholar at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (ccf/V)
"I didn't use missiles. I used diplomacy."
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)
You used pallets full of untraceable cash, shit-for-brains.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (qlLNh)
Former NBA star Paul Pierce is on the verge of bankruptcy, having squandered over $200m in earnings during his NBA career.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (ccf/V)
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I'm sure Pierce blew piles of that money during his career, but keep in mind that this is coming out of court proceedings over child support for this 751st baby momma. Everyone claims poverty in divorce and child support cases. Everyone.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (iFTx/)
Mrs. F. has had this as a full time job since 2003. I foreshortened my career because she was exhausted.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (RIvkX)
So sorry....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (4WM7K)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (I+a8W)
"I didn't use missiles. I used diplomacy."
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)
You used pallets full of untraceable cash, shit-for-brains.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (qlLNh)
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He mostly used surrender.
Remember the US Navy ship being taken by Iranian pirates?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (qlLNh)
We smoked them. For canning, I go with Coho.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (RDiUV)
http://tiny.cc/gtwc101
It's probably doomed to failure. But what if it doesn't fail? Cisco's code is infamously hard to update. It would be good to have a more flexible, modern code base.
I see lots of people saying the new code won't be tested or is un-testable. That's silly. You have the old code. Cisco has a bazillion unit tests and extensive test suites. They can run those tests against both and compare results. You can fuzz test against both and compare results. There are lots of ways to ensure parity.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (xjopy)
Dude didn't know his own state of Illinois bordered Kentucky. I guarantee you he doesn't know how our drones work. You say drone to him today he's not thinking Predator.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (Ti9vn)
One of the more amusing things to do is ask a young person who prefers socialism to define socialism. They either disappear, give up quickly, or get very angry and accuse you of being a bot. They almost never even get close.
Mostly they think socialism is "I won't have to work and can play video games all day as food is delivered to my free apartment"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (TMNW7)
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)
From the UTSA school of diplomacy.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Barky O'Liar at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (Fi81e)
No, those were drones that fired missiles, not the ones being used in Ukraine today
Global Hawks, Predators and Reapers. And other less known ones
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (rbvCR)
She was the safeguard and she deliberately allowed millions if not billions in theft. Find out who she works for and where that money went and I 100% guarantee you it leads right back to the CIA and American government funding proxy wars in other countries
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit
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Holy carp are they talking about ilhan
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (xjopy)
I'd been trying to forget.
I hope Jimmy Carter died in peace, knowing that he was no longer the worst President in history.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (hG5L0)
Depending on reports... about a third.
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ADOtk)
From the UTSA school of diplomacy.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (Sco7b)
As they say at Texas State, you can't spell NUTSACK without UTSA.
Posted by: David Hogg - Scholar at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: David Hogg
Don't take it personally, you were retarded before you left high school.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ccf/V)
I hope Jimmy Carter died in peace, knowing that he was no longer the worst President in history.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (qlLNh)
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And every day Martin Van Buren thanks God that no one remembers him at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (TMNW7)
Actually I think a lot of them believe it's punish the wealthy. And they're right.
A lot of them just don't know that even impoverished students are considered the wealthy.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (I+a8W)
Depending on reports... about a third.
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ADOtk)
Liberalism.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (RDiUV)
Someone has been reading and heeding the HordeSource advice given here.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (0sNs1)
Total healthcare spending could be cut in 24 hours to 25% of what it is right now, and not one actual human with any real sickness or need of care will be affected. Not a one.
Posted by: Elric The Blade "
A good start would be the end of most health insurance and govt. programs as it now structured and go to fee-for-services. End that and prices would drop 50% overnight. They would then drop 50% again over the next year or so as demand and prices came into line and there would be no need for most insurance
Health insurance should only be for truly catastrophic events. It has completely distorted by the entire price/demand system.
Posted by: Ripley at October 30, 2026 01:14 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (RDiUV)
You mean silvers. :-)
For those in non-PNW areas, every species of salmon but pink and chum has a different name in Washington State than it does in most of Alaska. Parts of extreme SE Alaska use the Washington names. I think British Columbia also uses the Washington names.
Washington/Alaska
Chinook/king
Sockeye/red
Coho/silver
Pink/pink
Chums are also known as "dog salmon", but I don't think those names are as highly localized. I've heard both in both places.
Why the names are different, I don't know, but there's always good natured "correcting" going on whenever someone uses the "wrong" name.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:17 PM (qlLNh)
Yeah that was the first sign of a scam. I will buy that there is a range of human behavior and emotional response, we all learn that by the age of 5. What I won't buy is that there isn't a bright line between normal range of human behavior and mental illness.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (TMNW7)
IANAMHP, but my understanding is that the only "bright line" is whether someone is unable to perform a normal function, like initiating a romantic relationship or maintaining gainful employment. Otherwise, the difference between a disorder (you have it or you don't) and a trait (on a 100-point scale) is not as big as it seems, since diagnosing a disorder involves counting up the number of 'tells'.
Without that singular objective measure, the diagnostic criteria for a disorder is hiding a spectrum by using a threshold to collapse it into a step function. And even so, you can speak intelligibly of sub-clinical "shadow syndromes" that mimic the real deal, but without the crippling disability.
But I think this is because the field is post-Christian and PoMo, so ungrounded.
Posted by: SciVo at October 30, 2026 01:18 PM (ke3zm)
Determinant doesn't mean repeatable.
Posted by: DaveA at October 30, 2026 01:20 PM (FhXTo)
Back before they turned into The View for sports bros, ESPN did a good documentary on how athletes end up bankrupt despite being paid so much.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (TMNW7)
More than a few of those extremely high-paid but now bankrupt athletes went bankrupt because one of their highly-trusted relatives, often an uncle, acted as their agent and robbed them blind.
For me one of the saddest parts of too many of these athlete rags-to-riches-to-rags stories is the end result of the lavish homes they bought for their Moms. Even if the athlete paid cash up-front for the property rather than paying the mortgage payments. The athletes don't always fund a trust fund to pay the property taxes and upkeep costs on the property, or didn't fund it enough to keep-up with inflation and the inevitable property tax increases. In those cases, eventually Mom and all the relatives who moved-in to take advantage of free housing with Athletes Mom get thrown out after the athlete goes bust.
Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 01:20 PM (5rh/l)
Look at the growth of healthcare administration. Just like the growth of administration in schools, it has very little purpose as comprised and adds significant cost. Then take a deeper look at some of the healthcare positions that are unionized. You’ll notice they too have been expanded, with much of it due to contractual concessions.
Posted by: Marcus t at October 30, 2026 01:21 PM (egaJw)
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It's a good thing Obama put the fix in.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:23 PM (Fi81e)
Someone has been reading and heeding the HordeSource advice given here.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (0sNs1)
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It's no "cool your tits", though.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (Cqx++)
I really hope so. Some news channel posted on YouTube a panel of "experts" and had this lawyer on that was all "Scott is cooked!" And the others on the panel were practically clapping over it, and all the comments on the vid were joyful that Scott would lose and probably lose his show and spot in CNN and be forced to stop telling his "lies."
Hope the piker gets his butt handed to him. But I didn't see the details of the video Scott posted, and why or why not it might be doctored.
Posted by: LizLem
Good tell for infotainment is when a lawyer is practicing on tv rather than in a court room. Nancy Grace comes to mind and she nearly got disbarred for misconduct as a prosecutor before becoming a fake and gay legal commentator.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (E4rtv)
Or a million billion frauds.
The fraud has no end at this point in MN, does it?
Wow.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 02:48 PM (hzuYO)
THE MORNING RANT: Public Radio is Being Squeezed Thanks to Trump Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
in July 2025, Republicans had long argued for doing just that. Most of them were lying to get our votes, of course, and given the chance to do so, they never did. Republican Representative Paul Ryan famously advocated for gutting CPB funding…until Ryan became Speaker of the House and had control of the purse strings. Suddenly he determined that defunding CPB represented only negligible federal spending, or that it would consume too much political capital, or some other lie as he rubbed his betrayal in our faces.
Defunding public broadcasting is yet another of the innumerable acts that Donald Trump did after decades of surrender-cons (e.g. the legacy GOP) claiming it couldn’t be done.
NPR has long argued that it only gets a nominal amount of its funding from taxpayers. In this NPR from April 2023, in which it was reporting on itself, NPR falsely claimed that less than 1% of its funding comes federal sources. But as The Hill reported in a piece a few weeks later, a great deal of NPR’s funding comes from local public stations, who historically received much of their funding from federal spending.
In other words, the money flow was: Taxpayers → Federal Government → CPB → local stations → NPR.
More specifically, the money that flows from local public radio stations to NPR buys I am not going to do a grave dance, because I am still greatly saddened by the loss of what public radio once was in the days before it sold its soul (and much of its programming time) to NPR. After I graduated from college in the 1980s, the local public radio station was probably my most-listened to station. It was a companion that provided locally-produced shows featuring music that none of the commercial stations played. There were local DJs who hosted eclectic shows full of new-to-me music, especially acoustic, folk, bluegrass, classical and blues. Some DJs would have music from all those genres in the same show! I was a loyal donor for many years, but the expanding NPR lineup and its left-wing programming was like a cancer chewing up the station’s airtime. My last check payable to the local public radio station was in the late 1990s, shortly before my favorite Saturday morning acoustic music show was replaced by a smug, know-it-all, NPR show titled “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.” Around the same time, I tuned in one July 4th morning, only to hear NPR airing a show about how awful and racist the U.S. is, and how July 4 is such a difficult day for enlightened Americans. I don’t know if public radio could have survived long-term in the internet era, but by attaching itself to the radical leftists at NPR, it certainly hastened its own demise. Thanks again to Donald Trump and the current Republican Congress for defunding NPR by defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Chattanooga’s public radio station is looking to make up an approximately $89,000 shortfall or it will have to potentially consider cutting programming or other services, according to station leadership.------------------------------------------------ “I would say funding is what keeps me up at night,” general manager Susan Lazenby said Thursday. “I think we have a lot of positive things going on at the station, but without the federal support, it makes it really complicated to pay bills.” The financial pressures date to July 2025, when Congress approved President Donald Trump’s request to cut $1.1 billion in previously approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributed federal funds to public radio and broadcasting stations nationwide. For the local affiliate, this amounts to approximately $126,000 in annual revenue that is gone, Lazenby said, and it’s not clear if or when it’s coming back. That equates to 20% of the organization’s total annual budget, she said.
It was a privilege joining Melissa Mackenzie & Scott McKay on The Continuing Crisis (American Spectator) podcast today. We discussed how prediction markets are being used to influence voter sentiment rather than to gauge it, along with other election-related topics. @MelissaTweets @TheHayride
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) October 29, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:02 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 11:02 AM (4Je4D)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 11:02 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 11:02 AM (Ae6Br)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:02 AM (ccf/V)
Instead PBS and NPR took all of our tax money to promote progressive worldview and politics.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:02 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (RORbl)
And it wasn't even close.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (xjopy)
Great. Now we can count on more angry trolls.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: I'm Korva Coleman, and this is NPR News at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (brIJB)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (ndZc7)
And it wasn't even close.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (xjopy)
Great. Now we can count on more angry trolls.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (88C+u)
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I've never denied the charge of being one myself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (Sco7b)
Make do with the pile of money you are sitting on, NPR!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (ndZc7)
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"Why do you even care about cutting the funding it won't do anything. Also, we will murder you if you try to cut the funding."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:04 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 11:04 AM (NcvvS)
If the people won't directly fund you, you're likely not worth squat, so piss off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:04 AM (ccf/V)
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2116182644035625124
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2026 11:04 AM (/OKHJ)
Posted by: Sally Struthers at October 30, 2026 11:05 AM (4Je4D)
Old and busted: You're silly to suggest defunding PBS/NPR, as federal funding is, like, 2% of it's budget!
New Hotness: We cannot survive without it!!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 11:05 AM (rOKnE)
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Almost anybody could have felt that in the wind.
Progressives use words and communication to make you do something.
Others you words and communication to report state.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:05 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 11:05 AM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:05 AM (iFTx/)
Exactly. It's campaign advertising in a different format.
Governments around the world have been using psyops for decades to influence outcomes. Because it works.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:06 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 30, 2026 11:06 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:07 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
Touching from a distance, further all the time.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 11:07 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 11:07 AM (ADOtk)
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2116182644035625124
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2026 11:04 AM (/OKHJ)
Kayak fishing in the ocean = Future Darwin Award winner
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:07 AM (ccf/V)
That's RINO talk, right there. I don't usually say this to another guy, but please come join me on the dance floor.
Seriously, the local NPR station is classical, and it's excellent, and if they hadn't lied to me about their funding, and if they had something, ANYTHING, that remotely resembled something that wasn't far left (see, we can play that game too), I might have supported them. They didn't, so I don't.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)
Progressives use words and communication to make you do something.
Others you words and communication to report state.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:05 AM (Fi81e)
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I still maintain it's just about making money, that no one in power thinks these things actually influence people anymore.
Fundraising from polls and odds. And then just direct gambling manipulation on the odds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (8B4gm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 11:02 AM (4Je4D)
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Once they clear out the rainbow Che Guevara batch.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (Fi81e)
I love that Howard Stern shat on podcasting when it first started and said it was a passing fad with no money potential.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (ADOtk)
It's a mystery.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:05 AM (iFTx/)
It does. But the kind of radio I listen to is my local station, when I drive around. It is shamelessly profit driven, as it should be.
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (Gqar8)
Hillary Clinton Joins Push for Investigations Targeting Trump and His Supporters
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:09 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (Ti9vn)
Well, he's a mentally retarded vaxxed and boosted asshole, so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:09 AM (ccf/V)
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2116182644035625124
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2026 11:04 AM (/OKHJ)
Always have orcas on speed-dial.
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 11:09 AM (wXgT/)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 11:09 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (xjopy)
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It keeps their ideological captives captive.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:10 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 30, 2026 11:10 AM (r7+Q7)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 30, 2026 11:10 AM (ubCxQ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 11:02 AM (4Je4D)
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Once they clear out the rainbow Che Guevara batch.
I've heard they have a big delivery of tranny Muslim bags coming in.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (xjopy)
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It keeps their ideological captives captive.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:10 AM (Fi81e)
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And then, when the polling fails, the ideological captives do their own work to justify it. Because ideological captives do their own work to justify clinging to their ideologies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:10 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 30, 2026 11:06 AM (g8Ew
Sadly, we went limp quickly..
It's not radio, but public television does occasionally have stuff I like. My Mom did buy a few things from the Detroit station.
I still get the occasional fundraising mail. In Canada!!??
I have a video of Tom Lehrer in concert on the DVR. I should watch that today. Break day....
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:10 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (Ti9vn)
Well, he's a mentally retarded vaxxed and boosted asshole, so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:09 AM (ccf/V)
Always an unappealing creature, he has now morphed into a freakish thing, barely holding on to human status.
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:11 AM (Gqar8)
Quite popular around here.
Fun fact. Sharks don't actually jump into your boat to eat you. Often.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:11 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (ndZc7)
Huh. That's what the commentary stated.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 30, 2026 11:12 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (8B4gm)
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Henson's CTW was a whole different deal. Children's Television Workshop made beaucoup on merch.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:12 AM (Fi81e)
Hillary Clinton Joins Push for Investigations Targeting Trump and His Supporters
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:09 AM (ndZc7)
That UTSA bitch has evolved my thinking on political killings.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:12 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 11:12 AM (ADOtk)
They should Consider This, especially with the negative Throughline, but. . Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me -- they refuse to change!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 11:13 AM (rOKnE)
Every culture does...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 11:12 AM (ADOtk)
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Vatican rednecks, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:13 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 11:13 AM (wXgT/)
Fundraising from polls and odds. And then just direct gambling manipulation on the odds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:08 AM (xjopy)
Except they do influence people. You see it here. It's a demoralization game. And it has gone on for months. Russia was similar. They need narrative and they needed us to be fearful rather than celebratory that Trump had beat their ass. That's why when Mueller finally "came" it was a big nothing that didn't matter. Because it didn't matter. The op did a lot of its job.
That is influence even if it doesn't impact voting (although logically it would). Even demoralizing their own people is useful "influence" too, even if it's not GOTV. Keeping their people spun up further demoralizes the country. As we see daily.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:13 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:13 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)
I want NPR to get hit hard, unless they back off all the commie woke stuff and just get back to neutral reporting. I hate that state public radio channels are probably suffering for the sins of NPR. But it is what it is.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 11:13 AM (tn9Xx)
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2116182644035625124
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2026 11:04 AM (/OKHJ)
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Sharks and other dangerous ocean predators are all around out there. You rarely see them. But they are there. I saw a documentary on sharks that had overhead video of numerous beaches filled with people, and sharks were circling underneath or alongside. Scary, but that's the nature of the beast.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:13 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Eromero at October 30, 2026 11:14 AM (1Zpx7)
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Dependent, of course, on whether the Democrats win the midterms.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:14 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:14 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 30, 2026 11:14 AM (LOvBA)
"publicly joins," right?
I'd imagine she's up to her eyeballs in all this coup stuff behind the scenes.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 11:14 AM (rOKnE)
Dot com if you want to see the website.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:15 AM (Sco7b)
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Is there a reason you crossed out the more correct word?
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:15 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2026 11:15 AM (/OKHJ)
BINGO
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 11:15 AM (rOKnE)
Not a day has gone by since they started publishing midterm polls that there hasn't been dozens of discussions here about them. Some insist they portend the end of the world. Some argue they are meaningless.
Saying they have no impact is silly. They continue to publish them because they work on a lot of people. Not everyone cares about politics like we do.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:15 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (ndZc7)
Huh. That's what the commentary stated.
Your point?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)
Except they do influence people. You see it here. It's a demoralization game. And it has gone on for months. Russia was similar. They need narrative and they needed us to be fearful rather than celebratory that Trump had beat their ass. That's why when Mueller finally "came" it was a big nothing that didn't matter. Because it didn't matter. The op did a lot of its job.
That is influence even if it doesn't impact voting (although logically it would). Even demoralizing their own people is useful "influence" too, even if it's not GOTV. Keeping their people spun up further demoralizes the country. As we see daily.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:13 AM (I+a8W)
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"I'm nervous about the election," is one thing.
"It's lost, I'm not even going to vote," is another. That's the manipulation that matters. And if this stuff worked, Trump wouldn't have won Iowa by 13 points in 2024. Selzer said Kamala was winning.
In fact, I bet there's more evidence that bad polling actually motivates in the wrong direction than the "depress the other side" thing people assume.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:15 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: I'm Korva Coleman, and this is NPR News at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (brIJB)
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Been doin' just fine not even knowing who you are, much less listen to your propaganda.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 30, 2026 11:16 AM (6ZFFR)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:16 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:09 AM (ndZc7)
This is a projection of strength. From a party that once again, got its ass beat.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:16 AM (I+a8W)
Truly awful.
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:16 AM (odBC9)
When appealing to the public, NPR says federal funding is negligible.
When appealing to Congress, NPR says public contributions are negligible.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 11:17 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:13 AM (xjopy)
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One Crazy Summer had Nantucket Island rednecks.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 30, 2026 11:17 AM (brIJB)
Yesss. Yesssssssss! Do it!
Posted by: Sharks in the Taiwan Strait at October 30, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 11:18 AM (8B4gm)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar
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We will lose everything because the Senate didn't pass the SAVE Act.
435 Democrats in the House.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:19 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:19 AM (Riz8t)
I actually did contribute to WGUC in Cincinnati after they offloaded all the dreary NPR stuff onto the Xavier University station and went full classical music.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 11:19 AM (eRlcH)
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2116182644035625124
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2026 11:04 AM (/OKHJ)
Kayak fishing in the ocean = Future Darwin Award winner
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:07 AM (ccf/V)
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It's a real thing. Not really a "kayak" (you can see it's pedal-powered in the vid) but more like a small personal boat. Wouldn't be my thing because (i) I'm not a fishing guy and (ii) when I do fish, I need space to drink beer and smoke cigars.
But I do kayak whenever I have a chance. It's fun and a good workout.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:19 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:19 AM (odBC9)
They had this story about a "smart bomb" dropped on Iraq, only the ending of this story was it was a REAL "smart bomb" and after landing in Iraq didn't want to kill anybody.
Can you really say that wasn't claptrap for the left?
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:20 AM (Fi81e)
Always an unappealing creature, he has now morphed into a freakish thing, barely holding on to human status.
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:11 AM
Has he completed the Maddow transition yet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:20 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 11:20 AM (vTZFs)
Guy is not only NOT going to be fired by Red Baron, as I feared, but they implied on social media he is a lock for employee of the month.
Love to see it! Might have to buy some red baron, even though I actually like making my own pizza dough and making pizza at home now. Want to support a company that actually read the room correctly. Loyalty to your employees, not the influencer scum! It's a nice white pill to start the weekend.
https://tinyurl.com/4ken
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 11:20 AM (tn9Xx)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 11:18 AM (8B4gm)
What if you're in an Ohio-class boomer?
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 11:20 AM (wXgT/)
After Jaws was released beaches around here were very quiet. It was stunning how many people refused to go in the water because a shark might eat them at any moment.
Sharks aren't that scary when you don't do stupid things. So don't do stupid things.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:21 AM (viF8m)
First Point: "Hope" is not a plan.
Second Point: Under DSA, there is no such thing as "high dollar donors" because all will be subject to incarceration, underwriting their perpetual criminal defense costs, and outright theft through newly imposed "Wealth Taxes". (formerly known as "Plunder")
Third Point: OTA is dead. Investment in controlling the algorithms to point to obscure influencers who shape their opinions and principals from who is the highest bidder, that is where the money is.
FUD has been fully monetized and runs on cruise control due to amoral people who will slit their own throat for clicks and quick monetization and izzat.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 11:21 AM (9Hs2w)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar
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I didn't get a Harumph out that guy!
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:21 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:21 AM (OUr07)
James people aren't just "nervous about the election", they are making themselves sick over it. Over something that HAS NOT happened.
Yes we care a lot but we are the warriors and passionate recruiters. It helps the Left to fuck our heads over. To keep us from sounding happy and like the side that should be joined. Hell, to keep us arguing rather than coming together.
Things are a lot more complicated than "this doesn't make more people vote differently". The war we are in is mental, physical, electoral and spiritual.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:21 AM (I+a8W)
Fundraising from polls and odds. And then just direct gambling manipulation on the odds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Grifters that are political consultants nowadays benefit from what you said but also they have no problem demoralizing the electorate too. GOPe long used negative ads to basically repulse less partisan people from voting with the idea of reducing elections to base voters only.
GOPe has lost power to MAGA which emphasizes voter mobilization but has a higher number of low propensity voters since Trump won the first time in 2016. So now the Democrat strategy has become trying to keep the unwashed low propensity masses discouraged from voting. Democrats are relying on their increasingly radical base voters and gimmedat coalition rather than trying to broaden their appeal anymore.
GOP has become the big tent party instead to the dismay of GOPe pols longing for the good ole bygone days of Bushworld.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)
Nicki Minaj Calls NY Gov. Kathy Hochul “Evil Woman” Who “Will Not Escape God’s Wrath”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (ndZc7)
I'm not entirely sure how much of that actually goes to any given candidate. If any at all.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (RORbl)
Posted by: Clay at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (QNt1k)
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:21 AM (OUr07)
In case they cheat. Which they do.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: tubal
WMAL in DC has waaaaay too many ads. A lot of conservative talk-radio stations do. I've read that's because Rush used to charge a lot for his show.
Turn on WMAL at any random moment, and chances are you'll get an ad.
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
I'm not entirely sure how much of that actually goes to any given candidate. If any at all.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (RORbl)
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Kalshi's bettors are 70% European.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (JnkZq)
Are you suggesting my "Looks like a seal" wetsuit idea won't pan out?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:13 AM (I+a8W)
I like to use AI and find out ratings for a lot of these 'influential' broadcasters and news organizations.
Yeah, we watch. But I think it was ABC Nightly News was the largest with about 9 million viewers - out of 340 million. 60 Minutes - 6 to 10 million. CNN - 700,000. MSNow - 1,700,000.
And Neilson doesn't care if you fell asleep after the ballgame or left the room.
So obviously, the big value in appearing on these programs is that the blogs will carry your talking points. But, that really may just be the same 20 million or so people that REALLY follow politics.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (Sco7b)
But we're the Nazis........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:23 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 11:23 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:23 AM (ccf/V)
Guy is not only NOT going to be fired by Red Baron, as I feared, but they implied on social media he is a lock for employee of the month.
Love to see it! Might have to buy some red baron, even though I actually like making my own pizza dough and making pizza at home now. Want to support a company that actually read the room correctly. Loyalty to your employees, not the influencer scum! It's a nice white pill to start the weekend.
https://tinyurl.com/4ken
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 11:20 AM (tn9Xx)
asmongold has a good 3-minute summary
https://tinyurl.com/hnttaku
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:23 AM (odBC9)
Since getting SiriusXM (we travel a lot, both for pleasure and business, and some of the areas we cross through have crappy reception - particularly the more mountainous areas), I've gotten used to starting with the subscription service for both symphony and jazz.
Those selections have come to form so little of the NPR selections that it's mostly not worth trying to find them.
I'd like to go back to hobbyists on free radio - people with opinions, NOT sponsored by the major parties/NGOs, people talking about local events and public interest news, people lending their expertise in cars, homemaking, gardening, small projects around the house, ham radio/computer/other tech subjects.
Pay those guys for their time, but NOT a full-time salary. The only people who should get paid standard full time money would be the techs that actually run the hardware/software for the station.
Posted by: Linda S Fox at October 30, 2026 11:23 AM (7Rs+y)
Are you suggesting my "Looks like a seal" wetsuit idea won't pan out?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
...specifically marketed to women on their cycle......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:24 AM (ccf/V)
After Jaws was released beaches around here were very quiet. It was stunning how many people refused to go in the water because a shark might eat them at any moment.
Sharks aren't that scary when you don't do stupid things. So don't do stupid things.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:21 AM (viF8m)
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Yea, sharks don't care about humans and will ignore them unless you provoke them. I swam with sharks in Hawaii. Was a shark-swimming tour. All of us got into the water with dozens of sharks. I got some pics where I was close enough to touch them (which I didn't).
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:24 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Last Steward of Gondor at October 30, 2026 11:24 AM (epXJE)
*snaps fingers *
You know, that would have gone well in the coffee shop scenes of So I Married an Axe Murderer.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 11:24 AM (JnkZq)
Posted by: tubal
WMAL in DC has waaaaay too many ads. A lot of conservative talk-radio stations do. I've read that's because Rush used to charge a lot for his show.
Turn on WMAL at any random moment, and chances are you'll get an ad.
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
On the plus side, with November arriving, the ads can be drowned out by Christmas music....
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:24 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 30, 2026 11:25 AM (brIJB)
Even worse than NPR's commie cocksucking, they should be defunded for infecting the nation with that pretentious whispering NPR Voice.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2026 11:25 AM (iqcvy)
https://tinyurl.com/4ken
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 11:20 AM (tn9Xx)
That link doesn't work for me, LizLem.
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:25 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 30, 2026 11:17 AM (brIJB)
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Boscoe!
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at October 30, 2026 11:25 AM (0bjKf)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:25 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:26 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:25 AM (I+a8W)
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I remember when the Selzer poll came out in 2024.
She'd never been wrong! Sure, it made no fucking sense, but she'd never been wrong! She was the gold standard!
And then she was very wrong, and everyone forgot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:26 AM (xjopy)
OK, Some RINOs Got Booted, but the Fight Isn't Over
https://tinyurl.com/52y5xz6t
The gist is that the GOPe will be with us always; it's a matter of squashing them like bugs when they lift up their insectoid heads.
Schlichter also had an excellent column on the impending election, which will be either extremely or not at all important.
https://tinyurl.com/4rcds59k
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:27 AM (Riz8t)
U.S. Army Pacific Preparing for China to Attempt Military Invasion of Taiwan Next Year
What's their hurry? I thought China always planned 500 years into the future?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 11:27 AM (Cqx++)
Right at the elbow of Cape Cod are North and South Monomoy Islands. Very popular spot for seals. Not surprisingly, very popular spot for sharks.
Not a great idea to swim with the seals no matter how cute they look.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:27 AM (viF8m)
Pay those guys for their time, but NOT a full-time salary.
Posted by: Linda S Fox at October 30, 2026 11:23 AM (7Rs+y)
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You just said "podcasts". Because that's what that is.
That's why everybody is complaining about people with audience and no affiliation having such a "reach".
I don't like either of them, but this includes Tucker and Fuentes. They have to be controlled, they have to be brought in line with some larger political effort. (And I think Tucker is crazy, and Fuentes is either that or a troll/scammer).
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:27 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:27 AM (iFTx/)
Vampires. Like former managers in Federal agencies, they'll always come back.
However, locally I see no effect on NPR radio in the Philly/Delaware/S. Jersey region.
There's still the flagship NPR news and talk station in Philadelphia which I avoid, and a station licensed to the University of Pennsylvania featuring adult alternative music, World Cafe, that I do listen to while driving.
On the other hand, the TV programming has been truly awful, taking even a more boring, complaining Leftist approach for current programs along with ancient, often repeated concerts & occasional mini British series occupying several evenings a week.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 30, 2026 11:28 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:26 AM (I+a8W)
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Brat Summer.
"Our internals never showed us up. Only fucking retards thought we were."
-Kamala's pollsters
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:28 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:28 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:26 AM (xjopy)
The Left relies heavily on the forgetting.
People forgot about the Mueller is Coming crap that kept their people going through the first two years of Trump. It doesn't matter it was bullshit and he actually had dementia and nothing in his case. But people forgot how much narrative that controlled at a time when Trump himself would have been setting it like he has during Trump II.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:28 AM (I+a8W)
https://tinyurl.com/hnttaku
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:23 AM (odBC9)
Not trying to be judgmental, but bro....use that sweet internet money and see a dentist.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:29 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: a shark at October 30, 2026 11:29 AM (ZxPkt)
-Kamala's pollsters
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:28 AM (xjopy)
I don't get it.
Posted by: A Fucking Retard at October 30, 2026 11:29 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Very true with partisans. Motivational. But I also think part of it is that GOP campaign consultants actually like the rigged polling because it allows them get donors to pony up for emergency tv ads to 'respond' and those consultants get a fat ad placement commission.
GOP campaign consultants hate hate hate GOTV operations due to its low paying nature. But that is what is more important than adverts, mailers, and robocalls. Volunteers getting out the vote and this is especially true when MAGA relies on big turnout including lower propensity voters. High propensity voters turn themselves out by crawling over broken glass to vote.
From all appearances, Charlie Kirk's revenge in AZ is Turning Point really getting out the vote there and in some particular other states where TP is operating.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:30 AM (E4rtv)
Jon Lovitz Responds to Claim He Was “One of the Biggest Pervs” at the Playboy Mansion
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:30 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:30 AM (Gqar8)
GOP campaign consultants hate hate hate GOTV operations due to its low paying nature. But that is what is more important than adverts, mailers, and robocalls. Volunteers getting out the vote and this is especially true when MAGA relies on big turnout including lower propensity voters. High propensity voters turn themselves out by crawling over broken glass to vote.
From all appearances, Charlie Kirk's revenge in AZ is Turning Point really getting out the vote there and in some particular other states where TP is operating.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:30 AM (E4rtv)
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Blexas will never die because both parties raise too much money on it.
Both parties spent $200 million in 2024 on the senate race alone.
Cruz won by 9.
We're going to get "Kamala up by 3 over Vance in Texas" in June of 2028. Book it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:31 AM (xjopy)
Leo, who has been critical of the Trump administration, becomes the first pope to vote in a U.S. election.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 30, 2026 11:31 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:30 AM (ndZc7)
I'm betting no way, simply because Bill Maher was a frequent guest there.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)
Leo, who has been critical of the Trump administration, becomes the first pope to vote in a U.S. election.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 30, 2026 11:31 AM (NFX2v)
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He's technically head of another state.
As a Catholic myself, I object to the two masters argument against people of my faith, but...seriously...he's head of state of another country. He probably shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:32 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar
When I notice myself worrying about tomorrow things I may never live for and which will never happen.
tubal - what are you going to do if alien invaders attack?
What if Batman goes evil?
What if Superman sues you?
How will you handle the mermaid invasion?
How are you going to kill the evil tubal from the alternate dimension here to destroy you?
If we're going to worry about crazy shit out of our control, and entertain all the worst scenarios, we may as well entertain them all.
We take care of what we control. Today. Yes, we watch the rest, but we can't control it. Today matters most.
That being said....I really hope bad things happen to that UTSA bitch.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:32 AM (Sco7b)
I would, but since she won't be the candidate, I won't.
*chums water*
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)
Leo, who has been critical of the Trump administration, becomes the first pope to vote in a U.S. election.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 30, 2026 11:31 AM (NFX2v)
Is Jabba running for re-election there?
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:32 AM (Gqar8)
Used to be a regular patron of "Car Talk." My goodness they were funny.
Science Fridays were informative.
Didn't Garrison Keillor have a show? Back in the 80s or so, before he was a raging lunatic?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 11:33 AM (W2Pud)
I would, but since she won't be the candidate, I won't.
*chums water*
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)
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[replace candidates with candidates of your choice]
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:33 AM (xjopy)
It's nice to see a company not doing the knee-jerk firing of an employee after being in a viral video. The whole cycle of viral video--> loses job, apartment, friends, etc. is incredibly toxic.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 11:33 AM (rOKnE)
She'd never been wrong! Sure, it made no fucking sense, but she'd never been wrong! She was the gold standard!
And then she was very wrong, and everyone forgot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I can be more dismissive of polling than I can some of the betting odds.Especially since I'm not totally convinced betting odds influences voter behavior. It would seem an expensive way to lose money.
Just like there's people that bet on their favorite sports team, but usually those spreads end up being accurate.
I remember Trump was the favored in betting in the 2024 election and the media dismissed it as "crypto bros" gaming things. What changed with who bets in these markets?
I think I'm open to just banning a lot of prediction market gambling.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:33 AM (eXAiG)
Didn't Garrison Keillor have a show? Back in the 80s or so, before he was a raging lunatic?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 11:33 AM (W2Pud)
Prairie Home Companion.
My parents used to listen to him a lot back in the day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:33 AM (ccf/V)
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So what did the turd do with his phone that he got $20 out it (same as in town).
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:22 AM
You know why sharks don't bite lawyers? Professional courtesy.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (JnkZq)
Pay those guys for their time, but NOT a full-time salary.
Posted by: Linda S Fox at October 30, 2026 11:23 AM (7Rs+y)
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You just said "podcasts". Because that's what that is.
That's why everybody is complaining about people with audience and no affiliation having such a "reach".
I don't like either of them, but this includes Tucker and Fuentes. They have to be controlled, they have to be brought in line with some larger political effort. (And I think Tucker is crazy, and Fuentes is either that or a troll/scammer).
Posted by: Axeman
Yep. But true local radio/tv can have a role by covering local concerns and interests. Local papers are now just a memory in most places and that lets the corrupt local pols do as they like as podcasts rarely work on a local level, nor does places filled with insane Karens like Nextdoor substitute. Public access radio/tv model.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (ZxPkt)
Used to be a regular patron of "Car Talk." My goodness they were funny
___________
I never found them all that funny. A lot of cackling doesn't mean it's humorous.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (eRlcH)
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And here we are without Art Bell and Casey Kasem!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (77rzZ)
She'd never been wrong! Sure, it made no fucking sense, but she'd never been wrong! She was the gold standard!
And then she was very wrong, and everyone forgot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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She got paid. Was retiring anyway and jumped into a lucrative consulting job.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv)
It's nice to see a company not doing the knee-jerk firing of an employee after being in a viral video. The whole cycle of viral video--> loses job, apartment, friends, etc. is incredibly toxic.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 11:33 AM (rOKnE)
GFM's are over 1/2 a million now. I certainly hope he actually gets that money and it's not just another f*cking scam because humanity sucks hind tit now.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:35 AM (ccf/V)
Guy is not only NOT going to be fired by Red Baron, as I feared, but they implied on social media he is a lock for employee of the month.
Love to see it! Might have to buy some red baron, even though I actually like making my own pizza dough and making pizza at home now. Want to support a company that actually read the room correctly. Loyalty to your employees, not the influencer scum! It's a nice white pill to start the weekend.
https://tinyurl.com/4ken
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 11:20 AM (tn9Xx)
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Red Baron was my dad's favorite frozen pizza.
The guy in the vid was much nicer to that little shitfuck punk than I would have been. He mostly kept his cool. I have anger management issues.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:35 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:30 AM (ndZc7)
I'm betting no way, simply because Bill Maher was a frequent guest there.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)
What would it even mean to be a perv at the Playboy Mansion? The place was a fancy fuck tent for the rich and famous. No one who went there was under any illusions. "I went to the Playboy Mansion and no one wanted me for my mind."
Posted by: Okay at October 30, 2026 11:35 AM (epXJE)
Just like there's people that bet on their favorite sports team, but usually those spreads end up being accurate.
I remember Trump was the favored in betting in the 2024 election and the media dismissed it as "crypto bros" gaming things. What changed with who bets in these markets?
I think I'm open to just banning a lot of prediction market gambling.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:33 AM (eXAiG)
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The entire market for the Texas senate race on Polymarket is $8 million.
To move that, you need the equivalent of a handful of ads in the Dallas market.
Manipulating betting markets is comically cheap from a campaign perspective.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:35 AM (xjopy)
I don't mind Leo casting an absentee ballot in Illinois, it's the whole College of Cardinals casting absentee ballots in Illinois that I object to.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 11:36 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Contemporary with him being a raging lunatic.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:36 AM (ndZc7)
But the right thing is the right thing regardless of how you got there. In this day and age NOT using AI along the way might be the bigger PR risk.
But either way it was quality work and I have to admit I do buy their frozen pizza at Costco sometimes under the label "Sabatasso's".
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:36 AM (I+a8W)
Respect is different from fear.
Far more people are injured and die in car accidents every year than get bit by sharks.
Sharks aren't mindless. They are singleminded. You aren't on their menu unless you put yourself there.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:36 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Yes, that was my thought exactly.
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (eRlcH)
You didn't like their Russian Cab Driver: Peekup Andropov?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM (brIJB)
Love to see it! Might have to buy some red baron, even though I actually like making my own pizza dough and making pizza at home now. Want to support a company that actually read the room correctly. Loyalty to your employees, not the influencer scum! It's a nice white pill to start the weekend.
https://tinyurl.com/4ken
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 11:20 AM (tn9Xx)
There's also a fundraising site and people donated $300,000 to him.
GatewayPundit.
So good for him.
And I hope the asshole channel dies.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM (Sco7b)
WKRC
https://local12.com
6 hours ago — A GoFundMe campaign for a Michigan Red Baron employee identified as Walt Z had raised more than $446000 after influencers harassed him in a ...
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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The MeToo Brigade took him out back and shot him.
Posted by: Vilano Man at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM (Ovx+P)
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM
We should invent kelpie suits for divers.
Posted by: Eromero at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM (szrhY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Where it hurts is it dries up fundraising. I know someone that owned a GOP fundraising type firm, and when they are trying to raise money for a candidate that looks like a lost cause, the rich donors close up their pocketbooks.
And then what ends up happening is the race is far closer than people realize and had that candidate been better funded, they might have won.
Conservatives need their own "fake polls" type propaganda.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM (eXAiG)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (E4rtv)
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Almost nobody wants to be "locally famous" though. Not when there is web stardom to be pursued.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:36 AM
I always make sure to have a little briefcase on my BCD, just in case.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 11:38 AM (JnkZq)
Sharks aren't mindless. They are singleminded. You aren't on their menu unless you put yourself there.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:36 AM (viF8m)
It the water then. I’m just riffing here, Jack. Some of my best friends are sharks.
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:38 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Lizzy
The whole scam jerk frontation video shorts need to be demonetized by social media. No reason for dumbasses to be able to be assholes to others on screen.
Under the radar, the guy that shot some noxious scamfrontation piece of human excrement trying to provoke a fight on screen was acquitted by a jury this week I think.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:38 AM (E4rtv)
Far more people are injured and die in car accidents every year than get bit by sharks.
This is a completely useless comparison.
Billions drive cars. > 1% swim in the ocean.
Be better.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:38 AM (ccf/V)
Not a great idea to swim with the seals no matter how cute they look.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:27 AM (viF8m)
So you're saying that it won't work to wear a black wetsuit with "NOT A SEAL" printed on the chest in International Orange?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2026 11:39 AM (iqcvy)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM
And the head of their shrimp huffed, Sheldon Devaned.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 11:39 AM (JnkZq)
Be better.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:38 AM (ccf/V)
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How many people die from watching Pometheus, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:39 AM (xjopy)
I SCUBA dive as a hobby. Sharks are everywhere and they mostly just ignore us idiots with all the tanks and hoses and shit hanging off of us.
Posted by: ballistic at October 30, 2026 11:39 AM (oqH4h)
THIS
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 11:39 AM (rOKnE)
No it's not if you can do the maths.
Statistically, more people are hurt or injured in car accidents than shark attacks.
Learn math better.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (viF8m)
She's horrible, and the bad part of me kinda hopes this stalks her forever. Mommy and daddy are rich, she'll be just fine.
Connected to that: I checked yesterday about the Kirkiversary cake incident at U of U, where that horrible girl brought the "Happy Kirkiversary" cake to the college republicans booth on the anniversary of Charlie's death.
Who got in trouble? Not cake girl! It's a liberal school, that'd be crazy. The college republicans were threatened with expulsion, because they took video of the incident and posted it. (Someone told one of them they would "Kirk them" at a previous event. Prob filmed for proof.) Sleuths figured out who cake girl was and doxxed her, but the repubs got in trouble.
Good news: the school dropped all charges and the college repub kids won't be expelled. I suspect public pressure was too great.
Bad news: other than shame on socials, cake girl will have no repercussions. She's working on a medical degree to work with kids. I wouldn't want my kids within 100 yards of her.
What happened to "hate has no home here?" College liberals are chock full of hate.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (XZKia)
Posted by: Vilano Man at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM (Ovx+P)
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That was after he ran for some office as a Dem.
On that radio show, there was always a soft push for rural communities should vote Democrat. More overtly with his book. Was it "Tales from Lake Woebegone"?
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (Fi81e)
My response the first time I heard it was, "You know, they have free apps that will do that, right there on the internet. No intervention by public do-gooders necessary. Also, what does that have to do with broadcasting?"
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (kU0PQ)
How many people die from watching Pometheus, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:39 AM (xjopy)
#BraincellLivesMatter
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (ccf/V)
Judge Weighs Removing Letitia James From Cornell 7 Investigation Over Her Social Media Posts
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (ndZc7)
And then what ends up happening is the race is far closer than people realize and had that candidate been better funded, they might have won.
Conservatives need their own "fake polls" type propaganda.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:37 AM (eXAiG)
That's a great point.
There were stories about the fake websites - which I approve of - where the polling numbers did dry up donations.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (Sco7b)
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So what did the turd do with his phone that he got $20 out it (same as in town).
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (Fi81e)
The prankster was lying; he made his phone make a little sound, maybe a little icon, too, and then SAID he had successfully transferred the money (I think $10).
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (odBC9)
Far more people are injured and die in car accidents every year than get bit by sharks.
This is a completely useless comparison.
Billions drive cars. > 1% swim in the ocean.
Be better.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:38 AM (ccf/V)
The guys on the Indianapolis were crybabies.
Posted by: Definitely Not a Shark at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (6qJsB)
It's been said that every New Yorker cartoon could have as its caption, "I think I'm going to kill myself." To me, that's NPR humor.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 11:41 AM (eRlcH)
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Contemporary with him being a raging lunatic.
He was always a raging lunatic personally but Prairie Home Companion was, at worst, only softly leftist. He only let his freak flag fly after getting #metoo-ed.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 11:41 AM (vTZFs)
Judge Weighs Removing Letitia James From Cornell 7 Investigation Over Her Social Media Posts
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (ndZc7)
Cranes - R - Us says “ Call Me” !!!!
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:41 AM (Gqar8)
Zero Tolerance unfortunately meant zero tolerance for fighting back against bullies. I went through it before that stupid shit even had a name. And I would do it again.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:42 AM (I+a8W)
But part of me wonders if he doesn't have time for this guy, why he took up more of his night with it?
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:42 AM (Fi81e)
There were stories about the fake websites - which I approve of - where the polling numbers did dry up donations.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart!
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You'll notice Republicans have been struggling with raising money for about the last 15+ years. And that's just about the time media organizations dropped all pretense of making polls scientific and accurate and just decided to make it propaganda.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:42 AM (eXAiG)
Good point. Jokes with an obvious punchline and humor you can understand are for the plebs.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)
https://tinyurl.com/4ken
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 11:20 AM (tn9Xx)
That link doesn't work for me, LizLem.
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:25 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:42 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 11:42 AM (FZ29D)
Good.
Social media needs to do a much better job policing the assholes that do harm to society with their product.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:43 AM (ccf/V)
She's horrible, and the bad part of me kinda hopes this stalks her forever. Mommy and daddy are rich, she'll be just fine.
She went to a public event with a prepared poem and stepped up to the mic to read it.
That's completely different scenario than pizza guy, or the nurse trying to get the "youths" to give her the scooter she had just paid for, or the NYC dog lady vs. birdwatcher. These are random encounters, where one side films with the intention of destroying them.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 11:43 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Axeman
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Far too many yutes think being an internet influencer is a golden path to fame. Like OnlyFans, a few get the golden ticket and the rest simply degrade and debase themselves.
But, useful in the real world to the rest of us sane individuals. Our current radio and tv ecosystem is dying as ad money goes to the net and like newspapers, means more and more national cheap news coverage using godawful AP crap.
But broadcasting did have one virtue, it was free, it homogenized and united a local area over local concerns and news, and built a community. The internet does no such thing--it doesn't build squat on the local level and actually makes IRL community building worse by heightening national divisions and shoving those into local communities. Like the whole eunuch movement aka transing kids.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:43 AM (E4rtv)
You'll notice Republicans have been struggling with raising money for about the last 15+ years. And that's just about the time media organizations dropped all pretense of making polls scientific and accurate and just decided to make it propaganda.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:42 AM (eXAiG)
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Weird cycle to assert that when the GOP has more money than Democrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:43 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 11:43 AM (wXgT/)
FOAD you worthless pieces of shit.
Posted by: Whatevs at October 30, 2026 11:43 AM (w0BVu)
Oh you mean a different Cake girl.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:44 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:42 AM (I+a8W)
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Zero tolerance meant zero brainwork.
I do think that the flood of "zero tolerance" practice is what made progs such double-thinkers these days.
And if it was intentional, it was brilliant.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:44 AM (Fi81e)
Once upon a time (decades ago!!!)
PBS could be a pretty good watch...though admittedly most of the pretty good watching came from the BBC.
Things like "I, Claudius", "Civilization", Masterpiece Theater, "Connections", David Attenborough nature series, British comedies, etc.
The, of course, the BBC jumped headfirst into the leftard toilet, so that ended the quality.
Politically, PBS always sucked ass and the American stuff was sadly antipathetic to the US.
In any event, they dug their own grave, and should now lay in it quietly while the dirt of irrelevance covers them.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 11:44 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Lizzy
The whole scam jerk frontation video shorts need to be demonetized by social media. No reason for dumbasses to be able to be assholes to others on screen.
Under the radar, the guy that shot some noxious scamfrontation piece of human excrement trying to provoke a fight on screen was acquitted by a jury this week I think.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:38 AM (E4rtv)
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Agree. I'm amazed that more of these punks don't get shot or beaten. Some of the confrontations are just asking for violence, and they are usually frail little dingleberries of dorkness.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
Things like "I, Claudius", "Civilization", Masterpiece Theater, "Connections", David Attenborough nature series, British comedies, etc.
The, of course, the BBC jumped headfirst into the leftard toilet, so that ended the quality.
Politically, PBS always sucked ass and the American stuff was sadly antipathetic to the US.
In any event, they dug their own grave, and should now lay in it quietly while the dirt of irrelevance covers them.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 11:44 AM (YSUhf)
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"We need more money to license cheap content from another country. Donate today."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:45 AM (xjopy)
That's completely different scenario than pizza guy, or the nurse trying to get the "youths" to give her the scooter she had just paid for, or the NYC dog lady vs. birdwatcher. These are random encounters, where one side films with the intention of destroying them.
Posted by: Lizzy
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The poem was a lame redo of the Night Before Christmas. Perfect example of how the left turns everything into excrement and cannot create to save their own miserable lives. They turn wholesome into disgusting and vile.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:45 AM (E4rtv)
Statistically, more people are hurt or injured in car accidents than shark attacks.
Learn math better.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (viF8m)
No. It's an asinine comparison.
Math has very little to do with it at this point.
You're giving statistics a bad name with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:45 AM (ccf/V)
It is not funny.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 11:45 AM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:42 AM (Fi81e)
Adrenaline is no joke.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:45 AM (I+a8W)
I taught and did commercial diving in Puerto Rico. Sharks were always around, particularly on night dives. One of the alternate license plates in RI features a Mako because we have more sharks than human units around here.
This place is about 15 minutes from my house.
https://www.atlanticsharkinstitute.org
Sharks don't hunt people no matter what the movies say. They do just fine on their normal diet.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:45 AM (viF8m)
https://oneoceandiving.com/
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:27 AM (iFTx/)
I've dived with sharks around many times. Sometimes they get curious but never threatening. The only time I became anxious of them is when a bunch of hammerhead sharks showed up once. The dive master called the dive and we went back up to the boat. Hammerheads are extremely moody.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 30, 2026 11:45 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (viF8m)
That's not a statistic, that is a comparison of raw numbers.
A statistic would be comparing deaths/million miles driven and deaths/million hours in the water...or something like that.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2026 11:45 AM (k5CNB)
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FWIW, she will stand for judgment before G*d one day.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 11:46 AM (qBdHI)
That a no-buy for me. A lot of sympathy. A lot of kudos for them backing their employee who had an emotional episode.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:46 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:46 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
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Since these little dweebs are recording everything, no doubt the object of their pranks don't want to get arrested for assault (even if the punks deserve it).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 11:46 AM (FZ29D)
The dirt of irrelevance is very nice phrasing.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Yes, you had that black idiot purposefully insulting and demeaning Japanese and then Koreans. He finally FAFOed too much and got sent to big boy prison for his vile monkey poo flinging content.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:46 AM (E4rtv)
But yeah, even back in the 80s, All Things Considered was pretty leftist (I recall Christiane Amanpour being a reporter for them back then and she hated America then, too). And it just got worse.
The purpose of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was to fill a perceived gap in public entertainment on radio and television. That gap has long since been overfilled by cable, streaming, youtube, and more. Its time was over in the 1990s.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 11:46 AM (TMNW7)
That a no-buy for me. A lot of sympathy. A lot of kudos for them backing their employee who had an emotional episode.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:46 AM (Fi81e)
No one said you had to eat the pizza........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:47 AM (ccf/V)
Broadcasting already IS a news reading service for the blind.
Posted by: t-bird at October 30, 2026 11:47 AM (cb6Hl)
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.
Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:47 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:47 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 11:43 AM (wXgT/)
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My dad's fav frozen pizza. It was launched in the 1970s at a time when "red baron" symbolized daredevil coolness rather than a german war ace. Snoopy from peanuts had a long-running gag on it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (iFTx/)
We mostly liked the animation. But, it taught me how to appreciate British humor and now I own the DVD set. My boys love it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (TMNW7)
I accept your surrender.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:46 AM (viF8m)
Wow. This explains why you're such a rabid Grateful Dead fan.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (ccf/V)
https://x.com/redbaronpizza/
@redbaronpizza
He’s still here. He’s got a fan club.
Including us.
And then the image says "employee of the month nominations are closed. You know why."
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (XZKia)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Directed EMP devices for people would be nice to fry the antisocial influencer electronics when they start that crap.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (E4rtv)
In the case of public radio it is mostly listened to by "the rich". They can afford to pay for it if they want it.
But leftists are very stingy. Having a latin American nanny and paying to abort your offspring with her without your Karen wife finding out really adds up you know?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (sKqQm)
For the house they’re selling dollars for 5 cents.
Best buy right now is South Carolina. It’s around 70-75 R. The blue wave would have to be Thailand tsunami level for SC to fall. Could it happen? Anything’s possible. But the odds are not 25% not even close.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (w0BVu)
The nature of news has changed along with society.
In the 30's a local paper covered local events; a ladies' garden club meeting reporter misreported the name of the chairwoman.
The city editor told him to go to her house and personally apologize, he did, and when he got back was promptly fired.
Standards of the day.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (TMNW7)
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Her Diablo IV cake was live service and needed a constant internet connection to be eaten.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (xjopy)
Conservatives need their own "fake polls" type propaganda.
Posted by: Sharpie
We need to find another Bernie Sanders to run against the real Bernie Sanders. And another AOC to run against the real AOC etc. They tell me it's not illegal.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:47 AM (Fi81e)
200 158 Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:23 AM (odBC9)
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So what did the turd do with his phone that he got $20 out it (same as in town).
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (Fi81e)
The prankster was lying; he made his phone make a little sound, maybe a little icon, too, and then SAID he had successfully transferred the money (I think $10).
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:49 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 11:49 AM (sKqQm)
FIFY
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)
>>A statistic would be comparing deaths/million miles driven and deaths/million hours in the water...or something like that.
No shit, really?
How many people go in the water around the world? How many shark attacks are there?
How many people drive in a car around the world? How many people are injured in car accidents?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:49 AM (viF8m)
https://x.com/redbaronpizza/
@redbaronpizza
He’s still here. He’s got a fan club.
Including us.
And then the image says "employee of the month nominations are closed. You know why."
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (XZKia)
Thanks, LizLem!
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:49 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 11:50 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 11:49 AM (sKqQm)
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I used to really like Digiorno's, but they did something to the recipe of their crust and now it's not nearly as good as it used to be.
I have several Red Baron pizzas in my freezer right now because their crust quality hasn't degraded as much.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 11:50 AM (FZ29D)
Monty Python's Flying Circus first aired in the US from a Public Television Station in Dallas in the 1970s. I used to watch it with my parents and little brother.
Yep. First place I saw Monty Python. First place I saw Black Adder, Are You Being Served, Keeping Up Appearances, UXB, and a host of other stuff. They would do lots of BBC's best stuff where I got to see actors such as Patrick Stewart before he was Somebody. It was a valid cultural service to the USA, back before there were 15 other places to get that stuff.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 11:50 AM (TMNW7)
FIFY
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)
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This was in the early stages of publicly funding Democrap.
Fraud, money laundering, and USAID long ago left NPR in the dust.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:51 AM (Fi81e)
On top of red baron backing the employee and him getting all that money raised, Instagram shut down the asshole’s page as well.
We need so much more of this. All these “content creator” clowns need to be shut down.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 30, 2026 11:51 AM (w0BVu)
The Revenge of the MBAs.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t)
She was going to release it on phones only but got too much pushback from fans
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 11:51 AM (TMNW7)
Good news: the school dropped all charges and the college repub kids won't be expelled. I suspect public pressure was too great.
Bad news: other than shame on socials, cake girl will have no repercussions. She's working on a medical degree to work with kids. I wouldn't want my kids within 100 yards of her.
What happened to "hate has no home here?" College liberals are chock full of hate.
Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (XZKia)
You reminded me of that poem.
I've REALLY learned to hate these sub-human things this year. And I got my late Mother through Canadian Covid unvaxxed.
There's the thought that 'Oh, we can't descend to their level or we'll become monsters too.'
No, eventually we descend to their level, destroy them mercilessly and then return to being good people that just wanted to be left alone.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:52 AM (Sco7b)
We mostly liked the animation. But, it taught me how to appreciate British humor and now I own the DVD set. My boys love it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (W2Pud)
Heh. The UHF channels days. Fun times they were.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 30, 2026 11:52 AM (g8Ew8)
forty-two!
How many shark attacks are there?
forty-two!
How many people drive in a car around the world?
forty-two!
How many people are injured in car accidents?
forty-two!
Posted by: deep thought at October 30, 2026 11:52 AM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (Cqx++)
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1. Say "Oligachy" a lot.
2. Glare a lot.
3. Fly first-class to all events.
4. Profit!
Posted by: The AoSHQ Bernie Sanders Doppelganger Tutorial at October 30, 2026 11:52 AM (brIJB)
Analysis of Senate Races
Cheesecake Factory eaters are White Supremacists
Trump is a bad Orangeman
Something about North Korea
Nothing about BroFo or the O'Keefe arrest which are the two biggest news items right now after election news
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 11:52 AM (sKqQm)
She was going to release it on phones only but got too much pushback from fans
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 11:51 AM (TMNW7)
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She's trying to figure out how to make the Diablo V cake inside out but tasting just as good as the Diablo II cupcake she made him when they were children.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:52 AM (xjopy)
Digiorno's is basically a bad loaf of bread with whatever cheap toppings everyone else uses. Almost all pizza places put sugar in their sauce which is an abomination before the Lord (and makes their pizza essentially inedible for me).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 11:53 AM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 30, 2026 11:53 AM (w0BVu)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 11:48 AM (Cqx++)
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1. Say "Oligachy" a lot.
2. Glare a lot.
3. Fly first-class to all events.
4. Profit!
Bernie is especially bad about bird-hands.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:53 AM (Riz8t)
https://oneoceandiving.com/
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:27 AM (iFTx/)
I've dived with sharks around many times. Sometimes they get curious but never threatening. The only time I became anxious of them is when a bunch of hammerhead sharks showed up once. The dive master called the dive and we went back up to the boat. Hammerheads are extremely moody.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 30, 2026 11:45 AM (g8Ew
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There was a hammerhead in the water with us, but sadly I didn't see it. Only a few of the divers saw it, so it must have only came into view for a short time and then swam away.
There's a tiger shark dive that's a much longer tour and much much more expensive. I would do that ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)
"We need more money to license cheap content from another country. Donate today."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:45 AM (xjopy)
"Shut-up!!!! That's our trade secret!!!"
-Netflix
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 11:53 AM (YSUhf)
Embrace it. Stop making stupid comparisons that have no basis in reality.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:53 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I donate to my local classical music station because there is no political crap on it. I'm sure the hosts are as leftie as all get out but they keep their mouths shut and only talk about music.
Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2026 11:54 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: 18-1
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The fake scammer dude was purposefully being a jackass for a hideous audience that eats up vile content on social media. Whole genre needs to be demonetized by social media. No money for it, you will get less of it.
Social media is in the process of proving Gresham's Law. Content dives the lowest possible level so addlepated morons with iqs of a burned out light bulb can click like and subscribe worldwide. Given IQ distributions, we have a lot of smooth brained apes in the world with smartphones and they all click on idiotic content apparently.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 11:54 AM (Sco7b)
Too lazy to make it in a commune he got into politics. Where he has since spent his time writing rape-fanfic and getting rich and...that's it.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 11:55 AM (sKqQm)
yeah. and you would *expect* bbc america to play that sort of stuff, but it mostly seems to be st:tng reruns whenever i look at what's playing.
Posted by: anachronda at October 30, 2026 11:55 AM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 11:55 AM (ZxPkt)
Agree. I'm amazed that more of these punks don't get shot or beaten. Some of the confrontations are just asking for violence, and they are usually frail little dingleberries of dorkness.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
What you don't usually see is the hulking 6'5" bodyguard just off-screen with a fanny pack that holds something suspiciously dense and heavy. A LOT of these influencer pansies have bodyguards on hand to keep them from getting shivved, despite the fact that the video footage would make BANK.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2026 11:55 AM (iqcvy)
"Shut-up!!!! That's our trade secret!!!"
-Netflix
TBF, much of their best content was made in other countries, especially Korea and Japan.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I guarantee you, more "liberal" dollars were spent in this cycle than "conservative" dollars. I bet it's easy 2:1.
Something like the RNC might have money than the DNC this cycle, but what really matters is what all these individual campaigns raise, plus outside interest groups.
We've been getting stomped in fundraising for a while now.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:55 AM (eXAiG)
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (odBC9)
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Yeah, apparently it's a "fake Apple pay scam". It just uses Apple Pay's screen and tone to fake a pay scam.
And people would watch this on Instagram?
A real scam is to fake pay somebody and then say you overpaid and they have to send you some money back, apparently.
But why would that ever look like you holding up a pizza box and somebody scanning it?
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:55 AM (Fi81e)
We've been getting stomped in fundraising for a while now.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:55 AM (eXAiG)
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It's outside groups, too. Republicans have more money than Democrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 11:55 AM (xjopy)
He described himself as a “dark-skinned Latino performance artist.”
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at October 30, 2026 11:56 AM (dk1uA)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 30, 2026 11:56 AM (brIJB)
Do you know how mirrors work?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:56 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 11:56 AM (TMNW7)
I've seen funny prank videos but this guy was bringing no energy or thought to it.
Like...show up in a Red Baron costume and try to convince the guy you are the official company mascot...at least that could be funny.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 11:56 AM (sKqQm)
Funny that.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 30, 2026 11:56 AM (w0BVu)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:56 AM (viF8m)
Pass the dutchie, bro. You've had enough.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:57 AM (ccf/V)
A significant portion of lefty political dollars come directly or indirectly from the taxpayers.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 11:57 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 11:58 AM (FZ29D)
BBC has changed since back then, they consider all their old stuff too white and male and British and are horrified by it. Besides, John Cleese keeps criticizing Muslims and this Must Not Be Tolerated
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 11:58 AM (TMNW7)
A significant portion of lefty political dollars come directly or indirectly from the taxpayers.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 11:57 AM (sKqQm)
Decreased dramatically with the destruction of USAID.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:58 AM (ccf/V)
Digiorno's is basically a bad loaf of bread with whatever cheap toppings everyone else uses. Almost all pizza places put sugar in their sauce which is an abomination before the Lord (and makes their pizza essentially inedible for me).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
DiGiornos got cheapened after a forced sale from Kraft to Nestles in 2010 due to antitrust reasons. Nestles immediately set about cheapening the brand ingredients in order to meet revenue and profit marks while claiming it was promoting health.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:58 AM (E4rtv)
I'm not. I'm just right a lot and smart and funny and devilishly charming and handsome. But not perfect.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:58 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 11:57 AM (sKqQm)
Ahem
Posted by: Soros Family at October 30, 2026 11:58 AM (w0BVu)
It's outside groups, too. Republicans have more money than Democrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Honestly, show your math on this because I just dont believe it.
Talarico raised like $146 million to Paxton's like $23 million over he same period. That's just one example, but you can find all sorts of examples like this.
It's really astonishing just how much more money Dems have been able to raise.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:59 AM (eXAiG)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 11:57 AM (sKqQm)
Ahem
Posted by: Soros Family at October 30, 2026 11:58 AM (w0BVu)
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We found out when USAID came into the news early in Trump 2.0 that Soros funded surprisingly little.
He provided seed money for NGOs, but the NGOs were then funded by fed grants exclusively.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:00 PM (xjopy)
My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
https://tinyurl.com/mrawcd5h
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)
And I still remember that the show was made possible by a grant from the Mobil Corporation. So that worked.
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 12:00 PM (wXgT/)
The left has gotten very very good about coming up with nominal public interest NGOs and government organizations that just exist to pay leftwing activists and oligarchs
Posted by: 18-1 at October 30, 2026 12:00 PM (sKqQm)
One of the most powerful and freeing things you can say is "I don't know" but its scary: it feels like you are admitting defeat and simply handing your foe ammunition. Its hard to do. I am not very good at it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:00 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Bernie at October 30, 2026 12:00 PM (I+a8W)
1. Starts fuming about Musk's money in politics
2. You tell about Zuckerberg spending 400 million dollars to make sure Trump does not get back into office.
3. Says "Yeah, but he was right" OR walks off OR changes the topic.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:00 PM (Fi81e)
A lot more in the mailbox and on TV from dems this year than republicans.
And, no, I don't answer phone calls from anonymous sources anymore but it doesn't stop the scammers from trying.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 12:01 PM (Y8DZL)
Honestly, show your math on this because I just dont believe it.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 11:59 AM (eXAiG)
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Party Committees: As of late September 2026, the six official national and Hill party committees (DNC, DSCC, DCCC, RNC, NRSC, NRCC) raised a combined $1.5 billion.• Democratic Party committees (DNC, DSCC, DCCC) raised $680 million.
• Republican Party committees (RNC, NRSC, NRCC) raised $812 million.
Outside Groups & Super PACs: Outside spending, super PACs, and dark money groups have broken previous midterm records, surpassing $2 billion in super PAC spending and $1 billion in dark money.• Right-leaning or Republican-aligned super PACs and outside groups have held a significant financial advantage, with top groups like the Senate Leadership Fund and individual megadonors (such as Elon Musk) outraising and outpacing Democratic-aligned counterparts (such as the Senate Majority PAC) by roughly a 2-to-1 ratio in major independent expenditure and super PAC tallies.
• Top left-leaning/Democratic super PACs collected around $877 million compared to over $1.6 billion for top right-leaning/GOP-aligned super PACs in leading analyses reported by The NYT
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:01 PM (xjopy)
1. Starts fuming about Musk's money in politics
2. You tell about Zuckerberg spending 400 million dollars to make sure Trump does not get back into office.
3. Says "Yeah, but he was right" OR walks off OR changes the topic.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:00 PM (Fi81e)
Because it's OK when THEY do it, you see, because THEIR way is the BEST way and you're a bigot Nazi for thinking otherwise.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:01 PM (ccf/V)
It's good to know that our government is on the job, keeping a close eye on the big issues.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: paulnjax at October 30, 2026 12:02 PM (PPnyU)
Posted by: Auspex
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It's like 10:1 in tv ads favoring Democrats in my area.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 12:02 PM (eXAiG)
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
++++
Its the end of the world as we know it
Its the end of the world as we know it
I feel fine.
Posted by: REM at October 30, 2026 12:02 PM (anL5R)
Soros was good at scamming the government to appear generous. He'd donate 100k to an organization and get back 150k from government grants, matching funds, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:02 PM (TMNW7)
He'd be out in a field arguing with a fence post if he didn't have internet access.
Posted by: site needs an ignore toggle at October 30, 2026 12:02 PM (nVDlP)
https://tinyurl.com/rjjpt8zd
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:02 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Doomer McBlackPill at October 30, 2026 12:02 PM (anL5R)
I don't usually wish ill , but that Katherine Maher the president of NPR is such an arrogant AWFL that I hope she catches the blame for it's demise
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 12:03 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:03 PM (ADOtk)
I say (don't ask why I bother), what about Gates, Zuck, Bezos etc.
"That's different."
Well.... that settles THAT!!!!
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 12:03 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Doomer McBlackPill at October 30, 2026 12:02 PM (anL5R)
Point to the false statement in his post.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:03 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: torabora at October 30, 2026 12:03 PM (Wt1Rs)
Posted by: Doomer McBlackPill
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Even if Dems captured Congress with some bare majority, they wouldn't be able to accomplish what he outlined.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 12:03 PM (eXAiG)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 12:03 PM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:00 PM (TMNW7)
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I do both to those quite freely.
In fact, I have a whole spiel about how people need to get more comfortable with ignorance.
Our baseline is ignorance. It's why we use heuristic models. To get closer to what will likely be more consistent with outcomes, if we prostrated ourselves before the process.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:04 PM (Fi81e)
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He left out that the New World Order under Democrat control will seize all of his Starlink satellites and reprogram them to broadcast Commie propaganda 24/7 around the world.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 12:04 PM (FZ29D)
A lot more in the mailbox and on TV from dems this year than republicans.
And, no, I don't answer phone calls from anonymous sources anymore but it doesn't stop the scammers from trying.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 12:01 PM (Y8DZL)
Not in Michigan TV.
Wow, tons of anti-dem ads everywhere.
And one liberal bitch JUST started airing ads this week and she was up for something bigger.
CNN and MSNow were whining about how much Musk was putting into the races. I think it was over $400 million.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:04 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
He played Sejanus in I, Claudius. He had hair for that role. Don't know if it was a wig or natural, but he had hair.
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 12:04 PM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/rjjpt8zd
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Kiss my stump.
Posted by: Bethany Hamilton at October 30, 2026 12:04 PM (anL5R)
Nice looking, though.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 12:04 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: anachronda at October 30, 2026 12:04 PM (oY6Yp)
Have some of the posters from various shows...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:05 PM (ADOtk)
Kiss my stump.
Posted by: Bethany Hamilton at October 30, 2026 12:04 PM (anL5R)
Statistics say you'd have been better off dying in a car crash.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:05 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Auspex
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It's like 10:1 in tv ads favoring Democrats in my area.
Posted by: Sharpie
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Good, the Democrats are burning money to make political consultants rich. Mailers and adverts do little to change races nowadays.
GOTV is the biggest bang per buck but commissions for managing volunteers are the least. And that has been validated by controlled field studies back in the 00's and subsequently.
Turns out, people like to be asked for their vote and Trump's rallies have a bigger effect on GOTV than a host of ads.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:05 PM (E4rtv)
See the Schlichter link I posted earlier in the thread.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 12:06 PM (Riz8t)
Chicago public TV ran it at 10 PM Sunday nights, then Dave Allen's show, then OG Doctor Who. Monday mornings were difficult.
Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 12:06 PM (NcvvS)
Turns out, people like to be asked for their vote and Trump's rallies have a bigger effect on GOTV than a host of ads.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:05 PM (E4rtv)
Any reasons given for why Trump canceled the live appearance in Kansas for online streaming?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:06 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:34 AM (E4rtv)
There is such a thing as hyper-local podcasts, which are pretty much just community round ups by a couple people nattering on - often on a potato-equivalent audio set up - and funded by donations. There is also the Godcaster group that allows churches to put their services out on podcast as well.
Adam Curry has had a major hand in developing the software for both of those
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:06 PM (rbvCR)
Would have if I were still in office!
/Woodrow Wilson...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:07 PM (ADOtk)
Why didn't you just DVR it?
Posted by: That guy who has no knowledge of when various technologies were developed at October 30, 2026 12:07 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:01 PM (ccf/V)
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It's full-blown double think.
Plus Democrat language is primed with slogans, and they become second nature to Democrat voters. Those slogans can't contain that much, and so one can easily expect a qualification, but they qualify them ad hoc.
And then they will repeat the simple slogan to you as an exercise of what, in the course of a discussion, they had to qualify.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:07 PM (Fi81e)
British TV farts in your general direction.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:07 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:06 PM (ccf/V)
The word is it is due to imminent attacks on Iran.
I wonder if it is not due to intel on assassination attempts since he apparently will do virtual events
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:08 PM (ADOtk)
I say (don't ask why I bother), what about Gates, Zuck, Bezos etc.
"That's different."
Well.... that settles THAT!!!!
Posted by: ...
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Tribalism. Smart and good people are Democrats therefore Elon supporting the GOP must mean he is not smart or good.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:08 PM (E4rtv)
Lefties are getting more clever. There's a video going around of a college girl reading a horrific sadistic poem all about how great it was that Charlie Kirk was killed and it should happen to all non-leftists.
She looks perfectly normal, no nose ring, no green hair, she's fit and has no visible tattoos. She could be reading something at church.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:08 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:05 PM (E4rtv)
Obama's Georgia speech.
I looked it up. The place could hold 8000 people.
That happened with Hillary too. Every speech was at a university with adoring fans crowded into a small area.
President Trump - massive rallies. People waiting hours. Including my friend across the street who went to one in Michigan. Canada has a few good ones...
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:09 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 12:09 PM (wXgT/)
She looks perfectly normal, no nose ring, no green hair, she's fit and has no visible tattoos. She could be reading something at church.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:08 PM (TMNW7)
She's an immigrant that is likely to have her visa revoked, I'm told.
I don't believe it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:09 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 12:09 PM (wXgT/)
Jet Li is getting old, I guess. Maybe he's just slowing down.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:10 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge
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More to do with Kansas Senate race is going to be won by Marshall (see EV now favors GOP there and Election Day is going to be a deluge of red votes) and Iowa rally cancelled because again EV and the Senate race is moving to Hinson and the GOP nominee for governor whose name I've forgotten.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:10 PM (E4rtv)
345 Nice looking, though.
Lefties are getting more clever. There's a video going around of a college girl reading a horrific sadistic poem all about how great it was that Charlie Kirk was killed and it should happen to all non-leftists.
She looks perfectly normal, no nose ring, no green hair, she's fit and has no visible tattoos. She could be reading something at church.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:08 PM (TMNW7)
https://isacasahuga.com/
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:10 PM (Sco7b)
She's an immigrant that is likely to have her visa revoked, I'm told.
I don't believe it.
Marco Rubio, who some here like for the presidency, says she's gonzer.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 12:04 PM (77rzZ)
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I watched I, Claudius, and I'm still blown away that Sejanus was Patrick Stewart.
But of course, it's the same thing when I see Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill.. "No--really"
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:10 PM (Fi81e)
1975, the year Jaws was released. Some people from my high school were in the movie.
It's where lots of people got all their learning about sharks.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:10 PM (ADOtk)
Posted by: Sponge
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More to do with Kansas Senate race is going to be won by Marshall (see EV now favors GOP there and Election Day is going to be a deluge of red votes) and Iowa rally cancelled because again EV and the Senate race is moving to Hinson and the GOP nominee for governor whose name I've forgotten.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:10 PM (E4rtv)
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The KS EV data is so obviously signaling that Republicans are winning easily that not even GOPe consultants can convince anyone except doomers and leftists X accounts who need engagement that it's going to be close.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:11 PM (xjopy)
Is there an upright bass on it?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 30, 2026 12:11 PM (p61JE)
https://tinyurl.com/rjjpt8zd
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:02 PM (viF8m)
_______
You will never get people over their fear of sharks because it's something ingrained to fear the giant predators, even if they statistically there's very little to fear.
The most dangerous animal in Africa ain't the lion. It's the hippo. By far. But ask people what they're afraid of, and they'll say "lion" 1000x more times than "hippo."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:11 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)
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Yeah, but did Rubio run that by the nothing is happening guy?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:11 PM (xjopy)
I think political mailers and door hangers do nothing but annoy postal carriers who have to lug 150% more weight around this time of year.
They're like "Book trailers" that feel like you are Doing Something and appeals to fans that already were going to buy your book but never sell to anyone else.
Its like most advertising, it just keeps advertisers in business.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:11 PM (TMNW7)
And then they got corporate advertising anyway.
They wanted to be just like any other TV or radio station, so let them live and die on advertising revenue, just like any other TV or radio station.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 30, 2026 12:12 PM (PLy7M)
It's honey badgers for me.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 12:12 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 12:12 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:12 PM (ADOtk)
She looks perfectly normal, no nose ring, no green hair, she's fit and has no visible tattoos. She could be reading something at church.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
She redid Night before Christmas and put vile words to it. Typical AWFL that turned something nice into something vile and disgusting.
Won't advance the leftist cause one bit but social virtue signalling by leftists are done by tone deaf idiots enmeshed in their hideous bubbles with likeminded dolts. Professing allegiance to evil in public is not the win that a leftist thinks it is and that is due to the existence of social media bubbles.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv)
Me too.
/Dolph Lundgren
I'll save you some time. Were they in an Expendables movie? Yes? They're old.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t)
The GOP refusal to end public broadcasting funding has always baffled me. They never had sufficient budget to be a real force in lobbying, it was never a massive part of the public that consumed any of that media.
They just refused to do it, no atter how horrific and blatant the bias was. I could never understand why. If a Democrat gets into the oval office, I would wager my kidneys that the GOP votes to bring back the funding.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (TMNW7)
Very true.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (viF8m)
Red Barber's quintessential American voice reading the part with worst of the King of Englands transgression always made me grin.
And, then... sometime in the 2000's some NPR Morning Sedition jerk-hole told me they could no longer in good conscience read such an distressing document.
That was it. Deleted the button on the radio.
Not another dime or time.
Now I listen to K-BACH (KBAQ) exclusively.
It's all classical all-the-time. No NPR news.
Posted by: retropox at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (PMboN)
There's a shadowy right-leaning group convincing leftist immigrants to make asses of themselves about Charlie Kirk on video while on revokable visas in order to get their visas revoked and the individuals deported.
Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (xjopy)
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:08 PM (E4rtv)
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Yep. Growing up the people most likely to use the word "tribalism" were leftish. However, I think they have become the most tribal.
I also feel that way about "globalists" who invented the word it seems, and how they just became a "global tribe".
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (ADOtk)
Posted by: one hour sober at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (J4Dwc)
I think political mailers and door hangers do nothing but annoy postal carriers who have to lug 150% more weight around this time of year.
They're like "Book trailers" that feel like you are Doing Something and appeals to fans that already were going to buy your book but never sell to anyone else.
Its like most advertising, it just keeps advertisers in business.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:11 PM (TMNW7)
Don't even bring them in.. Right into the garbage can
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:15 PM (4WM7K)
They're like "Book trailers" that feel like you are Doing Something and appeals to fans that already were going to buy your book but never sell to anyone else.
Its like most advertising, it just keeps advertisers in business.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Commissions run 20-30 percent on those along with ad placement in media. Lots of candidates have made bank from donors via setting up companies run by relatives that 'create' the content and then hire a printing company to do them.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:15 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: one hour sober at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (J4Dwc)
Good or bad ?
Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:15 PM (4WM7K)
They just refused to do it, no atter how horrific and blatant the bias was. I could never understand why. If a Democrat gets into the oval office, I would wager my kidneys that the GOP votes to bring back the funding.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (TMNW7)
And the CBC lives on....
I don't vote anymore.
Do something first.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:15 PM (Sco7b)
Yeah that always annoyed me. They said "no ads" then ran ads before every show. I get it, the donors want to be known but its still an ad if you flash their logo and give them credit.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:16 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:16 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 12:16 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Trump voters everywhere at October 30, 2026 12:16 PM (aDmlG)
Posted by: Happy at October 30, 2026 12:16 PM (KLUEJ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (TMNW7)
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I think that once CTW jumped to paid cable with shows like "Play With Me, Sesame" it was an easier argument that defunding PBS is not "killing Big Bird".
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:17 PM (Fi81e)
Well, now that Winnie isn't necklacing....
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:17 PM (ADOtk)
I think there is something to that, although the left STILL CLAIMED IT
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Axeman
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The noxious empty headed poem reciter comes from just such a background and the mother that spawned that creature had global citizens unironically in her realtor bio.
Friedman's The World is Flat is exactly how it appears to that class and sort of person--they are only in a country to extract resources and when those dry up, they float away to another country to do the same damn thing. Rootless drifters where driftwood has more intellect and practical use to people actually living real lives in countries these people infest.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 12:09 PM (wXgT/)
Shark attacks would be far worse if Officer Krupke wasn't on the beat.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 30, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)
Marco Rubio is a leg-breaker.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 01:49 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Axeman
They aren't a tribe. They are a cult.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 01:50 PM (uhVAy)
I also feel that way about "globalists" who invented the word it seems, and how they just became a "global tribe".
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (Fi81e)
the real tell is the derision for "populists". What, appealing to what the populace in a democracy? Dangerous Madness!
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 01:52 PM (uhVAy)
Very true.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:14 PM (viF8m)
And crocs are up there too. You can avoid walking by the lion's dens, but the hippos and crocs live where the water is, for drinking or fishing.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 30, 2026 01:54 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: waelse1 at October 30, 2026 03:16 PM (oOSlr)
Posted by: MikeN at October 30, 2026 04:35 PM (QpB3j)
To add to the irritation, She took money from the Kroc foundation and created "The Joan B. Kroc Foundation", in 1983, while Ray was still alive. Just a few months before his death. So he was likely in failing health if not on his deathbed. I don't pretend to know the ins and outs of their marriage. I don't know if the original Kroc foundation was dissolved or it's still out there somewhere. I just know the medium is the message. She wanted him to know she was doing this. A middle finger to the husband who broke his ass to fund her lifestyle? Hmmm. [Scratches head]
Posted by: Phil Christensen at October 30, 2026 05:15 PM (gxAox)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Paul Wiesenfeld
Comments
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They had happy endings.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 09:32 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 09:31 AM (eRlcH)
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NYT Crossword Puzzle.
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026
Well, it's not green.
Posted by: The WNBA at October 30, 2026 09:34 AM (aDmlG)
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Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 09:35 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 09:34 AM (rOKnE)
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With no pants?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 09:35 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 30, 2026 09:35 AM (JzUSu)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 09:35 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 09:34 AM (rOKnE)
Did she steal rickb223's "pants rule exemption" card?
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2026 09:35 AM (h4J+2)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 09:35 AM
I was in the pool!!
Posted by: George at October 30, 2026 09:36 AM (aDmlG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:36 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 09:37 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 09:37 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 09:37 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 09:37 AM (xz+xK)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 09:37 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 09:37 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Eeyore at October 30, 2026 09:37 AM (AlhUl)
Did she steal rickb223's "pants rule exemption" card?
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2026 09:35 AM (h4J+2)
Why would there be a rule preventing women from removing their pants?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:38 AM (ccf/V)
and she should put the lid back on that "locker room" jar.
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 09:38 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:38 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Just to clarify at October 30, 2026 09:38 AM (aDmlG)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 09:38 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 09:39 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:39 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 09:40 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 09:40 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:40 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: I gotta ask at October 30, 2026 09:40 AM (aDmlG)
--> i have a theory.
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 09:40 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 09:40 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Czech Chick at October 30, 2026 09:40 AM (rg/w7)
Posted by: red speck at October 30, 2026 09:40 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 09:41 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:41 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 09:41 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: red speck at October 30, 2026 09:42 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: Czech Chick at October 30, 2026 09:42 AM (rg/w7)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 09:42 AM (Jr5Lq)
Her Secret: She has a tramp stamp tattoo.
Her Shame: It's a tattoo of Pee Wee Herman.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 09:41 AM (YSUhf)
https://shorturl.fm/jvFL7
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:43 AM (ccf/V)
"I wonder what my guys at the frat are up for this evening?" she mused. "Better replenish my stock of Vitamin K!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 09:43 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 09:43 AM (Bep7s)
There's not a pants verification.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 09:37 AM (rOKnE)
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That's not what bob from the nsa tells me..
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 09:43 AM (FZ29D)
Don't bother knockin'
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 30, 2026 09:43 AM (RORbl)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 09:41 AM (Bep7s)
Point taken.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:43 AM (ccf/V)
$20, same as in town
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 09:44 AM (ixS3i)
That's not what bob from the nsa tells me..
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 09:43 AM (FZ29D)
Bobs and vagene!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:44 AM (ccf/V)
Her Shame: It's a tattoo of Pee Wee Herman.
Her other secret: she's a he, just waiting for you to figure it out.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 09:44 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Stanley Steemer at October 30, 2026 09:44 AM (EdP2u)
Can verify......
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at October 30, 2026 09:45 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 09:45 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Gladys Kravitz at October 30, 2026 09:46 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: JTB at October 30, 2026 09:46 AM (yTvNw)
Can verify......
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg
I think you meant to say "attest", numb nuts
We all know you'd be champing at the bit to "verify".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 09:46 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 09:46 AM (WXuyH)
Not a western bar nekkid lady painting hung over the bourbon bottles, fer shur.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 09:46 AM (Y8DZL)
==
Her other secret: she's a he, just waiting for you to figure it out.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 09:44 AM (rOKnE)
Laces out! LACES OUT!!!
Posted by: Lt. Einhorn at October 30, 2026 09:47 AM (jb8Ss)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 09:47 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Joe at October 30, 2026 09:47 AM (Uy/WF)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 09:47 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 09:47 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 09:47 AM (f8snw)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:48 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:44 AM (ccf/V)
I was always a little suspicious of you!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2026 09:48 AM (k5CNB)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 09:49 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: JTB at October 30, 2026 09:46 AM (yTvNw)
Go ahead - say it. I give you permission to use THE word that means exactly that!
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2026 09:49 AM (h4J+2)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Appalled she'd risk get crackers in her crevices. That would be about as bad as sand in your crack.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 30, 2026 09:49 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:38 AM
Dude, have you seen the average Austin feminist?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 09:49 AM (ctC8W)
Posted by: Wormword at October 30, 2026 09:50 AM (yOcCL)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Appalled she'd risk get crackers in her crevices. That would be about as bad as sand in your crack.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 30, 2026 09:49 AM (ftFVW)
I hate sand!
Posted by: Anakin S. at October 30, 2026 09:50 AM (jb8Ss)
This is from the "Fuzzificated Pointillism" school of art, which came into being when a Pointillist accidentally smeared a portion of his work when he tripped while stepping back to admire it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 09:50 AM (ixS3i)
I was always a little suspicious of you!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 30, 2026 09:48 AM (k5CNB)
You know you like it......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:50 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: gp
There's a mirror?!
*trots back to look again*
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 30, 2026 09:51 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:38 AM
Dude, have you seen the average Austin feminist?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 09:49 AM (ctC8W)
So we don't have to hear/read Jeff Spicoli exclaim, "Gnarly!"
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 09:51 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Anytime!
https://youtu.be/FVfL9xZ7GXo
Posted by: Barbara Mandrell at October 30, 2026 09:51 AM (aDmlG)
"Sand in the Vag" would be a perfect name for a consultancy staffed exclusively by Karens.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 09:51 AM (ixS3i)
Dude, have you seen the average Austin feminist?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 09:49 AM (ctC8W)
Valid.......
However, in my defense, I would highly doubt they would be perusing the world famous AoS Book Thread.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:52 AM (ccf/V)
100 comment rule
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 09:53 AM (ixS3i)
However, in my defense, I would highly doubt they would be perusing the world famous AoS Book Thread.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:52 AM
Your point is also valid.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 09:53 AM (ctC8W)
Whoa! Major jackpot!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 09:53 AM (ixS3i)
She's gonna wind up with a terrible stiff neck or tweaked-out back if she holds that position for very long. We won't even go into the likely consequences of anything more lively.
I suggest that they adjourn to the bedroom for investigation of further secrets.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:53 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Sponge
The Vibrant Hot Air Art Thread is more their speed.
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 09:53 AM (uIP5r)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 09:51 AM (ixS3i)
And a Greenfield, MA lesbian bar.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 09:53 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 30, 2026 09:53 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:54 AM (ccf/V)
Her Shame: It's a tattoo of Pee Wee Herman.
Her other secret: she's a he, just waiting for you to figure it out.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 09:44 AM (rOKnE)
Her Other Other Secret:
She's a Woman Pretending To Be a Man Pretending to Be a Woman.*
*Blake Edward's Pitch Meeting
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 09:54 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Wait, you and Sponge are valid now, too? Doof is gonna be pissed.
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 09:54 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kosciuszko at October 30, 2026 09:55 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 30, 2026 09:55 AM (eEW2s)
Your point is also valid.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 09:53 AM (ctC8W)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:55 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Rinshot at October 30, 2026 09:55 AM (aDmlG)
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 09:54 AM (77rzZ)
How obtuse......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:55 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 09:55 AM (Bep7s)
However, in my defense, I would highly doubt they would be perusing the world famous AoS Book Thread.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:52 AM
Your point is also valid.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 09:53 AM (ctC8W)
But not INCREDIBLY valid
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2026 09:55 AM (h4J+2)
Posted by: Rinshot at October 30, 2026 09:55 AM (aDmlG)
Some found the dialogue abrasive, though.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 09:56 AM (qlLNh)
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 09:54 AM
But I'm not whelmed, yet.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 09:56 AM (ctC8W)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 09:56 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Music critic at October 30, 2026 09:57 AM (aDmlG)
"Jane Doe" of Cornell Seven fame is acting out IRL the role of Alex Forrest, the bunny boiler, from "Fatal Attraction".
It is easy to see her, enraged, and speaking out, "I will not be ignored, boys!" when she was disinvited from that frat's Halloween party.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 09:57 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: Unkaren at October 30, 2026 09:57 AM (m6fGY)
Posted by: let's express positive things negatively at October 30, 2026 09:57 AM (epXJE)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 09:58 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:58 AM (ccf/V)
Uncomfortable furniture corrects posture and insures that the callers' stay will be brief.
Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 09:58 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: let's express positive things negatively at October 30, 2026 09:57 AM (epXJE)
Seems you should check out the Hot Air Art Thread, or start your OWN Art Thread......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:58 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: let's express positive things negatively at October 30, 2026 09:57 AM
I can't not not like it.
Posted by: Triple negative! at October 30, 2026 09:59 AM (aDmlG)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 09:59 AM (Ti9vn)
x.com neorevolt/status/2116015926927880488
eMudhra login to download customer's certs can be cracked
Their 1FA login generates a OTP & sends it. It also sends a RSA public key to front end
They haven't rate limited checks, so you can offline brute force 0 to 9999 encrypted with public key & find the OTP
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 09:59 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 09:59 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 09:59 AM (Ti9vn)
Seems Hannibal made a visit.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:00 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 09:58 AM
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at October 30, 2026 10:00 AM (aDmlG)
Posted by: JTB at October 30, 2026 10:00 AM (yTvNw)
If you can spare a prayer for my friend Fred, I would appreciate it. I'm here for a little while, then will be back over there to keep his wife company. They're both long-time friends, who have seen me through hospitalizations.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 30, 2026 10:00 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 30, 2026 09:55 AM (eEW2s)
I would 100% agree with you but I do have an example of a French woman that did do personal grooming. Our CEO's admin assistant had taken boudoir photos and printed them at our office on the nice color printer we have. When she left the company, she left the photos behind in a folder. Left no doubt on grooming. She calls herself a True Renaissance Woman.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 30, 2026 10:01 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 09:59 AM
I see the problem. With no mouth, the nood can't eat the sammiches she clearly needs.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 10:01 AM (ctC8W)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at October 30, 2026 10:01 AM (v6HTt)
My abstract nood painting. See nic.
Posted by: polynikes
Ehhh, it's a passable semi nude portrait of Elliott Page.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:02 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)
If you can spare a prayer for my friend Fred, I would appreciate it. I'm here for a little while, then will be back over there to keep his wife company. They're both long-time friends, who have seen me through hospitalizations.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 30, 2026 10:00 AM (XeU6L)
Godspeed.
May the doctors have steady hands, steel nerves and positive results.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:02 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 10:02 AM (+iKN/)
x.com QuantusInsights/status/2116138064481226940
Posted by: must be 30 October at October 30, 2026 10:02 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Han Solo at October 30, 2026 10:03 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 30, 2026 10:01 AM (N39Ws)
"You photocopied your ass, didn't you......."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:03 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:03 AM (l3cgK)
"Greg Price
@greg_price11
🚨 Pelosi rips Abdul El-Sayed, says his views on Israel are "more than concerning":
“This new person in Michigan, we’ll see if he gets elected.”"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:03 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:02 AM (ixS3
Tell me what other dude you imagine in that faceless nude.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:04 AM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:04 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Person who checks out titles at October 30, 2026 10:05 AM (aDmlG)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 10:05 AM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 10:05 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 10:05 AM (Sco7b)
x.com QuantusInsights/status/2116138064481226940
Posted by: must be 30 October at October 30, 2026 10:02 AM (88C+u)
I'm not buying that shit one bit.
No one really knows Hinojosa is even running.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:05 AM (ccf/V)
x.com QuantusInsights/status/2116138064481226940
Posted by: must be 30 October at October 30, 2026 10:02 AM (88C+u)
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Quantus seems to be one of the pollsters who does try to get things right.
And they're herding to slight favorite Republican in a deeply Republican state, but still within the margin of error so if Paxton wins by 5 they're still right.
Also, this:
https://x.com/sfcpoll/status/
2116140097846345979
"@sfcpoll
We polled Kansas. Democrats wanted to talk. Republicans, not so much. "
This has been a known issue with pollsters for literally years, and more pollsters are coming out in the final weeks of the election season to admit it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:05 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 09:31 AM (eRlcH)
She's reading the paper.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 09:31 AM (eRlcH)
She's reading the paper.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Y/06r)
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Instruction manual for the dildo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (xjopy)
I like this still life he did.
https://tinyurl.com/4y3m5ekj
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
That's the painting that he was executing when, on a whim, he looked over his shoulder and saw that there was a naked woman on the couch behind him.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 30, 2026 10:00 AM (XeU6L)
You got it. Your being there for them is a huge comfort.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 09:37 AM
She's airing out her cooter. The French hadn't invented the douche yet.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 10:07 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 10:07 AM (8B4gm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 10:07 AM (JrHfD)
(and yes, the number of s's does reflect women's hair care)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:07 AM (Bep7s)
Instruction manual for the dildo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (xjopy)
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Translated from Chinese...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 10:07 AM (FZ29D)
Andrew Kolvet
@AndrewKolvet
Kara Swisher: "They could just pick a few people. To me, that's the way you go. You pick like a Hegseth, a Musk, and I don't know, Big Balls."
"Rather than go for Trump, go for everybody. Make it so broad that it'll exhaust people who just do want to move on."
The left is already celebrating, and they're telling us exactly what they plan to do after the midterms. GET OUT AND VOTE!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:08 AM (l3cgK)
Mike Hammer,
Prayers started for your friend and his family. I've spent enough time in hospital waiting areas to know they can help.
Posted by: JTB at October 30, 2026 10:08 AM (yTvNw)
Yes, it's wonderful to have friends who are a caring presence at difficult times.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 10:08 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 10:08 AM (kU0PQ)
My abstract nood painting. See nic.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 09:59 AM (Ti9vn)
...
Why do you hate boobs?
Posted by: naturalfake at October 30, 2026 10:08 AM (YSUhf)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
Anyone who votes Dem, or doesn't vote at all, is asshoe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:08 AM (ccf/V)
Andrew Kolvet
@AndrewKolvet
Kara Swisher: "They could just pick a few people. To me, that's the way you go. You pick like a Hegseth, a Musk, and I don't know, Big Balls."
"Rather than go for Trump, go for everybody. Make it so broad that it'll exhaust people who just do want to move on."
The left is already celebrating, and they're telling us exactly what they plan to do after the midterms. GET OUT AND VOTE!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
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Congress is going to send criminal referrals of Trump administration officials to the Trump DOJ?
I've seen this movie before, but it starred John Boehner, Barack Obama, and Eric Holder.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:09 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: Eromero at October 30, 2026 10:09 AM (kpy6d)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:08 AM (l3cgK)
I hope they weren't naked on the sofa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:09 AM (ccf/V)
Tell me what other dude you imagine in that faceless nude.
Posted by: polynikes
I based my attaching the Elliott Page name to that on the shirtless post-op photo that we all just had to see (it insisted on itself), scars and all.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:10 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: Abdul E Sayed at October 30, 2026 10:10 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (xjopy)
CBD has a user's manual!?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 30, 2026 10:11 AM (Y/06r)
I know. I was just playfully snarking back.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:11 AM (Ti9vn)
There's not a pants verification.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 09:37 AM
That's not true, as thousands of Permanent Record entries will attest.
All Hail Eris' is now over 400 pages!
Posted by: Bob from NSA at October 30, 2026 10:12 AM (0sNs1)
"Please to use artificial penis..."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:12 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:12 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2026 09:32 AM (h4J+2)
Now I'm picturing a bunch of guys and girls plotting a visit to her house in Vegas....
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 10:13 AM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (xjopy)
CBD has a user's manual!?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 30, 2026 10:11 AM (Y/06r)
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His wife lost it years ago, and it's been a source of contention ever since.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:13 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:13 AM (ixS3i)
https://tinyurl.com/e93f883d
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:14 AM (ndZc7)
'Pologies. No cofeve yet.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:13 AM (ixS3i)
"Funny....he never has a second cup at home."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:14 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:08 AM (l3cgK)
I hope they weren't naked on the sofa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:09 AM (ccf/V)
Doesn't seem so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:16 AM (l3cgK)
"surname affect memory complaint delicacy lantern"
maybe dirk gently had his iching calculator repaired.
i replied:
"yes, yes i know! intersection privilege remove border elevator moistness"
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:16 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:16 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 30, 2026 10:17 AM (0sNs1)
Just heard from Martha's Vineyard that Barky and Big Mike reported having a "very satisfying buckeye night in the sack -- milk chocolate this time!"
No word on which one of them supplied the balls.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:17 AM (ixS3i)
Just heard from Martha's Vineyard that Barky and Big Mike reported having a "very satisfying buckeye night in the sack -- milk chocolate this time!"
No word on which one of them supplied the balls.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:17 AM (ixS3i)
or the chocolate...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:18 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 30, 2026 10:11 AM
It's actually the manual for his sous vide machine.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 10:18 AM (2ocoG)
I'm excited. Poor guy.....we'll still have work to do with his ongoing care, but it will be good to have him back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:18 AM (ccf/V)
... sure sounds like they expect a "cyber war"
Posted by: SMOD at October 30, 2026 10:18 AM (gWCxi)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 30, 2026 10:17 AM (0sNs1)
No need. There's no happy little bush there to comment on.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:19 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 10:19 AM (+iKN/)
"surname affect memory complaint delicacy lantern"
maybe dirk gently had his iching calculator repaired.
i replied:
"yes, yes i know! intersection privilege remove border elevator moistness"
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:16 AM (Bep7s)
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I have to confess that, while I've read it numerous times, I'm still not quite sure how the ending of Holistic Detective Agency worked out.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 30, 2026 10:19 AM (SgdqL)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (xjopy)
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Translated from Chinese...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 10:07 AM
By a Dutch speaker. Into French.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 10:19 AM (ctC8W)
Posted by: SMOD at October 30, 2026 10:18 AM (gWCxi)
The NORKS have been very busy lately.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:19 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (xjopy)
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Translated from Chinese...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 10:07 AM
By a Dutch speaker. Into French.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 10:19 AM (ctC8W)
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Who was Joseph Conrad, so it's better French than any Frenchman could come up with.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:20 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:20 AM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:06 AM (xjopy)
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Translated from Chinese...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 10:07 AM
By a Dutch speaker. Into French.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 10:19 AM (ctC8W)
*shits bed*
*resets*
*smoke arises*
Posted by: Google Translate at October 30, 2026 10:20 AM (ccf/V)
I am glad for all of you to have your furry family member back. Hope he makes a full recovery.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 10:21 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:21 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:20 AM (Ti9vn)
Salty......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:21 AM (ccf/V)
@joeradinovich
Democrats should understand that the allegation is almost certainly true—whatever conclusion they draw from that point could vary—and her denials calling it a right-wing, Islamophobic or racist conspiracy are almost certainly not.
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Damn racist right wing extremist!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:21 AM (ndZc7)
If they seriously expect that, should someone be going around to utility companies and unplugging the Ethernet cables?
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 10:21 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 10:21 AM (JrHfD)
Thanks!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:21 AM (ccf/V)
I'm excited. Poor guy.....we'll still have work to do with his ongoing care, but it will be good to have him back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:18 AM (ccf/V)
___
Congrats on the move, and the pup will be just as happy to be back with y'all!
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 30, 2026 10:21 AM (6ZFFR)
Your paintings are lovely. How long have you been painting?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 10:22 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:22 AM (Bep7s)
@joeradinovich
Democrats should understand that the allegation is almost certainly true—whatever conclusion they draw from that point could vary—and her denials calling it a right-wing, Islamophobic or racist conspiracy are almost certainly not.
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Damn racist right wing extremist!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:21 AM (ndZc7)
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It's unusual to see a prominent Democrat cast off because of the actions of Republicans and not purely internal politics.
Savor it, boys.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:22 AM (xjopy)
The Gaza Chamber of Commerce reports that visitors for this fall's tourist season have been "...way, way below past years' numbers".
This is both a major disappointment and financial disaster as "we had taken great pains to have our rubble sprayed with Pumpkin Spice scents."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:22 AM (ixS3i)
I've always been of the mindset that connecting every f*cking thing on Earth to the internet was a bad idea.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:23 AM (ccf/V)
Good morning, fellow blue city dweller! I got dark and rain and three freaking people on a large boat and they have to sit wothing six feet of me.
There’s 350 seats. And they have to be within smelling distance.
Wtf
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 10:23 AM (bR0BQ)
I've seen people say the NYT admitting Obama found her guilty and shoved it under the rug means the DNC's burn noticing her (and willing to take the collateral damage to Obama). Certainly someone in power thinks she's a liability.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 10:23 AM (2ocoG)
This is both a major disappointment and financial disaster as "we had taken great pains to have our rubble sprayed with Pumpkin Spice scents."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:22 AM (ixS3i)
This is what happens when the filthy Jews ruthlessly and brutally murder 3.4 million innocent children.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:24 AM (ccf/V)
There’s 350 seats. And they have to be within smelling distance.
Wtf
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 10:23 AM (bR0BQ)
"Brains.......Moar Brains!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:24 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 10:23 AM (2ocoG)
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I suspect Democrats have known how solid the case against her is for years, and were happy to ignore it because nothing ever happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:24 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 30, 2026 10:24 AM (6ZFFR)
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
This is how Dana Bash led off her 'reporting' today on the Democrats' 'Dan Sullivan' election scheme in Alaska.
"Unsurprisingly, [Trump] seized on the new reporting."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)
"a suffusion of yellow" is not a bad takeaway.
Posted by: cmeat
"Hey! Who put a suffusion of yellow in my pants?"
-- Slow Joe Biden
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:25 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:26 AM (Bep7s)
You know, the white stuff that looks as if the dog ate cement?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:26 AM (ccf/V)
I suspect Democrats have known how solid the case against her is for years, and were happy to ignore it because nothing ever happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson
But could this equally well be a case of "...no matter how attractive she may have been, sooner or later someone got tired of all her shit"?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:27 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 10:27 AM (bR0BQ)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 30, 2026 10:27 AM (SgdqL)
I still wish he would've beat the living shit out of the two punks that thought it would be funny to ruin someone's day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:27 AM (ccf/V)
>>Dockworkers at more than 100 ports worldwide strike against arms shipments
>>Oct 29 (Reuters) - Dockworkers in 22 countries will strike on Friday, protesting against war and the use of ports for arms exports in action organisers say could disrupt over 40% of Mediterranean cargo and snarl over $2 billion worth of freight.
https://tinyurl.com/499zpxur
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:28 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 10:28 AM (bR0BQ)
But could this equally well be a case of "...no matter how attractive she may have been, sooner or later someone got tired of all her shit"?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:27 AM (ixS3i)
"Attractive" and 11han 0mar should never enter the same thought space, ever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:28 AM (ccf/V)
Wtf
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 10:23 AM (bR0BQ)
"Brains.......Moar Brains!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:24 AM (ccf/V)
Hey nurse!
Some people just have to be next to others.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 30, 2026 10:24 AM (6ZFFR)
They long to be
Close to you!
Posted by: The Carpenters at October 30, 2026 10:29 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 10:23 AM (2ocoG)
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The civil war within the Dem Party occasionally makes an appearance within sight of the public eye.
Posted by: mrp at October 30, 2026 10:29 AM (rj6Yv)
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Hey, Dems! You're going to give your whole game away!
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 10:29 AM (Fi81e)
They long to be
Close to you!
Posted by: The Carpenters at October 30, 2026 10:29 AM (wVcYX)
Taking my life in my hands, I know........
https://youtu.be/PZZNezLHynM
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:30 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:30 AM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 10:31 AM (8B4gm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)
I suspect the union is made up of a bunch of Muslims.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:32 AM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 30, 2026 10:27 AM (SgdqL)
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There's this:
https://link.amazon/B09dRnMwK
But, it's not Region A, so I probably wouldn't invest in it.
There's also this:
https://www.ebay.com/p/24051086174
It may be Australian, which may mean it's compatible with US players. I can't remember the DVD region rules off the top of my head.
Then there's just this:
https://ok.ru/video/3050574187230
Which is just the video itself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:32 AM (xjopy)
"Attractive" in the sense that she was a big time agitator for ideas near and der to their hearts, not "attractive" appearance-wise.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:33 AM (ixS3i)
...
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:16 AM (Bep7s)
Got a text from a "woman" in the summer of 2025...Said I didn't know her.
Sent her "name" and a pic of a beautiful asian woman as well. Said I didn't know her.
Said she went to xxx's birthday party (first name of my wife). I replied "She passed away last year. Sorry, don't remember you."
She replied back, I'm confused...isn't this yyy's contact? I replied, "well, if it's my wife's aunt yyy, she's passed away too."
She says, "Oh, I'm sorry". I write back, "That's okay. Have a nice day."
Then, tried to befriend me. "You are a funny and kind person...My name is zzz. What's your name?"
I reply, "That's okay, I'm old and sick and don't need anymore friends."
She continued, "I think age is just a number...", keeps trying to "befriend" me. I replied, "No, that's okay. Have a nice day".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:33 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:30 AM (Ti9vn)
He is a f*cking liar and should be prosecuted for election interference.
"I've SEEN the evidence!"
Uh, then why didn't you give it to the FBI before the trial where they said "we found no evidence of corruption whatsoever" in the Paxton impeachment trial.
F*cking asshole.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:33 AM (ccf/V)
Dimensions: Overall: 63 × 66 3/4 in.
Paul Wiesenfeld, 1942-1990, an American realist painter who created comprehensive interior scenes and portraits.
His son wrote, "In my memory I see my father, Paul Wiesenfeld (1942 – 1990), sitting at the edge of one room on a block of wood no more than 20 cm off the floor with a palette in one hand and several brushes in the other and studying intently the interior of another room. This room is in stark contrast to the rest of the apartment with its varying degrees of chaos and dishevelment. It is impeccable, if one overlooks the fine layer of dust, everything in it is there for a purpose, participating in a web of complex visual relationships, set up to create an image of beauty."
Everything in this painting was exactly placed to tell the story. Note the Secrets magazine on the table.
Reportedly, Secrets was a long-running true confession, romance, and narrative pulp magazine (such as the March 1960 and May 1960 issues) that featured first-person relationship stories and dramatic tales.
Interesting, but would pass hanging it.
(Cafe's beaver tale, and now this. Some will be off the chain all day. 😏 )
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 30, 2026 10:33 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:30 AM (Ti9vn)
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Roy Moore got 92% of the Republican vote.
Beto got 6% of the Republican vote in 2018.
Crossovers don't really exist in huge numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:34 AM (xjopy)
Roy Moore got 92% of the Republican vote.
Beto got 6% of the Republican vote in 2018.
Crossovers don't really exist in huge numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:34 AM (xjopy)
Texas doesn't register parties. How do they know 6% of Republicans voted Beto? They took a poll?
HA!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:35 AM (ccf/V)
https://tinyurl.com/3fth6v8b
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)
She gives bosses BJs?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:35 AM (l3cgK)
White Kamala.
https://tinyurl.com/3fth6v8b
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now
She needs to get her Venn Diagrams and Coconut Tree upgrades installed.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:36 AM (ixS3i)
HA!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:35 AM (ccf/V)
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It's exit polling, and it's the only measure we have despite all the issues with exit polling.
Roughly 5% is pretty standard, and it always goes both ways. There will be crossover from Democrats voting for Paxton. No candidate gets 100% of their own party's vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (xjopy)
https://tinyurl.com/3fth6v8b
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)
Are they still THAT confident in their ability to cheat?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (ccf/V)
She continued, "I think age is just a number...", keeps trying to "befriend" me. I replied, "No, that's okay. Have a nice day".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia
You’re way nicer than I am.
I text. Sorry wrong number. And block contact.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (bR0BQ)
https://tinyurl.com/39jyz6fm
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And Talarico is a powerhouse!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: DaveA at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (FhXTo)
Probably no union in the world further left than dock workers.
25 unions in 113 countries just decided to strike on Friday over a war that is basically over?
I suspect a different reason.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:38 AM (viF8m)
https://tinyurl.com/39jyz6fm
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And Talarico is a powerhouse!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (ndZc7)
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"8 states that went double digits for Trump in 2024 will go Democrat for Senate in 2026. It has happened one time in this century, but it will happen 8 times this year."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:38 AM (xjopy)
Crossovers don't really exist in huge numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson
Doubt not the weight and intellectual pull that the Bushies still think that they exert in Texas.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:38 AM (ixS3i)
It's exit polling, and it's the only measure we have despite all the issues with exit polling.
Roughly 5% is pretty standard, and it always goes both ways. There will be crossover from Democrats voting for Paxton. No candidate gets 100% of their own party's vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (xjopy)
Ah yes.....Exit polling.
Besides something that Pete Buttigieg does on the regular, that's the same thing that said John Kerry was kicking the holy hell out of GWB in 2004.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:38 AM (ccf/V)
Outside of my subscriptions, I did buy $300 dollars worth of data from AI, been going through that and my head hurts.
Instead of a beer day, I'm going to think of this as me pre-maturely celebrating the blue wave hopelessly crashing into an unmovable red wall.
And also, she's burning off Halloween calories through self-pleasure.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 30, 2026 10:39 AM (Sco7b)
They call her... Pumpkin Spice!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:40 AM (ixS3i)
Again those crossovers aren't Republicans. They are infiltrators. The ones we know of should be kicked out of the Party . Looking at Karl Rove.
You can disagree internally but you shouldn't be able to publicly go against your Party and support the opposition without consequences.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:40 AM (Ti9vn)
"You just do the alphabet! A.....B......C......."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:41 AM (ccf/V)
frasier much less often referenced, but far nmore consistently watchable.
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:41 AM (Bep7s)
She continued, "I think age is just a number...", keeps trying to "befriend" me. I replied, "No, that's okay. Have a nice day".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia
You’re way nicer than I am.
I text. Sorry wrong number. And block contact.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (bR0BQ)
Normally, I would have, but once my wife's name came up, I couldn't pass the opportunity to see how the scammer would react. I do believe it was a scam call.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:42 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: DaveA at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (FhXTo)
Are we talking Jada Pinkett Smith again?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:42 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at October 30, 2026 10:42 AM (hsR1H)
You can disagree internally but you shouldn't be able to publicly go against your Party and support the opposition without consequences.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:40 AM (Ti9vn)
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Sure, but my point is that it goes both ways. And they pretty much always cancel each other out. And it's standard behavior we see in every election.
Pollsters asserting 15% of Republicans not voting for Paxton are huffing paint.
The way partisans object to their party's candidate they don't want to vote for is that they don't vote. This is how the "independent" vote shifts most. There are immaterial numbers of people who actually change their party vote every other race.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:43 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:42 AM (l3cgK)
I've seen the funny videos where the caller is AI and you can trick it up by asking it for a Custard Pie recipe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:43 AM (ccf/V)
She continued, "I think age is just a number...", keeps trying to "befriend" me. I replied, "No, that's okay. Have a nice day".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia
You’re way nicer than I am.
I text. Sorry wrong number. And block contact.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (bR0BQ)
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Classic con.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 10:43 AM (RIvkX)
We flushed our turd Stan Kitzman out of the house in the primary and expect the new guy to be much more to our liking. Stan was so proud of his vote and was so pleased to sing about it.
The Texas house is 150 members. 85 R, 65 D was the breakdown. There were 20+ Rs that would rotate 11 members to kill conservative initiatives. That impeachment had those shitbags all voting to impeach. Almost all of them lost their primaries.
Posted by: DanMan at October 30, 2026 10:43 AM (8uzBS)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:42 AM (l3cgK)
*swings a sucker punch*
Posted by: Will Smith at October 30, 2026 10:43 AM (88C+u)
Well, got to head out to the bank and then distribute some discounted admission flyers for next weekend's gem and mineral show. Chester, Bucks and Montgomery counties, here I come!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 30, 2026 10:44 AM (ixS3i)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:48 AM (Ttn/0)
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Canada is completely fucked. And we are going to have to deal with their demise.I have no interest in adding any of their "states". The strong provinces perhaps become their own countries. The others may have to become US territories that we manage to keep the Chinese out.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 30, 2026 10:44 AM (7/DDO)
>>Oct 29 (Reuters) - Dockworkers in 22 countries will strike on Friday, protesting against war and the use of ports for arms exports in action organisers say could disrupt over 40% of Mediterranean cargo and snarl over $2 billion worth of freight.
https://tinyurl.com/499zpxur
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:28 AM (viF8m)
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There are over 7000 ports in the world. To get a bunch of leftist unions to strike over ... something ... is not hard. Only 100 this time? Weak.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 10:44 AM (iFTx/)
>>Oct 29 (Reuters) - Dockworkers in 22 countries will strike on Friday, protesting against war and the use of ports for arms exports in action organisers say could disrupt over 40% of Mediterranean cargo and snarl over $2 billion worth of freight.
https://tinyurl.com/499zpxur
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:28 AM (viF8m)
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There are over 7000 ports in the world. To get a bunch of leftist unions to strike over ... something ... is not hard. Only 100 this time? Weak.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 10:44 AM (iFTx/)
I think the term is "Rookie Numbers"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:45 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: DanMan at October 30, 2026 10:46 AM (8uzBS)
"No ma'am, you may not deliver an envelope of $5,000 cash to the stranger in the car parked out front."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 10:46 AM (RIvkX)
It's like a Catholic priest supporting a Satan Worshipper over another Priest because he doesn't like the other Priest because of scandal. You don't have to support that priest but you shouldn't support the Satan worshipper.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:46 AM (Ti9vn)
i rec'd a photo from the 801 area code of three burly shirtless men, waist up and bathed in blue light.
i replied "all i learned is blueman group is gay.
that returned "tom ravn?"
i countered "he's probably a faggot"
to which they replied "hahahah. yes"
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:46 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 09:44 AM (rOKnE)
You are such a buzzkill!
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 10:47 AM (I+a8W)
"No ma'am, you may not deliver an envelope of $5,000 cash to the stranger in the car parked out front."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 10:46 AM (RIvkX)
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Well, since data privacy is a myth and has been for decades...
I've heard of a tactic where scammers can actually manipulate the screens of people they're interacting with, giving the scammers remote access, the scammers changing values on the screen, and then convincing the targets, usually old people, to take out tens of thousands of dollars and mailing it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:47 AM (xjopy)
I don't even answer texts that say "____( my first name) is this still your number?" If you know my first name, I think, how come you don't give me yours? Click and block.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 10:48 AM (xz+xK)
She continued, "I think age is just a number...", keeps trying to "befriend" me. I replied, "No, that's okay. Have a nice day".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia
You’re way nicer than I am.
I text. Sorry wrong number. And block contact.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (bR0BQ)
Normally, I would have, but once my wife's name came up, I couldn't pass the opportunity to see how the scammer would react. I do believe it was a scam call.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:42 AM (l3cgK)
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All I get are fake crypto, real estate, and fintech phishing scams. Which is kinda odd, as I am single and would expect more sex scams.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 10:48 AM (iFTx/)
Not the Bee
@Not_the_Bee
No joke, Ted Bundy just got connected to another murder
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Murdered in 1974. DNA was just a twinkle in science' eye in those days.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:48 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 10:48 AM (RIvkX)
"No ma'am, you may not deliver an envelope of $5,000 cash to the stranger in the car parked out front."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 10:46 AM (RIvkX)
Got a FB message "from" a co-worker (many years ago, when I still used FB), claiming to have been brutally robbed in the UK and needing cash.
Told him to go to the Police, then the US embassy. I mean, he did have access to a computer or phone after all...
Yeah, a scam, through and through. So many confidence and other scams.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:49 AM (l3cgK)
Yea, you're probably right. It doesn't mean anything that the communists are flexing right after they took down Brazil and are now flexing with their dock worker unions around the world right before extremely consequential election in the US.
I have fond memories of dock workers organizing to send care packages to the orphans in Gaza said nobody. Ever.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:49 AM (viF8m)
Dockworkers in 22 countries will strike on Friday, protesting against war and the use of ports for arms exports
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Including Ukraine?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 10:49 AM (eRlcH)
I suspect a different reason.
Posted by: JackStraw
AA com tr, 'We don't work for war': Dockworkers strike at 113 ports across 5 continents, October 30, 2026
Strikes take place in countries including Greece, France, Italy, India, Türkiye, Germany, opposing arms transfers to Israel
In part, BRÜKSEL
Dockworkers in 21 countries staged strikes and demonstrations on Friday at 113 ports across five continents, protesting the use of commercial ports for military purposes.
Under the slogan "We don't work for war," more than 25 dockworkers' trade unions took part in the International Day of Action, demanding that ports serve people's needs rather than military operations, according to 902, the Communist Party of Greece's news portal."
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AA is a state-run[1][2] news agency headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.[3] It operates in 13 languages in over 100 countries.[4]
Reportedly, it has the largest broadcaster of Arabic news in the Middle East and produces 70 percent of all news content in Turkey. (See Wikipedia)
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 30, 2026 10:49 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:48 AM (Ttn/0)
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Canada is completely fucked. And we are going to have to deal with their demise.I have no interest in adding any of their "states". The strong provinces perhaps become their own countries. The others may have to become US territories that we manage to keep the Chinese out.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 30, 2026 10:44 AM (7/DDO)
I live here, taking care of one elderly dog, and I approve this message.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 10:50 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 10:51 AM (Gqar8)
I'm not talking statistics. I'm talking beyond the results of an election. You can't let political member leaders of your party support the other party without consequences.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:52 AM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:48 AM (Ttn/0)
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Canada is completely fucked. And we are going to have to deal with their demise.I have no interest in adding any of their "states". The strong provinces perhaps become their own countries. The others may have to become US territories that we manage to keep the Chinese out.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 30, 2026 10:44 AM (7/DDO)
I live here, taking care of one elderly dog, and I approve this message.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 10:50 AM (Sco7b)
advancing towards total control by China, perhaps.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:52 AM (l3cgK)
2. I am too old to even understand their technological capabilities
3. It pays off bigtime
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 10:52 AM (RIvkX)
Pollsters asserting 15% of Republicans not voting for Paxton are huffing paint.
The way partisans object to their party's candidate they don't want to vote for is that they don't vote. This is how the "independent" vote shifts most. There are immaterial numbers of people who actually change their party vote every other race.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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TJM is correctly summarizing decades of research. Partisans just don't vote when they don't like their party's candidate. Sometimes, they vote third party or writein for a race. True independents that do not have a partisan lean are roughly 5-8 percent of the voters, mebbe less nowadays due to party polarization but they are also less likely to vote in midterms.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:52 AM (E4rtv)
I'm not talking statistics. I'm talking beyond the results of an election. You can't let political member leaders of your party support the other party without consequences.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:52 AM (Ti9vn)
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I don't think the Bushes have much of a future in Republlican politics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:52 AM (xjopy)
WaPo’s KS Poll Blows Up: Dems Twice As Likely to Answer As Republicans — and They’re Admitting It
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (ndZc7)
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The press made their war against us a long time ago.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 10:52 AM (Fi81e)
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Robert Reich calls for the "defunding" of Elon Musk, calls for Democrats to go after Musk's companies.
"Democrats ought to [start] laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink & SpaceX... It should be a public corporation."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)
Sadly, Canada can't or won't identify itself as anything except Not The US. It serves no purpose or ideals. It embraces nothing that makes it a distinctive country. Why bother existing?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (eRlcH)
Sadly, Canada can't or won't identify itself as anything except Not The US. It serves no purpose or ideals. It embraces nothing that makes it a distinctive country. Why bother existing?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (eRlcH)
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I identify it as Reddit made flesh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (xjopy)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (eRlcH)
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I identify it as Reddit made flesh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (xjopy)
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Or whatever "reddit" is in Chinese ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 10:54 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 10:51 AM (Gqar
If I pick up a phone call from a number I don't know, I only wait 4 or 5 seconds for the other side to say something...if not, I hang up.
Scammers and spammers have made the old friendly routine of saying "Hello, who's this" so much less polite and friendly. I don't want any recordings of my voice that AI can use to fake me in a spoofed call...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:54 AM (l3cgK)
WaPo’s KS Poll Blows Up: Dems Twice As Likely to Answer As Republicans — and They’re Admitting It
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (ndZc7)
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The press made their war against us a long time ago.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 10:52 AM (Fi81e)
The description of me is included in the comments here. I never respond to pollsters. Ever.
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)
So those smooth-brained fuckwits can run that into the ground, too.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 10:55 AM (8B4gm)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I missed a good thread this morning.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 10:55 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 10:55 AM (rbvCR)
https://tinyurl.com/yp3se5hc
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 10:55 AM (UnTkV)
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Robert Reich calls for the "defunding" of Elon Musk, calls for Democrats to go after Musk's companies.
"Democrats ought to [start] laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink & SpaceX... It should be a public corporation."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)
Jailing and confiscating the assets of all the traitorous politicians and judges would be a good start...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:55 AM (l3cgK)
A bit more real than media polls.
https://tinyurl.com/yje5k3tp
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 10:56 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 10:56 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: DaveA at October 30, 2026 10:37 AM (FhXTo)
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Well, it is still morning.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 10:56 AM (Fi81e)
Haley Stevens
@HaleyforMI
On the eve of the eve of the eve of our BIG and important election, a unifying moment has arrived, our democratic nominee for U.S Senate [El-Sayed] disavows the Rebellion PAC ad made by Hasan Piker’s uncle that claims Jews are responsible for America’s economic woes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:56 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 10:31 AM (8B4gm)
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That is the correct answer.
Posted by: Lilith Sternin, M.D., Ph.D., Ed.D, A.P.A at October 30, 2026 10:56 AM (brIJB)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I missed a good thread this morning.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2026 10:55 AM (2WIwB)
If you give us your personal information we would be happy to send you reminders, or wake up calls. Trust us.
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 10:56 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Trigglypuff at October 30, 2026 10:56 AM (NdCPY)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)
The 4 foot Reich
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 10:56 AM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: tubal
Long time ago I did it for professional interest. Nowadays, I get silence. Helps to have a privacy dataservice that kills my info on databrokers and being retired so no need to put my name out for professional reasons. Helps to not have social media accounts at all nowadays.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 10:57 AM (E4rtv)
"Democrats ought to [start] laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink & SpaceX... It should be a public corporation."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)
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This is precisely why they wanted Trump's tax records, IMO.
Brownshirts will brownshirt.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 10:57 AM (Fi81e)
@CollinRugg
NEW: Robert Reich calls for the "defunding" of Elon Musk, calls for Democrats to go after Musk's companies.
"Democrats ought to [start] laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink & SpaceX... It should be a public corporation."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)
And they call us Nazis........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:57 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:52 AM (l3cgK)
Again, being rejected by the Donald, Canada has decided to go the disease-ridden, drunken, flabby, scraggly-toothed, peeling flesh Detroit $5 Canadian whore route with the EU.
Good luck with that.
Hadrian...you're not wrong...
Oh, the lady at the beer store LOVES my monkey statue outside - aceCorp and Big Monkey are responsible. My project is moving along. Pictures will be up on the website shortly.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 10:57 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Gqar
I worked on a Gov't project once...the recommendation in the training was to never respond to pollsters...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 10:57 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 10:57 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 30, 2026 10:57 AM (gTNVu)
https://tinyurl.com/yp3se5hc
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 10:55 AM (UnTkV)
Monica swallowed my brother.
--Chelsea Clinton
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 30, 2026 10:57 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Don Black at October 30, 2026 10:58 AM (ZxPkt)
https://tinyurl.com/yp3se5hc
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 10:55 AM (UnTkV)
Monica swallowed my brother.
--Chelsea Clinton
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 30, 2026 10:57 AM (N39Ws)
Now THAT is harsh!
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 10:58 AM (Gqar8)
Most sober Ohioan this weekend.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 10:58 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 10:59 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 30, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)
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Maybe they could call the public SpaceX.... something like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration!
Umm... There's a reason why SpaceX exists and all the progress into space is in a private company, bonehead.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 10:59 AM (Fi81e)
https://tinyurl.com/yp3se5hc
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 10:55 AM (UnTkV)
"Monica swallowed my brother."
BWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 10:59 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 10:59 AM (I+a8W)
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Except the French. They can just keep it until we demand they surrender it.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)
One is they will get a better job with benefits instead of a laptop and promises, the second is that I hate their employers like poison and this is the only way I can damage them, by recruiting away their best employees.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (rbvCR)
Scammers and spammers have made the old friendly routine of saying "Hello, who's this" so much less polite and friendly. I don't want any recordings of my voice that AI can use to fake me in a spoofed call...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Smart. The 4-5 seconds of silence affects scammer software which dial multiple phone numbers at the same time to get the 'hit'. Silence means that some other poor sucker got 'hit' rather than you and you did not confirm to the scammers that they got a live number.
Another way, dunno if they still make it, was a fax tone generator used to answer the phone to ward off scammers.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: tubal at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (ccf/V)
i rec'd a photo from the 801 area code of three burly shirtless men, waist up and bathed in blue light.
salt lick city?
Posted by: anachronda at October 30, 2026 11:01 AM (oY6Yp)
I put my name on the internet to associate with forum or media account ONCE. In like 1999. Then I learned my lesson. I am a quick learner. Slow at anything else.
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:01 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:01 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 11:00 AM (Fi81e)
LOL exactly
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:02 AM (I+a8W)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 11:02 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 11:01 AM (viF8m)
Then we must deal with it swiftly
Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 11:03 AM (I+a8W)
https://tinyurl.com/yp3se5hc
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 10:55 AM (UnTkV)
Monica swallowed my brother.
--Chelsea Clinton
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
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The scuttlebutt of Arkansan inside politicos for a long time during Clinton era of being governor was that Bill was sterile, supposedly from a bad case of mumps as a kid, Webb was the unlucky donor to Killary, and thus Bill could spread his seed broadly without fear of consequences.
He preferred women with husbands at first for his affairs but then moved on to attempting to screw anything not nailed down by the end of his terms as governor.
Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 11:04 AM (E4rtv)
A column by (lunatic) Trudy Rubin published on October 28, 2026, focusing on Chrystia Freeland, Canada's former Deputy Prime Minister and Member of Parliament, and her newly released book, 'Unreliable Boyfriend: An Insider’s View of Dealing with a Chaotic Superpower, Plutocrats, and Other Complicated People.'
AI Overview: Freeland’s firsthand experience negotiating trade relations with the U.S. (specifically the USMCA). It details the shift of long-time allies into adversaries, the impact of sweeping U.S. tariffs, and the rising power of American billionaire oligarchs like Elon Musk compared to Russian oligarchs under Vladimir Putin.
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2022 she was photographed helping to hold a red-and-black scarf printed with the patriotic slogans "Slava Ukraini" (Glory to Ukraine) and "Heroyam Slava" (Glory to the Heroes). She posted the photo on her official social media page.
The red-and-black colors and specific phrasing historically belonged to far-right paramilitary groups that collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II and were involved in massacres of Poles & Jews.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 30, 2026 11:06 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 30, 2026 10:33 AM (NFX2v)
So, all the letters started out, "I never believed the letters in your magazine until this happened to me..."?
Posted by: GWB at October 30, 2026 11:09 AM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: cmeat at October 30, 2026 11:12 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 11:40 AM (TMNW7)
Posted by: GWB
Surely, it did. And I guess from there it got even crazier by Hustler some years later.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 30, 2026 11:44 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: The Dog at October 30, 2026 01:46 PM (XodLO)
I flew home to MS every summer but still paid rent and had no idea what went on while I was 1000mi away.
Mary said she went into the back door to get to the laundry in the basement one morning, and N. was buck nekkid on the red velvet couch (which was hers), talking to a mystery male. She said she pretended she wasn't there and backed slowly out the door.
Granted, we all never knew who would come out of N's bedroom door (my bf and I discussed this).
However this was new. I said, "I used to SIT on that couch!" yug
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 03:08 PM (hzuYO)
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